Tenure # 555888. 126.329 ha total area.
A typical cross-section of the peat moss in the swamps is 0.3 metres of roots and bushes; the next 1.5 to 3 metres is a solid, soft sphagnum moss. Underlying this is a heavy humus composed chiefly of decomposed mosses and old microscopic marine life. The humus and peat encountered in all of the lakes and immediately underlying the heavy peat mosses is a very soft and soupy type of black peat moss suspended in water.
Volcanic ash is found under this peat moss in the swamps and under Turtle Lake, and various test holes indicate that the ash deposits range from 0.6 to 12.1 metres in thickness. The humus material of moss immediately overlying the volcanic ash contains 1 to 5 per cent of fine volcanic ash. Greater thicknesses of ash are located under Turtle Lake which are overlain by slightly lesser thicknesses of peat moss in the range of 1.5 to 7.3 metres. Underlying the ash beds are fine to coarse, clean glacial till and gravel dipping from 2 to 4 degrees and are of undetermined thickness. The ash is a grey colour, very fine and generally composed of 80 to 90 per cent silica with the balance being alumina oxide; moisture content is approximately 22 per cent. A fineness screen test was made of a composite sample taken from the 0 to 9.1 metre horizon in the ash beds. (extract from MINFILE No 092F 556)
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