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List Of Mines In The Bancroft Area
The following are a list of notable mines and quarries within 50 miles of Bancroft, Ontario. {, class="wikitable" , + !Name(s) !Primary mineral(s) !Location !Years active !Type !Owner (and parent companies) , - , Bicroft Mine , Uranium , Cardiff , 1957–1963 , Underground , Barrick Gold , - , Dyno Mine , Uranium , Cardiff , 1958–1960 , Underground , Ovintiv , - , Faraday Mine, Madawaska Mine , Uranium , Faraday , 1954–1964, 1975–1982 , Underground , Ovintiv , - , Greyhawk Mine , Uranium , Faraday , 1957–1959, 1976–1982 , Underground , Ovintiv , - , Richardson Mine , Gold , Eldorado , 1867–1869 , Underground , John Richardson (leased to Marcus Herbert Powell), Lombard and Hardin, Kim Woodside , - , Silver Crater Mine , Betafite , Cardiff , 1925–1955 , Open-pit, underground , Bancroft Mica and Stone Products Mining Syndicate, Silver Crater Mines , - , Princess Sodalite Mine , Sodalite , Bancroft , 1892–present , Quarry , Princess Sodalite Mine Rock Shop See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bancroft, Ontario
Bancroft () is a town located on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was first settled in the 1850s by United Empire Loyalists and Irish immigrants. From the mid-1950s to about 1982, mining was the primary industry. A village until 1999, Bancroft then merged with Dungannon Township to form the Town of Bancroft. The population at the time of the 2016 Census was 3,881; the regional population is 40,000. There are 150,000 visitors to Bancroft, annually. History By 1823, the government had purchased nearly two million acres of land from the Chippewa and Mississaga First Nations including a tract on the York River in Hastings County which had been established in 1792. The area was mapped in 1835 by explorer David Thompson. The first family to build a cabin here, the Clarks in 1853, did so to take advantage of the fur trade. Early settlers included James Cleak and Alfred Barker from England who arrived in 1855, settling on Quarry Lake. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldorado, Ontario
Eldorado is community in Madoc, Ontario (township), Madoc Township, in Ontario, Canada, with a 2019 population of 50. In 1866, it was the location of Ontario's first gold rush after Marcus Herbert Powell found gold on John Richardson's farm.ONTARIO'S FIRST GOLD MINE' (public sign), John Street and Ontario Highway 62, Highway 62, Archeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario Location Eldorado is located six miles away from the centre of Madoc. History Municipal employee and part-time prospector Marcus Herbert Powell found gold on August 15, 1866, on a farm owned by John Richardson's. The town of Eldorado was founded in 1867. The same year the Richardson Mine went into operation. Despite higher expectations, Powell extracted about 100 ounces of gold, worth $1,500 to $2,000 at the time, but no further gold was found. Various other mines that had quickly opened, quickly closed. Demographics In 2019 the population of Eldorado was 50, down from 4,000 during the gold rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uranium Mining In The Bancroft Area
Uranium mining around Bancroft, Ontario, was conducted at four sites, beginning in the early 1950s and concluding by 1982. Bancroft was one of two major uranium-producing areas in Ontario, and one of seven in Canada, all located along the edge of the Canadian Shield. In the context of mining, the "Bancroft area" includes Haliburton, Hastings, and Renfrew counties, and all areas between Minden and Lake Clear. Activity in the mid-1950s was described by engineer A. S. Bayne in a 1977 report as the "greatest uranium prospecting rush in the world". As a result of activities at its four major uranium mines, Bancroft experienced rapid population and economic growth throughout the 1950s. By 1958, Canada had become one of the world's leading producers of uranium; the $274 million of uranium exports that year represented Canada's most significant mineral export. By 1963, the federal government had purchased more than $1.5 billion of uranium from Canadian producers, but soon thereaft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mines In Ontario
