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| Record Name(s) | Blair #2 - 1990, Finch Quarry - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1990-Dec-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-28 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Finch
Latitude: 45° 10' 19.46" Longitude: -75° 1' 12.77"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 498411.561 Northing: 5002065.766 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G03NE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 5.75 km N of Newington.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 8 km NE of Finch.
Intermittently operated (in 1993) by A.L. Blair Construction Ltd, providing crushed stone for local road construction. Quarry is small and partially water-filled.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The 4.5 m deep quarry exposes nodular limestone of the lower member of the Lindsay Formation. This is very fine to medium crystalline, thin-thick bedded with irregular shale partings, nodular and conglomeratic in places . It is fossiliferous with brachiopods, corals, crinoidal debris and burrows. See OGS 1993 and 1991 for measured sections.
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
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Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Scale: Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Scale: Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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
Location:
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