Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Burgess Hill - 1954, Mackie Cuts - 1900 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| 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' 56.78" Longitude: -77° 41' 58.92"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 288208.997 Northing: 5016021.005 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F05SE
Point Location Description: stope
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Proceed east from Maynooth to New Carlow than at New Carlow turn left onto Boulter Road for 3.9km turning left onto a gravel road for 1.1km to hunt camp (RR#242). Trail site is 100m north of hunt camp. Parking is on left 200m n of the camp.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Syenite | 1 | Host |
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Oct 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - Foliated to gneissic, leucocratic potassium-feldspar bearing albite syenite with augen to laminated structure and a metamorphic fabric.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Corundum | Economic | Ore |
Oct 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - Bronze, yellow-brown and green corundum occurs intergrown with magnetite in the syenite and pegmatite. On the northeast face of the main cut, a 10-foot zone of pink corundum syenite pegmatite is exposed. Corundum ranges from 1/16 to ½ inch in size and comprises approximately 10% of the rock. Along the northwest wall of the cute, a 6-foot zone of pink and grey syenite runs 10-15% corundum and can be traced for 30 feet.
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:
Part - Geology of Monteagle and Carlow townships
Publication Number: ARV63-06 Page: 32 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Corundum, Its Occurrence, Distribution, Exploitation and Uses; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir no. 57
Publication Number: GSC Mem 57 Page: 184-185 Date: 1915
Author: Barlow, A.E.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101547
Part - Mineral occurrences in the north Hastings area
Publication Number: ARV52-03 Page: 19 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
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 - 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:
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