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| Record Name(s) | Brockville Quarry - 2000, Permanent Concrete (Brockville) - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1982-Jun-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Apr-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Elizabethtown
Latitude: 44° 36' 39.95" Longitude: -75° 39' 37.84"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 447590.764 Northing: 4939961.904 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B12SE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 3.6 km SE of Rows Corners.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: On the N side of Hwy 2, on the E outskirts of Brockville.
Circa1960 : operated in 1960 by Permanent Transit-Mix Concrete Ltd (operated previously by Brockville Crushed Stone). Later operated by Permanent Concrete Ltd, a division of Lafarge Canada, and licenced for 77 ha. The quarry (1989) is operated on 3 lifts of 6 m, 8.5 m and 6.5 m. The third lift is in a very hard dolomitic sandstone and is excavated solely to produce HL3 modified stone, a top quality skid-resistant aggregate used on highways with a high volume of traffic (of limited supply). Also produced are : armour stone, gabion stone (3-6 inches), granular A, B and C, septic 11/4 in clear, 3/4 in concrete stone, 3/8 in chips and 1/4 in dust.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Section LQ BR-3 (1991) describes the section in the quarry. Oxford and March Formation are exposed in a 21.0 m deep quarry (1989) - sandy dolostones and dolostones of the March Formation are overlain by dolostone of the Oxford; the contact being just below the top of the lowest lift. Overburden is about 3-5 m thick over an irregular bedrock surface.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Dolomitic sandstone/ March formation | Sublithographic to fine crystalline | Is |
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| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 19-20 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 24-25 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 11 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 95-96 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:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 217 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Resident Geologist 1985 Building Stone Inventory # E206.0 (Deposit 9)
Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
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