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| Record Name(s) | Warsaw Quarry # 3 - 2000, Quarry Lake - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-Feb-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Dummer
Latitude: 44° 26' .9" Longitude: -78° 7' 33.31"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 728744.178 Northing: 4924049.911 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D08NE
Point Location Description: ' e ' in River, NNE of Warsaw in lot 14, con 2.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 1 1/2 ml NE of Warsaw and on the W bank of the Indian River.
Pre-1904 : quarried for many years for dimension stone which was used in the construction of bridge piers and abutments, of locks on the Trent canal and probably of local buildings. Now inactive.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Appalachian Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry is about 2 m deep, within the lower member of the Bobcaygeon Formation. 2 beds were quarried (a 1.4 m upper unit and a 0.6 m lower unit). The stone is dark brownish-grey, fine-grained with a number of shale seams (which sometimes cause parting on long exposure to the weather). The lower beds contain nodules of black chert. Widely-spaced joints allow the removal of very large (huge) blocks. Soil cover is only a few cms deep for a distance of 130 m or more from the W bank of the river. Sample # 27 taken in 1938.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Chert And Shale Beds |
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| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Dimension Stone |
| 2 | Sedimentary |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 148, 150 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County
Publication Number: OFR5635 Page: 121 Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 147 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
Location:
Mono - Carbonate building stone resources of the Lake Simcoe-Kingston area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5730 Page: 44 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Burleigh falls and Peterborough map-areas, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 53-27
Publication Number: GSC Paper 53-27 Page: Map 53-27B Date: 1954
Author: Winder, C G
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101320
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