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Record: MDI40P09SE00005

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Old Guelph Reformatory Quarry - 1991
Related Record Type Compound
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Jan-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-27
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Building Stone)



Location

Township or Area: Guelph

Latitude: 43° 33' .38"    Longitude: -80° 12' 2.79"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 564559.54   Northing: 4822216.243    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 40P09SE

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Located on the property of the Guelph Correctional Centre.



Exploration History

TOWNSHIP: NOW PART OF THE CITY OF GUELPH, COMMODITY: QUARRY IS ALSO A PB-ZN OCCURRENCE.


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 quarry exposes 3.15 m of dolostone of the Eramosa Member of the Amabel Formation overlain by 10.7 m thick dolostone of the Guelph Formation. The Eramosa Member consists of black to light brown, fine to medium bedded dolostone with shale partings, cherty nodules, abundant fossils, calcite and sulphide mineralization and conulariids upto 17 cm long.The Gulph Fm consists of 2 units of dolostone which is brown, massive fine to medium-crystalline, vuggy, fosiliferous; it has a petroliferous odour and in places reefy.




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

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 Page: 292, 293, 296  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823


Publication - Palaeozoic geology of the Brantford area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 226

Publication Number: GSC Mem 226 Page: 25, 64  Date: 1941

Author: Caley, J.F

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101622


Publication - Paleozoic geology of the Bruce Peninsula area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 360

Publication Number: GSC Mem 360 Page: 47  Date: 1971

Author: Liberty, B.A, Bolton, T.E

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102382


Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume I -- Geology, Properties and Economics

Publication Number: NSP001 Page: 142  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: MMIC


Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume III --Limestone Industries and Resources of Central and Southwestern Ontario

Publication Number: NSP003A Page: 47-49  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: MMIC


Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of the City of Guelph and Guelph Township, Wellington County, southern Ontario

Publication Number: ARIP088 Page: 20  Date: 1985

Author: Cambridge District Office, MNR, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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