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| Record Name(s) | Rose Quartz Quarry - 1993, Wal-Gem West Quarry - 1981, Renfrew Minerals Ltd. - 1935, Canadian Beryllium Mines and Alloys Ltd. - 1948, Quadeville - 1960 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Producing Mine |
| Date Created | 1985-Dec-10 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Beryl (Gemstones), Feldspar (Nonmetals), Silica, Mineral Specimen
Secondary Commodities: Fluorite, Molybdenum, Uranium, Zircon
Township or Area: Lyndoch
Latitude: 45° 19' 4.93" Longitude: -77° 25' 31.78"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 309894.999 Northing: 5021143.004 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F06SW
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: From Quadeville, west on highway 515 for 2.5km turning north on Bellas Lane. Travel 500m north to 3-way intersection. Grass track to west. Gated track to north, farm on east.
1935-36: Renfrew Minerals Limited: opened the deposit and production continued in 1936. 1948 -1949: Canadian Beryllium Mines and Alloys Limited: in production. In 1981, Wal-Gem Lapidary Company: worked the deposit for rose quartz and mineral specimens. 1993 - present: AquaRose Gem and Minerals: operate the site as mineral collecting site. 2001: Linear Resources Inc. - optioned the Rose Quartz property in order to evaluate its economic mineral potential for tantalum and rare-earth elements.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - B.C. Freeman gives the following description of the occurrence: ' Microcline and albite occur together in some parts in masses 5 feet across, free from quartz. One area near the south side of the stripping consists of graphic granite, composed of quartz and microcline and quartz and albite. The two feldspars are not intergrown. Near this area of graphic intergrowth there are many black plates of columbite in the feldspar. Columbite occurs iin other parts of the dike in small amounts. Beryl occurs in the north part of the east stripping. The pegmatite there is finer grained and consists of microcline, quatz, biotite, magnetite, and beryl. The beryl crystals are pale bluish-green in colour and up to 8 inches in diameter. Some of the beryl is quite impute with inclusions of biotite and magnetite. No beryl was seen in thelarge masses of quartz and feldspar.'
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Granite | Host |
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| Granite | 2 | Contains |
Jul 15, 2011 (A Wilson) - The pegmatite was exposed for a length of 600 feet in an east-west direction and had an exposed width of 100-150 feet. The pegmatite appears to strike N70°e and to form a flat sheet dipping to the south. There are three identifiable zones in the pegmatite a) an inner zone of massive quartz, b) an intermediate zone of pink microcline-perthite feldspar with some quartz and c) an outer zone of albite and microcline-perthite with quartz
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Microcline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Anatase | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Beryl | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Columbite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Cyrtolite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 6 | Fluorite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 7 | Fergusonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 8 | Garnet | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 9 | Lyndochite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Quartz | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 11 | Specularite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 12 | Tantalite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 13 | Euxenite | Economic | Gangue |
Jul 15, 2011 (A Wilson) - Rose quartz is exposed in the western part of the workings. The exposed mass is 50 feet wide and 200 feet long and lenses out at the main pit. On lot 31, another mass of rose quartz is exposed by stripping over an area of 40 by 150 feet. In this area, two microcline crystals one 4 by 12 feet and the other 6 by 12 by 4 feet were observed. The beryl crystals were described as pale bluish green in colour and up to 8 inches in diameter. Beryl was most commonly found in the east workings of the property. It was hosted within a micropegmatite as well as a quartz-albite-microcline perthitic wall zone. Columbite also was found within the quartz-albite-microcline perthitic wall zone. Columbite also was found in quartz-albite-microcline perthitic wall zone within the central workings of the property. Rare euxenite was found associated with the microcline perthite-quartz intermediate zone in the central workings. Euxenite and rose quartz are/were found in the western workings. Euxenite is associated with the quartz-albite-microcline perthitic wall zone, as well as microcline perthite-quartz intermediate zone. Rose quartz occurs within the quartz core of the pegmatite.
Dec 07, 2005 (D Laidlaw) - Varieties: peristerite, perthite, rose quartz.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Pegmatite |
Date: Jan 28, 2005
Geologist: C Papertzian
Notes: A beryl occurrence in a pegmatite mass on lots 30 | 31, concession 15, Lyndoch township, is 1.25 miles north of the Quadeville-Palmer Rapids road. The mass has been opened up by extensive stripping and trenching on the south side of the hill. There does not appear to be a well-defined dyke, the pegmatite grading off into a granite. Rose quartz, bleaching to white on the surface, is exposed in the western part of the workings in lot 30, near the linebetween lots 30 | 31. The exposed mass is 50 feet wide and 200 feet long and lenses out at the main pit. On lot 31 another mass of rose quartz is exposed by stripping over an area 40 by 150 feet and may be a continuation of the first one. In this mass two microcline crystals, one 4 foot by 12 foot and the other, which was removed, 6 by 12 by 4 feet were seen. (From AR. 53-3, 1944, p.23). The deposit was visited on August 5, 2004, for part of a day. This occurrence is a pay for collecting mineral site. Rose quartz is currently being quarried and sold.
Date: Jul 11, 2006
Geologist: D Laidlaw
Notes: July 11, 2006: Visit by RG and DG, rose quartz is being extracted for landscaping stone, mineral specimens, lapidary stone. A zone of lilac coloured quartz was exposed at the time of the site visit and was being removed using a portable diamond-bit jet drill. Photographed and gps'd pit, zone 18, easting 309928m, northing 5021152m.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1937 | 272 | AR 65 pt 5, p. 44 | 300 tons of feldspar produced and stockpiled along with an undisclosed amount of beryl | |
| 1936 | 259 |
Beryllium |
AR 65 pt 5, p. 44 | 57,1000 pounds of beryl concentrates sold from ore stockpile on this property |
| 1935 | 612 |
Feldspar (Nonmetals) |
AR 65 pt 5, p. 42 | 675 tons of feldspar were produced between 1935 and 1936 |
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 23 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Geology of the Brudenell-Raglan area
Publication Number: ARV62-05 Page: 42-46 Date: 1998
Author: Hewitt D.F., Carlson H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 180-185 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Page: 84-86 Date: 1981
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 17, 87, 251 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Granitic pegmatites of the Bancroft area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5717 Page: 141-142 Date: 1990
Author: Goad B.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - LINEAR RESOURCES INC. PRESS REL 05/28/2001, 06/12/2001
Publication Number: News release Date: 2004
Author:
Publisher Name:
Location:
Map - Brudenell-Raglan area, County of Renfrew, Ontario
Publication Number: M1953-02 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Publication - Rare earths of the Grenville Sub-province, Ontario and Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 59-10
Publication Number: Paper 59-10 Page: 25 Date: 1960
Author: Rose, E.R.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101254
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 44-46 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Barry's Bay, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2461 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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