Ontario Geological Survey
Permanent Link to this Record:
MDI52A06SW00005
| Record Name(s) | Rosslyn - 1905, Superior Brick and Tile Company - 1905, Thunderbrick - 1976 |
|---|---|
| Related Record Type | Simple |
| Related Record(s) | |
| Record Status | Past Producing Mine Without Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1984-Nov-02 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-27 |
| Created By | |
| Revised By |
Primary Commodities: Clay
Township or Area: Paipoonge
Latitude: 48° 21' 45.26" Longitude: -89° 27' 5.88"
UTM Zone: 16 Easting: 318410.8 Northing: 5359504.39 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52A06SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Data Compilation
Early 1900s: McCarthur founded the Superior Brick Company Ltd. and built a plant to produce bricks and tiles from clay. 1921: company was restructured and called the Superior Brick and Tile Company Ltd. 1972: the brickyard closed. 1976: Thunderbrick Ltd. purchased the brickworks and opened a new clay quarry. Early 1980s: the company closed.
Province: Southern
Geological Age: Cenozoic
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Clay | 1 |
|---|
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - During the Pleistocene, the clay was deposited in glacial Lake Algonguin. The clay rests on gravel and was worked in pits near the mouth of the Kaministikwia River. It is believed that the Kaministikwia River was a pre-Algonquin spillway and as Lake Algonquin receded, thin deltaic deposit of stratified sand and silt were spread on the varved clays (Vos et al., 1982).
Feb 06, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - An excellent supply of stoneless clay along the lower reaches of the Kaministikwia River is suitable for the manufacture of brick and tile. The varved clay section is thin. Feed for the brick plant is largely stratified silt, sand and clay. The clay pit at Rosslyn Village is located 50 feet above the river on the east bank, it is semi-circular, 700 by 400 feet. The reported thickness is 6 metres and the maximum clast size is 0.2 metres (Vos et al., 1982).
MonoMap - Quaternary geology of the city of Thunder Bay and vicinity, District of Thunder Bay
Publication Number: R164 Page: 63 Date: 1977
Author: Burwasser G.J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Publication - Preliminary Report on the Clay and Shale Deposits of Ontario; Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 142
Publication Number: GSC Mem 142 Page: 128 Date: 1924
Author: Keele, J.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/100854
Article - 1976 report of the North Central Regional Geologist
Publication Number: MP071.004 Page: 43 Date: 1997
Author: Fenwick K.G., Scott J.F.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario-supplement 1
Publication Number: OFR5388 Page: 31-32 Date: 1982
Author: Vos M.A., Abolins T., Smith V.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
MonoMap - The clay products industry of Ontario
Publication Number: IMR022 Page: 189-192 Date: 1997
Author: Guillet G.R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
We are continuously updating our assessment file / technical report information. If you notice errors in the data, please contact us.
Please review our Terms of Use agreement for this data product.
For detailed information regarding this mineral record please contact the Thunder Bay South Resident Geologist District Office