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J. D. Huntingdon Yarmouth Gold bearing quartz. 



" Concentrates. 



W. C. Anderson Montagu Gold-bearing quartz. 



Jack & Bell " 



Cunningham & Curren. Mount Uniacke " 



Concentrates. 



J. D. McGregor Fifteen Mile Stream.Gold-bearing quartz. 



Lead. 



As yet the development of our lead ores has not reached the 

 productive stage. 



In Inverness County, in Laurentian felsites, at many points, 

 are visible the effects of solfataric action, in deposits of copper, 

 lead and zinc ores, often noticeably enriched with gold and 

 silver. Some measure of development has been attained at 

 Cheticamp by Halifax capitalists, who have opened a promising 

 silver lead deposit. It is expected that these ores will be shipped 

 to the smelter at Pictou, or to Swansea. Openings show the 

 deposit to be from 3 to 10 feet thick, and to continue for several 

 hundred feet. Roughly speaking, the ore carries one ounce of 

 silver for each unit of lead, some samples showing as high as 

 78 per cent, of lead and 80 ounces of silver. Gold also shows in 

 quantities varying from 3 to 14 dwts. per ton of 2,000 Ibs. 

 Similar results in gold and silver have been obtained from the 

 Silver Cliff deposits and from zinc blende deposits in the same 

 locality. 



As yet the auriferous alluvium in the Cheticamp River has 

 not received systematic attention. If there are gravels in the 

 river worth working, they will be found where the river leaves 

 the mountain, and not in its narrow gorges subject to frequent 

 and severe freshets. No free gold veins have yet been reported, 

 and the alluvial gold which attracted so much attention some- 

 time ago is probably derived from the felsites, which are 

 reported to occasionally show fine flakes of gold. 



At Red Head, a few miles to the north, some development 

 work has been done on copper deposits, also auriferous. Galena 



