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Cain And
Riddle Mn Mines And Marpic Shaft, Lunenburg County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4966510 / 4966840 / 4967220 |
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385090 / 385460 / 385830 |
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Details:
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The Cain and Riddle Mn Mine and the Marpic shaft
is a past-producing Mn mine, located about 9 km north of Mill Road,
Lunenburg County. The mine was accessed by way of a woods road starting
at Mill Road near the southwest end of Wallaback Lake. The three
sites of workings that comprise this deposit are found within 800
m of each other on a northeast-trending vein system formed in a
prominent fault zone (O'Reilly et al., 1982). |
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References:
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NSMOD
#A16-007 extensive info in the database |
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Further
Info:
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Manganese oxides, pyrolusite, manganite and
psilomelane occur in lenticular veins, ranging in thickness from
a few cm to 2 m. The veins occur within the fault zone with brick-red
hematite-ochre breccia and pinch and swell along much of their length. |
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Other
Minerals:
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pyrolusite, barite,
knebelite, smectite, manganite,
psilomelane, hematite,
goethite, limonite,
calcite, apatite,
rhodochrosite |
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