Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Pine Hill Quarry #3 and #4 - 1940, Joyceville Quarry - 1940 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-May-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-13 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone, Sandstone (Silica)
Township or Area: Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Latitude: 44° 21' 16.42" Longitude: -76° 21' 42.16"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 391478 Northing: 4912156 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C08SW
Point Location Description: pits on south shore of Rideau Canal
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 1.8 km north of Pine Hill.
1940-1953: The large quarry at Joyceville produced a foundry and silicon carbide sand in the 1940's through to 1953. At this time the plant was closed because the quarry floor had intersected the basal conglomerate and in turn the company folded. The site was later expropriated and the Joyceville penitentiary was built on the site.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Is |
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Feb 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - The sandstone deposit is 6400 feet long and from 200 to 900 feet wide and is exposed throughout its length in a 50-foot cliff running in a northeasterly direction. The thickness of commercial sandstone was about 38 feet. The bulk of the sandstone is creamy-white to grey, siliceous, and medium to fine-grained. Sandstone with calcareous or ferruginous cement is in very minor amount. At the quarry there is a considerable proportion of grey to black carbonaceous sandstone. There are some thin horizons of rusty sandstone, and the weathered surfaces of many of the beds show round limonite spots from 3 to 5 mm. in diameter. At the base of the sandstone section, lying on rusty Precambrian gneiss and quartzite, is a basal conglomerate member, from 3 feet to 5 feet in thickness, which is composed of quartzite fragments of various sizes in a coarse sandstone matrix.
Feb 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - The sand was marketed mainly as foundry sands and as raw material for the manufacture of silicon carbide. In 1949, the site was estimated to host 10,000,000 tons of sandstone. An analysis of the sandstone returned 98.03% SiO2, Al2O3 1.00%, Fe2O3 0.26%, FeO 0.06%, CaO 0.12%, MgO 0.06%, S 0.01%. Two quarries were operated at this site. In 1946, a 600 ton per day mill was erected. Kingston Silica Mines, Limited produced silica sands, used mainly as foundry sands and as raw material for the manufacture of silicon carbide.
Map - Geology, Gananoque, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 18-1970 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1970
Author: Liberty, B A
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/108909
Publication - Paleozoic geology of Wolfe Island, Bath, Sydenham and Gananoque Map areas, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 70-35
Publication Number: Paper 70-35 Date: 1971
Author: Liberty, B.A.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102360
Mono - Silica sand potential in eastern Ontario, preliminary report 1
Publication Number: OFR5265 Page: I-4 Date: 1979
Author: Powell R.D., Klugman M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Silica in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR002 Page: 13 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Sandstone as a source of silica sands in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV55-05 Page: 16-18 Date: 1997
Author: Keith M.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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