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MDI31C03SW00003
| Record Name(s) | Mountain View Quarry - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Related Record(s) | |
| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Aug-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Secondary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Ameliasburgh
Latitude: 44° 4' 37.22" Longitude: -77° 21' 16.03"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 311476.332 Northing: 4883120.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C03SW
Point Location Description: Precise, quarry floor.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Accessible from Highway 62 south through a locked gate. Past the gate, follow the road east.
2023: Lafarge Canada Inc. operates this quarry east of Mountain View. The quarry license covers an area of 15.75 ha.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Appalachian Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Fossiliferous | Is |
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Aug 09, 2023 (Mateo Dorado-Troughton) - Nodular limestone of the lower member, Lindsay Forma tion occurs in the 8.4 m deep quarry, which consists of two equal depth lifts. The most common lithology is a light grey, thin-bedded, very fine-crystalline limestone, interbedded with rare, thin shale partings. Also present are 10 cm thick beds of coarse-crystalline, bioclastic limestone, usually very fossiliferous. The uppermost metre in the quarry weathers into thin rubbly beds. (Limestone Industries of Ontario Vol. 2, 1989).
| 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 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 - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 106-107 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:
MonoMap - Aggregate Resources Inventory of Prince Edward County
Publication Number: ARIP172 Page: 20 Date: 1999
Author: Jagger Hims Limited, Ontario Geological Survey
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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