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MDI40P09SE00005
| Record Name(s) | Old Guelph Reformatory Quarry - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Building Stone)
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.
TOWNSHIP: NOW PART OF THE CITY OF GUELPH, COMMODITY: QUARRY IS ALSO A PB-ZN OCCURRENCE.
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 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.
| 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 |
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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