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| Record Name(s) | McDonald Mine - 1932, T.H. Craig - 1938, Canada Flint and Spar Co. - 1950 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-Mar-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Feldspar (Nonmetals)
Township or Area: Bathurst
Latitude: 44° 54' 16.6" Longitude: -76° 25' 48.74"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 387091 Northing: 4973349 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16NW
Point Location Description: Dot symbol 'Fel' 2.8 km northeast of southeast arm of Bennett Lake.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: From Perth, west on Hwy 7 for 9.23km turning right onto Bathurst 5th Conc. Rd at Wemyss. First left on Rutherford St, Continue for 5.06km to end of road. Turn left on McVeigh Rd for approximately 430m. Turn right onto Dokken Rd and continue on main road for 1.16km. Travel along south side of swamp for 2.93 km through bush to site.
1928-32;1940-41,1950-51: McDonald's Mine – worked from 1928 to 1932 by T. Craig. Most of the work was confined to a single open cast pit 125 ft by 90ft. by 60 ft. deep with a small amount of stripping.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Host |
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Sep 12, 2016 (A Wilson) - The dike has an exposed width of about 100 ft. Its continuation from the pit along the strike is obscured by a rather heavy dirt cover, which entails considerable stripping. Numerous small, narrow pegmatites outcrop as hogsbacks protruding through the overburden in the supposed general area of the McDonald Showing. Mineralogically, they are all very similar, containing abundant graphic K-feldspar and quartz intergrowths, biotite, tourmaline and pyrite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Feldspar | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Biotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore |
Sep 12, 2016 (A Wilson) - The dike consists of pink spar, carrying stringer of buff-coloured spar and quartz. Black mica in large thin plates is fairly abundant and there is also considerable tourmaline in thin needles. While a large proportion of the mine output has consisted of a mixed grade of spar, recent work has shown the quality to be improving at the west end of the pit. The west face in 1932 showed a 40 foot width of high-grade, buff, crystal spar, extending almost from the surface to the floor of the pit. The heavy capping of pegmatite carrying black mica that covered the easterly section, thins towards the west, and a high percentage of the rock broken since 1931 now consists of merchantable spar.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1928 | 24500 | IMR021 p.20 | 27,007 tons of feldspar |
Publication - Feldspar, Canada Mines Branch Publication 731
Publication Number: CMB Pub 731 Page: 37, 42, 86 Date: 1932
Author: Spence, H. S.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307887
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 20 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Granitic pegmatites of the Bancroft area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5717 Page: 170-172 Date: 1990
Author: Goad B.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)
Publication Number: Page: 53-54 Date: 1944
Author: Satterly, J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location: Tweed RGP office
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