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| Record Name(s) | Harlem Quarry - 1986, G. Tackaberry and Sons, Construction Company Ltd. - 1986, Brundridge Construction Company - 1964 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Sep-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Bastard
Latitude: 44° 40' 12.64" Longitude: -76° 7' 14.04"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 411177 Northing: 4946923 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09NE
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Siliceous | Is |
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| Sandstone | 2 |
Sep 02, 2015 (A Wilson) - The quarry is in March Formation dolomite. The upper 5 feet of the quarry is light buff to medium brown, aphanitic to fine crystalline, thin- to medium-bedded dolomite with calcite crystals. The next foot is white, medium-grained sandstone. Below this is 5.1 ft of brownish grey to buff, aphanitic to fine crystalline, thin-bedded dolomite with abundant shaly partings and white calcite crystals.
Sep 02, 2015 (A Wilson) - A chemical analysis of a sample taken from the quarry face assayed 23.83 SiO2, 8.75% Al2O3, 0.07% Fe2O3, 18.18% MgO,19.32% CaO.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 86 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 - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 141 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 - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 264 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Westport area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2723 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 20-21 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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