Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Canada - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1981-Dec-17 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-29 |
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Primary Commodities: Sulphur/Pyrite
Township or Area: Hungerford
Latitude: 44° 31' 54.5" Longitude: -77° 12' 41.52"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 324282.911 Northing: 4933320.839 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SE
Point Location Description: Precise, dot symbol Py, nearest communities of Hungerford & Otter Creek.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: It is approximately 1 km from Tweed via paved county road and gravel extension road at Sulphide. Deposit is 2 km by road east of Sulphide and 120m north of an abandoned railway line immed. E of its intersection with the access road.
1907: Canadian Pyrite Company sank an inclined shaft to a depth of 110 feet and completed an unspecified amount of drifting at the 85 feet level. Diamond drilling activities were also reported.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Qtz-Feld | 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 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Muscovite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Phlogopite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 30 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 35 | Sphene | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 40 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Mar 09, 2007 (D Laidlaw) - Bands of disseminated euhedral and anhedral pyrite grains parallel to foliation of host rock (OFR 5548, p54).
Publication - Report on the mining and metallurgical industries of Canada, 1907-8; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 24
Publication Number: CMB Pub 24 Page: 338-340 Date: 1908
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/308119
Part - Iron pyrites deposits in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV25-01.005 Page: 193, 196-197 Date: 1998
Author: Hopkins P.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area
Publication Number: S012 Page: 20 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Pyrite deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC005 Page: 9 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 30 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: 53-4 Date: 1985
Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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