Lot 5, Con. II., Blezard Township, The Great Lakes Copper Company, Nipissing, Ont. 329. Pyrrhotite. } Sudbury, Ont. 330. Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite (nickeliferous). Lot 1. Con. II, Drury Township,} .....Henry Totten, Toronto, Ont. Algoma District, Ont. 201. Pyrrhotite (nickeliferous). 201a. Chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and niccolite. J. Everett and J. C. Miller. The Sultana Mine, Worthington, Messrs. 219. Pyrrhotite (nickeliferous). This mine is eight miles north of Worthington. Sudbury, Ont. Joint exhibit by Orford Copper Co., 368. Pyrrhotite (nickeliferous). 369. Chalcopyrite. 370. Pyrrhotite and chalcocite (copper-nickel ore). 371a. Standard copper-nickel matte. 3716. Single-blow bessemerized nickel matte. 371c. Pyritic matte produced from the first run of fifty 371d. Heap-roasted copper-nickel matte. 371e. Granulated slag waste. 371f. Vermilion Mine copper-nickel ore. 371g. Nickel oxide, 77.35 per cent. 371h. Nickel sulphide, 68.91 per cent. 371i. Powdered nickel, 96.375 per cent. 371j. Nickel shot, 99.25 per cent. 371k. Nickel plaquettes, 99.30 per cent. The Canadian Copper Co. hold 13,000 acres of nickel lands in the Sudbury district. The ore is a mixture of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in diorite, the metallic contents averaging about 2.5 per cent. nickel and 2.5 to 3.0 per cent. copper. The Copper Cliff mine is situated at the village of Copper Cliff, where are located the offices and works of the company. The mine is worked from an incline shaft 810 feet deep, with 11 levels. The ore, which on the surface was almost pure chalcopyrite, has gradually given place to nickeliferous pyrrhotite. The ore is hoisted, crushed and sized in the rock house. It is then sent to the roast yard, where it is roasted in heaps. After roasting, the ore is sent to the smelter for conversion into matte. The average standard matte produced of late years contains: copper 18 to 19 per cent., nickel 10 to 15 per cent., the rest being mostly iron and sulph.r. The company ship their product in the shape of matte of the grade above given to the Orford Copper Co., of Constable's Eook, N.J., U.S.A., where the process of extraction of the various metals is completed, resulting in the various products exhibited. Net Lake, east of Lake Temagami, Nipissing District, Ont. 726. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. ........ Ont. Burcarf Mines. From a location recently acquired by the Canadian Copper Co. The Huronian belt of rocks, characterized by the presence of great deposits of nickeliferous and cupriferous ores in the Sudbury district, runs with unbroken continuity through the Temagami and Temiscaming district. At several places large quantities of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite have been noted, but the assays show only a very small percentage of nickel. It is probable that systematic prospecting may develop large deposits containing copper and nickel. Sudbury, Ont. .... The Lake Superior Power Co., Sault 674. Pyrrhotite (nickeliferous). 674a. Pig of ferro-nickel. 674b. Section of pig of ferro-nickel (polished). N. Lot 8, Con. IV., Denison Town- Dr. Ludwig Mond, London, Engship, Ont. } land. 664. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite (nickeliferous). 664a. Lot 12 or 13., Range IX,, Calumet} Island, Pontiac Co., Que. 34. Niccolite. 344. Pyrrhotite. 66 Geologicai Surrey. This deposit, discovered in 1898, consists of a body of diorite impregnated with pyrrhotite. A pit was sunk on the body of ore, and at a depth of some twenty feet a small vein of niccolite was struck. An analysis of the vein-stuff, made by Mr. Milton Hersey, Montreal, gave 3.33 per cent. nickel and .35 per cent. cobalt. The presence of nickeliferous deposits in Charlotte county New Brunswick was pointed out in the Report of Progress of the Geological Survey as early as 1870 and 1871, when Dr. T. Sterry Hunt showed that the rocks of supposed Huronian age were traversed by dark-green serpentines, which carried chromic oxide and nickel. A few years later, attention was directed to large deposits of pyrrhotite which also showed a small percentage of nickel. Three or four important deposits have been noticed on the banks of the St. Croix River, specimens from which on analysis revealed contents of nickel varying from 1 to 4 per cent. Compared with the well-known deposits of Sudbury, Ont., these nickel-bearing rocks show many features in common, although the St. Stephen ores are not so reliable as to the contents of nickel, which is more variable and lower than in the Sudbury bodies. COBALT. Cobalt ores have not yet been produced in economic quantities în Canada. The Sudbury nickel ores carry a small proportion of this metal, however, and one specimen has been sent from British Columbia. St. George Claim, Goat Mountain, Goat River Mining Division, B. C.........B. C. Department of Mines. 