This is a list of mines in the Canadian province of Ontario and includes both operating and closed mines. *Adams Mine *Agnew Lake Mine *Amalgamated Larder Mine *Argonaut Mine * Armistice Mine * Associated Goldfields Mine *Barber Larder Mine *Barton Mine *Beanland Mine * Bell Creek Mine *Bidgood Mine *Bicroft Mine (uranium) *Big Dan Mine * Black Fox Mine *Buckles Mine * Campbell Mine *Can-Met Mine * Cheminis Mine *Chesterville Mine *Coleman Mine *Copper Cliff North Mine *Copper Cliff South Mine *Copperfields Mine *Coppersand Mine *Craig Mine *Creighton Mine *Denison Mine *Detour Gold Mine *Dome Mine *Dyno Mine (uranium) * Eagle River Mine *Falconbridge Mine *Faraday Mine (now Madawaska Mine) *Frood Mine *Fraser Mine * Garson Mine * Geco Mine * Goderich Salt Mines - Sifto Canada *Golden Giant Mine * Greyhawk Mine (Uranium) * Hagersville-CGC * Hemlo Mine *Hermiston-McCauley Mine *Hollinger Mines *Holloway Mine *Holt Mine * Hoyle Pond Mine *Hudson Rand Mine *Josephine Mine *Kanichee M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sodalite
Sodalite ( ) is a tectosilicate mineral with the formula , with royal blue varieties widely used as an wikt:ornamental, ornamental gemstone. Although massive sodalite samples are opaque, crystals are usually transparent to translucent. Sodalite is a member of the sodalite group with hauyne, nosean, lazurite and tugtupite. First discovered by Europeans in 1811 in the Ilimaussaq intrusive complex in Greenland, sodalite did not become important as an ornamental stone until 1891 when vast deposits of fine material were discovered in Ontario, Canada. Structure The structure of sodalite was first studied by Linus Pauling in 1930. It is a cubic mineral of space group P3n (:Minerals in space group 218, space group 218) which consists of an aluminosilicate cage network with Na+ cations and chloride anions in the interframework. (There may be small amounts of other cations and anions instead.) This framework forms a zeolite cage structure. Each unit cell has two cavities, which have alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Sodalite Mine
Princess Sodalite Mine (previously the Princess Sodalite Quarry) is a sodalite quarry and retail shop, located near Bancroft, Ontario. The sodalite deposit was first discovered in 1892. Nomenclature and history The mineral deposit was first found by Frank Dawson Adams in 1892.Gem, Kitchener-Waterloo.''Mineral of the Month: SODALITE''" (2006). Sodalite from the quarry was displayed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The Princess of Wales was given a gift of sodalite from the quarry in 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. She liked it so much that she ordered a shipment to decorate Marlborough House, in London, England. Thomas Morrison, the quarry's owner at the time, named the quarry the Princess Sodalite Quarry after her visit. The ''Quarry'' name continued through the 20th century until at least 2002. In 1999, the owners of the quarry donated a sodalite boulder to the Earth Sciences Museum at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.The quarry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betafite
Betafite is a mineral group in the pyrochlore supergroup, with the chemical formula . Betafite typically occurs as a primary mineral in granite pegmatites, rarely in carbonatites. Originally defined by the B-site atom Ti, the development of new nomenclature for mineral names led to modernization of the system for nomenclature of pyrochlore and betafite in order to further rationalize the naming process of this grouping of minerals. Only two of the mineral species that were formerly recognized as betafite are presently retained. They are ''oxyuranobetafite'' and ''oxycalciobetafite''. The term ''betafite'' is now a synonym or varietal group name under the pyrochlore super group. Structure The pyrochlore supergroup minerals conform to the general formula, A2−''m''B2X6−''w''Y1−''n'', where the ''m'', ''w'', and ''n'' variables represent the parameters that indicate incomplete occupancy of the A, Y, and X sites. They crystallize isometric system with a space group of Fdm or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Crater Mine
Silver Crater Mine, previously known as the Basin Deposit, is an abandoned mine in Cardiff, Ontario. It has produced some of the world's most notable betafite crystals. The mine has been worked since the late 19th-century, with industrial mining of mica starting in 1927. Uranium was sought in the 1950s and the mine has been abandoned since 1955. Location, nomenclature, and geology Silver Crater mine is located 8 miles west of Bancroft. It was previously known as the Basin Deposit or Basic Occurrence. The mine is located in the Grenville Province geological area. Mining activity enabled access to crustal carbonatite in a biotite-amphibolite and syenitized gneiss rock, located between an area of granite to the north and marble to the south. Geologists assess that the minerals found at the mine reached the current location about 1,050 or about 1,150 million years ago. History and activities Prospectors have worked the area of the mine since the late 19th-century, seeking m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richardson Mine
