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Record: MDI31C09NW00048

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Westport Quarry 2 - 1989
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1990-Nov-07
Date Last Modified 2022-May-09
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones), Aggregate



Location

Township or Area: North Crosby, North Crosby

Latitude: 44° 39' 44.92"    Longitude: -76° 24' 54.47"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 387813   Northing: 4946431    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C09NW

Point Location Description: former quarry 2 km southwest of Westport.

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

Inactive.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Limestone 1 Host

Lithology Comments

Sep 14, 2015 (A Wilson) - The limestone is thin to medium bedded, and has a dark grey fresh surface and a light to medium grey weathered surface. A 40 cm thick bed of oolitic limestone occurs. The silty dolostone is sublithographic to fine crystalline, calcitic to noncalcitic, and medium bedded; some beds contain laminations of possible algal origin. The fresh surface of the silty dolostone is brownish grey, and the weathered surface is buff to light brown.




Mineralization Comments

Sep 14, 2015 (A Wilson) - Sample 43 analysed by the Mines Branch assayed 0.70% ferric oxide, 0.30 alumina, 74.88%CaCO3,13.93 MgCO4



Mineral Record Details

References

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:


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:


Publication - 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: 30  Date: 1918

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707


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