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MDI31C11SW00080
| Record Name(s) | Hawkins Bay - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Feb-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Jul-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Antimony, Silver, Copper
Secondary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Hungerford
Latitude: 44° 31' 33.97" Longitude: -77° 21' 5.03"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 313151.713 Northing: 4932997.96 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C11SW
Point Location Description: General, Point just N of Hawkins Bay.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: On the eastern side of Hawkins Bay near the boundary between Lots 8 and 9, Concession XIV.
1870's: H.G. Vennor documented the presence of gold in trace amounts, associated with copper ore and quartz veins, within white and pink crystalline limestone. 1929: Tweed Copper Mining Syndicate developed a copper-gold-silver-antimony prospect. 1939: Wilson reported a copper occurrence at the same property. 1991: Robert Ross of Belleville carried out prospecting, sampled the dumps of a prospect pit, ran soil geochemical and VLF-EM surveys across the mineralized zone as part of an OPAP project.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 31C13SE0037 | 31C13SE0037 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Mazinaw
Supergroup: Grenville Supergroup
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Vein | 1 | Quartz | Host |
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| Calcite Marble | 2 | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | |||||
| 5 | Azurite | Economic | |||||
| 6 | Malachite | Economic | |||||
| 1 | Arsenopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Tetrahedrite | Economic | Ore |
Apr 12, 2007 (D Laidlaw) - Grab samples from the heavily mineralized vein material assayed up to 3% copper, 0.09 ounce per ton gold, 11.1 ounces per ton silver and 1.23% antimony. Veins contain up to 5% tetrahedrite (OFR5808).
Publication - Report of progress from 1866 to 1869
Publication Number: RepProg 1866-69 Page: 169 Date: 1870
Author:
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/222878
Mono - Exploration for gold in southeastern Ontario, 1980-1990
Publication Number: OFR5808 Page: 63-66 Date: 1991
Author: LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Compend - Report of activities, 1991, Resident Geologists
Publication Number: MP158 Page: 358-359 Date: 1992
Author: Fenwick K.G., Newsome J.W., Pitts A.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
File - Resident Geologist files AFRO 1991, Hungerford File #7
Publication Number: Date:
Author:
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Location: Tweed RGP
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