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| Record Name(s) | Douglas Station Quarry - 1944, Goudge sample 124 - 1938 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1990-Sep-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Bromley
Latitude: 45° 30' 6.29" Longitude: -76° 55' 43.41"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 349319.999 Northing: 5040500 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F10SW
Point Location Description: Outcrop symbol just S of gravel pit on SE edge of Douglas.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 0.8 ml NW of the CNR railway at Douglas, on top of a ridge. The lower of the 2 quarries.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Aug 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - Six feet of heavily bedded calcium limestone is exposed beneath 2 feet of rubbly limestone and soil. The upper 5 feet is brownish in colour, fine-grained and mottle with a finely granular, rusty-weathering material. The lowest bed seen contained thin, irregular films of black shale. The stone was used for road metal. The quarry was reportedly 40 feet in the longest dimension and up to 6 feet deep.
Aug 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by Goudge returned the following analysis: 2.46 SiO2, 0.41% Fe2O3, 0.71% Al2O3, 93.34% CaCO3 and 1.61% Mg CO3.
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
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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 Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Cobden, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2460 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Cobden area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2730 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1985
Author: Russell D.J., Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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