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| Record Name(s) | Iroquois - 1984, Fetterly - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1984-Jun-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Matilda
Latitude: 44° 49' 26.14" Longitude: -75° 20' 13.41"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 473353.526 Northing: 4963446.71 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B14SW
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 14, 1.5 miles SW of Iroquois, S of CN Rail.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 2.5 km SW of the Village of Iroquois.
1955: First opened by Iroquois Rock Company, coinciding with the St. Lawrence Seaway Project (1955-59). Stone used in the construction of the seaway or in the relocaton of public/private property and facilities, i.e. the relocation of the CN railway line from Cardinal to Cornwall. The quarry also supplied concrete stone for the construction of the Ogdensburg to Johnstown bridge in 1960 and was purchased late that year by Mac Fetterley (Lst. in Ontario, vol. 2, p9).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The quarry is 27.6 m deep and is operated with 2 lifts. The quarry exposes fine to medium-crystalline, medium to thick-bedded dolostones of the Oxford Formation.
| 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: 57-58 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Pleistocene and Recent deposits of the Cornwall-Cardinal area, Stormont, Dundas and Grenville counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-12
Publication Number: GSC Paper 51-12 Date: 1951
Author: Owen, E B
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101387
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 20-24 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 10-11 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Matilda and Williamsburgh townships, Dundas County
Publication Number: OFR5139 Date: 1975
Author: Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Paleozoic geology of the southern portion of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5385 Page: 41 Date: 1982
Author: Carson D.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 77 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 9-10 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: 236, 287 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Report on road materials along the St. Lawrence River, from the Quebec boundary line to Cardinal, Ontario; Canada Mines Branch, Bulletin 32
Publication Number: CMB Bull 32 Page: 20-21 Date: 1920
Author: Picher, R H
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307741
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