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Record: MDI31C10SE00179

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) T.E. Barton Property - 1898
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Feb-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Oct-07
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Graphite



Location

Township or Area: Bedford

Latitude: 44° 36' 32"    Longitude: -76° 35' 19.55"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 373932   Northing: 4940731.99    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C10SE

Point Location Description: 1.4 km west of Bedford.

Location Method: Based on Assessment



Exploration History

1989: T. Barton – stripping, trenching


Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Marble 1 Massive, Brecciated Host

Lithology Comments

Jun 23, 2014 (A Wilson) - The marble is white in colour with some calc-silicates. The marble is commonly tectonically brecciated that includes layers and fragments of rusty, pyrite and graphitic gneisses, white pegmatites, garnet gneiss and pyroxene-hornblende gneiss.




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

File - Resident Geologist files Bedford 23 / W8909.46

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGP office


Map - Precambrian Geology, Tichborne Area

Publication Number: P3442 Scale: 1:50,000    Date: 2001

Author: Easton R.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Olden-Bedford area, County of Frontenac, Ontario

Publication Number: M1947-05 Date: 1997

Author: Harding W.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Article - Geology and mineral potential of the Puzzle Lake area, Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province

Publication Number: MP169.031 Page: 209-215  Date: 1998

Author: Easton R.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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