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Excerpt from Report on Mining Operations in the Province of Quebec: During the Year 1916 The total value of the mineral production of the Province of Quebec in 1916 reached $13,287,024. Of this the building materials represent a value of $5,278,486, and the products of the mines proper figure for $8,008,538. In 1915 the total value was $11,465,873, divided as follows: products of the mines $5,223,639. and building materials $6,242,234. The increase in the total for 1916, as compared with 1915 is therefore 15.9%. The produce of the mines show an increase of 53.3% and the building materials a decrease of 15.4%. Both the mining industry and the metallurgy in the Province of Quebec have been greatly stimulated by the intensive production of war materials. The supply of asbestos, chromite, magnesite, copper ores, molybdenite, has not been equal to the demand and prices have increased greatly. Asbestos Crude No.1 which in 1913 averaged a value of$275 a ton, reached an average of $423 in 1916; chromite which before the war sold for$14 a ton on the New York market is now quoted$45; copper in December 1916 was quoted 33c. a lb; molybdenite has quadrupled in price in three years, and all these substances are produced in the Province of Quel ec. The metallurgical industry has also greatly benefitted by the manufacture of munitions and war material. In the last three years a large number of steel furnaces have been installed among which are several electric ones. The development of the electric steel furnace may be judged from the fact that in 1915, only 61 tens of steel ingots and castings wire reported as having been made in Canada in electric furnaces, whereas in 1916 the production reached 43,790 tons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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