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| Record Name(s) | Mille Roches Quarries - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Jun-05 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Feb-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Chemical/Flux), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Cornwall
Latitude: 45° 2' 47.5" Longitude: -74° 50' 18.59"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 512718.604 Northing: 4988131.668 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G02SW
Point Location Description: Second from E of 5 quarry symbols, about 1 ml NNE of Mille Roches ( lot 25, con 4 ).
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: A group of quarries situated about 1 ml N of Mille Roches ( about midway between the CNR and New York Central railways ). These yielded crushed stone and stone for lime but, most importantly, large quantities of dimension stone for canal construction. Only one is in production at present, the Permanent Concrete Quarry - MDI31G02SW00012.
Pre 1912 : canal construction, also for lime and, later, aggregate ( Permanent Concrete - MDI31G02SW00012 ).
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Rockliffe ( St. Martin ) limestone - hard stone, some problems with chiselling.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Impure Limestone | 1 | fossiliferous and calcareous limestone | Fine Grain, Bedded | Is |
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Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 200-201 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 194 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Pleistocene and Recent deposits of the Cornwall-Cardinal area, Stormont, Dundas and Grenville counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-12
Publication Number: GSC Paper 51-12 Date: 1951
Author: Owen, E B
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101387
Mono - Lower St. Lawrence planning area: Finch, Roxborough, Osnabruck, Cornwall and Charlottenburgh townships
Publication Number: OFR5138 Page: 13 Date: 1975
Author: Brinsmead R.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 53 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493
Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 29 Date: 1918
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
Publication - Report on road materials along the St. Lawrence River, from the Quebec boundary line to Cardinal, Ontario; Canada Mines Branch, Bulletin 32
Publication Number: CMB Bull 32 Page: 18-20 Date: 1920
Author: Picher, R H
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307741
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