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| Record Name(s) | Carpenter Bog - 1945, Pinewood Peat - 1945, Peatland 52C-23C - 1983, Nor-West Peat - 1955 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Prospect |
| Date Created | 1984-Dec-03 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Carpenter
Latitude: 48° 42' 8.07" Longitude: -93° 47' 1.36"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 442336.8 Northing: 5394652.55 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52C12NW
Point Location Description: Transfer
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1945: Pinewood Peat Industries commenced production of peat moss from this part of the bog. Operations continued until some time after 1950. Harvesting was by hand cutting over an area 4,800 feet long and extending 300 feet east and 700 feet west of the Emo-Barnhart road. No assessment reports were found on file.
Jan 13, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - The bog is covered with sphagnum moss, labrador tea and grass. Scattered over the area are 1 to 2 inch diameter scrub spruce. Sampling indicated that the depth is over 16 feet. "An examination of old diggings...showed a depth of 3 feet of brown moss containing 25 per cent roots which were up to 1/5 inch in diameter. The moss contains 20 percent reed and sedge, the latter being somewhat humified and occurring in layers; the layers are up to 1/10 inch thick separated by 1/2 inch to several inches of sphagnum moss. This layering continues to a depth of between 8 and 9 feet, after which the moss is increasingly humified. Roots are abundant throughout." (Graham and Tibbetts 1969, p. 54). "The peat east of the north-south road and north of the creek on the west side of the road, to a depth of from 3 to 8 feet, is light brown to yellowish brown, slightly humified sphagnum moss containing 10 to 20 percent reeds and fine fibrous rootlets. The area south of the creek is more humified. "Roots up to 2 inches in diameter are scattered throughout. Along the ditch there is a greater concentration of roots at a depth of 5 feet than at lesser depths. There are fewer roots east of the road than west. The roots are not present in sufficient quantity to hinder sampling as was the case in other bogs." (Graham and Tibbetts 1969, p. 58).
Jan 13, 2020 (Therese Pettigrew) - Some peat has been removed from the large muskeg in lots 6, 7, and 8, concession IV, Carpenter township. The peat is reported to have been used mainly for insulation purposes (Fletcher and Irvine, 1955). This deposit contains 460 ha of peatland with a depth of 1 m or greater. The average depth however, is 3.6 m and the deposit contains 13,900,000 m3 of peat. There is very little horticultural peat but there is 12,000,000 m3 of good quality humified (H4+) peat suitable for fuel peat production (OFR5489, p. 114).
Part - Geology of the Emo area
Publication Number: ARV63-05 Scale: Date: 1997
Author: Fletcher G.L., Irvine T.N.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
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Publication - Evaluation of Peat Moss in Some Bogs of the Rainy River District, p. 52-62
Publication Number: TB65 Scale: Date: 1965
Author: Graham, R.B., Tibbetts, T.E.
Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/299952
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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Mono - Peat and peatland evaluation of the Rainy River area, volumes 1 to 9
Publication Number: OFR5489 Scale: Date: 1984
Author: Northland Assoc. Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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