Central Northumberland planning area
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Central Northumberland planning area
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Pye, Director, Geological Branch. -i i- MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE CENTRAL NORTHUMBERLAND PLANNING AREA The Central Northumberland Planning Area comprises the townships of Alnwick, Percy, Haldimand and Cramahe, in Northumberland County. The area lies just east of the town of Cobourg, and extends from the Lake Ontario shore northwards to Rice Lake and the Trent River. The four townships, representing roughly 325 square miles of territory, are covered by the following National Topographic System map sheets at 1:50,000 scale: Port Hope East, Rice Lake East, Peterborough, Presqu T ile West, Trenton West, and Campbellford. A composite map assembled from these sheets and presenting information on sand and gravel deposits and on pit locations, accompanies this report. LOCAL GEOLOGY The bedrock geology of the four townships is outlined in reports by C.G. Winder (1954, 1955), and B.A. Liberty (1960), all of which have accompanying maps. Geology of the surficial deposits of most of Haldimand and Alnwick Townships is covered on the map accompanying C.P. Gravenor's 1957 report on the Lindsay - Peterborough Area. The remainder of the Planning Area is covered in an unpublished doctoral thesis by E. Mirynech (1962). - 2 - THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION The following table presents the sequence of geological deposits and formations which outcrop within the Planning Area. Quaternary: Pleistocene - gravel, sand, iilt, clay, glacial till. Paleozoic: Ordovician Cobourg Beds (Lindsay Formation) - fine grained grey limestone Sherman Fall Beds (Verulam Formation) - grey to bluish-grey limestone with thin shale beds. BEDROCK GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE The older of the two rock units outcropping in the area is the Sherman Fall Beds. This unit underlies the land surface over roughly the northern two-fifths of the area, north of a line joining points just south of Fenella and Morganston. This unit is not quarried in the area, and is covered by moderate to heavy Pleistocene overburden, except for scattered outcrops along the Trent River. The limits of the Sherman Fall Beds closely approximate those of the Verulam Formation in the more up-to-date classification presently used by Liberty. Above the Sherman Fall Beds lie the Cohourv BfJ.s, which are equivalent to the terminology. Lindsay Formation in the presently accepted This unit underlies the remainder ci. the Planning Area, and for the most part is quite heavily mantled by Pleistocene overburden. Some outcrops occur along the Lake Ontario shoreline, particularly on points of land jutting out into the lake, An area of thin drift cover is associated with the-, outcrops at Ogden Point, and the St. Lawrence Cement Company here holds a large acreage and has established a limestone quarry ( See map, location 67). The Cobourg Beds are somewhat argillaceous, rendering them suitable for cement manufacturing. Some outcrops also occur at Chub Point, south of Grafton, and a situation of minimal drift thickness similar to that at Ogden Point may exist. This suggestion is speculative, and is not verified by drift thickness studies. PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE A considerable percentage of the land area within the townships is covered by glacial till, sandy in nature, and containing pebbles and boulders mainly of limestone composition. OWT most of the area where the till is exposed, it is clrumli nizeu. resulting, in a rolling topography. The till masks the bedrock surface, making - 4 - access to the underlying limestone uneconomic in most of the area. There are no significant pits in the, till-covered areas, as granular material for fill and road-surfacing is abundant in the widespread sand and gravel deposits found in the region. OAK RIDGES MORAINE: During the Pleistocene glaciation of Southern Ontario, one glacial lobe advanced up the Lake Ontario basin from the east, and a second moved from the north and east to meet the Lake Ontario lobe along a line which lies a few miles north of the present lake shore Meltwater drainage along this line gave rise to the kame deposits which form the Oak Ridges interlobate moraine. Most of the northern half of Haldimand Township is occupied by this moraine, with portions of it also extending into the other three townships. This is basically a huge body of sand and gravel, which is exposed at surface over large areas, but in some places is mantled by till due to glacial overriding, particularly on the northern and southern flanks. Numerous pits have been developed in the deposits of the interlobate moraine, most of them in Alnwick Township and the northwestern corner of Haldimand Township. Three pits are presently active in Alnwick Township (See map). Of these, location 2 is the largest operation, although no permanent plant "^ p7*esent on the site. Face-height is about, 35 feet, and considerable reserves remain. Location l is a smaller, recentLv~opencd pit with good reserves, and location 3 is nearing depletion on Lhe property presently owned by the operator, although the neighbouring farm has fairly large reserves. Alnwick also has three inactive pit sites with workable reserves of varying quality, and several