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| Record Name(s) | Philipsville-Delta Area - 1946 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1993-Feb-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Sandstone (Silica)
Secondary Commodities: Sandstone
Township or Area: Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, Bastard
Latitude: 44° 38' 7.48" Longitude: -76° 7' 53.57"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 410253 Northing: 4943073.01 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C09NE
Point Location Description: The site is located at a bend in highway 42 between Philipsville and Delta.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: The site is located on the north side of highway 42 between the town of Delta and Philipsville corner.
1946 – Ontario Department of Mines - sampling
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Geological Age: Paleozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sandstone | 1 | Is |
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Nov 21, 2013 (A Wilson) - The cliff face exhibits a wide variety of rocks. From the base of the section the rock types are: interbedded buff and white calcareous sandstone, white siliceous sandstone, and thin-bedded mottled and pitted sandstone. The sandstone is variably coloured including: buff, red, brown and white. Potsdam sandstone is exposed in cliffs rising to 100 feet above the highway. The rock at this site is finer-grained than at the Kingston Silica Mines site and the Hart Road site. It has a higher iron content and a considerably higher content of carbonate and feldspar.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Silica | Economic | Ore |
Nov 21, 2013 (A Wilson) - The sandstone at this location is not considered to be a good source of high-grade silica sand because of the impurities within it. However, the occurrence may have potential for development as a source of lower-grade silica sands. Some of the beds may be suitable for dimension stone and some foundry sand, blast sand could also be derived from this area. Sampling from the site returned the following analyses: 87.02-98.20% SiO2, 0 - 0.49% Fe2O3, 0.45 - 2.86% Al2O3, 0.06 - 0.20% MgO and 0 - 3.41% CaO.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratiform |
Part - Sandstone as a source of silica sands in southeastern Ontario
Publication Number: ARV55-05 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Keith M.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Map - Geological series, Paleozoic geology, Westport area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2723 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 1984
Author: Williams D.A., Wolf R.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Part of southeastern Ontario showing distribution of Potsdam sandstone
Publication Number: M1946-09 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Keith M.L., Baker M.B., Wright J.F., Wilson A.E., Wilson M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
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