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| Record Name(s) | Fraser Quarry - 1938, Gooderham Nepheline - 1938, Fraser Nepheline Pegmatite - 1938, T. Madill Farm - 1938 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Nov-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Nepheline Syenite
Township or Area: Glamorgan
Latitude: 44° 54' 10.96" Longitude: -78° 21' 15.42"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 708874.63 Northing: 4975585.39 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16NW
Point Location Description: Fraser 'Ne' dump site in lot 30, con 4 north of Trooper Lake.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: West on Hwy 121 from Tory Hill Village for 10.5km then south on McColl Road. Turn right on trail at 0.9km, drive 1.9km, park 100m past sign to Challis Property. 30m west to dump and pits.
1937-38 : Gooderham Nepheline: operated the Fraser Quarry, shipping 3,178 tons of nepheline pegmatite. c. 1942 : J.A. Fraser operated the quarries. The quarries are connected and open to the west with an east-west length of 335 ft.. The lower quarry is 80 ft. long and 10-20 ft. deep, the upper quarry is 225 ft. long, 10-30 ft. wide and 5-25 ft. deep.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Jan 23, 2017 (A Wilson) - Nepheline rocks are exposed in 3 occurrences over a length of about 1/2 miles, centred on the Fraser Quarry. They occur along the contact between biotite syenite gneiss (which passes north into a magnetite-rich hornblende syenite gneiss) and the overlying marble. The syenite gneiss sequence has a maximum width of about 20 chains. The westernmost occurrence is in lot 29 - a single small outcrop of nepheline-albite pegmatite in a sandy knoll 15 chains north of the concession road. The easternmost occurrence, in the centre of lot 31, consists of 3 outcrops of coarse nepheline-biotite-plagioclase gneiss. The quarry exposes nepheline and syenite pegmatite, marble, nepheline-biotite gneiss and biotite and hornblende paragneiss. . There is prominent pyritic staining. The high Fe content, variable (high) calcite content and the difficulty of obtaining uniform product, led to the abandonment of the quarry.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Paragneiss | 1 | Variegated | Nephilized | Is |
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| Limestone | 2 | Crystalline | Adjacent |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Graphite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Betafite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Sodalite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Jan 23, 2017 (A Wilson) - Two adjoining quarries possessing a total east-west length of 102 m expose interbedded nephelinized paragneiss and crystalline limestone intruded by sills and lenses of nepheline pegmatite and syenite pegmatite. Paragneiss contains abundant biotite. Pegmatite minerals include albite and nepheline plus accessory sodalite, biotite, hornblende and zircon. Zircon, sodalite and corundum are amongst the minerals present in the pegmatite. A total of 3178 tons of nepheline pegmatite were shipped from this quarry and the Gill Quarry in 1937-1938.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1938 | 2479 | |||
| 1937 | 403 |
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 71-73 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 234 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Glamorgan and Monmouth townships, Haliburton County
Publication Number: OFR5021 Page: 44-46 Date: 1997
Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 36, 39-40 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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