Ontario Geological Survey
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Record Name(s) | Burgess Farm Property - 1981 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 1991-Feb-04 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-22 |
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Primary Commodities: Copper, Zinc
Township or Area: Humphrey
Latitude: 45° 13' 20.95" Longitude: -79° 37' 48.05"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 607556.996 Northing: 5008579.004 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 31E04NE
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: The pit is located on the "Burgess" Farm between the barn and Bellevue Bay. A tractor trail runs east from the barn, across a field and into a hardwood bush. The pit is located approximately 100 metres from the barn and 10 metres south of the trail.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Host |
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Pegmatite | 1 | Contains |
Mar 04, 2011 (A Wilson) - The country rock is a quartz, feldspar, biotite gneiss that has been intruded by a pegmatite. Traces of pyrite were detected within the pegmatite and along the contact with the gneiss.
Mar 04, 2011 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by R. Keevil et al in 1981 returned 110 ppm Cu from the granite. A grab sample collected by Keevil from the pegmatite-gneiss contact returned 64 ppm Cu, and 100 ppm Zn. Grab samples collected in the 1940's reportedly returned values up to $10.00 /ton
Rank | Classification |
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1 | Pegmatite |
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Intrusive |
Mono - The gold potential of the Huntsville-Parry Sound area of Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5521 Scale: Date: 1984
Author: Villard D.J., Keevil R., Hogg A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Parry Sound-Huntsville area, Ontario
Publication Number: M2118 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Orrville Area
Publication Number: P3414 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2000
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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