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Sep 19, 2019 · Any transfer of title where the government’s land agent believed there was mineral potential would now be subject to the Act – specifically, a reserve for such minerals as gold. Elsewhere in Muskoka, gold-bearing pyrites had been identified. The government was expecting mineral wealth. It was only a matter of time.
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- Placer Gold
- Panning
- Origin of Placers
- Minerals Associated with Gold
- Occurrence of Placers
- Gold in Conglomerate
- Gold Veins and Other Gold Deposits
- Where to Find Gold in Ontario
- Where to Find Gold in Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba
- Where to Find Gold in BC & NWT
Placer deposits of gold are formed by the concentration of the gold from the debris of gold veins and other deposits of gold in rock. As the loose material is washed down hillsides into gullies and valleys, the gold, being six or seven times as heavy as quartz and other rock- minerals, quickly works its way to the bottom of the moving mass and stay...
Panning is the prospector’s method in searching for placers; it is an art requiring practice. Though it can not be learned from a book, a hint as to gold “colors” may be useful. Although the particles of gold are hammered so thin in their passage downwards that it may take one or two thousand of them to make the value of one cent, each of these sma...
The important gold placers are the result of long periods of erosion. Changes of level may have drained away the original streams, or the streams may have worn down their beds, leaving the placers high up on benches. Changes of level sometimes lead to a further concentration of the gold by a stream that cuts down an old gravel deposit. This re-conc...
Heavy hard minerals that concentrate with the gold are often a guide. The commonest are magnetite and ilmenite (or “black sand”), garnet (or “ruby sand”), zircon (or “white sand”), and monazite (or “yellow sand”). Tinstone is often found in gold placers, and may be a valuable by-product. Platinum (gray) and osmiridium (silvery) should not be overlo...
It is a good rule to look for gold veins in placer regions; but the prospector should remember that valuable placers may have been formed from deposits too lean to work, and also that erosion may have completely removed the vein. On the other hand, some first rate gold ore has its metal so finely divided that it does not concentrate, but washes awa...
As might be expected, conglomerate occasionally contains gold nuggets, representing old placers; this is a suggested explanation of the South African gold fields; but the gold may have been deposited by circulating solutions, after consolidation of the conglomerate. An interesting case of an old placer now converted into conglomerate is found in th...
Nearly all workable gold deposits (except placers) are veins, lodes, shear zones, stock works, saddle reefs, and replacement ore-bodies, which are connected with intrusions of granite, syenite, diorite, and other igneous rocks of an acid or intermediate variety. It is said that about 80% of the world’s profitable gold mines are closely associated w...
In Ontario gold has been found with mispickel in quartz veins in schists near intrusive granite (Deloro); with pyrite, bismuthinite, and magnetite in quartz veins in crystalline limestone (Frontenac); with pyrite, pyrrhotite, copper pyrites and galena, in quartz veins in a zone of chlorite schist in a mass of gabbro, which is cut by many granite di...
Northern Quebec, where it borders on Ontario, has the same general geology as that part of Ontario. Several gold mines have been established in Rouyn and adjoining townships. Geological surveys have shown the existence of a belt of sedimentary rocks of the same age as the Timiskaming in Ontario. The discoveries have been made where these rocks are ...
In British Columbia, the gold veins occur in replacement deposits at or near contacts of metamorphic with dioritic igneous rocks, the gangue being garnet, epidote, calcite, etc., and the “minerals” mispickel, pyrite and copper pyrites (Hedley); in quartz fissure veins in phyllite, (a rock intermedíate between slate and mica schist), (Lardeau); in q...
Feb 7, 2006 · MLA 8TH EDITION. "Pyrite". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 27 January 2015, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pyrite.Accessed 21 September 2024. Copy
An Old Pyrite Mine. This theory draws its basis from fact but then requires a leap... English explorer Martin Frobisher (circa 1535 or 1539 – 1594) is well known for his efforts to find the fabled Northwest Passage. In the process, he was also instructed by the Queen to find gold, largely to cover the costs of his voyages.
Oct 25, 2010 · Canada is abundant in many mineral resources — mined in every province and territory — and a world leader in the production of potash, aluminum, cobalt, diamonds, gold platinum, uranium, among others. Noranda Mine. Mineral extraction at Noranda Mine, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, c. 1926. (Canadian National Railways/Library and Archives Canada/25146)
Apr 7, 2009 · A portion of Muskoka is crown land, including the 4,700-acre Torrance Barrens Conservation Reserve, the first dark sky reserve in Canada. Geology Embedded in the southern tip of the Canadian Shield , Muskoka’s landscape is marked by rugged rock formations, its lakes and rivers having been carved into the Shield in prehistoric times by retreating glaciers .
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On the banks of the St. Lawrence, more than 400 years ago, the French explorer Jacques Cartier heard Indians tell of gold and precious stones that abounded in this new world. Cartier was disappointed. The stones he took back to France turned out to be “fools gold” –iron pyrite, a pale-yellow mineral with but a few traces of gold in it.
