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| Record Name(s) | Williams Iron Deposit - 1888, Black Bay Mine - 1888 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1981-Apr-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-26 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Township or Area: Bagot
Latitude: 45° 18' 44.63" Longitude: -76° 45' 37.16"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 362016.001 Northing: 5019161.997 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F07SW
Point Location Description: Williams Mine Location on P1838
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: North on Murphy Road from highway 508 at east end of Calabogie for 2.3km to K&P trail then a further 10.9km to parking site. Walk 1.5km approximately southwest along old logging access trail.
1888 : Kingston and Pembroke Iron Mining Co. - open cuts and development of 5 declines. 1888-1890: continued development, mining.
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Marble | 1 | Calcitic | Host |
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| Gabbro | 2 | Gabbro | Adjacent |
Aug 24, 2011 (A Wilson) - The deposit is hosted by siliceous calcite marble within a sequence of other metasedimentary rocks at a contact with a large gabbroic intrusion. The gabbro is conformable and overlies the marble in the vicinity of the deposit. All rock units strike southwesterly and dip shallowly to the northwest (25°).
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore |
Aug 24, 2011 (A Wilson) - A sample collected from the site by E. Lindeman returned the following analysis: 59.50% Fe, and 15.85% insoluble material. A sample collected by the OGS in 1979 analysed: 52.8% Fe, 10.1% FeO, 0.04% TiO2, 0.22 P2O5, 0.11% s, and 0.01% V. Disseminated to massive magnetite occurs as two conformable lenses approximately 180 m apart. The main lens is 90 m and up to 6 m thick, and the second lens is less than 60 m long and is approximately 3 m thick. The main ore zone had a strike length of approximately 243m and the second ore zone had a strike length of approximately 79 m. Some of the magnetite occurs as “ribs” in the marble (parallel to bedding) however most of it occurs in the gabbro. In 1951 Algoma Steel Corporation estimated that there was approximately 5000 tons of material in extensive dumps on the property. About 1/3 of the material was high-grade magnetite
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Skarn |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratabound |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1890 | 22680 |
Iron |
MDC020 p.77-81 | Production 25,000 tons @ 51.0% Fe |
Book - Magnetite occurrences near Calabogie, Renfrew County, p. 16
Publication Number: #254 Date: 1914
Author: E. Lindeman
Publisher Name: DEMR
Location:
Book - Iron ore occurrences in Canada Vol 2, p. 130-131
Publication Number: 217 Date: 1917
Author: E. Lindeman and L.L. Bolton
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: 64-66 Date: 1901
Author: Ingall, E.D.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/287887
Publication - Renfrew map-area, Renfrew and Lanark counties, Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 51-27
Publication Number: Paper 51-27 Page: 44-45 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: 51, 57-58 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 318 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
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: 77-81 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 - 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
Location:
Publication - Iron deposits of eastern Ontario and adjoining Quebec; Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 45
Publication Number: GSC Bulletin 45 Page: 57-58 Date: 1958
Author: Rose, E R
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100563
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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