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Record: MDI31B12SW00004

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Butternut Bay - 1990
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1990-Nov-26
Date Last Modified 2022-May-05
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Sandstone



Location

Township or Area: Elizabethtown

Latitude: 44° 31' 16.09"    Longitude: -75° 46' 47.87"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 438016.962   Northing: 4930052.65    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31B12SW

Point Location Description: Point on E shore of Butternut Bay.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Sample from a cliff on the shore of the St. Lawrence River.



Geology

Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - # Le-16 : a sandstone was sampled (1912) - 95.35 % SiO2 - fine-grained, white-yellow, soft with beds of variable thickness. The sandstone is exposed along the river and capped with limestone.




Mineral Record Details

References

Publication - Summary report of the mines branch of the department of mines for the calendar year ending December 31 1918; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 509

Publication Number: CMB Pub 509 Page: 58  Date: 1920

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307720


Mono - Silica sand potential in eastern Ontario, preliminary report 1

Publication Number: OFR5265 Page: 1-19  Date: 1979

Author: Powell R.D., Klugman M.A.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


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