42 ON A NEW TUNGSTEN (SCHEELITE) DEPOSIT 



October he informed me where the specimens had been dis- 

 covered, as the location of the vein had been unknown to me. 

 As it was on the southwestward range of the Waverley anti- 

 cline, and about on the strike of the very similar ore at Perry 

 Lake, 3f miles to the northeast, I thought that the vein, on 

 being further prospected to the northeast, might possibly be 

 correlated with the latter. 



Prospecting work. — Mr. Dixon accordingly examined the 

 rock outcrops in that direction, but failed to locate an ex- 

 tension of his vein. With the aid of a few men, work was be- 

 gun in sinking on the vein where it cropped, and this was con- 

 tinued till winter put an end to the season's operations. He 

 extracted a considerable amount of fine-looking ore, very prom- 

 ising large samples of which were brought to the Museum on 

 22nd October and in January, (ace. nos. 5045 and 5060). 



In the spring of 1922, he resumed the work of prospecting 

 the vein, and followed it downward on its dip, extracting more 

 ore of excellent quality. 



Examination of the deposit. — As the relative attitude of 

 this vein to the country-rock could not be ascertained by Mr. 

 Dixon, nor its relationship, if any, to the Perry Lake deposit, 

 and without such information it was difficult to judge how 

 intelligently the work of prospecting was being conducted, I 

 visited the deposit on 3rd May, 1922, accompanied by Dr. 

 F. H. Sexton, Mr. J. L. Hetherington, and the owner. I then 

 made the following notes on the occurrence: 



Location. — The despoit is situated on Fred. W. Dixon's 

 property, formerly Robert Ward's, a very short distance to 

 the north-northeast of the site of Fultz's old Twelve-mile House, 

 at the forks of the Old Cobequid Road and what is known as 

 the "New" Windsor Road, nearly two miles north of Bedford 

 railway station on tide-water at the head of Bedford Basin, 

 and about 12 miles by road from Halifax, Halifax Co. 



Geological horizon. — It occurs in a vein of white quartz 

 in heavily-bedded blue-gray quartzite or "whin" of the lower 

 or Quartzite Division of the Gold Measures which are believed 

 to be of Lower Cambrian or possibly even Pre-Cambrian age. 



