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Title: The Mining industry in Quebec
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Québec (Province). Dept. of Natural Resources Québec (Province). Dept. of Colonization and Mines. Mining industry of the Province of Québec Québec (Province). Dept. of Colonization and Mines. Report on the mining operations of the Province of Québec Québec (Province). Dept. of Mines. Report of the Minister of Mines of the Province of Québec
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Québec
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ly 14th at a depth of 1880 feet. Thewell record, as obtained from the driller, was as follows :— 0 to 100 feet.—Drift clay, sand and gravel. 100 to 115 feet.—Soapy shales. 115 to 135 feet,—White sandstone, carrying a little salt. 135 to 935 feet.—Bed shales. 935 to 1108 feet,—Grey shales.1108 to 1114 feet.—Grey granite? (Sandstone?)1114 to 1265 feet,—Black shale.1265 to 1280 feet—Magnesian rock, carrying salt.1280 to 1860 feet.—Black shale.1860 to 1866 feet.—Secondary calcite and quartz in shale, which carries or covers the gas.1866 to 1880 feet.—Black shale. In the Report of Mining Operations for 1910, Department ofColonization, Mines and Fisheries, a condensed log of the wellwas given, which had been obtained from enquiries made on thefrround, but since then, the above record was secured, which,therefore, supersedes the one previously published. In this well, a strong flow of gas was struck at 1860 feet, thecontinued 20 feet further and capped. The rock pres-
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THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 65 sure was mea-sured by an officer of the Mines Branch on Novem-ber 10th, and found to be 275 lbs. per square inch. The great prevalence of red shales between 100 feet and 935feet would seem to indicate the presence of Medina shales. Un-derlying the Medina are the Lorraine schists which often reacha thickness of 2,000 feet, and the Utica, usually more or less bitu-minous, which are about 300 feet thick. The Trenton, whichin the vicinity of Montreal and at St. Dominique, two miles eastof St. Hyacinthe, consists of heavy beds of limestone, does notseem to have been reached. In 1913, the Canadian Natural Gas Co., with Mr. N. Turcotas President, capital $2,000,000, acquired all the rights of the St.Barnabe syndicate, and in June, 1914, began putting down asecond well on the same lot, 1,000 feet to the south-east of thefirst well. In January. 1915, this well had reached a depth of2,700 feet, without having struck any gas. Though unable tosecure a detailed log, it waminingindustryin1914qu

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