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Record: MDI31F04SW00085

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Canadian Marble Company - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-03
Date Last Modified 2024-Aug-27
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Marble (Building Stone)



Location

Township or Area: Faraday

Latitude: 45° 2' 50.24"    Longitude: -77° 51' 12.88"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 275279.45   Northing: 4992165.381    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F04SW

Point Location Description: Point 0.5 km S of Bancroft.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: On the side of a hill, N of the Ritchie property, 200 ft from the valley and 150 ft from the top of the hill (1943).



Exploration History

Circa 1912 : property held by the Canadian Marble Co Ltd. No work on the property recorded. According to D.F. Hewitt (ARV66-03, p. 42) the property was worked by The Crystalline Stone Products Limited of Hamilton, who shipped only the paper white dolomite for use as a stucco. H. Grant Harper, who examined the property in 1963 (File 31F04SW9522), estimated that some 15,000 to 20,000 tons of material was quarried and shipped from the property during its operation. The quarry used to be about 300 ft. long and varies between 15 and 25 ft. in width.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
31F04SW9522 31F04SW9522

Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A band of marble, fine-grained and with purplish and salmon tints, as well as a coarse pink variety( to the W) and at the W edge of lot 2, blue and banded. Intermixed with other units, variable in colour and texture and with less pyrite than on the Ritchie property to the S.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Dolomite Marble 1 White and blue dolomite Fine to coarse-grained Is
Diabase 2 Intrudes

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1TremoliteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Geology of Cardiff and Faraday townships

Publication Number: ARV66-03 Page: 41-42  Date: 1998

Author: Hewitt D.F.

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: 318, 325-326  Date: 1912

Author: Parks, W.A.

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/19686


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region

Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 179  Date: 1983

Author: Martin W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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