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Record: MDI31B12SE00019

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) W.H. Wood - 1906
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1993-Mar-18
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-25
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Clay



Location

Township or Area: Elizabethtown

Latitude: 44° 35' 59.27"    Longitude: -75° 41' 6.42"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 445627.799   Northing: 4938722.84    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31B12SE

Point Location Description: Point at Brockville.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

Circa 1906 : a brickworks using a 3-4 ft thick bed of red clay. This lies above a Leda blue clay which is not used.The red clay contains some stone .




Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Red clay (3-4 ft) with some stone, above Leda blue clay.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Report on the mining and metallurgical industries of Canada, 1907-8; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 24

Publication Number: CMB Pub 24 Page: 710  Date: 1908

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/308119


Part - Clay and the clay industry of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV15-02 Page: 77  Date: 1998

Author: Baker M.B.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


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