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Record Name(s) | Pearson-Erin Quarry - 1991 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1991-Jan-04 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Erin
Latitude: 43° 45' 56.84" Longitude: -80° 3' 19.06"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 576038.314 Northing: 4846293.742 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 40P16SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: This shallow quarry is located in the former course of a brook 2.5 km south of Erin Station of CPR.
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) - Lime was made at this site from soft, faintly mottled, fine-grained, buff, pure Lockport dolomite exposed in a shallow quarry located on former brook.
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 |
Map - Paleozoic geology, Orangeville, southern Ontario
Publication Number: M2339 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1976
Author: Liberty B.A., Bond I.J., Telford P.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
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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:
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