Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Lower Cardiff Lake Area - 1957 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Oct-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-May-09 |
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Primary Commodities: Graphite
Township or Area: Cardiff
Latitude: 45° 3' 44.73" Longitude: -78° 11' 58.26"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 720481 Northing: 4993701 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E01SE
Point Location Description: graphite symbol on south shore of Lower Cardiff Lake
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Pit 350 ft S of Lower Cardiff Lake between the road and railway.
Circa 1912: pitting
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Calcite Marble | 1 | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Graphite | Economic | Ore |
Nov 07, 2013 (A Wilson) - Hewitt estimated that the showing has <5% graphite. Jun 24, 2014 (A Wilson). The marble is white in colour with some calc-silicates. The marble is commonly tectonically brecciated that includes layers and fragments of rusty, pyrite and graphitic gneisses, white pegmatites, garnet gneiss and pyroxene-hornblende gneiss.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Disseminated |
Part - Geology of Cardiff and Faraday townships
Publication Number: ARV66-03 Page: 46 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 137, 151 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Major graphite occurrences within the Frontenac Axis, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5729 Page: 73 Date: 1990
Author: MacKinnon A., LeBaron P.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Graphite in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR020 Page: 19 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cardiff and Faraday townships, counties of Haliburton and Hastings, Ontario
Publication Number: M1957-01 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Wilberforce Area
Publication Number: P3526 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2003
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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