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Record: MDI31F04NW00013

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Max Miller Property - 1920
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1985-Nov-22
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-25
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Mica



Location

Township or Area: Monteagle

Latitude: 45° 13' 31.28"    Longitude: -77° 45' 13.06"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 283825.003   Northing: 5011673.998    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F04NE, 31F04NW

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 4 shallow test pits are spaced at intervals, over a length of several hundred feet, along the top of a hill near the S end of the lot.



Exploration History

1920's: M. Miller - pitting


Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Pyroxenite 1 Pyroxenite Host
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 2 Adjacent
Marble 3 Calcitic Adjacent

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1PhlogopiteEconomicOre
2ScapoliteEconomicOre
3TitaniteEconomicOre
4ApatiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jan 17, 2012 (A Wilson) - Phlogopite mica in books up to 6 inches in diameter occurs in scapolite stringers cutting scapolite pyroxenite. The phlogopite is described as checked, corrugated and bent. Titanite, in crystals up to 1 inch, calcite, apatite, stilbite and chabazite, often in well-formed crystals, occur in irregular veinlets and patches in the pyroxenite.



Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Rock and mineral collecting in Canada, volume II: Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 8

Publication Number: GSC MR 8 Page: 54-55  Date: 1971

Author: Sabina, A.P.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/308101


Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area

Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 60-61  Date: 1998

Author: Thomson J.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Part - Geology of Monteagle and Carlow townships

Publication Number: ARV63-06 Page: 59  Date: 1998

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Precambrian Geology, Bancroft Area

Publication Number: P3385 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 1998

Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2

Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 76, 79-80  Date: 1981

Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 23, 211, 222  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Monteagle and Carlow townships, County of Hastings, Ontario

Publication Number: M1954-03 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1980

Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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