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General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Granite

Location

Township or Area: Monmouth

Latitude: 44° 56' 11.79"    Longitude: -78° 18' 26.38"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 712458   Northing: 4979436    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D16NW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: From the junction of Hwy 121 and Hwy 503 at Tory Hill proceed 5.3 km on Hwy 503. Proceed along a single-lane road for 150 m to a junction; turn left and continue for 75 m to the quarry (Sabina, GSC MP39, p88).

Exploration History

1912: quarry opened. 1935: Allan Hadley reopened a small quarry, which was first operated in 1912, in a fine grained, pink granite; shipped 136 t of granite to Toronto for use as paving stone and monuments. Some examples of its use as monument stone may be seen at the Gooderham cemetary.

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Terrane: Elzevir

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Jan 31, 2017 (A Wilson) - Granite paving stone and monument material was manufactured from the 150 tons of granite marketed from this quarry. The quarry is 40 feet by 50 to 75 feet and from 15 to 20 feet deep. Jointing occurs at intervals from 2 to 6 feet deep. Jointing occurs at intervals from 2 to 6 feet apart trending N. 20º E. and dipping 80º W. --Joints were also observed trending N. 5Oº E. and N. 65º W The rock is cut by irregular stringers of pegmatite and black seams of quartz and biotite. Some pyrite was observed. Owing to the uneven splitting and the presence of stringers, much of the rock quarried was waste but selected material was shipped to monument-makers in Toronto, and a shipment was made for granite paving stones. Total shipments were about 150 tons. Tombstones of this material may be seen at St. John's cemetery, Toronto, and in the cemetery at Gooderham.

Mineral Record Details

References

MonoMap - Geology of Glamorgan and Monmouth townships, Haliburton County

Publication Number: OFR5021 Page: 201-203  Date: 1997

Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Book - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Bancroft - Parry Sound area and southern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 39

Publication Number: Misc Rep 39 Page: 88  Date: 1986

Author: Sabina, A.P.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/121046

MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 128  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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

Publication Number: IMR019 Page: 20-21  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area

Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 87-88  Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 87-8  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823

Map - Monmouth Township, Haliburton County

Publication Number: M2174 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1970

Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

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