licriews — Geological Survey of Canada. ISI 



Notre Dame Eange, belonging for the most part to the Quebec 

 Group. Little progress has been made in a knowledge of its 

 derivation since the time of these geologists, as practically no 

 quartz-mining has yet been carried on. The author finally concludes 

 that " the primary source of the gold of the ' Eastern Townships * 

 seems to be the crystalline schists of pre-Cambrian or Huroniaa 

 age, which were invaded by diorites and other intrusives and 

 yielded material to the basal Cambrian conglomerates, and were 

 also probably traversed by quartz veins. In the removal and 

 transportation of sedimentary material by drainage w^aters, what- 

 ever gold was in the quartz veins, and in the products of rock 

 decay, would be concentrated in channels or river-bottoms in the 

 gravels in which it is found at the present day." 



Dr. L. W. Bailey's Keport (M) relates to the mineral resources 

 of the Province of New Brunswick. Among metallic ores are 

 included iron, in the forms of haematite, magnetite, etc. ; copper, 

 as native copper, and various sulphides ; lead, as galena, usually 

 slightly argentiferous ; zinc, as blende ; antimony ; nickel sulphide, 

 bismuth ; and gold. To these are added, among substances affording 

 combustible products, bituminous coal, anthracite, cannelite, albertite, 

 petroleum, and peat. Among materials for construction are granite, 

 freestone, slate, limestone and marble, gypsum, clays and sands, 

 besides graphite, salt, infusorial earth, fireclay, etc. Many of these 

 substances, especially the metallic ores, occur only in small amounts. 

 The geological formations rej)resented in the province include all 

 the divisions of the geological scale from the earliest Arch^an 

 to the Trias ; those formations, such as the Laurentian, Huronian, 

 and Cambrian, which elsewhere usually produce metallic ores, and 

 the Carboniferous formation yielding coal and related products, 

 occupy the largest areas. 



Keferring to gold. Dr. Bailey says that its existence in profitable 

 quantities remains to be proved, and that this can only be done by 

 a pi'olonged and systematic prospecting of the areas in which it is 

 likely, if anywhere, to be found. The question of the occurrence 

 of cual is to be made the subject of a special report. There is no 

 dearth of materials used in construction and of deposits of gypsum, 

 limestone, clay, sand, and probably bog manganese. This is doubt- 

 less a valuable report, especially from the economic point of view ; 

 but our space does not admit of more than this bare outline of its 

 contents. It is accompanied by a map of the province on a scale 

 of 10 miles to I inch. 



Mr. E. D. Ingall, assisted by Messrs. Denis and McLeish, con- 

 tributes his annual report (S) on mineral statistics and mines, 

 thus adding to the steadily increasing classified system of mining 

 records. Noting some features of progress of mineral development 

 in the country as a whole, Mr. Ingall says the grand total of 1897, 

 as compared with 1896, shows an inci'ease of nearly 27 per cent, 

 and as compared with 1895 of over 30 per cent. This is almost 

 altogether due to the metallic minerals, and amongst these gold, 

 silver, copper, and lead are those showing the most marked advance, 



