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Record: MDI31D16NW00036

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Adam - 1979
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1981-Dec-09
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-27
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Nepheline Syenite



Location

Township or Area: Monmouth, Monmouth

Latitude: 44° 53' 40.08"    Longitude: -78° 18' 43.54"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 712237   Northing: 4974742    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D16NW

Point Location Description: General

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: 0.65 km east of western boundary and 2 km north of southern boundary of township.



Exploration History

1979: Western Mines Ltd. – airborne geophysics. 1982: Gaslite Petroleum Ltd. – DD-48-11,139 ft.; geology, radiometrics, uranium geochemistry.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
2.3081 31D16NW0008 31D16NW0008
2.4757 31D16NW0004 31D16NW0004
2.40047 20000003944 20000003944

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Terrane: Elzevir

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 1 Nepheline Contains
Marble 2 Adjacent
Gabbro 3 Metagabbro Adjacent

Lithology Comments

Feb 11, 2017 (A Wilson) - A small exposure of nepheline gneiss flanked by marble and metagabbro occurs on the southern side of the large Glamorgan-Monmouth metagabbro mass. The outcrops occur along a ridge about thirty feet high which is bounded on three sides by low swampy ground. Marble outcrops on the west side of the ridge and is overlain by a belt of nepheline gneiss approximately 800 feet long and 30 feet in outcrop width. Both nepheline gneiss and marble strike northerly and the prominently exposed contact between the two dips easterly at 40º-60º. The nepheline gneiss is well foliated near its contact with the marble but becomes progressively more massive toward the east until it is succeeded by metamorphosed essexite. This is followed eastward by a 300-foot-wide zone of garnet-epidote metapyroxenite, which is in turn followed by metagabbro. The undulant, fluted contact between marble and nepheline gneiss is well exposed on the west-facing slope of the ridge, but all other contacts are gradational. Nepheline syenite is also well exposed, presenting a number of different varieties on this same road, where it crosses lots 2 and 3, concession III of Monmouth. The varietal forms are all coarse in grain, and run in bands or streaks coinciding with the strike of the associated rocks, and usually also show a parallelism in the arrangement of the constituents.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1NephelineEconomicOre
2AndesineEconomicOre
3GarnetEconomicOre
4ScapoliteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

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

Publication Number: GSC Memoir 6 Page: 282  Date: 1910

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

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

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


Part - Radioactive mineral occurrences in the Bancroft area

Publication Number: ARV65-06 Page: 53-54  Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J., Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of Glamorgan and Monmouth townships, Haliburton County

Publication Number: OFR5021 Page: 64-66  Date: 1997

Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 242  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Monmouth Township, Haliburton County

Publication Number: M2174 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1970

Author: Armstrong H.S., Gittins J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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