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were opened on the strike of a small body of magnetite many years 
ago. The pits extend for one-half of a mile and are of no great 
importance except in so far as the ore serves as a connecting link 
between the Canada Mines group, and the Canopus mine to the 
southwest. — : 
The Canopus mine. This mine, formerly called the Nelson mine, 
is situated at the extreme southwest end of the Phillips belt, at 
Travis Corners. 
Many years ago the property was prospected by the Kingston Iron 
Ore Company, and in 1912 it was further explored by the Mount 
Summit Ore Corporation, who equipped it with a shaft and small 
mill; little ore was actually shipped and operations were discontinued 
in 1913. 
The mine was later opened again and in 1919 was operated for 
a short time by the Canopus Iron Corporation. It is not now in 
operation (1921). 
The Canopus Iron Corporation held the mineral rights on 140 
acres of land surrounding the mine, and owned 40 acres in fee, on 
which the mine is situated. According to dip-needle readings the 
magnetite may be traced along the strike for 3200 feet; it varies in 
thickness from 4 feet to 10 feet, strikes north 27° east, and dips 54° 
southeast at the surface. The dip steepens with depth, so that at 
the bottom of the incline, down 175 feet on the slope, the dip 
reaches 60° to 65°. The hanging wall is highly modified, strongly 
granitized Pochuck-Grenvile, heavily injected with pegmatite; a 
short distance from the ore body, outside the zone of intense 
granitization and pegmatization, the rock is a beautifully banded 
epidote gneiss; Pochuck-Grenville, granitized, modified and injected, 
but to a less degree than immediately adjacent to the ore body, 
where the rock is so heavily injected that the walls are in part granite 
and in part pegmatite. (Plate 6, figure 4). 
The deposit differs from the Canada Mines group in two respects: 
a Deformation has severely affected the ore, so that there seems 
to be more than a strong probability that this will prove a serious 
factor in the more extensive exploitation of the ore body. 
This is reflected in thin sections by crush-zones and strain-effects 
(plate 8, figure 3), and in the mine by a badly sheared camptonite 
dike, or the remnants of such a dike, in the ore; and by displacement, 
crush-zones and related phenomena. 
b The ore carries ilmenite, intergrown with the magnetite, (see 
plate 11, figure 3) instead of the usual titanite, in which form most of 
