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Record: MDI31D15SW00044

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) F.D. Adams Property - 1910
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-27
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-04
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Molybdenum



Location

Township or Area: Digby

Latitude: 44° 48' 42.28"    Longitude: -78° 55' 44.83"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 663751   Northing: 4964124    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D15SW

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Data Compilation



Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 1 Quartz Diorite Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1MolybdeniteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Jan 11, 2012 (A Wilson) - The mineral was found to occur as a little string, five inches (11.2 cm) in length and an inch and a half (3.5 cm) wide in quartzose grey gneiss, and was therefore of no economic value. The mineral, however, is pure and of good quality.



Mineral Record Details

Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Disseminated

References

Part - Molybdenite deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV26.011 Scale:     Date: 1998

Author: Parsons A.L.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC007 Scale:     Date: 1968

Author: Johnston F.J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of the Digby-Lutterworth area, Haliburton and Victoria counties

Publication Number: OFR5601 Scale:     Date: 1986

Author: Easton R.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology, Digby-Lutterworth area, west half, counties of Haliburton and Victoria

Publication Number: P2951 Scale: 1:15,840    Date: 1985

Author: Easton R.M., Van Kranendonk M., Sanderson D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Publication - Geology of the Haliburton and Bancroft areas, Province of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 6

Publication Number: GSC Memoir 6 Scale:     Date: 1910

Author: Adams, F D, Barlow, A E.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100481


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