Transactions . asca there is a first-class galena, none carries gold, silver and copper. Assays $6 or $7 in gold. There is a big seam near Black Bay, and you can follow it rightalong till you come to an island. Iron. In the Labrador Peninsula, and in the District of Ungava,vast deposits of hematite and magnetite have been outlined byDr. Low as extending from near Hamilton Inlet northward toUngava Bay, but here, as in most other parts of Northern Canadairon ore would not as yet stand the cost of transportation. On the Nastapoka Islands, which extend along the east sideof Hudson Bay fo
Transactions . asca there is a first-class galena, none carries gold, silver and copper. Assays $6 or $7 in gold. There is a big seam near Black Bay, and you can follow it rightalong till you come to an island. Iron. In the Labrador Peninsula, and in the District of Ungava,vast deposits of hematite and magnetite have been outlined byDr. Low as extending from near Hamilton Inlet northward toUngava Bay, but here, as in most other parts of Northern Canadairon ore would not as yet stand the cost of transportation. On the Nastapoka Islands, which extend along the east sideof Hudson Bay for a hundred miles north of Little Whale River,are also very extensive beds of banded iron ores. For a descrip-tion of these deposits I would refer to The Cruise of the Nep-tune, by A. P. Low, Ottawa, Govt., 1906, pp. 239-245. On the Great Fish River, Mr. Warburton Pike speaks of theironstone, of dark fissile slates and schists, as extending downthe river from Musk Ox Lake to Beechey Lake, a distanceof 75 No. 5. —Exploring the shore of Hudson Bay.
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