MINERALS 
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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.