abandoned pits, indicating widespread availability of material. In the portion of Haldimand Township covered by the Interlobate moraine, there are no active pits, and only one inactive one, at location 30. At this site, a considerable acreage in the kame complex is owned by Harnden and King Ltd., with probable large reserves of good quality crushable gravel. Locations 33, 34 and 35 have been abandoned for some time and are becoming overgrown, but economic reserves certainly exist in the ai'eas surrounding them. Abandoned pits at locations 36 and 37, near Castleton, contain sandier material. No pits are known along the central axis of the moraine, where large tracts of sand exl ^ These areas of low stone content no doubt are less desirable for the development of granular extractive operations. South of Vernonville and west of Shelter Valley, a small area of outwash is located, consisting mainly of sand. No pits art - 6 - developed in t h i o deposit, and the material is probably not particularly desirable because of low stone content. ESKERS, KAMES: During the period of glacial stagnation and ablation, as the Pleistocene glaciation came to an end, subglacial meltwater streams built eskers which remained on top of the till blanket after the ice disappeared. Some esker remnants are present in Percy Township, and many of the township's pits are located in these deposits. None of the pits is active, but the several inactive ones have economic reserves of crushable gravel. Besides these, location 16 has moderate reserves, being located in what is probably an outlying remnant of the interlobate moraine. a small kame deposit on the side of a drumlin. Location 17 occupies Another small kame deposit occurs just northeast of Burnley in Haldimand Township. Location 24; southwest of Hastings, contains dirty gravel capped by about 15 feet of clay, silt and possibly till, the material probably being useful only as fill. LAKE iKOQUOiS BEACHES AND BARS : The other major class of granular deposits in the area is the beach and bar deposits of the abandoned Lake Iroquois shoreline. During glacial recession, meltwaters were ponded in the Lake Ontario basin by ice blocking the outlet through the Se. Lawrence lowlands. The water stood for a long period at a position corresponding to a present elevation of just over 600 feet above sea level in the study area, to form the ancient glacial Lake Iroquois .Wave action winnowed shoreline till deposits, and rearranged deltaic material washed into-Lake Iroquois, depositing the sand and gravel in a well-developed beach and bar complex. The main body of this deposit stretches in a roughly east-west direction across the southern portion of Haldimand and Cramahe Townships. Beach and bar deposits of the Trent embayment of Lake Iroquois extend in a northeasterly direction across Cramahe and Percy Townships. Highway 401 is constructed on the Iroquois shoreline deposits through most of its length within the area. Numerous pits were developed in the beach deposits to provide for the construction of this highway. Many are now abandoned, as indicated on the map, but large reserves of sand and gravel remain throughout much of the length of the main east-west trending deposit. - 8 - Two active pits, locations 28 and 29, occupy the beach deposits in Haldimand Township, neither being large producers. Location 28 is also used as a sanitary landfill site for the town of Cobourg. Two inactive pits were also noted, having only small to moderate reserves, but their potential is limited mainly by their situation within the deposit, and overall resources are fairly large. The main Iroquois beach in Cramahe houses five active pits. Locations 49 and 50 are small operations producing pit-run gravel, and reserves on both properties are limited. Locations 51 and 52 are owned by Trent Valley Sand and Gravel Ltd., both being large pits with very large gravel reserves remaining. They supply a permanent crushing plant just south of Highway 2. Location 53 has moderate to large reserves of sand, production being by portable equipment. The inactive pits in this portion of the beach deposit all possess at least moderate reserves, and large areas of the deposit remain undeveloped. One active pit is found in the bar deposits of the Trent embayment in the northern half of Cramahe Township. This is at location 48, and is nearly depleted on the property presently being worked, although reserves are present on neighbouring properties. reserves. Inactive pits at locations 54 and 55 have moderate Economically workable reserves probably occupy a large - 9 - percentage of the area of the bodies indicated on the .'•.-.