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| Record Name(s) | Kinburn Quarry - 2000, Cavanagh Construction - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Dec-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Apr-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Fitzroy
Latitude: 45° 21' 5.64" Longitude: -76° 10' 40.57"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 407730.15 Northing: 5022680.923 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F08SE
Point Location Description: Point 3.3 km W of Marathon.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1980 : opened by Thomas Cavanagh Construction Ltd and operated intermittently. The licence covers 40.46 ha.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The 9.3 m deep quarry (excavated southward into a hillside) exposes thin-bedded, fine-medium grained, shaley limestone of the middle member of the Bobcaygeon Formation. There are abundant fossils (brachiopods, trilobites ) and exceptionally large burrows. Overburden is 1-2 m thick.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Bobcaygeon Formation | Fine-medium grained | Is |
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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 47 Date: 1998
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
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