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Kearney
Lake Mo, Halifax County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4950680 |
| Easting
443840 |
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Details:
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Eardley-Wilmot (1925) notes that high grade
molybdenite in quartz boulders was located here but the source was
never located. A molybdenite occurrence is shown on Faribault's
geology map of this area. |
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References:
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NSMOD
#D12-007 |
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Further
Info:
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Eardley-Wilmot (1925) states that the source
of his information is the Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy
Mines Report of 1885 (p. 18), but no mention of the occurrence is
made in this report. The location is instead taken from Faribault's
geology map of this area. |
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Other
Minerals:
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Quartz |
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Keddy Mo,
Nb, Ta Pegmatite, Lunenburg County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4952320 |
| Easting
381500 |
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Details:
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The Keddy Pegmatite, also referred to as the Lantz Pegmatite,
is found southwest of the village of New Ross, Lunenburg County
on the west side of the Larder River. The Larder River flows
from Lake Ramsey to the Gold River and crosses under the New
Ross to Forties Road about 3.8 km west of New Ross. The pegmatite
is found about 2.4 km south of the Forties Road. The Keddy Pegmatite
is accessible by three routes: (1) originally the site was accessed
via a woods road leading south from Keddy Hill at Forties (O'Reilly
et al., 1982), but more recent logging and Christmas tree farming
in the area has resulted in easier access; (2) Perhaps the best
way to access the prospect is via a Christmas tree farm found
on the north side of the Meister Road, which leads west from
Lake Darling at New Ross. This farm passes to within a couple
of hundred metres of the east bank of the Larder River immediately
opposite the prospect. Permission to pass through the Christmas
tree farm must first be obtained. One must also cross the Larder
River but this is easily done at most times of the year except
for the spring when water level is at it's highest; (3) a recent
(circa. 1992) high quality (i.e. passable by car) logging road
leads from the Forties Road at Forties and passes along the
top of the hill found a few hundred metres west of the prosect.
Taking this route means that on parking their vehicle, one must
only walk through the woods and down the slope to the prospect.
However, the logging road is usually gated and permission must
be obtained for entrance.
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References:
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NSMOD
#A09-013 |
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Further
Info:
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A few flakes of molybdenite were observed in dump samples
of the greisenized leucomonzogranite by O'Reilly et al. (1982).
Other minerals identified in the greisen and pegmatite include:
topaz, dumortierite, dickite, fluorite, columbite or tantalite,
scheelite and wolframite. Molybdenite, in 2.5 cm rosettes, occurs
in an aplitic leucogranite in the central portion of the prospect.
Cameron (1950) indicates the quartz pegmatite dyke at the the
south end of the prospect contains flakes of molybdenite and
a radioactive mineral but these were not observed by O'Reilly
et al. (1982).
The prospect was discovered in 1890 at which time two test pits
were dug. Faribault (1924) indicates two pegmatite dykes at
this site on his geology map and reports that molybdenite occurs
in both.
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Other
Minerals:
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wolframite, scheelite,
fluorite, topaz,
columbite, dumortierite,
tantalite |
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Walker
Moly Prospect, Lunenburg County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4958460 |
| Easting
387970 |
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Details:
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The Walker Moly Prospect is found 140 m south of the
Vaughan-New Ross Road at the community of New Russell, Lunenburg
County. New Russell is 6.4 km east of New Ross, a village on
Highway 12. A swampy area and brook separates the prospect from
the road, so best access is to the workings is by following
a woods road along the south border of the swamp (O'Reilly et
al., 1982). The woods road leads west from a secondary road
that goes from the Vaughan-New Ross Road toward Round Lake.
The entrance to the woods road is 100 m south of the paved Vaughan-New
Ross Road. Follow the woods road west for 240 m to its terminus
at the prospect.
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References:
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NSMOD #A16-010, Extensive
info available, see the database.
The location for this prospect indicated on NSDNR Map 88-15 (Corey,
1988) is wrong. The correct coordinates are provided in this occurrence
entry. |
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Further
Info:
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A shaft at the site is water filled and a cement cap has been
placed over it for safety reasons. A waste rock dump surrounds
the shaft and is heavily overgrown.
This prospect is an excellent mineral collecting location. Time
spent rummaging through the waste rock dump will yield excellent
specimens of molybdenite and bornite. The more exotic minerals
reported from the prospect are less common and occur disseminated
in the greisen selvages.
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Other
Minerals:
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gahnite, chalcopyrite,
bornite, wolframite,
cassiterite, native
bismuth, uraninite, wittichenite,
mawsonite |
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French
Road Fe, Cu, Pb, Zn Prospect, Cape Breton County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
5087640 / 5087570 / 5088770 / 5088910 / 5088410 |
| Easting
716480 / 716650 / 718270 / 717910 / 717440 |
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Details:
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see the nova scotia mineral database |
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References:
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NSMOD
#F16-005 |
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Further
Info:
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see the nova scotia mineral database |
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Other
Minerals:
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arsenopyrite,
sphalerite, bismuthinite,
chalcopyrite, cubanite,
galena, magnetite,
pyrite, pyrrhotite |
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