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Record: MDI31D16NE00063

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Cardiff South - 1990
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1990-Oct-25
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-25
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)

Secondary Commodities: Tremolite



Location

Township or Area: Cardiff

Latitude: 44° 59' 44.22"    Longitude: -78° 1' 12.12"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 734884.992   Northing: 4986784.264    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D16NE

Point Location Description: Property symbol 'A1 ' just SW of Cardiff.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Small quarry on the N side of the road adjacent to a streaml.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Marble with large clusters of tremolite crystals - ' the site is quite unsuited for a quarry operation' - Satterly, 1943.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5TremoliteEconomicOre

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:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Scale:     Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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