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Record: MDI31C15SE00229

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) R.T. Bourk - 1987, R.T. Bourke - 1987
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1987-Mar-27
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-25
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold

Secondary Commodities: Copper



Location

Township or Area: Oso

Latitude: 44° 50' 19.2"    Longitude: -76° 43' 14.94"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 363993.002   Northing: 4966469.069    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C15SE

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Dot symbol Au, 2.5 km South of Pennick Lake.



Exploration History

Circa1900 William Duffy sunk a 2 m deep test pit on a quartz rich phase of a granite dyke cutting metasediments and metavolcanics. Mineralization consisted of chalcopyrite, pyrite and malachite, reporting low gold values apon assay of a chip sample taken by Harding, (GR 228).




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Granite 1 Granite Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1ChalcopyriteEconomicOre
2GoldEconomicOre
3MalachiteEconomicOre
4PyriteEconomicOre
1CalciteEconomicGangue
2QuartzEconomicGangue

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Geology of the Olden-Bedford area

Publication Number: ARV56-06 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Harding W.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Gold deposits of Ontario, part 2, part of District of Cochrane, districts of Muskoka, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Timiskaming, and counties of southern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC018 Scale:     Date: 1979

Author: Gordon J.B., Lovell H.L., de Grijs J.W., Davie R.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Base metal, molybdenum and precious metal deposits of the Madoc-Sharbot Lake area, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5548 Scale:     Date: 1985

Author: Malczak J., Carter T.R., Springer J.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of the Sharbot Lake area, Frontenac and Lanark counties, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: R228 Scale:     Date: 1985

Author: Wolff J.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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