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Record: MDI31F04SW00135

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Canadian Marble - 1993
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Mar-16
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-19
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)



Location

Township or Area: Dungannon

Latitude: 45° 2' 23.88"    Longitude: -77° 47' 18.6"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 280376.509   Northing: 4991173.424    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F04SW

Point Location Description: Point 1.5 km w of Bronson Lake.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Seen (in lots 25 and 26) S of the road and S of a belt of gneiss (white and pink), also E where it crosses the road between Bronson and Bronson Station (greenish). Again, S and E of this in a narrow belt just N of Bronson Station in the side of a hill (pink).



Exploration History

Circa 1912 : marble properties were held by The Canadian Marble Co Ltd in Dungannon, Faraday and Mayo townships at this time. Prospects on lots 24 and 25 of Dungannon are also listed in the name of T.C. McConnell. No further work is reported on these lots by this company.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - White, pinkish and greenish marble, coarse and very coarse.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100

Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 318-319, 325  Date: 1912

Author: Parks, W.A.

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 202  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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