Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Gardiner Quarry - 1983, Dibblee Quarry - 1977 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-14 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-05 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | A Wilson |
Primary Commodities: Gneiss
Township or Area: Shawanaga, Shawanaga
Latitude: 45° 34' 8.91" Longitude: -80° 19' 23.12"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 552820 Northing: 5046401 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41H09SW
Point Location Description: quarry
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From highway 69, highway 644 intersection in Pointe au Baril, proceed south on highway 69 for 6.4km. Quarry is ~100m east of highway 69, 50m south of microwave transmission tower.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Orthogneiss | Is |
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Jan 10, 2013 (A Wilson) - Grey, migmatitic, leucocratic hornblende-biotite orthogneiss of granodioritic to monzodioritic composition
Jan 10, 2013 (A Wilson) - About 216,300 tons of gneiss have been removed and crushed for road construction from this quarry, which lies about 1.5 km north of Shawanaga River Bridge.
Map - Precambrian Geology, Naiscoot Area
Publication Number: P3549 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2004
Author: Culshaw N.G., Corrigan D., Ketchum J.W.F., Wallace P., Wodicka N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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