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way during the spring and summer of the current year and some 

 shipments of lump ore have been made. 



Deposits near Oxbow. Pyrite ore outcrops in force on the Laidlaw 

 farm i mile southeast of Oxbow and just south of Antwerp highway. 

 The exposures lie on the west face of a small knob which is composed 

 of gamet-biotite gneiss with about 50 feet of pyritic gneiss exposed 

 on the northwest side. The outcrop of the ore is marked by a 

 heayy iron-stained cap. The richer ore occurs near the top of the 

 exposed band of pyritic gneiss along the eastern flank of the hill. 

 It has been prospected in two or three places and near the southern 

 end of the hill a shallow shaft has been sunk. Another prospect 

 lies near the north end. Little can be seen in these openings but 

 about 1 50 feet south of the shaft ore appears in outcrop for a distance 

 of 50 feet along the strike with a width of about 22 feet. The 

 upper 18 feet of this band is fairly rich pyrite ore. The lower four 

 feet consists of pyrrhotite. Samples of the vein taken in the 

 shaft opening showed on analysis 28 to 29 per cent sulphur. 



Pyrite schists occur on the Frank Bent farm 2I miles southwest 

 of Oxbow where the band of schists or gneiss has a thickness alto- 

 gether of 50 to 60 feet. The richer ore occurs in the central part 

 of the band with about 25 feet that is rather heavily charged with 

 sulphides. In one place a prospect has been put down for a few 

 feet in the ore. The total length of the exposed vein is about 400 

 feet but there is no doubt it extends much farther than that. The 

 pyrite outcrops a short distance from some iron ore pits. A sample 

 of the sulphides made up of several specimens taken from different 

 parts of the vein returned 22.15 P^r cent sulphur. 



Other pyrite showings in St Lawrence county. In the report by 

 Buddington previously noted, mention is made of a test drilling by 

 the St Lawrence Pyrite Company at a locality one-quarter of a mile 

 west of Pyrites. The drill is said to have encountered 11 feet of 

 fairly rich ore, beginning at 94 feet from the surface. A prospect 

 pit is found i mile from Pyrites in a direction a little south of west. 

 The pit is shallow and reveals an ore made up of pyrite and pyrrho- 

 tite in about equal quantities. The two minerals occur in irregular 

 branching veinlets with occasional pockets and bunches of the 

 sulphides. 



In the vicinity of the Ore-Bed school, town of Herm.on, are found 

 ore bands of pyritic gneiss which have been prospected to a small 

 extent. One band of the gneiss forms the hill on the east side of 

 the road one-quarter of a mile north of the school house and consists 

 of an injected gneiss of which the outcrop is marked by the usual 



