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Record: MDI31E01SE00005

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Calabogie Lake - 1938, James Legris Property - 1936
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1985-Dec-18
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-26
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Marble (high purity/flux)



Location

Township or Area: Blithfield

Latitude: 45° 16' 34.28"    Longitude: -76° 46' 38.71"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 360587.004   Northing: 5015169.005    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31E01SE

Point Location Description: MQ 1 on P1980

Location Method: Data Compilation

Access Description: Marble belt to the W of Calabogie Lake. It is crossed by the road from Hwy 508 to the Barrett Chute hydroelectric dam.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Marble 1 Dolomitic Host
Paragneiss 2 Adjacent

Mineralization Comments

Aug 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - A sample of this marble collected by the GSC returned: 0.20% insolubles, 0.24%Fe2O3, 0.02% Fe2(SO4)3, 90.69% CaCO3, 6.80% MgCO3.



Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Page: 174  Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823


Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27

Publication Number: Paper 51-27 Page: 29  Date: 1951

Author: Quinn, H.A.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101377


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 1: marble

Publication Number: MDC021 Page: 63-64  Date: 1981

Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 170-171  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Geological series, Renfrew area, eastern part, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P1838 Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1978

Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Geological series, marbles of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P1980 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1979

Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Map - Renfrew, Precambrian geology

Publication Number: M2462 Scale: 1:100,000    Date: 1983

Author: Lumbers S.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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