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Record: MDI31E04NE00007

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Burgess Farm Property - 1981
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Feb-04
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-22
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Copper, Zinc



Location

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.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Gneiss-Unsubdivided 1 Host
Pegmatite 1 Contains

Lithology Comments

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.




Mineralization Comments

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



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Pegmatite
Characteristics
Rank Characteristic            
1 Intrusive

References

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

Location:


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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