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| Record Name(s) | Picton Quarry - 1991, Prince Edward - 1991, Wimpy Minerals Canada - 2018 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jul-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Secondary Commodities: Fossil Specimen
Township or Area: Sophiasburgh
Latitude: 44° 4' 3.19" Longitude: -77° 6' 42.4"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 330881 Northing: 4881544 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03SE
Point Location Description: Entrance to quarry on satellite photo
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: 2.0 km SW of Woodville, 8 km northeast of Picton. The quarry is within a few hundred metres of the Bay of Quinte. Accessible from Hwy 49.
Quarry was opened in 1976 by John Doranburg of Picton and in February 1986, the property was purchase by Miller Paving Limited (Limestone Industries of Ontario, vol2, p114). 2023: The quarry is still licensed by Miller Paving. At the NE corner of the quarry, a 4.86ha past-producing limestone quarry is licensed by Lafarge Canada Inc.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Michigan Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Fossiliferous | thin-bedded, nodular | Is |
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Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - 6.4 m deep quarry exposes thin-bedded, nodular limestone of the lower member of the Lindsay Formation.
Aug 09, 2023 (Mateo Dorado-Troughton) - The limestone found in this quarry is fossiliferous, with abundant gastropod and brachiopod fossils.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Date: Jun 28, 2023
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: Visited by SO RGP staff, K. Hahn OGS Paleozoic Geologist, and a Lafarge staff member. Quarry visits were in conjunction with K. Hahn's region bedrock geology mapping of the area.
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 114-115 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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