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| Record Name(s) | Bath Quarry #3 - 1990 |
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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-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Ernestown
Latitude: 44° 11' 55.67" Longitude: -76° 47' 47.13"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 356454.257 Northing: 4895522.41 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C02NE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 2.3 km NE of Bath.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
A small, inactive quarry, now overgrown. It was apparently used in the construction of the railway.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A 7.8 m face exposes Middle Ordovician Bobcaygeon Formation limestone. This is moderately fossiliferous with abundant brachiopods and bryozoans. The limestone is grey-brown, fine-medium-grained and thin to medium-bedded with some shale partings. Also, ripple marks and ripple cross-laminations.
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 153 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: 193 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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