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MDI42P02NE00001
| Record Name(s) | Labelle Quarry 1a - 1989, Moosonee Quarry - 1975 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2002-Sep-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-06 |
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Primary Commodities: Limestone (Crushed Stones)
Township or Area: Horden
Latitude: 51° 13' 18.7" Longitude: -80° 42' 10.84"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 520740.015 Northing: 5674539.181 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42P02NE
Point Location Description: Quarry location
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Ontario Northland Railway to Moosonee. Quarry is located 8 kms south of Moosonee via gravel surfaced road, adjacent to Maidmans Creek, west of Moose River. (MNR rept 1989, p.191).
Quarry began operation to supply crushed stone for road and airport maintenance in either 1967 (GSC Memoir 379) or 1970 (MNR report 1989). Operates intermittantly (as demand requires) by M.J. Labelle Co. Ltd. 2001: Mapping and sounding bar survey to determine depth of overburden on claim (#1213805) to the south of quarry, with the view to extending quarry operations into this area.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
Geological Age: Paleozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - Quarry 1a has a total face height of 10.7m of limestone; quarry 1b has total face height of 4.25 to 5.4m.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Is |
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Dec 07, 2005 (D Draper) - The quarry exposes approximately 6m of Middle Devonian Kwataboahegan limestone in three lifts. This formation is typically light to dark brown, calcarenaceous, bituminous, thick- to massive-bedded extremely fossiliferous limestone. (MNR rept 1989).
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| LABELLE QUARRY | 1991 | Unclassified | 76000000 | OGS OFR 5811, P.9 | RESERVE EST BASED ON ASSUMPTION OF WORKABLE THICKNESS OF 18M | Limestone (Crushed Stones) 100 NA |
Book - Devonian stratigraphy of the Hudson Platform
Publication Number: Memoir 379 Page: 90 Date: 1975
Author: Sanford, B V; Norris, A W
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/127033
File - Resident Geologist files T-4578
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 191 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
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Mono - Aggregate resources inventory of the Moosonee area
Publication Number: OFR5811 Date: 1991
Author: Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Devonian Biostratigraphy of the Moose River Basin
Publication Number: MP163.043 Page: 169 Date: 1994
Author: Armstrong D.K.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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