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| Record Name(s) | Madoc Marble Quarries - 2000, Pleuss-Staufer - 1987, Tweed Calcium - 2000, Actinolite - 1987 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1987-Jan-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Secondary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Elzevir
Latitude: 44° 33' 21.26" Longitude: -77° 17' 38.85"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 317795.816 Northing: 4936178.934 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SW
Point Location Description: 1.6 km N of S township boundary, 7.0 km E of W township boundary.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: About 1.7 km E of Co Rd 2 (Flinton Road) on Hwy 7, an old bush road leads S 85 m to the abandoned quarry. This road is 400 m past the major hydro line crossing. The dolomite zone is also exposed in a rock cut on Hwy 7 about 100 m E of the quarry road.
ELZ-01 (OFR5712), 86-ELZ-06 (OGS 1986) : 1963 : Madoc Marble Quarries opened the dolomitic marble quarry - a 15 ft face is cut into the W end of a low ridge. There is also a quarry area 125 x 165 ft (37.5 x 49.5 m) of loose rock and blocks. Some of this marble was used in the production of terrazzo chips. 1973 : the 'Tweed Calcium' property was optioned from Lockwood and drilled by C.R. Young. In 1974 it was optioned to Ontario Marble (Pleuss-Staufer ?), extensively drilled and tested and taken to lease. The property was purchased from Lockwood and Marsh (?) and the area designated as 'Extractive Industry'. (Pleuss-Staufer) Omya Inc drilled in the area S and E of the old dolomite quarry, between it and the granite gneiss several hundred meters to the S. They outlined about 3 million tonnes of white, high calcium marble containing < 2 % acid insolubles . This zone is over 2,000 m in length and 120-250 m wide. The grade averages 96.8 % CaCO3 with a brightness of 95.6. 1991 : The 350 acre property is owned by C.R. Young but Pleuss-Staufer has cancelled its lease. 2000 : development work is being carried out by J. Palau.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The property lies within a 3-400 m wide marble belt, dolomitic in the centre (exposed in the old Madoc Marble Quarry) and calcitic N and S. The S zone is the high purity calcitic marble drilled by Omya Inc. The dolomite zone is about 50 m wide, medium-grained, buff to white with an average of 3 % impurities. N of the quarry, the dolomitic marble contains 5-10 % tremolite.
Date: Mar 20, 2001
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The property was visited on May 8, 2000. The surface had been stripped recently. The quarry was inactive at this time.
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:
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 95-96 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 15 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 52-53 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 58 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Precambrian dolomite resources in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5712 Page: 64-66 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., MacKinnon A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Report of Activities 1996, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: OFR5958 Page: 11 Date: 1997
Author: Newsome J.W., Laderoute D.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Resident Geologist file 1991
Publication Number: Date: 2000
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: EL07.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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