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MDI31D09SE00005
| Record Name(s) | Stoney Lake - 2000, Stoney Lake Granite Quarries - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1982-Feb-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Aug-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Granite
Township or Area: Dummer
Latitude: 44° 34' 16.18" Longitude: -78° 0' 48.09"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 737144.139 Northing: 4939653.082 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D09SE
Point Location Description: ' ST 'dot symbol at the SE end of Stoney Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Two small quarries are situated on the E shore of Stoney Lake. From Lakefield take Co Rd 6 for 29.3 km to the junction of Co Rd 6 and Hwy 44. Continue N on Co Rd 6 (Nephton Road) for 1.5 km. The quarries are located 0.1 km E of the road.
The 2 small quarries were owned by F.Coyle and R.G.Kilbon (Stoney Lake Granite Quarries Ltd) - 1940 : the Ritchie Cut-Stone Co Ltd of Toronto bought about 85 cu m of mill blocks (for ornamental purposes and also as facing material on buildings in Ottawa and London). In 1941 71 cu m of mill blocks were quarried. The quarries have been inactive since 1942. NMI # 070758 reports that in 1946 400 tons of ' reddish granite ' was quarried from a couple of outcrops alongside the road from Lakefield to the American Nepheline Quarry (by Coyle and Killans / Kilbon ?).
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The stone is a pink, coarse-grained porphyritic biotite granite. Biotite makes up as much as 20 % of the stone, giving it a rather dark colour. A well-developed horizontal sheeting allows the removal of blocks up to 0.9 to 1.2 m thick. The granite shows potential for development as structural stone, ornamental stone, paving stone and architectural stone. There is good outcrop in the area.
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 91-92 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: 113-114 Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Reconnaissance survey of building stones of eastern and central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5585 Page: 41-4 Date: 1986
Author: Verschuren C.P., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W., Villard D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Mineral resources of south-central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5431 Page: 38-40 Date: 1983
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 5, granite and gneiss
Publication Number: IMR019 Page: 22-23 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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