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Ontario Geological Survey

Year-to-Date Mineral-Related Activity in the Resident Geologist Districts
Activity in the Southern Ontario District updated December 2019


Mining and Exploration Activity
Company
Property Name
Township or Area
(Commodity)
Exploration Activity
Hastings Highlands Resources Ltd., Pancontinental Gold Corporation
McBride Project (formerly Limerick/Macassa)
Limerick
(Ni, Cu, Co (PGE?))
Pancontinental Resources terminated the company's option on the McBride project.
J. Martin
Ashby zinc prospect
Ashby
(zinc)
prospecting, Beep Mat
J. Martin
Black Mountain (Centennial Lake) property
Matawatchan, Miller
(graphite)
sample testing
Ore Chimney Gold Inc.
Ore Chimney Prospect
Barrie
(Gold)
company acquired property through option; began reconnaissance geological work., Continued reconnaissance geological work; examined historic drill core., Sampling of rock dump, Soil sampling for MMI geochem survey.
R. Waring
Anglesea Claims
Anglesea
(Gold)
channel cutting, sampling, completed report on 2019 expolration program, mechanical stripping, prospecting
Skead Holdings Ltd.
Halls Lake Property
Cardiff
(Uranium, Thorium, Rare Earth Elements)
prospecting

Assessment Files Received
Company : Property Name
Assessment File
Township or Area Work Type
Crown William Mining Corp : Bannockburn Gold Deposit
20000016957
Madoc Assaying and Analyses, Drill Core Relogging, Drill Core Resampling
Peterburton Mineral Corporation : Peterborough-Halliburton Vermuculite Deposit
20000017249
Cavendish Reserve Resource Calculations, Bulk Sampling, Industrial Mineral Testing and Marketing
Robert Macgregor : Mining Claim 109147
20000017044
Faraday Assaying and Analyses, Rock Sampling
Trigan Resources Inc : Trigan West Gabbro
20000017110
Methuen Assaying and Analyses

