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| Record Name(s) | Renfrew Town Quarry - 1890 |
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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: Marble (high purity/flux)
Secondary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Horton
Latitude: 45° 28' 16.62" Longitude: -76° 40' 52.86"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 368575.002 Northing: 5036681.001 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F07NE
Point Location Description: Precise, corner of Plaunt St. South and Quarry Street
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Behind the Roman Catholic Church.
1890-1923: Jamieson Lime Company - lime and limited building stone quarrying
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Calcitic | Is |
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Sep 08, 2011 (A Wilson) - The marble was blue and grey in colour. The marble is approximately 700 feet thick.
Sep 08, 2011 (A Wilson) - Lime production was approximately 20 tons per day.
Publication - Report on building and ornamental stones of Canada vol. 1
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 172 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27
Publication Number: Paper 51-27 Page: 52 Date: 1951
Author: Quinn, H.A.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101377
Part - Statistics for 1902
Publication Number: ARV12.002 Page: 28 Date: 1998
Author: Gibson T.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV30-01.003 Page: 149-150 Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 104 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 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Renfrew area, Province of Ontario
Publication Number: ARM53B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Renfrew, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2462 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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