86 NEW MINERAL DISCOVERIES IN NOVA SCOTIA. GILPIN. 



The kerosene does not practically differ from ordinary 

 American petroleum kerosene. It refines white and is very free 

 burning. . White Spindle oils are the most costly in the market. 

 There are none, however, in the United States obtained from 

 petroleum so white and so heavy as this from East Bay. The 

 lubricating oil is heavy, while it is as light in color as the 

 heaviest parafine oil in America. The yield of crude oil is 

 found to be about 6.25 per cent, and the proportions per ton 

 would be : 



Kerosene oil J .25 per cent. 



White Spindle oil 1.25 " 



Heavy Lubricating oil 2.50 " 



Pitch 1.25 



Water 5.75 " 



Coke 87.50 



Loss, gas, etc 50 " 



100.00 



It is also ascertained that this material is readily distilled 

 and refined by methods and apparatus in general use in shale 

 and petroleum industries in Great Britain and the United States. 

 The pitch is of good quality. 



If these statements are verified by actual practice, and the 

 costs permit, a large and important industry may be counted on 

 here. Should these oils find a market and demand abroad, no 

 doubt the shales in various parts of the province, known to be 

 bituminous, will receive attention. 



Iron Ore. 



The district lying between little Bras d'Or and East Bay in 

 Cape Breton County is traversed diagonally by lower silurian 

 strata and by the felsitic and limestone divisions of the pre- 

 cambrian, which are flanked by lower carboniferous strata. 

 The presence of iron ore near the junction of the George's River 

 limestone and lower carboniferous has long been known near 

 Gillies' Lake, and outcrops are known at Upper French Vale 



