20 THE OCCURRENCE OF GOLD IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 



cinity of Stanley village, a few very line colonv.^ were panned 

 out of the alluviums. This gold may have been scattered here- 

 abouts by jjrospectors and others, who appear to have been 

 washing these alluviums at various times in the last thirty or 

 forty years. If it really belongs to the deposits of the Nashwaak 

 valley it must have been transported thither a long distance, 

 probably from the source of the river, or from the valley of the 

 South-west Miramichi. Indeed, it is not unlikely that it may 

 have been brought here from the central area of pre-Cambrian 

 rocks drained by the Serpentine and Little South-west Mirami- 

 chi during the glacial period, this being the direction from 

 which the ice came that passed over the Nashwaak district. 



In conclusion it may be stated that the gold-bearing allu- 

 viums of North Central New Brunswick bear a close resemblance 

 to those of South-eastern Quebec, and appear to have their source 

 in that belt of rocks classified as pre-Cambrian, which forms part 

 of the North-east Appalachian system, and is sometimes called 

 the New Brunswick Highlands. Here, as in the Notre Dame 

 Mountains and south-westward to Georgia and Alabama in the 

 United States, these rocks seem in places to be auriferous, and 

 in their disintegration and waste to have yielded gold to the al- 

 luviums. The similarity of these gold-bearing deposits through- 

 out is shown in their mode of occurrence and in the fineness and 

 scattered condition of the gold they contain. 



Ottawa, Februarv 24th, 1900. 



