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| Record Name(s) | Rideau Mining Company - 1867, Grierson and Gallagher - 1909, Levett and Davis - 1893, Dominion Improvement and Development Company - 1909 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-Apr-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Dec-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Phosphate, Mica
Township or Area: Burgess, Burgess, Burgess, Burgess, Burgess
Latitude: 44° 48' 18.12" Longitude: -76° 12' 9.85"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 404885 Northing: 4961996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16SE
Point Location Description: open cut
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Perth, south on hwy 1 for 8.76km, turning right on hwy 21 for 8.11km. Turn left onto Cedar Gate Rd for 1.23 km (ignore 1st left), keep left and continue for 0.78km. Site is located ~8m from the shore of the Rideau Canal.
1867-1909: Rideau Mining Company – in production. 1893: Levett and Davis – property worked for mica. 1905-1916: Dominion Improvement and Development Company – in production. 1917: E. Smith – in operation. 1939-1940: W.G. Connors and L.J. Smith – in production
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Frontenac
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pyroxenite | 1 | Pyroxenite, Biotite-Garnet | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble | 2 | Host |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phlogopite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Apatite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 11, 2015 (A Wilson) - Six narrow pits were put down on parallel leads of apatite and mica. The average width of the pits is 5 feet and the deepest pit was 75 feet. The mica is dark amber and crushed. It occurs with a little phosphate and calcite on parallel northwest veins. The principal work for apatite was carried out on lot 4. There, some half-dozen narrow pits have been opened upon parallel leads of phosphate and very dark mica, the openings being some 10 to 15 feet apart, and situated only about 50 feet from the shore of Big Rideau lake. The deepest of these pits is down 70 feet, the remainder being only shallow openings. The average width of the pits does not exceed 5 feet. Considerable phosphate was extracted, also, from lot 10, and the workings here are somewhat extensive.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 16 | total production in 1916, 1917, 1939 and 1940 was 18.5 tons of mica valued at $9222.00 |
Publication - Mica, its occurrence, exploitation and uses; Canada Mines Branch, Publication no. 118
Publication Number: CMB Pub 118 Page: 164-165 Date: 1912
Author: de Schmid, H. S.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297232
Book - Mica in Canada, p. 249,251
Publication Number: No. 474 Date: 1917
Author:
Publisher Name: DEMR/CANMET
Location:
Publication - Phosphate in Canada; Canada Mines Branch, Publication no. 396
Publication Number: CMB Pub 396 Page: 51 Date: 1920
Author: Spence, H S
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/296315
Publication - A list of Canadian mineral occurrences; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 74
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 74 Page: 27 Date: 1915
Author: Johnston, R A A
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101571
Publication - Perth map-area Lanark and Leeds Counties Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 50-29
Publication Number: Paper 50-29 Page: 16 Date: 1950
Author: Dugas, J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101399
MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area
Publication Number: S012 Page: 23 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Phosphate in Ontario
Publication Number: MDC006 Page: 44-45 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Phlogopite mica in Ontario
Publication Number: MDC008 Page: 56 Date: 1968
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Gananoque area, Ontario
Publication Number: M2054 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology Perth, Lanark and Leeds Counties, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 1089A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1961
Author: Wilson, M E; Dugas, J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107951
Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)
Publication Number: Page: 4, 109 Date: 1944
Author: Satterly, J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location: Tweed RGP
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