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Kirkham Graphite Property

Occurrence in Ontario, Canada with commodity Graphite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024359
MRDS ID ISM0067
Record type Site
Current site name Kirkham Graphite Property
Alternate or previous names Desert Lake Graphite Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -76.57407, 44.5597 (WGS84)
Relative position MAP SYMBOL, 300 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kingston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Ontario

Comments on the location information

  • 7 KM EAST OF GODFREY ON THE NORTHEAST SHORE OF DESERT LAKE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GRAPHITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Grenville;Grenville;Grenville
    Rock description Grenville;Grenville;Grenville
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -76.57407, 44.5597
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; GRPT + DPSD + SRPN + CRBN, TRACE OF CLRT, PLCP AND PYRT; ORE HORIZON IS IN SILICATED CALCITIC MARBLE (SKARN). ORE ZONES HAVE MAXIMUM WIDTH OF ABOUT 25 FEET OVER LENGTH RANGING FROM 250-300 FEET. GRADE IS ABOUT 10-12 % C. GRAPHITE OCCURS IN A SYNCLINAL STRUCTURE, PLUNGING NORTHEAST AT 25 DEG OVERTURNED TO THE WEST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1919

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Falconbridge Ltd.

Comments on the production information

  • NONE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FIGURES SPECULATIVE, BASED UPON OBSERVED DEPOSIT DIMENSIONS, LITERATURE SEARCH AND ON GEOLOGICAL SETTING

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(YES); ASSESSMENT(IN 1983, W.S KENNEDY OPTIONNED THE PROPERTY FROM FALCONBRIDGE LIMITED AND CARRIED OUT A MARKET ASSESSMENT); MILL TESTS INDICATE GRAPHITE PRODUCTS OF SOME 20-50 MESH FLAKE AND LARGE VOLUME OF PLUS 80 MESH FLAKE. FIRST MAJOR EXPLORATION, 1952 BULK SAMPLING AND BENCH TESTING IN 1982

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPERTZIAN, V.C., AND KINGSTON, P. W., "GRAPHITE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL IN EASTERN ONTARIO", ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, OPEN FILE REPORT 5377, 1982, P.27-31

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, D.F., "GRAPHITE IN ONTARIO", ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF MINES, INDUSTRIAL MINERAL REPORT 20, 1965, P.11-17

  • Deposit

    SPENCE, H.S., "GRAPHITE", CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINES BRANCH, MEMOIR NO.511, 1920, P.202

  • Deposit

    KINGSTON, P.W., AND PAPERTZIAN, V. C., "REPORT OF ACTIVITIES 1983, REGIONAL AND RESIDENT GEOLOGISTS", ONTARIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, MISCELLANEOUS PAPER 117, 1984, P.219-235

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1984 Zwartendyk, Jan Energy Mines and Resources of Canada

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Falconbridge Ltd. — now part of Subsidiary of Glencore (2013)
    Acquired by Xstrata in 2006; Xstrata merged into Glencore in 2013.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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