Annual report . 3 - 54 Bureau of Mines No. 4 yards long, lying adjacent to the last mentioned lens; the one which is farthest fromthe road contains a few grey, granite-gneiss pebbles, one of them about a foot long. Athin section, No. 369, of the latter shows the pebble to be a biotite granite consisting ofquartz, feldspar, some of which shows albite twinning lamellae, and Biotite; it has beencrushed, resulting in rims of crushed feldspar surrounding parent grains. This lens ofconglomerate is easily reached by an old road which runs along the northwest bank ofthe Moira river. A few hundred yard
Annual report . 3 - 54 Bureau of Mines No. 4 yards long, lying adjacent to the last mentioned lens; the one which is farthest fromthe road contains a few grey, granite-gneiss pebbles, one of them about a foot long. Athin section, No. 369, of the latter shows the pebble to be a biotite granite consisting ofquartz, feldspar, some of which shows albite twinning lamellae, and Biotite; it has beencrushed, resulting in rims of crushed feldspar surrounding parent grains. This lens ofconglomerate is easily reached by an old road which runs along the northwest bank ofthe Moira river. A few hundred yards west of the village of Actinolite, the second lens of conglom-erate and quartzite is exposed. It has a maximum width of a quarter of a mile and maybe followed for two and a quarter miles to the west. At the southern edge, about 200yards east of Black creek, the conglomerate holds several pebbles of granite. A thinsection of one of these showed the pebble to be made up of quartz, feldspar and brownmica. The con
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