Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Ridge Quarries - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1993-Mar-17 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Edwardsburgh
Latitude: 44° 47' 23.35" Longitude: -75° 29' 51.85"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 460627.565 Northing: 4959723.019 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B14SW
Point Location Description: Point 0.6 km S of Crystal Rock, lot 25 (Newman Quarry).
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: A group of quarries situated on a ridge on lots 23-26, con 3.
Circa 1912 : a group of 4 small quarries, that are operated only intermittently, is situated on a ' ridge-like elevation '. There is light soil cover and the workings are shallow.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarried stone is considered typical of the better Beekmantown limestone (March Formation). It is brown with a cast of yellow and fine-grained (similar to that at Dyer's quarry). It is soft enough for bush hammering and is used as a building stone. As at the Mills quarry, there is an upper 8 inch bed, 1 foot of thin material and a massive 10 inch bed below.
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 176-177 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Mem 99 Page: 51 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
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