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| Record Name(s) | Bezanson - 1990, Wilton Quarry - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Sep-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Ernestown
Latitude: 44° 18' 56.75" Longitude: -76° 43' 18.15"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 362697.224 Northing: 4908386.394 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C07SE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 1 km S of Wilton, quarry seen on satellite photo
Location Method: Data Compilation
1975 : first opened as a pit for sand and gravel but subsequently deepened into bedrock and now (1989) produces aggregate for local road construction. The quarry operates, primarily, from May to November. It is owned and operated by F.G. Bezanson and Son Ltd. The quarry was about 300 x 300 m on a single lift of 11 m in 1989 (about 13.5 acres disturbed and 30 acres wished to be licenced in 1982).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The upper member of the Gull River Formation is exposed. It is generally microcrystalline to very fine-grained limestone, rarely interbedded with thin beds of fine to medium-grained limestone. Birdseye texture is present and the beds are moderately fossiliferous with brachiopods, corals and trilobites. The top of the lower member of the Gull River Formation may be just below the quarry floor. Overburden at the top of the quarry is thin, although a considerable thickness of sand is present along the flank of the hill into which the quarry is excavated.
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 126 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:
File - Resident Geologist 1982 Building Stone File site # 15
Publication Number: Bld St Date: 2000
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Location: Tweed RGP
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