Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | O'Grady Lake South Workings - 1953, Burgess Mines - 1900 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Oct-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Corundum
Township or Area: Carlow
Latitude: 45° 17' 7.89" Longitude: -77° 42' 6.88"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 288108.999 Northing: 5018221.003 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, turning left onto Boulter Road for 3.9km, left onto gravel road for 1.1km past the hunt camp (RR#242). Continue on road to 3 forks in road taking less used track until a junction is reached where trail on right leads 50m to a locked gate.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Syenite | 1 | Gneissic | Host |
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Jan 17, 2012 (A Wilson) - Two parallel cuts are about 80 feet long and trend north-northwest. The faces in these cuts range from 5 to 25 feet high and range from 25 to 50 feet in width.
| 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 corundum is irregularly distributed and the best zones run about 10%. The corundum-bearing zones are intruded and cut off by younger syenite and granite pegmatite.
Part - Geology of Monteagle and Carlow townships
Publication Number: ARV63-06 Page: 37-38 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:
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