. Agricultural and industrial progress in Canada. Agriculture; Agriculture. extracted. The mineral is found in quartz veins widely distributed over a large area. In 1862, $142,000 worth of gold was taken out, and the value of ore crushed per ton, down to and including 1917, has been $ with an average yearly yield of 19,130 ounces. The Oldham gold field, 25 miles north of Halifax, has been worked continuously since its discovery in 1861, whilst there are also producing mines in the Tangier River and Cariboo districts. The Goldenville district, east of Halifax, has for some time been the hea
. Agricultural and industrial progress in Canada. Agriculture; Agriculture. extracted. The mineral is found in quartz veins widely distributed over a large area. In 1862, $142,000 worth of gold was taken out, and the value of ore crushed per ton, down to and including 1917, has been $ with an average yearly yield of 19,130 ounces. The Oldham gold field, 25 miles north of Halifax, has been worked continuously since its discovery in 1861, whilst there are also producing mines in the Tangier River and Cariboo districts. The Goldenville district, east of Halifax, has for some time been the heaviest producer, while a mine at Kemptville has netted some remarkable returns. The 1919 production of the province amounted to 935 ounces, and considering the number of finds and their wide distribution an increase may be looked for and Nova Scotia considered among the first five gold - bearing areas of Canada. Lignite Utilization Board of Canada By Lesslie L. Thomson, Secretary Though possessing 17% of the known coal resources of the world, the fuel supply for the people of Canada, widely separated as it is into Atlantic and Pacific fields, is an ever present prob- 1 e m . To assist in over- coming the difficulty and take advan- tage of large deposits of lignite under- lying various districts of the Provinces of Alberta and Saskat- chewan, some of which in the raw state can only be utilized when freshly mined and are there- fore unsuited for household use, the Dom- inion Gov- ernment in 1918, by an Or d e r-i n Council, created the Lignite Utili- zation Board of Canada. It was found that, by carbonizing this lignite, a coke or charcoal was obtained which briquettes readily, and with- out consideration of the by-products, such as oil, pitch, ammonia sulphate, gas, etc., the result is to turn two tons of inferior fuel into one ton of briquettes, approximating in heating value anthracite coal with practically the same heating value in the domestic furnace as the two tons from whi
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