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MDI31C13SW00091
Record Name(s) | Ridge Extension - 1960, V.A. McMurray - 1959 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Prospect |
Date Created | 1981-Jul-28 |
Date Last Modified | 2024-Aug-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron, Copper
Township or Area: Wollaston, Wollaston, Wollaston
Latitude: 44° 48' 23.32" Longitude: -77° 48' 23.87"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 278050.579 Northing: 4965285.278 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C13SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Southernmost of five pits, between the Ridge and Henderson Lake. Just north of Murphy Corners road.
1959: Trenches, pits and some d.d. on V.A. McMurray holdings. 1960: Some d. d. by Kennco Explorations (Canada) Limited (MRC 11, p179-180).
Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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12 | 31C13SW0003 | 31C13SW0003 |
31C13SW0007 | 31C13SW0007 | |
31C13SW0009 | 31C13SW0009 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Domain: Belmont
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Skarn | 1 | Host |
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Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 2 | Host |
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Diopside | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Epidote | Economic | Ore | ||||
5 | Garnet | Economic | Ore | ||||
6 | Hornblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
7 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
8 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
9 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Magnetite-bearing skarn with some pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in mafic volcanics (MRC 11, p179).
Aug 29, 2024 (Nazha Sabiri) - Best assays include 0.38% copper over 3.0 m (10 feet) from a mineralized skarn zone, 0.25% copper and 24.8% iron over 1.82 m from a calcite hornblende skarn zone, 0.17% copper and 24.3% iron over 1.5 m from a calcite with abundant sulphides and 0.18% copper and 22.2% iron over 1.5 m from a sulphides rich siliceous zone (File 31C13SW0003).
Rank | Classification |
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1 | Skarn |
Book - Preliminary report on the geology in the vicinity of aeromagnetic anomalies on the Bancroft and Coe Hill sheets
Publication Number: PR1951-02 Page: 18 Date: 1998
Author: Abraham E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Chandos Township, Peterborough County and Wollaston Township, Hastings County
Publication Number: R011 Page: 49, 50-51 Date: 1998
Author: Shaw D.M., Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 179-180 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC012 Page: 142 Date: 1969
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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