Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada (1912)
Parks, William A, Canada. Mines Branch · Ottawa : Dept. of Mines · leaf 244
- about a quarter of a mile long. The quarry is about 100 X 50feet and 10 feet deep. The sheets are from 3 to 4 feet thick on the average,but in places a thickness of fully 8 feet is presented. The dip is a littlewest of north at a low angle. The major joints strike N. 20°\\. and dip Plate XXVIII. … Megantic granite. Quarry of Lacombe and DAllaire, St. Sebastien, Que. 165 80° to northward. A minor set crosses at N. 30°E. with a vertical dip.A shattered heading runs through the middle of the quarry in a directiona little east of north: this is being worked out in order to give a goodworking…
Building stones
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