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averaging about 9 feet in thickness and showing from various 

 tests the following analyses:* 



From which it will be seen that though rather asilicious ore, 

 it is low in sulphur and phosphorus, and high in metallic iron. 



The vein dips at an angle of about 80 to the south at the 

 surface, and flattens to 45 at a depth of 350 feet (as proved by 

 the workings of the Torbrook Iron Co.), and the general strike 

 throughout the district is about N. 62 E. 



This company in 1896 completed their contracts, and no 

 immediate market offering elsewhere, they closed their mine, 

 after having shfpped in the live years 135,000 tons of ore to the 

 Londonderry and Ferrona furnaces. When closed down, th& 

 mine showed large quantities of good ore in sight, and a vein 

 from 6 ft. to 12 ft. in thickness. 



About 65 feet to the south of this vein lies another deposit of 

 red hematite, called from its fossiliferous character the " Shell 

 ore vein," which from several analyses runs about 54% metallic 

 iron. This vein measures about 6 to 9 feet in width. The 

 fossil shells occuring in this bed consist of varieties of Spirifer, 

 Strophomena, A try pa, Avicula, Bellerophon, etc., etc. 



North of the vein worked by the above company, and about 

 a mile west of their mines, another vein five feet in width has 

 been found, which at this point presents in common with most of 

 the iron deposits in the district, different characteristics, as it is- 



These analyses are from a paper on the Iron Ores of Nictaux, by Dr. EL 

 Gilpin, Nova Scotian Institute Science session 1894-95. 



