Transactions . .... ........ *Under construction. Importance to Canada. It seems to us that these results contain a lesson to us onthis side of the Atlantic well worth a moments the first place, there are in Canada, and particularly in Ontarioprovince, numerous bodies of magnetite of some extent, whichto-day are practically dormant. There is a rapidly growing pro-duction of pig iron and steel, with a correspondingly increaseddemand for ore. Some makers have even had to resort to theuse of imported ores. Yet right in Canada there are
Transactions . .... ........ *Under construction. Importance to Canada. It seems to us that these results contain a lesson to us onthis side of the Atlantic well worth a moments the first place, there are in Canada, and particularly in Ontarioprovince, numerous bodies of magnetite of some extent, whichto-day are practically dormant. There is a rapidly growing pro-duction of pig iron and steel, with a correspondingly increaseddemand for ore. Some makers have even had to resort to theuse of imported ores. Yet right in Canada there are all the ele-ments of a vast and profitable industry—an industry of basicimportance to a countrys prosperity—requiring only the awaken-ing touch of intelligent capital to spring into active being. Without making a plea for any particular apparatus, butassuming that the Grondal methods are employed, two locationspresent themselves as promising. These are shown as follows:— 196 The Canadian Mining Institute. Map of the Kingston and Pembroke Railway Valley. Concentrating and Briquetting Irox Ores. 197 Central Ontario Valley. In Fig. 1 is shown an outline of the CO. railway, upon whichwe have marked some of the deposits of magnetic ores. At someof these deposits there could doubtless be mined a certain amountof shipping ore, but all of them contain large quantities of orefrom 45 per cent, down in iron, which could profitably be treated,The distances from Trenton are approximately as follows: To Marmora 30 miles Blairton 35 Madoc 40 Eldorado 40 Belmont 35 Coe Hill Mines 75 Bessemer Mines 85 Xow if a central briquetting plant were to be located atTrenton, to which all materials could be sent, we would have aplant producing marketable products within an average distanceof 50 miles from the mines, which is less than the distance frommany Lake Superior mines to nearest lake ports. Kixgstox axd Pembroke Ry. Fig. 2 shows a similar scheme, with Kingston as terminus,with the following
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