. Annual report on mines . MINES REPORT. 3 TUNGSTEN. A discovery of the tungsten bearing mineral Scheelite atthe western part of Moose River Gold District, by John A. Reynoldsand W. S. Curry, promises to be of great importance. Tungstenbearing minerals have been found at three other places in the Pro-vince.—namely, at Emerald near South East Margaree in theCounty of Inverness, at Molega-Barrens Gold District, QueensCounty, and at New Ross, in Lunenburg County ; but at none ofthe places has it been found in economic quantities as appearsto be the case at Moose River. The following excerpt from
. Annual report on mines . MINES REPORT. 3 TUNGSTEN. A discovery of the tungsten bearing mineral Scheelite atthe western part of Moose River Gold District, by John A. Reynoldsand W. S. Curry, promises to be of great importance. Tungstenbearing minerals have been found at three other places in the Pro-vince.—namely, at Emerald near South East Margaree in theCounty of Inverness, at Molega-Barrens Gold District, QueensCounty, and at New Ross, in Lunenburg County ; but at none ofthe places has it been found in economic quantities as appearsto be the case at Moose River. The following excerpt from a paper on the Moose-Riveroccurrence read by Mr. A. L. McCallum, B. S. c , before the NovaScotia Institute, should be of interest : The deposit under consideration is situate at the westernboundary of the Moose-River Gold District, being about 1 ]/2 mileswest of the old Touquoy crusher. The first discovery made was a boulder containing a fairlylarge amount of tungstite. Up to the present no more of thetungstite has been
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