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| Record Name(s) | Lakefield - 1982, Lakefield Quarry - 2000, Canada Cement Co Ltd - 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 | 2022-Apr-14 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Township or Area: Douro
Latitude: 44° 25' 29.11" Longitude: -78° 15' 17.25"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 718520.088 Northing: 4922716.833 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D08NW
Point Location Description: ' ST ' dot symbol E of Lakefield.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Lakefield, at the bridge, continue E on Hwy 28 for 3.0 km and turn right at the junction. At 2.2 km turn right onto quarry road. The quarry is located about 1 km SE of Lakefield.
1927-mid 1950s : operated by Canada Cement Co Ltd for the making of portland cement. Now abandoned and slightly overgrown in 1993.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry face exposes interbedded limestones and calcareous shales of the Middle Ordovician Verulam Formation. The thin-bedded limestones are very fossiliferous in the lower part of the quarry (125 species - 1975). The base of the quarry is estimated to be about 10 m above the top of the Bobcaygeon Formation. See detailed descriptions and measured sections in OFR 5331 (Section A-18), OFR 5635 (Mineral Inventory Map # 36) and OFR 5863 (OGS File # 118.00, L-36).
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 148 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 91 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County
Publication Number: OFR5635 Page: 73-4 Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 130-1 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Preliminary report on the Paleozoic geology of the Peterborough-Campbellford area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5331 Page: 48-9 Date: 1981
Author: Carson D.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector Ottawa to North Bay, Ontario; Hull to Waltham, Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 70-50
Publication Number: GSC Paper 70-50 Date: 1971
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102463
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