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ONTARIO
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
DEPARTMENT OF MINES
HON. PAUL LEDUC, Minister of Mines T. F. SUTHERLAND, Deputy Minister
Bulletin No. 100
Mineral Production of Ontario
First Six Months
1935
Prepared by A. C. YOUNG (Publications and Statistics Branch)
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty August 31. 1935
Summary and Review
The table which follows gives comparative figures for Ontario's mineral production during the first half of 1934 and 1935, and in order that this comparison may be made on the same basis, the statistics of value, with the exception of gold, are shown in Canadian funds. Exchange equalization received on gold is shown separately. Increased production in 1935 is due mainly to the continued activity in the nickel-copper industry and also to the increased production of gold. Non-metallic figures decreased slightly in the aggregate. The estimated values of structural materials and clay products are indications of a general recovery in the building industry. Tons throughout are short tons of 2,000 pounds unless otherwise stated:
ONTARIO'S MINERAL PRODUCTION FIRST SIX MONTHS, 1934 AND 1935
Product
METALLIC
Exchange equalization on gold .unces Ka
Copper, metallic and in concentrates. Ib.
Nickel in matte exported (a)
Nickel, metallic, and contained in ttu Cobalt metal contained in oxides,
salts, and material exported . . . "
Bismuth
Total
NON-METALLIC Arsenic (white and other forms) . .
Mica . . . . Mineral water. . . . . Imp.
Quartz and quartzite Salt.
Talc. ...
Total
CLAY PRODUCTS (c) . . . . GRAND TOTAL
Utt
at(
.Ab.
.tonsK
uu uu gals.
,u. ft.
bbls.
.tons M
u
Quantity (6 months) 1934
1,040,222 2,642,037
88,034 92,948,935 9,315,380 l 63,315,706 314,527 3,977 11,437
621,019 1,95838 14,636
7,566 11,200 232 4,216,000 67,716 23,477 134,198 277 6,716
1935 1,052,639
2,335,335 87,340 112,898,234 7,681,361 63,963,301 253,998
4,244 5,661 35,238 7,038 53
1,729,143 3,11124 18,758
6,950 13,390 187 3,850,000 80,728 46,934 146,481 5,700
Value (6 months) 1934
21,503,242 5 15,123,074 1,170,320 2,628,897 7,535,370 490,769 15,016,662 360,334
3,977 295
63,832,940 22,336 21,473 598 32,879 66,985 75,660 9,889 2,649,000 746 141,676 31,895 10,327 889,935 68,245 4,021,644 2,600,000
750,000 71,204,584
1935 21,759,971 S
15,122,725 1,531,924 2,381,332 8,148,656 307,255 16,071,186 168,856
3,109 67,657 159 34,345 1,026 65,598,201 49,978 27,486 312 38,997 81,533 69,500 3,091 2,290,750 678 166,609 69,818 726,837
58,207 3,583,796 3,000,000
800,000 72,981,997 (o) Copper and nickel exported in the form of matte valued at 5 and 18 cents per pound, respectively, in 1934, and at 4 and 18 cents in 1935.
(b) Sulphur content of acid recovered from sulphur fumes.
(c) Estimated on the basis of building permits issued and contracts awarded, also from monthly reports by the larger producers.
m
GOLD SHIPMENTS, FIRST HALF OF 1935
Source PORCUPINE Anglo-Huronian (Vipond) . Coniaurum
Marbuan.
Mcintyre.
Paymaster.
Total
KIRKLAND LAKE Kirkland Lake Gold Lake Shore Macassa
Moffat-Hall...
Teck-Hughes Toburn
Total
MATACHEWAN Ashley
Matachewan Consolidated.
Young- Davidson Total
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO Algoma Summit
Ardeen (first J4) . . . . Central Patricia
Clark Gold Dik Dik.
Duport.
Halcrow-Swayze.
Howey.
J. M. Consolidated (first ^) Little Long Lac
McKenzie Red Lake.
McMillan Minto.
Northern Empire.
North Shores
Parkhill... ...
Pickle-Crow St. Anthony TashotaJ.
Vermilion Operating Co... . Total
Total for Gold Mines. . Nickel-Copper Refining . . . Silver Ores..
Grand Total. . . .
Milled, Ore Tons
52,531 71,638 74,795 273,700 1,598 895,929 27,474 431,600 5,175 100 32,019 1,866,559 16,296 34,164 435 412,986 33,072 8,257 75,077 201,742 17,540 173,691 1 973,261 22,685 22,245 99,197 144,127 1,105 115 13,542 1,013 77 211 98 245,174 1,381 28,282 10,424 17,761 17,762 21,042 10,365 350 7,876 19,291 3,208 18 399,095 3,383,042
CRUDE BULLION SHIPPED Metal Content
Gold 6,002.71 oz.
