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Record: MDI31C11SW00058

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Moira East Bank - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1990-Nov-26
Date Last Modified 2022-May-05
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silica Sand



Location

Township or Area: Elzevir

Latitude: 44° 33' 5.7"    Longitude: -77° 19' 43.97"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 315021.739   Northing: 4935776.957    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C11SW

Point Location Description: Point 0.7 km N of Actinolite.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Sample taken from the E bank of the Moira River, just N of Actinolite.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Sample of quartz - ' of high enough grade for the manufacture of ferro-silicon or in the pottery industry ' (1918).




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5QuartzEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Summary report of the mines branch of the department of mines for the calendar year ending December 31 1918; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 509

Publication Number: CMB Pub 509 Page: 56-57  Date: 1920

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307720


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