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MDI31G03NE00007
| Record Name(s) | McLean Quarry - 1990, McLean(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 | 2024-Apr-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Finch
Latitude: 45° 7' 51.61" Longitude: -75° 5' 52.79"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 492294 Northing: 4997508 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G03NE
Point Location Description: Point 1.0 km SW of Finch.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Intermittently operated by A.L. Blair Construction Ltd in 1989 and licensed for 2 ha. Opened on a single lift of 4.0 m.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Interbedded limestones and shales of the Verulam Formation - fine to coarse-crystalline, thin-bedded. Overburden is 1-2 m. Fossiliferous with abundant brachiopods, crinoidal debris and trilobite fragments; also abundant burrows.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Verulam Formation | Is |
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| Rank | Classification |
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| 2 | Decorative Aggregate |
| 1 | Industrial |
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 19 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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