Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada: And Notes of a Stratigraphical Collection of Rocks Comox Harbor, from which the coal of the Comox area will be shipped, is less than twenty miles distant. The ore is of an iron-grey colour, and frequently contains little cavities, which hold red or yellow ochre. Sometimes the cavities are lined with octahedral crystals of magnetite. A partial analysis of a specimen collected by Mr. James Richard son, of the Geological Survey, gave per cent. Of iron and only 003 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.