Survey Metadata

Soil

Quebec

  

Soil sampling survey, NTS 22A/12, 13, Sullipek Mine area, Gaspé region, Quebec, 1984.





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“Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles”

Survey Description


In 1984, a soil sampling survey was conducted around the Sullipek Mine in central Gaspé, Quebec.  The area covers 170 km2.  A total of 215 samples were collected at an average density of 1 sample per 0.8 km2.  At each site, samples were collected from the B and C horizons developed over glacial deposits.  Only The < 177 μm fraction from the B horizon was analyzed.  Samples from C horizon were screened in 3 fractions: between 500 and 63 μm, <177 μm and <63 μm.

The fraction between 500 and 63 μm was prepared for heavy minerals which were identified using a binocular microscope.

All fractions were analyzed for:

 

Element Dissolution Technique
Ag, Al, B, Ba, Be, Ca, Cd,  Co, Cr, Cu, Eu, Fe, K, La, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, P, Pb, Sc, Sm, Sr, Th, Ti, U, V, Y, Zn   inductively coupled plasma emission (ICP-ES)
Loss on ignition (LOI)    

 

The data are published in Quebec Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources manuscript brut MB 88-27.

Publication History

Index Publication
1 Gouvernement du Québec (1988). Service de la géochimie et de la géoohysique, Division de la géochimie (5121), projets de classe B. Dans Direction de la recherche géologique, Rapport d’activités 88. Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources du Québec, DV-88, p. 58. ( more)
2 Henry J., La Salle, P. (1989). Géochimie des sédiments de surface de la région de Sullipek, Québec. Ministere de l’Énergie et de Ressources, Manuscrit brut MB 88-27, 242 p. ( more)
3 Bédard, P. (1993). Postglacial and pre-last-glacial weathering of till on the high plateaus of central Gaspésie, Quebec, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 30, p. 1853-1860. ( more)
4 Bédard, P. (1995). Stratigraphie et géochimie des matériaux meubles des hauts plateaux de la Gaspésie. Ph.D. thesis, Université de Montréal. Montréal, PQ, Canada, 220 p. ( more)

Project History

Index Year Project
1 1984-1995 Central Gaspé soil and till sampling, Québec ( more)

Geographic Extent

Minimum Latitude Maximum Latitude Minimum Longitude Maximum Longitude
48.74° 48.87° -65.98° -65.8°

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

  • Covers part of NTS 22A/13 (Lac Madeleine) and extends south into NTS 22A/12 (Ruisseau Lesseps) in Gaspésie, Québec.  It includes Canton de Lesseps and Canton de DeVille and the Réserve de Baldwin.  The centre of the study area is located approximately 34 km southwest of the town of Murdochville.

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