Ontario Geological Survey
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MDI31G06NW00010
| Record Name(s) | Bearbrook Shale - 1993, Bear Brook - 2000 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1993-Mar-12 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-01 |
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Primary Commodities: Shale (Crushed Stone)
Township or Area: Cumberland
Latitude: 45° 23' 22.18" Longitude: -75° 20' 5.77"
UTM Zone: 18 Easting: 473781.278 Northing: 5026274.288 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Southern Ontario
NTS Grid: 31G06NW
Point Location Description: Point at Bearbrook.
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: Samples taken from the banks of the brook where about 5 ft of shale is exposed under 2 ft of overburden.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Dec 07, 2005 (C Papertzian) - 3 samples ( 145-7 ) of black, carbonaceous, fissile shales of the Billings Formation. These proved to be exellent bloating materials in the stationary furnace but gave poor results when processed in the rotary kiln ( because of a narrow vitrification range).
Publication - Lightweight concrete aggregates from clays and shales in Ontario; Canada Mines Branch, Technical Bulletin TB51
Publication Number: TB51 Scale: Date: 1963
Author: Wilson, H S
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/299938
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