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Ontario Geological Survey

Year-to-Date Mineral-Related Activity in the Resident Geologist Districts
Activity in the Southern Ontario District updated December 2018


Mining and Exploration Activity
Company
Property Name
Township or Area
(Commodity)
Exploration Activity
Cobalt-Frontenac Exploration
Cobalt-Frontenac occurrence
Barrie
(Gold)
Prospecting, geochem, soil sampling
Earth Resources Ltd.
Bobcaygeon Graphite
Cavendish
(Graphite)
prosp
Hastings Highlands Resources Ltd., Pancontinental Gold Corporation
Limerick (Macassa) Prospect
Limerick
(Nickel, Copper, Platinum Group Elements)
press release, financing
Hastings Highlands Resources Ltd., Pancontinental Gold Corporation
McBride Project (formerly Limerick/Macassa)
Limerick
(Ni, Cu, Co (PGE?))
linecutting; re-logging and sampling old drill core, linecutting; soil geochemical sampling, geological survey; re-logging and sampling old drill core, geological survey mapping, and re-logging of old drill core were completed.
J. Martin
Centennial Lake property
Matawatchan
(graphite)
geophys, prosp
R. Waring
Anglesea Claims
Anglesea
(Gold)
prosp, prospecting, sampling, stripping
Wollasco Minerals Inc.
Hawley Wollastonite prospect
Olden
(Wollastonite)
Drill core analysis

Assessment Files Received
Company : Property Name
Assessment File
Township or Area Work Type
- : Simon Copper Property
20000015540
Denbigh Assays, Sampling
- : -
20000014871, 20000015400, 20000015401, 20000015402
Benoit, Monmouth, Cardiff -, Assays, Sampling, Prospecting
CJP Exploration Inc : Simon Copper Property
20000015197
Denbigh Magnetic survey
Crushcor Ltd : Glamorgan Property
20000015171
Glamorgan Assaying and Analyses, Geological Survey / Mapping, Rock Sampling
Hastings Highlands Resources Ltd : Macassa's Nickel-Copper Anomaly
20000015407
Limerick Geological survey
Skead Holdings Ltd : Salerno Lake
20000015356
Snowdon Assays, Sampling
Union Glory Gold Limited : Black River South Property
20000015817
Grimsthorpe Trenching

