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Record: MDI31E01SW00045

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Outlet Crystals - 1993
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Mar-16
Date Last Modified 2022-May-11
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Mineral Specimen



Location

Township or Area: Dysart

Latitude: 45° 2' 34.53"    Longitude: -78° 29' 9.13"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 698004   Northing: 4990794    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31E01SW

Point Location Description: Point just E of Drag Dam.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: From Tory Hill on Hwy 121 drive 13.5 ml towards Haliburton to a service station and store on your right . Park, obtain permission at the garage or house. The trail starts behind the house. The pit is just over the edge of the hill on the left, about 100 yds before the hydro line. The directions in MP 8 (1965) appear to be wrong, perhaps it is a different location altogether.



Exploration History

Mineral location- scapolite.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1QuartzEconomicOre
2ScapoliteEconomicOre
3TitaniteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Aug 20, 2020 (Sheree Hinz) - Well-formed crystals of titanite are found with scapolite and vuggy quartz in talus along the side of a cliff.



Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Rock and mineral collecting in Canada, volume II: Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 8

Publication Number: GSC MR 8 Page: 58  Date: 1971

Author: Sabina, A.P.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/308101


Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum

Publication Number: MP070 Page: 334, 404  Date: 1977

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 278  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Book - 200 Mineral Locations in Southern Ontario

Publication Number: Page: 25  Date: 1972

Author: Leach, H.

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