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It has been five years since getting and testing samples of an amazing porcelain-like, clean-burning, highly plastic middle-temperature stoneware raw material. It is far superior to anything we have now. But, due to mix-ups, it appeared the location from which the sample had been taken was lost! But coming here to search again has turned up new information and I am quite certain this is the site. Actually seeing and walking it has confirmed, contrary to information we had, that the site is highly suitable for extraction of the clay. And, it is not the only site in the area, we are going to another that might be even better. The Whitemud clays here are quite different from those in our Ravenscrag quarry. On seeing the range and quality of them I am beyond excited! There are a lot of ducks that have to be lined up to be able to actually extract from a site like this, but the current economic and regulatory climate is going to be a powerful motivation to develop Canadian raw materials.
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This is a "badlands" slope in the Frenchman river valley. The valley exposes the "Whitemud Formation" in many places (clearly visible here part way down on the left). Two surface mines of Plainsman Clays are nearby, in a place where lower-lying rolling hills leave much less over-burden to remove. These materials were laid down as marine sediments during the Cretaceous period. The skeleton of the world's largest T.Rex, dubbed "Scotty", was found 50km east of here (in the layers just above the Whitemuds). Where are the layers of Scotty's ancestors from the Jurassic period? Straight down 1 kilometer! And another kilometer to bedrock!
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