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Record: MDI31C02NW00015

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Bergin Quarry - 2000, Bergin - 1990
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1990-Dec-06
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-25
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Crushed Stones), Limestone (Chemical/Flux)



Location

Township or Area: Fredericksburgh

Latitude: 44° 14' 23.41"    Longitude: -76° 56' 24.33"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 345081.982   Northing: 4900341.525    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C02NW

Point Location Description: Point just SE of Napanee.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

Circa 1912 : one of several quarries in the immediate vicinity of Roblin's Hill, E of Napanee, owned by P.J. Bergin. These produced building stone and road metal. This quarry is opened along the face of a bluff for a distance of 400 ft and a width of 150 ft. The face is about 16 ft high.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Quarry in Lower Bobcaygeon, Upper Gull River Formations. A rather inhomogeneous stone, thinly-bedded, coarse to finer-grained and marred by calcitic vugs.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100

Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 212-213  Date: 1912

Author: Parks, W.A.

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686


Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 126  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823


MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963

Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 29  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario

Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 64  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 82  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: 152  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: NF01.0  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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


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