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| Record Name(s) | Two Island Quarry - 1988, Griffith Quarry - 2020, Highland Project - 1986 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1991-Jan-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2024-Mar-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Marble (high purity/flux), Marble (Building Stone)
Township or Area: Griffith
Latitude: 45° 19' 55.34" Longitude: -77° 12' 45.2"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 326627.42 Northing: 5022217.99 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F06SE
Point Location Description: Quarry site
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: Highway 41 to Griffith; north on a forest access road along the east side of the Madawaska River and along Highland Creek; about 3.6 km northeast of the third bridge across Highland Creek, a gravel road leads south about 700 m to the quarry site.
1983-1985: Trisar Resources Ltd.- stripping, trenching, ground geophysical surveys, geochemistry, mapping, diamond drilling (85-1 to 85-5 total 355 m) 1988-1989: Easton minerals - stripping, bulk sampling (processed at Easton Minerals mill in Northbrook), diamond drilling (88-1 to 88-4 total 548 m) 1990-1994: Two Island Marble Corp.- tested block extraction (6 to 11 tonnes), test aggregate potential 1997: Bertus Industrial Ltd.- trenching 2000-2006: Dacre Industrial Minerals Inc. and Bertus Industrial Ltd.- detailed surveys, geological mapping, stripping, trenching (5 total), aerial photography, diamond drill (DDH-02-01 to 02-04 total 237 m, DDH-06-01 to 06-08 total 480 m) 2021-2023: K. Azari - fine industrial filler testing, geological reconnaissance (by C. Fouts)
| Office File Number | Online Assessment File Identifier | Online Assessment File Directory |
|---|---|---|
| 2.5373 | 31F06SW9555 | 31F06SW9555 |
| 12 | 31F06SW9553 | 31F06SW9553 |
| 2.5401 | 31F06SE9557 | 31F06SE9557 |
| 63.4255 | 31F06SE9556 | 31F06SE9556 |
| 2.7114 | 31F06SE9554 | 31F06SE9554 |
| 2.8461 | 31F06SE9552 | 31F06SE9552 |
| 63.4872 | 31F06SE9550 | 31F06SE9550 |
| W9490-00053 | 31F06SE0001 | 31F06SE0001 |
| W9690.00086 | 31F06SE0003 | 31F06SE0003 |
| 2.17653 | 31F06SE0004 | 31F06SE0004 |
| 2.19776 | 31F06SE2002 | 31F06SE2002 |
| 2.20672 | 31F06SE2004 | 31F06SE2004 |
| 2.22198 | 31F06SE2005 | 31F06SE2005 |
| 2.24619 | 31F06SE2006 | 31F06SE2006 |
| 2.25563 | 31F06SE2007 | 31F06SE2007 |
| 2.28295 | 31F06SE2008 | 31F06SE2008 |
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Terrane: Bancroft
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Dolomitic | Coarse-Grained | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble | 2 | Calcitic | Coarse-Grained | Adjacent |
| Paragneiss | 3 | Adjacent |
May 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - A 40 to 50 meter wide zone of white, coarse-grained dolomitic marble containing less than 3% impurities (phlogopite, serpentine, and pale green mica) is exposed west of the dimension stone quarry and in the eastern part of the stripped area about 250 meters northeast of the quarry. This zone, which strikes about 020 degrees and dips 30 degrees east, is flanked to the east by impute calcitic marble containing phlogopite, graphite, hematite, pyrite and local amphibolite bands. Narrow bands of dolomite and pink, granitic gneiss also occur within the calcitic marble area. No outcrop was mapped west of the dolomite zone, but diamond drill logs by Trisar Resources (1985) indicate impure dolomite and calc-silicate rocks with narrow 3 to 5 meter bands of white dolomite. The dimension stone quarry is located immediately east of the white dolomite zone, within a sequence of interlayered calcitic and dolomitic marbles containing 1 to 3 cm wide pale blue and green bands and cross-cutting , pink clacite veins. (OFR 5712).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Dolomite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| Scapolite | Alteration | Gangue |
May 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - A grab sample collected by LeBaron in 1989 returned 0.44% SiO2, <0.01% Al2O3, 0.11% Fe3O2, 21.1% MgO, 31.0% CaO with a brightness of 93.6.
Jul 10, 2023 (Mateo Dorado-Troughton) - Purple-grey, coarse grained, anhedral scapolite can be found in the rubble piles in the SE of the property.
| Rank | Classification |
|---|---|
| 1 | Industrial |
| 2 | Metamorphic |
Date: Dec 01, 2000
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The property was visited on June 21, 2000 for a day with the new owner and a quarry master. The visit was made to determine if large blocks in the 20 to 25 ton range could be obtained. The property was looked at in detail and it was decided to strip an area between the two existing quarries. Detailed geology was also completed in the same area, paying particular attention to joints and joint spacing. The company planned to obtain a test block from this area later in the fall.
Date: Aug 30, 2002
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The property was visited on August 24th, 2002 along with the owner and a consultant geologist. Another area where a test block could be extracted was looked at. This was in an area that had enough relief such that a test block could be easily extracted. Nothing else appeared to have had been done in the quarry since the last visit.
Date: Mar 14, 2003
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: The property was visited on two separate occasions in the summer and fall of 2002. The first visit was in conjunction with a 4 hole, 1000 foot, diamond drilling program. The holes, which were short, were located close to the two existing quarries spanning the strike length of the property. These holes were subsequently logged and additional stripping was based on this information. Three areas near the diamond drilling were stripped with the intention of removing a test block the following year. One 50-foot long trench, to the north north east of the most northerly quarry, was completed to determine the depth to bedrock and was subsequently filled in.
Date: Jun 21, 2023
Geologist: Mateo Dorado-Troughton
Notes: The property was visited on June 21, 2023 with the current claim holder and a consultant geologist. Previous test quarries were located and updated spatial information was collected.
Mono - Precambrian dolomite resources in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5712 Page: 71-73 Date: 1990
Author: LeBaron P.S., MacKinnon A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Khartum, Renfrew County
Publication Number: M2454 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1981
Author: Themistocleous S.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Southeastern Resident Geologist's District - 1989
Publication Number: MP147.018 Page: 329 Date: 1997
Author: van Haaften S., Kingston P.W., Papertzian V.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Southwestern Resident Geologist's District - 1988
Publication Number: MP142.019 Page: 329 Date: 1997
Author: Feenstra B.H.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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