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Lake Superior are well known, and from these 

 the state of Michigan now exports, it is said, about 

 $7,000,000 of copper annually, while the produce is 

 increasing. The north or Canadian side exhibit 

 similar rocks, containing in many places deposits of 

 native copper like those of the south side. But al- 

 though these have been known for the last twenty 

 years, ever since indeed the first opening of the 

 mines ou the southern shore, almost nothing has 

 been done to develope them. From the identity of 

 the formations, and from the abundance with which 

 the sietal appears to be distributed in this part of 

 the Canadian territory, it can scarcely be doubted 

 that a skillful outlay of capital will yet develope on 

 this northern shore a mining region second only to 

 that of northern Michigan. 



LEAD ORE. 



Lead ore occurs in many places in the Laurentian 

 region in the form of veins, which also appear in 

 the eastern division of the champaign region, south, 

 of the Ottawa. Some of these veins may perhaps be 

 wrought with advantage. Lead ore has also been met 

 with in several localities on the shore of Gaspe, 

 where mining operations have lately been under- 

 taken. Small quantities of the ore have also been 

 found in the Eastern Townships, and on Lake Supe- 

 rior ; in both of these regions the lead is often rich, 

 in silver. 



GOLD. 



This precious metal has been shown to exist over 

 a large extent of the Eastern Townships, from near 

 the line of Vermont, in which state gold has been 

 met with in a great many places, as far northeast- 

 ward as Quebec, and it may not improbably be 



