MINERALS FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—GILPIN. 255: 
J. D. Huntingdon.......Yarmouth.........Gold- bearing quartz. 
. ae eeu ta ie oso Oe Concentrates. 
W. C. Anderson........Montagu..........Gold-bearing quartz. 
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Cunningham & Curren.Mount Uniacke..... 
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J. D. McGregor........ Fifteen Mile Stream.Gold-bearing quartz. 
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Lead. 
As yet the development of our lead ores has not reached the 
productive stage. 
In Inverness County, in Laurentian felsites, at many points, 
are visible the effects of solfataric action, in deposits of copper, 
lead and zine ores, often noticeably enriched with gold and 
silver. Some measure of development has been attained at 
Cheticamp by Halifax capitalists, who have opened a promising 
silver lead deposit. It is expected that these ores will be shipped 
to the smelter at Pictou, or to Swansea. Openings show the 
deposit to be from 3 to 10 feet thick, and to continue for several 
hundred feet. Roughly speaking, the ore carries one ounce of 
silver for each unit of lead, some samples showing as high as 
78 per cent. of lead and 80 ounces of silver. Gold also shows in 
quantities varying from 3 to 14 dwts. per ton of 2,000 lbs. 
Similar results in gold and silver have been obtained from the 
Silver Cliff deposits and from zine blende deposits in the same 
locality. 
As yet the auriferous alluvium in the Cheticamp River has 
not received systematic attention. If there are gravels in the 
river worth working, they will be found where the river leaves 
the mountain, and not in its narrow gorges subject to frequent 
and severe freshets. No free gold veins have yet been reported, 
and the alluvial gold which attracted so much attention some 
time ago is probably derived from the felsites, which are 
reported to occasionally show fine flakes of gold. 
At Red Head, a few miles to the north, some development 
work has been done on copper deposits, also auriferous. Galena 
