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 176
the Fisher Branch stone (page 104): it is also applicableto the major portion of the stone obtained from the drift near Prince Albertand Saskatoon and referred to on pages 277 and 278. The stone is a hard, very fine-grained and very brittle dolomite, of ageneral greyish colour but mottled in a… … Silurian limestone. Exposure at mile 42, Hudson Bay railway, Man. 109 planes. In this respect it somewhat resembles the yellow rubble from thequarries at Gunton, but the tendency to part on the planes is much lesspronounced in the present example. The dressed surfaces are very smoothwith sharp…
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