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| Record Name(s) | Cole Property - 1914, Puritan Mines Ltd. - 1939 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1981-Mar-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Molybdenum
Township or Area: Bromley
Latitude: 45° 37' 33.68" Longitude: -76° 59' 41.99"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 344486.002 Northing: 5054433.002 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F10SW
Point Location Description: W of Osceola village and just N of Dore Fault.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: From highway 17 at Cobden drive west on RR 8, 9.7km to Pine Valley Road, turning right, drive 4.3km to MacGaghran road. Travel 2.3km stopping just before corner, walk 600m northwest on hill.
circa 1914: pitting, trenching. 1939: H. Edelstein - exploration 1939-40: Puritan Mines Limited - mine development, adit. 1942: Buckhorn Mines Limited - property acquisition
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Metasedimentary Belt
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Skarn | 1 | Pyroxenitic | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marble | 2 | Adjacent |
Aug 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - Satterly reports 19 pits in a clearing on the top of a hill. The largest of these pits was 15 feet across and 12 feet deep. The pits were developed in a pyroxenitic skarn zone developed within the metasedimentary rocks. The skarn is a coarse-grained dark green rock that is composed of diopside with variable amounts of actinolite, calcite and plagioclase which is cut by numerous veinlets and dikes of white plagioclase and pegmatite. The deposit is hosted within a northwest-trending succession of marble and sandstones that are cut by numerous dikes and sills of pegmatite.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molybdenite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Pyrrhotite | Economic | Ore |
Aug 31, 2011 (A Wilson) - The mineralization occurs as erratically distributed coarse flakes of molybdenite associated with pyrrhotite and pyrite. The molybdenite formed flakes up to 1 inch in diameter.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Skarn |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1915 | 1 | AR25 pt 1, p. 19 | 1 ½ tons of concentrated ore shipped to Canadian Mines Branch for testing |
Publication - Molybdenum Deposits of Canada; Geological Survey of Canada, Economic Geology Report 20
Publication Number: Econ Geol 20 Scale: Date: 1963
Author: Vokes, F.M.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103994
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Molybdenum deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC007 Scale: Date: 1968
Author: Johnston F.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 Scale: Date: 1980
Author: Carter T.R., Colvine A.C., Meyn H.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Molybdenum, p. 117
Publication Number: 592 Scale: Date: 1925
Author: V.L. Eardley-Wilmot
Publisher Name: DEMR
Location:
Part - Statistical review of the mineral industry of Ontario for 1915
Publication Number: ARV25-01.001 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Rogers W.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Molybdenite deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV26.011 Scale: Date: 1998
Author: Parsons A.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario in 1931
Publication Number: ARV41-01.002 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Sinclair D.G., Cleland R.H., Keeley E.C., Cooper D.F., Webster A.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Cobden, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2460 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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