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Record: MDI41I06NW00044

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s)	Mond Quartz Quarry - 1905
Related Record Type	Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status	Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created	1991-Jan-25
Date Last Modified	2022-Sep-27
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Silica

Secondary Commodities: Copper

Location

Township or Area: Denison

Latitude: 46° 25' 23.4" Longitude: -81° 25' 15.99"

UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 467642 Northing: 5141152 UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sudbury

NTS Grid: 41I06NW

Point Location Description: trench

Location Method: AMIS Site Visit

Access Description: The Mond Quartz Quarry area is located approximately 20 km west of Sudbury, in the northwest of Denison Township. The area is crosscut by two east to west trending main roads: the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 17) and highway 658. Approximately 4 kilometers west of Whitefish, County Road 4 (also known as Fairbank Lake Road) turns north off of Highway 17. Access to the quarry is assumed to be via gravel road turning east off Fairbank Road approximately 3.0 kilometres north of the Worthington - Fairbank Road intersection. (OFR 6109, p.1,2)

Exploration History

1880: Henry Ranger - discovered copper on this property, pitting. 1887: R. McConnell – property patented. 1899-1914: Mond Nickel Company – quarry opened on large quartz vein. Material used for siliceous lining of converters at the Victoria smelter. 1887: The claims were patented by R. McConnell. 1899: The property was acquired by the Mond Nickel Company which later opened up a quarry on a large quartz vein. This has been mined to some extent to provide the silicious lining of converters at the Victoria smelter.

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Sudbury Structure

Supergroup: Sudbury Igneous Complex, Main Mass

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic

Lithology

Lithology Data
Rock Type	Rank	Composition	Texture	Relationship
Mafic lava flow-unsubdivided	1	Greenstone/Green Schist		Host
Quartz Arenite	2		Schistose	Is

Mineralization

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

Mineralization Comments

Jun 21, 2016 (A Wilson) - Copper discovered prior to 1890 and two(2) large and several small pits dug on lot 11, conc 4.

Mineral Record Details

Classification
Rank	Classification
1	Vein

Characteristics
Rank	Characteristic
1	Vein

Production Data
Year	Tonnes	Commodities	Reference	Comment
1899	108767		Total production approximately 119,895 tons of quartz.

References

Map - Denison-Waters area, Sudbury District

Publication Number: M2119 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1967

Author: Card K.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Part - The Sudbury nickel field

Publication Number: ARV14-03 Page: 24, 25 Date: 1998

Author: Coleman A.P.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

Map - Geology, Sudbury bedrock compilation, Ontario

Publication Number: OF 4570 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2005

Author: Ames, D E; Davidson, A; Buckle, J L; Card, K D

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/221501

Mono - Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, with appendix

Publication Number: OP01 Page: 40 Date: 1997

Author: Holloway G.T., Miller W.G., Young M., Gibson T.W.