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| Record Name(s) | Whitefish - 1967 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1980-Mar-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Graham
Latitude: 46° 22' 58.91" Longitude: -81° 17' 41.56"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 477324.97 Northing: 5136648.505 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Sudbury
NTS Grid: 41I06NW
Point Location Description: Point
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Whitefish Occurrence is located approximately 20 km west of Sudbury, in the central area of Denison Township. The area is crosscut by two east to west trending main roads: the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 17) and highway 658. The occurrence is located on the south side of Highway 55 (Old Hwy 17) on the west bank of Fairbank Creek which flows into Vermilon River. (M2119) (OFR 6109, p.1, 2)
A 4 m (12 feet) section of laminated clay is exposed in a creek bank on the south side of Highway 17 in the southwest corner of Graham Township 0.8 km east of Whitefish. The section is illustrated in Figure 26, p. 90. Two samples were taken as follows. Sample 62-609: The top l m of uniformly laminated (varved?) red clay and olive-grey silt. The clay sample is stoneless, but it underlies a thin gravel seam and l m of yellow sand. Sample 62-608: The bottom 3 m (9 feet) of the bank consists of thinly laminated (varved?) brown-red clay and grey-brown silt in equal proportions. The material is rather tough, blocky weathering, and contains only occasional pebbles. (MDC015, p.81-84, 90-91)
Province: Southern
Subprovince: Cobalt Basin
Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup
Formation Group: Elliot Lake Group
Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Terrigenous-Clastic-Unsubdivided | 1 | Biotite Metapelites, Wacke, Siltstone, Clay, Silt | Host |
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Map - Denison-Waters area, Sudbury District
Publication Number: M2119 Scale: 1:31,680 Date: 1967
Author: Card K.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Clay and shale deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC015 Scale: Date: 1977
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Folio - Graham Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: GDIF066 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Sudbury RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location: Mines Library, Sudbury; Geology Ontario
Map - Geology, Sudbury bedrock compilation, Ontario
Publication Number: OF 4570 Scale: 1:50,000 Date: 2005
Author: Ames, D E; Davidson, A; Buckle, J L; Card, K D
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/221501
Folio - Graham Township, District of Sudbury
Publication Number: GDIF066 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Sudbury RGO
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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