Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Gamble Quarry - 2001 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Gloucester
Latitude: 45° 16' 7.96" Longitude: -75° 39' 46.67"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 447993.322 Northing: 5013033.875 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G05SE
Point Location Description: Point 2.8 km SE of Honeygables.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Circa 1915 : small quarry owned by C. Gamble; extensive exposures - said to have potential for aggregate (idle after 1915). About 90,000 cu yds said to be available for quarrying in 1917.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Oxford Formation .....'heavily-bedded, fine-grained and tough' (1917). Siliceous dolomite.
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 62 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: GL04.0 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 99 Page: 44 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31, 1917; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 493
Publication Number: CMB Pub 493 Page: 26 Date: 1918
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307707
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