Mineral Deposit Updates
Deposit Name
MDI Identifier
Township or Area
(Commodity)
Mineral Deposit Status
Deposit Change Type
Quarry 19 - 1993
 MDI31C12NW00072
Methuen
Primary: ( limestone (building stones), shale (building stones))
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Parnell Quarry
MDI000000000098
Galway
Primary: (Limestone (building stone), Granite (building stone))
Producing mine
Updated
Pine Lake
MDI000000002050
Glamorgan
Primary: (magnetite)
Prospect
Updated
MRT Aggregates
MDI000000002331
Methuen
Primary: (Trap rock); Secondary: (Titanium, Iron)
Producing Mine
New
Trigan West Gabbro Ilmenite
MDI000000002332
Methuen
Primary: (Titanium); Secondary: (Iron)
Occurrence
New
Blairton
MDI31C05NW00026
Belmont
Primary: (Magnetite)
Past Producing Mine With Reserves
Updated
Young Martite
MDI31C05NW00028
Belmont
Primary: (Hematite (gemstones)); Secondary: (Vanadium)
Discretionary occurrence
Updated
Newboro
MDI31C09NW00009
North Crosby
Primary: (magnetite); Secondary: (Titanium)
Past Producer With Reserves
Updated
Lennox Mines
MDI31C10SW00046
Sheffield
Primary: (Zinc); Secondary: (Copper, Lead)
Prospect
Updated
Spry Zinc
MDI31C11SE00093
Kaladar
Primary: (Zinc); Secondary: (Silver)
Prospect
Updated
Orton
MDI31C12NE00122
Tudor
Primary: (Iron); Secondary: (Titanium)
Past Producer without Reserves
Updated
Croft
MDI31C12NW00005
Methuen
Primary: (Mica, Corundum)
Occurrence
Updated
Lynn
MDI31C12NW00022
Methuen
Primary: (Mica)
Occurrence
Updated
Quarry 8
MDI31C12NW00052
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Quarry 9
MDI31C12NW00057
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Quarry 7
MDI31C12NW00061
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Quarry 10
MDI31C12NW00065
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Quarry 6
MDI31C12NW00066
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Quarry 5
MDI31C12NW00067
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Quarry 20 – 1993
MDI31C12NW00070
Methuen
Primary: (Limestone)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Section C-9 - 1993
MDI31C12NW00071
Methuen
Primary: (Limestone)
Discretionary occurrence
Deleted
Quarry 18
MDI31C12NW00074
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Quarry 11
MDI31C12NW00077
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Quarry 12
MDI31C12NW00078
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss, Granite (building stones))
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Quarry 17
MDI31C12NW00081
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Quarry 16
MDI31C12NW00084
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Quarry 4
MDI31C12NW00088
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
SAMPLE 5627
MDI31C12NW00089
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Discretionary occurrence
Updated
Quarry 15
MDI31C12NW00090
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Gossan
MDI31C12NW00094
Methuen
Primary: (Gabbro(building stone)); Secondary: (Titanium, Iron)
Occurrence
Updated
Quarry 13
MDI31C12NW00096
Methuen
Primary: (Miscellaneous stone)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Quarry 14
MDI31C12NW00097
Methuen
Primary: (Gneiss)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Complete update
Twin Lake
MDI31C12NW00114
Methuen
Primary: (Trap Rock, titanium); Secondary: (Iron)
Occurrence
Updated
Twin Lake
MDI31C12NW00114
Methuen
Primary: (Titanium); Secondary: (Iron)
Developed Prospect with Reserves
Complete update
Twin Lake
MDI31C12NW00114
Methuen
Primary: (Titanium); Secondary: (Iron)
Occurrence
Updated
Horse Lake- 1991, Tripp- 1991
MDI31C12NW00127
Methuen
Primary: (Iron, Titanium); Secondary: (Uranium)
Occurrence
Complete update
Blue Lake Anomaly - 1993
MDI31C12NW00154
Methuen
Primary: (magnetite)
Discretionary Occurrence
Complete update
SAMPLE 5631
MDI31C12NW00174
Methuen
Primary: (Granite (building stones)); Secondary: (Uranium)
Discretionary occurrence
Deleted
SAMPLE 5632
MDI31C12NW00191
Methuen
Primary: (Granite (building stones)); Secondary: (Uranium)
Occurrence
Updated
Nobbs
MDI31C12SE00093
Marmora
Primary: (Arsenic)
Past producing Mine Without Reserves
Updated
Vansickle Property
MDI31C12SW00034
Methuen
Primary: (Marble); Secondary: (Silica)
Developed Prospect with Reserves
Complete update
Brown - 1994
MDI31C12SW00084
Methuen
Primary: (Gabbro(building stone))
Prospect
Complete update
Parker & Baker
MDI31C12SW00092
Methuen
Primary: (Lead); Secondary: (Barrite)
Occurrence
Complete update
Benninger
MDI31C12SW00118
Marmora
Primary: (Zinc); Secondary: (Silver, Copper)
Discretionary Occurrence
Updated
Canadian Nickel
MDI31C12SW00121
Methuen
Primary: (Titanium)
Discretionary Occurrence
Complete update
Macassa
MDI31C13SE00099
Limerick
Primary: (Copper, Nickel); Secondary: (Cobalt, Gold, Silver, Zinc)
Developed Prospect with Reserves
Updated
Kashwakamak
MDI31C14SE00147
Barrie
Primary: (Gold, lead, zinc); Secondary: (Copper)
Occurrence
Complete update
Buckhorn Occurrence
MDI31C14SE00174
Barrie
Primary: (Graphite); Secondary: (Iron)
Discretionary Occurrence
Updated
Ardoch Zinc
MDI31C15NW00172
Clarendon
Primary: (Gold, Sillimanite, Zinc)
Occurrence
Updated
Bennett
MDI31D09NE00005
Methuen
Primary: (Mica, Corundum)
Occurrence
Updated
Irondale River Sulphides
MDI31D15SE00127
Snowdon
Primary: (Zinc, Lead, Nickel, Copper); Secondary: (Cobalt)
Discretionary Occurrence
Updated
Northgate B
MDI31D15SW00068
Lutterworth
Primary: (Zinc)
Occurrence
Updated
Salerno Lake
MDI31D16SW00120
Glamorgan
Primary: (Lead, Zinc )
Developed Prospect with Reserves
Updated
Kearney Graphite
MDI31E11NE00004
Butt
Primary: (Graphite)
Developed Prospect With Reserves
Updated
Pharaoh- Clyde River
MDI31F01SW00033
Lanark
Primary: (Zinc); Secondary: (Lead, Silver)
Occurrence
Updated
A. Dubblestein Graphite Property
MDI31F06SW00060
Lyndoch
Primary: (Graphite); Secondary: (Copper, Nickel, Cobalt)
Prospect
Updated
Goshen A Occurrence
MDI31F07NE00058
Horton
Primary: (Thorium); Secondary: (Uranium, Chromium, Copper, Nickel, Zinc, Lead, Lithium)
Occurrence
Updated
Cadieux Zinc Prospect
MDI31F07NE00063
Admaston
Primary: (Zinc, Lead)
Developed Prospect With Reserves
Updated
Martel Mine
MDI31F07SE00013
Bagot
Primary: (Iron); Secondary: (Vanadium)
Prospect
Updated
McNab Mine
MDI31F08NW00004
McNab
Primary: (Iron); Secondary: (Hematite (gemstones), titanium, vanadium)
Prospect
Updated
L.G. Fraser Plant
MDI31F10NW00002
Stafford
Primary: (Clay)
Past Producing Mine without Reserves
Updated
Chenaux Gabbro
MDI31F10SE00019
Horton
Primary: (Iron, Titanium); Secondary: (Vanadium)
Occurrence
Updated

