Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Essonville Amphibole Occurrence - 1988, Woodcox Occurrence - 2003 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 1993-Apr-28 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Mineral Specimen
Township or Area: Monmouth
Latitude: 45° 0' 29.49" Longitude: -78° 15' 20.53"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 716261.74 Northing: 4987524.51 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E01SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: On the old Essonville road 3 km west of the junction with the Wilberforce-Tory Hill highway.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Granite | Host |
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Vein | 2 | Calcite | Contains |
Jan 26, 2017 (A Wilson) - Granite gneiss is cut by calcite veins containing dark green coarsely crystalline amphibole; red apatite crystals, pyroxene,,titanite and molybdenite.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Amphibole | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Calcite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Phlogopite | Economic | Ore |
Jan 26, 2017 (A Wilson) - Mineral exposures are found in a road cut at approximately 29.3 km.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Euhedral crystals of amphibole up to 20 cm long.
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: 59 Date: 1986
Author: Sabina, A.P.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/121046
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