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| Record Name(s) | Pike Lake Mine - 1860, New York Mica Co. - 1869 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-Apr-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Mica, Vermiculite
Township or Area: Burgess, Burgess
Latitude: 44° 48' 27.24" Longitude: -76° 19' 38.59"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 395032 Northing: 4962431 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16SW
Point Location Description: open pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: At Stanleyville crossroad continue straight. At 0.4 ml fork right and go 0.2 ml to farm to get access permission. Return 0.2 ml and take left fork. At 0.15 ml from here bear right and the pits are on the right side of the road in the woods.
1860: mine opened. 1892: Lake Girard Mica System – in operation. Circa 1902: Watts and Noble, Farry and McParland, the Mica Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and W. A. Allan – series of pits in operation
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Frontenac
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Mineral location.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Host |
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| Skarn | 2 | Adjacent | ||
| Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 3 | Granitic | Host |
Sep 10, 2015 (A Wilson) - The mica leads strike northwest and dip southwest.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Phlogopite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Vermiculite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore |
Sep 10, 2015 (A Wilson) - The mica leads strike NW and dip SW. Mica occurs as large sheets and as large aggregates (about a foot across) of cleavage plates. In colour, it varies from silvery-amber to dark brown. Large sheets of the mica were shipped to Paris in 1860 for use as port-holes in French battleships. Associated with the mica are brown tourmaline, light yellow zircon, serpentine, quartz, hematite and pyrite. Small cavities in limestone have been found to contain zircon and serpentine with hematite and quartz. Mica specimens were exhibited at the Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1876. This was the first mica deposit to be worked in the province. It was last worked in 1902 by numerous pits (some over 100 feet deep) along a ridge overlooking Pike Lake. The dumps, in wooded areas near the pits, are now partly overgrown and covered with moss. The mine is on the property of J. Anderson. Vermiculite occurs at the contact of a narrow, folded and brecciated band of altered crystalline limestone, metamorphic pyroxenite, hematite-stained granitic gneiss and an intrusion of pink granite. Reddish and greenish vermiculite and phlogopite form a zone about 1 m wide in altered pyroxenite.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Disseminated |
Publication - Mica, its occurrence, exploitation and uses; Canada Mines Branch, Publication no. 118
Publication Number: CMB Pub 118 Page: 181 Date: 1912
Author: de Schmid, H. S.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297232
Mono - Vermiculite in Ontario, with an appendix on perlite
Publication Number: IMR007 Page: 13-14 Date: 1998
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geological notes for maps nos. 2053 and 2054, Madoc-Gananoque area
Publication Number: S012 Page: 24 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Phlogopite mica in Ontario
Publication Number: MDC008 Page: 74 Date: 1968
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Rocks and Minerals for the Collector, Kingston, Ontario to Lac St. Jean, Quebec;; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 67-51
Publication Number: Paper 67-51 Page: 34 Date: 1968
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107977
Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)
Publication Number: Page: 158-159 Date: 1944
Author: Satterly, J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location: Tweed RGP office
Map - Gananoque area, Ontario
Publication Number: M2054 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geology Perth, Lanark and Leeds Counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, "A" Series Map 1089A
Publication Number: Map 1089A Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1961
Author: Wilson, M E; Dugas, J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/107951
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