HALIFAX COUNTY, N. S. BY HARRY PIKRS 43 



Description of the deposit. — Considerable difficulty was 

 experienced in determining the true dip of the heavily-bedded 

 quartzite, which outcrops in succeeding ridges to the east- 

 northeast. However, I ascertained that it dipped 25° south- 

 southeastward, and that its strike was N.70°E. (true bearings). 

 This showed that the desposit was located a short distance on 

 the southern side of the Waverley anticline, and not on the 

 northern side as in the case of the Perry Lake interbedded 

 deposit. 



There had been sunk a small pit, of irregular shape, meas- 

 uring about 32 feet in length along the direction of the strike 

 of the rocks, and about 15 feetin greatest width, with a maxi- 

 mum depth of about 9 feet at the northeast end. 



The vein-matter (ore-bearing quartz), had mostly been 

 blasted out, and removed to a neighboring barn, but some of it 

 remained on the northeastern part of the floor of the pit. Owing 

 to this unfortunate removal of the greater part of the vein, it 

 was difficult to ascertain its true attitude to the country-rock. 

 The vein had cropped on the southern side of the pit, that being 

 the spot where it had first been discovered on the surface; and 

 there a small remnant of it, still in place, was 9 inches wide, 

 while part of it there, now removed, is said to have been as 

 thin as 3 or 4 inches. It then dipped northward at a steep 

 angle of perhaps 50°, but soon flattened out on the floor of the 

 small pit, and where last seen in the quartzite, on the north- 

 east side, was apparantly steepening again. Good ore had 

 been obtained on the northern part of the floor of the pit, and 

 Mr. Dixon says that the vein in one part had become as wide 

 as 18 inches, which I could well believe from the size of some of 

 the largest samples received at the Museum. 



From this examination it is clear that the deposit is on 

 the southern side of the axis of the Waverley anticline, the course 

 of which is here about N. 47° E. (true bearings). The anticlinal 

 axis is without doubt located in the low-lying ground, covered 

 with deep soil, a very short distance to the northwest of the 

 deposit. The swinging of the strike somewhat around towards 

 the axis of the anticline, suggests that the rock at the pit may 



