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| Record Name(s) | Pearce 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-Mar-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Marmora
Latitude: 44° 29' 7.83" Longitude: -77° 41' 18.88"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 286209.646 Northing: 4929315.769 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C05NE
Point Location Description: Point on west side of Crowe River at Marmora.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: West side of Crowe River, north of Hwy 7.
Early 1800's to early 1900's: produced building stone intermittently. Used in the construction of several buildings in Marmora in the early 1800's, as well as in the construction of the present Roman Catholic Church (circa 1904).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Gull River formation, lower member: 3.0 m thick.
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 222-223 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 98, 109 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Part - Non-metallic mineral resources of Hastings County
Publication Number: ARV39-06.003 Page: 51 Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 76 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 157 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:
Mono - Carbonate building stone resources of the Lake Simcoe-Kingston area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5730 Page: 60-1 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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