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| Record Name(s) | Davis Quarry - 1985, Canada Flint & Spar Mine - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1985-Nov-22 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-18 |
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Primary Commodities: Nepheline Syenite
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 5' 51.08" Longitude: -77° 43' 53.82"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 285072.425 Northing: 4997414.317 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SE
Point Location Description: Dot symbol ' Ne ' about 1.1 km S of York River.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From Hwy 500 turn left onto the dirt road on the E side of the iron bridge and drive 1.28 km to a fork. Take the immediate right, away from the river (up a boulder-strewn grade) and drive another 1.28 km to a roadside dump (the Morrison Quarry). Continue on the road another 1.28 km and veer right just past an old log building; the Davis Quarry is at the end of the road.
Mineral location - several varieties. 1940-42 : opened by the Canadian Flint and Spar Co Ltd and produced 944 tons. The workings consist of a main quarry (30 x 12 m) and a small cut (6 x 6 m ) N of this as well as a slash in the hill 10.5 m W of the main pit. Faces are 10-25 ft high.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - The quarry is in a coarse-grained nepheline pegmatite (hosted in nepheline-plagioclase gneiss and nepheline amphibolite) made up of predominantly nepheline and albite with accessory microcline, tourmaline, biotite, zircon, apatite, cancrinite, gieseckite, muscovite, hackmanite (good specimens) and galena as well as some calcite and allanite. Zircons measuring about 4 inches in length and weighing up to 3 lbs are reported; nephelines have reached 12 ft in size. The pegmatite bifurcates about 15 m N of the main quarry. It is about 100 m long in exposure and up to 30 m wide at the main quarry, 10 m to the N. The pegmatite was drilled in 1976.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Allanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Biotite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Cancrinite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Galena | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 30 | Microcline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 35 | Muscovite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 40 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 45 | Tourmaline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 50 | Zircon | Economic | Ore |
Part - Geology of Dungannon and Mayo townships
Publication Number: ARV64-08 Page: 58 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F., James W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 77 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 85-88 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Book - The Davis nepheline pegmatite and associated nepheline gneisses near Bancroft, Ontario; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 1976, Vol. 13, no. 2
Publication Number: Page: 249-265 Date: 1976
Author: Sylvester, G.C., Anderson, G.M.
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