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| Record Name(s) | Indian Feldspar Mines (North) - 2000, Barr Feldspar Quarry - 1934, North Mine - 1986, Woermke - 1954 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1986-Mar-04 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-25 |
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Primary Commodities: Feldspar (Nonmetals)
Secondary Commodities: Uranium
Township or Area: Fraser
Latitude: 45° 46' 43.29" Longitude: -77° 27' 42.3"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 308623.916 Northing: 5072406.471 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F14SW
Point Location Description: Diamond symbol ' P48A ', N half of lot 24, con 16.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: A road extends W from Hwy 62 at the Fraser-Alice township boundary. This road ends 7.7 km W of Hwy 62, but a trail leads SW to the Indian River and the CNR track. 3.2 km W on the track a trail from the old station at Indian Siding leads N to the mines. This trail has been flooded in 2 places by beaver ponds but a new trail has been cut by hunters to bypass the flooded parts. The walls of both the main and small quarry are well-exposed but the central portions are under water.
1934-1936 : W.A. Barr worked the property for feldspar during the winter. The quarry was 125 x 45 x 22 ft deep and beyond the N end an open cut and stripping extended 55 ft and was 1-6 ft deep. There is also a small trench about 150 m S of the main quarry. The dyke was 30-40 ft wide. 460 tons were quarried in 1934, 600 tons in 1935 and 47 tons in 1936 (1,107 tons total from a probable 10,000 tons of rock quarried) - and shipped to Rochester, New York. 1954 : E.R. Woermke submitted 2 samples to the OGS for analysis - 0.51 % U3O8 and 0.55 % U3O8 (allanite). See OGS 1981, MDC 23.
Province: Grenville
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - A curving, zoned pegmatite dyke is hosted by biotite-quartz-feldspar gneiss. Graphic granite forms a border zone and large microcline crystals have formed (up to 3 x 4 x 5 ft). The microcline-quartz zone is 60-70 % feldspar and the quartz core at the S end has up to 30 % feldspar. See OGS 1981, MDC 23 for a detailed description of the radioactive mineralization of the pegmatite and maps of the workings.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Pegmatite | 1 | Contains |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Microcline | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Allanite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 3 | Fergusonite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 4 | Pyrochlore | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 5 | Uraninite | Economic | Ore |
Apr 20, 2022 (Sheree Hinz) - The North Mine was worked from 1934 to 1936 by W.J. Barr and 1107 tons of feldspar were produced.
Part - Mineral occurrences in the Renfrew area
Publication Number: ARV53-03 Page: 37-38 Date: 1998
Author: Satterly J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Pegmatite mineral resources of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR021 Page: 22 Date: 1997
Author: Hewitt D.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, part 2
Publication Number: MDC022 Page: 122-3, 170-3 Date: 1981
Author: Storey C.C., Vos M.A.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Geological series, radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2210 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1980
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B., Storey C.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: MDC023 Page: 71-75 Date: 1981
Author: Masson S.L., Gordon J.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Radioactive mineral deposits of the Pembroke-Renfrew area
Publication Number: OFR5294 Page: 95-8 Date: 1980
Author: Gordon J.B., Masson S.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Mineral Deposits in Renfrew County and Vicinity; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 195
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 195 Page: 26 Date: 1936
Author: Freeman, B C
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100827
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 66 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Granitic pegmatites of the Bancroft area, southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5717 Page: 214-5, 332-3, 451 Date: 1990
Author: Goad B.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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