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| Record Name(s) | Bannockburn - 1981, Mundic - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Sep-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Sulphur/Pyrite
Township or Area: Madoc
Latitude: 44° 37' 39.05" Longitude: -77° 32' 5.33"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 298926.737 Northing: 4944698.992 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C12NE
Point Location Description: The mine is located at # 3 on map 2154, (Hewitt, 1968) Madoc Township and part of Huntingdon Tp.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: At a point 14.3 km north of highway #7 on Highway #62, Cedar Lane is taken east to the end (for 300 meters). Cedar Lane is 1.6 km south of the Hamlet of Bannockburn (from Cooper Road). It is 400 meters east and southeast along a trail to the open pit. The shaft is further to the south.
ALSO PRESENT: HALOTRICHITE, COPIAPITE, COQUIMBITE. In 1898 to 1900, an open pit operation was started by the American Madoc Mining Company. At that time the deposit was known as the Jarmin Pyrite Mine. The pit was sunk to 25.6 meters in depth. In 1901 a shaft was sunk some 152 meters south of the open pit. The south shaft operated until 1907. It was sunk to 83.8 meters and had levels at 19.5 m, 34.4 m and 53.3 m. In 1898 11 carloads of bog iron ( or limonite) was shopped to the Hamilton Iron and Steel Co. All the ore went to the works of the General Chemical Co. at Buffalo. Operations were abandoned in 1906. (Wilson 1912). Also Wilson reported that the ore did not fall off in grade or in quality with depth. The mine was not worked out when it closed. Between 1918 and 1919 an unknown amount of development work was completed. The deposit was named the Mundic Pyrite mine at this time.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The area near the mine in the north part of Madoc Tp. is underlain by a folded sequence of aluminous metasedimentary rocs, marbles and mafic metavolcanic rocks. The mine occurs within the clastic sedimentary rocks near the contact of dolomitic and calcitic marbles. Few small intercalated units of marble and a gabbroic lens occur near the deposit as well. According to the geology map by Hewitt (1968), the aluminous metasedimentary rocks are pelitic rocks which are schists. The marbles extend south from the host sequence and contain few units of pelitic and mafic metavolcanic rocks. The clastic and carbonate metasedimentary rocks are bounded to the east by amphibolites which belong to the Tudor volcanic sequence ( Hewitt 1968, p.4). West of the deposit, the metasedimentary rocks are intruded by the Gawley Creek Syenite, a small, coarse-grained, biotite-hornblende syenite body. The mine workings are hosted in a grey, strongly foliated, fine-grained quartz-muscovite schist. Weathered surfaces of this rock are buff to reddish brown. Mineralization at the mine dump consists of massive to disseminated, fine-grained pyrite. The host quartz-muscovite schist contains zones composed of almost pure white, granular fine-grained quartz. The lens that the shaft was started on was reported to be about 160 feet long, and 8 to 15 feet wide. This lens strikes slightly west of north. There is a folded structure between the two pyrite deposits that is probably an anticline pitching northwest.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Chlorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Limonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Siderite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Talc | Economic | Ore |
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Wilson (1912, p.63) states that some of the material from the open pit graded from 46 to 48 per cent sulfur, and some from the south lens did not run higher than 37 per cent. The mine produced 580 tons of material per month over a six year period.
Date: Nov 24, 2000
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The deposit was first visited on May 8th, 1995. The main pit fencing was down. The steel posts had rotted off at the bottom. The main shaft cap, which was constructed of wood, had also collapsed. The cribbing in the shaft was quite visible. A second visit was made to this site on August 2nd, 2000. Again the fencing around the main pit was down. The water filled the complete pit. The fencing around the shaft area was intact, but was being undermined by the caving of material into the shaft itself.
Date: Jan 09, 2001
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The deposit was first visited on May 8th, 1995. The Main pit fencing was down. The steel posts had rotted off at the bottom. The main shaft cap, which was constructed of wood, had also collapsed. The cribbing in the shaft was quite visible. A second vist was made to this site on August 2nd, 2000. Again the fencing around the main pit was down. The water filled the complete pit. The fencing around the shaft area was intact, but was being undermined by the caving of material into the shaft itself.
Date: Mar 18, 2003
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The deposit was visited on March 17th, 2003. A road had been pushed into the shaft area. The shaft area had been cleaned out in preparation for capping. There was approximately 7 to 15 feet of overburden/waste rock on top of the bedrock. The shaft area measured approximately 20 by 15 feet. There was now a ramp , 10 feet wide and 30 to 35 feet long, leading into the shaft from the south east corner. The area was highly weathered and a gossan zone was exposed all around the shaft area. The south east corner of the shaft had the following co-ordinates - 298975E, 4944557N. 6 digital photos were taken of the area. The shaft cap should be in place by the end of March, 2003
Date: Aug 11, 2003
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: This deposit was visited on March 25th, March 28th and again on May 29th, 2003. On March 25th and March 28th the shaft had been capped with concrete. It had been covered over with a tarp and left to cure. Several digital pictures were taken of the capping. On May 29th a further visit was made to this site and at that time the cap was in the process of being back filled. Snow was still visible in the fill from when the shaft was first excavated to bedrock. A vent pipe marks the location of the shaft. Four digital pictures were taken along with 2-35 mm pictures.
Publication - Pyrites in Canada its occurrence, exploitation, dressing, and uses; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 167
Publication Number: CMB Pub 167 Page: 62-63 Date: 1912
Author: Wilson, A W G
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307454
Mono - Pyrite deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC005 Page: 9-10 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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MonoMap - Geology of Madoc Township and the north part of Huntingdon Township, Hastings County
Publication Number: R073 Page: 25-26 Date: 1968
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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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: 90-3 Date: 1985
Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Report of progress from 1866 to 1869
Publication Number: RepProg 1866-69 Page: 152 Date: 1870
Author:
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/222878
Part - Non-metallic mineral resources of Hastings County
Publication Number: ARV39-06.003 Page: 38 Date: 1998
Author: Osborne F.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Minerals of Ontario, with notes
Publication Number: ARV09.009 Page: 202 Date: 1998
Author: Miller W.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 65-66 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector, Hull-Maniwaki, Quebec, Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 41
Publication Number: GSC MR 41 Page: 87-88 Date: 1987
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/122460
Part - The mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV11.016 Page: 295-296 Date: 1998
Author: Carter W.E.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Publication - Mines Branch 1952, Memorandum Series #118, p36
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