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| Record Name(s) | Forthton Quarry - 1990, New Dublin Quarry #1 - 2000, Quarry Off Highway 29 - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Elizabethtown
Latitude: 44° 38' 47.09" Longitude: -75° 51' 53.46"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 431418.542 Northing: 4944036.532 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B12NW
Point Location Description: Point 0.75 km NW of Forthton.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From the junction of Hwy 2 and Hwy 29/42 in Brockville, drive N on 29/42 (Court House Avenue) to New Dublin Road (6.1 km). The road to the quarry is just past this turn, on the right.
Mineral location : calcite, marcasite and mica.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - An inactive quarry in 3.6 m thick March Formation. The quarry is partly water-filled. White to brownish-pink calcite in cavities in the sandy dolomite (fluoresces pink under ' short' UV rays). Common 3/4 inch marcasite nodules. Green-blue mica gives the dolomite a bluish cast in places.
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 141 Date: 1998
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Location:
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector, Kingston, Ontario to Lac St Jean, Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 67-51
Publication Number: Paper 67-51 Page: 48-49 Date: 1968
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107977
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