710 



GOLD 



Statement of Deposits and Coinage at the Mint of the United States and Branches 

 during the year ended December 31, 1871. 



About one-third of the value of the silver-production is also gold, which should bo 

 deducted from the second column and added to the first, to show the exact proportion 

 of each metal produced. The above statement does not embrace the gold and silver 

 exported in the form of ore. 



Gold in Canada. In the Progress Report, Mr. Henry G. Vennor of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, after referring to notices of gold in former reports, says : 



The portion of the townships of Madoc and Marmora, in which the only mines now 

 (1872) being worked for gold are situated, is that immediately surrounding the 

 granite area known as the Huckleberry Rocks. These rocks occupy a very large part 

 of the south-western quarter of Madoc and the south-eastern quarter of Marmora, 

 extending north-westward on the boundary line between these townships as far as the 

 middle of the eighteenth lot, with a breadth of about four miles, the river Moira, in 

 Marmora, forming their western limit. 



In the talcoid slates are found large bedded quartz-veins, holding sulphurets of 

 iron and copper, and native gold. A uniform relation between the gold- and iron- 

 bearing zone is shown as probable. The gold in Madoc and Marmora occurs : 



1. In bedded metalliferous lodes. 



2. In slate bands, impregnated with sulphurets. 



3. In nests, or bunches, with quartz and sulphurets in dolomite. 



4. In cross or fissure veins (of minor importance). 



Seven mines were worked for gold in 1871, in the province of Ontario ; the gold pro- 

 duced in 1871, being 500 ounces from Cook Mine. Mr. Charles Robb of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey says : ' Within the last three years most important discoveries of 

 auriferous veins have been made, and operations commenced for developing them on 

 an extensive scale and with good prospects of success.' 



In the Province of Quebec the following quantities of gold were obtained : 



1869 

 1870 

 1871 



1050J ounces, value 18,909$ 

 581 10,467 

 115 ,1 2,070 



Gold exported from Canada. 



1866 l 



Coin and Bullion, 499,4982. 



1867 ' 



607,5072. 



1868 13 1869" 



1,013,7852. 878,7937. 



1870 r * 

 1,647,6082. 



1871 

 1,372,2922. 



The Gold-Fields of British Columbia. That the auriferous deposits of this region 

 are spread over a considerable scope of country is apparent from the fact that paying 

 diggings have already been found on the Frasor river, extending from Fort Hope 

 almost to Fort Alexander, a continuous distance of nearly 400 miles. Among the 

 tributaries of this stream, Thompson and Bridge rivers are known to be auriferous. 

 Extensive works are established, and largo quantities of gold are produced, but returns 

 of quantities cannot be obtained. 



The return of gold mining generally throughout the Province is : 



1869 value 



1870 



1871 



1,824,871$ 



1,333,745 



1,349,581 



Gold Mine of Nova Scotia. The production of gold in Nova Scotia has boon as 

 follows : 



Years ending June 30. 



Exclusive of exports to other Provinces of the Dominion. 



