22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



The crystals discovered by Sterry Hunt in Burgess, it will be remembered, 

 were found in association with pyroxene in crystalline limestone. 



In \iew of the extent and apparent richness of the corundum fields in the Pro- 

 vince, the Government has taken steps aimed at developing the deposits and estab- 

 lishing a home industry. Regulations have been drawn up under which the min- 

 eral rights in lands lying within the two cor.undiferous belts have been withdrawn 

 from sale, and hereafter the mineral and mining rights in such lands can be 

 a quired only under the leasehold system — the rental for the first year being 60 

 cents and for subsequent years 15 cents per acre. Instead of allowing speculators 

 to take up and hold lands with a view to sell out their interests to miners and 

 capitalists at a large profit, it is proposed that the advantage of acquiring lands 

 upon the lowe.st terms shall go to the miner and manufacturer direct; and in the 

 case of parties who will undertake to conduct mining and treating operations on 

 the largest and compietest scale, and who can furnish satisfactory assurance that 

 they possess the requisite capital for the proposed operations (including separation 

 of the ore from its gangue, milling for abrasive uses, manufacture of abrasive goods, 

 and the production of aluminium), the Government may concede a preference in 

 the selection of mineral lands. It is also provided that the Government shall have 

 power to require that all corundum mined from lands leased under the Regula- 

 tions shall undergo certain processes of treatment and milling at works to be 

 erected in the Province to prepare it for market; and may furtlier require, from 

 time to time, as circumstances appear to warrant, that works be established in the 

 Province for the manufacture of all useful or commercial products for which the 

 mineral or ore is economically adapted. 



