Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Horton Township - 1981, Horton Lot 16 Con 1 - 1944, Dore - 1969 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1986-May-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Gneiss
Township or Area: Horton
Latitude: 45° 29' 23.36" Longitude: -76° 42' 53.62"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 365997 Northing: 5038796.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F07NE
Point Location Description: quarry
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From the Valley Inn (northwest side of Renfrew town) drive northwest on highway 60 bearing right (northeast). Proceed 0.9km on minor road to quarry/talus pile on right hand side.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Is |
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| Marble | 2 | Calcitic | Hanging Wall |
Aug 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - Satterly described the quarry as consisting of black, fine-grained hornblende gneiss. The upper face of the quarry showed a capping of marble form 20-25 feet thick. The rock was used as road metal.
Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27
Publication Number: Paper 51-27 Page: 69 Date: 1951
Author: Quinn, H.A.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101377
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: 27 Date: 1970
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 103 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 1: marble
Publication Number: MDC021 Page: 62, 69 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Renfrew area, eastern part, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P1838 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1978
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Cobden, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2460 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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