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Record: MDI31D09SE00005

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Stoney Lake - 2000, Stoney Lake Granite Quarries - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1982-Feb-11
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-25
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Granite



Location

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.



Exploration History

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 ?).


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

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.




Mineral Record Details

References

Book - NMI #070758

Publication Number: N/A Scale:     Date: 1996

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Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area

Publication Number: ARV52-02 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County

Publication Number: OFR5635 Scale:     Date: 1987

Author: Menard A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Reconnaissance survey of building stones of eastern and central Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5585 Scale:     Date: 1986

Author: Verschuren C.P., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W., Villard D.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Mineral resources of south-central Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5431 Scale:     Date: 1983

Author: Guillet G.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 5, granite and gneiss

Publication Number: IMR019 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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