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Record: MDI31D16NW00049

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Tamarack Lake - 1972
Related Record Type Simple
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-10
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By Q Unknown
Revised By A Wilson

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Wollastonite



Location

Township or Area: Glamorgan, Glamorgan

Latitude: 44° 53' 2.44"    Longitude: -78° 23' 37.67"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 705823   Northing: 4973370    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31D16NW

Point Location Description: Point 1.3 km west of Tamarack Lake.

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: About 1.5 km south of Gooderham.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Terrane: Bancroft

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Jan 23, 2017 (C Papertzian) - A prominent skarn zone (up to 60 m wide), adjacent to the Glamorgan Gabbro, is composed of garnet and pyroxene with vesuvianite and / or wollastonite, in places.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Skarn 1 Host
Gabbro 2 Gabbro Adjacent

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1GarnetEconomicOre
2WollastoniteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Wollastonite in southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5715 Scale:     Date: 1990

Author: MacKinnon A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


Book - 24th International Geological Congress 1972, , Guidebook A53-C53

Publication Number: N/A Scale:     Date: 1972

Author: Gittins and Lumbers

Publisher Name:


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