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Record: MDI31C08SW00051

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Cuddy - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Jul-10
Date Last Modified 2022-Jun-15
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Sandstone



Location

Township or Area: Pittsburgh

Latitude: 44° 22' 15.72"    Longitude: -76° 23' 2.58"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 389728.563   Northing: 4914015.631    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C08SW

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 1.1 km ESE of Ida Hill.



Exploration History

This stone has been used on the Picton Public School.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Sandstone 1 Host

Lithology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Red Potsdam sandstone, medium grained with well rounded quartz grains cemented by a thin film of ferric oxide. Relatively even bedded with some beds being a white colour grading into a salmon colour (Building Stone Inventory checklist).




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100

Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 124  Date: 1912

Author: Parks, W.A.

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 91  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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File - Resident Geologist files 1985, Building Stone Inventory checklist

Publication Number: Date: 2000

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