Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Peatland 42a-131 - 1985, Study Site 42a-131 - 1985 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1986-May-20 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Sep-27 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: McCart
Latitude: 48° 46' 42.01" Longitude: -80° 49' 53.23"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 512382.672 Northing: 5402828.764 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42A15SW
Point Location Description: Centre of swamp west of highway 11, NW of Herman Lake
Location Method: Other Literature
Access Description: The site is accessible via highway 11. The site is located approximately at the junction between highway 567 and highway 11, roughly 7 km west of Iroquois Falls. A gravel road south of Nellie Lake runs westward from highway 11 across the southern perimeter of the peatland.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Lignite | 1 | Peat | Host |
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Dec 07, 2005 (A Wilson) - The quality of the peat is suitable for fuel peat or possibly horticultural peat. The deposit has a total volume of 7 447 000 cubic metres of peat with 5 430 000 cubic metres of this being humified peat. 74% of the volume of peat occurs where the peat depths exceed 2 m.
Mono - Peat and peatland inventory of the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area, summary volume and appendix volumes A to I
Publication Number: OFR5540 Page: 245-265 Date: 1985
Author: Northland Assoc. Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Peat and Peatland Resources of Northeastern Ontario
Publication Number: MP153 Page: 42-44, 92 Date: 1994
Author: Riley J.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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