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Record: MDI31G06NW00003

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Sarsfield Quarry - 1990, Bertrand & Freres - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Producing Mine
Date Created 1990-Nov-07
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)



Location

Township or Area: Cumberland

Latitude: 45° 26' 3.18"    Longitude: -75° 19' 45.77"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 474236.542   Northing: 5031240.939    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31G06NW

Point Location Description: Quarry symbol 1.5 km SE of Sarsfield.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

Bertrand and Freres Construction Co Ltd - Sarsfield Quarry. Opened in 1979 and licensed for an area of 22.25 ha. In 1986 the quarry produced weeping bed stone and granular stone that was used in local road, bridge and subdivision construction.


Geology

Province: Kapuskasing Structural Zone

Geological Age: Neoarchean  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - See Section LQ RU-3 in OFR 5770.




Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP002 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 - Paleozoic geology of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowland, southern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5770 Scale:     Date: 1991

Author: Williams D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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