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| Record Name(s) | Switzerville Quarry - 1990, Carter - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| 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° 16' 47.77" Longitude: -76° 50' 31.59"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 353006.114 Northing: 4904615.428 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C07SW
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 2.0 km E of Switzerville, flooded quarry visible on satellite photo
Location Method: Other
Access Description: About 10 km E of Napanee on the N side of Hwy 401.
1960s : operated by Carter Construction Co Ltd for crushed stone for Hwy 401. Now water-filled, it was opened to over 7 m. Only about 1 m is exposed. A second, much older and overgrown quarry, is located immediately to the N of this quarry. It exposes about 4.5 m of similar strata.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The upper member of the Gull River Formation, a thin-medium-bedded microcrystalline to fine-grained limestone. It contains sparsely fossiliferous beds which commonly contain small patches of calcite crystal 'birdseye' texture.
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 153 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: 192 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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