Clyde...what have you done!
Chief won't like these facts...only small quantities, flake and hydrothermal on the property confirming early comments that the hydrothermal graphite was contaminated with flake. How do you tell them apart? How do you separate them? Oh my, what a mess. Chief will have to have a conference call on this one lol
Not a good day for Chief but he knows all
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nice find Clyde!
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1990 Ontario geology Report on graphite with references to area of Miller and Asbury
Canada produces no amorphous graphite and only a small quantity of flake graphite on an intermittent basis from a mine and plant operated by Asbury Graphite Quebec Inc.
located near Notre-Dame- du-Laus, Quebec.
The majority of this production is exported to its parent company, Asbury Graphite Mills Inc. of Asbury, New Jersey
There is currently only one producer of natural graphite in Canada a small, open pit mine owned and intermittently operatedbyAsburyGraphiteQuebecIn
Graphite is a common accessory mineral in marbles, generally comprisinglessthanoneweightpercentoftherock. Manyblue or grey-tinted marbles derive their colour from very minor amounts of disseminated, microcrystalline graphite.
Less commonly, graphite occurs as flakes disseminated throughout a marble unit in concentrations ranging from 2% to greater than 20*r usually defining a foliation and ranging in grain size from less than l mm to over l cm. These deposits are similar to disseminated flake graphite deposits in silica-rich metasediments (type 1), but are generally more variable in grade, structure, and mineralogy because of the greater ductility of the marble
(ii) Contact Metasomatic or Hydrothermal Deposits in Marble
This type of deposit occurs in skarn or altered marbles and exhibits characteristics grading from the disseminated flake type to the vein type of graphite. They are generally of higher grade but of lower tonnage than the disseminated flake type, commonly consisting of massive, graphite-rich pods and lenses in the marble host rock. |
