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Quebec Quartz Completes Previously Announced Exploration Program on the Montpetit Quarry, The Martinville and The Malvina Silica Properties
(via Thenewswire.ca) Montreal, Quebec / TNW-ACCESSWIRE / September 15 2014 / Uragold Bay...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Quebec Quartz Completes Previously Announced Exploration Program on the Montpetit Quarry, The Martinville and The Malvina Silica Properties(via Thenewswire.ca)\n \n \nMontreal, Quebec / TNW-ACCESSWIRE / September 15 2014 / Uragold Bay Resources Inc. (\"Uragold\") (TSX Venture: UBR) is pleased to announce that it's wholly owned subsidiary, Quebec Quartz, has successfully finish the sampling programs over the historical quartz and quartzite showings on the Montpetit Quarry, and the Martinville and Malvina Silica properties. A map of the properties can be viewed here: http://www.uragold.com/Quebec-Quartz.php.\n\n\n \nThe Montpetit Property is located in the Monteregie Region of Quebec, some 40 km south of Montreal and 7 km south of Saint-Clotilde-de-Chateauguay. The Quebec-New-York border is 10 km from the property. The property is located on NTS map sheets 31H/04 (1:50,000 scale). Farms fields and forest, owned by private landowners, mostly cover the region.\n\n\n \nA review of the historical work indicates that the quarry operated for one (1) year and that the deposit is composed of consolidated beach sand that was highly purified by segregation, sorting and leaching. Through natural Diagenesis, overtime the sand was transformed into a quartzite.\n\n\n \nIn 1956, six thousand (6,000) tons was mined from a 100 m long by 30 m large and 2 m deep tranche. The quartzite material mined was shipped to Electro-Metallurgical, where it averaged a SiO2 purity of 99.27% and was used to produce ferrosilicon.\n\n\n \nThe Quebec Quartz field crew, consisting of a geologist and a technician, performed the sampling program over the historical quartzite showing on the claims. The historical quarry is 100 m long by 35 m large and is inside a tabular orthoquartzite. This sandstone (Cairnside sandstone) is well spread all around the area. In order to have a good sampling spread, 5 samples were taken at different zone of the quartzite. Each quartzite layer along the stratigraphy has been sampled.\n\n\n \n\nClick Image To View Full Size\n\n \n \nFigure 1. This is a picture of Cairnside sandstone from the Montpetit Property. \n\n\n \nThe Martinville Property is located 180 km east of Montreal and 30 km south of Sherbrooke. The property is located on NTS map sheets 21E/05 (1:50,000 scale). Private forests and small farms mostly cover the region.\n\n\n \n...