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| Record Name(s) | Actinolite Quarries - 2000, Actinolite Village Quarry - 1996, Woods Quarry - 1996 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Elzevir
Latitude: 44° 32' 31.01" Longitude: -77° 19' 54.14"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 314766.716 Northing: 4934712.951 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SW
Point Location Description: Quarry marking on W bank of Skootamatta River and W edge of Actinolite.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Quarries are described as being immediately behind the church and behind the hotel and one is named ' Harrison's Quarry '.
Several buildings in Actinolite are built from local stone quarried in and around the village. One quarry was behind the hotel and one was behind the church. One quarry was named 'Harrison's Quarry', but it is not known where this was. 3 samples are listed. Another was known as the 'Actinolite Village Quarry' or the 'Woods Option'.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - White, durable marble.
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:
Publication - Geology of Canada - Rreport of progress from its commencement to 1863; Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress 1863
Publication Number: Rep Prog 1863 Page: 94 Date: 1863
Author: Logan, W E; Murray, A; Hunt, T S; Billings, E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/123563
Publication - Report of progress from 1866 to 1869
Publication Number: RepProg 1866-69 Page: 154 Date: 1870
Author:
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/222878
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 309 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
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: 32 Date: 1918
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
Part - Non-metallic mineral resources of Hastings County
Publication Number: ARV39-06.003 Page: 53-54 Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 96 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
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