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| Record Name(s) | Plums Quarry - 1990, Windmill Point Quarry - 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-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Edwardsburgh
Latitude: 44° 49' 19.04" Longitude: -75° 28' 46.09"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 462093.646 Northing: 4963284.049 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B14SW
Point Location Description: Quarry pond just N of Windmill Point.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 1 ml E of Prescott, between the river and the road.
Pre 1912 : extensively worked prior to 1912 (Mrs. Plumb) and at the limit of the road allowance. Stone was used as rough building stone. The face is about 30 ft. The small quarry described in 1917 (# 193) may or may not have become part of this property.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A dark brown, hard, dolomitic limestone (Oxford / Beekmantown Formation) in beds 4-16 inches thick. Some large calcite crystals. Sampled in 1912 and the section described in 1922.
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 176 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
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: ED02.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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
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
Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 99 Page: 52-53 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
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