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| Record Name(s) | Gravel Hill Quarry - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jun-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Roxborough
Latitude: 45° 13' 8.44" Longitude: -74° 53' .47"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 509149.657 Northing: 5007286.763 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G02NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 1.5 km NE of Gravel Hill.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - 4.2 m deep quarry exposes fine- to medium-crystalline, thin-bedded, nodular limestone of the lower member of the Lindsay Formation. Glacial overburden around the quarry is less than 1 m thick. (Limestone Industries of Ontario - p 27).
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 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
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Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Scale: Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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