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| Record Name(s) | Elgin Northeast Quarry - 1985, Elgin Northeast - 1900, DDH Gdh We-2 - 1978 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1982-Apr-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Silica Sand, Sandstone (Silica)
Secondary Commodities: Sandstone
Township or Area: South Crosby
Latitude: 44° 37' 19.46" Longitude: -76° 12' 3.26"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 404730 Northing: 4941670 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09SE
Point Location Description: benched quarry
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Elgin, northeast along highway 8 for 2.58km. Take trail on left side of highway walking ~60m to site.
1978-79: Ministry of Natural Resources - DD-1-23.5 m
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Is |
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| Conglomerate | 2 | Quartz Pebble | Near |
Nov 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - The sandstone is fine-grained, buff to red in colour and is moderately hard. The conglomerate is a quartz pebble conglomerate containing 1-5 cm quartz pebbles in a siliceous matrix. Sandstone blocks for the construction of the locks at Jones Falls on the Rideau Canal were taken from this site and two churches in Elgin were also built from this stone.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Silica | Economic | Ore |
Nov 20, 2013 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by the OGS in 1978 assayed: 99.95% SiO2, 0.69% Fe2O3, 0.33% Al2O3, 0.015% MgO and 0.011% CaO. DDH 1e-B was completed by MNR in 1978. The sandstone returned analyses ranging from: 88.53-95.46% SiO2, 0.30-0.53% Fe2O3, 1.31-1.96% Al2O3, 0.11-0.22% MgO and 3.05-8.77% CaO
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Mono - Silica sand potential in eastern Ontario, preliminary report 1
Publication Number: OFR5265 Page: II-17, III-15 Date: 1979
Author: Powell R.D., Klugman M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 90 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 277 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: SR01.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Westport map area, Ontario, with special emphasis on the Precambrian rocks; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 346
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 346 Page: 130 Date: 1967
Author: Wynne-Edwards, H.R.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100533
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:
Map - Part of southeastern Ontario showing distribution of Potsdam sandstone
Publication Number: M1946-09 Date: 1997
Author: Keith M.L., Baker M.B., Wright J.F., Wilson A.E., Wilson M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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