1912-13 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. ix 



Custom plant sold to an English syndicate which has taken over the Cobalt Town- 

 site and other mines. 



Of the whole production of silver, 28,105,505 ounces came from the mines 

 of Cobalt proper, the yield from the outlying camps being as follows : 



Gowganda: — oz. oz. 



Miller-Lake O'Brien 469,923 



Mann 32,447 



502,370 



South Lorrain: — ^ 



Wettlaufer-Lorrain 248,992 



Casey: — 



Casey Cobalt 825,108 



Total 1,576,470 



Nickel. — The quantity of ore smelted at the nickel-copper works in 1913, 

 was 833,403 tons, which produced 47,150 tons of bessemerized matte. The nickel 

 contents amounted to 24,838 tons, valued in the matte at $5,237,477. In 1912, 

 the production was 22,421 tons worth $4,722,040, the increase being therefore a 

 little under 11 per cent. 



The operating companies are the Canadian Copper Company, and the Mond 

 Nickel Company. Of the ore treated by the former, 418,525 tons were taken 

 from the Creighton mine, 54,646 from Crean Hill, 56,439 from No. 2, and 86,665 

 from No. 3. The last mentioned mine is also Jinown as the Frood. The Mond 

 Company's ore was derived as follows: from the Garson mine, 113,403 tons, from 

 Victoria No. 1, 38,592 tons, from North Star, 11,294 tons, and from Worthington, 

 537 tons. This company also received and smelted 4,596 tons of ore from the 

 Alexo mine in the townthip of Dundonald, on the line of the T. & N. 0. railway, 

 the product of which is similar in character to that of the Sudbury mines. The 

 Mond company during the year removed their smelting plant from Victoria Mines 

 to Coniston, some eight miles east of Sudbury, where they have erected a complete 

 and well-equipped plant. The British America Nickel Corporation have acquired 

 the holdings of the old Dominion Nickel-Copper Company, and are developing 

 the Murray and Whistle mines. They raised no ore during the year. 



The satisfactory results obtained by diamond drilling at the Murray, Frood, 

 Garson, Levack and other properties, disclosing as they have, immense reserves 

 of ore, have established nickel mining in Ontario on an assured basis. 



Copper. — ^The mattes produced at the Sudbury nickel-copper smelters fur- 

 nished the only copper obtained in 1913, save for about 3 tons which accompanied 

 some concentrates shipped from the Temiskaming silver mine, Cobalt. The 

 quantity was 12,941 tons, valued in the matte at $1,840,492. This compares with 

 11,126 tons in 1912, worth $1,584,310, an increase of about 16 per cent. The 

 percentage of the copper to the nickel in the Sudbury mattes last year was a 

 little over 1 to 2. 



Iron Ore and Pig Iron. — There were shipped from the iron mines of the Pro- 

 vince last year 195,937 tons valued at $424,072. Of this quantity 165,454 tons 

 were of ore as taken from the mine, the remaining 30,483 tons were composed of 

 22,327 tons of roasted siderite from the Magpie mine, 4,841 tons of concentrates 

 from the Trenton plant of the Canada Iron Mines, and 3,315 tons of briquettes 

 from the Grondal magnetic concentrating Avorks at Moose Mountain. The latter 

 mine, it is stated, will be in a position to ship 200,000 tons to the United States 

 market in 1914. At the Magpie mine the Algoma Steel Corporation are enlarging 



