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Record: MDI31F12SW00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Beaver Pond - 1985
Related Record Type Simple
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1985-Dec-03
Date Last Modified 2022-Jan-05
Created By Q Unknown
Revised By C Papertzian

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Feldspar (Nonmetals)



Location

Township or Area: Dickens

Latitude: 45° 33' 6.29"    Longitude: -77° 55' 21.48"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 271874.995   Northing: 5048400.707    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31F12SW

Point Location Description: Deposit symbol ' P 27 ', SW of Opeongo.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The outcrop is in the bed of a small stream that drains a beaver pond. It is reached by traversing through the bush from the bridge on the abandoned CNR line in lot 23, con 5. The deposit is about 1.6 km at 260 degrees from the bridge.



Exploration History

No work.


Geology

Province: Grenville

Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A sill-like pegmatite about 2.4 m thick, in contact with an augen gneiss. It is a quartz-microcline intergrowth (10-20 cm grainsize) with a few biotite books (5 cm). Microcline and albite are present and there is no evidence of zoning.




Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Pegmatite 1 Contains

Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1MicroclineEconomicOre
2AlbiteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Geological series, industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario

Publication Number: P2209 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1980

Author: Vos M.A., Storey C.C.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2

Publication Number: MDC022 Scale:     Date: 1981

Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey


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