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| Record Name(s) | Pierce Quarry - 9999 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2002-Aug-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Pelee Island
Latitude: 41° 45' 19.11" Longitude: -82° 40' 35.89"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 360612.094 Northing: 4623967.404 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40G15SE
Point Location Description: Abandoned quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located at about 1 km southeast of Pelee Island Village.
History of this quarry, presently owned by Burns Pierce, is unknown.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geochronological Age: MIDDLE DEVONIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 1.1m of grey-brown , heavily-bedded limestone of Middle Devonian Dundee Formation is exposed at this quarry.
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Windsor-Essex and Pelee Island area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2396 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1981
Author: Telford P.G., Russell D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Scale: Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale: Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: MMIC
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