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MDI40P08SE00005
| Record Name(s) | Flamboro Quarry - 1991, Flamboro Quarries Ltd - 9999, Canada Crushed Stone Corp. - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Building Stone), Dolostone
Township or Area: West Flamborough
Latitude: 43° 18' 44.43" Longitude: -80° 0' 59.6"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 579751.969 Northing: 4795970.288 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40P08SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
TOWNSHIP: NOW PART OF THE TOWN OF FLAMBOROUGH, Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Michigan Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The quarry exposes 4.3 m of Middle Silurian Lockport Fm (Eramosa Member) overlain by 4.46 m of Guelph Fm. The Eramosa Mb is a brown, fine crystalline, petroliferous dolostone with an upper gradational contact with grey-buff, fine to med. crystalline, vuggy dolostone of Guelph Fm.
| 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 |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1991 | 0 | MDI | PROVEN |
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology of the Cambridge area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P1983 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1979
Author: Telford P.G.
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: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics
Publication Number: NSP001 Scale: 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 - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume III --Limestone Industries and Resources of Central and Southwestern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP003A Scale: 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:
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