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Record: MDI31C10NW00064

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) South Gravel Pit - 1979
Related Record Type Simple
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Feb-11
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By Q Unknown
Revised By A Wilson

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Graphite, Mica



Location

Township or Area: Kennebec

Latitude: 44° 40' 55.64"    Longitude: -76° 55' 6"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 347972   Northing: 4949429    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C10NW

Point Location Description: gf and phlog symbols 3.9 km south of Arden

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description:



Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Marble 1 Calcitic Host
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 2 Biotite-Quartzofeldspathic Adjacent
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 3 Hornblende-Plagioclase Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Oct 21, 2013 (A Wilson) - Graphite and phlogopite were observed in outcrops of clastic siliceous gneisses and schists and carbonate metasediments occurring in a shear zone on the western edge of the McLean Pluton.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GraphiteEconomicOre
2PhlogopiteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Disseminated
2 Sheared

References

Map - Long Lake, southern Ontario

Publication Number: M2449 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1981

Author: Wolff J.M., Smith D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


Map - Geological series, geology of the Long Lake area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2246 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1979

Author: Wolff J.M., Smith D.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


MonoMap - Geology of the Long Lake area, Lennox and Addington and Frontenac counties

Publication Number: R216 Scale:     Date: 1982

Author: Wolff J.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


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