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| Record Name(s) | William Bog - 1921, Neebing - 1921 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Sep-06 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Neebing, McIntyre
Latitude: 48° 23' 48.75" Longitude: -89° 18' 2.28"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 329709 Northing: 5362970 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A06NW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
The area was mapped and described by A. Anrep in 1921 for the Geological Survey of Canada. No assessment files were located.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Lignite | 1 | Peat | Is |
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Mar 23, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The bog extends in a northeast and southwest direction and has a total area of about 1,789 acres. The peat is fairly well humified and could be utilized for the manufacture of machine peat fuel. It is slightly inferior to the peat in the Arthur bog. It is rather shallow, but the surface is free from knolls and is comparatively level and, therefore, suitable as a drying field. The entire surface is heavily wooded with spruce, alders, dwarf birch, and poplar. This bog could be easily drained, as the eastern end is situated 1,000 feet from McIntyre Creek and the southern end is about the same distance from Neebing Creek, both of which flow with a free current. Stumps and roots were encountered, which do not seem to be as well decomposed as those in the Arthur bog, but they should not amount to a serious hindrance. The peat is mainly composed of carex plants, heavily intermixed near the surface with sphagnum; occasionally, eriophorum is found. Remains of various aquatic plants were visible in the deeper section of the bog. The bottom is formed of reddish sand intermixed with clay. The samples were found greatly deficient in cohesive properties. This is due to the frost penetrating almost the entire thickness of peat before snow covered the surface. Such occurrences seem to be characteristic of this part of the country. 926 acres of the total area have a depth of less than 5 feet with an average depth of 3 feet, and 863 acres have a depth of more than 5 feet with an average depth of 7 feet. The volume of the peat contained is 4,482,000 cubic yards in an area less than 5 feet deep and 9,743,000 cubic yards in an area more than 5 feet. Excluding from consideration the 926 acres of bog which is less than 5 feet deep and allowing 2 feet for drainage, there are approximately 863 acres of utilizable peat with an average depth of 5 feet. The total volume is 6,962,000 cubic yards. The total dry tonnage is 696,000 tons or 928,000 tons of peat fuel having 25 per cent of moisture (Anrep, 1921, p. 9D).
MonoMap - Quaternary geology of the city of Thunder Bay and vicinity, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R164 Scale: Date: 1977
Author: Burwasser G.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Publication - Investigation of Peat Bogs in Ontario; In: Summary Report, 1921, Part D
Publication Number: SumRep 1921 PtD Scale: Date: 1922
Author: Anrep, A.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/103396
Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario-supplement 1
Publication Number: OFR5388 Scale: Date: 1982
Author: Vos M.A., Abolins T., Smith V.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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