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Record: MDI31F01NE00027

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) J. T. Wright - 1930
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Jun-11
Date Last Modified 2022-Dec-06
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)



Location

Township or Area: Ramsay, Ramsay

Latitude: 45° 14' 16.01"    Longitude: -76° 12' 28.69"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 405188.15   Northing: 5010075.11    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F01NE

Point Location Description: General, point just northwest of Almonte.

Location Method: Data Compilation



Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Subprovince: Western St. Lawrence Lowland



Geology Comments

Oct 10, 2017 (A Wilson) - Grey to dark blue limestone quarried for building stone.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Limestone 1 Host

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: 25  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: 111  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

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


Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 87  Date: 1985

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

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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