Manganese in Canada. — Btvnidl. 83 
all facilities made for the easy handling of the ore. Owing to 
the position of the mine, ore could be run direct from the work- 
ings to the wharf and loading accomplished at one handling by 
means of self-dumping cars. 
Assays of the concentrated ore made by A. M. Cowl}', Cam- 
bridge, Mass.. gave the following result: 
Compact 
Porous 
variety. 
variety. 
Manganese dioxide 
71. "54 
65.00 
Insoluble silicates 
8.37 
«.66 
Ferric oxide 
2.19 
1.75 
Ph' sphorus 
0.02 
0.04 
Calcium 
trace 
trace 
Metallic manganese 
58.20 
57.15 
A considerable proportion of lime is generally present in the 
concentrates, which will not. however, interfere with their fitness 
for use in the manufacture of steel for which purpose all the ore 
from this property will l)e most suitable. 
A peculiar occurrence of manganese is that which is to Ije seen 
on the north and northeast side of Gowland mountain. Elgin, 
Kings Co., where the ore, consisting principally of psilomelane, 
is found filling the interstices of a ver}' much broken and partly 
decomposed granite of pre-Cambrian age. A small amount of 
development work was done on these deposits without, however, 
locating any other than small bunches of a ver}' impure pyrolu- 
site and psilomelane. The following analysis made in 1885 i)y 
Mr. F. D. Adams, late assistant chemist to the Geological Survey, 
is that of a specimen of psilomelane from this propertj': 
Manganese dioxide, available 50.21 per cent. 
Ferric oxide 3.00 " 
Insoluble residue 33.78 " 
The specimen also contained a very appreciable percentage of 
l)aryta. 
This property is peculiar in atl'ording the only instance in New- 
Brunswick where the cr3'stalline ores of manganese are known 
to occur in appreciable quantity outside of the Carboniferous 
areas. 
Other localities where manganese, in its crystalline foi-ms, have 
been noted are, Upham, Waterford, near Petitcodiac, Springfield, 
Tete-a-Gauche Falls, and many points throughout Albert county. 
Of one of these, Shepody mountain, Dr. R. W. Ells, in his report 
to the Geological Survey for 1884, w-rites: '-The rocks of the 
mountain (Shepody mountain) rest upon a small outlier of the 
