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Record: MDI31C06NW00017

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Crookston - 1981
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1981-Oct-16
Date Last Modified 2022-May-02
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)



Location

Township or Area: Huntingdon

Latitude: 44° 25' 50.07"    Longitude: -77° 27' 5.54"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 304875.777   Northing: 4922620.719    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C06NW

Point Location Description: General, Symbol St closest to Crookston and White Lake and CNR line.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Located on the same ridge and immediately south of the Gibson Quarry. North of Crookston on east side of CNR rail bed.



Exploration History

Alternate names: Quinlan, Robertson, Janin Ltd. 1890-1927: production of building stone, monument bases & large dimension stone for engineering construction (Goudge 1938). 1925-1927: Quinlan, Robertson & Janin Ltd. Of Montreal, quarried dimension stone for the piers of the South Shore (Victoria) bridge at Montreal. Was licenced to H.J. McFarland Construction Co. (LST in Ont., V.2, p.154-5, 1989).




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Investigations in ceramics and road materials (testing and research laboratories) 1925; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 672

Publication Number: CMB Pub 672 Page: 25-26  Date: 1926

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307852


Publication - Canadian limestones for building purposes; Canada Mines Branch, Publication no. 733

Publication Number: CMB Pub 733 Page: 90-91  Date: 1933

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/18790


Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 91, 94, 109-110  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: 50-51  Date: 1998

Author: Osborne F.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Madoc area, Ontario

Publication Number: M2053 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area

Publication Number: S012 Page: 20  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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MonoMap - Geology of Madoc Township and the north part of Huntingdon Township, Hastings County

Publication Number: R073 Date: 1968

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 63  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Reconnaissance survey of building stones of eastern and central Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5585 Page: 270-3  Date: 1986

Author: Verschuren C.P., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W., Villard D.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 154-155  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 - Report Of The Royal Commission On The Mineral Resources Of Ontario And Measures For Their Development

Publication Number: NSP011 Page: 80  Date: 1998

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