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MDI31F04SW00082
| Record Name(s) | Lower Faraday Road - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Miscellaneous Stone
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 0' 25.82" Longitude: -77° 55' 45.47"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 269155.389 Northing: 4987922.219 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Point on Hwy 28, 0.5 km E of Bow Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From the Bancroft Hotel drive S on Hwy 28 for 5.35 ml to the road cut - check the far end on the left side. It is the first road cut SW of the Faraday / Madawaska Mine entrance (0.6 ml S).
Mineral location : scapolite (blue).
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Blue scapolite occurs in biotite-gneiss. It is grey-green when freshly broken and turns bright blue on exposure to sunlight. The associated skarn assemblage includes calcite, garnet and epidote.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Epidote | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Garnet | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Augite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Book - 100 Mineral Locations in Southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: Page: 76 Date: 1964
Author: Leach, H.
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Book - 200 Mineral Locations in Southern Ontario
Publication Number: Page: 36 Date: 1972
Author: Leach, H.
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Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Page: 334-5 Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - Geology and scenery, Peterborough, Bancroft and Madoc area
Publication Number: GB03 Page: 43 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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