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| Record Name(s) | Wolseley Lake - 1907, Scale Lake - 1907, Lake Scales - 1907, Colonial Portland Cement Company - 1907 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1984-Aug-21 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Marl
Secondary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Keppel, Keppel
Latitude: 44° 43' 40.9" Longitude: -81° 1' 31.43"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 497988.83 Northing: 4952738.83 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 41A11NE
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Marl | Is |
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Feb 27, 2017 (A Wilson) - The marl of Wolseley Lake was held in reserve by the Colonial Portland Cement Company. The company made cement in their Wiarton plant during 1907 and 1908/ The plant was closed after this short productive life and the Wolseley Lake marl was never used.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Calcite | Economic | Ore |
Feb 27, 2017 (A Wilson) - The Wolseley Lake marl is of fair quality. A 10-foot section averaged 80.9% CaCO3, 3.4% MgCO3, 0.30% Fe2O3 and 3.06 insoluble. The crude marl is 70.0% water; 500 pounds of dry marl are contained in one cubic yard of the crude.
Map - Geology, Wiarton, Ontario
Publication Number: Map 20-1965 Scale: 1:63,360 Date: 1966
Author: Caley, J F; Liberty, B A
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/108583
Part - Cement industry of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV14-01.006 Page: 139-141 Date: 1998
Author: Gillespie P.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Marl in Ontario
Publication Number: IMR028 Page: 62-63, 134 Date: 1997
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Quaternary geology of the Wiarton area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2559 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1982
Author: Sharpe D.R., Jamieson G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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