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MDI31C16SE00044
| Record Name(s) | Shane's Quarry - 1910 |
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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 | 2022-Dec-05 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Elmsley
Latitude: 44° 50' 16.79" Longitude: -76° 0' 35.43"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 420185 Northing: 4965450 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16SE
Point Location Description: water-filled pit with uarry symbol from map P2724 just northeast of Shanes.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: 6.8 KM south of Smiths Falls on the east side of the highway.
Pre-1912 : quarried for road metal
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Is |
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Aug 04, 2016 (A Wilson) - Sub-lithographic to fine-crystalline, brown-grey limestone of the Oxford Formation (0.2 m) in horizontal beds 2-8 inches thick (visible above the waterline). Many large crystals of pink and grey calcite and occasional large crystals of pyrite in many of the beds (1912). The Oxford formation consists of light to dark grey, thin- to thick-bedded, sublithographic to fine crystalline dolostone. The weathered surface is light grey to buff to reddish brown. Stromatolites and calcite-filled vugs are common. A thickness of up to 4.1 m was observed in sections within the area.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 141 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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Book - Building Stone Inventory # SE01.0 (DEPOSIT 5)
Publication Number: Date: 1985
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Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 121 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
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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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