Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Demorestville Quarry - 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-Jul-09 |
Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Sophiasburgh
Latitude: 44° 5' 17.75" Longitude: -77° 12' 36.34"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 323069 Northing: 4884051 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03SE
Point Location Description: Center of flooded quarry from satellite image
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: This quarry is located 0.25 km south of the village of Demorestville.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The 3.8 m deep quarry exposes nodular limestone of the Middle Ordovician Lindsay Formation. Thin calcite-filled veins trend across the quarry (OGS 5863, p177).
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: 177 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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