Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Read 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-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Tyendinaga
Latitude: 44° 18' 54.9" Longitude: -77° 12' 4.08"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 324462 Northing: 4909244 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C06SE
Point Location Description: Flooded quarry on satellite image
Location Method: Other
Access Description: This overgrown quarry is located 0.5 km east of the hamlet of Read.
This quarry provided crushed stone for local road construction.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Bobcaygeon Formation: 4.6 metre deep quarry.
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: 171 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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