MAGNETIC IRON ORES OF VICTORIA COUNTY. 263 
T understand it to have been shewn by Mr. Veunnor, in his investi- 
gations in Hastings, that the iron deposits occur in defined belts, which 
ean be traced for long distances. My investigation in Victoria 
unfortunately was of too local a char .cter to enable me to establish 
the continuity of the ore deposits, but it seems probable that in 
Snowdon Township the deposits are not merely local, but thata belt 
can be followed from Lot 20 in the I. Concession as far as Lot 30 in 
the V. Concession, a distance of 3 miles, including five locations, or 
possibly further in the same direction. 
In Sweden the mineral bearing horizons can be followed, having 
the same direction as the encasing rocks, and fresh masses of mineral 
will be met with at intervals for dozens of kilometers, and each bed 
generally consists of several parallel beds separated by rock more or 
less barren. 
In the famous Dannamore district the magnetite occurs in an irre- 
gular belt of a mile and a half in length, embedded in crystalline lime- 
stone, and it has been mined to a depth of more than 600 feet. 
The iron-occurrences that came under my notice bear the character 
of beds deposited with the enclosing rocks, the le both of the ore bed 
and the intercalated minerals being the same as that of the country 
rock. 
The Victoria mine would seem an exception, as the strike of the 
bed is 42 % N. W. and§. E., being nearly at an angle of 45 % to the 
general strike of the rocks of the country ; but it is possible that a 
fault running through the valley immediately to the N. W. may have 
altered the strike of the ore deposits, especially as at the edge of the 
valley, close te which the mine has been opened, there is evidence of 
much disturbance. 
I shall not inflict you with the detailed description of the various 
mines in operation, and undeveloped locations that I was obliged to 
include in my report. 
I shall simply give the result of a number of analyses from speci- 
mens [ obtained at the mines, which shew, firstly, the richness of 
selected ore, which is better than the average shipped to the United 
States ; secondly, the average ore without close selection ; and thirdly, 
the ore that has been thrown on the dump as too poor to ship to 
Bessimer works. 
The ore varies in texture from crystalline magnetite, with small 
crystals and an open texture practically free from sulphur, as found 
