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| Record Name(s) | O'Grady Lake (North 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' 13.28" Longitude: -77° 42' 2.09"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 288218.999 Northing: 5018383.996 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F05SE
Point Location Description: Property marked ' COR ', 0.3 km west of Mud Pond.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Located 2 ml north of the Burgess Mine and reached by road and trail around the west side of O'Grady Lake. This cut is 1/4 ml NE of the O'Grady Lake South cut.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Syenite | 1 | Gneissic | Host |
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Jan 18, 2012 (A Wilson) - A shallow open cut exposes interbanded granite gneiss, granite pegmatite, coundum syenite gneiss, biotite syenite gneiss and scapolite-corundum gneiss.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Corundum | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Scapolite | Economic | Ore |
Jan 18, 2012 (A Wilson) - Along the 5 foot face of the cut, a 5 foot zone of corundum-beaing gneiss contains about 10% corundum crystals. These crystals average ¼ inch in diameter.
Part - Geology of Monteagle and Carlow townships
Publication Number: ARV63-06 Page: 38 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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:
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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