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| Record Name(s) | Francon Quarry - 2001, Francon Ltd. - 2001, Ottawa Valley Crushed Stone - 2001, Francon - 1991, North & South (Francon) Quarries - 2001 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Apr-08 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Gloucester
Latitude: 45° 26' 42.13" Longitude: -75° 33' 52.16"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 455855.291 Northing: 5032545.012 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G05NE
Point Location Description: Quarry symbol just NE of Blackburn hamlet.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From the Queensway (Hwy 17) at the junction with Montreal Road, turn E onto Montreal Road. At 0.55 km, the junction with Ottawa Valley Road, turn right. The quarry is at 0.8 km.
Mineral location : fossils (corals and shells) occur sparingly. Calcite in colourless-white aggregates are common in fractures and cavities (fluoresces pale yellow in U.V.). Powdery dolomite coats the limestone. c1938 : crushed stone for road metal was obtained from this quarry, opened in a N-facing escarpment. The quarry was triangular in plan (150 ft sides) with a 20 ft face. 1948 : Ottawa Valley Crushed Stone Ltd (a subsidiary of Canada Cement Co Ltd) began operating the quarry which produced crushed stone, mainly for concrete aggregate and roads. The quarry had a 70 ft face in 1960 (worked in 1 lift), with a further 16 ft of limestone exposed in a cut in the quarry floor. Production averaged 2,250 tons/day. 1969 : a new quarry was opened on the same property, SW of the one already described - operated by Francon Ltd. Aggregate was mainly used in concrete and asphalt and as road stone. 1989 : the quarry licence covered 100.73 ha for 2 quarries (North and South), operated by the Francon Division of Canfarge Ltd. Initially located on the outskirts of Ottawa, the quarries were, by now,completely engulfed by the city. The North quarry (1989) had been excavated on 2 lifts of 20 m - the first supplying concrete stone, the second supplying asphalt and granular base aggregates. The South quarry was also excavated on 2 lifts of 20 m, with potential for another 2, and produced mainly granular products. Excessive overburden restricted the advance of the first lift.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - There is a 135 m thick section from the lower member, Gull River Formation, to the upper member, Bobcaygeon Formation. This is exposed as a result of several, near-vertical normal faults, and only 2 intervals (in the lower members of both Formations) have been cut out. See OGS 1991 (Limestones Industries of Ontario) for a section and lithological description.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 74-75 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 - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 245-6, 281 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR005 Page: 74-77 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR039 Page: 23-25 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector : Buckingham, Mont Laurier, Grenville, Quebec; Hawkesbury, Ottawa, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 68-51
Publication Number: GSC Paper 68-51 Page: 82 Date: 2001
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102317
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 55 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: GL06.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Aggregate Assessment of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario Canada
Publication Number: Ott Agg Date: 1979
Author: Fletcher, T.W. and Klugman, M.A.
Publisher Name: Municipality of Ottawa/Carleton and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Location:
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