86 NEW MINERAL DISCOVERIES IN NOVA SCOTIA.—GILPIN. 
The kerosene does not practically differ from ordinary 
American petroleum kerosene. It refines white and is very free 
burning. White Spindle oils are the most costly in the market. 
There are none, however, in the United States obtained from 
petroleum so white and so heavy as this from East Bay. The 
lubricating oil is heavy, while it is as light in color as the 
heaviest parafine oil in America. The yield of crude oil is 
found to be about 6.25 per cent, and the proportions per ton 
would be :— 
Kerosene poillipece os oe * cian cee 1.25 per cent. 
White Spindlerede. ~. .e.chisce ss 1.25 D 
Heavy mbreatine oil . 7. esenee e 2.50 u 
Patelieeeypetetere ctaes os sce so oiler eee eee 1.25 " 
Wier sie eee pes cassie aha een orthae 5.75 " 
COM Tie Bice or iss Scars PE ee 87.50 i" 
LOSS VE CAS MCLG ioe .c 41a hel Seiten ees 50 u 
100.00 
It is also ascertained that this material is readily distilled 
and refined by methods and apparatus in general use in shale 
and petroleum industries in Great Britain and the United States. 
The pitch is of good quality. 
If these statements are verified by actual practice, and the 
costs permit, a large and important industry may be counted on 
here. Should these oils find a market and demand abroad, no 
doubt the shales in various parts of the province, known to be 
bituminous, will receive attention. 
Iron Ore. 
The district lying between little Bras d’Or and East Bay in 
Cape Breton County is traversed diagonally by lower silurian 
strata and by the felsitic and limestone divisions of the pre- 
eambrian, which are flanked by lower carboniferous strata. 
The presence of iron ore near the junction of the George’s River 
limestone and lower carboniferous has long been known near 
Gillies’ Lake, and outcrops are known at Upper French Vale 
