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| Record Name(s) | Innerkip Quarry - 1991, Innerkip Quarries - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-07 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Zorra
Latitude: 43° 12' .03" Longitude: -80° 41' 46.33"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 524681.556 Northing: 4783070.501 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40P02NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: 0.5 km south of Innerkip, on the NW side of RR.
TOWNSHIP: NOW PART OF ZORRA TOWNSHIP .The quarry was operated Innerkip Quarries Ltd initially for lime in the late 19th century and later for railway ballst between 1929 and 1933.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Michigan Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: U.SILUR\IAN & L.DEVONIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The section at the quarry consists of 1 m of Upper Silurian Bertie( or Bass Ialand or Akron) dolostone overlain by 3.3 m of Lower Devonian Bois Blanc cherty limestone ( light grey to light brown, fossiliferrous with abundant rugose and tabulate corals, brachiopods and trilobites).Goudge reported in 1938 that the quarry was upto 10 m deep. The unconformity boundary was 1 m above the water level.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolostone | 1 | Is |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 25, 26, 257-265 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Map - Geology, Toronto-Windsor area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, "A" Series Map 1263A
Publication Number: GSC Map 1263A Scale: 1:250,000 Date: 1969
Author: Sanford, B V
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/109120
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 141 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 - 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
Location:
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