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Besner Mine (Henvey pegmatite), Henvey Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada

Thucholite
Besner Mine, Henvey Township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada

Photo: alfredo petrov
Ref.: Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 39.

Granite pegmatite dike. Concession B, Lot 5

"The deposit was worked for feldspar from 1926 to 1929 by Wanup Feldspar Mines Limited which shipped about 2268 t of feldspar. It was the largest feldspar operation in the district. The open-pit measures 46 m by 15 m and 9 m deep."

Yellow liquid oil and nodules of hardened oil were reported to occur in fracture zones in the pegmatite.

Mineral List

Albite
'Allanite'
'var: Pyrorthite'
'Apatite'
Beryl
Biotite
'Bitumen
var: Elaterite'
 Calcite
'Chert'
'Garnet'
Hematite
var: Martite
Magnetite
Marcasite
Microcline
 Muscovite
'Perthite'
'Petroleum'
Pyrite
'Pyrobitumen
var: Thucholite'
Quartz
var: Chalcedony ?
 Titanite
Uraninite
Zippeite
Zircon
var: Cyrtolite


25 entries listed. 12 valid minerals.

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References

Traill, R. J., 1970, A Catalogue of Canadian Minerals, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 69-45, pp. 649.

Hugh S. Spence (1930) A REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE OF THUCHOLITE AND OIL IN A PEGMATITE DYKE, PARRY SOUND DISTRICT, ONTARIO. The American Mineralogist, 15, No. 11, 499-520.

P. K. KURODA and R. D. SHERRILL (1977) Xenon and krypton isotope anomalies in the Besner Mine, Ontario, thucholite. Geochemical Journal, Vol. 11, 9-19.

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