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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 278

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um carbonate, per cent 20 • 00^ The quarrjr is connected by a spur -n-ith the Intercolonial railway atScotch lake, and is equipped with a modern quarrying and crushing plant.Sixty-five men are employed and about 300 tons a day are shipped to thefurnaces at Sydney. The quarry is operated under… … Crystalline limestone, George River quarries. Cape Breton county, N.S, 183 An iitterapt was inudc by :i Halifax company to (iu;irry niarblo ata point one and a half miles up the river from the Ijig quarry, and JosephPeebit opened a small pit, with the same object, about one quarter milenorth of the…

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