Old Guelph Reformatory Quarry, Guelph township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canadai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Old Guelph Reformatory Quarry | Quarry |
| Guelph township | Township |
| Wellington County | County |
| Ontario | Province |
| Canada | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
43° 32' 56'' North , 80° 11' 58'' West
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| Club | Location | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Micro-Mineral Association | Ontario, Quebec | 4km |
| Kitchener Waterloo Gem and Mineral Club | Kitchener, Ontario | 26km |
| Brantford Lapidary and Mineral Society | Brantford, Ontario | 47km |
Beginning in the early 1900’s the property was purchased by the province to implement far-reaching changes in the treatment of young offenders and those with light sentences. On April 11, 1910, 14 prisoners accompanied by two guards, a cook and a farmer moved into a farmhouse situated on what was to be the Ontario Reformatory, Guelph. Construction on dormitories and cell blocks begins by the first inmates and based on designs by John Lyle. Two quarries, a lime plant and a stone crusher are on the property.
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.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 References: |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS |
| ⓘ 'Petroleum var. Bitumen' References: |
| ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS References: |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Petroleum var. Bitumen' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
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Old Guelph Reformatory Quarry, Guelph township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada