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Record: MDI31F01NE00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Ashton Station - 1986
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1986-Nov-05
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-19
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)



Location

Township or Area: Goulbourn

Latitude: 45° 11' 52.07"    Longitude: -76° 3' 36.22"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 416739.044   Northing: 5005469.998    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F01NE

Point Location Description: Star symbol 'lst 9' N of Ashton Station, near the township boundary.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: On the top of a ridge, 11/2 ml N of Ashton Station.



Exploration History

Circa 1917 : a small quarry, for local use (operated intermittently). 1938 : some local buildings were said to have been built of this stone. It was sampled at this time.


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Chazy limestone - Gull River Formation - about 3 ft exposed : variable (8 inch thick), grey, fine-grained.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493

Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 26  Date: 1918

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707


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

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 50, 56-57  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

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


Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1980

Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2

Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 102-103  Date: 1981

Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 62  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: GN03.0  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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