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| Record Name(s) | Shane Lime and Charcoal Company Ltd. - 1942, Dominion Rock Products Quarry - 1933, Federal Lime Company Quarry - 1927 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-Jun-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Chemical/Flux)
Secondary Commodities: Mineral Specimen
Township or Area: Grattan
Latitude: 45° 26' 48.24" Longitude: -77° 1' 47.8"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 341257.998 Northing: 5034583.005 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F11SE
Point Location Description: approximate
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: From Eganville, at the junction of Hwy 41, drive 0.4 ml to a junction and proceed straight ahead onto a gravel road. At 4.0 ml the quarry is on the right and the kilns on the left.
1927: the Federal Lime Co operated a quarry and opened a lime plant on this lot. 1933-39: Dominion Rock Products Ltd.: quarry in operation 1939-42: Federal Lime Co - quarry in operation. 1942: Shane Lime and Charcoal Co (33 acres) - quarry in operation. 3 kilns of 10 ton daily capacity were situated E of the river road, adjacent to the CNR. Circa 1965: Bonnechere Lime Ltd.: limestone quarried and mined from a 1 compartment shaft (now filled) and carried on trestle to kilns. 60,000 tons removed but about this amount lying around as broken rock.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry is situated in the top part of the Paleozoic escarpment - Black River limestone - which runs parallel to the river. This was sampled ( # 121, 121A, 121B, 1938). See DEMR/CANNET 1938, p 166, for a description of the section. Fossils are abundant - corals, bryozoans, crinoids and shells. Crystals of white calcite in cavities (fluoresces yellow) and black and white chert.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Jun 09, 2011 (A Wilson) - The quarry lies west of the Bonnechere River road, on a 40 ft escarpment, and was connected by a tramway to the kilns. The quarry was opened in 2 benches - the lower 190 x 100 ft with a 20 ft neck for the tramway. This bench was 30 ft deep. The second bench, to the W, was 140 x 150 ft and from 10-18 ft deep. The quarry closed because this stone did not yield lime of high enough quality, however, the stone from a quarry on lot 16, con 17 was trucked here to the lime plant. The lime was marketed as quicklime, in bulk or 200 lb steel drums
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chert | Economic | Ore |
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
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:
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 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Scale: 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:
Publication - Rocks and Minerals for the Collector, Ottawa to North Bay, Ontario; Hull to Waltham, Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 70-50
Publication Number: Paper 70-50 Scale: Date: 1971
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102463
Map - Renfrew area, Province of Ontario
Publication Number: ARM53B Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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