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| Record Name(s) | Concession X, Lot 11 - 1984, Pipe Lake - 1984 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2021-Dec-14 |
| Created By | Q Unknown |
| Revised By | D Laidlaw |
Primary Commodities: Talc, Soapstone
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 0' 38.22" Longitude: -77° 53' 27.12"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 272197.439 Northing: 4988195.968 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The occurrence is reached by a dirt road which leads west from Hwy 62 about one km south of the centre of Bancroft.
1942 A pit was sunk on the southeast shore of Pipe Lake by persons unknown. Hewitt 1972, reported that blasting had occurred in a small area on the northern side of the lake.
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - The area is underlain by a northeast trending belt of interlayered dolomitic and calcitic marbles and paragneiss (Storey and Vos 1981). LeBaron and van Haaften (1989) report two slightly talcose rock units. One occurs north of the lake in tremolitic rock and the other in tremolitic zones in marble, south of the lake.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Limestone | 1 | Dolomite & Calcitic Marbles | Contains |
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Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Thomson (1943) reports talc and soapstone on this property. The soapstone is composed of massive amphibolite with talc along the slip planes. Storey and Vos (1981) who examined the tremolitic marble report that it is predominantly pale green tremolite with minor phlogopite and dolomite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talc | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Actinolite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Tremolite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Phlogopite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Amphibole | Economic | Gangue |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Salo) - Thomson (1943) reports talc and soapstone on this property. The soapstone is composed of massive amphibolite with talc along the slip planes. Storey and Vos (1981) who examined the tremolitic marble report that it is predominantly pale green tremolite with minor phlogopite and dolomite.
Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Part - Geology of Cardiff and Faraday townships
Publication Number: ARV66-03 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Mono - Talc in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5714 Scale: Date: 1989
Author: LeBaron P.S., van Haaften S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Mono - Talc in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR040 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Mono - Soapstone in Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5764 Scale: Date: 1991
Author: Gerow M.C., Sherlock E.J., Bellinger J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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