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| Record Name(s) | Bawden Mine - 1890, Bawden Property - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1982-Jan-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Graphite
Township or Area: Bedford
Latitude: 44° 33' 3.73" Longitude: -76° 32' 56.09"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 376972 Northing: 4934245 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C10SE
Point Location Description: shaft
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Highway 38 east on Westport road at Godfrey. Turn right on Bunker Hill road after 5.1km then left on James Wilson road 2.9km later. Go 3.9km to dam at south end of Canoe Lake then 500m east to dumps of Kirkham Graphite (on right). Right on Canoe Lake road, 2.5km to east. The Wilson driveway (RR8594) is on left in 2.5km. The site is 30m from lakeshore, near a small trailer.
circa 1890: J. Bawden – pitting, trenching, shaft to 7 m, mine in production (100 barrels of graphite ore produced). 1987: Stewart Lake Resources Inc. – mapping, ground geophysics, DD-7-992 ft
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| W9009.63 | 31C10SE0062 | 31C10SE0062 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Frontenac
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Metamorphism Grade: Granulite
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Graphitic, Calcitic | Host |
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| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 2 | Graphitic | Adjacent | |
| Quartz Arenite | 3 | Quartzite | Adjacent |
Oct 29, 2013 (A Wilson) - The marble is described as being white in colour with some calc-silicates. The unit is usually a marble tectonic breccia with layers and fragments of rusty pyritic and graphitic gneiss. The marble is steeply folded and strike in a northeasterly direction.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Graphite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Serpentine | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 4 | Phlogopite | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 5 | Diopside | Economic | Gangue |
Oct 29, 2013 (A Wilson) - Graphite occurs as disseminated flakes. Mineralization consists of disseminated graphite contained as conformable layers and lenses within calcite marble. The graphite occurs as fine flakes up to 3 mm in diameter, or more rarely, as small rounded lumps of flake and amorphous graphite up to 20 mm in length. A layer 3-6 cm wide and 3 m long containing 20-40% disseminated flakes of graphite is exposed in a pit south of the shaft. The graphite content is usually about 1% although a 1.5 m section of core returned approximately 10% graphite. A few high-grade lenses of graphite were observed in the wall of the pit. These lenses were estimated to contain 15-20% flake graphite. High-grade graphite was observed in discontinuous pods near the entrance to the underground drift.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Hydrothermal |
Part - Geology of the Olden-Bedford area
Publication Number: ARV56-06 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Major graphite occurrences within the Frontenac Axis, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5729 Scale: Date: 1990
Author: MacKinnon A., LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Graphite in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR020 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Graphite occurrences of the Frontenac Axis, eastern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC033 Scale: Date: 1992
Author: MacKinnon A., LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Graphite development potential in eastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5377 Scale: Date: 1982
Author: Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Olden-Bedford area, County of Frontenac, Ontario
Publication Number: M1947-05 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Harding W.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Tichborne Area
Publication Number: P3442 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2001
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Mineral deposits studies in the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario: zinc and graphite
Publication Number: MP100.031 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Carter T.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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