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Record Name(s) | Murphy Road Deposit - 1909 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
Date Created | 1990-Aug-21 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Bagot
Latitude: 45° 18' 57.5" Longitude: -76° 42' 11.7"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 366497.999 Northing: 5019463.004 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F07SE
Point Location Description: shaft location described by Satterly
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The deposit is located in the NE corner of the west half of Lot 18. It is accessible by foot 335 m NW of Hwy 508 at a point 0.8 Km W of the Murphy Road.
Pre-1909 : pitting and shaft sinking
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Skarn | 1 | Pyroxenite | Gneissic | Adjacent |
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Marble | 2 | Host |
Aug 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - Magnetite forms a heavily mineralized zone approximately 2-3 feet thick within the marble. The upper part of the zone consists of highly altered, brecciated pyroxenite.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
3 | Hematite | Economic | Ore |
Aug 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - Southwest of the main showing is a second shaft that is mineralized with hematite and magnetite.
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Stratiform |
Book - On a number of iron ore properties in northeastern Ontario, p. 85-86
Publication Number: Sum Rpt 63 Date: 1909
Author: H. Fréchette
Publisher Name: CANMET
Location:
Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27
Publication Number: Paper 51-27 Page: 48 Date: 1951
Author: Quinn, H.A.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/101377
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 55 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of base metal, precious metal, iron, and molybdenum deposits in the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC020 Page: 76 Date: 1980
Author: Carter T.R., Colvine A.C., Meyn H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, Renfrew area, eastern part, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P1838 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1978
Author: Lumbers S.B., Vertolli V.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Renfrew, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2462 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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