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Record Name(s) | Croft - 1984, Imperial Corundum Company - 1901 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Occurrence |
Date Created | 1984-May-29 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Corundum, Mica
Township or Area: Methuen
Latitude: 44° 38' 24.08" Longitude: -77° 58' 38.89"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 263863.63 Northing: 4947275.73 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C12NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: At north end of Kasshabog Lake.
1901: Imperial Corundum Company worked the property. 10 tons of hand-picked corundum ore was set aside but no shipments were made (DEMR/CANMET #675, P18). Several pits 6 metres deep, development work done mainly for muscovite.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Domain: Belmont
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Dark Gneiss, Nepheline Syenite |
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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 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
10 | Muscovite | Economic | Ore |
Map - Methuen Township, County of Peterborough, Ontario
Publication Number: M1960E Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Abrasives, products of Canada, technology and application, part II, corundum and diamond; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 675
Publication Number: CMB Pub 675 Page: 18 Date: 1927
Author: Eardley-Wilmot, V L
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/306525
Book - Geology and Minerals of Ontario
Publication Number: Page: 338 Date: 1929
Author:
Publisher Name: Garden City Press
Location: Tweed RGP
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 23 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 159-160 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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