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Record Name(s) | Pusey Lake - 1977, Desmont Mining Corporation - 1977 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 1991-Mar-25 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Monmouth
Latitude: 45° 2' 34.68" Longitude: -78° 13' 19.34"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 718782 Northing: 4991478 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E01SE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: In road-cut on Hwy. 648, 300 m south of the junction of the Dark Lake Road, North of Wilberforce.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Chondrodite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Graphite | Economic | Ore | ||||
4 | Mica | Economic | Ore | ||||
5 | Pyroxene | Economic | Ore | ||||
6 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
7 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
8 | Serpentine | Economic | Ore | ||||
9 | Tremolite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 11, 2017 (A Wilson) - A widely disseminated accessory mineral in granitic and pegmatitic rocks, monazite was found sparsely distributed in calcite at the property of Desmont Mining Corporation Limited near Wilberforce. It occurs as yellow, amber and orange transparent to translucent, vitreous to resinous finely granular masses embedded in cream-white to salmon-pink massive calcite.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Also Fluoborite (white powdery patches) occurs sparingly with orange chondrodite, colourless to light yellow, green and grey tremolite, green serpentine, amber mica, blue apapite, pyrite and graphite in crystalline limestone (GSC Paper 77-1A, P.337).
Publication - New occurrences of minerals in parts of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper no. 77-1A
Publication Number: Paper 77-1A Page: 337 Date: 1977
Author: Sabina, A. P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102715
Publication - Catalogue of Canadian minerals [1980]; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 80-18
Publication Number: Paper 80-18 Page: 145 Date: 1983
Author: Traill, R.J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119519
Publication - Rocks and minerals for the collector: Bancroft - Parry Sound area and southern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 39
Publication Number: Misc Rep 39 Page: 78 Date: 1986
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/121046
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