The Canada Iron Furnace Company own an area of 100,000 acres of bogore rights in the districts of Champlain, St. Maurice, Three Rivers, Vaudreuil, Joliette, Gentilly, etc., including the important deposits of lakeore in Lac à la Tortue and Lac aux Sables. Lake ore is raised principally from Lac à la Tortue, where a steam dredge of a capacity of 50 tons a day is employed. The deposits vary somewhat in analysis, some of the bog-ores used by the company being as low as .080 per cent. sulphur and .042 per cent. phosphorus. New Glasgow, Pictou County. N. S.} Nova Scotia Steel Co., New Glasgow, 854. Pig iron No. 1 foundry. 854c. Pig iron No. 4 foundry. 854d. Hæmatite pig iron. 854e. Pig iron, basic iron. 854f. Steel bars. 854g. Angle iron. 854h. Culm coal, one-third Springhill, two-thirds Reserve coal. 8541. Washed coal. 854j. Tailings. 854k. Coke. The following are analyses of some of the above products : The Nova Scotia Steel Company was incorporated in 1895, and is the outcome of the amalgamation of two companies. The authorized capital is $5,000,000. The blast furnace is at Ferrona, and is connected with the mines, limestone quarries, and Intercolonial Railway by the company's own railway. The furnace is 65 feet high and of modern design. There are three blast stoves of the three-pass Massick and Crook type, each 164 feet in diameter and 60 feet high. The two blowing engines have steam cylinders 36 inches in diameter and air cylinders 84 inches. The coking plant consists of 54 coke ovens of the Bernard type, the dimensions being as follows: length, 33 ft.; height, 6 ft. 6 in.; width, 23 in. The steel works are situated at Trenton and New Glasgow, and have a capacity of 150 tons of steel ingots per day, all of which is worked up into bars, sheets, axles, etc. The different classes of iron ore exhibited are given below. It will be noticed that Canada produces every variety from magnetite, occurring as in eastern Ontario in irregular bodies connected with basic intrusive rocks, to the hydrated oxides of the bog ores of Quebec found in the superficial deposits. Magnetite. In British Columbia, although magnetites are known to occur in many places, both on the coast and in the interior, they have not as yet come into economic prominence. The Texada mines have, however, been worked from time to time as a source of iron ore, which has been smelted in conjunction with other ores in the State of Washington. The Glen Iron mine at Kamloops Lake is also worked to some extent, the ore being shipped away for use as a flux in the treatment of ores containing the precious metals. Other deposits have been drawn upon to a small degree for the same purpose. Only a small proportion of the known localities for magnetite in British Columbia are represented in the present collection. Lord of the Isle Claim, Sechart, Barclay Sound, B.C. 703. Magnetite. } Mr. Anderson, Sechart, B. C. From a deposit of magnetite on Sechart Peninsula, which, according to the report of the Minister of Mines, B.C., for 1896, occurs "in what appears to be diorite and next to a very extensive area of limestone that at the point of contact with the eruptive rock is completely crystallized into large coarse crystals." Pothook Mine, Coal Hill, Kamloops, Scottish Copper Mine Syndicate of B.C. 646. Magnetite. Atikokan River, Thunder Bay Dis-} 122. Magnetite with polarity. B.C. From locations 10 E, 11 E and 12 E on the Atikokan River, about thirty miles south west of Bridge River station, on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The lode has an aggregate thickness of about 100 to 125 feet, divided in places into two or three veins by belts of green chloritic schists. This, with the associated rocks, forms a range of hills about one mile in length and 300 to 400 feet in width, which rises to elevations of 60 to 125 feet. The ore is remarkably uniform in grade and percentage. Analysis: Development work has lately been undertaken on a portion of the range. A tunnel is being driven through the hill with a view of forming an idea of the extent of the deposit. The only work which had previously been done on this great deposit was by diamond drillings, a few years ago, and this gave satisfactory indications. The "Blairton Ore Bed" or "Big Ore Bed," as it was formerly called, is an important deposit of magnetite and has been extensively worked. The ore is finely granular and often contains a considerable admixture of hæmatite. It occurs in a series of bodies interbanded with crystalline limestone, talcose slates, serpentines and other rocks, the whole being highly inclined. Some of the beds are very pure, but others contain a good deal of rock matter and iron-pyrites. An analysis from what is known as the "Sand-Pit" bed, gave Dr. T. S. Hunt : : Glamorgan Township, Lot 27, Con.......Ont. Bureau of MinesXIII, Haliburton Co., Ont. 198. Magnetite. Snowdon Township, Lot 31, Con. IV, 127. Magnetite. }........ .......Ont. Bureau of Mines. An analysis of this ore by Prof. Wm. Molin, New York, shows metallic iron, 69.246 per cent.; phosphorus, .012 per cent.; sulphur .038 per cent.; Titanic acid, trace. From a deposit said to be 1200 feet by 25 to 100 feet. |