Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Ashton Station - 1944 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Sep-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Beckwith
Latitude: 45° 10' 32.34" Longitude: -76° 3' 47.93"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 416451 Northing: 5003013 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F01NE
Point Location Description: Quarry shape 2.25 km west of Ashton Station.
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Is |
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Sep 03, 2015 (A Wilson) - The formation consists of light to dark grey, thin- to thick-bedded, sublithographic to fine crystalline dolostone. The weathered surface is light grey to buff to reddish brown. Stromatolites and calcite-filled vugs are common.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratabound |
Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)
Publication Number: Page: 188 Date: 1944
Author: Satterly, J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location: Tweed RGP
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Carleton Place area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2725 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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