The quartz deposit at Saint Donat, Quebec.
Quartz suitable for glass-making and as a source of silica for other industrial uses is being mined at St. Donat, Quebec, (frontispiece) by Dominion Silica Corporation. The writer undertook a field and laboratory study of the quartz deposits and surrounding rocks, the results of which are set forth...
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McGill University
1956
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| Summary: | Quartz suitable for glass-making and as a source of silica for other industrial uses is being mined at St. Donat, Quebec, (frontispiece) by Dominion Silica Corporation. The writer undertook a field and laboratory study of the quartz deposits and surrounding rocks, the results of which are set forth below. The following problems were studied in detail; 1.the rocks present, their composition, distribution, and structure, 2. the genesis of the quartz deposit, 3• the source of the associated kaolin. |
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