•:- ,js be.'ich and bar deposits. This observation should generally hold true as well LO r the extension of the Trent embayment beach deposits into southeastern Percy Township. There are no active pits in this area, but two inactive pits occupy a well developed stretch of beach ridge at locations 22 and 23, southwest of Warkworth. Both pits contain considerable reserves of good quality crushable. gravel., and reserves in the remainder of the beach deposits in the township are probably fairly large. A small beach remnant east of Hastings contains one abandoned pit, and one inactive one, the latter having limited gravel reserves remaining. It is evident that the Central Northumberland Planning Area has, in general, more than adequate reserves to supply local needs for granular material. Cramahe is the only one of the four townships presently supporting a permanent commercial operation, this being the Trent Valley Sand and Gravel operation previously mentioned. Cramahe should have high potential for further commercial developments. In terms of Cramahe 1 s limestone resources, the St. Lawrence Cement Co. has room to expand within a limited high-potential area . - 10 - The company holds the rights to most: of this desirable area, and no known, limestone potential exists elsewhere in Cramahe Township. Haldimand Township's beach deposits probably have less potential than those in Cramahe, partially due to the fact that significant areas of the deposit are broken up by the presence of Highway 401, resulting in difficulty in obtaining a large workable tract. However, it is conceivable that commercial potential is fairly high in the deposits east of Shelter Valley. Further, large reserves likely occupy wide areas of the interlobate morainic complex to the north. For instance, it is expected that the Harnden and King property at location 30 could support a permanent operation, subject to product demand. Overall, the potential in Haldimand is high. As indicated previously, there is an unverified possibility of the existence of exploitable limestone resources in Haldimand Township, in the vicinity of Chub Point. Percy Township possesses moderate granular potential, with reserves adequate to support portable operations of considerable capacity, although volume is probably inadequate for permanent installations. Alnwick Township also is likely limited to portable operations, but reserves are adequate for local requirements in the foreseeable future. - 11 LFST OF PITS AND QUARRIES CENTRAL NORTHUMBERLAND PLANNING ARKA NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, ONTARIO ALNWICK TOWNSHIP PITS Pit No. Name Location Material 0. George H. George L. Kelly Lot 13 N/III Lot 14/111 Lot 21 S/IV gravel gravel gravel Lot 16 N/V Lot 12/111 Lot 10 S/I gravelly san gravel gravel a) Active: 1 2 3 b) Inactive, but with workable faces: 4 5 6 Gregg Sandercock Royan Developments c) Abandoned : 7 8 9 10 C . Robins Lot 14/IV Alderville Indian Reserve Lot 11 /I Crowe Lot 16/1 Grieve Lot 20 S J III sandy gravel gravelly san sand - 12 - PERCY TO W'SHIP Pit Ko. Name Location Material Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot 16 6c 17/XII 24 S/XIII 20 6c 21 S/XI 20 N/IX 14 Se 15 S/VIII 3 N/V 8 N/V 10 S /VI 12/IV 13 N/IV 14/V 11 N/I 12 N/I gravel gravel gravel sandy gravel gravel sandy gravel gravel gravel gravel Lot Lot Lot Lot 11 N/ XI 17 N/XII 19/IX 12 N/III fill gravel gravel gravel b) Inactive, but with workable faces: 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Oliver 6c English Brown McGee Archer J . Herr C. Broadsworth Atkinson E. Hardy B. Smith Whiterock Lockhart Weatherson Carr gravel gravel gravel gravel c) Abandoned,24 25 26 27 R. McGuire McGrayne Unknown Unknown - 13 - HALDIMAND TOWNSHIP PITS Pit No. Name Location Material Town of Cobourg Rutherford Lot 32 N/I Lot 5 N/I sand, gravel gravel Lot 33/VIII Lot 30 S/II Lot 11 S/II gravel gravel gravel Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot gravel gravel sandy gravel sand sandy gravel gravel gravel gravel sand a) Active: 28. 29. b) Inactive, but with workable faces: 30. 31. 32. Harnden 6c King DuBerges Smith c) Abandoned: 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. Do kin Harnden 6e King Cox D.T.C. Unknown D. McCowan DuBerges Hare Haldimand Township Lawless O'Grady A. Smith D.T.C. Haldimand Township Unknown 22 N/X 31 N/VIII 30 Se 31 S/IX l S/V 5/IV 34/11 32 S/II 30 N/I 24/1 21/1 18/1 13 N/I 3 6e 4/ A 11/B 7/C gravelly sand gravel gravel gravelly sand gravel - 14 - CRAMAHE TOWNSHIP PITS Pit. No. Name Location Material a) Active: 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. R. Hobbs Lot 11 S/X Day Lot 20/111 Cummings Lot 17 N/II Trent Valley Sand 6c Gravel Lot 15 6c 16 S/ II Trent Valley Sand 6c Gravel Lot 15 6c 16 N/I Bellamy Lot 14 N/I gravel gravel gravel gravel gravel sand b) Inactive, but with workable faces 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. D. Knight J. Muller Barrett Dunk Theobald Iroquois Beach Gravel D.T.C. Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot 23 18 28 20 19 18 14 S/X S/VII S/III N/III S/III 6c 19 S/III S/II gravel gravel gravel gravel gravel gravel gravel Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot Lot 23 33 33 26 20 19 N/VII S/III N/II S/III S/III S/III fill gravel gravel sandy gravel gravel sandy gravel c) Abandoned: 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. F. Gooderich Unknown White H. Samis Barrett Theobald QUARRIES Active: 67. St. Lawrence Cement Lots 31 6c 32/B.F. limestone - 15 - REFERENCES Gravenor, C.P. 1957: Surficial Geology of the Lindsay - Peterborough Area, Ontario, Victoria, Peterborough, Durham and Northumberland Counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 288 Liberty, B.A. 1960: Rice Lake - Port Hope and Trenton Map - Areas, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 60-14 Mirynech, E. Pleistocene Geology of the Trenton - Campbellford Map-Area, Ontario; Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, November 1962 Winder, C.G. 1954: Burleigh Falls and Peterborough Map-Areas, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 53-27 1955: Campbellford Map-Area, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 54-17