Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Little Bob Quarry - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jul-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Verulam
Latitude: 44° 31' 49.9" Longitude: -78° 32' 9.08"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 695792.8 Northing: 4933753.814 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D10SE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: This overgrown quarry is located just south of Bobcaygeon, on the eastern side of Highway 649 north of the junction with Highway 36.
FORMERLY HARVEY TOWNSHIP: AS IN SUBJECT_COM. The quarry operated in the early 1900's providing crushed stone for local road construction.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The 6.5 metre deep quarry was excavated into the north face of a low escarpment of thin-bedded limestones of the Middle Ordovician Bobcaygeon Formation. (OFR 5863, p123).
Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of Verulam Township, Victoria County, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP042 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Scale: 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
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Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Scale: Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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