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| Record Name(s) | Maxwells Crossing Quarry - 1890, Maxwells - 1890 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1981-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Glamorgan
Latitude: 44° 52' 49.03" Longitude: -78° 29' 53.02"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 697601.54 Northing: 4972697.19 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16NW
Point Location Description: Marble outcrop south of Hwy 503 in lot 2, con 6, near western boundary of township.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: On the old highway between Irondale and Gooderham, just west of the old railway point of Maxwells. South of Hwy 500, on the south side of the Irondale River.
Circa 1890 : marble was quarried for tombstones (by A. Curry).
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Jan 25, 2017 (C Papertzian) - A quarry in a 6 m (20 ft) wide belt of white, coarse-grained dolomitic marble, along the north edge of a gneissoid hill. It is exposed on the Irondale River for a short distance only. 2 samples were taken in 1912 (# 25 from the underlying thin beds is micaceous, # 24 is from the upper unit, a very coarse marble but dirty in appearance).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Dolomitic | Host |
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Jan 25, 2017 (A Wilson) - The marble here is exposed on the north edge of a hill, and consists of an 8 m wide band of white crystalline dolomite marble, with some flakes of mica. The quarry operated in 1890, and produced stone for monumental purposes,examples of which may be seen in the Gelert cemetary
Publication - Geology of the Haliburton and Bancroft areas, Province of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 6
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 6 Page: 370 Date: 1910
Author: Adams, F D, Barlow, A E.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100481
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 8686 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Compend - Summary of field work, 1977
Publication Number: MP075 Page: 110-117 Date: 1977
Author: Milne V.G., White O.L., Barlow R.B., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 319 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 86 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
MonoMap - Geology of Glamorgan and Monmouth townships, Haliburton County
Publication Number: OFR5021 Page: 201 Date: 1997
Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Geology of the Lochlin area, County of Haliburton
Publication Number: OFR5678 Page: 110-111 Date: 1987
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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