Property Visits Made
Company
Property Name
Township or Area
(Commodity)
Comments
California Gold Mining Inc.
Dingman Prospect
Mrmora Township
(Gold)
Gold prospect, porphyritic granodiorite
Canadian Exploration Services Limited
Simon Copper
Denbigh
(zinc, copper)
Drill core from property examined at CXS office, Larder Lake
Canadian Exploration Services Limited
Simon Copper
Denbigh
(zinc, copper)
zinc-copper mineralization with pyrrhotite in amphibolite; two zones, trenches located and sampled
Crown William Mining Corp.
Madoc Project
Madoc Township
(Gold)
gold prospect, quartz-vein hosted at volc-sed contact.
Francine Deck
Rollins arsenic
Wollaston
(arsenopyrite, marble)
banded bluish-grey, impure marble similar to that being quarried as Elite Blue "granite" in Chandos Township
Moira River Conservation Authority
O'Hara Mill Conservation Area
Madoc
(limestone)
former limestone quarry, Precambrian-Paleozoic unconformity - scientific and historical interest.
No Company
Allan Mills
Seymour
(Iron, chert)
black chert replacing stromatoporoids in limestone
No Company
Boerth Gold
Clarendon
(gold)
shaft and trenches located, gold in quartz veins at marble/siliceous metased contact
No Company
Lacey Mica Mine
Loughborough Township
(Muscovite)
muscovite specimens
No Company
Long Lake Mine
Olden
(Zinc)
Sedex zinc deposit in marble; massive sphalerite with minor pyrite; Produced 85,000 tonnes @11.6% Zn, 1973-74.
No Company
Minden area soapstone
Somerville, Lutterworth, Guilford
(soapstone)
search for soapstone and serpentine occurrences - minor serpentine and scapolite nodules in marble, Guilford Twp
No Company
Perth Feldspar Quarry
Bathurst Township
(quartz, feldspar)
feldspar, quartz specimens
No Company
Richardson Gold Mine
Madoc
(gold)
Quartz veins with py, cp in syenite at contact with carbonate metaseds; site of first gold discovery in Ontario, 1866.
none
Ore Mountain
Barrie Township
(gold)
Quartz-tourmaline vein
R. Waring
Anglesea Claims
Anglesea
(Gold)
gold in quartz veins in mafic volcanics interlayered with volcaniclastics and siliceous iron formation
S. Wanner
Peterson Road prospect
Elzevir
(gold, silver )
Quartz veins with minor py, cp, tourm in carbonatized metased and metavolc.

For further information contact the Southern Ontario District Resident Geologist Office

Updated December 2019