Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Apsley Graphite - 1910, W. Parks Property - 1890 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Sep-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Graphite
Secondary Commodities: Tourmaline
Township or Area: Anstruther
Latitude: 44° 45' 17.12" Longitude: -78° 3' 51.02"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 732374 Northing: 4959901 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16SE
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From the town of Apsley, travel 2 km east on secondary highway 50. The site is located 0.4 km north of road 504 and about 0.4 km east of Apsley Lake.
1890 - shaft sinking. 10.6 m shaft was sunk on the pegmatite dike.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Gneissic | Host |
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| Calcite Marble | 2 | Siliceous | Contains |
Nov 06, 2013 (A Wilson) - The marble is medium- to coarse-grained gneissic, siliceous marble containing 20-60% siliceous impurities and thin interbeds of amphibole-rich metasedimentary rocks. Rusty-weathering graphitic, and pyrite-pyrrhotite bearing schist also occurs in the vicinity of the shaft. The pegmatite dike is approximately 11 feet wide.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graphite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Tourmaline | Economic | Gangue |
Nov 06, 2013 (A Wilson) - Disseminated graphite is found in pegmatite dikes intruding clastic and siliceous marbles. Flake graphite is disseminated throughout the pegmatite.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Disseminated |
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
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - An inventory of the mineral resources in Peterborough County
Publication Number: OFR5635 Scale: Date: 1987
Author: Menard A.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Major graphite occurrences within the Frontenac Axis, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5729 Scale: Date: 1990
Author: MacKinnon A., LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Graphite occurrences of the Frontenac Axis, eastern Ontario
Publication Number: MDC033 Scale: Date: 1992
Author: MacKinnon A., LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Corundum and other minerals
Publication Number: ARV08-02.004 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Miller W.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Gooderham Area
Publication Number: P3405 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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