The water powers of Canada and their development through chemical research

✍ Scribed by Challies, J. B.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1938
• Weight: 379 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000574205

✦ Synopsis

Up to thc 1)rcscnt tiiiic no cstcnsivc occurrciiccs of tungstcn-bciiring injliernls hnvc bccn found in Canada. Small deposits of sclicclitc (Cal'O,) arc found in Nova. Scotia, Ncw Brunswick, Naiiitobri, British Columbia, and in thc Yukon Territory. Dcwlopnicnt has been cnrricd on during tlic past few ycars at liidinn Path mine, ncar Luncnhurg, Nova Scotin, aud in 13ritish Columbia thc deposit on ITardscriibblc crcck, Cariboo district, lias bccn under clcvclo~~nicnt :tiid a sninll treatmcnt plant hss bccn crcctctl. The incrcnsc in price for tungsten hiis stiniulntcil activity nnd n sninll production may he anticipntcd during tlic ncst fcw years.

FUTURE TREND

Canndn is it ncw country nnrl its devclopniclit hiis bccn rapid. In the sphcrc of niiniiig this is pnrticularly so and tlic qucstion of thc lifc of thc xniiicrnl rcsourccs niLturally arises. Tho ninintcnniicc and cont iniicd ex- pnnsion of nictallifcrous mining is. dcpcndcnt tlicrcfore upon ccrtais considcriitions. Ncw discorcrics aiid cspniision of tlic present orc zones iirc iniportiint factors and in this rcgiiril nieiitioii iiiny bc xnadc of tile rccciit discoveries in the f'nr iiortli wlicrc aircraft has opcncd up a Inrgc awn of territory for thc prospector. ' Chc successful operation of ir mine itnd mill within 40 inilcs of thc Arctic Circle has slio\vn thrit iilthougli thc difficulties of dcvclopincnt iii tlrc fiir iiortli arc grcnt, t h y are by no nicans insurniountablc. Of perhiips grciitcr significiince lire tlic outstanding orc discovcrics tlint hnvc