Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Miner Card - 1984, M. Card - 2000, Miner Card Farm - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Apr-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-12 |
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Primary Commodities: Apatite (Gemstones)
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 2' 8.13" Longitude: -77° 55' 46.85"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 269239.36 Northing: 4991080.28 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Pit ,' Ap ', SE of Card Lake and nearest Stranyer Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Immediately N of the Monck Road, 4 ml W of Bancroft on the M. Card farm.
Mineral location : apatite + pre-1942 : an opening, 25 x 3 x 5 ft deep in a fissure in granite.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A fissure in pink granite contains : apatite, quartz, purple fluorite, pyroxene, hornblende, cyrtolite and pink feldstpar lining the walls; calcite, apatite and a little titanite as the fissure filling. Zircon is also reported. Some of the calcite rock contains 20-40 % apatite crystals, averaging about an inch in length (and up to 1 foot long). Radioactive minerals have been reported.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Apatite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Cyrtolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Hornblende | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Titanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Zircon | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Pyroxene | Economic | Ore |
Book - NMI # 508873, 31F04 PHS 1
Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996
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Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 16 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Phosphate in Ontario
Publication Number: MDC006 Page: 43 Date: 1967
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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: 7 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 8 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Publication - Rock and mineral collecting in Canada, volume II: Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 8
Publication Number: GSC MR 8 Page: 73 Date: 1964
Author: Sabina, A P
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119882
Book - Geology and scenery, Peterborough, Bancroft and Madoc area
Publication Number: GB03 Page: 58 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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