Burgess Mine, Carlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Burgess Mine	Mine
Carlow Township	Township
Hastings County	County
Ontario	Province
Canada	Country

This mine is made up of a large adit driven into the west side of Burgess Ridge, & a large dump located beside a pond about 35 meters from the adit.

The mine is within a northeasterly trending body of syenitic gneisses & pink & white leuco-syenite pegmatite. These syenites along with granitic rock, form the Burgess Ridge.
(Eardley-Wilmot, 1927 desciption as follows)
Mining was started in July, 1902, on concession XIV, lot 14, by the Ontario Corundum Company. Operations were continued until 1905 when the property was taken over by the Ashland Emery and Corundum Company. Shipments were at first small and irregular, mainly owing to the depletion of the ore at the original location. Mining activities were transferred to a deposit on concession XVI, lots 15 and 16, north of Grady lake, about 2 miles to the north, from which a considerable tonnage was obtained for the next two years. In 1907 these deposits were also abandoned and ore was taken first from concession XII, lot 10, a haulage of 3 miles to the mill, and later from the deposit on John Armstrong's hill, concession XV, lot 10, about 1 and 1/2
miles to the west.
Early in 1910 the Armstrong Corundum Company, Limited, secured a lease on the Burgess plant, but after operating only two months it was taken over by the Manufacturers Corundum Company who was already operating the Craig mill and mine about 4 miles to the east. The crude concentrates from the Burgess mine were finished at the Craig mill.
In the main workings in the steep hill-side just to the north of the old mill the quarry is about 200 feet in length with a 50-foot face. The corundum, which is very pockety, occurs as large, brown or bronze crystals in coarse, micaceous, red pegmatite syenite. There is very little to be seen in place except at the north end of the workings near the contact of the syenite and
banded gneiss.
The nearest railway is at Barry's Bay station, 32 miles to the north. The ore and concentrates during the summer were hauled to a wharf on the York river and shipped by barge to the station.

In the main Burgess workings the interbanded layers of grey and pink syenite lie almost horizontally. Corundum occurs in both types of syenite, sometimes in association with magnetite.
The Burgess property is now reported to be owned by H. H. Armstrong, of
New Carlow. The mine buildings have long been removed, but the road to the
mine is still passable for automobiles.

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