Peat resource estimation in Minnesota. Third quarter report, FY1985
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has been surveying organic soil deposits to determine the location of fuel-grade peat since October 1, 1979, when the US Department of Energy and the Gas Research Institute awarded Minnesota a grant for peat resource estimation. The survey determines the type, quantity, and energy potential of peatlands by field mapping and laboratory characterization. The focus of the project is an eight-county study area (Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, and St. Louis counties) that contain over half of Minnesota's six or seven million acres of peatland. Approximately one million acres of the state's total peatland acreage are currently available for state lease. The Koochiching County survey (1,147,560 acres of peatland), the Aitkin County survey (420,560 acres of peatland), and the survey of an area of Beltrami and Lake of the Woods counties (775,400 acres of peatland) have been completed, and the reports have been published. A reconnaissance-level peatland survey of southwest St. Louis County was completed, and a report was published with state funding. Our staff is continuing the redrafting of the Carlton County Peat Resource Map to correct registration errors. We expect the redrafted version of map to be completed in the fourth quarter. The computerized version of the map will be started when the redrafting is complete.
- Research Organization:
- Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources, St. Paul (USA). Div. of Minerals
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG18-79ET14692
- OSTI ID:
- 5461548
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ET/14692-T11; ON: DE85016115
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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