Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada (1912)
Parks, William A. (William Arthur), 1868-1936, Canada. Mines Branch (1901-1936) · Ottawa : Dept. of Mines, Mines Branch · leaf 325
and the hardness is low. The stone could be ea:^il> cut, but,owing tf) its poor weatheting (|ualities it is proljably tli(> ])ooi(>.<t type in thecjuarry. Xo. 244.—This example is light blue-giey in coloui- and resembles Plate]jXXV, Xo. 8. It is exceedingly fine grained and with h>ss… … Fig. 16. Sketch map showing the boundaries and important quarries of the Lowville, Black River, and Trenton rocks in the region west of the Archsean axis. 209 Miller gives the following analysis of stone from these quarries; the bedsare not specified:— Westernquarry Easternquarry Insoluble matter…
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