EEPOKT OF THE No. 3 



is the Tip Top; another at Mine Centre has lately been sending lorward to B. C. a 

 carload of ore daily. The price received by the shippers has averaged 18.5 cents per 

 pound for the copper contents. This figure has also been applied to the copper con- 

 tained in the heavy shipments of matte from the Sudbury nickel-copper mines, and 

 a considerable part of the increase in value of the copper reported is due to the 

 higher valuation, although the quantity shipped was also greater by 20 per cent. 



Gold. — The output from the mines of Northern Ontario is steadily increasing, 

 being 28 per cent, in excess of that for the nine months of 1915. Hollinger Con- 

 solidated continues to be the chief producer, accounting for 47 per cent, of the total. 

 Dome followed with 21 per cent., and Mclntyre-Porcupine with 10 per cent. The 

 other considerable contributors in this camp are Porcupine Crown, Schumachei, 

 Vipond, and Jupiter, which together furnished 5.5 per cent. Outside of Porcupine 

 proper, Tough-Oakes yielded $519,149; Canadian Exploration, Croesus and a small 

 output from Dome Lake amounted to over one-quarter of a million dollars. At 

 Teck-Hughes (Kirkland Lake) the mine has been developed and a mill built which 

 will be put in operation as soon as the power transmission line now being erected 

 from Cobalt has been completed. Other prospects here, the Lake Shore, Wright- 

 Hargrave, Kirkland Lake Gold Mines, La Belle-Kirkland and Sylvanite are also 

 being developed. This is a promising camp. In Gauthier township the Huronian 

 mine is being worked under a lease. Several discoveries of gold were made during 

 the summer in Benoit township, but there has not been time to prove their value. 

 At Tashota, the Tash-Orn Company has bought the Wells claim and has put in 

 machinery to give it a thorough test. This company is also working the King- 

 Dodds claims. A diamond drill has been operated on the Devanney, Eeamsbottom 

 and Clive claims. 



Molybdenite. — There is a demand in Britain for making tool-steel, and several 

 deposits of the ore in Eastern Ontario have been opened and are being worked. 

 There are dressing plants at Eenfrew and Ottawa, the latter operated by the Dom- 

 inion Mines Department. Ferro-molybdenum is also being made at Orillia and 

 Belleville. The supply of molybdenite throughout the British Empire has been re- 

 served as a war measure and a price of 105 shillings per unit fixed for concentrates 

 delivered at Liverpool. This approximates $1.00 per pound here. 



Nickel. — The Canadian Copper Company and the Mond Nickel Company have 

 been working their mines and smelters at maximum capacity, and the output of 

 nickel, contained in the matte product of the furnaces, for the nine months falls 

 little short of that for the full year 1915. The production for 1916 will probably 

 exceed the production of 1915 by 20 per cent. The valuation of the nickel in the 

 matte has been increased from about 11 cents per pound (the figure adopted by the 

 mining companies) in 1915 to 25 cents per pound in 1916. Nickel refineries are 

 to be erected in Ontario by the International Nickel Company and the British 

 American Nickel Corporation, the latter of which is developing the Murray mine. 

 Small quantities of metallic nickel are being produced from Cobalt ores by the 

 Deloro Smelting and Eefining Company. 



Iron. — The whole production of iron ore was from the Helen and Magpie mines 

 of the Algoma Steel Corporation. At the latter the ore (siderite) is roasted 

 previous to shipment. Four blast furnace companies at Port Colborne, Sault Ste 



