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| Record Name(s) | Little Silver Lake - 1899, Silver Lake Mine - 1899 |
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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-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Magnetite, Mineral Specimen
Township or Area: South Sherbrooke
Latitude: 44° 48' 21.74" Longitude: -76° 29' 16.7"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 382330 Northing: 4962481 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16SW
Point Location Description: east side of Little Silver Lake
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Walk cross country around the south side of Silver Lake. Site is located on east shore of the lake. A small pit on the southeast shore of Little Silver Lake, on lot 16, concession IV, South Sherbrooke township, Lanark county, about 5 miles southeast of Maberly in the Perth area, represents the workings of the so-called Silver Lake mine.
circa 1899: 1 prospect pit 4 m deep and two smaller pits located approximately 200 m to the south (0.5 m in depth)
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Frontenac
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Granitic | Host |
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| Pegmatite | 2 | Intrudes | ||
| Marble | 3 | Adjacent |
Sep 18, 2015 (A Wilson) - The north shore of the lake is bordered mainly by granitic gneisses that are cut by pegmatite dykes. The southwest shore of the bay in which the mine is located is bordered by contorted crystalline limestone. Magnetite occurs on the southeast shore of the bay in dark amphibolite and metamorphic pyroxenite locally containing pink calcite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore |
Sep 18, 2015 (A Wilson) - A 4 m deep prospect pit was found at the site. A chemical analysis of a selected sample of ore material reported in 1899 gave 64.15 per cent iron, 1.75 per cent sulphur and 5.75 per cent insoluble matter.
Publication - Perth map-area Lanark and Leeds Counties Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 50-29
Publication Number: Paper 50-29 Page: 17 Date: 1950
Author: Dugas, J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101399
Publication - A Catalogue of Canadian Minerals; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-45
Publication Number: Paper 69-45 Page: 347 Date: 1972
Author: Traill, R.J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102924
Publication - Iron deposits of eastern Ontario and adjoining Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 45
Publication Number: GSC Bulletin 45 Page: 17 Date: 1958
Author: Rose, E.R.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100563
Publication - Report on the iron ore deposits along the Kingston and Pembroke Railway in eastern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report vol. 12, (1899), pt. I
Publication Number: GSC AR 12-I Page: 41I Date: 1901
Author: Ingall, E D
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/287887
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:
Map - Gananoque area, Ontario
Publication Number: M2054 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Report Of The Ontario Iron Ore Committee With Appendix 1923
Publication Number: NSP013 Page: 232 Date: 1998
Author:
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Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 254 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 96 Date: 1984
Author: Carter T.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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