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Professor of GeologyTnâ€"f:he University of Western Onâ€" tario Tells Radio Fans About Mining in This Province from its Struggling Days to the Present. Recently radio listenersâ€"in had the privilege of hearing a most interestâ€" ing and informative address on the expansion of Ontario‘s mineral indusâ€" try. The address brought out some very interesting and little considered For instance, emphasis was given to the fact that mining is now Ontario‘s second most important inâ€" dustry. The address was given by J. Fine Address Over Radio on Ontario‘s Mineral Industry R. Russell, Professor of Geology at the Umversxty ofâ€" Westernâ€" Ontano, and was delivered over Radio Station CJG4C, London, Ontario. The adâ€" dress in part was as follows:â€" "Ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, and young men, and yourg men especially to you belongs the greater heritage in the mineral wealth of Ontario, and to you should my words be the more significant. _ The older members of the passing generaâ€" tion were born under evil stars. In their days, it was believed, somewhat generally, that Ontario had no minâ€" eral treasures to speak of; at least what mineral she had was so overâ€" shadowed by the agricultural posâ€" sibilities and by the lumbering reâ€" sources, that in comparison, the minâ€" erals were of little account in the wealth of the province as a whole. Even the geologists at the end of the last century, were about as skeptical as the banking fraternity. , ©The change from this mental atâ€" titude, has come about so quickly that it has caused amazement and appreâ€" i. «y a as en TÂ¥ â€"â€" EC *A } \5.‘\ ' >‘ Canad A Judge the quality of Green Tea by the colour of the brew when poured into your cup before cream is added. The paler the colour the finer the Green Tea. Compare any other Green Tea with "CALADA""â€"None can equal it in flavour, point, or clearness. Only 38¢ per â€"lb. A Special Extra Dividend of $700,000.00 will be distributed by the Company during this year. SULLIVAN NEWTON, District Managers oo n c 2 in smm o NATIOM AL OROC("S COMPANY UMIT(D WHOLESALE â€" DiSTRAquTton 8 â€" GREEN TEA ~ hension, and it has found us inadeâ€" quately prepared to take full advantâ€" age of the industry for the benefit of the Province. Neither in the high schools, nor in the universities has there been given adequate instruction to prepare us to grapple with the problems of mine exploitation and deâ€" velopment. _ We have been at the merey of the wildâ€"catter and the disâ€" honest promoter. ‘‘For some time now, the Minister: of Mines for Ontario, the Hon. Chas. MceCrea, has been calling attention to. the fact that our mining industry has advanced to second place among the industries of the province. Such a statement 25 years ago would have been received with incredulity, or if made as a prophecy, would have been ridiculed. Up to the present the minâ€" eral production of the province has amounted to one billion, four hundred million dollars. Last year‘s producâ€" tion was 90 million dollars, of which gold accounted for 34 millions. ‘‘As a_ contributor to national wealth, the cumulative nature of the metals makes this annual production when compared with that of agrieulâ€" ture, all the more significant. _ The gold mines this year will still be servâ€" ing the needs of the human race hunâ€" dreds of years hence, while the wheat, the hogs, and the tobaceo forming the agricultural â€" production _ will have ceased in a year or so. The wheat will have been eaten, the hogs slaughâ€" tered and the tobacco turned into blue smoke. So when the cumulative charâ€" acter of the metals is also taken into consideration, mining is making a greater contribution to the nation‘s wealth than appears from mere ** Anâ€" nual production returns."‘ "*The slow development of the minâ€" ing industries in Ontario, as comparâ€" ed with the other industries, is due to a number of eauses. The early setâ€" tlements followed the waterways and the Great Lakes. It so happens that along the waterways and along the Great Lakes, the rocks are barren of mineral. _ Lake Superior is the one exception. Here on a small islet, not larger than a city lot, outeropped a silver vein, the production of which made a real sensation, and while it has since been eclipsed by quite a number of the silver veins at Cobalt, it was the first real eyeâ€"opener and mouthâ€" shutter, and an index of what may be expected when the great interior of the Canadian Shield shall be openâ€" ed up with roads and railways. Save for a narrow belt from Georgian Bay towards Ottawa, the rocks directly north of the settlements in older Onâ€" Ontario ‘ and also from s it THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, 7iMMINS, ONTARIO the building of the â€"«C.P.R. _ Since 1890. incredible though it may seem, this expansion has been nearly a thousand fold. _ While building the C.P.R. north of Georgian Bay, a cliff green with copper carbonate was disâ€" closed. This was taken up as a copâ€" per mine, and Copper Cliff and Sudâ€" bury assumed positions of importance on the map. "The early attempts at smelting the Copper Cliff ores were puzzling. There was something in the ores that was playing up the old Nick with the slags: In Sweden, in a more superâ€" stitious age, similar troubles in the furnace were attributed to evil spirits, to the old Nick. The real cause, howâ€" ever, of the furnace trouble was a metal, which has received the signiâ€" ficant name ‘*Nickel.