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| Record Name(s) | Briar Court Sulphides - 1968 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Oct-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Jan-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper
Secondary Commodities: Silver
Township or Area: Cavendish
Latitude: 44° 46' 36.19" Longitude: -78° 21' 37.3"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 708851 Northing: 4961537 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31D16SW
Point Location Description: 1.4 km east of Picard Lake.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Bush road from Hwy 507 which intersects the east boundaries of the above lots. The highway joins the towns of Flynns Turn and Gooderham, approximately 19km to the south and 14km to the north respectively. The Town of Bancroft is located 51km to the northeast.
1954-55: Cavendish Uranium and Mining Company Limited – ground magnetometer survey; DD-1-425 ft 1968-69: Briar-Court Mines Ltd. – EM survey, sampling, DD-3-400 ft., assays.
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| Cavendish #15 Briar-Court Mines Ltd | 31D16SW8551 | 31D16SW8551 |
| Cavendish #22/ 63.2421 | 31D16NW8543 | 31D16NW8543 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Elzevir
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Paragneiss | 1 | Tonalite To Granodiorite Gneiss | Near |
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| Syenite | 2 | Is | ||
| Pegmatite | 3 | Is |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Jan 13, 2017 (A Wilson) - Minor copper and silver mineralization in a massive ( 1.5 m wide ) band of pyrrhotite in marble.Assays from the Briar-Court Mines Limited work returned values of U3O8 ranging from 0.02% to 0.15%. Values in rare earths also were reported. Copper assays ranged up to 0.22% over 5 ft.
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Disseminated |
File - Resident Geologist files Cavendish #1, 4, 24, 27
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Location: Tweed RGP office
Map - Geological series, Precambrian geology of Cavendish Township (northern part), Peterborough County, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2420 Scale: 1:15,840 Date: 1981
Author: Bright E.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Precambrian Geology of Cavendish Township, Central Metasedimentary Belt, Grenville Province
Publication Number: OFR6229 Date: 2012
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Precambrian Geology of Cavendish Township and Environs, Grenville Province
Publication Number: P3605 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 2010
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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