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Record: MDI31C10NW00242

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) G.M. MacDonnell - 1985, Alfred Neadow - 1985
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1985-Jul-24
Date Last Modified 2022-May-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Molybdenum



Location

Township or Area: Olden

Latitude: 44° 43' 10.46"    Longitude: -76° 46' 11.56"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 359827.451   Northing: 4953322.834    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C10NW

Point Location Description: General, property symbol 11, .75 km SSW of O'Reilly Lake.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: It is accessible on foot from all-weather gravel road 0.8 road km south of the junction with road leading to O'Reilly Lake.



Exploration History

1915, 4m x 2m pit opened in a molybdenum-beaing carbonate inclusion in granite and granitic pegmatites. 108 kg of material assayed 0.4% molybdenite. No apparent extension to and deposit has been exhausted. 1957, Corval Corporation Ltd., carried out a geological survey and a geochemical study for copper with negative results. No additional molybdenite mineralization was reported in this locality.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Tweed file Olden #2 / 63A.331 31C10NW0022 31C10NW0022



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Skarn 1 Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5MolybdeniteEconomicOre
10PyriteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Stratabound

References

Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the calendar year ending December 31 1915; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 421

Publication Number: CMB Pub 421 Page: 117-118  Date: 1916

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/321850


Publication - Molybdenum metallurgy and uses and the occurrence, mining and concentration of its ores; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 592

Publication Number: CMB Pub 592 Page: 65  Date: 1925

Author: Eardley-Wilmot, V L

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307785


Part - Geology of the Olden-Bedford area

Publication Number: ARV56-06 Page: 89-90  Date: 1997

Author: Harding W.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Map - Madoc area, Ontario

Publication Number: M2053 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area

Publication Number: S012 Page: 16  Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 22-23  Date: 1968

Author: Johnston F.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 137  Date: 1984

Author: Carter T.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Base metal, molybdenum and precious metal deposits of the Madoc-Sharbot Lake area, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5548 Page: 167-8  Date: 1985

Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - RES. GEOL. 1957, AFRO 63A-331, TWEED # 2

Publication Number: N/A Date: 2000

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location:


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 Page: 65-67  Date: 1982

Author: Wolff J.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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