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| Record Name(s) | Bancroft Nepheline Syenite - 2000, Bancroft Rock Dump - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-11 |
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Primary Commodities: Nepheline Syenite
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 3' 12.95" Longitude: -77° 51' 27.05"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 274994.426 Northing: 4992877.362 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Property symbol ' GG ' just S of Bancroft.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The extensive Bancroft nepheline syenite band of Dungannon township extends W into Faraday : lot 1 and 2, con A - on the hill just S of Hwy 28 and in the railway cut just S of Hwy 28 on the W bank of the York River. On lot 58 or 59, HRW, on the S side of the Faraday metagabbroo ridge, 600 ft W of Hwy 62. On lot 68, HRW, on the E side of the York River a few hundred feet S of Snow Road there is a band 300 ft wide. Also, as a mineral collecting site : just off Station Street, S along the tracks to a rock dump - unshipped material from the Goulding-Keene Quarry in Dungannon.
Mineral location : collecting site at the rock dump along the railway tracks in Bancroft - zircon (cyrtolite), sodalite (hackmannite), albite (peristerite), biotite, natrolite, autunite and zeolites (?). Some exceptional specimens of cyrtolite have been found.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Nepheline-plagioclase gneiss occurs in the mixed hybrid gneiss complex with marble and amphibolite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Cancrinite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Lepidomelane | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Nepheline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 20 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 25 | Sodalite | Economic | Ore |
Part - Nepheline syenite deposits of southern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV69-08 Page: 56, 63-4 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F., Armstrong H.S., Tilley C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 242 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Part - Corundum and other minerals
Publication Number: ARV08-02.004 Page: 217 Date: 1998
Author: Miller W.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Publication - Excursions in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and the eastern part of Ontario; International Geological Congress, Guidebook 2
Publication Number: IGC GB 2 Page: 962 Date: 1913
Author:
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location:
Publication - Corundum, its occurrence, distribution, exploitation and uses; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 57
Publication Number: GSC Mem 57 Page: 182 Date: 2001
Author: Barlow, A E
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101547
Part - Geology of Cardiff and Faraday townships
Publication Number: ARV66-03 Page: 29 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - A catalogue of the Ontario localities represented by the mineral collection of the Royal Ontario Museum
Publication Number: MP070 Page: 212,261,364,365 Date: 1977
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Resident Geologist files Bancroft # 3538, 3543
Publication Number: Date: 2000
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