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| Record Name(s) | OMYA Blue quarry - 2010, Omega Marble Tile & Terrazo Quarry - 2000, Lanark Blue Marble Quarry - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-Jun-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Darling
Latitude: 45° 9' 41.58" Longitude: -76° 29' 45.6"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 382424.176 Northing: 5001985.373 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F01NW
Point Location Description: Triangle symbol ' MQ 11 ' just WSW of Tatlock.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Hwy 7 at Perth take the road to Lanark continuing straight ahead at the Carleton Place junction. At 30.9 ml turn right onto the road to Tatlock. The Angelstone Quarry is on the left at 31.85 ml. Turn left at 32.65 ml and the quarry is at 32.75 ml.
1962 : opened in the summer by Omega Marble Tile and Terrazo Ltd. The initial cut was on the W side of the 35 ft hill but the face was advanced to the NE. Blocks quarried were 10-15 tons in weight. 1963 : a second face was opened at the NW end of the ridge (150 tons / week in 1963). 4 quarries were opened in all; 3 for sawn blocks and 1 for chips. The main quarry was about 50 x 65 x 35 ft deep. ' Rideau Blue ', Rideau White ' and a pink-buff marble were produced. The quarry closed in 1971. The Angelstone Quarry is situated about 1 ml to the S. See MDC 21, 1981 for plan and description.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Medium to coarse-grained banded calcitic marble (about 260 ft wide and 40 ft thick) lies between hornblende gneiss and gabbro. The marbles are white, pink and blue, the latter being most notable but not evenly-distributed. This blue colour fades when exposed to the weather.
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 16 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 64-68 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 1: marble
Publication Number: MDC021 Page: 74-76,62,113,115 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: DR05.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec; Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-50
Publication Number: Paper 69-50 Page: 78 Date: 1976
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
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