Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter X. New Quebec or Ungava

Collection:: Economics Books

NEW QUEBEC OR UNGAVA 121 shore of Hudson bay and on the banks of the Eastmain river. A band running parallel to the coast and 200 miles inland, along the Kaniapiskau river, is also known to contain large deposits of iron, but the intervening country has never been prospected. Rocks resembling the Sudbury or Timiskaming series cover large areas. The lack of soil and forest cover in many places should make prospecting comparatively easy, but the difficulties of transportation and labour are too great for present development. So far as can be seen the rock conditions in Ungava are similar to those which have caused the economic deposits of the Grenville, Timiskaming, Huronian, Animikie, and Keweenawan series of Ontario and Southern Quebec, deposits which have placed these areas among the greatest mining regions of the world. Analyses of a large number of surface samples of the hematite-magne- tite ores of the Nastapoka islands show an iron content, for the better grades of 30 to 40 per cent. All the beds may not be equally rich, but the greater part of them on all the islands appear to be sufficiently so to cons- titute a valuable ore for the manufacture of spiegeleisen. The great abundance of the ore is a prime feature, the ironstone beds being spread over the greater area of the islands. The islands being destitute of timber and the rocks much shattered by frost and weather, the ore may be gathered in inexhaustible quantities. The high percentage of manganese (3.5 per cent) in these ores, renders them valuable for the manufacture of spiegeleisen. Specimens of ore from the Koksoak river show from 19 to 54 per cent of metallic iron and contain no titanic acid. To the south of Swampy Bay river, exposures of ironbearing rocks is almost continuous, and the amount of ore in sight must be reckoned by hundreds of millions of tons. The ore is not everywhere high grade, and probably a large proportion of it would be unprofitable to work, but there is certainly an almost in- exhaustible supply of high-grade ores. Fisheries of Hudson Bay.—In course of time it may be found that the fisheries of Hudson bay will prove to be its greatest natural resource. There is every reason to hope that, when railway communication has been established with James bay, a fishing industry may be developed equal to that of Labrador and the banks of Newfoundland. Sea-run brook trout, whitefish superior in flavour to those taken in lake Superior, weighing from 1 to 6 pounds, are found abundantlv along the entire coast to cape Wolstenholme. Arctic trout or Hearne salmon are found along the northern coast as far south as Seal river. This is a beautiful fish with well-flavoured, dark pink flesh, and it varies in weight from 1 to 15 pounds, the average being about 5 pounds. These fish are salted at Chimo on Ungava bay and

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