 Fall. of prehnite, associated with calcareous spar, and native copper. The Indians dig wherever they observe the prehnite lying on the soil, experience having taught them that the largest pieces of copper are found associated with it. We did not observe...  The Transactions of the Canadian Mining Institute - Page 540by Canadian Mining Institute - 1912Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 580 pages
...but judging from the specimens just mentioned, it most probably traverses felscc 3 pa those pathose trap. We also picked up some fragments of a greenish-grey...which they have examined for thirty or forty miles to theN.W., and that the Esquimaux come hither Jo search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice-chisels,... | |
 | Geological Survey of Canada - Geology - 1887 - 1088 pages
...portions of a vein consisting rence of >pper. Country north •of the Copper Mountains. Bloody Fall. of prehnite, associated with calcareous spar, and...to search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice chisels in possession of the latter people, twelve or fourteen inches long, and half an inch in... | |
 | E. Jerome Dyer - Canada - 1898 - 302 pages
...the Copper Mountains. Chromic Iron. Banges \ parallel to the coast. ._-, — Cretaceous or Tertiary. associated with it, We did not observe the vein in...to search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice chisels in possession of the latter people, twelve or fourteen inches long, and half an inch in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 860 pages
...soil, experience having taught them that the largest pieces of copper are found associated with it. The Indians report that they have found copper in...they have examined for thirty or forty miles to the north-west. We afterwards found some ice-chisels in possession of the Esquimaux, twelve or fourteen... | |
 | Canadian Mining Institute - Mineral industries - 1908 - 806 pages
...mentioned, it most probably traverses felspathose trap. We also picked up some fragment of a greenish grey coloured rock, apparently sandstone, with disseminated...to search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice chisels in the possession of the latter people, twelve or fourteen inches long, and half an inch... | |
 | George Mellis Douglas - Canada, Northern - 1914 - 326 pages
...with hornblende), with disseminated native copper; the copper, in some specimens, was crystallised in rhomboidal dodecahedrons. We also found some large...they have examined for thirty or forty miles to the northwest, and that the Esquimaux come hither to search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice... | |
 | Adam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty - Canada - 1914 - 372 pages
...mentioned, it most probably traverses felspathose trap. We also picked up some fragments of a greenish grey coloured rock, apparently sandstone, with disseminated...they have examined for thirty or forty miles to the north-west, and that the Esquimaux come hither to search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice... | |
 | Sir John Richardson - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 384 pages
...green malachite, copper glance or variegated copper ore and iron-shot copper green, of greenish-grey prehnite in trap, (the trap is felspar, deeply coloured...to search for that metal. We afterwards found some ice chisels in possession of the latter people twelve or fourteen inches long, and half an inch in... | |
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