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| Record Name(s) | Bells Corners Silica - 1949, Nepean Sandstone Quarries - 1875, F.W. Huggins - 1949 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1983-Oct-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone (Silica)
Secondary Commodities: Sandstone
Township or Area: Nepean
Latitude: 45° 19' 26.07" Longitude: -75° 51' 39.9"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 432517 Northing: 5019294 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G05SW
Point Location Description: Bells Corners
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: 3 km NE of Eagleson Corners.
Circa: 1890: quarries in operation for building stone and paving blocks. Six significant quarries operated in the Bells Corners area in Con I Lots 4-6 and Con II Lots 3-4 and 6. 1949-52: F.W. Huggins - DD, bulk sampling, UG development.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Is |
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Feb 14, 2013 (A Wilson) - Samples from the diamond drilling program assayed SiO2 97.5%, Al2O3 0.76%, Fe2O3 0.116%. Assays from a 100 ton bulk sample taken from the shaft area were SiO2 97.65%, Al2O3 0.74%, Fe2O3 0.195%. A 250-ton sample obtained from a 30-ft room 170 ft from the shaft was shipped to Ottawa where it was reduced to sand. The report indicates that 70-80% of the sample was recovered as glass sand of satisfactory physical requirements for the glass industry. Unfortunately, it was decided that the added costs of underground mining would make the project uneconomic. A sample of crushed sand, with 72.4% of the alumina removed by floatation, assayed 99.6% SiO2, 0.30% Al2O3, and 0.08% Fe2O3. The material was deemed suitable for manufacturing coloured glass. Blocks from the Tillson Quarry Lot 6 Con2 were used in the construction of the Royal Mint, the Museum of Natural History and the Ottawa Observatory.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| F.W. Huggins | 1949 | Unclassified | 6350293 | IMR009 p. 25 | 7,000,000 tons sandstone in a 10 foot bed at a depth of 110 feet. |
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 133-134 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Book - Silica; Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Summary Report No. 4
Publication Number: CANMET Report 4 Page: 102-103 Date: 1989
Author: R.K.. Collings and P.R.A. Andrews
Publisher Name: Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307287
Publication - Road material surveys in 1915; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 99
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 99 Page: 40 Date: 1917
Author: Reinecke, L.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101678
Part - Mining operations in 1952
Publication Number: ARV62-02 Page: 103 Date: 1997
Author: Field D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Silica in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR009 Page: 23-25 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Silica sand potential in eastern Ontario, preliminary report 1
Publication Number: OFR5265 Page: I-22 Date: 1979
Author: Powell R.D., Klugman M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stone of eastern Ontario, southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5556 Page: 80 Date: 1985
Author: Verschuren C.P., van Haaften S., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Silica in Canada, it’s occurrence, exploitation and uses; part 1 Eastern Canada, p. 48-49
Publication Number: No. 555 Date: 1923
Author: L. H. Cole
Publisher Name: DEMR
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 4, sandstone
Publication Number: IMR017 Page: 17-18 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Mineral deposits series, Ontario mineral potential, Pembroke and part of the Ottawa sheets, District of Nipissing and counties of Renfrew, Hastings, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Lanark, Ottawa-Carleton, Grenville, and Dundas
Publication Number: P1507 Scale: 1:250,000 Date: 1978
Author: Springer J.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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