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| Record Name(s) | Paddle Farm - 1950, St. Lawrence Industrial Silica Ltd. - 1952 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-May-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Sep-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone (Silica)
Township or Area: Pittsburgh
Latitude: 44° 18' 35.84" Longitude: -76° 16' 11.78"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 398715 Northing: 4907084 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C08SW
Point Location Description: quarry
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Gananaque, west long parkway for 9.56km. West on highway 2 for 2.1km. Right on side road (access blocked by decommissioned railwaycrossing) continue for ~168m to site located behind house on right side of road.
1950: Quarry opened by Kingston Silica Mines Ltd. 1956-62: St. Lawrence Industrial Silica Limited - property acquired, DD-22-990 ft (approx), reserve calculation
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 |
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Feb 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - The quarry exposed a 10-12 foot section of grey mottled sandstone.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Silica | Economic | Ore |
Feb 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - The sand was of a granularity that was suitable for foundry sand. The company had difficulty in reducing the chromium content to acceptable levels for glass sand. A typical analysis of the sand ran 98.03% SiO2, 1.00% Al2O3, 0.26 Fe2O3, 0.06% FeO, 0.12% CaO 0.06% MgO. The quarried rock was used for cement, but because of its abrasiveness, it is no longer employed. At present there is 200,000 Tonnes of crushed rock stockpiled at this site.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| St. Lawrence Industrial Silica Limited | 1952 | Unclassified | 18143694 | IMR009 | 1,714,600 tons grading 96.0% SiO2; 7,855,300 tons of 92.6% SiO2 and 4,585,600 at 83.0% SiO2 | Silica 96 % |
Mono - Silica in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR002 Page: 12-13 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Silica in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR009 Page: 18 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Silica sand potential in eastern Ontario, preliminary report 1
Publication Number: OFR5265 Page: I-6 Date: 1979
Author: Powell R.D., Klugman M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Aggregate Resources Inventory of the County of Frontenac, Southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP187 Date: 2012
Author: Marich A.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Gananoque-Wolfe Island area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2496 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1982
Author: Carson D.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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