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Record: MDI31G03NE00006

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Crysler Quarry - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1990-Dec-11
Date Last Modified 2024-Sep-04
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Finch

Latitude: 45° 11' 47.5"    Longitude: -75° 7' 51.72"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 489708   Northing: 5004791    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31G03NE

Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 2.5 km SE of Crysler. Flooded quarry on satellite image.

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

Circa 1924 : operated by the municipalities for road metal. The quarry is 175 x 100 ft with 8 ft exposed above the water (1938).


Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Dark brown-grey limestone of the Verulam Formation is medium-grained and thin-bedded with thin shale partings. Sample # 212 (1938).




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 193, 195  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823


Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics

Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 146  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: FI04.0  Date: 1985

Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV33-07.002 Page: 14  Date: 1998

Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Cole G.E., Webster A.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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