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Record: MDI40P09NW00005

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) O.H. Gow-Fergus Quarry - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Jan-04
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-29
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material), Dolostone



Location

Township or Area: Garafraxa

Latitude: 43° 42' 42.04"    Longitude: -80° 21' 41.01"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 551447.288   Northing: 4840048.359    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 40P09NW

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Located on the south side of the Grand River about 0.4 km east of Fergus town limit.



Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins

Subprovince: Michigan Basin

Geological Age: Paleozoic   Geochronological Age: MIDDLE SILURIAN   Geochron. Age Ref.: OGS MAP 2582



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (M Barua) - The Guelph dolomite is very fine grained, hard, light bluish grey and drab in colour composed of flat beds 1 - 35 cm thick with many cavities lined with calcite crystals.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Dolostone 1 Is

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5DolomiteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

Production Data
Year Tonnes Commodities Reference Comment
1991 0 MDI

References

Map - Paleozoic geology, Guelph, southern Ontario

Publication Number: M2342 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1976

Author: Telford P.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

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:


Part - The limestones of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV13-02 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Miller W.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


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