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

MINERALS Hi Maligne, but construction has been started. on a vast project of power development at Chute-3-Caron, 25 miles below Ile Maligne, which will produce 800,000 horse-power. It is said that this construction with further designed developments will eventually produce the largest alumi- nium reduction works in the world. The ore used is bauxite ebtained from British Guiana. That the aluminium development is of first importance to the prov- ince may be gathered from the fact that the world’s production of the metal in 1926 was estimated at 210,000 long tons and that the ultimate capacity of production aimed at bv the Arvida plant is 180.000 tons a year. Asbestos.—Of all the minerals that yield fibrous varieties the one most prized is the chrysotile-asbestos, owing to the whiteness, silkiness and strength of the fibres. Chrysotile represents about 98 per ceat of the asbestos used industrially and the Province of Quebec supplies over \ chestas anarry at Black Lake, Quebec 30 per cent of the world’s consumption of this material. The asbestos deposits of Quebec occur in a continuous belt of rocks extending for over 100 miles from the international boundary line to within a short distance of the Chaudiére river, thence for a further distance of seventy miles in disconnected outcrops to I'Islet county, and after a gap of 130 miles large sccurrences are again found in the Gaspé peninsula.

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