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| Record Name(s) | Levi Lajoie - 1981, Tweed - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Dec-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Hungerford
Latitude: 44° 29' 20.94" Longitude: -77° 18' 30.44"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 316447.952 Northing: 4928795.869 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C06NW
Point Location Description: Precise, Dot symbol St, east of Hwy 37 and N of Village of Tweed.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: One mile north of Tweed at the corner of the Sulphide road and Holister road. The quarry is in the north of the Sulphide road and west of the Hollister road.
Stone from this quarry was used in the Methodist Church in Tweed, Robertson's store - Tweed, and the engine bed of the Brockville waterworks. This slab was 5.5 ft by 6.5 ft and was 1' thick. The stone was quarried in the early 1900's.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Appalachian Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Sep 27, 2006 (C Papertzian) - The 7.3 m quarry face exposes thick-bedded limestones of the lower member of the Bobcaygeon Formation. Thin calcite lined veins trend across the quarry and are visible on the quarry walls. The lower member of the Bobcaygeon Formation can be described as Limestone-brownish grey in colour, weathers bluish grey; sub-lithographic to finely crystalline; tin to massive bedded with thin, undulating shaly partings; fossiliferous; 4.5 m thick. The upper member of the Gull river formation is also exposed in this quarry. It is described as limestone; the colour and texture is the same as the above description; thin to thick bedded with abundant shaly partings; thickness of 2.8 m.
Date: Jan 24, 2005
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: This deposit was visited on July 21, 2004. The quarry was partially water-filled, and also partially filled with sawdust. This quarry operated in the early 1900's and supplied building stone locally to the Tweed area. The upper bed, 1 m , was the only bed that was used for structural stone.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 95, 109, 110 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
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
Location:
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
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: 62 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 225-6 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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