Rocks and minerals for the collector: Ottawa to North Bay and Huntsville, Ontario; Gatineau (Hull) to Waltham and Témiscaming, Quebec
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Occurrences of minerals, rocks, and fossils are described from about 200 easily accessible localities on either side of the Ottawa River from Ottawa - Gatineau (Hull) to North Bay. They are reached by following Highway 17 in Ontario and Highway 148 in Quebec. Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County, Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found in this area, and some localities are known for the museum-type specimens collected from them. The earliest mines were the apatite and iron mines that were operated in the 1880s. Other deposits were subsequently worked for corundum, molybdenite, zinc, celestine, garnet, pyrite, beryl, marble, limestone, feldspar, rare-element minerals, and dolomite. Numerous former feldspar mines as well as deposits of kyanite, garnet, muscovite, niobium, and brucite occur in the Nipissing District. Some of these deposits are accessible only by boat. The region north of the Ottawa River between Gatineau (Hull) and Waltham was formerly mined for iron, mica, feldspar, apatite, uranium, molybdenum, lead-zinc, and limestone. A dolomite deposit is currently (2005) being operated. Occurrences of brucite, pyroaurite, szaibelyite, cordierite, scapolite, and asbestos are also known. Farther west, in the Témiscaming - Kipawa area, a wide variety of minerals include garnet, kyanite, and amazonite, and the rare-mineral suite of the Kipawa complex. In recent years, the Témiscaming area has been the scene of exploration for diamonds, and some diamonds have been reported from a location south of Lake Beauchêne. Minerals and/or rocks that could be used for lapidary purposes include feldspar (peristerite, sunstone), rose quartz, graphic granite, and corundum from Renfrew County; feldspar (peristerite, amazonite), jaspilite, and graphic granite from the North Bay area; peristerite and cordierite from the Quebec side of the Ottawa River. Ordovician fossils may be collected from numerous roadcuts, rock outcrops, and quarries in the Ottawa - Pembroke and Aylmer areas.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".