Mining Area lying West of Port Arthur and Fort William, Ontario 
TARE is a strong revival in mining west of Port Arthur and there reopened it may be operated at some profit. Other mines which have 
are obvious reasons why it should be a success. To be fair to this produced gold are the Harold Lake, Hammond Reef, Elizabeth, Sawbill. 
mining section, we must remember that in the past obsolete methods Sunbeam and Olive. 
yore used, development money was spent in erecting stamp mills before The recent “Hill” find on Sapawie Lake at Hematite Station is 
sufficient ore was blocked out, there was no railway transportation and stated to have a width in places of 20 feet traced for several hundred feet, 
power costs were prohibitive. assaying as high as $24 per ton. Itisin sheared schists with porphyries, 
Now the situation is changed due to the experience gained from the and development work will begin this summer. 
dividend paying mines elsewhere in Northern Ontario where modern 
methods are being used, where ball and tube mills are being installed The Golden Star which produced $161,000 from shoots averaging 
instead of stamps, and new gyratory and huge jaw crushers are being $10.60 across 314 feet with underground workings to a depth of 537 
driven by cheap hydro electric water power, and where the cyanide feet and 3,500 feet of lateral work, is again receiving consideration in 
and oil flotation processes in the separation of gold and silver ores are view of advanced methods over the small ten stamp mill using amalgam 
now employed. These modern methods have entirely changed the profit only and with its former high cost power. This western gold section, 
and loss sheet because formerly forty to fifty per cent. of the values along the C.N.R. west of Port Arthur, is worthy of re-examination and 
were lost after pay ore had been mined under the old processes. renewed interest. 
Along the C.N.R. (Port Arthur to Winnipeg) in the territory Nor should the silver areas west of Port Arthur, as shown on the 
covered by the map, the veins occur in the Keewatin schists in the accompanying map, be overlecoked. In the days when formerly worked 
granites and granitic porphyries. On the properties that have been there was a total absence of economic mining machinery, oil flotation 
worked the values are around $8, $10 and $12 and occasionally higher process, cheap power and transportation. All of these properties closed 
across an average of 214 feet to 314 feet in width. The quartz veins, when the price of silver went below fifty cents, today it is selling around 
generally speaking, are in the vicinity of 2 feet in width and at the Foley, sixty-five cents. The Port Arthur section including Silver Islet, pro- 
on the 600 foot level, have widened to 6 feet. The values are not to any duced close to five million ($5,000,000) dollars notwithstanding the 
extent in the wall rock throughout this section of country because it is obsolete mining facilities and lower price of silver. If careful geological 
frequently granite and is not much schisted. The granite walls, however, and engineering work, based on what has been learned at Cobalt, South 
tend to make these lenticular quartz veins longer and definite and not Lorrain and Gowganda, is applied to this section when it is re-opened, 
of the short stocky type common to the depositions in the schisted Kee- it is reasonable to expect to find silver depositions on the diabase sills 
watins. Ore shoots have been found to be as long as 250 feet. and around diabase intrusions, especially within twenty chains of the 
The gold property which is developing most extensively at the Keewatin diabase contact with the enrichment likely in the diabase. 
present time is the Foley Mine near Mine Centre owned by British The ore in the Silver Mountain Beaver section west of Port Arthur came 
Canadian Mines, Limited, Toronto. It is stated that at the 500 foot from the contact of the black slates and the grey argillites, but the 
level, assays across a stoping width and 211 feet in length in the drift $3,500,000 production of Silver Islet was mined from that part of the 
average $17.65 per ton after eliminating visible gold, and that what is vein which was enclosed between diabase dikes and points the way to 
probably a continuation of this vein for 150 feet in length and 32 inches the economic geology of the district. The Ontario Bureau of Mines 1911 
in width averages $9.00 ore. Short cross-cuts now being driven at the Report On this Silver section will prove interesting reading in this 
850 ft. level cut the Jumbo vein 16 feet wide yielding a $10 ore and connection. 
will shortly cut the Bonanza vein, 9 ft. wide, at depth. The Shebandowan nickel-copper area west of Port Arthur and Fort 
The old Huronian Mine has been de-watered and values of $10 to William is one that should command mining attention on account of the 
$12 across an average stoping width make it appear that on its being fact that the assays in these impregnated schists run 8 to 5 per cent 
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