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| Record Name(s) | Rockton 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-Aug-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolostone
Township or Area: Beverly
Latitude: 43° 18' 47.08" Longitude: -80° 9' 54.05"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 567711.867 Northing: 4795921.048 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40P08SE
Point Location Description: Partially water-filled quarry
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 1km west of Rockton in the Beverly Township, Wentworth County in the Municipality of Town of Flamborough, Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth.
The quarry was opened in the early 1900's to provide crushed stone for local road construction and is presently owned by the Township of Flamborough.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Mesozoic Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582
Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - 3.9 m brown dolostone of Middle Silurian Guelph Formation, fine crystalline with porous interval, some of which are lens-shaped, thin-bedded, are exposed above the water level at this quarry .Goudge(1938) reported heaving of the quarry floor which could not be confirmed during a 1986 visit due to submergence by water. Vos (1969) noted presence of fossil cavities and worm borings filled with calcite in the lower beds.
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
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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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Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 298 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823
MonoMap - Stone resources of the Niagara Escarpment
Publication Number: IMR031 Page: 39-40 Date: 1997
Author: Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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