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6. Parsons, A. L. Gold fields of Lake of the Woods, 



Manitou and Dryden: Ont. Bur. Mines, 

 Vol. XX, Pt. I, pp. 158-198. 



7 Gold fields of Lake of the Woods, Mani- 

 tou and Dryden: Ont. Bur. Mines, Vol. 

 XXI, Pt. I, pp. 169-203. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE. 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



188-3 m. Vermilion — Alt. 122 1 ft. (372-2 m.). Eagle 



302-7 km. lake another large example of the rock-bound 



lakes so characteristic of Pre-Cambrian regions, 



is seen at Vermilion. Gold is mined in the 



Keewatin schists at several points on this lake. 



214-9 m. Dryden — Alt. 1220 ft. (371 -8m.). Between 

 345 • 8 km. Minnitaki and Wabigoon the Pleistocene de- 

 posits, either of boulder clay or of stratified clay, 

 are unusually thick and support a scattered 

 farming community. At Dryden the stratified 

 clay is used also for brick making. Gold mines, 

 including the Laurentian mine, are located at a 

 number of points in the country to the south 

 and southeast of Dryden, but none of these are 

 near the railway. 



Ignace — Alt. 1487 ft. (453-2 m.). Keewatin 



volcanics 



Buda — Alt. 1472 ft. (448-7 m.). and their 



schistose 

 equivalents are continuous from near Buda to 

 the neighbourhood of Summit, where they are 

 unconformably overlain by flatlying Animikie 

 sediments. But from this station to Port 

 Arthur, a distance of 18 miles (29-0 km.), the 

 railway traverses a flat delta plain terminating 

 at Lake Superior, and rock exposures are infre- 

 quent. In places a red soil has been formed by 

 weathering of Animikie iron formation, where 

 that formation lies at no great depth. Al- 

 though there are no outcrops near the railway, 

 the horizontal Animikie sediments and the 

 Keweenawan diabase sills intrusive into them 



277 



■9 



m. 



448 



'4 



km. 



385 



9 



m. 



621 



1 



km. 



