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| Record Name(s) | Carswell Yard - 1907, Cobden - 1907 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect Without Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1993-May-18 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-04 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Ross, Ross
Latitude: 45° 41' 15.67" Longitude: -76° 49' 30.31"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 357887 Northing: 5060968 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31F10SW
Point Location Description: approximate location
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Point at Cobden.
1908 - 100,000 bricks produced per season.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Is |
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May 10, 2013 (A Wilson) - At this yard are two layers of clay which go to a considerable depth. The clay from both is mixed and tempered with sand, and...makes red stock brick...."
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Clay | Economic | Ore |
May 10, 2013 (A Wilson) - The marine clay is smooth and had a higher tensile strength in the raw state thatn most of the Champlain clay. The clay was used to make red brick circa 1908.
Book - Mining and Metallurgical Industries of Canada, 1907-08;, p. 746
Publication Number: #24 Date: 1908
Author: B.F. Haanel et al.
Publisher Name: DEMR/CANMET
Location: OGS Library
Publication - Preliminary Report on the Clay and Shale Deposits of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 142
Publication Number: GSC Memoir 142 Page: 63-64 Date: 1924
Author: Keele, J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100854
MonoMap - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region
Publication Number: OFR5425 Page: 29 Date: 1983
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Clay and shale deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC015 Page: 54 Date: 1977
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Industrial minerals of the Algonquin region, Pembroke area, southern Ontario
Publication Number: P2565 Scale: 1:125,000 Date: 1982
Author: Martin W.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Map - Cobden, Precambrian geology
Publication Number: M2460 Scale: 1:100,000 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - Summary of metallogeny, Renfrew County area
Publication Number: R212 Date: 1983
Author: Lumbers S.B.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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