Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | O'Connor - 1993, Aq Ot-10 - 2001 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1993-Mar-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone), Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Gloucester
Latitude: 45° 22' 8.3" Longitude: -75° 41' 32.75"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 445777.313 Northing: 5024172.954 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G05NE
Point Location Description: Map number 50, 0.5 km S of Hogsback.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Section described as being at Mooney's Bay.
1912 : several small pits opened but no extensive quarrying - heavy stone said to have been obtained here. In 1917 it was said to have been used on the Hunt Club Road.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The upper member of the Bobcaygeon Formation would be described in OGS section AQ OT-10 (1991)- except that it is no longer exposed. The rock of the O'Connor quarries is described as similar to that from Pridmore's quarry and bluer than that from Thibault's. It is medium-grained, grey, rather soft, about 9 ft exposed (1917).
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 238 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Mem 99 Page: 43 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
Mono - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5770 Page: 250 Date: 1991
Author: Williams D.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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