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| Record Name(s) | Kirkfield Quarry - 1923 |
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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-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Aug-15 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Secondary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Eldon
Latitude: 44° 35' 4.64" Longitude: -78° 57' 58.34"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 661448.592 Northing: 4938820.612 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D10SW
Point Location Description: ' St ' dot symbol NNE of Kirkfield.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 3 km NE of Kirkfield, E of the Trent Canal.
Pre 1923-1963 : operated by Kirkfield Crushed Stone Ltd and producing crushed stone for road construction, concrete and asphalt aggregate and agricultural lime. This stone was also used in the building of the Trent Canal and the lift lock at Kirkfield. In 1943 the quarry was 300 yds in diameter and 40 ft deep. The quarry is now mostly water-filled and is a swimming hole. This quarry was listed. more recently, in ARIP 32 under MTC # F6-34 (Q1). It is unlicenced and owned by Dufferin Materials and Construction Ltd. The face height is noted as 35 ft (11 m).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - This location is geologically significant as it once exposed a thick section of the uppermost Bobcaygeon Formation and the overlying Verulam Formation. This section fuelled a lengthy debate on the precise classification of these beds in the stratigraphic succession of central Ontario. Numerous fossils were also collected from this site (over 140), increasing its value. The Bobcaygeon has a distinctive blue-grey colour at this location but, at present, there is only about 3 m of fossiliferous, thin-bedded limestone and interbedded calcareous shale of the Verulam Formation still exposed. The stone is brownish, rather hard and thin-bedded with thin seams of blue-weathering calcareous shale at intevals of 2-9 inches. The rock in the top 17 ft is somewhat purer than that below (1938). Drilling (pre 1938) indicated a depth of 200 ft of limestone. Fossils are plentiful and many are silicified. They include brachiopods, crinoids and bryozoans.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 196, 198 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec; Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-50
Publication Number: Paper 69-50 Page: 149 Date: 1976
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 92 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 147 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
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Page: 122 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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