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| Record Name(s) | Finch Quarry - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Dec-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Finch
Latitude: 45° 8' 38.71" Longitude: -75° 7' 13.71"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 490528.517 Northing: 4998963.664 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G03NE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 2.2 km WSW of Finch.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: On N side of Hwy 43, immediately S of the CNR.
Pre-1938 : inactive quarry. Sample # 213 (1938). Probably supplied road metal for the municipality c1922.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Fossiliferous, medium-grained, dark brown-grey Verulam Formation exposed to a depth of 9 ft and opened on a low ridge. Thin-bedded (< 6 in) with partings of black calcareous shale. Overburden about 1 ft. See OGS 1982 for a measured section.
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: 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 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
Location:
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 - Preliminary report on the Paleozoic geology of the southern portion of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5385 Scale: Date: 1982
Author: Carson D.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV31-10.002 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Sutherland T.F., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J., Webster A.R., Cole G.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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