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the magnetite to near its southeast end, where a porphyritic rock outcrops
which seems to grade into normal diorite. At the southeast end and
for a few feet away down hill are exposures of dark, dense, greenish rocks
and garnetite. The northeast edge is concealed by waste rock from the
quarry in the ore.

Along the slope of the hill and uphill, the rocks exposed are mainly
diorite. Apparently the ore-body occurs partly within a narrow band,
only a few yards wide, of much altered limestone (now garnetite) and
perhaps other sediments and volcanics, enclosed in diorite which grades
into a porphyritic rock at its contact with the sediments. The ore mass
seems to extend diagonally across the width of the sedimentary band, so
that at both ends it is in contact with diorite.

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The magnetite varies from finely granular, almost dense, to rather
coarse, with individual grains measuring one-sixteenth of an inch and more
in diameter. Near the walls of the ore-body, the magnetite is much ad-
mixed with various silicates, but the boundary between ore and country
rock is very sharp. Towards the centre of the magnetite mass the silicates
markedly decrease in amount. No sulphides were observed.

Uphill from the southern termination of the main ore-body and
distant about 50 fect, is a body of magnetite seemingly not less than 20
fect long and at the widest part not less than 10 feet broad. This mag-
netite body is almost entirely concealed ben sath moss and vegetation and
possibly has never been cl raned off. It is apparently surrounded by the
porphyritic phase of the diorite. This occurrence may constitute the
second ore-body referred to in some of the earlier descriptions of the locality.

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