CANADA’S WEALTH UNTOLD

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3577, 7 April 1927, Page 9

CANADA’S WEALTH UNTOLD

Dir, Mackintosh Bell, formerly of the New Zealand Geological Survey, in a recent public address in Toronto, touched on tho development possibilities of mining in Northern Canada. “The indications of various minerals are extraordinarily widespread, but inevitably and naturally,” ho added, “the concentrations which are of economic importance are no less restricted,” ho declared. “No one can say how many new Cobalts, new Porcupines, new Kirkland Lakes may be found, tut we can confidently expect great depelopments, from time to time, Which will play an important role in the future of the country. We. already know of vast deposits of iron ore, in the Belcher Islands of Hudson Bay, of no less important occurrences of native copper near the Copper Mine River, and load-zinc near Great Slave Lake, which are

now considered too remote for utilisation. “But 1,, for one, look fortvard to the day when ships of great size will ply up and down the majestic Mackenzie and across the great expanse of Hudson’s Bay laden not only w r ith the wares of tho fur trader, or with tho products of the forest, but with those derived from these great stores of future mineral wealth, which cannot bo ignored.”