Graymont Dolime (OH) Inc. Quarry (GenLime Group L. P. Quarry; U. S. Gypsum Quarry; Genoa Quarry), Genoa, Ottawa Co., Ohio, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
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| Graymont Dolime (OH) Inc. Quarry (GenLime Group L. P. Quarry; U. S. Gypsum Quarry; Genoa Quarry) | Quarry |
| Genoa | - not defined - |
| Ottawa Co. | County |
| Ohio | State |
| USA | Country |
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 41° 30' 24'' North , 83° 21' 14'' West | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 41.50694,-83.35389 | ||||||||||||||||||
| GeoHash: | G#: dpksphpe3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Locality type: | Quarry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Köppen climate type: | Dfa : Hot-summer humid continental climate | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Genoa Quarry is an active quarry for building stone and aggregate located in the W 1/2 of Section 3, Genoa, Clay Township, Ottawa County. The rocks exposed in the quarry are identified as part of the Lockport Dolomite.
Edward Orton (1888, p. 732) was the first geologist to describe the geology and quarrying of limestone at Genoa. Orton observed that there were three quarries with multiple kilns in the immediate area: Wyman, Gregg & Co. and A.L. Newman both owned three kilns each and William Habbeler had two kilns. These quarries were shallow with the deepest quarry only being 20 feet.
Carlson (1990, p. 524, 1991, p. 98, 2015, p. 166) noted in that Orton (1888, p. 735) had reported that the mineral baryte (which was often referred to as heavy spar) had been encountered at Genoa or from a subsequent abandoned pit nearby. (Carlson, 1990, p. 524). A further analysis of the literature reveals that although Orton had indeed misidentified the mineral celestine for baryte, which is commonly encountered at the Genoa Quarry, the locality that Orton mentions in his report that the “heavy spar” was found was at Clay Center and not Genoa.
In 1915, the United States Gypsum Company purchased 25 acres of land at Genoa with the prospect of getting into the lime industry. Rock Products and Building Materials (1915, p. 42) magazine reported:
The new constructed lime plant consists of nine kilns, a hydrator, automatic sacking machines and other machinery used in hydrating plants. Three additional units of nine kilns each will be added to the plant from time to time as the demand for product requires. The plant is built of concrete and steel throughout. The machinery is electrically driven with individual motors.
The method of getting the rock from the quarry to the kilns differs from the usual practice in this locality, in that instead of the long incline from the top of the kilns to the bottom of the quarry, the rock is hoisted direct from the quarry and dropped into the top of the kilns by a large traveling “Gantry” crane. This crane is also to be utilized in unloading coal and placing it through proper chutes on the kiln floors for burning the lime. The plant was completed and placed in operation on Dec. 1.
A crushed rock plant is now being built for crushing various size rock for road-making and ballast work.
By the early 1990s, the quarry began operations under the GenLime Group L.P. Company from U.S. Gypsum and in 1998, Graymont Dolime (OH) Inc., a subsidiary of Graymont acquired both the Bellefonte Lime Co. in Pennsylvania and the GenLime Group L.P. of Genoa. The quarry is still owned and operated by Graymont today.
Regions containing this locality
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Standard Detailed Strunz Dana Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
8 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Celestine Formula: SrSO4 Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Marcasite Formula: FeS2 Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
| ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS Reference: Minerals of Ohio Bull. 69 ODNR |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Marcasite | 2.EB.10a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
| ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Celestine | 7.AD.35 | SrSO4 |
List of minerals arranged by Dana 8th Edition classification
| Group 2 - SULFIDES | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| AmXp, with m:p = 1:1 | |||
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.8.1.1 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.8.2.1 | ZnS |
| AmBnXp, with (m+n):p = 1:2 | |||
| ⓘ | Marcasite | 2.12.2.1 | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.12.1.1 | FeS2 |
| Group 9 - NORMAL HALIDES | |||
| AX2 | |||
| ⓘ | Fluorite | 9.2.1.1 | CaF2 |
| Group 14 - ANHYDROUS NORMAL CARBONATES | |||
| A(XO3) | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 14.1.1.1 | CaCO3 |
| AB(XO3)2 | |||
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 14.2.1.1 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Group 28 - ANHYDROUS ACID AND NORMAL SULFATES | |||
| AXO4 | |||
| ⓘ | Celestine | 28.3.1.2 | SrSO4 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| C | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Celestine | SrSO4 |
| O | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| F | Fluorine | |
| F | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Celestine | SrSO4 |
| S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Marcasite | FeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Ca | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Marcasite | FeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Sr | Strontium | |
| Sr | ⓘ Celestine | SrSO4 |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Paleozoic 251.902 - 541 Ma ID: 3187973 | Paleozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Phanerozoic (251.902 - 541 Ma) Lithology: Sedimentary rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
| Ludlow - Llandovery 423 - 443.8 Ma ID: 2720013 | Lockport Dolomite Age: Silurian (423 - 443.8 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Lockport Dolomite Description: Dolomite, shades of white to medium gray, medium to massive bedded, fine to coarse crystalline; fossiliferous; vuggy. Comments: Secondary unit description from USGS Lexicon website (ref. OH017) and OH005:Rock units forming the bedrock in the Maumee, Lucas Co., OH, and that crop out in the walls of a quarry are the Lockport Dolomite and the Greenfield Dolomite. The two form a thick reef complex roughly 600 m in diameter and about 68 m thick. The Lockport contains multistory stromatolite, thrombolite, and coral-microbialite reefs that were probably formed in a subtidal setting within a hypersaline lagoon. Lockport may be Wenlockian or Llandoverian to Ludlovian. In contrast to the mostly massive Lockport, the Greenfield at Maumee quarry is well bedded. It is Wenlockian, according to Shaver (1991), but fig. 16 of this report (after Howell, 1993) depicts the Greenfield as Llandoverian with a significant hiatus between deposition of the two units (Kahle, 1994). Original map source: Slucher, E.R., (principal compiler), Swinford, E.M., Larsen, G.E., and others, with GIS production and cartography by Powers, D.M., 2006, Bedrock geologic map of Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey Map BG-1, version 6.0, scale 1:500,000. Lithology: Major:{dolostone} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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http://industrialspecialtiesnews.com/graymont-acquires-bellefonte-lime-genlime/ - News of transfer of companies.
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10100002 - MRDS for Genoa Quarry
https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10297565 - MRDS for U.S. Gypsum Company Genoa Quarry
Graymont Dolime (OH) Inc. Quarry, Genoa, Ottawa Co., Ohio, USA