13,387.69 16,086.31 103,857.51 282.62 194,214.56 3,672.23 116,408.02 55.13 311.38 6,821.91 461,100.07 2,576.24
111.64 10,835.50 229,873.69 13,982.07 2,210.18 26,642.71 67,958.44 9,461.32 102,835 35 .30 466,487.44 5,936.76 4,328.09 8,116.95 18,381.80 50.42 263.96 8,280.79 35.63 411.40 , 458.00 38.73 19,881.51 361.09 14,040.53 4,228.60 4,422.40 2,683.33 7,076.16 323.66 4,579.43 4,137.06 3,740.55 30.10 7.08 75,050.43 1,021,019.74
31,616.63 2.19 31,618.82 1,052,638.56
Silver oz. 1,173
1,189 2,916 10,758 29,944 42 28,165 331 11 9 2,004 76,542 205 32 1,628 52,962 1,577 4,294 769 10,768 2,465 16,515 91,215 880 616 2,870 4,366 1,691 5 854 4 290 128 6,736 15 1,172 287 848 170 1,012 65 221 16 423 720 9 2 14,668 186,791
Total Value
Standard* | Exchange"!"' Canadian .1 124,832
277,506 334,330 2,153,768 5,875 4,039,219 76,123 2,423,740 1,146 6,445 142,316 9,585,300 53,391 2,330 225,043 4,785,075 290,079 46,219 553,515 1,411,666 197,158 2,136,403 6 9,700,885 123,282
89,872 169,651 382,805 1,046 6,351 171,742 8,711 739 9,550 415,241 811 7,627 291,029 88,032 91,528 55,511 146,946 6,701 94,805 85,821 77,803 628 147 1,560,769 21,229,759
653,574 45 653,619 21,883,378
S 86,569 193,036 231,268 1,492,670 3,941 2,798,528 52,997 1,683,111 4,443 781 98,282 6,645,626 37,161 1,316 156,072 3,304,007 185,914 32,183 365,338 979,967 136,758 1,483,345 4 6,682,065 85,588 62,403 116,890 264,881 3,774 721 119,179 5,984 511 6,608 279,869 559 5,224 202,846 60,982 63,591 37,732 101,998 4,642 65,876 59,279 54,043 431 102 1,073,951 14,666,523
456,170 32 456,202 15,122,725
211,401 S
470,542 565,598 3,646,438 9,816 6,837,747 129,120 4,106,851 1,927 10,888 240,598 16,230,926 90,552 3,646 381,115 8,089,082 475,993 78,402 918,853 2,391,633 333,916 3,619,748 10 16,382,950 208,870 152,275 286,541 647,686 1,767 10,125 290,921 1,250 14,695 16,158 1,370 695,110 12,851 493,875 149,014 155,119 93,243 248,944 11,343 160,681 145,100 131,846 1,059 249 2,634,720 35,896,282
1,109,744 77 1,109,821 37,006,103
The following are comparative figures by areas for the first half of 1934:
Source
PORCUPINE KIRKLAND LAKE MATACHEWAN.
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO. . TOTAL FOR GOLD MINES.. . NICKEL-COPPER REFINING.
SILVER ORES.
Grand Total
Milled, Ore Tons 1,774,648
976,644 21,444 289,153 3,061,889
CRUDE BULLION SHIPPED Metal Content
Gold 460,772.78 oz.
506,830.55 6,472.89 38,345.16 1,012,421.38 27,799.38
1.73 1,040,222.49
Silver 82,867 oz.
97,881 1,251 23,530 205,529
Total Value Standard*
9,561,456 * 10,520,264 134,362 803,121 21,019,203
574,664 36 21,593,903
Exchange 6,470,491 S 7,640,692 91,144 531,583 14,733,910
389,164 15,123,074
Canadian 16,031,947 * 18,160,956 225,506 1,334,704 35,753,113
963,864 36,716,977
*The term "standard" here refers to gold at #20.67 per fine ounce, plus the value of silver in Canadian funds.
The total gold produced by Ontario from all sources during the first half of 1935 was 1,052,639 fine ounces as against 1,040,222 fine ounces during the corresponding period of the previous year; the increase amounting to 12,417 fine ounces or a little over one per cent. During the period production came from 44 gold properties. The Porcupine camp with 11 mines showed a slight gain as compared with its output for the first half of 1934. On the other hand the Kirkland Lake area with 11 producers was below its former rate.
