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During the year 53 certificates were surrendered to be applied in payment 

 of lands purchased from the Crown, a total of 668. 



The number of patents that were issued for lands located were 997, being a 

 total of 5,560 patented in all. 



The total number, therefore, of certificates that have now been redeemed is 

 11,756, leaving 2,240 still outstanding. 



The locatees of all lands granted under this Act, must apply for their patents 

 for such land before ten years have expired from date of location. If this appli- 

 cation for patent is not made within ten years, then the land comes under the 

 settlement regulations, and unless the settlement duties are proceeded with, the 

 locations are liable to cancellation. 



As the first locations, under this Act, were made in April, 1903, the ten years 

 exemption, as stated above, is expiring on many of these locations. 



ji|^^ i The Mining Industey. 



Gold. — For the first time in the history of Ontario there was a substantial 

 production of gold. In 1911 the output had a value of $42,637.00; in 1912, of 

 $2,114,086.00. The greater part came from the mines of the Porcupine district, 

 principally from the Hollinger and Dome, which came into full production early 

 in the year. Other mines at Porcupine, whose stamp mills are under construction 

 or actually a/t work are Mclntyre, Vipond, Jupiter, and McEnany. The St. 

 Antony mine at Sturgeon Lake, near the junction of the Transcontinental 

 railway and the Lake Superior branch, and the Cordova in the county of Peter- 

 borough, yielded considerable bullion. The outlook for 1913 is for a much larger 

 production at Porcupine. The other camps undergoing development, such as Lar- 

 der Lake, Kirkland Lake, Swastika, etc., have not yet reached the stage of steady 

 output. 



Silver. — Cobalt well maintained its rate of production, the yield of silver 

 being 30,719,883 fine ounces, worth $17,671,918, as against 31,507,880 ounces 

 worth $15,953,895 in 1911. The total production since the opening of the mines 

 in 1904 has amounted to about 156 million ounces, of a value of about 82 million 

 dollars. A notable feature of the industry at Cobalt is the tendency towards final 

 treatment of the ore on the spot. At first the high grade ore was shipped as mined 

 to smelters in the United States, the low grade going to the dumps, Befining 

 works came into being at several points in Ontario, and concentration plants 

 became common at Cobalt, resulting in great saving of freight and the recovery of 

 silver from ores l:oo low in grade to admit of shipment. The third stage was the 

 establishment of plants for the refining of the silver and the production of mer- 

 chantable bars. The Buffalo and Nipissing mines are now equipped for reducing 

 their entire output, both of high grade and low grade ore, to silver bullion. 



The largest producers during the year were the Mpissing, Coniagas, La Eose, 

 Crown Reserve, McKinley-Darragh-Savage, Kerr Lake, Buffalo, Townsite Temis- 

 kaming, O'Brien. Three mines in Gowganda and one in South Lorrain were in 

 active operation. The principal by-product of the Cobalt mines is Cobalt oxide, of 

 which these mines are now the chief, practically the only, source of supply. This 

 article is used to impart to chinaware ind porcelain goods the beautiful color 

 known as cobalt blue. Another by-product is white arsenic, and a third, nickel 

 oxide, both of which are utilized in thf arts. 



Nickel and Copper. — The Sudbury mines yielded '22,421 tons of nickel and 



