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| Record Name(s) | Silvertone Quarry - 2000, St Albert Station Quarry - 1982, Silvertone Black Marble Quarry - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1982-Apr-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Finch
Latitude: 45° 14' 8.12" Longitude: -75° 12' 7.39"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 484140.538 Northing: 5009141.793 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G03NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1931-57 : the Silvertone Quarry operated on this property (by Silvertone Black Marble Quarries Ltd), producing interior dimension stone ('Silvertone' or 'Silvertone Black'), as 3-6 ton blocks, and terrazo chips. The quarry (135 x 110 ft - 40 x 25 m) was worked on 3 lifts to a depth of 10 m / 34 ft. The lowest level is water-filled. Regular jointing facilitated block removal and the stone took an excellent polish. It was used in many buildings and internationally. The St. Albert Station Quarry, operated by A. L. Blair Construction Ltd, is their oldest and largest (licenced for 80 ha). It was 14.9 m deep in 1989, quarried on 2 lifts of 5.9 and 9.0 m with the potential for a third. Aggregate and lime are produced.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The Silvertone Quarry operated in 18 beds of black, microcrystalline-fine crystalline limestone ('marble') of the lower member of the Bobcaygeon Formation. A few brown-black beds are present. Scattered crystals of calcite impart an attractive silvery sheen to the polished surface. Beds are 30-80 cms with occasional shaley seams. This abandoned quarry is adjacent to the active aggregate quarry where blasting has been carried out for over 20 years. It is suggested that there may be 34-55 ft (total) of workable 'marble' in the quarry, so perhaps there is 20 ft left at depth if it is not damaged...... The St. Albert Station Quarry exposes the lower and middle members of the Bobcaygeon Formation. Both quarries are fossiliferous with brachiopods and crinoids. Overburden is up to 2m thick.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 19-193 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Publication - Geology of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland, Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 241
Publication Number: GSC Mem 241 Page: 40 Date: 1946
Author: Wilson, A E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101632
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 79-84 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 15 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 59 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 11-14 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:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: FI05.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 268 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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:
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
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