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Reported
Occurence: Waverly/Fall River, Halifax County
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UTM
(NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4960472
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451142
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Details:
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Historic Mining Activity, East of Perry
Lake aprox 1.5 km south of Fall River exit along Route 102 |
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References:
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NSMOD
# D13-021, Messervey Tungsten Pamplet |
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Further
Info:
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The veins were discovered early in the 20th century and in
1911-12 the veins were opened by 2 shafts and several trenches.
At that time a 4 ton hand-picked sample of mineralized quartz
was taken and analyzed.
In 1918 a J. Reynolds reported 50 tons of ore was taken from
the site. The work was then suspended until 1925 when the vein
was trenched for 65 m. A report by LeDoux and Co. indicated
an analyses of 70.85% W, 0.05% As and 0.04 oz/ton Au.
The site remained essentially dormant until 1939-1940 when more
tann 300 m of trenching and some underground drifting and crosscutting
were carried out.
One of the shafts is reported to be 23 m deep with 18 m of underground
development at the 18 m level. The other shaft is thought to
be between 9 and 12 m deep.
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Other
Mineralization:
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Galena, Native Gold, Arsenopyrite |
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Goffs
Scheelite, Halifax County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4969809 |
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465135 |
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Details:
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The prospect consists of 3 separate fairly substantial
trenches and small open cuts with large waste rock piles along
their edges. The workings explored a series of six scheelite-bearing,
stratabound quartz veins ranging from minute stringers up to 15
cm on average. The veins occur within a series of northeast-trending
outcrop ridges of massive metawacke. The veins intrude along slate
and metasiltstone units found interbedded with massive metawacke
beds. |
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References:
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NSMOD
#D14-014 |
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Further
Info:
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Scheelite-bearing veins were discovered at this site
by an Indian prospector named Joseph Cope, in the latter part
of World War I (Douglas and Goodman, 1939). He noted scheelite
in several quartz veins at this site while prospecting for arsenic.
Cope did some trenching on the veins during the 1920's but it
wasn't until the prospect was staked by a Ralph Kirkpatrick
and some associates in 1931 that a concerted effert was mounted
to prospect the veins. By the late 1930's several more veins
containing a greater amount of scheelite were uncovered. During
this time a few hundred pounds of scheelite were removed (Eardley-Wilmot,
1943).
In 1939 the provincial Department of Mines produced a detailed
plane table map of the site and description of the veins (Douglas
and Goodman, 1939; MacQuarrie, 1939). It was found that the
scheelite occurred in six main stratabound veins within metasiltstone
and slate horizons sandwiched between massive beds of metawacke.
Douglas (1956) indicated that after 1939 activity at the site
consisted of the sinking of an inclined dhaft in the middle
of the 3 trenches. The shaft is about 30 m deep (92 ft.) and
sunk on an angle of 65° to the north. He indicated that the
early exploration of the site had apparently removed most of
the high grade scheelite pockets from the veins and that all
that remained were sporadic occurrence of scheelite crystals.
Douglas (1956) also indicated that there are 3 exploration pits
about 330 m (100 ft.) to the northwest of the main showing.
His report provides a map of the location of these trenches
They are found east of the small cabin adjacent to the brook
190 m north of the prospect. The were apparantly dug following
the northeast-trending strike of bedding. Douglas reports that
the western of the trenches is 4 m by 1 m and supposedly produced
200 lbs of scheelite. The second is 4 m long and 0.7 m wide.
The third is 4.5 m long, 3.2 m wide and 1 m deep and produced
800 lbs. of scheelite.
Little (1959) reported that, in total, 3 tons of concentrate
assaying approximately 72% WO3 was recovered from the site.
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Other
Minerals:
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scheelite, arsenopyrite, pyrite |
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Reeves
Tin Pit, Lunenburg County
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UTM (NAD27)
Zone 20
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Northing
4953870 |
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379700 |
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Details:
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The Reeves Tin Pit is located 5.1 km west on the Dalhousie
Road (Forties Road) from the village of New Ross, Lunenburg
County. The prospect is found within the community of Forties
and 0.5 km south of road on the Reeves farm. Reeves is a common
name in the New Ross area. The prospect may be reached by
going 80 metres south along a woods road that starts at a
small man-made pond behind the barn on the Reeve's farm. At
that point turn west from the woods road onto a foot path
and walk southwest for 120 m to a cleared area. The prospect
is located in this cleared area and in 1982 consisted of a
water-filled pit, outcrops and overburden dumps (O'Reilly
et al., 1982). Since 1982 the pit has been filled in by the
land owner but dump material can be found laying about.
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References:
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NSMOD
#A10-004 |
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Further
Info:
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Mineralization: Flecks of fluorite and blue-turquoise
fluorapatite are common in the pegmatite and associated leucogranite
that accompanies the pegmatite. The mineral assemblage that
is reported to occur in the central zone of the pegmatite
is impressive and includes: cassiterite, amblygonite, lepidolite,
fluorite, topaz, tourmaline, beryl, wolframite, scheelite,
columbite, durangite, metatorbenite, tapiolite and monazite.
A Department of Mines and Energy field check reported in 1982
indicates that most of these minerals are not obvious and
only fluorite, lepidolite and fluorapatite were noted (O'Reilly,
et al., 1982).
Faribault (1908) reported that a pit was dug in 1903, uncovering
cassiterite- and fluorite-bearing quartz boulders. Consequently,
digging continued and a shaft was sunk into bedrock with work
continuing for the next few years. A pit was sunk (7.5 m deep,
3.6 m long and 3 m wide) on a pegmatitic segregation within
light grey leucogranite. The site has been visited by numerous
persons since Faribault's time but the dyke was apparently
not visible due to the water level in the pit and the fact
that much of the outcrop had since been covered over by dump
material.
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Other
Minerals:
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amblygonite,
microlite, monazite,
morinite, tapiolite,
topaz, tourmaline,
triphylite, tungstite,
wolframite, apatite,
fluorapatite, beryl,
cassiterite, columbite,
durangite, fluorite,
lepidolite, metatorbernite |
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