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| Record Name(s) | Cardinal - 1984, Cardinal Quarry #1 - 2000, Cardinal (West) - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Jun-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Edwardsburgh
Latitude: 44° 46' 52.34" Longitude: -75° 24' 22.51"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 467859.487 Northing: 4958725.868 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B14SW
Point Location Description: The first quarrry symbol W of Cardinal in lot 11, con1.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 1 ml W of Cardinal on the N side of the highway.
Pre 1920 : a large quarry is described in 1920, when it is water-filled, as being over 70,000 cu yds in size. A 23 ft section is exposed and described but the water is said to be 15 ft deep in places. The stone was used for building houses and, later, in the construction of the Cardinal canal. By 1938 it had also been quarried for road metal.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The section is described in 1938 as a fine-grained, brownish dolomite with some thin shale partings and calcite vugs. It forms part of the Oxford (Beekmantown) Formation. Beds are from 4-16 inches thick. Samples # 199 and 199A were taken.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 82 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 56 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 142 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 - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: ED01.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Road materials in a portion of Vaudreuil County, Quebec, and along the St. Lawrence River from the Quebec Boundary to Cardinal, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 106
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 106 Page: 6 Date: 1918
Author: Picher, R H
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101667
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: 22 Date: 2000
Author: Picher, R H
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307741
Publication - Report on structural materials along the St. Lawrence River, between. Prescott, Ont., and Lachine, Que.; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 549
Publication Number: CMB Pub 549 Page: 54 Date: 1922
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307750
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