MINERAL RESOURCES. 07 



occur in a vein in Metamorphic rocks at Watchabuckl in Northern 

 Cape Breton, and tlie occurrence of drift fragments of these ores in 

 the streams in that district indicate that there must be other deposits 



in this, as yet, little explored region. 



Freestone and Grindstone. — The export of these materials from 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick still continues to be large. The 

 celebrated Lower Cove quarries at the Joggins, alone, exported in 

 1876 grindstones and whetstones to the value of 35,847 dollars. 

 Large and prosperous quarries of a stone, quite equal to that of 

 the Joggins, exist at New Bandon, or Clifton, Gloucester Co., New 

 Brunswick. Considerable quarries of building-stone arc also in 

 operation at Wallace and Pictou, Nova Scotia ; at Dorchester and 

 Hopewell, New Brunswick, and many other places. 



Other Building and Ornamental Stones. — The cutting and polishing 

 of red syenite and granite are carried on at St George, Charlotte 

 County, New Brunswick. The stone produced is equally beautiful 

 with the red granite of Scotland. Marble of varied hues, and favour- 

 ably situated for quarrying, has been discovered at Marble Moun- 

 tain, on the Bras D'Or Lake, Cape Breton. 



Gypsum. — This mineral is still extensively exported from Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick. The exports from Nova Scotia in 1876 

 are stated at 80,920 tons, and no less than 129,000 tons are stated 

 to have been quarried at Hillsboro', New Brunswick, in 1875. A 

 large portion of this was ground and calcined at the quarries. 



According to Dr How, anhydrite or anhydrous gypsum is 

 worked at Cheverie, Hants County, and exported for agricultural 

 purposes. It is, of course, harder to grind than common gypsum, and 

 cannot be used for moulding or plastering, but for land it may be 

 regarded as more valuable than the hydrous variety, as wanting the 

 water, which amounts to about 20 per cent, of the weight of the 

 latter. 



Barytes. — The sulphate of barium or heavy spar is mined in small 

 quantity at Five Islands (Ac. Geol., 592), and is known to occur at 

 many other places. 



Dr How, in his Report on the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia * also 

 directs attention to the numerous Brine Springs issuing from the 

 Lower Carboniferous rocks, and the working of which has been 

 attempted on a large scale at Antigonish. He also notices important 

 discoveries of Iron Pyrite or sulphur ore ; and mentions Titanift row 

 Iron Ore as occurring at Sable River, Shelburne County, and in 

 sand at Digby Cove. This Report, as well as that of the Geo- 



» Halifax, 1868. 



