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| Record Name(s) | Mountney Hill - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-21 |
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Primary Commodities: Sodalite, Nepheline Syenite, Mica
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 3' 55.8" Longitude: -77° 49' 30.01"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 277600.422 Northing: 4994109.458 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Property symbol ' P ', 0.4 km W of Coltson Lake, lot 29, con 13.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Mineral location - sodalite and lepidomelane - not precisely located.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Lepidomelane occurs in ' brilliant black foliated masses and hexagonal tables, the latter sometimes ten to twelve millimetres in diameter, in specimens of the sodalite met with in nepheline-syenite on lot twenty-nine of the thirteenth, and lot twenty-five of the fourteenth concession of the township of Dungannon....' (1892-3). The sodalite is said to occur in ' large masses ' and be ' beautifully coloured ' (1910). The nepheline syenite which hosts this mineralization has been sampled on behalf of the American Nepheline Co Ltd (1960).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Lepidomelane | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Sodalite | 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: 238 Date: 1910
Author: Adams, F D; Barlow, A E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100481
Publication - A list of Canadian mineral occurrences; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 74
Publication Number: GSC Mem 74 Page: 141, 208 Date: 1915
Author: Johnston, R A A
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101571
Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Page: 364 Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 153, 265 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 66-67 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 343 Date: 1912
Author: Parks, W.A.
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686
Publication - Chemical Contributions to the Geology of Canada from the Laboratory of the Survey; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report vol. 6, (1892-1893), part R
Publication Number: GSC AR 6R Page: 15 Date: 1895
Author: Hoffman, C.C.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297125
Publication - A Catalogue of Canadian Minerals; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-45
Publication Number: Paper 69-45 Page: 331 Date: 1972
Author: Traill, R J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/102924
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