Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Boucks Hill 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-Jul-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Williamsburgh
Latitude: 44° 59' 36.05" Longitude: -75° 12' 14.42"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 483919.308 Northing: 4982231.461 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B14NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: This mostly water-filled quarry is located 1.5 km east of Boucks Hill.
The quarry is owned by Cruickshank Construction Company (as of 1993), although no extraction has recently occurred at the quarry. Previously, the quarry had been operated by H.J. McFarland Construction Company Limited, who had provided crushed stone for local road construction (OFR 5863, p106).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - At the time of the field visit, the quarry was mostly water-filled and only 9 metres of limestone of the lower member of the Middle Ordovician Bobcaygeon (?) Formation was visible (OFR 5863, p106).
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: 51 Date: 1968
Author: Sabina, A.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107977
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 146 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 - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 106 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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