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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