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| Record Name(s) | Arthur Bog - 1921 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Discretionary Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1983-Aug-19 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Paipoonge
Latitude: 48° 22' 58.62" Longitude: -89° 26' 6.27"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 319709 Northing: 5361730 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A06NW, 52A06SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
There is no record of exploration conducted by companies, nor assessment files over this feature.
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Sedimentary Unconsolidated-unsubdivided | 1 |
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Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - The bog has developed on raised lacustrine sediments north of the Kaministikwia River. Throughout the area covered by the gritty silt till and the bedrock-drift complex are marshy low-lying pockets where the water table is at or near the surface creating numerous tiny collecting basins for organic detritus. The Arthur Bog had a maximum depth of 2.7 m and an average depth of 2.1 m (Burwasser, 1977). The bog extends in a northeast and southwest direction and covers an area of about 1,474 acres. "The peat in this bog is fairly well humified and could be manufactured for fuel. The peat is heavily intermixed with roots and stumps, but in most cases these are sufficiently decomposed for a drill to penetrate. Samples show that the peat is composed mainly of carex plants slightly intermixed with sphagnum and eriophorum, the former being the more prevalent. The bottom is formed of reddish sand intermixed with clay. The bog is rather shallow, but it is free from knolls and the surface is quite level and would make an admirable drying field. Most of the surface is heavily wooded with alders, dwarf spruce, dwarf birch, and poplar. The southwestern side of the bog could not be used as a drying field because it is margined on that side by an abrupt bank. The bog can easily be drained as it is 45 feet above the Kaministikwia River, and the southern end of the bog is only 1,000 feet from the river." (Anrep, 1921).
| Rank | Classification |
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| 1 | Peat |
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| 1 | Unconsolidated |
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Arthur Bog | 1922 | Unclassified | 909906 | Anrep, 1922 | The total dry tonnage is 752,000 tons or 1,003,000 tons of peat fuel having 25 per cent of moisture. |
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
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
Location:
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
Location:
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