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Title: Transactions
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Subjects: Mineral industries
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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qAM HOTS 83flO 1/IOfN UOTOH i ■ — 3AH3 Ynnua Transactions of frlac American llii^lilmite of Mi tilling; IKngilncers. Vol. XIIV. Ti.ILP.TN.
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THE IRON ORES OF PICTOU COUNTY, NOVA SCOTiA. C)Z exposures, are of good promise. It is anticipated that the work ofthe Canadian Geological Survey will shortly be extended into thiscounty, and their mapping of the divisions of the pre-Carboniferousrocks will undoubtedly facilitate the prospectors work. In this connection a brief reference to the two important accesso-ries to iron smelting—fuel and fluxes—may not be out of place. The coal of Pictou County may be described as bituminous andfree-burning. Several of the seams now worked have not beenfound to yield a good coke, but answer well in the furnace whenused with about twice their weight of coke. Other seams, however,yield a coke which makes a good furnace-article, and has been suc-cessfully used at Londonderry. The coke is cellular, and extremelyresistant, resembling in appearance that from the north of England.The following average of several analyses, made some years ago bythe writer, will serve to show its character : Moist

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