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| Record Name(s) | Master Masons Quarry - 1977 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | A Wilson |
Primary Commodities: Gneiss
Township or Area: Oakley
Latitude: 45° 0' 10.85" Longitude: -79° 6' 33.4"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 649010.004 Northing: 4985023.996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 31E03SE
Point Location Description: quarry
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Quarry is located 100m south of highway 11B, 400m west of Wood Lake road 1.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Granodioritic To Trondhjemitic | Is |
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Jan 10, 2012 (A Wilson) - The quarry acted as an on demand site for extraction of road-building material. The quarry production was reportedly 150 tons. As of 1977, about 150 tons of medium- to coarse-grained gneiss had been removed from a quarry 92 m south of Vankoughnet Road. The quarry is 9 m high and 61 m long. Rock breaks poorly along foliation and has highly variable texture.
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Map - Precambrian Geology, Bracebridge Area
Publication Number: P3411 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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