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MDI31C16SE00049
| Record Name(s) | Jas. McGillivray Property - 1912, Smith Falls Quarry - 1935 |
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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 | 2024-Aug-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Chemical/Flux), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Elmsley
Latitude: 44° 53' 23.87" Longitude: -76° 1' 40.93"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 418820 Northing: 4971241 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16SE
Point Location Description: Point on west edge of Smiths Falls (now part of the town)
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: About 1/2 mile south of Smith Falls on the Lombardy road. Quarry site no longer visilble.
1912: J. MacGillvray : quarrying for road metal, lime, and building stone. Circa 1938: quarry re-opened; material used for wall building
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Sandy | Is |
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Aug 08, 2016 (A Wilson) - The stone is thinly bedded with an average of about 5 inches. The thickest bed was 8 inches.The stone is a fine-grained crystalline limestone with crystals of white calcite scattered throughout. The product was used for the construction of walls. The stone is light brown in colour with fine quartz sand in streaks and interbedded throughout the unit. The March formation consists of interbedded quartz sandstone, sandy dolostone, and dolostone. 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.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 181 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 120 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 90 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: SE04.0 Deposit 2 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
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