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Record: MDI31F08NE00034

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Fitzroy Station - 2000
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1993-Mar-22
Date Last Modified 2022-Mar-29
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Marble (Structural Material)



Location

Township or Area: Fitzroy

Latitude: 45° 26' 55.52"    Longitude: -76° 12' 59.19"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 404877.107   Northing: 5033523.123    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F08NE

Point Location Description: Point 1.6 km SW of Fitzroy.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Outcrops S and W of Fitzroy Station.



Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Marble exposed : along the road between lots 20 and 21, con 8 and 9, in low ridges (mostly calcitic but blue dolomite on lot 21, con 9). Sample # 175 from lot 20, con 8 (coarse, blue-green with impurities). Sample # 175 A taken 500 ft W of this. Farther W the marble is very siliceous. See 'Fitzroy Harbour Marble Quarry', MDI31F08NE00007 (lots 22, 23, con 9).




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Limestones of Canada, their occurrence and characteristics, part IV, Ontario

Publication Number: CMB Pub 781 Scale:     Date: 1938

Author: Goudge, M F

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/75823


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