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| Record Name(s) | Fitzroy Harbour Marble Quarry - 2000, Fitzroy Station - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-Jun-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Fitzroy
Latitude: 45° 27' 39.83" Longitude: -76° 13' 1.39"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 404850.116 Northing: 5034891.139 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F08NE
Point Location Description: About 1 km SSW of Fitzroy Harbour, N of the Mississippi River and CNR.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Situated close to the Ottawa River, about 1/4 ml W of Fitzroy Harbour and opposite the S end of Victoria Island.
Mid-1800s : quarry for dimension stone worked for many years but abandoned at aroud the turn of the century - 60 x 50 x 10 ft deep. Sample # 177 (1938). The stone was used in the original Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A coarse-grained but compact, grey and bluish-white calcitic marble. Impurities mostly of biotite, graphite and an occasional inclusion of gneiss and schist.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Tremolite | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 45-47, 56 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Arnprior-Quyon and Maniwaki areas, Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 136
Publication Number: GSC Mem 136 Page: 118 Date: 1924
Author: Wilson, M E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100837
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 1: marble
Publication Number: MDC021 Page: 62,112 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: 59 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Geology of Canada - Rreport of progress from its commencement to 1863; Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress 1863
Publication Number: Rep Prog 1863 Page: 822 Date: 1863
Author: Logan, W E; Murray, A; Hunt, T S; Billings, E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/123563
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 332-333 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: FT02.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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