The deficiency, however, was more than made good by the bringing into production of several mines in Northwestern Ontario. Prominent among these might be mentioned: Central Patricia, Pickle-Crow, Little Long Lac and McKenzie Red Lake, all of which are milling high-grade ore. The Northern Empire, Howey, and St. Anthony mines improved their last year's record considerably. This area had 20 producing mines during the period with output rising from Si,334,204 for the first half of 1934 to 12,634,720 in 1935. Mining development is reported as most active from all the principal camps as well as the newer fields. The main areas are Michipicoten with 3 producers: Parkhill, Minto and S. B. Smith, with as many more prospective mines in the making;
north shore of Lake Superior, usually referred to as the Schreiber area, from which the North Shores shipped bullion; the Albany river and south, containing the Central Patricia, Pickle-Crow and Tashota; the Jellicoe camp containing the Little Long Lac and Northern Empire; and the Red Lake area represented by the Howey, McKenzie Red Lake, and J. M. Consolidated. Other fields such as Lake of the Woods, Port Arthur, and Vermilion lake, are all represented in the production table, indicating that gold mining in this section of Ontario is being given a real trial. The new price of gold, coupled with modern methods and technique of mining, also excellent transportation by railway, track, and airplane, will reverse the unfortunate history of the early attempts at gold mining in some of these sections during the nineties.
Nickel-Copper
The recent sensational headlines in the press concerning possible hostilities in Europe, and the publicity during the past year or two concerning armament manufacture has fastened the interest and attention of the world on the nickel- copper industry of Ontario. In view of the unfavourable and sometimes poorly
informed comment it might be well to quote here an excerpt from a report dated August 15, 1935, by Mr. R. C. Stanley, President of the International Nickel Company of Canada to the shareholders:
Until the public at large realizes that there has been a significant change in the world nickel industry during the last fifteen years, we may continue to hear the repeated charge that your Company is trafficking in a war material. The Alloy Age had its inception in the World War, and thus nickel, as a useful alloying element, became associated in the public mind with munitions.
With the passing of years this Alloy Age has become linked with the progress which is being made in transportation, communication and industry at large, and nickel continues in its role as one of the most useful of the alloying elements. The result is that more nickel is currently going into the numerous fields of peacetime activities than ever went into the world's battlefields.
The copper situation was also discussed by Mr. Stanley in his address to shareholders dated Toronto, March 26, as follows:
The world's copper market is becoming of increasing importance to your company and to Canada. Great potential production in many parts of the world, and excessive stocks principally in the United States, have held and are holding the price of copper metal at a very low level.
Repeated attempts to rationalize this industry have failed, due to a variety of reasons such as divergent interests, by-product copper, prohibitive tariffs, and other causes.
NICKEL-COPPER MINING AND SMELTING
1
7.4. 3 56.
7
C^Jt ft fU-l f | ] A
Copper content of blister produced. . . . Nickel content of matte exported Copper " " " " ...
1932 514,155 512,895 5,524 15,726 13,412
5,044 5,430
First Six 1933 359,003 341,605 3,594 23,157 16,359
7,776 4,710
Months 1934 1,450,607 1,438,404 18,534 46,468 23,779 13,071 4,908
1935 1,786,908 1,792,961 17,519 56,449 24,017 14,385
3,840 NOTE Total nickel output from the nickel-copper industry is given by the sum of items (3)
and (6) above, and the total copper by the sum of items (4) and (7).
Platinum Metals.—Though Russia has long been the leader in production of platinum, and despite the lack of accurate figures, it would appear that Canada has now become the world's leading producer of that metal. According to officials of the International Nickel Company of Canada each 20 tons of Frood mine ore contains an ounce of platinum, and modern metallurgical methods permits the recovery of this very small quantity.
During 1935 (half year) the total recoveries reported totalled 87,340 fine ounces of platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, and ruthenium, having a value of 12,381,332 as against 88,034 ounces of the combined metals worth S2,628,897 in the first half of the preceding year. In addition to the metals of the platinum group important quantities of gold and silver are recovered, and during the period under review gold from this source was 31,616.7 ounces and silver 1,058,856 ounces. These are important additions to the output of both gold and silver mines.
Silver-Cobalt
This industry recently experienced some revival in activity due to the rising price of silver. However, many mines have remained closed and although a number of individual operators have taken leases on idle properties, difficulty has been met in marketing the lower grades of cobalt ores at satisfactory prices.
Until such time as the consuming industries are more actively engaged, and a higher and more permanent price for silver is quoted, the production from Ontario mines will not show any marked improvement.
The output for the first half of 1935 was about 300,000 ounces below the figures for the corresponding period last year. From all sources 2,335,335 ounces valued at 11,531,924 were produced in 1935 as against 2,642,037 ounces worth 11,170,320 in the first half of 1934. Comparative figures for the first six months of 1933, 1934 and 1935, showing the sources of silver and quantities marketed, are noted below:
Source of Silver
Estimated as recovered from silver ores, etc., shipped.
