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It has been opened at numerous points along its outcrop, 

 beginning at its north-eastern end on the land of Lee Pugh 

 on Ben's branch, about Y^ mile north of New river, where 

 a bed at least several feet in width is exposed, but is not 

 fully uncovered. The ore is a friable magnetite of schis- 

 tose structure. The dip is from 35° to 40° S. E. 



An analysis of an average sample shows: 



Per Cent. 



Silica 22.74 



Metallic iron 45-44 



Sulphur 0.049 



Phosphorus 0.022 



About 400 yards S. 40° W. from here the bed has been 

 exposed on the land of John L. Pugh, on the suuimit of a 

 high ridge, by a cut 105 feet long, the south-eastern end of 

 which traverses a bed of soft mixed ore and gangue, 

 reported to be 40 feet thick, while the north-western end 

 cuts through about 30 feet of similar material, though 

 harder. Between the two is a decomposed feldspathic mass, 

 probably a local horse. 



The cut was partially caved in, so that exact meas- 

 urements could not be taken. The ore is a coarse-granu- 

 lar, friable, manganiferous magnetite, and the gangue is 

 hornblende, epidote, quartz, and feldspar. Several analy- 

 ses show the ore to contain: 



I. II. 



Per Cent. Per Cent. 



Silica 21. II 



Metallic iron -- 43.17 44-13 



Metallic manganese -- 4.62 1.42 



Sulphur 0.048 0.126 



Phosphorus - 0.006 0.008 



I. by Baskerville. 

 II. by C. B. White. 



The bed is again opened on the properties of W. W. 

 Smith and Noah Dancy, lying successively to the south-west 

 of Pugh's, but the exposures are incomplete and offer no 



