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| Record Name(s) | Bath Quarry - 2000, Lafarge Canada - 2000, Bath - 1996 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1982-May-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Township or Area: Ernestown
Latitude: 44° 10' 8.31" Longitude: -76° 48' 22.87"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 355588.266 Northing: 4892227.337 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C02NW
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 1.5 km SW of Bath on the N side of Hwy 33.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1970 : exploratory drilling by Canada Cement Lafarge Ltd. 1974 : opening of the plant. The quarry occupies and area of about 50 ha with a single bench of about 18 m. Finished cement is shipped by road, rail and (70 %) water.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry exposes an 18 m section of Middle Ordovician Verulam Formation. This is dark grey and thin-bedded with 2 horizons of argillaceous and siliceous limestone. The upper horizon is up to 6 m thick and occurs in the middle of the quarry face at 6-12 m deep. The lower horizon is about 3 m thick and occurs in the lower 3 m of the formation. Overburden is 1-4.5 m thick (av. 2m).
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 123-125 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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Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493
Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 32 Date: 1918
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: ET02.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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