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| Record Name(s) | Burgess Mountain - 1896, Burgess - 1896, Burgess Mine - 1902 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-Feb-28 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Corundum, Mineral Specimen
Secondary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Carlow
Latitude: 45° 15' 58.2" Longitude: -77° 42' 3.25"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 288115.997 Northing: 5016067.995 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F05SE, 31F05SW
Point Location Description: open cut
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed east from Maynooth to New Carlow, than turn left onto Boulter Road for 3.9km, left onto a gravel road for 1.1km to a hunt camp (RR#242). Trail to site is 100m north of hunt camp and parking is on left 200m n of the camp.
1902-1905: Ontario Corundum Company - in production. 1905-1907: Ashland Emery and Corundum Company - in production, 1907-1910: Armstrong Corundum Company - leased mill. 1910-1917: Manufacturers Corundum Company - in production.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Syenite | 1 | Albite | Gneissic | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore |
Jan 18, 2012 (A Wilson) - Nodules of radioactive material were reported on the waste dumps.
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 19 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of Monteagle and Carlow townships
Publication Number: ARV63-06 Page: 31-38 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 27-28 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Page: 139 Date: 1981
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Uranium and thorium deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5311 Page: 248 Date: 1981
Author: Gordon J.B., Rybak U.C., Robertson J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Monteagle and Carlow townships, County of Hastings, Ontario
Publication Number: M1954-03 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Barry's Bay Area
Publication Number: P3444 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2001
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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