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| Record Name(s) | Industrial Minerals Corporation of Canada - 1921, Concession 15, Lot 30 - 1921, Holmes Mine - 1922 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1982-Sep-15 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Feldspar (Nonmetals)
Township or Area: Monmouth
Latitude: 45° 1' 30.28" Longitude: -78° 13' 59.29"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 717976 Northing: 4989461 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E01SE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Just south of Cockle Lake, south-west of Wilberforce.
1922-1924: Industrial Minerals Corporation of Canada, Limited – an open cut 30 by 50 ft. extends 2/3 of the way down the southwest face of a rock ridge 50 feet high. The company operated this property with a production of 534 tons of second-grade feldspar.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Graphic Granite | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble | 2 | Crystalline | Adjacent |
Feb 01, 2017 (A Wilson) - A single pit was opened on a dyke consisting of pink graphic granite carrying considerable disseminated pyroxene. Satterly (1943b p. 30) describes a trench 14 m by 3 m by 1 m deep that was sunk upon a syenite pegmatite; the pegmatite contains pink feldspar, 10-cm wide biotite books and tourmaline crystals up to 8 cm across.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Feldspar | Economic And Alteration | Ore | Feldspathization | 1 | ||
| 1 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Biotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Feldspar | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Calcite | Economic | Gangue |
Feb 01, 2017 (A Wilson) - There was no No. 1 grade feldspar present.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1922 | 500 | Approximately 500 tonnes of second-grade spar are reported to have been shipped. |
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
Location:
Publication - Feldspar, Canada Mines Branch Publication 731
Publication Number: CMB Pub 731 Page: 44 Date: 1932
Author: Spence, H. S.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307887
Map - Haliburton area, Province of Ontario
Publication Number: ARM52A Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 30 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 20 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of Glamorgan and Monmouth townships, Haliburton County
Publication Number: OFR5021 Page: 113 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: 73, 283, 288 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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