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| Record Name(s) | C. A. Fielding Showing - 1963 |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 2009-Jan-13 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Silica
Township or Area: Delamere
Latitude: 46° 7' 21.51" Longitude: -80° 35' 12.72"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 531918.997 Northing: 5107757.001 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I02SE
Point Location Description: precise
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Pre-1963: pitting/trenching. 1955: J. A. Fielding - DD-19. A small quarry was opened in the 1960s, but only test shipments were made.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz Arenite | 1 | Host |
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Jan 13, 2009 (A Wilson) - The quartzite has a very coarse texture and differs from the other Lorrain quartzites. The rock is glassy, coarse-grained, recrystallized white to pink quartzite with grains up to 5 mm in diameter.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 2 | Sericite | Economic And Alteration | Gangue | 1 | |||
| 1 | Quartz | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Specularite | Economic | Gangue |
Map - Burwash, Nipissing, Parry Sound, and Sudbury districts
Publication Number: M2271 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1974
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Burwash area, districts of Nipissisng, Parry Sound, and Sudbury
Publication Number: R116 Page: 141-142 Date: 1975
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Silica in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR009 Page: 14 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Industrial minerals of the Sudbury area
Publication Number: OFR5329 Page: 69-70 Date: 1981
Author: Vos M.A., Smith B.A., Stevenato R.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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