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Record: MDI31D10NE00065

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Hopkins - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-07
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-02
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Lead



Location

Township or Area: Galway

Latitude: 44° 44' 25.03"    Longitude: -78° 31' 40.33"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 695720.536   Northing: 4957073.076    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D10NE

Point Location Description: Point just S of Vennor Lake.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The shaft lies 71/2 chains E of the W boundary of the lot. Note : this is location ' M ' in the GDIF for Galway, but the Map 2 location is wrong.



Exploration History

Circa 1906 : A.Y. Hopkins sank a shaft about 45 ft deep.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Shaft sunk on a pyrite-galena vein, about 6 inches wide, in marble. Some galena disseminated in the wall rock.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5GalenaEconomicOre
10PyriteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area

Publication Number: ARV52-02 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits in Ontario (revised to February, 1957)

Publication Number: MDC002 Scale:     Date: 1957

Author: Thomson J.E., Ferguson S.A., Johnston W.G.Q., Pye E.G., Savage W.S., Thomson R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Mono - Copper, nickel, lead and zinc deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC012 Scale:     Date: 1969

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


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