Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Loon Bay - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1981-Sep-08 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Ochre
Township or Area: Sherborne
Latitude: 45° 15' 30.38" Longitude: -78° 49' 48.07"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 670256.722 Northing: 5013950.778 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31E07SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The deposit is located approximately 6.4 km east-northeast of the village of Dorset and 32 km east-southeast of the town of Huntsville. Highway 35 runs 6.4 km to the east of the deposit and is linked to it by a gravel road.
Beside Loon Bay, in drift, is a yellow-brown ochre deposit containing 33 per cent of its weight in sand. The deposit was worked around 1896 and yielded deep brown burnt ochre; total capacity of the plant was about 3 tons per day (OFR 5425, p.227).
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sedimentary Unconsolidated-unsubdivided | 1 | Bog Iron Accumulations | Is |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Limonite | Economic | Ore |
Publication - Geology of the Haliburton and Bancroft areas, Province of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 6
Publication Number: GSC Mem 6 Page: 365 Date: 1910
Author: Adams, F D; Barlow, A E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100481
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 148 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 227 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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