360 ORE DEPOSITS OF SOUTH CHETICAMP. — CxRANDIN'. 



The " blue " schist contains very little ore. It is a more 

 compact and close-grained rock than the " grey " and does not 

 appear to have been as much disturbed as the latter and fewer 

 cavities were therefore developed for the reception of ore. 



The thickness of the " grey " has not yet been determined 

 as its base is nowhere exposed either by natural sections or the 

 development work. From measurements taken in the slope, 

 however, it would appear to be not less than 25 feet. This 

 deposit is owned by the Cheticamp Gold Mining Company of 

 Halifax. 



Silver Cliff. — The most interesting structural feature of 

 Silver Cliff — an argentiferous galena deposit situated on the 

 L'Abime brook about 1| miles south of " Galena "—is the 

 development of incipient secondary foliation by shearing — ^the 

 rock splitting into thin corrugated slabs along planes perpendi- 

 cular to those of stratitication-foliation. The ore-bearing schist 

 is here a chloritic variety which has been violently disturbed 

 and severely plicated. It rests upon a corrugated sheet of 

 white (juartz, below which is seen a dark hornblendic rock 

 (probably a diorite) wdiich shows shistose structure but imper- 

 fectly developed. This deposit is owned by the Inverness 

 Mining Company, Limited, of Halifax. 



From the foregoing facts relating to the mode of occurrence 

 of the L'Abime ores, thei'e would appear to be no doubt that 

 the deposition of the ores took place after the formation had 

 been folded, faulted and sliced, and not prior to, as has been 

 reported, and that the ores were deposited along the lines of 

 movement rather than along the planes of foliation or stratiti- 

 cation and, therefore, while the beds of schist are faulted, it by 

 no means follows that the ore bodies have been dislocated to 

 any great extent. 



