Survey Metadata

Surface water, Lake sediment

Ontario

1997

Lake sediment and water survey, NTS 41P/6, 11, 14, 15, Shining Tree area, northeastern Ontario, 1997.





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Ontario Geological Survey

Survey Description


In 1997 a high-density lake sediment and water survey was carried out in the Shining Tree area, north eastern Ontario.  Lake sediment and/or water samples were collected from a total of 1813 lake sites.

The data are published in Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report OFR6062 and Miscellaneous Release-Data, MRD081.

The data are also part of a compilation database, Lake Geochemistry of Ontario – 2019.

Publication History

Index Publication
1 Russell, D.F and Hamilton, S.M. (2001). Lake sediment and water data for the Shining Tree area. Ontario Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Release-Data, MRD081. ( more)
2 Russell, D.F and Hamilton, S.M. (2001). Shining Tree area high density regional lake sediment and water geochemical survey, northeastern Ontario. Ontario Geological Survey, Open File Report 6062, 79 p. ( more)
3 Ontario Geological Survey (2020). Lake geochemistry of Ontario—2019. Ontario Geological Survey, online database. https://www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndmaccess/mndm_dir.asp?type=pub&id=LakeGeochemON. Accessed March 30, 2023. ( more)

Project History

Index Year Project
1 2019 Lake Geochemistry of Ontario Compilation Project, 2019 ( more)

Geographic Extent

Minimum Latitude Maximum Latitude Minimum Longitude Maximum Longitude
47.25° 48° -81.5° -80.58°

The geographic extent of the survey is defined by the following polygons:

  • Covers all of NTS 41P/11 (Shining Tree) and 41P/14 (Sinclair Lake) and parts of 41P/6 (Opikinimika Lake) and 41P/15 (Matachewan) in northeastern Ontario.  It is located approximately half way between the cities of Timmins and Sudbury and the centre of the study area is located approximately 120 km west of the Ontario-Quebec border.

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