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| Record Name(s) | Timminco Metals - 1985, Dominion Magnesium Quarries - 1941, A.G. Gould Property - 1912, Chromasco Ltd. - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-Jun-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Oct-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Dolomite (Metals), Magnesium, Calcium
Secondary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Ross
Latitude: 45° 35' 55.96" Longitude: -76° 45' 6.19"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 363384 Northing: 5050974 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F10SE
Point Location Description: quarry
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Hwy 17 to Hwy 653, 13 km north of Renfrew; east on Hwy 653 about 1 km to County Road 7, and north on County 7, 2.5 km to the Timminco plant and quarry site.
1901-1907: quarrying for building stone. 1907-1942: Intermittent production of building stone aggregate. 1942 to 2008: Dominion Magnesium Limited/Chromasco Limited/Timminco Metals - in production
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Dolomite Marble | 1 | Host |
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May 07, 2013 (A Wilson) - The stone is irregularly jointed and is pure white in colour at the southernmost part of the property. The band of stone was 200 feet wide and was flanked on both sides by very siliceous dolomite. The stone was described as being very coarse-grained white dolomitic marble, both pure and impure. The pure stone was quarried for use as dimension stone and for making lime. The dolomite marble strikes to the north across the property and dips 55ºE. The high purity stone occupies a zone about 75 m wide and is banded on either side by chemically impure dolomitic marble containing quartz and masses of amphibolite. The Chromasco magnesium deposit is of a band of very pure dolomitic marble that occurs within a completely deformed sequence of interlayered dolomitic and calcitic marble, siliceous marble, quartzo-feldspathic and amphibolitic metasediments, and metavolcanics. These supracrustal rocks have been invaded by a variety of intrusive rocks, including gabbro and granite, which form large plutons to the east and southwest of the marble deposit. The marble band strikes in a northerly direction and dips at about 50 degrees to the east. It is medium to coarse-grained (2-5 mm), well layered, and varies from white to pink to grey in colour. Minor amounts of impurities including white mica, calc-silicate minerals, and graphite, generally occur as sparse, scattered, fine grains. Lenses of calc-silicate rock occur locally within the marble deposit, necessitating selective mining in some places. Calcite veins and potassic alteration along fractures also constitute local quality control problems.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Graphite | Economic | Gangue |
May 07, 2013 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by Goudge (sample 127)assayed 0.20% SiO2, 0.10% Fe2O3, tr Al2O3, 0.04 Ca3(PO4)2, 55.82 CaCO3 and 44.00% MgCO3. The deposit had an indicated length of 3500 ft and an average width of 250 ft. The indicated tonnage was originally 72,800 tons per vertical foot.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Shape | Length | Thickness | Depth | Strike | Dip | Plunge | Trend | Age | Reference |
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| Regular | 1000 | 75 | 0 | 50 | OFR5712, pg 111 |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1980 | 475056312 | OFR5515, p. 299 | Production to the end of 1980 totalled 475,056,312 pounds of magnesium metal. In addition 21,575,794 pounds of calcium metal had been produced, and an unspecified amount of strontium metal, both from imported materials. | |
| 1943 | 3245 | ARV53 pt 3 p. 66 (production to end of 1943) |
Compend - Report of Activities 1992, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP161 Page: 371 Date: 1993
Author: Fenwick K.G., Pitts A.E., Newsome J.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Limestone Industries of Ontario, Volume II -- Limestone Industries and Resources of Eastern and Northern Ontario
Publication Number: NSP002 Page: 170-172 Date: 1998
Author: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Publisher Name: Derry, Michener, Booth and Wahl, Engineering and Terrain Geology Section
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 198 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - 1982 report of the Bancroft Resident Geologist
Publication Number: MP107.011 Page: 175 Date: 1997
Author: Meyn H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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: 58-59 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: 65-66 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - The limestone industries of Ontario, 1958-1963
Publication Number: IMR013 Page: 17-18 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 74-76 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 314-315 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 299-304 Date: 1984
Author: Carter T.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 1: marble
Publication Number: MDC021 Page: 62, 69-70, 112-115 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - 1979 report of the Algonquin Regional Mineral Resource Coordinator
Publication Number: MP091.009 Page: 117-118 Date: 1997
Author: Villard D.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Precambrian dolomite resources in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5712 Page: 111-113 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., MacKinnon A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario
Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 168-169, 178-179 Date: 1938
Author: Goudge, M F
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location:
Map - Cobden, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2460 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Summary of metallogeny, Renfrew County area
Publication Number: R212 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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