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Record: MDI31C10NW00171

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Horseshoe East - 1979
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Mar-31
Date Last Modified 2024-Feb-08
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Graphite



Location

Township or Area: Kennebec

Latitude: 44° 40' 18.88"    Longitude: -76° 55' 27.67"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 347468   Northing: 4948306    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C10NW

Point Location Description: Map symbol gf, 1.7 km E of Horseshoe Lake

Location Method: Data Compilation



Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Marble 1 Host
Granodiorite 2 Contains

Lithology Comments

Oct 21, 2013 (A Wilson) - Graphite occurs in a small body of marble that is whollly enclosed within the Abbotts Hill Intrusion. The lithology enclosing the marble has been mapped as biotite trondhjemite to biotite granodiorite. Local granitiic pegmatites also are observed in the surrounding host rock.




Mineralization

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

Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Disseminated

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

Location:


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

Publication Number: R216 Date: 1982

Author: Wolff J.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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