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MDI31C07SW00023
| Record Name(s) | Yarker Quarry #1 - 1900, Yarker - 1900 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Oct-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Camden East
Latitude: 44° 22' 48.4" Longitude: -76° 46' 26.62"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 358677 Northing: 4915623 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C07SW
Point Location Description: Point 0.75 Km N of Yarker. Location from NSP001 (converted to NAD83) p. 153
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: File CE08.0. About 1/3 ml N of Yarker, adjacent to a railway cutting.
Early 1900s for bridges and houses. No assessment reports were found on file.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Mar 09, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Yarker Quarry #1 (location NP-178) is in the Gull River formation (Wolfe, 1993). The quarry is reported as being quarried in the early 1900s for a small amount of building stone used for the construction of bridges and houses (LeBaron and Williams, 1990). Goudge (1938) described the #1 quarry as follows: "The stone utilized was 5 feet (1.5 m) of dense-textured, dove-grey limestone in regular beds 3 to 10 inches (1.2 to 4 cm) thick, with 4 feet (1.2 m) of shaly, thin-bedded stone and 4 feet (1.2 m) of soil overlying it." These strata are part of the upper member of the Gull River Formation. The upper member of the Gull River formation is described by LeBaron and Williams (1990) as “generally medium to dark grey or brownish grey, less commonly light grey, and is lithographic to fine crystalline in texture. It weathers to a darker colour than the lithographic stone from the lower member, commonly dark blue-grey, light grey brown or light grey.”
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Scale: 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 Scale: 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 Scale: Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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