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Record Name(s) | Meany Mine - 1880, Edmond Platt Property - 1986 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Prospect |
Date Created | 1986-Mar-07 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Apatite (Gemstones), Mineral Specimen
Township or Area: Sebastopol
Latitude: 45° 27' 48.1" Longitude: -77° 9' 54.2"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 330742 Northing: 5036706.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F06NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Lake Clear turn right on hwy 512, proceed east 6.5km to Wittke Road, turning right and then south for 3km. Follow overgrown trail past clearing approx 460m past deer stand in tree to rock dump and trench.
1880 - opened and operated until 1883.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Granite | Host |
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Quartz Monzonite | 2 | Gneissic | Contains | |
Sandstone | 3 | Arkose | Gneissic | Adjacent |
Jun 16, 2011 (A Wilson) - A 25 foot deep pit was opened on a mixed vein of apatite and pyroxene, intersected by small veins of pink calcite. The vein varies in width from 6 to 16 feet.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Hornblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Orthoclase | Economic | Ore | ||||
5 | Pyroxene | Economic | Ore | ||||
6 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
7 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
8 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Orthoclase variety sunstone.
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Vein |
Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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1883 | 300 | AR53 pt 3 p. 18 | approximately 300 tons of apatite was mined from this site circa 1880-1883 |
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: 92-93 Date: 1964
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119882
Publication - Rocks and Minerals for the Collector, Ottawa to North Bay, Ontario; Hull to Waltham, Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 70-50
Publication Number: Paper 70-50 Page: 33-35 Date: 1971
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102463
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 18 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Phosphate in Ontario
Publication Number: MDC006 Page: 58-59 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 199 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Clontarf area, Renfrew County
Publication Number: R209 Page: 53 Date: 1981
Author: Themistocleous S.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 11 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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