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Record: MDI31C03SE00013

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) D. Sullivan - 2001
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources
Date Created 1991-Jan-31
Date Last Modified 2023-Aug-28
Created By
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Clay



Location

Township or Area: Hallowell

Latitude: 44° 0' 42.23"    Longitude: -77° 7' 51.34"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 329186.997   Northing: 4875383.293    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31C03SE

Point Location Description: Point at Brick Kiln Point.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI



Exploration History

Circa 1906,1908 : D. Sullivan operated a brickyard which produced red stock brick, about 4-500,000/year for local use only. The white clay below would have made good white brick but there was no demand for it.




Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - 2.5-4 ft of red clay with white below - sampled 1906.




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: 745  Date: 1908

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

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


Publication - Preliminary report on the clay and shale deposits of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 142

Publication Number: GSC Memoir 142 Page: 79  Date: 1924

Author: Keele, J

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100854


Part - Mines of Ontario

Publication Number: ARV15-01.003 Page: 95  Date: 1998

Author: Corkill E.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:


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