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| Record Name(s) | Tweed Marble Quarry - 2022, Hungerford 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 | 1981-Dec-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Secondary Commodities: Feldspar (Gemstones)
Township or Area: Hungerford
Latitude: 44° 31' 40.83" Longitude: -77° 20' 10.61"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 314359.03 Northing: 4933175.19 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SW
Point Location Description: Entrance to quarry from access road.
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: Travel north on highway 37 from Tweed to the Hawkins Bay Road. Turn left or to the west, crossing a steel grated bridge. Immediately after crossing the bridge, turn left or south onto Byer's Lane and follow the road to a salvage yard. Continue on through the salvage yard to the entrance of the quarry.
The deposit was developed as a building stone quarry and was operated by Vermont Marble Company in the late 1960s. The quarry measured approximately 20 x 20 meters by 10 to 15m deep. Extensive quarry block extraction occurred from 1996 to the late fall of 1998 by the Senator Stone Company. As of 2022, the quarry is currently owned by A. Marmaro & Terrazzo Olympic, LLC and is inactive.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| 10 | 31C11SW0042 | 31C11SW0042 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Mazinaw
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
May 04, 2022 (P LeBaron) - In addition to white marble, a variety of colours can be seen in the quarry, including pink, salmon, green, and blue. Other minerals present are tremolite, wollastonite, diopside, serpentine and pyrite. A narrow pegmatite dike cutting through the quarry area contains quartz, feldspar, amphibole, garnet, tourmaline and amazonite.
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The marble varies from predominantly dolomitic marble with thin, coarser, intercalated calcitic and tremolitic units, to a white, wollastonite-bearing calcitic marble/calc-silicate rock. The dolomitic marble is fine to medium grained, and white to cream and green in colour. Accessory minerals include tremolite, diopside, serpentine, quartz, pyrite and local hematite staining. The rock is massive to foliated, striking 021-030 degrees and dipping southeast 73 degrees. Irregular, boudinaged amphibolite dikes up to 2 m in width intrude the marble in the vicinity of the quarry. Jointing in the quarry is regular to irregular, and limited to moderate in extent. (From OFR 5715, p135).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Dimension Stone |
| 2 | Pegmatite |
Date: Feb 21, 2001
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The property was active from the spring of 1996 up to October 1st of 1998. This was the last time that the property appeared to be active. The property was visited on November 9, 1999 and was inactive at the time. The quarry had been allowed to flood and was completely full of water. It was subsequently visited on April 28th, 2000 and July 18th, 2000. The quarry was water filled and no activity was evident.
Date: Mar 13, 2003
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The deposit was visited on September 3, 2002. At that time the quarry was flooded and no work had been completed that season. What appeared to be waste blocks had been renumbered. This was all the activity that was in evidence.
Date: Mar 16, 2004
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The deposit was visited on July 24th, 2003. At that time the quarry was flooded and no work had been completed that season. A number of what appeared to be waste blocks had been removed from the quarry site. This was all the activity that was in evidence.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 95, 109-110 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Part - The limestones of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV13-02 Page: 65 Date: 1998
Author: Miller W.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 53-54 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: 63 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Reconnaissance survey of building stones of eastern and central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5585 Page: 233-5 Date: 1986
Author: Verschuren C.P., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W., Villard D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Precambrian dolomite resources in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5712 Page: 75-77 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., MacKinnon A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Wollastonite in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5715 Page: 133-9 Date: 1990
Author: MacKinnon A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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