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| Record Name(s) | Lyle - 1989, Burntlands Aggregates Ltd. - 1989, Almonte Quarry - 1989 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jun-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
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.
2017: Quarry active
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
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.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Fine-Crystalline | Host |
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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Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)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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