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| Record Name(s) | Belmont Calcite - 1965, Northumberland - 1975, Whitney - 1975 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-May-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (high purity/flux)
Township or Area: Belmont
Latitude: 44° 34' 27.75" Longitude: -77° 53' 13.94"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 270764 Northing: 4939725.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C12SW
Point Location Description: test quarry (bulk sample) location.
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Take Co. Rd. 44 N from Havelock for 10.5 Km to Co. Rd. 46. Go N about 7 Km to Little Whitney Lake. The dolomite zone is about 300 m W of the road.
1975- Northumberland Mines Limited optioned the property and completed geological mapping, diamond drilling, and beneficiation tests on an 18 tonne bulk sample. 1977-1980 - Englehard Minerals and Chemicals Corp. and Preussag Canada Ltd. completed diamond drilling programs.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
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| Belmont No.16 | 31C12SW0018 | 31C12SW0018 |
| Belmont No.16 | 31C12SW0020 | 31C12SW0020 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Is |
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Aug 24, 2012 (P LeBaron) - High-calcite marble in the northern part of the claim and interlayered calcitic-dolomitic marble in the southern part. The marble units strike 055 to 060 degrees and dip vertically to steeply southward. Diamond drill core exhibits widths (up to 30m) of both high-purity calcitic and dolomitic marbles separated by impure zones containing various amounts of quartz, phlogopite, tremolite, serpentine, hematite, graphite and pyrite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore |
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
Date: Oct 01, 2010
Geologist: P LeBaron
Notes: In October, 2010, the District Geologist accompanied J.J. Treyvaud and Isabelle Valiquette of Murray Brook Minerals Inc. on an examination of the company’s high-purity marble prospect in the vicinity of a test quarry excavated by previous owners in the 1970s.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Belmont Calcite | 1976 | Unclassified | 1900000 | Kilborn Limited 1976. A preliminary conceptual study on the Belmont Calcite Project; unpublished report for Northumberland Mines Limited, Mineral Deposits Inventory files, Resident Geologist Office, Tweed. | Kilborn Limited estimated reserves at about 1.9 million tonnes of high-calcium marble and 4.7 million tonnes of combined high-calcium/dolomite marble at more than 93% brightness. |
Mono - Mineral resources of south-central Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5431 Page: 81-2 Date: 1983
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Geology of Belmont, Marmora, and southern Methuen townships, Peterborough and Hastings counties
Publication Number: OFR5537 Page: 130 Date: 1985
Author: Bartlett J.R., Moore J.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County
Publication Number: OFR5635 Page: 56-57 Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Precambrian dolomite resources in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5712 Page: 51-54 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., MacKinnon A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Building stones of Ontario, part 3, marble
Publication Number: IMR016 Page: 19 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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