Ontario Geological Survey
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| Record Name(s) | Limestone Rapids - 1981 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 2001-Sep-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Feb-23 |
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Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Limestone Rapids Area
Latitude: 50° 1' 37.88" Longitude: -84° 1' 19.09"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 713289.62 Northing: 5545903.38 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Timmins
NTS Grid: 42K01SE
Point Location Description: Bend of Kabinakagami River at Limestone Rapids
Location Method: Data Compilation
Access Description: See project location map in MP100, pg.131 for access routes. Location is one hour by road from Hearst and is accessible both by gravel road to western bank and by an old timber road (unmaintained) to eastern bank.
1981: Ontario Geological Survey - mapping, sampling, chemical analysis.
Province: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Basins
Subprovince: Moose River Basin
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 | Illite | Is |
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Aug 22, 2013 (D Draper) - Mapping identified a 12m section of varicoloured Cretaceous clays filling hollows in the Middle-Upper Silurian carbonates. Blue-green clays are interbedded with fine clayey silts. The clays are described as being fine, clayey silts consisting of quartz-illite plus illite/smectite. The clay has a fine particle size range and in the unfired state shows low plasticity.
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Clay | Economic | Ore |
Aug 22, 2013 (D Draper) - Two measured sections and six samples were taken at the occurrence. The clays have a fine particle size and show low plasticity making them suitable for slipcasting.
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Industrial |
| Rank | Characteristic |
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| 1 | Stratabound |
Compend - Summary of field work, 1981
Publication Number: MP100 Scale: Date: 1981
Author: Wood J., White O.L., Barlow R.B., Colvine A.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Article - Pottery clays in northern Ontario
Publication Number: MP132.063 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Springer J.S.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Map - Caramat-Pagwa River sheet, geological compilation series, Algoma, Cochrane and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2202 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1971
Author: Innes D.G., Ayres L.D.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
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