Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Bell No. 7 - 1904 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-Jun-25 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Oct-07 |
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Primary Commodities: Lignite
Township or Area: East Of Martison Lake Area, Amery
Latitude: 50° 21' 43.71" Longitude: -82° 43' 48.68"
UTM Zone: 17 Easting: 376939.77 Northing: 5580327.61 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42J07SE
Point Location Description: Exposure on bank of Soweska River on border between Amery Twp. & E. of Martison Lake Area
Location Method: Other Literature
1903: Ontario Bureau of Mines - Reconnaissance survey. 1972: Algocen Mines Limited - Geological data compilation and aerial photographic analysis of full Cretaceous Basin
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Lignite | 1 | Is |
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Mar 23, 2014 (D Draper) - The lignite exposure at this location is brokenly continuous for 670 ft and is exposed roughly halfway up the 55-foot high river bank. Thickness of the seam varies from 3 to over 5 feet. The seam is overlain by 25 feet of boulder clay and post-glacial stratified silt and underlain by a zone of stratified sand and thin lignite layers, then by hard clay conglomerate.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Lignite | Economic | Ore |
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Fossil Fuel |
File - Resident Geologist files T-1303
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Location: Timmins RGP office
Map - Map of northern parts of the districts of Algoma and Nipissing, Province of Ontario
Publication Number: ARM13B Scale: 1:506,880 Date: 1998
Author: Bell J.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Part - Economic resources of Moose River Basin
Publication Number: ARV13-01.009 Page: 163, 168 Date: 1998
Author: Bell J.M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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Map - Little Long Rapids sheet, District of Cochrane, geological compilation series
Publication Number: P0396 Scale: 1:126,720 Date: 1997
Author: Bennett G., Brown D.D., George P.T.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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