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| Record Name(s) | Mountain Lake Quarry - 2016, FPL Aggregates - 2001, Blott Quarry - 1962 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Oct-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Apr-16 |
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Primary Commodities: Aggregate, Limestone (Crushed Stones), Granite
Township or Area: Cavendish, Cavendish, Harvey, Harvey
Latitude: 44° 41' 31.69" Longitude: -78° 22' 8.37"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 708472 Northing: 4952119 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D09NW
Point Location Description: Point 0.2 km west of Mountain Lake.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: From the junction of Hwys 36 and 507, travel north on Hwy 507 for 9.2 km to the access road; then 2.5 km northwest on this road.
1962: the granite was tested and found to take a good polish. 1998: Larry Preston (1045839 Ontario Ltd.): diamond drilling (2 DDHs), geological mapping, magnetometer survey, stripping and washing. 2016: Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd. has two active permits in Cavendish and Harvey Townships; as of April 2024, it is producing burgundy coloured granite and limestone from its Mountain Lake Quarry.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.19052 | 31D09NW2003 | 31D09NW2003 |
| 2.19159 | 31D09NW2002 | 31D09NW2002 |
| 2.15782 | 31D09NW0012 | 31D09NW0012 |
| 2.21984 | 31D09NW2014 | 31D09NW2014 |
| 2.24146 | 31D09NW2018 | 31D09NW2018 |
| 2.35962 | 20000002396 | 20000002396 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Domain: Harvey-Cardiff
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Red granite.
Feb 26, 2024 (Nazha Sabiri) - The northerly trending pegmatite dykes do not exhibit any alteration, they vary in width from 20 centimetres up to 0.6 metre and they cut both granitic and metavolcanics units.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Leucogranite | Is |
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| Limestone | 2 | Clastic carbonate, conglomerate, altered limestone | Layered, breccia | Is |
| Pegmatite | 3 | quartz-feldspar and biotite granite | Intrudes | |
| Mafic flow breccia | 4 | Feldspar and biotite and /or hornblend | Foliated | Adjacent |
Feb 26, 2024 (Nazha Sabiri) - Diamond drilling revealed pyrolusite and blebs of pyrite in limestone units, hematite in granitic units, brecciated and hematite altered sections in both granitic and limestone units. Granitic units were subject to kaolinite, phlogopite and probable chlorite alteration. (31D09NW2002). Some of the mafic metavolcanic outcrops exhibited magnetic properties attributed to the presence of finely dispersed magnetite. Sporadic specks or patches of sulphides, predominantly chalcopyrite with occasional pyrrhotite and potentially minor bornite, were detected in two of the metavolcanics outcrops within the property. (31D09NW2003).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 2 | Decorative Aggregate |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Massive |
File - Resident Geologist file Cavendish #77 - Connolly, 1978
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location: Tweed RGP office
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 5, granite and gneiss
Publication Number: IMR019 Page: 22 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County
Publication Number: OFR5635 Page: 101-102 Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 124 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Precambrian Geology of Cavendish Township, Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province
Publication Number: OFR6229 Page: 97-98 Date: 2012
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology of Cavendish Township and Environs, Grenville Province
Publication Number: P3605 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2010
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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