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| Record Name(s) | Polar Bear Peat Moss - 1942, Pinewood Bog - 1982, Peatland 52d-29 - 1985 |
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| Related Record Type | Compound |
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| Record Status | Occurrence |
| Date Created | 1985-Oct-23 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-20 |
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Primary Commodities: Peat
Township or Area: Nelles
Latitude: 48° 47' 33.84" Longitude: -94° 15' 24.08"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 407702.7 Northing: 5405176.815 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52D16SE, 52D16SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Mar 30, 2022 (Therese Pettigrew) - The bog is covered with sphagnum moss, labrador tea and grass. Scattered over the area are l 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 per cent 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 per cent 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).
Publication - Evaluation of peat moss in some bogs of the Rainy River district, Ontario; Canada Mines Branch, Technical Bulletin TB65
Publication Number: CMB TB65 Page: 73-79 Date: 1965
Author: Graham, R B; Tibbetts, T E
Publisher Name: Canada Mines Branch
Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/299952
Part - List of mines, quarries, and works, 1942
Publication Number: ARV52-01.002 Page: 60 Date: 1997
Author: Tremblay M.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Industrial minerals of northern Ontario-supplement 1
Publication Number: OFR5388 Page: 97-98 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 Date: 1984
Author: Northland Assoc. Ltd.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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