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| Record Name(s) | Griffin Brothers Quarry - 1960, Griffin Brothers (Westport) - 1960, Lynn (Westport) Quarry - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: North Crosby
Latitude: 44° 40' 21.84" Longitude: -76° 25' 1.55"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 387677 Northing: 4947573 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09NW
Point Location Description: Quarry symbols 1.2 km west-southwest of Westport
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 1.5 km southwest of Westport on Hwy 42.
Mid-1960s : Griffin Brothers - opened; licensed in 1981 for extraction over 12.7 ha. The crushed stone is used for road maintenance and construction and has been used to construct a local airstrip. The quarry covered about 300 x 500 m in 1989, worked in a single lift.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolostone | 2 | Host | ||
| Clayey Siltstone | 3 | Shale | Adjacent |
Sep 15, 2015 (A Wilson) - The 16.7 m deep quarry exposes limestone and dolostone of the lower member of the Gull River Formation. The limestone beds are often mottled with dolomitized burrows or indistinct patches. Most of the limestone is light to dark grey, thin to medium bedded and microcrystalline. The medium-bedded, fine-crystalline dolostones usually weather a light brown or green and often contain vugs. Shale interbeds are present in the upper 10 m of the quarry.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Concordant |
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Scale: 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 - Building stone potential in eastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5706 Scale: Date: 1989
Author: LeBaron P.S., Verschuren C.P., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W., Chevrier R.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Scale: 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:
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