Property Visits Made
Company
Property Name
Township or Area
(Commodity)
Comments
A. Dubblestein/M. Forget
Little-Bryan
Lyndoch
(Graphite, Diopside)
Accompanied industry geologist interested in industrial mineral prospects
Bertus Industrial Limited
Griffith Marble Prospect
Griffith
(Marble dimension stone)
"
CGC Inc.
Hagersville Gypsum Mine
Oneida
(Gypsum)
Mine tour for S. Ont Resident Geologist staff
Drain Brothers Excavating Limited
Havelock Quarry
Belmont
(Basalt trap rock)
"
J. Chandler
Chandler
Tudor
(Gold Prospect)
Examined and sampled as part of a study of gold potential, Glanmire Lake area
J. Chandler
Glanmire
Tudor
(Gold Prospect)
"
J. Martin
Centennial Lake property
Matawatchan
(graphite)
Examined and sampled new graphite occurrences
MRT Aggregates Inc.
Methuen Quarry
Methuen
(Gabbro trap rock)
Collected samples with staff of Mining Matters for educational kits
Murphy's Point Provincial Park
Silver Queen Mine
Burgess
(Phosphate/REE?)
Mapping of the mine workings; sampling
New Jersey
Beaver Pond
Kaladar
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Ardoch Breccia
Clarendon
(Dimension Stone/Zinc)
"
No Company
Ardoch Breccia
Clarendon
(Dimension Stone/Zinc)
"
No Company
Ardoch Folded Road Cut
Clarendon
(Dimension Stone/Zinc)
"
No Company
Ardoch-James
Clarendon
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Beaver Pond
Kaladar
(Zn)
"
No Company
Belmont Marble
Belmont
(High-purity calcitic and dolomitic marble)
"
No Company
Brockville Area
Elizabethtown
(Sulphides)
Examined to determine potential mineralization within sulphide road cuts
No Company
Clarendon
Clarendon
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Cook
Barrie
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Cook
Barrie
(Cu, Au, Pb, Ag, Zn (Cd, Hg))
Property examined and samples taken as part a study on zinc mineralization in the Grenville Province by the Tweed Resident Geologist's Office.
No Company
Cook
Barrie
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Egan Chutes Prov. Park
Dungannon
(Mineral Specimens)
The District Geologist accompanied the MNRF Conservation Geologist on an examination of the York River Skarn Zone as part of an evaluation of the possible effects of widening the access road through the skarn zone area.
No Company
Frontenac Lead Mine
Loughborough
(Lead)
"
No Company
Hardie (Grandad Res.)
Barrie
(Zinc)
Examined and sampled as part of zinc study by RGP staff, Tweed
No Company
Hwy 41, Tooey's Hill rockcut
Brougham
(Zinc)
Rock cut tested with zinc zap for previously reported anomalous (not-sulphide?) zinc content; no reaction
No Company
Hwy 41/Harlowe Road qtz-carb
Kaladar, Anglesea
(Gold)
The entire length (100m) of a rock cut through a quartz vein/iron carbonate alteration zone was sampled. Results are pending.
No Company
International
Barrie
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
James Mine
Clarendon
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Johnson West
Clarendon
(Zinc Occurrence)
Examined and sampled as part of zinc study by RGP staff, Tweed
No Company
Kashawakamak
Barrie
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Long Lake Mine
Olden
(Zinc)
Examined as part of field trip on carbonate-hosted zinc in S. Ont, presented by staff of S. Ont RG Office
No Company
Long Lake Mine
Olden
(Zinc)
"
No Company
Macfarlands Lake
Kaladar
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Mazinaw
Barrie
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Newfoundout sulphide occurrence
Grattan
(Pyrrhotite)
Examined for potential zinc association of pyrrhotite in marble; old pit located, minor sulphides in mafic dike; not sampled
No Company
Northgate B
Lutterworth
(Zinc)
"
No Company
Ore Chimney Prospect
Barrie
(Gold)
"
No Company
Perth Feldspar Quarry
Bathurst
(quartz, feldspar)
"
No Company
Pharoah- Clyde River
Lanark
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Road Fork Zinc
Clarendon
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Sample 1012
Clarendon
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Shirtcliffe Zinc
Kaladar
(Zn)
"
No Company
Shirtcliffe Zinc
Kaladar
(Zinc Occurrence)
"
No Company
Slave Lake
Sheffield
(Zinc)
Examined and sampled as part of zinc study by RGP staff, Tweed
No Company
Spry
Kaladar
(Zinc Occurrence)
Examined and sampled as parrt of zinc study by RGP staff, Tweed
No Company
Spry
Kaladar
(Zn)
"
No Company
Spry Area Zinc
Kaladar
(Zinc Occurrence)
Examined and sampled as part of zinc study by RGP staff, Tweed
No Company
Spry Area Zinc
Kaladar
(Zinc Occurrence)
Re-examined as potential stop for zinc field trip
No Company
Wilkinson
Hinchinbrooke
(Zinc)
"
Nyrstar
Cadieux Zinc Prospect
Admaston
(Zinc Prospect)
"
Nyrstar
Cadieux Zinc Prospect
Admaston
(Zinc Prospect)
"
Sherritt International
Madoc Talc Mine
Huntingdon
(Talc)
"
Skead Holdings
Salerno Lake
Glamorgan
(Zinc)
"
Sphinx Resources
Bryson Dam Occurrence, Qc
Grand Calumet Island, Qc
(Silicate Zinc Occurrence)
"
Sphinx Resources
Zinc Project, Quebec
Grand Calumet Island, Qc
(Zinc Occurrence)
"

For further information contact the Southern Ontario District Resident Geologist Office

Updated December 2018