16 THE IRON ORES OF NICTAUX, AND 
The district extends from a point several miles west of the 
Nictaux River to the county line between Annapolis and Kings, 
and probably some distance further. It varies in width up to 
about five miles. In this section there are a number of beds of 
iron ore having a general north-east and south-west course. 
While exposures are frequent, there are undulations and fractures 
in the measures which render any positive correlation of the 
ore beds a matter of uncertainty, owing to the limited explora- 
tory work yet effected. 
The most northerly range of iron-bearing strata is represented 
by the bed worked at the Torbrook mine. This has been traced 
about 2 miles eastwardly to the county line, and for some dis- 
tance to the westward. Exposures of red hematite, near 
Nictaux Falls, are believed to show its further passage in that 
direction. 
South of this comes the deposit known as the “Shell Ore” 
bed, which was worked for several years by long trenches 
running on its outcrop. Its principal exposure is on the Banks 
farms, where it is from five to eight feet thick. This ore is 
highly fossiliferous, and has furnished many interesting fossils 
to visiting geologists 
Still further south on the Canaan Mountain road, about 2 
miles south-west of the Torbrook mine, are two beds of red 
hematite 4 to 6 feet thick. These beds, assuming a westerly 
course, apparently coincide with an exposure of red hematite ore 
reported on the southern end of the Banks farm. The further 
westward extension of these beds is unknown, they may in a 
magnetised condition be represented in the Page and Stearns 
beds on the west side of the Nictaux River. Here mining 
operations have exposed eleven beds from 2 to 10 feet in width. 
These beds, with others lying on the same horizon a little to the 
south, one of which on the river bank is about 12 feet wide, 
extend to the westward nearly 2 miles to the Willett property 
in the rear lines, where two beds, each about 5 feet thick, have 
been uncovered. 
South of this range, on the Torbrook, other beds of magnetite 
and shell ore are exposed on the Armstrong and other farms 
