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| Record Name(s) | Lockwood Property - 1996 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2001-Mar-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Elzevir
Latitude: 44° 33' 21.42" Longitude: -77° 15' 59.99"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 319976.828 Northing: 4936122.916 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SE
Point Location Description: 5 km east of hyw 7 and 37 junction, south of highway 7, 2d symbol on map 51d.
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: Travel east 5 km on highway 7 from the junction of highways 7 and 37, to a gated road to the south. Travel down this road 0.5 km to the quarry. The quarry and berms can be seen from highway 7.
A new test quarry in coloured marble was opened in 1996 by Senator Stone Supply Limited, 5 km east of Actinolite. A single lift has been opened in the quarry with the quarry face ranging from 1 to 4 meters in height over a face length of approximately 40 meters. Block removal employed closely spaced drilling with a quarry bar of by use of a diamond wire saw, producing numerous, rectangular blocks in the 6 to 18 ton range. About 20 large blocks, including an 18 ton block have been shipped to Italy for testing.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The marble exhibits an attractive, somwhat irregular and in places contorted colour banding ranging from 1 to 15 cm in thinkess and in colour from white to pastel pink, to pale blue, with occasional greenish and buff coloured bands. The strike of the banding (foliation) is 050 degrees with 40 degree south dips parallel to a granite contact that lies some distance to the south but is obscured by overburden. The quarry site is cut by three 30 to 60 cm wide prominent mafic dykes that are conformable to the foliation (colour banding or possibly bedding). The marble is dominantly calcitic in composition with evident calc-silicate minerals present throughout most of the stone. Jointing is widely spaced, 2 to 5 meters, but there are near weathered and surface fractured areas that make it difficult to measure jointing reliably over the whole outcrop area. A number of unfractured blocks weighing up to 18 tons have been recovered from the first lift. This is evidence that the jointing is widely spaced.
Date: Mar 20, 2001
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: This quarry was visited on May 8th, 2000. The quarry was not active and had not been for a number of years. There was one high hoe still on site.
Date: Mar 13, 2003
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The property was visited on September 8, 2002. The property was inactive. No equipment was on site at this time.
Article - Marble Potential in the Actinolite Marble Belt, Southeastern Ontario - Tweed Resident Geologist's Office
Publication Number: MP166.043 Page: 144 Date: 1996
Author: Kingston P.W., Papertzian V.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Grimsthorpe-Kennebec area, counties of Hastings, Lennox and Addington, and Frontenac, Ontario
Publication Number: ARM51D Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Meen V.B., Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Geology of the Mellon Lake area
Publication Number: OFR5598 Date: 1986
Author: Bright E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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