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| Record Name(s) | Scudder West - 9999, Erie Sand and Gravel - 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-27 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Pelee Island
Latitude: 41° 48' 32.22" Longitude: -82° 40' 23.58"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 361012.125 Northing: 4629917.544 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40G15SE
Point Location Description: Abandoned small quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 1 mile west of the hamlet of Scudder at the north end of Pelee Island just south of the wagon road.
The production history of this small quarry ( 175 sq ft), owned by Erie Sand and Gravel, is not known. The analysis of a sample from this quarry showed the lowest magnesium carbonate content in the whole Pelee Island.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE DEVONIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 2.5 m of Middle Devonian Dundee Formation, grey-brown, fine grained, fossiliferrous limestone with smell of petroleum and calcite grains occurs 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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