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Record: MDI31F07SE00068

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Fahey - 1981, Bell Mine - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1981-Apr-15
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-14
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Hematite (Gemstones)



Location

Township or Area: Darling

Latitude: 45° 17' 27.2"    Longitude: -76° 30' 32.36"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 381671.988   Northing: 5016372.898    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F07SE, 31F08SW

Point Location Description: Pit ' Fe ' between Bennett Bay and Bane Bay on White Lake.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Located 61 m E of a private road on the S edge of a large clearing It is accessible by car along this road at a point 0.8 km N from the gravel access road to Bennett Bay (Pickerel Bay) on White Lake. It is 380 m NE of Eggshape Bay on White Lake. Workings not recently located.



Exploration History

Pre 1910 : several small trenches and a 20 ft deep shaft.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Massive blue hematite occurs in brecciated dolomitic marble in a lens about 15 x 200 ft. Fe 34.73 % (1910) and 63.6 % (1980). Supergene replacement in a fault breccia - probably an extension of the White Lake Deposit.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
5HematiteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27

Publication Number: GSC Paper 51-27 Page: 68-69  Date: 1996

Author: Quinn, H A

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101377


Book - NMI #070834

Publication Number: N/A Date: 1996

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Part - Geology of Darling Township and part of Lavant Township

Publication Number: ARV65-07.002 Page: 55-56  Date: 1998

Author: Peach P.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 248  Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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Map - Geological series, base and precious metals, iron and molybdenum deposits of Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2211 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1979

Author: Carter T.R., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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MonoMap - Geology of base metal, precious metal, iron, and molybdenum deposits in the Pembroke-Renfrew area

Publication Number: MDC020 Page: 89-90  Date: 1980

Author: Carter T.R., Colvine A.C., Meyn H.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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Mono - Metallogeny of the Grenville Province, southeastern Ontario

Publication Number: OFR5515 Page: 418-21, 166  Date: 1984

Author: Carter T.R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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