Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Jamieson Quarry #4 - 1922, Goudge sample 131 - 1936 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Secondary Commodities: Marble (high purity/flux)
Township or Area: Horton
Latitude: 45° 29' 35.15" Longitude: -76° 40' 29.4"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 369135.003 Northing: 5039093.998 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F07NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Renfrew town, proceed northeast from Tim Horton's (highway 60, alias Stewart at Bruce) on Bruce for 2.6km. Turn right on Garden of Eden Road, bypassing RR number 1025a and after a further 0.3km on a gravel road fork to the right to the quarry entrance.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Calcitic | Is |
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Sep 09, 2011 (A Wilson) - The stone is blue-grey in colour. It contains flakes of phlogopite, graphite and silicate minerals.
Sep 09, 2011 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by Goudge returned the following analysis: 1.42% SiO2, 0.43% Fe2O3, 0.25% Al2O3, 0.09% Ca3(PO4)2, 88.73% CaCO3 and 8.82% Mg CO3. The stone was used to build the post office in Renfrew.
Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27
Publication Number: Paper 51-27 Page: 69, 72 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 - 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:
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 170, 178, 179 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 104, 63 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: 67-68 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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