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It requires roasting before it can be used. At the south end of the 
mine exists what is here called soft ore; this is the ore in a black pow- 
der. It is taken up with the shovel, ready for use, requiring no roast- 
ing process. It would seem to have resulted from the decomposition of 
the pyrites, and is abundant. The solid ores of this mine are in lay- 
ers, having the direction and dip, and alternating with the rock. The 
layers are from a few inches to a yard and more in thickness. Several 
successive layers, and the intervening ones of rock, have been penetra- 
ted in three places; a few rods distant from each other. A large quan- 
tity of the soft ore has been used. Altogether, the mine has been opened 
about 500 feet in length, and evidently extends over a much larger sur- 
face, in all directions. 
The immediate associates of this ore are mica, hornblende, quartz, 
feldspar, asbestos, occasionally carbonate of lime, serpentine, chrome crys- 
tallized in octohedrons; the latter however, is rare. A kind of soapstone 
is also connected with this ore. 
About one mile southeast of the Clove mine, in a straight line, is the 
0'JVei7 mine, or as it is commonly called in the vicinity, the Nail mine. 
This is a vast bed of magnetic oxide of iron. It is often in the seams, 
beautifully crystallized in octohedrons and cubes; the latter are rare; it 
also contains pyrites, and requires the roasting process. Magnetic py- 
rites are also occasionally found in this mine; the ore is very hard and 
compact; the most so of any of our standard ores. This ore is very 
much esteemed. It makes a good iron, which is of the red short de- 
scription. This mine is the property of Gouverneur Kemble, Esq. 
Large quantities of this ore are used. The bed is now open 150 by 
500 feet. A wall is partially exposed on the southeast side, but no 
appearance of limit is any where else visible. One dyke has been 
crossed, which is several feet thick, cutting the bed perpendicularly, and 
nearly east and west. The immediate associates of the ore in this mine, 
are calcareous spar white and abundant, rose coloured garnet, green 
coccolite, dark coloured sahlite and hornblende massive; arragonite, the 
flosferri variety, amianthus, and serpentine, 
Forshee Mines. These are a quarter of a mile southwest of the 
O'Neil mine. It is composed of a great number of layers of ore, alter- 
nating with the layers of rock. The whole hill, which is more than one- 
fourth of a mile long, and nearly as wide, appears to consist of rock and 
ore, the ore forming a large proportion of the whole. Some layers are 
granular, forming handsome shot ore; some are compact, and rather 
