MINERAL
INVENTORY FILE NO.
870
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PRODUCT
Dolomite
NTS AREA
62I/3 NW
REF.
DOL 4
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NAME OF PROPERTY
Lillies Farm Quarry
OWNER OF
OPERATOR ADDRESS
The Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company, Limited
800 - 491 Portage
Avenue
Winnipeg, 2, Manitoba
OBJECT LOCATED
Dolomite Quarry
MINING
DIVISION
__________
Latitude
___________
Longitude
__________
Uncertainty
(m)
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UTM Zone
_____
Easting
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Northing
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L.S./Quarter
Section
14, 13
Section
32
Township
13
Range
2 EPM
DESCRIPTION OF
DEPOSIT
Flat-lying beds of dolomite of the Gunton Member of the Stony Mountain
Formation (Ordovician) are quarried at Lillies farm. The stone is buff colored
and faintly mottled with bands and patches of vugular porosity. There is uniform
lithology in the upper 6.2 m bench, except a slightly argillaceous parting at
5.08 m, and a dense 7.6 cm sublithographic dolomite bed at 4.57 m below bedrock
surface. The lower cut contains two dense sublithographic dolomite beds, 17.8 cm
and 30.5 cm thick in a 2.89 m section of mainly mottled dolomite. The
Penitentiary Member is not exposed in this quarry, but should be present
immediately below the bottom of the lower cut.
Uses: High-magnesian
lime
ASSOCIATED
MINERALS OR PRODUCTS OF VALUE
N/A
HISTORY OF
EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Lilles farm quarry is located in l.s. 13 and 14, sec. 32, 2.5 km
northeast of Stonewall.
In 1957 The Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company, Limited
opened a quarry on Lillies farm, 1.6 km north and 2 km east by road from
Stonewall. Several carloads of lime had been shipped for trial. In 1961 the
quarry measured 120 m by 60 m by 6.2 m. There was a lower cut 30 m by 30 m by
2.9 m made in the quarry floor to check the quality of the underlying beds but
it was never expanded. In 1963 the quarry measured about 240 m by 140 m but the
depth remained the same. The stone was supplying the company's kiln operation at
Stonewall until the plant closed in 1967. In 1970 the quarry measured about 275
m by 138 m. The rock was being used to produce high-magnesian lime at the
company's lime plant in Tuxedo.
1978 - The quarry has not been worked for the
past several years.
HISTORY OF
PRODUCTION
The Winnipeg Supply and Fuel Company, Limited opened the quarry in
1957 to supply dolomite to their lime kilns in Stonewall. In 1967 the lime kilns
at Stonewall were shut down. In 1970 the dolomite was used to supply the
company's lime plant in Tuxedo.
Shipping Point - Lillies farm
Material
Shipped - dolomite
Destination - Stonewall, Tuxedo
Distance from Mine -
3.6m, 43km
Carrier - truck
REFERENCES
Bannatyne, B.B. 1971: Industrial Minerals of the Sedimentary Area of
Southern Manitoba; Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper No. 9, p.
245.
Davies, J.F., Bannatyne, B.B., Barry, G.S. and McCabe, H.R. 1962:
Geology and Mineral Resources of Manitoba; Manitoba Mines Branch, p. 136 and
170.
Industrial Minerals Geologist's file, Man. MRD.
MAP REFERENCES
Map 62I/3, Stonewall (Topo.), 1:50 000; Surveys and Mapping Branch,
Ottawa.
Map 12, Industrial Minerals Producers (Index), 1:1000 000; Man.
MRD.
URL
N/A
REMARKS
In the late 1960's, the quarry was operated for The Winnipeg Supply
and Fuel Company, Limited by Standard Cartage (see card 62I/3 DOL 6), using a
portable crusher.
NOTES
N/A
Compiled/Revised
by:
NLL
Date
07-78
