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Record: MDI31C16NE00008

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Drummond Centre Quarry #2 - 1989
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1990-Nov-14
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-22
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Drummond

Latitude: 44° 57' 26.59"    Longitude: -76° 13' 49.93"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 402943   Northing: 4978952.99    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C16NE

Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 7.7 km east of Balderson.

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: The site is easily accessible via a series of local roads.



Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Dolostone 1 Is
Sandstone 2 Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Sep 16, 2015 (A Wilson) - The formation consists of interbedded quartz sandstone, sandy dolostone, and dolostone. The lower contact is the base of the lowermost dolomitic bed, and the upper contact is the top of the uppermost sandy bed. There is a net upward decrease in sand content. Intraformational conglomerate commonly occurs in the lower part of the formation; it consists of clasts of muddy dolostone in a matrix of sandstone or sandy dolostone. The sandstone beds, identical in lithology to those of the Nepean Formation, are generally fine- to medium-grained, weather light brown to light yellowish brown, and include both quartz- and calcite-cemented types. A few thin beds of coarse-grained light green sandstone occur, the green colour being due to minor glauconite. The sandy dolostone and dolostone beds are fine crystalline and weather light grey to brownish grey. The sand grains in the sandy dolostone are coarse. All lithologies are thin to thick bedded. In the dolomitic beds, algal mats and stromatolites are common, and abundant gastropod shells occur along some bedding planes.




Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Sedimentary
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Stratiform

References

Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics

Publication Number: NSP001 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section

Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section

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Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Perth area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2724 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1984

Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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