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Record: MDI31F04SW00101

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Monck Road - 1991
Related Record Type Simple
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Jan-04
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By Q Unknown
Revised By C Papertzian

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material), Dolomite (Building Stone)



Location

Township or Area: Faraday

Latitude: 45° 1' 8.19"    Longitude: -77° 59' 25.98"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 264376.43   Northing: 4989406.24    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F04SW

Point Location Description: Point 1.5 km W of Littlefools Lake.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 2 km N of Hwy 28, 300 m E of Monck Road.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - OGS map area # 835 : a marble belt which lies N of a larger belt and is separated from it by metasediments. Massive calcitic and dolomitic marble with minor phlogopite and pyrite. Impure parts contain clots and bands of silicate and calc-silicate material. There are small pegmatites.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5DolomiteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Geochemistry of Grenville marble in southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: MDC028 Scale:     Date: 1989

Author: Grant W.T., Papertzian V.C., Kingston P.W.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


Mono - Precambrian dolomite resources in southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5712 Scale:     Date: 1990

Author: LeBaron P.S., MacKinnon A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


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