132 HOW 'ON ORES OF MANGANESE AND THEIR USES. 



opening ground and prospecting. In conclusion, I beg to state that 

 our prospects are daily improving, and I firmly believe that at no 

 distant date the manganese mines of Teny Cape will hold a distin- 

 guished position in the hst of bona fide and profitable' mines of 

 Nova Scotia." 



I have omitted a number of technical mining details, allowing 

 the extracts to bring out the mode of occurrence, the richness and 

 quantity of the ore yet obtained : it appears that upwards of three 

 hundred tons have been got out. Two hundred tons more have 

 since been taken out, and very fine ore of 93-8 per cent, has been 

 found at 50 feet below the surface. As regards the quality, I be- 

 lieve all that has been sold in England has realized from £8 5s. to 

 £9 stg. per ton* ; the beautiful specimens sent to the Dublin Exhi- 

 bition this year, are, I apprehend, mostly from the second pocket, as 

 I received the majority on February 4th \ the large mass, however, 

 of about three cwt., which has so long lain at the door of the Hali- 

 fax E-eading Room, and is, by the liberality of Messrs. Nash and 

 Co., also to be sent to Dublin, I imagine must be from the first 

 pocket. 



The second mine in operation at Teny Cape, was opened up by 

 Messrs. Weeks & Co. In the spring of 1864 samples of ore were 

 brought to me by O. Weeks, Esq., and J. W. Ouseley, Esq., which 

 turned out to be sufficiently rich for working, as they gave, just as I 

 received them, from 88 to about 92-5 per cent, binoxide. In June 

 I went with Dr. Weeks, of Brooklyn, and a party, to prospect the 

 locality whence the samples were taken. It consisted of a consider- 

 able hill contiguous to the Mosher mine, and the indications of ore 

 in various parts were very promising. Operations were soon after 

 commenced, and during the year about eight tons, English, of ore 

 were sent to Liverpool, where they realized £8 5s. stg. per ton.f 

 One great advantage of this locality is, that the Basin of Minas is 

 only about a mile and a half distant in a direct line, and the inter- 

 vening country is such that a road can easily be made from the 

 mines to the place of shipment. 



Hants County possesses a variety of manganese ores in localities 

 widely sejiarate from each other ; it has been mentioned that seven 



* About ten or twelve tons fetched £10 per ton. 



t A third mine has been opened by Messsrs. Hamilton & Duvar, and a good deal 

 of ore has been raised. 



