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| Record Name(s) | Hwy 7 Marble - 2000, B Quarry - 2023, CarbRoc Quarry - 2003 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Apr-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material), Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Elzevir
Latitude: 44° 33' 25.47" Longitude: -77° 17' 32.01"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 317950.38 Northing: 4936304.55 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SW
Point Location Description: Precise entrance of quarry.
Location Method: Field Visit
Access Description: This quarry is located just south of highway #7 across from a small marble quarry on the N side of Hwy 7, about 3 km E of the Hwy 7 / Hwy 37 intersection.
1989: The mineral rights to much of this area were held by Vermont Marble. They had 2 holdings 1989 in the area - one is 2 km S of Actinolite and the other is 1.5 km E of the Hwy 37 turnoff, along Hwy 7. Just S of Hwy 7, at the E edge of the map area, is an old marble showing with 2 test sample locations from previous exploration. 2000s: Senator Stone Supply Ltd operated the quarry, producing crushed stone. 2023: Currently the quarry is active with a quarrying permit (#20308) for Z. Suder and seems to be producing building/decorative stone.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Mazinaw
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A large area of good calcitic marble lies between metasediments (to the N) and granite (to the S) in a narrow belt that widens to the E. Samples 710, 711, 731 and 733 are from this area. The entire belt has a high potential for industrial filler-type marble.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Calcite Marble | 1 | Is |
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| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Metamorphic |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Massive |
Date: Mar 13, 2003
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The quarry was visited on September 3, 2002. At this time three large stockpiles of various sized buff coloured calcitic marble were located on the site. The mobile crushing and screening plant were not on site. This quarry is actively being worked and materials are being shipped to both Toronto and Montreal (J. Palu - personal communication)
Date: Apr 19, 2023
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: The quarry was visited briefly by the Southern Ontario RLUG, RRG, and DG. The property seems to be actively producing cut marble slabs of various thickness.
Mono - Geochemistry of Grenville marble in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC028 Page: 66-68 Date: 1989
Author: Grant W.T., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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