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Record: MDI31F07SE00119

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) West Bluff Point - 1899
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1994-Mar-24
Date Last Modified 2022-Apr-25
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron

Secondary Commodities: Titanium



Location

Township or Area: Bagot

Latitude: 45° 18' 18.89"    Longitude: -76° 41' 55.75"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 366819.996   Northing: 5018264.003    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F07SE

Point Location Description: W half of Lot 16, middle of the lot.

Location Method: Data Compilation



Exploration History

1899: pitting, ground geophysics


Geology

Province: Grenville

Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Skarn 1 Pyroxenite Gneissic Host

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1MagnetiteEconomicOre

Mineralization Comments

Aug 26, 2011 (A Wilson) - A sample collected by E.D. Lindeman from this site returned 47281% Fe, 15.00% Si 3.68% Al2O3, 4.86% CaO, 7.05% MgO, 0.390% P, 0.15 S and 0.25% TiO2.



Mineral Record Details

Classification
RankClassification            
1 Skarn

References

Book - Magnetite occurrences near Calabogie, Renfrew County, Ontario, p. 14

Publication Number: #254 Date: 1914

Author: E. Lindeman

Publisher Name: DEMR

Location:


Publication - Report on the iron ore deposits along the Kingston and Pembroke Railway in eastern Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report vol. 12, (1899), pt. I

Publication Number: GSC AR 12 I Page: 57-58  Date: 1901

Author: Ingall, E.D.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/287887


Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area

Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 51, 55  Date: 1998

Author: Satterly J.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

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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