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Record: MDI31F04SW00243

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Carfrae - 2000, Carfrae Deposit - 2000, Carfrae Occurrence - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1981-Mar-09
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-04
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Magnetite



Location

Township or Area: Faraday

Latitude: 45° 2' 21.06"    Longitude: -77° 51' 44.25"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 274561.423   Northing: 4991289.351    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F04SW

Point Location Description: Circular symbol ' Fe ' near the NE end of Banner Lake and N of Bay Lake.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Located along the S slope af a steep ridge 60 m N of a gravel road, about 1.6 km S of Bancroft.



Exploration History

Pre-1943 : some trenching - 2 parallel trenches, both about 18 x 1 m.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Disseminated to massive magnetite in a lens 250 x 15 ft in pyroxene skarn at the contact of gabbro and dolomitic marble. On the hanging wall side of the magnetite body are zones of tremolite-tourmaline. See MDC 20 (1981) for a summary.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1MagnetiteEconomicOre
2TremoliteEconomicOre
3TourmalineEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Book - NMI # 505967, 31F04 FE 14

Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996

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Part - Geology of Cardiff and Faraday townships

Publication Number: ARV66-03 Page: 47  Date: 1998

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 154  Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Geological series, base and precious metals, iron and molybdenum deposits of Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2211 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1979

Author: Carter T.R., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Geology of base metal, precious metal, iron, and molybdenum deposits in the Pembroke-Renfrew area

Publication Number: MDC020 Page: 96-97  Date: 1980

Author: Carter T.R., Colvine A.C., Meyn H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 96  Date: 1984

Author: Carter T.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Publication - Catalogue of Canadian minerals; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 80-18

Publication Number: Paper 80-18 Page: 226  Date: 1980

Author: Traill, R J

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/119519


Book - Preliminary report on the geology in the vicinity of aeromagnetic anomalies on the Bancroft and Coe Hill sheets

Publication Number: PR1951-02 Page: 10  Date: 1998

Author: Abraham E.M.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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