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| Record Name(s) | Brockville Granite - 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-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Granite
Township or Area: Elizabethtown
Latitude: 44° 35' 42.61" Longitude: -75° 41' 59.83"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 444445.81 Northing: 4938218.807 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B12SE
Point Location Description: Property number ' 165 ' on W side of Brockville.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Various quarries (not described individually) opened in the granite that underlies the W part of Brockville, as well as that W on the islands of the Brock group and at intervals along the St. Lawrence, to a short distance W of Jones Creek. This is a distance of about 4 ml, by a maximum width of 11/2 ml.
1858-c1912 : quarrying, in various places, recorded from this granite from 1858, but no regular production from the area in 1912. Stone used in a mill, waterworks building and electric station (1912). This granite was also quarried for tombstones.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The Brockville granite varies from red to pink, sometimes weathering greyish. It is mostly rather coarse-grained and uniform, but biotite and magnetite bunches can give a spotty appearance. It is occasionaly porphyritic. Tourmaline (seen up to 5 inches in diameter) occurs abundantly in some outcrops. The granite is massive and well-jointed. It is said to be easily worked and polished.
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 57 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Resident Geologist 1985 Building Stone Inventory # E202.0 (Deposit 6)
Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 5, granite and gneiss
Publication Number: IMR019 Page: 14-15 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - The granite industry of Canada; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 846
Publication Number: CMB Pub 846 Page: 136-137 Date: 1955
Author: Carr, G.F.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307982
Publication - Brockville-mallorytown map area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 134
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 134 Date: 1923
Author: Wright, J F
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100859
Publication - Radioassay of uranium ore with the geiger type equilibrium counter; Canada Mines Branch, Memoir no. 115
Publication Number: CMB Memoir 115 Date: 1951
Author: Wilmot, R D; McMahon, C
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/296355
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 303 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
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