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Record: MDI31B12SE00005

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Warren - 1990, Warren (Brockville Quarry) - 2000, Dibblee Quarry - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1990-Nov-26
Date Last Modified 2022-May-09
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Elizabethtown

Latitude: 44° 37' 19.65"    Longitude: -75° 39' 55.62"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 447208.746   Northing: 4941189.893    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31B12SE

Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 2.5 km SE of Rows Corners.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 3 km NE of Brockville, just S of Hwy 401, in lots 3-4, con 1.



Exploration History

Circa 1989 : operated by Dibblee Construction Co Ltd, a division of the Warren Paving and Materials Group Ltd, and licenced for 37.7 ha. Partially water-filled in 1989 and only 5.6 m exposed. This may be the same quarry as the Dyer quarry - on lots 4-5, described in 1912 and 1938. See MDI31B12SE00006, ' Dyer'.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Oxford Formation dolostones - light grey, fine-grained and medium-bedded (20-30 cms). Some beds contain minor amounts of medium-coarse quartz grains. These beds are similar to those exposed in the upper part of the Permanent Concrete quarry, 1 km to the S. Overburden is generally < 2m thick. Section LQ BR-4 (OGS 1991) is from the Warren Quarry. DDH # GDH BR-4, 5 (MTO 1981) are also from this area, on lots 3 and 4.




Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 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

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Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 218, 283  Date: 1991

Author: Williams D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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File - Resident Geologist 1985 Building Stone Inventory # E205.0 (Deposit 11)

Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGP


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