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GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
The analyses below are of samples from the 90 feet shaft, nearest the 
hematite vein, and may be considered as fairly representative : 
Silica,. , 
24 
1.42 
25 
3.79 
Alumina, 
Sesquioxide of Iron, 
Protoxide “ “ 
82.02 
83.69 
0.11 
Lime, 
1.19 
Magnesia, 
Phosphoric Acid, 
Sulphuric Acid, 
Water, 
0.00 
0.00 
trace. 
0.77 
Mettallic Iron, 
100.00 
57.41 
58.67 
The first of these analyses was 
made by Chatard, for Dr. 
Genth, the 
second by Mr. Hanna. This ore was worked on a considerable scale 
during the American Revolution, and again during the late civil war, and 
the iron is reported to have been of good quality ; and it is obviously an 
ore very readily smelted. The presence of the hematite vein and the 
proximity of the ball ore, which was successfully used as a flux in the last 
working of the furnace, furnish admirable conditions for advantageous 
iron manufacture. And it is gratifying to be able to state that there is a 
prospect of the immediate development of the property by the Philadel- 
phia and Canadian capitalists who have latelj” come into possession. Ne- 
gotiations for the completion of the railroad from Egypt are nearly con- 
cluded, and for the first time the needed facilities for transportation from 
the mines to the seaboard, and between the different ores and the fuel, 
are abcut to be realized. 
Besides the ores above described, there are many others, of which 
specimens have been brought or forwarded to the Museum, from various 
parts of the county and region, magnetite, hematite and limonite, repre- 
senting veins and deposits of whose extent I have no information. It is 
worth while to mention two of such specimens, one from Chatham, (be- 
tween Lockville and Endor), and the other from the adjoining county of 
Moore, Governor’s Creek, as they are almost the only examples of the 
species of ore called jaspery cl&y iron stone yet found in the State. The 
former contains 48.92 per cent, of iron, phosphorus 0.39. 
A fine quality of magnetic ore, dense, mettallic and very pure, is found 
