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Record: MDI31D15SE00104

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) South Birchbark - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-07
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-01
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Tourmaline



Location

Township or Area: Galway

Latitude: 44° 46' 30.58"    Longitude: -78° 32' 25.2"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 694616.511   Northing: 4960917.125    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D15SE

Point Location Description: Point 8.75 km ESE of Kinmount.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Rutile occurs at the contact between marble and an oval-shaped granite mass. Specimens of this rutile and tourmaline, also from this lot, are at the ROM.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5RutileEconomicOre
10TourmalineEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum

Publication Number: MP070 Page: 329,410  Date: 1977

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County

Publication Number: OFR5635 Page: 93  Date: 1987

Author: Menard A.G.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Publication - A list of Canadian mineral occurrences; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 74

Publication Number: GSC Mem 74 Page: 227  Date: 1915

Author: Johnston, R A A

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101571


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