Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI31C11NW00004
| Record Name(s) | Concession IV, Lot 13, South Half - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1981-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Talc, Soapstone
Township or Area: Grimsthorpe
Latitude: 44° 44' 20.22" Longitude: -77° 23' 8.04"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 311128.46 Northing: 4956720.004 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11NW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Follow road along power line in northern Elzevir Township. 3 km NE of Lingham Lake on power line, a trail along east shore of Canniff Creek leads to Black River. At Black River trail heads north to prospect.
1948: Active Exploration Syndicate cored 5 diamond drill holes on showing. Hewitt 1972.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - The area is underlain by metavolcanic rocks. Hewitt (1972) described the showing as a talcose zone hosted by serpentinized greenstone. Drill hole five was reported to have a 18 m section of talc and talcose rock. LeBaron and van Haaften (1989) located a 1 m wide shear zone containing 5 to 10 percent talc within serpentinized mafic metavolcanics near the centre of Lot 13, Conc.IV.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Serpentinized Greenstone | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Serpentine | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Talc | Economic | Ore |
Part - Geology of the Grimsthorpe-Barrie Area
Publication Number: ARV51-04.001 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Meen V.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Talc in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR040 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Talc in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5714 Scale: Date: 1989
Author: LeBaron P.S., van Haaften S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Soapstone in Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5764 Scale: Date: 1991
Author: Gerow M.C., Sherlock E.J., Bellinger J.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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