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| Record Name(s) | Shirley Quarry - 1989, Shirley and Sons - 1989, Bacchus Mud Lake - 1989, 734230 Ontario Ltd. - 2010 |
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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-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Elmsley, Elmsley
Latitude: 44° 51' 47.36" Longitude: -76° 3' 24.34"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 416513 Northing: 4968292 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16SE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol just east of Bacchus Mud Lake.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
pre-1938 : inactive in 1938, with the ruins of lime kilns. Circa 1989: O. Shirley and Sons - Intermittently operated in recent years by O. Shirley and Sons - the quarry licence covered 13.6 ha. Circa 2010: 734230 Ontario Ltd. – quarry in operation for aggregate. 2016: Quarry active.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Sandy | Is |
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Aug 09, 2016 (A Wilson) - The 11 metre deep quarry exposed dolostone, commonly very sandy. The grey-brown, medium-bedded, fine-crystalline dolostones commonly contain medium- to coarse-grained, well-rounded quartz veins. A minor fault zone trends northwest-southeast through the quarry with a 2 m wide breccia zone and associated calcitie veins. Displacement of the strata across the fault is less than 1 m. The March Formation consists of interbedded quartz sandstone, sandy dolostone, and dolostone. The lower contact is the base of the lowermost do-lomitic bed, and the upper contact is the top of the uppermost sandy bed. There is a net upward decrease in sand content.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 units are thin to thick bedded.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
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Publication Number: NSP002 Scale: Date: 1998
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Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Location:
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Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Scale: Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Scale: Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geology Perth, Lanark and Leeds Counties, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 1089A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1961
Author: Wilson, M E; Dugas, J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107951
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
Location:
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