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| Record Name(s) | Perth Peat Bog - 1909, Peatland 31C-619 - 1983, Blueberry Marsh - 1983 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Nov-30 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-May-24 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Drummond
Latitude: 44° 57' 1.56" Longitude: -76° 16' 1.43"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 400050 Northing: 4978225 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31C16NE, 31C16NW
Point Location Description: Centre of bog in con 4, lot 3-6.
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: Situated directly north of Perth, this deposit extends for approximately 8 km to just south of Drummond Centre, and is just to the west of Highway 7. Established roadways exist around the peatland. Several private roadways are directly on the peatland.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sedimentary Unconsolidated-unsubdivided | 1 | Is |
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Sep 16, 2015 (C Papertzian) - A vast deposit covering 1,498 ha with an estimated total volume of 31,900 cu m of peat (29,500 cubic metres of humified peat). The peat is generally evenly-distributed and in excess of 1 m thick over the greater part of the deposit. The largest volumes of peat are located in the SE part of the deposit, an area of limited tree cover - in this bog setting, depths in excess of 4 m have been found. However, a significant portion of the deposit is tree-covered. The open areas have fair potential for moss peat production. It would be possible to drain the peatland with ditches and gravity flow to exploit the considerable volume of humified peat, especially in the S end of the deposit where a small scale extraction operation could be feasible. The deposit is mainly privately owned, except for part of lot 25, con 3 (50 acres) which is owned by the County of Lanark. Present land use is for pasture and woodlot.
Sep 16, 2015 (A Wilson) - The dominant vegetation types are deciduous swamp and conifer swamp, with a significant area of mixed deciduous and conifer swamp. The peatland is generally treed except for a bog in the southeasterly part. The dominant peat depth is between 200 and 300 cm. Several small areas to the south of the deposit were found to host peat depths up to 480 cm.
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| 1 | Unconsolidated |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Blueberry Marsh | 1983 | Probable | 30000 | OFR5490 | The deposit has an estimated total volume of 31 900 m3 of peat. Equivalent to 29 500 m3 of humified peat. |
Publication - Investigation of the peat bogs and peat industry of Canada, during the season 1908-9; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 30
Publication Number: CMB Pub 30 Page: 17-18 Date: 1909
Author: Nyström, E; Anrep, S A
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/305379
Publication - Evaluation of peat moss as applied to some bogs in southern Ontario; Canada Mines Branch, Technical Bulletin TB22
Publication Number: CMB TB22 Page: 32-36 Date: 1961
Author: Graham, R B; Tibbetts, T E
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/299911
Mono - Peat and peatland evaluation of the Kingston-Belleville area, volumes 1 to 7
Publication Number: OFR5490 Page: 146-155 Date: 1984
Author: Gartner Lee Assoc. Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Book - Mineral Occurrences of Lanark (unpublished)
Publication Number: Page: 172 Date: 1944
Author: Satterly, J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Department of Mines
Location: Tweed RGP
Book - Ontario Peat Bogs p. 55
Publication Number: No. 59 Page: 55 Date: 1909
Author:
Publisher Name: DEMR/CANMET
Location:
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