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| Record Name(s) | Canadian Marble - 1993 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1993-Mar-16 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-19 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)
Township or Area: Dungannon
Latitude: 45° 2' 23.88" Longitude: -77° 47' 18.6"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 280376.509 Northing: 4991173.424 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F04SW
Point Location Description: Point 1.5 km w of Bronson Lake.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Seen (in lots 25 and 26) S of the road and S of a belt of gneiss (white and pink), also E where it crosses the road between Bronson and Bronson Station (greenish). Again, S and E of this in a narrow belt just N of Bronson Station in the side of a hill (pink).
Circa 1912 : marble properties were held by The Canadian Marble Co Ltd in Dungannon, Faraday and Mayo townships at this time. Prospects on lots 24 and 25 of Dungannon are also listed in the name of T.C. McConnell. No further work is reported on these lots by this company.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - White, pinkish and greenish marble, coarse and very coarse.
Publication - Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 100
Publication Number: CMB Pub 100 Page: 318-319, 325 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: 202 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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