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| Record Name(s) | Harcourt Mine - 2001, Land and Immigration Company - 2001, Farquart Lake Deposit - 2001 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Feb-24 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Harcourt
Latitude: 45° 4' 4.68" Longitude: -78° 13' 4.48"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 719011.77 Northing: 4994266.551 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E01SE
Point Location Description: 'mo' dot symbol at S end of Farquart Lake, SW corner of the township.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Approach the deposit from the highway NE of Wilberforce, along the gravel road leading N to Farquart Lake holiday camp (at the S end of the lake). The workings lie on top of the high ground NW of the camp.
1898 : 2 pits/shafts, 12 and 15 ft deep, both probably put down by Mr. Gordon. Au was reported, with a little molybdenite and considerable pyrite. 1901-2 : surface exploration by the Haliburton Company (the Land and Immigration Company) - an open cut 50 x 6 x 15-20 ft deep, and (a few hundred feet S) a 'small excavation' from which about 40 tons of rock were removed (suggested 10-15 % molybdenite in the dump, about 2 ton in size). 1911 : about 50 lbs of flake molybdenite were taken out for 'experimental purposes' by an English steel company.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Veins, and less-regular bodies of pyrite, in pyroxenite, carry sparse molybdenite. In the past the open cut yielded the most promising amounts of molybdenite which appears to have been mined out. The pyroxenite contains pegmatitic patches and a granite pegmatite is reported, but exposure is poor. The ore zone was said to contain py, marcasite, po and cp with the mo.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Diopside | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Hornblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Molybdite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 30 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 35 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 40 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Report on the molybdenum ores of Canada; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 93
Publication Number: CMB Pub 93 Page: 40-41 Date: 1911
Author: Walker, T L
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307388
Publication - Molybdenum metallurgy and uses and the occurrence, mining and concentration of its ores; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 592
Publication Number: CMB Pub 592 Page: 71-72 Date: 1925
Author: Eardley-Wilmot, V L
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307785
Publication - Molybdenum deposits of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Report 20
Publication Number: Econ Geol 20 Page: 139-140 Date: 1963
Author: Vokes, F M
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103994
Part - Statistics for 1901
Publication Number: ARV11.002 Page: 47-48 Date: 1998
Author: Gibson T.W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Haliburton area
Publication Number: ARV52-02 Page: 65-66 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Page: 28 Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Page: 53,132,201,245,252 Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Catalogue of Canadian minerals; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 80-18
Publication Number: Paper 80-18 Page: 39, 194 Date: 1980
Author: Traill, R J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119519
Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 136 Date: 1984
Author: Carter T.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Geology of the Haliburton and Bancroft areas, Province of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 6
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 6 Page: 350 Date: 1910
Author: Adams, F D; Barlow, A E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100481
Part - Molybdenite deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV26.011 Page: 298-9 Date: 1998
Author: Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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