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| Record Name(s) | Lily Robertson - 1990, Lily Robertson Cooney - 2000, Black Star Corundum - 2000, Lily Robertson Hill - 2000, Lily Robertson Corundum - 2000, Cooney - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Jan-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Corundum
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 4' 3.23" Longitude: -77° 48' 34.1"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 278831.05 Northing: 4994296.155 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Property symbol ' PP ', 0.6 km E of Colston Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Bancroft take Hwy 500 / 28 E for 3.68 km and turn on to a dirt road. Park and follow the trail down the hill, cross the walkway over the beaver pond and continue on the trail (blazed). At the clearing the first trail leading to the right leads to the deposit.
Mineral location - black corundum. 1947-8 : opened by L. Moyd on the NW slope of Robertson Hill. There are 10 pits. The best showing was in a stripping about 50 ft N of the S pit (1960). OGS 39-6 (1930) describes the Cooney property where some work was carried out on a pegmatite dyke on the N half of lot 26, con 13. Sodalite is associated with cancrinite and hydronephelite (?). The Lily Robertson and Cooney farms are referred to as one in the literature, but the mineralogy seems to be different. So they are probably 2 separate but closely-connected sites.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Pegmatitic nepheline, albite and corundum (up to 30 %) occur as patchy segregations in a nepheline-plagioclase gneiss. Most corundum is 1/4-3/4 inch long but some reach 3 inches. The corundum exhibits asterism when cut in the cabochon style, yielding star sapphire. The deposit has and exposed length of 200 ft and a width of 10 ft.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Spinel | Economic | Ore |
Book - NMI # 070461
Publication Number: N/A Scale: Date: 1996
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Part - Non-metallic mineral resources of Hastings County
Publication Number: ARV39-06.003 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Geology of Dungannon and Mayo townships
Publication Number: ARV64-08 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F., James W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Scale: Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale: Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Scale: Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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