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fis the tests apjilifi] tn it, umlcr tlic diicction of miiiiiii;' i-xiuTts, • 

 are said to be very satisfactory. Tin- I'acilitics for \\()j-kiii;4 if 

 are all tliat could be dt'sircd. The a]i[ilication of capital and 

 enterprise is alone neeiled to convei't if into a piodactive mine. 

 There Is an excellent liarlionr close to the dei>osit, having deep ' 

 Avater vithin a few feet of the shoic The demand foi- this 

 mineral is steadily increasing. 



PILtEVS ISr.AND— IKON rVKITKS— TOTAT. KXPOIITS 

 or OIIK. 



Returns of the (piantities of iron pyrites shipped in 1893,- 

 compiled hy T. X. Mollo\', Esq., American Consul, apj^eared in 

 The Trade Review of Jilarcli 10th, 1894. These returns show that 

 in that year there were exported to the United States 38,214 tons 

 of iron pyrites from the Pilley's Island nune, the aggregate value 

 of which was ^195,780. The mine shows no signs of exhaus- 

 tion ; and the adjoining deposit, above referred to, is reported to 

 contain a much larger c|uantity of the same mineral. A few 

 years ago the mine whidi is now worked was sold for .*if300,000, 

 and wouhl now probably bring a much higher price. Copper 

 ore is also shipjjed to the Uuiteil States from Tilt Cove in con- 

 siderable f[uantities. 



In 1893, according to ]\Ir. Molloy's returns, 23,097 tons of co])- 

 per ore were thus shipped, the value of which was $'68,G04 ; so 

 that the shipments of ore from Pilley's Island and Tilt Cove, that 

 year, aggregated 58,311 tons, the value of which was 3-G4,384. 



In a valuable little pamphlet on "The Mineral Eesources of 

 Newfoundland," by J. P. Howley, F.CS., head of the Geological 

 Survey, published in 1892, statistics are given, com^'iled from 

 the Customs' Returns, showing the exports of the various ores 

 since the mines were first opened. According to these Returns 

 the value of copper ore, regulus and ingots exported from 18G4 

 to the end of 1891, was no less than -^9,193,790. The value of 

 iron i\vrites exported from 1886 to the end of 1891 was .S'247,087. 

 To this must Ix' addeil the value of ])yrites exported in 1892, 

 (Customs' Returns), -S'31G,.")84 ; ami that of 1893, $195,780— 

 making a total of $'759,451 , as the value of the exports of pyrites 