In crude gold bullion
Recovered from nickel-copper refining Total
Ounces (6 months) 1933
1,334,479 178,669 219,246 571,274 2,303,668
1934 1,470,853
138,299 205,529 827,356 2,642,037
1935 957,116 132,572 186,791 1,058,856 2,335,335 The New York quotations for silver by months rose from 54.418 to 59.048 cents per ounce for the first quarter and from 67.788 to 71.940 cents for the second quarter, reaching a high of 74.356 cents in May. The average for the period was 63.692 cents per ounce. Heavy speculative buying in the London market in April caused sharp advances in the world price of this metal and forced the U.S. government to establish higher prices for domestic silver. The market price fluctuated widely about the end of June, declining to 69.5 cents which was the lowest quotation since April 22.
Pig Iron, Steel, Ferro-Alloys, and Coke
First six months Schedule
Ingots.
Prices per long ton :
R u QI/* i mn a i" wnrlrQ
Steel billets (Hamilton) . . .
Apparent consumption
Long tonsM
M (C(c
Mt(
M K
Short tonstt uu
1932 133,030
77,201 48,221 13,826 15,154 148,852 147,031 1,821 8,507 18.004.65 23.80 23.80 34.00 563,152 214,634 777,786
1933 20,778 13,216 11,466 1,250 95,513500 92,860 2,653 6,100 18.004.65 23.36 23.36 34.00 588,642 179,904 738,546
1934 211,211 121,304 88,754 15,484 17,066 285,870 262,628 3,242 11,983 4.65 22.58 22.50 34.00 701,411 281,030 982,41031
1935 283,972 163,185 111,183 20,375 31,627 249,245 244,404 4,841 22,219 f23.004.65 23.00 34.00 677,996 171,725 849,721
*Data supplied by Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa, t Montreal price.
8
Prices of imported iron ore at lower lake ports was stable at S4.65 per long ton; basic pig iron at Montreal was quoted at #23.00 for the period. Quotations for malleable iron were the same. Steel billets remained at 134.00 per long ton for the entire period.
In 1929 imports of manganese dioxide to Canada approximated 90,000 long tons, worth #11.00 per ton. It is interesting to note that in July of this year the first shipload of 8,500 tons from Takoradi, a new port on the Gold Coast of Africa, arrived in Montreal. It was consigned to the Electro-Metallurgical Company at Welland. This company is the largest producer of ferro-alloys in Canada.
In connection with the manufacture of these ferro-alloys it is of interest to note that in August of this year the smelting plant of the Chromium Mining and Smelting Corporation, Ltd., at Sault Ste. Marie, was blown in. The ore comes from the chromite deposit west of Lake Nipigon. A ready market is said to exist in Europe, and other parts of the British Empire, for ferro-chrome.
Non-Metallics or Industrial Minerals
The non-metallic group decreased slightly in value. This part of the industry covers a wide list of products. With the exception of natural gas and salt none of these bulk large from the value viewpoint. It is, however, their relation to industry generally that makes them important as a yardstick in measuring the trend. The value of non-metallics for the first half of 1935 was 13,583,796 as against #4,021,644 during the corresponding period of 1934 or a decrease of 10.9 per cent.
Increases were marked in feldspar, salt, gypsum and graphite, the consuming industries of which are enamelling and electrical fixtures, chemicals, building and construction, moulding and machine shops. Decreased output of natural gas, sulphuric acid, and mica were the main factors in reducing the total value of non-metallics to a figure somewhat below that for the first half of 1934.
Interest is developing in peat production, slate at Madoc, and rock wool at Thorold, the latter two depending on building and construction, e.g. roofing and insulation. Rock wool is now on the market. A movement has been started both in Canada and the United States to substitute the term Industrial Minerals for Non-Metallics, and it appears to have met with general approval.
Structural Materials and Clay Products
Cpntracts awarded, as reported in the McLean Building Review show that provincial increases in building and construction, with the exception of Quebec, were general throughout Canada. In Ontario they rose in value from 37.42 millions of dollars for the first half of 1934 to 38.02 in the corresponding period of 1935. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports that building permits issued in 30 cities of Ontario were 5.09 millions in the first half of 1934 as against 12.59 millions during the first six months of this year, showing a healthier con dition in this great employing industry. These figures of course merely indicate the trend in projected building.
Using monthly figures of production from the majority of the largest pro ducers of a Selected list of key products, and applying these figures to the record of 1934, the production value of structural materials and clay products for the first half of this year has been estimated at #3,000,000 and #800,000 respectively.
