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Record: MDI41I02SE00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Cosby-Delamere Silica - 1975
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1980-Mar-12
Date Last Modified 2022-Feb-18
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silica



Location

Township or Area: Delamere

Latitude: 46° 7' 2.81"    Longitude: -80° 33' 51.38"

UTM Zone: 17    Easting: 533667.997   Northing: 5107189.001    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 41I02SE

Point Location Description: approximate

Location Method: Conversion from MDI





Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type Rank Composition Texture Relationship
Quartz Arenite 1 Host

Lithology Comments

Jan 13, 2009 (A Wilson) - The lithology is mapped as metamorphosed, sillimanite-bearing white to pinkish orthoquartzite.




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1QuartzEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Map - Burwash, Nipissing, Parry Sound, and Sudbury districts

Publication Number: M2271 Scale: 1:126,720    Date: 1974

Author: Lumbers S.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


Mono - Silica in Ontario

Publication Number: IMR009 Scale:     Date: 1997

Author: Hewitt D.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


MonoMap - Geology of the Burwash area, districts of Nipissisng, Parry Sound, and Sudbury

Publication Number: R116 Scale:     Date: 1975

Author: Lumbers S.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines

Location:


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