Transactions . he coal, which is bituminous, there is a fifteen-foot bed ofclay, which has also been disturbed somewhat by the faulting, forcoal fragments are contained in it near the contact of the two. It has been commonly supposed that this material was a fireclay, but the tests (1G75) given below disprove this. The clayburned to a good colour at the lower cones and is steel hard atCone 03. Above this cone the colour becomes poor. Theposition of the clay would make it rather expensive to mine, andoperations would require to be carried on in connection with thecoal extraction. The clay might
Transactions . he coal, which is bituminous, there is a fifteen-foot bed ofclay, which has also been disturbed somewhat by the faulting, forcoal fragments are contained in it near the contact of the two. It has been commonly supposed that this material was a fireclay, but the tests (1G75) given below disprove this. The clayburned to a good colour at the lower cones and is steel hard atCone 03. Above this cone the colour becomes poor. Theposition of the clay would make it rather expensive to mine, andoperations would require to be carried on in connection with thecoal extraction. The clay might be serviceable for sewer pipe,but for this purpose is not as desirable as the material located onMilk Creek. It is not a fire clay. Pressed brick could probablyalso be made from it. Lunflhreck to Bermis.—East of the front range of the Rockies,the country is broken by a series of hills and ridgos, whose axes liemore nr U-^h parallel with the mountains. These ridges contain ,n % •mt^-: y^ * *ii? r- . 1* ??. Clay aiul lignite l> at l>t<vaii. of tlio Kstcvan Hrick aiul Coal Co. Clay and Shale Deposits—Ries. 379 a series of folded shale and sandstone beds, which dip at a vaningangle, as in the case of those between Lundbreck and beds are well exposed in a series of cuts along the Crows XestPass branch of the Canadian Pacific railway, beginning about twomiles west of Lundbreck, the last being about one half mile eastof Bermis. In most of the cuts the shale beds are lenticular, andrarely over a few feet in thickness, but if they were refractory itwould be possible to work them as narrow cuts. With this inmind, samples were taken from the most promising lookingexposures but none of the samples proved to be fire clays. Allwere red-burning. The best exposure observed was a dark shaleon the bank of the Old Man River, one mile west of width of the outcrop is over fifty feet and there is no over-burden. This shale may be suitable for pav
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