The advertisement promises a bottle of OMYA’s Maple Syrup to those that bring a non-perishable food item or make a cash donation to the Lanark Food Pantry. The syrup produced in past years has been excellent!
The Tatlock quarry is located in Lanark County about 30 km north of Perth up Highway 511, turning right on McIlraith Road. There is more than ample parking available in the fields opposite the quarry entrance. Below is a photo of the quarry that I took while on the 2015 tour. The bus is barely visible at the bottom of the quarry.
OMYA is a world leader in the production of calcium carbonate which it mines from quarries located throughout the world. OMYA’s quarry at Tatlock, Lanark County is the largest calcium carbonate mine in Canada and is said to produce the purest calcium carbonate in the world. OMYA mines and crushes the calcium carbonate at the Tatlock quarry and processes the product at its plant west of Perth along Highway 7.
The Tatlock quarry is about 900 meters long, 400 meters wide and 110 meters deep. A Google satellite view of the quarry can be obtained by typing 45.145370, -76.497971 into the Google search engine and searching under MAPS, and switching to SatelliteView.
Christopher Brett
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