Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI31C06SW00007
| Record Name(s) | Foxboro Quarry #1 - 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-09 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Thurlow
Latitude: 44° 15' 36.02" Longitude: -77° 26' 20.07"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 305316.991 Northing: 4903644.513 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C06SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 1 km north of Foxboro.
The quarry was operated in the early 1900's for crushed stone which was used in local road construction.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The 4.6 metre deep quarry exposes limestones of the Middle Ordovician Bobcaygeon Formation. A small normal fault occurs on the face of the quarry, with a displacement of only a few centimetres (OFR 5863, p169).
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 150 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: 169 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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