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| Record Name(s) | R.H. Young - 1899 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone
Township or Area: North Crosby
Latitude: 44° 39' 37.53" Longitude: -76° 23' 38.08"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 389491.32 Northing: 4946173.94 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09NW
Point Location Description: Point 1.5 km south of Westport.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Many small quarries were located along the Brockville-Westport railway line between Delta and Westport and along the shore of Rideau Lake above Oliver's Ferry. This quarry was the only important one in 1912, near Westport - it is not precisely located.
Operated by the government for canal construction - only 1 acre of valuable stone, a bed about 3' 9 inch thick. Above the quarry are hard, siliceous sandstone units.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Is |
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Sep 15, 2015 (A Wilson) - Nepean sandstone has been used extensively for building in the district. No large quarries were opened, but the many flat sandstone ledges and escarpments provided a readily accessible supply of stone. At the quarry only about 1 acre of valuable stone appears. This deposit consists of a single solid bed 3 ft 9 inches in depth. Blocks the entire thickness of the bed and of any desired dimension can be quarried.
Sep 15, 2015 (A Wilson) - The stone is pure white except for the occasional brown spots. It is comparatively fine in grain. The stone contains 97.10% SiO2, 0.18% Fe2O3, 0.81% Al2O3, 0.19% MgO and 0.25% CaO.
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Publication - Limestones of Ontario; In: Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493
Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 119 Date: 1918
Author: Frechette, H.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
Publication - Summary report of the mines branch of the department of mines for the calendar year ending December 31 1918; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 509
Publication Number: CMB Pub 509 Page: 58 Date: 1920
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307720
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 81 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: NR03.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 126-127 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Mono - Silica sand potential in eastern Ontario, preliminary report 1
Publication Number: OFR5265 Page: I-12 Date: 1979
Author: Powell R.D., Klugman M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geology, Westport, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 1182A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1967
Author: Wynne-Edwards, H R
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/108032
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