MINERALS FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—GILPIN. rar 
The Windsor Plaster Company also show the following 
products: (1) “Calcined plaster” used for putty coating, finishing, 
ete. (2) “Selenite cement” used for under coating, ete. (8) 
“Land plaster,” ground gypsum, used for fertiliser manufacture, 
stables, ete. 
Tripolite. 
Of late years considerable attention has been paid to the 
infusorial earth deposits of the province, and to deposits of very 
fine grained quartz available for polishing, insulating, and other 
purposes. 
Among the localities represented may be mentioned River 
Dennys, Inverness Co., where the Cairo Polishing Company are 
doing development work; Bass River, Colchester Co., where 
extensive works are curried on, the shipments for the last fiscal 
year amounting to 21 tons. The Bass River Infusorial Earth 
Company procure the raw material from Bass River Lake, 
where it is found in a bed about three feet thick, and purify it 
in a large plant, which has been in operation for over two 
years. 
The Victoria Tripolite Company have commenced extensive 
operations near St. Ann’s, in Victoria County, and are making a 
specialty of insulating material. 
Molybdenite occurs at many poimts in the Province, but as 
yet deposits of workable size have not been reported. New 
Ross, Lunenburg, yields very large and fine crystals. A sample 
_ is shown from this district. A few tons have been shipped 
from Gabarus, Cape Breton County. From the Margaree 
‘district, Inverness County, are shown samples of ores of 
Tungsten, fuller reference to which will be found in these 
Transactions. 
Antimony. The sulphide of this metal was some years ago 
worked intermittently at West Gore, Hants Co. The Messrs, 
McNeil, of Halifax, have lately given some attention to the 
district, and have proved three leads. ‘The ore carries consider- 
