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MDI31C03NW00009
| Record Name(s) | Bayside Quarry - 1991, Hastings County Board of Ed. - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jun-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Sidney
Latitude: 44° 7' 56.22" Longitude: -77° 28' 54.19"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 301470.952 Northing: 4889560.343 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Quarry is located at Bayside Station, 1 km north of Highway 2.
The quarry was operated intermittently in the early 196's by H.J. McFarland Construction Company Limited for crushed stone.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The 6 metre deep quarry exposes thin bedded, shaly limestone of the Middle Ordovician Verulam Formation. Fossils are numerous throughout the quarry, especially brachiopods, gastropods, and trilobites (OFR 5863, p.68).
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 150 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: 168 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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