Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Concession V, Lot 9 - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1981-Nov-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Talc, Soapstone
Township or Area: Grimsthorpe
Latitude: 44° 45' 21.9" Longitude: -77° 22' 20.85"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 312221.894 Northing: 4958593.082 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C14SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Southern part of Grimsthorpe Township is accessed from the driveable that follows the power line in northern Elzevir Township. Three km NE of Lingham Lodge, now a Buddhist Monastery, on the power line, a forest track follows the east shore of Canniff Creek to the occurrence.
Wilson in 1926, reports an opening 0.3 m to 1.2 m wide and 0.9 m deep, excavated adjacent to a south-eastward facing cliff 3.6 m high. A second pit, 0.6 m to 1.2 m wide and 0.3 m to 0.9 m deep is located 90 m NE of the first pit.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Talc occurs within serpentinized and talc-carbonate altered rocks in mafic metavolcanics in a unit approximately 10 m wide and 200 m in length. The Canniff Lake granite lies to the north of the occurrence (LeBaron and van Haaften 1989).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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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 | Serpentine | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Talc | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Talc and soapstone in Canada; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 583
Publication Number: CMB Pub 583 Page: 25-26 Date: 1922
Author: Spence, H S
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307779
Publication - Geology of the Haliburton and Bancroft areas, Province of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 6
Publication Number: GSC Mem 6 Page: 369 Date: 1910
Author: Adams, F D; Barlow, A E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100481
Publication - Talc deposits of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Series 2
Publication Number: Econ Geol 2 Page: 90-91 Date: 1926
Author: Wilson, M.E.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102438
Part - Geology of the Grimsthorpe-Barrie Area
Publication Number: ARV51-04.001 Page: 35, 37 Date: 1998
Author: Meen V.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 71 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area
Publication Number: S012 Page: 19 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Talc in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR040 Page: 31-32 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Location:
Mono - Talc in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5714 Page: 106-108 Date: 1989
Author: LeBaron P.S., van Haaften S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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