406 C. U. Shepard—Mineralogical Notices. 
E., and dip at a high angle N. 835° W. There are three me- 
tallic lodes upon the hill cutting across the strata at various 
angles, and all intersecting with one another so as to forma 
triangular space. I have seen but one other example of a cross 
lode in Canada. 
A trial shaft has been sunk upon one of the veins, and at a 
depth of 15 feet shows an increase of the lode from 18 inches to 
three feet, with very distinct walls. This lode has been traced 
with the course E. 15° N. for a distance of half a mile. The — 
two other lodes are a very little smaller, and have the courses 
.E. an . 28°. The intersections of the veins have not 
been exposed. ‘The dip is variable, the first and second dipping 
toward each other. 
West of the lodes and higher up the hill is a small bed of 
serpentine. I have not been able to trace either lode across it, 
and suspect the serpentine has cut off the lodes, as the gangue 
the lodes appears on the west side of the former. Numerous 
small leaders to the main lodes traverse the schists, and are all 
charged with antimony. ee 
The gangue is mostly a quartz rock of a dark bluish tint 
The metal is disseminated through it generally unostentatiously, 
but occasionally in both large and small lumps. Dr. Hayess 
assays for the proprietors show that very unpromising portions 
of the gangue yield 80 per cent of antimony. The richest pol 
tions of the lode vary in position, sometimes on the foot and 
sometimes on the hanging wall. The native metal is the com 
mon form of the occurrence of the antimony. The ores occur 
only occasionally, and not in workable quantities. A company 
has been formed to work the lodes, with flattering prospects of 
success. The mine is about thirty miles distant from either 
Danville or Athabaska stations on the Quebee branch of the 
Grand Trunk Railway. CO. H. Hircucock. 
The new ores are stiblite, senarmontite and kermesite.’ 
‘ The following account of the antimony mine of South Ham, C. E., is published ia 
the Report on the Geological Survey of Canada, by Sir Wm. E. Logan (1863), #88 
note to page 876, from which it appears that Professor Shepard's observations 2 
here mostly anticipated: al Boal 
“ A deposit of this metal has lately been discovered in the township of § i 
Ham, on the twenty-eighth lot of the range east of the Gosford road. is 
seri ing in a vein or , of from six to sixteen inches in thickness 
in argillite, which is penetrated by numerous smaller veins of the ore. The 
portion of ‘the antimony is in the metallic state, as lamellar, or more rarely, #8 fin 
granular native antimony ; but the sulphuret, antimony glance, also occurs ™ 
radiating prismatic crystallizations. Besides these, the white oxyd of antimony: a 
massive and fibrous, is found in this locality, associated with small crystallin 
of the red oxysulphuret of antimony, kermesite. These latter ores are tal 
only the results of superficial oxydation. From the specimens already workable 
from this locality, it would appear probable that antimony exists here in 
y. It is accompanied by quartz and a li wn-s Eps. 
quantity. little brown-spar.”— 