564. Cobalt bloom, Said to contain 15 per cent. of cobalt. IRON. Ores of iron are widely distributed throughout Canada and in great variety. They are smelted in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario, but although workable ores are by no means lacking in the western half of the country, the economic conditions are such, as yet, that no works of this nature have been started. The agricultural prairie section of Canada should, when more densely settled, provide a local market for iron and iron goods, calling for the erection of smelters on the northern shore of Lake Superior, which will use the ores found so plentifully in the numerous areas of Huronian rocks occurring in the vicinity of that large inland sea. In British Columbia the rapidly growing demand for machinery in connection with the development of the extensive mineral resources of that province and the existence of good fuel on the coast, should certainly lead in the immediate future, to the use of local ores in the production of pig-iron and all the train of manufactures following thereon. Compared with the extent, known and probable, of Canada's iron ore resources, however, the smelting operations in the east already alluded to, can be regarded but as a commencement in an industry which will eventually grow to much larger dimensions. The smelting facilities on the seaboards both of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the existence there of valuable coal-fields, suggest also wide possibilities in the utilization of the iron product in ship building, and the erection of the large works of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company now in course of construction at Sydney, Cape Breton, would seem to bring such a consummation within a measurable distance. There were in Canada during 1899 nine furnaces, owned by seven companies. Only seven of these were operated, by six firms, the Londonderry, N.S., firm, with two furnaces, having been idle for some years. A very important addition to the list is the plant of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company of Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S., now in course of construction. As planned, this will have an extension along the water front on Sydney harbour of over a mile and a half, and besides four furnaces, will include an open-hearth plant, blooming mill, etc. The daily capacity of the former will, it is said, be from 250 to 300 tons each, and of the latter will be about 800 tons per day. The completed furnaces in Canada are located as follows: In Nova Scotia: The Londonderry Iron Company, with two furnaces at present idle; the Nova Scotia Steel Company, with one furnace, and the works of the Pictou Charcoal Iron Company, now operated by the Mineral Products Company of Hillsborough, N.B., which has just commenced to make spiegel from Nova Scotia ores in conjunction with the manganese ores of New Brunswick. In Quebec: Two firms operate on the bog iron ores of that province, viz: -The Canada Iron Furnace Company at Radnor, with one furnace, and Messrs. McDougall & Co. at Drummondville, with two. In Ontario: The Hamilton Blast Furnace Company operate one furnace, with a capacity of two hundred tons per diem, and a furnace has just been completed for the Deseronto Iron Company, at that place, of about 35 to 40 tons capacity per day. The latter uses only foreign ores, whilst at Hamilton partly United States and partly Canadian ores are charged. The following figures, taken from the annual report of the Mines Section of the Geological Survey, will illustrate the condition of the iron industry in 1898 and past years. In 1893 about 11,500 tons of the production was Bessemer pig and about 9,200 was basic pig. Canada has only one steel casting plant which is equipped with a 3,000 lb. modified acid Bessemer converter. Its first castings were produced in 1897. Canada has also one open-hearth steel plant, which makes steel both by the acid and basic process. The total number of rolling mills and steel works in Canada on Dec. 31st, 1898, was 18. Of this number at least four were idle during the whole of 1898. Radnor Forges, Champlain County, 352. Bog-iron ore. 352a. Lake ore. Canada Iron Furnace Co. Montreal. Paris Agency: Usines Metallurgiques, 53 Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. 3526. Charcoal pig iron, Nos. 1, 1, 2, 21, 3, 31, 4, 41, 5, 6. Bog-iron ore is of common occurrence in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, more especially in the sandy tracts that often flank the Laurentian hills. It occurs in concretionary masses, which, on the fresh fracture, are gometimes dull or earthy, and at other times highly lustrous. The colour is usually yellowish-brown, but dark-brown or black when much manganese is present. The concretions are scattered through the soil, or else form patches or continuous layers, which sometimes attain a thickness of several feet, though generally only a few inches in thickness. |