Report of the Bureau of Mines, Volumes 9-10The Bureau., 1900 - Mines and mineral resources |
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Page 28 - Parliament of $3 per ton on steel ingots manufactured from ingredients of which not less than 50 per cent, of their weight consisted of pig iron made in Canada; together with a bounty of $3 per ton on puddled iron bars made from Canadian-made pig iron.
Page 224 - ... and all pine trees so cut and disposed of (except for the necessary building, fencing and fuel as aforesaid), shall be subject to the payment of the same dues as are at the time payable by the holders of licenses to cut timber or saw logs.
Page 224 - Surveyor, and shall be connected with some known point in previous surveys, or with some other known point or boundary (so that the tract may be laid down on the...
Page 162 - Flint, which is known to most prospectors, is similar in tomposition to jasper, but is less opaque and occurs in various shades of dull colors. It breaks with a deeply conchoidal fracture and a sharp cutting edge. Hornstone resembles flint, but is more brittle and its fracture more splintery. Chert is a term often used in the reports on the iron ores of Michigan and adjacent States. This name is frequently applied to hornstone, and to any impure flinty rock including the jaspers.
Page 28 - April, 1902, to 30 June, 1903, 90 per cent, of those rates ; from 1 July, 1903, to 30 June, 1904, 75 per cent. ; from 1 July, 1904, to 30 June, 1905, 55 per cent. ; from 1 July, 1905, to 30 June, 1906, 35 per cent. ; and from 1 July, 1906, to 30 June, 1907, 20 per cent. By this Act it...
Page 131 - April 4 of this year, that Canadian .miners obtain a better price in the United States than in the London market, chiefly from the circumstance that American electricians prefer the Canadian product which is close at hand and can be depended upon for uniformity of quality and regularity of supply.
Page 146 - At the 3A mine the gangue was mostly quartz with a little calcite through which were distributed ores of iron, copper, lead, zinc, nickel and silver with some cobalt and gold as shown by the assays. The silver was found native and combined with sulphur and nickel. One sample of the ore is said to have assayed 1.4 per cent, of cobalt and 25 per cent.
Page 224 - License while lawfully in force ; but the purchaser at such sale, or those claiming under him or her, may cut and use such trees as may be necessary for the purpose of building, fencing and fuel on the land so...
Page 16 - Gold was produced last year at 15 locations, being two less than in the previous year : but there was a considerable increase in the number of...
Page 200 - TUSCARORA SOUR SPRING. THIS spring is situated in the Indian Reserve, about nine miles south of Brantford, and three miles south of the bank of the Grand River, in the County of Wentworth, Upper Canada. The country, for some distance round, is thickly wooded ; but, in the immediate vicinity of the spring, is a small clearing, upon a rising ground, on one side of •which is the spring, in an enclosure eight or ten rods square. In the centre of this is a hillock...