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| Record Name(s) | Thorne Brilliant Stone Quarry - 1988, Skihill Quarry - 1988, G. Fuller Property - 2012 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1991-Mar-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2023-Aug-03 |
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Primary Commodities: Gneiss
Township or Area: Poitras
Latitude: 46° 41' 12.43" Longitude: -79° 6' 7.3"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 645134 Northing: 5172108 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 31L11NE
Point Location Description: pit
Location Method: AMIS Site Visit
Access Description: Take highway 63 north from North Bay. At 1.2km south of the village of Thorne, turn west into driveway (there is a multi unit worker accomodation building at the right hand side of the driveway), proceed past gate, up hill to left. Continue 579m past gate to quarry.
1988-1990: Thorne Brilliant Stone Quarry – in production
Province: Grenville
Subprovince: Central Gneiss Belt
Terrane: Tomiko
Geological Age: Mesoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Gneiss-Unsubdivided | 1 | Quartz-Muscovite | Is |
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Jul 31, 2012 (A Wilson) - The host rock is mapped as feldspathic and micaceous metasedimentary rocks. The range from quartz arenites to fine- to medium-grained, green, red or white weathering muscovite schist. The material was marketed as patio and flagstone.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Dimension Stone |
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1990 | 220 | MP153, p. 263 | ||
| 1989 | 500 | MP147 p. 275 | ||
| 1988 | 500 | MP142, p. 305 |
Article - Cobalt Resident Geologist's District - 1988
Publication Number: MP142.014 Page: 305 Date: 1997
Author: Owsiacki L., Cosec M., Anderson D.P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Cobalt Resident Geologist's District - 1989
Publication Number: MP147.014 Page: 275 Date: 1997
Author: Owsiacki L., Cosec M., Anderson D.P., Basa E.M., Born P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Precambrian Geology, Jocko River Area
Publication Number: P2846 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2006
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Geology and Mineral Potential of the Eastern Tomiko Terrane, Grenville Province
Publication Number: OFR5554 Date: 2006
Author: Easton R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Article - Cobalt Resident Geologist's District - 1990
Publication Number: MP152.013 Page: 263 Date: 1997
Author: Basa E.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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