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| Record Name(s) | Nanticoke 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-Jul-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Walpole
Latitude: 42° 49' 24.27" Longitude: -80° 4' 25.54"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 575712.255 Northing: 4741620.882 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40I16SE
Point Location Description: Water-filled quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 1 km north of the village of Nanticoke, Walpole Township, Haldimand Count.
The history of this quarry is unknown., but probably was used to supply crushed stone for local road constuction.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MID.DEVONIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 3.1 m of cherty limestone of the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation is exposed above the water level at this quarry. The grey coloured limestone is very fine to finecrystalline, medium-bedded with chert lenses and nodules throughout , fossiliferous with corals, bryozoans,brachiopods and crinoidal debris.
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
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Mono - An Inventory of Inactive Quarries in the Paleozoic Limestone and Dolostone Strata of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5863 Date: 1993
Author: Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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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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