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part of the same month, the Scheelite, of a buff colour, was 

 located in situ on the footwall of a quartz vein, interbedded in 

 a slate belt, between quartzite walls, dipping northwest at an 

 angle of 75°, at Stillwater Brook, about three-quarters of a 

 mile north of the place where the last-mentioned boulders had 

 been discovered, — that is, about 2H miles west-southwest of 

 Moose River Gold Mines. (See sample of this ore, ace. no. 

 3527.) Other scheelite-bearing veins were also found alongside 

 this ore. This deposit was very extensively developed by an 

 incline shaft which was some three hundred feet long by March, 

 1911. It became a well-known and much-talked-of mine, and 

 the place itself received the name of Scheelite. The deposit 

 first belonged to W. S. Currie, J. A. Reynolds and A. L. McCal- 

 lum; afterwards passed to A. A. Hayward; and then to various 

 companies. It had produced a large amount of ore for several 

 years, but finally after the Great War, the mine was closed, 

 said to have been because the pay-streaks were too restricted, 

 and too much dead-work had therefore to be done. It was 

 the most important deposit of Tungsten ore yet located here. 



Owing to the important nature of this extensive deposit, 

 search for the mineral was greatly stimulated throughout the 

 province, and in December, 1908, brownish buff-coloured 

 Scheelite was also discovered in a rather narrow interbedded 

 quartz vein in a slate belt, in the Quartzite Division of the Gold 

 Measures, just northeast of Perry Lake, about a mile north- 

 west of the Waverley Gold District, Halifax Co., by Louis 

 Newell McDonald, who had prospected the vein for gold about 

 ten years before. This deposit has never been developed. (See 

 samples of this ore, ace. nos. 3331-2.) 



The discovery of small quantities of tin ore (cassitirite) 

 in pegmatitic granite at Lake Ramsay in the northwest section 

 Lunenburg Co., in October, 1906, and at Wallabach Stream, 

 between Camp and Harris Lakes, 4H miles to the north- 

 northeast, late in 1907, led to extensive prospecting in the 

 whole of the interesting New Ross district. Tungstite and 

 Wolframite were found in quartz at Ernest Turner's tin pros- 

 pect on the northwest side of Wallabach Stream, in pegmatite 



