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Record: MDI31C13NW00010

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Torny Property - 1955, Torny Financial Corp Property - 1955
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-03
Date Last Modified 2022-May-11
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Magnetite, Graphite



Location

Township or Area: Faraday

Latitude: 44° 57' 17.92"    Longitude: -77° 48' 40.13"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 278265   Northing: 4981794    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C13NW

Point Location Description: geology map in 31C13NW0078

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Travel south of Bancroft on Hwy 62 for 4 miles and then along the old Hastings road which passes about 1/2 mile east of the claim group. A logging road crosses the westerly claims and connects with a gravel road which leads to Bow Lake. In 1955 badly overgrown logging roads and trails crisscrossed the property.



Exploration History

1955 : Torny Financial Corp Ltd - mapping


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
63A.279 31C13NW0078 31C13NW0078

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Pegmatite 1 Intrudes
Marble 2 Adjacent
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 3 Host

Lithology Comments

Oct 30, 2013 (C Papertzian) - About 45 % of the property is swamp. Paragneiss and marble are intruded by pegmatite; some magnetite and graphite mineralization were seen, though nothing economic. The pegmatites gave no anomalous geiger values.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GraphiteEconomicOre
2MagnetiteEconomicOre
3AugiteEconomicGangue

Mineralization Comments

Oct 30, 2013 (A Wilson) - Graphite mineralization was noted in a 3.0 foot wide lens in the south westerly corner of mining claim EO.13120.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Disseminated

References

File - Bancroft 1991, File # 3558

Publication Number: Date: 1991

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Tweed RGP


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 140  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Cardiff and Faraday townships, counties of Haliburton and Hastings, Ontario

Publication Number: M1957-01 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1998

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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