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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 Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-03
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-19
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.


Geology

Province: Grenville

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.




Mineral Record Details

References

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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