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 V. Minerals

Collection:: Economics Books

roe NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC To the south of the St. Lawrence river, stratified beds of Paleozoic age predominate, comprising lime-stones and sandstones which furnish excellent building stone, also shales and slates which supply roofing slates and materials for the manufacture of bricks and clay products. These stratified rocks are, in numerous places, penetrated by rocks of igneous origin like the granites of Stanstead and Frontenac counties which yield stones for monuments and for buildings, and like the olivine intrusions or serpentine belt, which traverse the counties of Brome, Shefford, Rich- mond, Wolfe and Megantic and contain asbestos, copper, chrome and gold. In a very short time the Province of Quebec should take a place among the important metal-producing provinces of Canada. The situation at the present time as regards the mineral production of the province may be summarized as follows: — (1) There is a total production of about $29,125,000, principally of non-metallic products. (2) There are most promising metallic deposits, partly developed, which have now reached the producing stage. With the great potentialities of metallic resources in the Lau- rentian plateau the prospects of Quebec mining industry are of the brightest. Value of Products.—The value of mineral production in Quebec has grown from $2,546,076 in 1920 to $29,124,110 in 1927. The production of metallic minerals is small as yet. The mineral of greatest aggregate value is asbestos which was produced in 1927 to the value of $10,621,013 approximately 36 per cent of the value of the minerals produced in 1927. Building materials also form a considerable portion of the production, and of these cement comes first with a production in 1927 of 4,636,751 barrels valued at $5,383,058. Next in value to asbestos and cement is limestone, valued at $2,785,514 whilst brick with a value of $2,336,677 comes fourth. The metallic products in 1927 comprised zinc and lead concentrates from the Montauban mines; copper ore concentrates from the Eustis mine; blister copper from the Noranda mine; the precious metals contained in all of these ores; and titaniferous iron ores used for the production of ferro-titanium. Blister copper is produced from .the Noranda smelter, which poured ingots for the first time on December 17th, 1927. This blister copper .is shipped to New Jersey to be refined. With the starting of operations at the Noranda smelter, it may be said that the Quebec mineral industry has entered a new area. This is the first production of metallic copper

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