Report of the Bureau of Mines, Parts 2-3The Bureau, 1898 |
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Page 210 - It follows: 1, talc; 2, gypsum; 3, calcite; 4, fluorite; 5, apatite; 6, orthoclase; 7, quartz; 8, topaz; 9, corundum; 10, diamond.
Page 226 - I, cents. 10. Gold Mining in North Carolina and other Appalachian States, by Henry BC Nitze and AJ Wilkins, 1897. 8°, 164 pp., 10 pi. Out of print. 11. Corundum and the Basic Magnesian Rocks of Western North Carolina, by J.
Page 156 - The region whose geological history has just been sketched extends from the lake of the Woods on the west to lac des Mille Lacs on the east, a distance of more than 200 miles, with a width north of Rainy lake of 120 miles. Most of this large extent of country shows the mesh structure in a more or less typical way, though toward lac des Mille Lacs on the east the bands of Huronian tend to become parallel, suggesting an approach to the more normal folded mountain structure. Throughout this whole...
Page 247 - ... devoted a great deal of attention. Without describing the nature of this problem, he spoke of it as an effort to ''evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever.
Page 251 - ... power which can be supplied therefrom, the lieutenant governor in council may, by order in council, require the lessee to develop the said privilege to its full capacity or to such other extent as he may deem proper or requisite within a period or periods of time to be named in the said order...
Page 250 - Province, and a sufficient area of laud in connection therewith for the erection of buildings and plant, together with the right to lay out and use such roads as may be necessary for passage to and from such water power or privilege and land, and may, under regulations to be approved by the lieutenant governor In council, make terms and conditions upon which such water power and laud so reserved may be sold or leased and developed.
Page 210 - Disseminated throughout this aggregate were small grains of a mineral whose colour varied from light rose-red to sapphire-blue, while its hardness, which was greater than that of topaz, showed the mineral to be corundum. Small crystals of light-blue corundum have been found elsewhere in the limestone of the vicinity.
Page 251 - Instead of granting any mining lands in fee simple the same may be leased or demised for a term of ten years with the right of renewal for a further term of ten years at the same rental if the covenants and conditions have been performed and fulfilled.
Page 210 - Corundum has been observed on the second lot of the ninth range of Burgess, and in the immediate vicinity of a deposit of copper pyrites.
Page 223 - ... miles in an east and west direction. Dr. Adams says : "This is a rare rock, found in but few places in the world, and never before discovered in our Laurentian system. The nepheline is very abundant, forming in many places an almost pure nepheline rock. The mass is flanked on the south, along a considerable part of its course, by crystalline limestone, and it is also intimately associated with a fine-grained reddish rock, resembling aplite. It is of a prevailing gray color, and olten has a distinct...