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Record Name(s) | Goulding-Keene Quarry - 1985 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1985-Nov-22 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Nepheline Syenite
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 4' 10.37" Longitude: -77° 44' 8.32"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 284650.412 Northing: 4994317.276 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SE
Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' Ne ', 500 m S of Egan Chute on the W bank of the York River.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Reached by a road along the W bank of the York River, from Hwy 500.
1937-39 : The Goulding-Keene Company (U.S.) operated the quarry with a total production (including the Vardy Quarry - lot 23, con 14) of 11,092 tons. This was an attempt to produce ceramic-grade nepheline syenite concentrates from a nepheline pegmatite. The quarry is 80 x 60 ft with a 40 ft face. The pegmatite was drilled (1976).
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry is in nepheline-albite pegmatite that intrudes nepheline-plagioclase gneiss. The pegmatite consists of crystals of nepheline and albite up to 8 ft in diameter with minor biotite, zircon, calcite, apatite, sodalite,cancrinite and hydronephelite. Contacts are well-exposed but much of the pegmatite has been mined out (only remaining in the W and S faces). This is a massive nepheline pegmatite of the York River Nepheline Belt.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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5 | Albite | Economic | Ore | ||||
10 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
15 | Biotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
20 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
25 | Cancrinite | Economic | Ore | ||||
30 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
35 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore | ||||
40 | Sodalite | Economic | Ore | ||||
45 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 63 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Geology of Dungannon and Mayo townships
Publication Number: ARV64-08 Page: 57-58 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F., James W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 75-76 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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
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MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 89-91 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 230 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - INTL GEOL CONG 1972, EXCN A-C 47
Publication Number: N/A Date: 2000
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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: 78 Date: 1964
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119882
Publication - Classic mineral collecting localities in Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 37
Publication Number: GSC MR 37 Page: 60-61 Date: 1983
Author: Hogarth, D D; Moyd, L; Rose, E R; Steacy, H R
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119504
Book - CAN JOUR EARTH SCI 1976, VOL 13 #2, P237-248
Publication Number: N/A Date: 2000
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