Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI31C03SE00016
| Record Name(s) | Picton Landfill - 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-Jan-31 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Hallowell
Latitude: 44° 0' 11.45" Longitude: -77° 7' 59.53"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 328980.028 Northing: 4874438.263 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03SE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol at SE edge of Picton.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Inactive quarry, currently being used as the Picton landfill. Was operated for many years - probably for crushed stone.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - This large quarry was excavated into the escarpment above Picton and exposes the Verulam (16.0 m) and (lower) Lindsay (4.0 m) Formations - the contact is inaccessible as a result of the vertical face in the quarry.
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 151 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: 179 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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