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| Record Name(s) | Payne Quarry - 2000, Jamieson Lime Company Quarry - 1944, Goudge Sample 129 - 1936 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-May-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (high purity/flux)
Township or Area: Horton
Latitude: 45° 30' 7.02" Longitude: -76° 44' 44.02"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 363630.003 Northing: 5040194.997 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F10SE
Point Location Description: Precise,
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Travel 5.0km northwest of the Village Inn at Renfrew on highway 60 to the hamlet of Payne. Continue 0.5km northwest to Ron Price road and turn right. Quarry access is on left 0.2km from the highway. Highway 60 entrance is flagged by RR numbers 1972-3.
1944-1963: Jamieson Lime Company - quarry operated for extraction of dolomitic marble for shipping to paper sulphite mills
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Dolomitic | Is |
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Sep 09, 2011 (A Wilson) - The marble is a coarse-grained bluish -white dolomitic marble.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Talc | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Graphite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 09, 2011 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by Goudge returned the following analysis: 1.72% SiO2, 0.71% Fe2O3, 0.36% Al2O3, 0.02% Ca3(PO4)2, 53.19% CaCO3 and 43.22% Mg CO3. Jamieson Lime Company reportedly shipped approximately 150 tons a week to paper mills during the summer months. Total production is unknown. Sample PM54 collected by the OGS analysed 1.00% SiO2, 0.3% Fe2O3, 0.01% Al2O3, 30.4% CaO and 21.5% MgO with a brightness of 91.0.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location:
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 Scale: Date: 1970
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103344
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Scale: 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 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Talc in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5714 Scale: Date: 1989
Author: LeBaron P.S., van Haaften S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cobden, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2460 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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