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MDI31C09NE00019
| Record Name(s) | Main Quarry - 1991, Tackaberry Main Pit - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jul-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Aug-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone, Dolostone
Township or Area: Yonge
Latitude: 44° 38' 37.41" Longitude: -76° 0' 38.71"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 419845 Northing: 4943871 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09NE
Point Location Description: Center of quarry on Google Earth
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 2.2 km SE of Plum Hollow.
This quarry provided crushed stone for local construction (OFR5863, p42).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The 8.3 m deep quarry exposes sandy dolostone, sandstone, and dolostone of the Lower Ordovician March Formation (OFR 5863, p42).
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
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Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 265 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 42-43 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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