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| Record Name(s) | Hwy 503 Cut - 1912, Hadley Granite Quarry - 1912, McCue Lake - 2016 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Mineral Specimen
Township or Area: Monmouth
Latitude: 44° 58' 9.25" Longitude: -78° 16' 43.09"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 714600 Northing: 4983136 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16NW
Point Location Description: General, 0.7 km southwest of Tory Hill.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Road-cut on Hwy 503, 0.5 km from the junction between Hwy 121 and Hwy 503 at Tory Hill.
The quarry was opened in 1912. It was operated in 1935 by Mr. Allan Hadley who shipped about 136 t of granite to Toronto for use as paving stone and monuments. Examples of its use as monument stone may be seen at the Gooderham cemetery on Highway 503
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Granite | Is |
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Jan 28, 2017 (A Wilson) - Fine-grained red granite was formerly quarried from this deposit. Grains of magnetite and pyrite occur in the granite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Barite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Bastnaesite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Mica | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Talc | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 9 | Thorianite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Thorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 11 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 12 | Tremolite | Economic | Ore |
Jan 28, 2017 (A Wilson) - Veins of coarse white to pink and orange calcite cut the granite; the calcite contains dark green to black thorianite crystals ( .. micro"). light brown to amber plagioclase crystals measuring up to 2 cm wide, greenish blue to light green prismatic aggregates of clinopyroxene, green clinoamphibole, orange-red to brown bastnaesite as irregular patches associated with pyroxene and plagioclase, and reddish brown titanite grains. The white and pink calcite fluoresces pink under .. short" ultraviolet rays. The crystalline limestone is finely disseminated with molybdenite. pyrite (small crystals) and amber mica. It contains crystals of green apatite and greyish green prismatic aggregates of plagioclase.
Publication - 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
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