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Record Name(s) | Oxford Mills Quarry - 1991 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1991-May-16 |
Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Oxford (On Rideau)
Latitude: 44° 57' 26.66" Longitude: -75° 44' 41.67"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 441246.376 Northing: 4978488.537 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B13NE, 31B13NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Quarry symbol 5.0 km west of Oxford Mills.
Circa 1900, past producer of crushed dolostone for railway ballast. Quarry, 670 m x 305 m x 6 m deep, (OFR 5863 and DEMR/Canmet #781).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Oxford formation: 6.0 m thick.
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Host |
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Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 79 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
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:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 41 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV30-01.003 Page: 146 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV32-06.002 Page: 13 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV33-07.002 Page: 12 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Mines of Ontario in 1928
Publication Number: ARV38-01.003 Page: 74 Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Cleland R.H., Keeley E.C., Jarrett G.S., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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