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Record: MDI31F08SE00013

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Lyle - 1989, Burntlands Aggregates Ltd. - 1989, Almonte Quarry - 1989
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Producing Mine
Date Created 1991-Jun-11
Date Last Modified 2022-May-24
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Ramsay, Ramsay

Latitude: 45° 15' 7.34"    Longitude: -76° 9' 43.39"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 408815   Northing: 5011606    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F08SE

Point Location Description: quarry symbol 6.1 km east-south-east of Blakeney.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: This quarry is located 3 km northeast of Almonte.



Exploration History

2017: Quarry active


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Geological Age: Paleozoic  



Geology Comments

Oct 30, 2017 (A Wilson) - The 5.0 deep quarry exposes fine-crystalline, thin- to medium-bedded limestones of the lower member of the Bobcaygeon Formarion. The Bobcaygeon Formation, lower member has a thickness of 5.0 m. The limestone is medium to dark grey; light grey in lowest metre, weathers medium grey to grey-brown at top; fine to coarse crystalline with microcrystalline beds present at base of quarry face; thin to medium bedded (5-25 cm), with some thin shale partings between beds; small patches of calcite crystals (birdseye texture) common in microcrystalline beds; fossiliferous, especially with large colonial corals in upper part of quarry.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Limestone 1 Fine-Crystalline Host

Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 48  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

Location:


Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 225, 275  Date: 1991

Author: Williams D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)

Publication Number: Page: 190  Date: 1944

Author: Satterly, J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines

Location: Tweed RGP


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