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| Record Name(s) | Dyment Ballast Quarry - 1960 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Past Producing Mine With Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 2004-Feb-11 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-30 |
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Primary Commodities: Aggregate
Township or Area: Avery
Latitude: 49° 37' 58.41" Longitude: -92° 22' 46.05"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 544810 Northing: 5498000 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F09NW
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Field Visit with GPS
Access Description: The ballast quarry is located approx. 42 km SE of Dryden, on NW shore of Kennabutch Lake. The quarry is accessed by an all-weather gravel road which departs north from Highway 17 approximately 3 km west of Borups Corners. Follow the main gravel road north for approximately 6 km. A gate closes off access to the quarry at this point. The quarry is another kilometre past the gate.
The area around the quarry has been explored for gold and base metals since 1907. There has been no previous exploration for industrial minerals. 1983: Canadian Pacific Railways obtained a Quarry Permit from the Ministry of Natural Resources and began production. 1991: Last round of production ceased. A stockpile sufficient for 2-3 years wasleft on site. 1994: Canadian Pacific Railways still maintains their quarry permit over the site. No production has occurred since 1991, however, material continues to be removed from the stockpile. Produced 1.29 Mt.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Archean
Dec 07, 2005 (C Ravnaas) - Berger (1989) described the geology of the area. The Melgund Lake area is underlain by Archean rocks of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Supracrustal lithologies (Ayres et al. 19850 comprise 75 percent of the map area and are composed of mafic, intermediate and felsic metavolcanics, related subvolcanic intrusions including gabbroic sills and dikes, and feldspar and quartz-feldspar-phyric dikes, clastic and chemical metasediments. Felsic plutonic rocks composed of quartz monzonite, granodiorite, quartz monzodiorite, monzonite, tonalite and granite have intruded the supracrustal rocks in four spatially separated locations. A distinctive suite of granitic pegmatite and aplite intrusions also occur within the map area.
Dec 07, 2005 (C Ravnaas) - Berger (1989) described the geology of the area. The Melgund Lake area is underlain by Archean rocks of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Supracrustal lithologies (Ayres et al. 19850 comprise 75 percent of the map area and are composed of mafic, intermediate and felsic metavolcanics, related subvolcanic intrusions including gabbroic sills and dikes, and feldspar and quartz-feldspar-phyric dikes, clastic and chemical metasediments. Felsic plutonic rocks composed of quartz monzonite, granodiorite, quartz monzodiorite, monzonite, tonalite and granite have intruded the supracrustal rocks in four spatially separated locations. A distinctive suite of granitic pegmatite and aplite intrusions also occur within the map area.
Dec 07, 2005 (C Ravnaas) - The quarry is underlain by primarily mafic metavolcanics with some minor felsic metavolcanics. The mafic metavolcanics are described by Berger (1989) as hornblende- and plagioclase-phyric rocks. The metavolcanics are described by Berger (1989): The mafic metavolcanics underlying Avery, MacFie and eastern McAree townships are composed predominantly of flows, minor pillow breccia, and hyaloclastite with very minor interflow cherty metasediments. An important subdivision of these mafic metavolcanics is the separation of plagioclase-phyric rocks (leopard rock) from aphyric rocks. However, there is a complete gradation from aphyric sequences to plagioclase-phyric sequences containing up to 30 percent phenocrysts. In most cases, rocks classified as aphyric may contain a few widely separated, small (less than 1 cm diameter) plagioclase phenocrysts. Rocks containing more than 1 percent plagioclase phenocrysts were mapped as plagioclase phyric.
| Year | Tonnes | Commodities | Reference | Comment |
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| 1991 | 1290000 |
Map - Precambrian geology, Melgund Lake area, MacFie and Avery townships
Publication Number: M2529 Scale: 1:20,000 Date: 1989
Author: Berger B.R., MacMillan D.W., Butler D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Precambrian geology, Melgund Lake area
Publication Number: R268 Date: 1989
Author: Berger B.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Industrial Mineral Occurrences and Deposits in Northwest Ontario
Publication Number: OFR5889 Page: 16-18 Date: 1994
Author: Hinz P., Landry R.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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