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| Record Name(s) | C. Mattice- 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-May-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Walpole
Latitude: 42° 58' 2.69" Longitude: -80° 7' 16.56"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 571662.17 Northing: 4757570.899 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40I16NE
Point Location Description: The quarry is located 0.5 km S of Springvale in the City of Nanticoke in R. M of Haldimand-Norfolk
Location Method: Data Compilation
The quarry is owned by Chuck Mattice of Springvale and it ceased operating in 1950.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: UP SILURIAN AND L.DEVON Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The quarry displays the Silurian/Devonian contact. It exposes 5.5 m of cream to white dolostone of Bertie Formation( Upper Silurian ) and 1.6m of calcareous glauconitic sandstone of Bois Blanc Formation( Lower Devonian).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Dolomite | Stratified | Host |
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Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 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 - Aggregate resources inventory of the City of Nanticoke, Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk, southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARIP059 Date: 1984
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Simcoe area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2234 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1980
Author: Telford P.G., Hamblin A.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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