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| Record Name(s) | Ashland Emery and Corundum Company Property - 1905, Burgess Mines - 1900 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1990-Oct-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Corundum
Township or Area: Carlow
Latitude: 45° 15' 54.19" Longitude: -77° 41' 30.07"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 288835.003 Northing: 5015920.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F05SE
Point Location Description: open cut
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed east from Maynooth to New Carlow, then at New Carlow turn left onto Boulter Road for 3.9km, then left onto gravel road for 1.1km to a hunt camp (rr#242). Trail to site is 100m north of hunt camp and parking is on left 200m n of the camp.
1905: Ashland Emery and Corundum Company - in operation.1914: Manufacturers Corundum Company - property in operation
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Granite | 1 | Monzogranite to Syenogranite | Massive to Foliated | Host |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Corundum | Economic | Ore |
Jan 17, 2012 (A Wilson) - The workings consist of 3 shallow cuts. The northwestern cut has a length of 60 feet and a width of 20 feet and a northeast face of 5-10 feet. The southern cut is 20 by 25 feet by 18 feet deep. The northeastern cut is 20 feet long with a 3 to 5 foot face. Corundum is distributed throughout the workings in a spotty and irregular way. There appears to be no persistent zones of ore grade or size.
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV15-01.003 Page: 99 Date: 1998
Author: Corkill E.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV24-01.003 Page: 165 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of Monteagle and Carlow townships
Publication Number: ARV63-06 Page: 31 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 27 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 34 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Monteagle and Carlow townships, County of Hastings, Ontario
Publication Number: M1954-03 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Barry's Bay Area
Publication Number: P3444 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2001
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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