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Record: MDI31G05NE00002

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Mer Bleue - 1982
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Discretionary Occurrence
Date Created 1982-Apr-22
Date Last Modified 2022-May-02
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Commodities

Primary Commodities: Peat



Location

Township or Area: Gloucester

Latitude: 45° 24' 55.18"    Longitude: -75° 31' 24.8"

UTM Zone: 18    Easting: 459035.022   Northing: 5029223.152    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario

NTS Grid: 31G05NE, 31G06NW, 31G06SW

Point Location Description: Northerly peat bog symbol, about 13 km E of Ottawa.

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: Extensive peat bog, also in Cumberland township - 5,004 acres. See also MDI31G06NW00007.





Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - See DEMR/CANMET ( Mines Branch Report ) # 30 ( 1909 ) for good description.




Mineral Record Details

References

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: 10-12  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: 83-86  Date: 1961

Author: Graham, R B; Tibbetts, T E

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/299911


Publication - Bulletin on peat; Geological Survey of Canada, Separate Report 880

Publication Number: GSC Sep Rep 880 Page: 20  Date: 1904

Author: Chalmers, R

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/297617


Publication - Summary report of the Mines Branch of the Department of Mines for the nine month ending December 31, 1908; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 28

Publication Number: CMB Pub 28 Page: 74  Date: 1909

Author:

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/308034


Publication - Annual report on the divison of mineral resources and statistics on mineral production of Canada during the calendar years 1907 and 1908; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 58

Publication Number: CMB Pub 58 Page: 203  Date: 1909

Author: McLeish, J

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307354


Publication - Report of analysis of ores, non-metallic minerals, fuels, etc. made in the chemical laboratories during the years 1906, 1907, 1908; Canada Mines Branch, Publication 59

Publication Number: CMB Pub 59 Page: 53  Date: 1909

Author: Wait, F G

Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/307355


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