Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Drummond Island - 1990 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1990-Nov-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Edwardsburgh
Latitude: 44° 45' 8.3" Longitude: -75° 26' 10.29"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 465473.49 Northing: 4955527.899 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31B14SW
Point Location Description: Point on Drummond Island.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: From a 4 ft section.
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - Sample # 704 from a 4 ft section on the island, the surface of which is composed of this clay. It works up into a very stiff mass when ground and wet, burns to a dense red body, but has abnormally high shrinkage and is liable to check in firing. This material is not recommended for the manufacture of burned clay products.
Book - Preliminary report on the clay and shale deposits of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 142
Publication Number: GSC Mem 142 Page: 67 Date: 1924
Author: Keele, J
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100854
Publication - Report on structural materials along the St. Lawrence River, between. Prescott, Ont., and Lachine, Que.; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 549
Publication Number: CMB Pub 549 Page: 43 Date: 1922
Author:
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307750
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