CANADA’S HIDDEN WEALTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 13, 6 April 1927, Page 2

CANADA’S HIDDEN WEALTH

MINERAL POSSIBILITIES The development possibilities of mining in Northern Canada were touched on by Dr. Mackintosh Bell, formerly of the New Zealand Geological Survey, in a recent address in Canada. “The indications of various minerals are etraordinarily widespread, but inevitably and naturally,” he added, “the concentrations which are of economic importance are no less restricted,” he declared. * “No one can say how many new Cobalts, new Porcupines, new Kirkland Lakes, may be found, but we can confidently expect great developments, 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 of lead-zinc near Great Slave Lake, which are now considered too remote for utilisation. “But I, for one, look forward 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 with the wares of the fur-trader, or with the product of the forest, but with those derived from these great stores of future mineral wealth, which cannot be ignored.”