The Richardson Mine was Ontario's first gold mine, opened by Marcus Herbert Powell in 1867. The mine's opening caused Ontario's first gold rush, prompting the founding of Eldorado, Ontario the same year. After only 100 ounces of gold was extracted, the mine closed in 1869. History On August 15, 1866, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Ontario Divisional Court clerk employee and part-time prospector Marcus Herbert Powell discovered gold while prospecting for copperD. F. HewittGeology and Scenery, Peterborough, Bancroft and Madoc Area, 1988, p94 on an Ontario farm near Madoc, Ontario (township), Madoc owned by John Richardson's.ONTARIO'S FIRST GOLD MINE'' (public sign), John Street and Ontario Highway 62, Highway 62, Archeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario Powell initially leased 19 acres the farm in exchange for 50% of what gold could be extracted. Powell then sold the farm to two Chicago miners called Lombard and Hardin for $36,000. $21,000 of that went to farmer John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicroft Mine
Bicroft Mine is a decommissioned underground uranium mine, located near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. It is one of fourteen former uranium mines in Ontario that is monitored by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and one of twenty in Canada. Aside from uranium, the mine has also produced globally renowned samples of Kainosite-(Y). Location Bicroft Mine is a decommissioned former underground uranium mine located near Highlands East (previously known as Cardiff), southwest of Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. It is one of four former mines near Bancroft - the others being Faraday Mine/Madawaska Mine, Dyno Mine, and Greyhawk Mine). It is also one of fourteen former uranium mines in Ontario that is monitored by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and one of twenty of such in Canada. Products Aside from uranium, the mine has also produced globally renowned samples of Kainosite-(Y). Discovery of uranium - 1922 to 1953 Uranium was first discovered in the area of Cardiff i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greyhawk Mine
Greyhawk Mine is a decommissioned underground uranium mine located in Faraday Township near Bancroft, Ontario. It operated from 1954 to 1959 and from 1976 to 1982. The mine produced 80,247 tons of uranium ore, of which 0.069% was U3O8 worth $834,899. Aside from uranium, the mine has produced some of the world's best samples of Kainosite-(Y). Uranium discovery - 1922 to 1954 Uranium was first discovered in the nearby area of Cardiff in 1922 by W. M. Richardson. Between 1953 and 1956, one hundred area prospects were opened, including one by one which developed into Greyhawk Mine. Mine operations - 1954 to 1982 In 1954, Goldhawk Porcupine Mines Limited (who later became Goldhawk Uranium Mines Limited) undertook geology surveys, drilling to 450 feet deep. During 1955 and 1956 Greyhawk Uranium Mines Limited sunk a vertical shaft to 361 feet creating three levels at depths of 110 feet, 211 feet, and 333 feet. They then drilled 114 holes (totalling 42,299 feet of drilling). By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faraday, Ontario
Faraday is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within Hastings County adjacent to the town of Bancroft. History The township of Faraday was first settled 1857, when iron ore deposits were discovered. Prior to the 1922 discovery of uranium, mica, feldspar, and other minerals were mined on a small scale in area. Inspired by finds of gold in nearby Eldorado (now Madoc) in 1886–7 and onwards, many people moved to the area hoping to find gold. The Barker Quarries operated South of Marble Lake sporadically from 1908 into the late 1930s providing marble for government buildings in Ottawa and Casa Loma and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. After the second world war, and the invention of atomic energy, a global demand for uranium increased and the Canadian government permitted uranium prospecting. Arthur H. Shore, an independent prospector, first found uranium at his lot on Faraday township in 1948 or 1949. He founded Faraday Uranium Mines Limited in 1949, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
