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Record Name(s) | M. Ryan Brickworks - 1906 |
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Related Record Type | Simple |
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Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
Date Created | 1993-Mar-18 |
Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Elmsley
Latitude: 44° 53' 51.22" Longitude: -76° 0' 57.77"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 419777.29 Northing: 4972072.79 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16NE
Point Location Description: Point at Smiths Falls.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Situated on the north bank of the Rideau canal, above Smiths Falls.
Circa 1906 : M. Ryan – clay pit in production; worked about 5 ft. of red-top clay down to water level.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Is |
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Sandstone | 2 | Adjacent | ||
Dolomitic Rock | 3 | Adjacent |
Sep 16, 2015 (A Wilson) - This is a small deposit of marine clay - Erie blue clay underlies the Red-top clay, but only the latter is used in brickmaking.
Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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1 | Clay | Economic | Ore |
Sep 16, 2015 (A Wilson) - The brick works had a capacity of 1,800,000 bricks per season.
Rank | Classification |
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1 | Industrial |
Rank | Characteristic |
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1 | Unconsolidated |
Book - Clay, p. 710
Publication Number: No. 24 Date: 1908
Author:
Publisher Name: DEMR/CANMET
Location: Southern Ontario RGO
Publication - Preliminary Report on the Clay and Shale Deposits of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 142
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 142 Page: 64 Date: 1924
Author: Keele, J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100854
Part - Clay and the clay industry of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV15-02 Page: 76 Date: 1998
Author: Baker M.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
Location:
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