LONDON, 1886. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF THE ECONOMIC MINERALS OF CANADA BY THE GEOLOGICAL CORPS, ALFRED R. C. SELWYN, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., Director. LONDON: PRINTED BY ALABASTER, PASSMORE, & SONS, FANN STREET, ALDERSGATE STREET, E.C. 1886. LONDON, 1886. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF THE ECONOMIC MINERALS OF CANADA BY THE GEOLOGICAL CORPS, ALFRED R. C. SELWYN, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., &C., Director. WHILE essentially an annotated Catalogue of the Economic Minerals of Canada displayed in the Canadian Section of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, this publication will be found to include also notes on some minerals and rocks of purely scientific interest. The name and address of the exhibitor of each specimen is placed opposite that of the place from which the specimen was obtained, and in many cases the geological formation in which the exhibit occurs is also stated. Under each heading the subordinate arrangement is geographical, the exhibits being enumerated as nearly as possible in order from west to east by provinces, as follows:-British Columbia (B.C.), North-West Territories (N. W. T.), Manitoba (Man), Ontario (0.), Quebec (Q.), North-East Territory (N.E.T.), New Brunswick (N.B.), Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), Nova Scotia (N.S.). Some of the descriptive paragraphs are adopted, with a little alteration, from the Catalogue prepared for the International Exhibition at Philadelphia (1876); others are from the Catalogue des Minéraux, Roches, etc., prepared for the Paris Exhibition (1878). The annual Reports of Progress of the Geological Survey have also been consulted, while many additional facts not before published have been added. Specimens which have been obtained by the Geological Corps are in some instances credited to the owners of the properties from which they come. The length of the notices must not in all cases be accepted as indicative of the relative importance of the deposits to which they refer, the time available for the preparation of the catalogue not having been sufficient to enable the matter to be fully systematized, and it being impossible, in most cases, to obtain statistical information. 11. MATERIALS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF HEAT AND LIGHT THEIR PRODUCrs (See also under IV.) IV. MINERAL MANURES (See also under III.) Page 17 68 89 99 103 VI. SALT, BRINES, AND MINERAL WATERS VII. MATERIALS APPLICABLE TO COMMON AND DECORATIVE CONSTRUCTION 109 VIII, REFRACTORY MATERIALS 107 IX. MATERIALS FOR GRINDING AND POLISHING X. MINERALS APPLICABLE TO THE FINE ARTS AND TO JEWELERY V. MINERAL PIGMENTS |