AbstractsEarth & Environmental Science

The purpose or this investigation is to give a description of the geology, with accompanying maps, of two areas near Millertown, Newfoundland. The field work was done during the summers of 1950 and 1951 for the Buchans Mining Company as a part of its scheme of systematically mapping their large mineral concession. Although the areas are not adjoining, the geology of the two will give a picture of the rock types found in crossing the “Central Mineralized Belt of Newfoundland”· Location The northern, or Buchans Junction Area, extends south of the C.N.R. tracks from points about eight miles west and two miles east of Millertown Junction to an east-west line running through the town or Millertown. ‘l’he centre of this area is approximately located at 48° 55’N - 56° 20’W. The southern, or Ambrose Lake Area, has a northern boundary about eight miles southwest of the Buchans Junction Area. It extends southward between the Victoria River on the west and the Anglo Newfoundland Development Company tramway on the east, to an east-west line a mile south of the depot at Ambrose Lake. To the south, the area extends 3½ miles east of a north-south running truck road of the A.N.D. Co. and thence south and southwest or the Noel Paul Brook. The position or the Ambrose Lake depot is approximately 48° 36’N - 56° 38’W. Rough geological sketches of this area were first made by W.E. Cormack in his trek across the island in 1822. [...]