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| Record Name(s) | Best - 1991 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Granite
Township or Area: Faraday
Latitude: 45° 2' 37.29" Longitude: -77° 51' 57.41"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 274291.411 Northing: 4991800.34 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Point 1.6 km SE of Bancroft.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Circa 1905 : a Mr. Best carried out a little work on a granite gneiss, presumably with the aim of quarrying it as a dimension stone.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Granite gneiss, fine-grained with a little hornblende. It has a high tensile strength and takes a good polish.
Publication - Excursions in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and the eastern part of Ontario; International Geological Congress, Guidebook 2
Publication Number: GSC GB 2 Page: 51 Date: 1913
Author:
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV15-01.003 Page: 107 Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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