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[email protected] 5691 (inside Canada, United States) Crown Copyright Queen’s Printer Local: (416) 326-2678 Toll Free: 1-800-668-9938 [email protected] (inside Canada, United States) ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES Mineral Resources Circular No. 11 Iron Deposits of Ontario By ROMAN SHKLANKA 1968 ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES Mineral Resources Circular No. 11 Iron Deposits of Ontario By ROMAN SHKLANKA 1968 Crown copyrights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, without the permission of the Ontario Department of Mines. Publications of the Ontario Department of Mines and price list are obtainable through the Publications Office, Ontario Department of Mines, Parliament Buildings, Queen1s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Orders for publications should be accompanied by cheque, or money order, payable to Treasurer of Ontario. Stamps are not acceptable. - ii - IRON DEPOSITS OF ONTARIO By Roman Shklanka ABSTRACT More than 800 known deposits of iron in Ontario are classified and briefly described. Their economic aspects are emphasized. The development work undertaken and the sources of information are indicated. It is estimated that there are 8,000 million tons of proven iron reserves in the province with a weighted mean grade of 29 percent iron. In 1966, shipments of ore or concentrate amounted to 8,144,289 tons valued at 91,700,740 dollars. - iii - CONTENTS Page Page Abstract ill Shields Township 37 Introduction 1 Shields - Deroche prospect 37 Production 1 Talbott Township 38 Reserves 4 Mattawlshkwia River occurrence 38 Classification 6 Scholfield - Talbott occurrence 39 Types and distribution of deposits 7 VanKoughnet Township 39 Magmatic deposits 7 Mapple Lake occurrence 39 Contact metasomatic deposits 7 Kirby occurrence 39 Contact metamorphlc deposits 8 Township 3B 40 Hydrothermal deposits 8 Briscoe - Kokdtow occurrence 40 Sedimentary deposits 9 Township 3F 40 Secondary deposits 10 Townships 3F and 4F occurrences 40 Others 11 Township 4F 40 By-products 11 Townships 3F and 4F occurrences 40 Sources of information 12 Township 5E 41 General references 13 Seabrook Lake occurrence 41 Abbreviations 15 Township 22, Range 12 41 Acknowledgments 16 Goulais River prospect 41 Description of deposits 18 Township 22, Range 13 42 Algoma District 18 McClintock occurrence 42 Aberdeen Township 18 Township 23, Range 13 42 Leeburn occurrence 18 Central Goulais prospect 42 Lot 6, Concession 3 occurrence ... 19 McPhail prospect 43 Old Stobie Mine (past producer) .. 19 Township 23, Range 14 43 Two Horse Lake prospect 20 Central Goulais prospect 43 Anderson Township 20 Northern Goulais prospect 44 Duncan - Anderson occurrence 20 Township 24, Range 14 45 Awers Township 21 Boyle Lake occurrence 45 Trout Lake occurrence 21 Township 25, Range 15 45 Deagle Township 21 Drury occurrence 45 Deagle Township occurrence 21 Township 25, Range 25 46 Deroche Township 21 Township 25, Range 25 occurrence 46 Breltung Mine (past producer) .... 21 Township 26, Range 13 46 Maple Lake occurrence 22 Township 26, Range 13 occurrence 46 Midge Lake occurrences 23 Township 26, Range 14 46 Miscellaneous occurrences 23 Batchawana occurrence 46 Shields - Deroche prospect 24 Township 26, Range 25 47 Williams Mine (past producer) .... 24 Hamilton (Sweet) Range occurrence 47 Duncan Township 25 Township 26, Range 26 47 Duncan - Anderson occurrence 25 Cawdron Lake occurrence 47 Section 17 occurrence 25 Township 27, Range 12 47 Ebbs Township 25 Township 27, Range 12 occurrence 47 Ebbs Township occurrences 25 Township 27, Range 13 48 Fenwlck Township 26 Township 27, Range 13 occurrence 48 Fenwick occurrence 26 Township 27, Range 25 48 Havilland Lake occurrence , 27 Alden (Hamilton) Range occurrence 48 Gaudette Township . 27 Hamilton (Sweet) Range occurrence 48 Gaudett Township occurrence , 27 Township 27, Range 26 49 Jarvis Township , 28 Goudreau pyrltic sand deposit (past McCauley occurrence 28 producer) •> 49 Johns Township 28 Goudreau Range deposits 49 Caddy Creek occurrence 28 Morrison No.4 (past producer) 50 Johnson Township 28 Goudreau "B" occurrence 50 Desbarats Lake occurrence 28 Goudreau '-'D'-' prospect 50 29 Goudreau "E" prospect 50 Desbarats Location occurrences .. 1 Laird Township 29 Goudreau "F-' occurrence 50 Laird Township occurrences 29 Goudreau '-'C'-* (past producer) 50 Lake Superior 30 "C" Extension (past producer) 50 Devil's Warehouse Island prospect 30 Bear Claim (past producer) 50 Lewis Township 30 McPhail prospect 50 Lewis Township occurrence 30 Goudreau "A" (past producer) 50 Lizar Township 31 Morrison No. 3 prospect 50 Kabinakagagami Lake prospect .... 31 Township 28, Range 13 51 Long Township 31 Mammoth - Vulcan prospect 51 Long Township occurrence 31 Township 28, Range 22 52 Macdonald Township 32 Lake Mishewawa - Anjigomi Lake occurrence .. 52 Armstrong - Henry occurrence .... 32 Township 28, Range 23 52 Osborne occurrence 32 Firesand River occurrence 52 Rulidge occurrence 32 Township 28, Range 24 52 Meredith Township 33 Loonskin Lake (Kathleen Range) occurrences . 52 Armstrong - Henry occurrence .... 33 Ruth and Lucy Mine (producer) Palmer Township 33 Ruth Range deposit Batchawana Mine prospect 33 Township 28, Range 25 Mammoth - Vulcan prospect 34 Big Lake prospect Pancake Lake prospect 34 Brooks Range occurrences Parkinson Township 35 Holdsworth prospect Parkinson Township occurrence ... 35 Josephine Mine (past producer) Patton Township 36 Josephine - Bartlett (Britannia Range) Cobden River occurrence 36 deposits Proctor Township 36 Reau Lake occurrence Proctor Township occurrence 36 Sheldon and Cline Range occurrences .. Ryan Township 36 Pancake Lake prospect 36 Scholfield Township 37 Mattawlshkwia River occurrence .. 37 Scholfield - Talbott occurrence . 37 -iv- Page Page Township, 28, Range 26 59 Township 137 94 Candela occurrence 59 Township 137 occurrences 94 Dreany (Rutledge) Range occurrence 60 Township 139 95 Eccles and Irene lakes occurrences 60 Deschamp Lake occurrences 95 Morrison (Rand) No. 2 prospect 61 Township 143 96 Township 28, Range 27 62 Pecors Lake occurrences 96 Dreany Range occurrence 62 Township