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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.110250 |
| Date | January 1956 |
| Creators | MacIntosh, James. A. |
| Contributors | Gill, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Earth Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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