‘‘ This niekel content of the Sudbury ores has proâ€" ven of more value than the copper. The establishing of the nickelâ€"mining and smeiting on a large and profitable basis, was slow, due partly to the apathy of the people in Ontario, and not until large capital was obtained from New York and from England did the nickel industry become firmly established. Since beginning operaâ€" tions, 20,000,000 tons of ore have been smelted and reserves created sufficient to last another 150 years at present rate of production, according to estimates of reliable Sudbury enâ€" gineers. ‘‘The building of the T. N. O. Railway made another mining sensaâ€" tion, this time almost a seandal, for when veins of plate silver and slabs of leaf silver, too large for one man to lift, are mined almost from the grass roots, it seems a seandal that Ontario should ever have been neglectâ€" ed and maligned as a mining province. Such has been the richness of the Cobalt silver deosits that in less than 25 years, over 350 million ounces of silver have been produced, and a reâ€" cord made for high dividends comparâ€" ed with operating costs. The end of Cobalt is not yet reached; able enâ€" gineers well acauginted with the camp expect further valuable veins to be found. ‘‘The Cobalt ecamp and the extenâ€" sion of the T. N. 0. to Cochrane are responsible for the gold discoverâ€" ies in the Temiskaming. The Poreuâ€" pine gold camp may rightly be conâ€" sidered a child of Cobalt. In this case the child is a very husky youngâ€" ster, and still growing vigorously. There is also a younger brother, which may prove to be a prodigy, for the ores at Kirkland Lake exceeed those at Poreupine in their richness. _ At both camps it seems pretty well estabâ€" lished that the gold will extend to full mining depths. _A depth of 4,000 feet at the McIntyre has been reached ; at Kirkland Lake Gold almost 3,000 feet. ‘‘The marked increase in the richâ€" ness of the veins of the Kirkland camp, together with increased tonnage from the Teckâ€"Hughes mine, will make the production from the youngâ€" er brother more nearly a rival to that of the older. Besides these two established sons of the old Cobalt camp, there are quite a bevy of little boysâ€"Boston Creek, Painkiller Lake, Woman Lake, and Red Lake. These are all alive but of uncertain disposiâ€" tions. ‘‘The most outstanding new quest of the past two or three years, is the search for the base metals. Prosperâ€" ity to the Province as a whole will respond to successful mining of these, more than of the precious metals, beâ€" cause of the greater number of emâ€" ployees réquired and the greater amount of supplies needed. Also the base metal mines have usually a longer life. The Rio Tinto Copper Mines of Spain have been working inâ€" termittently for over 2,000 years, and the Michigan Copper Mines began in 1846 and are still going strong. The steady production of the Kingdom Lead Mines at Galetta shows that Onâ€" tario will not prove the exceeption. The lack of smelting facilities in the North has kept prospecting for the base metals inactive. â€" Promising veins of copper, zine and lead have been known in a way for years, but no serious attempts to open them up was A special product~for every purpose~for every surface 100 % PURE PAINT rexterior or inferior Jor Sale hy made till copper finds in Quebec made the Noranda smelter a fact. It was Quebec then that set Ontario agog, and now that the Minister of Mines is | promising a Custom Smelter for the | Sudbury section, the search for copâ€" per and zinc is on. ‘‘A wave of enthusiasm has struck the prospector, and a flock of Mining ; Compames are serambling for likely location in the Sudburyâ€"Soo area. That part of Ontario, where the Hurâ€" onian formation has been cut by inâ€"| trusives of Keweenawan age, has been regarded by geologists as the most likely ground for eopper. The work of the past two years, however, has shown that the Sudburyâ€"S0oo region hbas no mortgage on copper and the other base metals. There are good prospects for copper both east and west of Poreupine and as far south as the Little Clay Belt. There are many geologists, notwithstanding, who persist in the belief that the Hurâ€" onian Rocks will prove the more valuâ€" able for copper at least, and many watchful eyes will be turned to the Huronian basins north of Lake Huron. In any case the march of progress and the expansion of the mineral industry shall continue, and in the prosperity of Northern Ontario will Older Onâ€" tario and all the cities thereof share.‘‘ im mm enc on 5 mm on mm mm o PROSPECTOR IN PATRICIA STRICKEN BY SNOW GLARE Little appreciation of the hardships attendant upon exploration work and prospecting in the Northern fields can be experienced by those who have never tried it, and in the comfort of the city on spring days it is difficult to visualize the hardy mining men facing the glare of sun on snow and ice, says the Toronto Mail and Emâ€" # * ® pire. A few days ago J. D. Williamâ€" son, who has been at work on his claims near the Coniagas property at East Clearwater, had to be picked up by a Patricia Airways plane and rushâ€" ed to Sioux Lookout, the prospector having ‘been rendered helpless by snow blindness. . For a day of two the brilliant April sun on the white glare of ice and snow caused discomâ€" fort, but seemingly not more than usual. Then, suddenly, the blindness came on and the prospector was renâ€" dered practically helpless. To be blind in the still fastnesses of the north woods is an experience that few will want to undergo. ‘(Mr. Williamâ€" son has been taken to his home in Reâ€" gina, and is reported as making a satâ€" isfactory recovery from his unfortuâ€" nate mishap. shown that the Sudburyâ€"Soo region has no asclusive mortgage on copper and the other base metals. There are good prospects for copper both east and west of Poreupine and as far south as the Little Clay Belt. There are many geologists, notwithstanding, who persist in the belief that the Hurâ€" onian Rocks will prove the more valuâ€" able for copper at least, and many watchful eyes will be turned to the Huronian basins north of Lake Huron. 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