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| Record Name(s) | McEwan Property - 1909, McNally Property - 1902 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jun-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Mica
Township or Area: South Sherbrooke
Latitude: 44° 45' 2.78" Longitude: -76° 32' 5.73"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 378501 Northing: 4956411 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C15SE
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: 1.5 km southwest of Bolingbroke.
1902: McNally – in production. 1909: Cunningham and Mills – in production; pits up to 30 feet deep. 1912: Miller and Innes – property owners
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Frontenac
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Pyroxenitic | Is |
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Sep 19, 2015 (A Wilson) - Dark green weathering pyroxene gneiss and pyroxene-hornblende gneiss, derived from calc-silicate rocks.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Mica | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Apatite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 19, 2015 (A Wilson) - The average width of the mica leads is 2 feet. The mica was light amber.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Publication - Mica, its occurrence, exploitation and uses; Canada Mines Branch, Publication no. 118
Publication Number: CMB Pub 118 Page: 184 Date: 1912
Author: de Schmid, H. S.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297232
MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area
Publication Number: S012 Page: 25 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)
Publication Number: Page: 165 Date: 1944
Author: Satterly, J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location: Tweed RGP
Mono - Phlogopite mica in Ontario
Publication Number: MDC008 Page: 76 Date: 1968
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Gananoque area, Ontario
Publication Number: M2054 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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