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| Record Name(s) | Jewellville Pits - 1898 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1984-May-29 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Corundum
Secondary Commodities: Nepheline Syenite
Township or Area: Raglan
Latitude: 45° 19' 53.7" Longitude: -77° 30' 35.98"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 303318.997 Northing: 5022850.999 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F05SE, 31F06SW
Point Location Description: trench
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Palmer Road north end of Madawaska Bridge, go east 500m to lower Roesenthal Road turning north then immediately west on track for 600m. Walk south and west on Trench Hill. Located old trenches on south edge of cliffs.
1901-1906: Corundum Refiners Limited - prospecting. 1907: Canada Corundum Company - prospecting. 1913: Hamilton Corundum Company - prospecting 1915-18: Manufacturers Corundum Company - set up a 100 ton mill, in production.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Albite Syenite | Contains |
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| Marble | 2 | Calcitic | Adjacent |
Jun 30, 2011 (A Wilson) - Multiple pits have been opened in the vicinity of the Madawaska River. These pits are found in a 3.2 km wide belt of alkalic syenites with metasedimentary xenoliths (marble). The units trend northeast and dip moderately southeast. The syenite belt is bounded on the north by paragneiss and minor marble and on the south by a wide belt of marble and paragneiss.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Muscovite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore |
Jun 30, 2011 (A Wilson) - Corundum occurs as bronze crystals ¼ to 3 inches in size in pegmatites, as well as 1/32 to 1/8 inch diameter crystals in syenite.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 7012 |
Corundum 295 Tonne |
AR53 pt 3 p. 27 | 7012 tonnes mined yielding 295 tonnes of grain corundum in 1917-1918 |
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 27, 34-35 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Brudenell-Raglan area
Publication Number: ARV62-05 Page: 60-67 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F., Carlson H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 93 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 37 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: 41-43 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Brudenell-Raglan area, County of Renfrew, Ontario
Publication Number: M1953-02 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Barry's Bay Area
Publication Number: P3444 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2001
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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