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ONTARIO
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
DEPARTMENT OP MINES
HON. PAUL LEDUC, Minister of Mines
T. F. SUTHERLAND, Deputy Minister
Bulletin No. 112
Mineral Production of Ontario
First Three Months
1937
Prepared by A C. YOUNG
(Publication and Statistics Branch)
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
TORONTO
Printed and Published by T. E. Bowman, Printer to the Ring's Most Excellent Majesty
May 28, 1937
SUMMARY
Returns received by the Ontario Department of Mines from the metal
mines, smelters, and refining works of the Province for the three months ending
March 31, 1937, covering quantities and values of products marketed, are
tabulated below. For purposes of comparison, figures are given for the corre
sponding period of 1936. Tons throughout are short tons of 2,000 pounds:
ONTARIO'S METALLIC PRODUCTION FIRST THREE MONTHS, 1936 AND 1937
Quantity
Product
1936
557,380
Silver...
927,235
Copper, metallic, and in ores exported . . . . Ibs. 69,236,909
Copper in matte exported1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "
3,723,427
Nickel in matte exported, metallic nickel
Sand nickel content of oxides, salts and
44,436,019
27,500
2,355
Cobalt, metallic, and metal content of
190,340
oxides, salts and unseparated oxides. . . .
2,951
400
1937
Value (Canadian funds)
1936
1937
623,017 119,572,025 121,231,332
409,099
522,992
1,167,975
5,912,582 11,039,112
79,046,420
3,981,283
204,788
398,128
50,360,686
26,615
1,505
11,273,079
55,000
4,131
13,414,263
47,109
2,664
120,446
4,932
3,827
199,692
100
4,800
185,407
148
45,924
837,635,296 146,887,079
'Copper in matte exported valued at 5 J^ cents per pound and nickel at 18 cents in 1936 and
at 10 cents and 28 cents respectively in 1937.
GENERAL REMARKS
The value of metallics produced by Ontario's mines and smelters during the
first quarter of 1937 was 846,887,079 or 24.7 per cent, in excess of the record
production of 137,635,296 for the corresponding period of 1936. This marked
increase was due to greatly improved prices for copper as well as the increased
output of that and other metals. In 1936 the average price for the first three
months for export copper was 8.544 cents per pound as compared with 14.177
cents in 1937. The production of gold has increased 11.8 per cent, in quantity,
refined copper 14.2 per cent., refined nickel more than 36 per cent, and silver
25.9 per cent. The quantity and value of cobalt produced during the period
was slightly lower than in 1936. Complete statistics for platinum metals were
not available at the time of writing, but the increased output of nickel will, it is
expected, account for corresponding increases in the total for platinum metals.
The production of the platinum group for the calendar year 1936 totalled 235,222
ounces worth #7,802,978 or almost two millions of dollars for each quarter of
the year. The production of chromite improved during the period.
Records of contracts awarded in Ontario by the MacLean Building Review
and building permits by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at Ottawa for the
first three months of this year were well above those for the corresponding period
of 1936. Contracts awarded in Ontario were valued at #15,825,500 in 1937 as
against 113,500,000 in 1936 or an increase of 17 per cent., while building permits
in 27 Ontario municipalities during the same periods were 15,836,052 and
#2,044,101 respectively. The heavy building materials such as cement, lime,
brick and stone will reflect these improved conditions in larger output during 1937.
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GOLD
The Ontario gold mines have again made a record in tonnage milled and
value of gold recovered. As compared with the first quarter of 1936, this year's
operations show a gain of 9.7 per cent, in tonnage milled and 11.4 per cent, in
the value of the crude bullion recovered. The figures were 2,004,603 tons
milled during the first quarter of 1937 with the value of bullion at 121,291,787
as against 1,827,383 tons and a value of 119,102,949 during the corresponding
period of 1936.
All areas with the exception of Algoma and Kenora and Rainy River showed
important increases in mining and milling operations.
From all sources the fine gold recovered was 623,017.276 ounces valued at
821,798,075 as against 557,380.278 ounces worth #19,572,025 in 1936. The
establishment of a buying price for gold at 835 per fine ounce in February, 1934,
immediately turned the attention of promoters and prospectors to lower grade
ore deposits. Development work carried on has expanded known gold areas
and brought many other areas within measurable distance of production. Im
portant developments have continued in the eastern part of the province in
Hastings, Larder Lake, Kirkland and Porcupine. In the west the Red Lake,
Pickle Crow and Little Long Lac areas were most active and increases both in
mill performance and recovery of gold were noted.
NICKEL-COPPER
This industry in response to a world wide demand for nickel has continued
to increase the supply of that metal. Crude ore treated at the smelters and by
the concentrators was 1,469,377 tons in 1937 as against 1,044,552 tons in 1936.
The metals recovered showed corresponding increases as may be seen in the sub
joined table.
During the period 1,117,617 tons of ore were concentrated from which
495,981 tons of concentrates were recovered. Ore and concentrates charged
to the smelters totalled 850,590 tons of which 351,760 tons were crude ore and
498,830 tons were concentrates.
The International Nickel Company operated the Frood and Creighton
mines throughout the period and re-opened the Garson and Levack mines.
These with the Falconbridge owned and operated by the Falconbridge Nickel
Mines made a total of five active mines. During the first three nonths, smelting
units were active at Copper Cliff, Coniston, and Falconbridge, and refineries
at Port Colborne and Copper Cliff. The Cuniptau which closed in October
of last year, was reported as having contracted with the Van Nickel Mines of
the Sudbury area for a supply of 30,000 tons of ore to be delivered during a period
of 15 months.
NICKEL-COPPER STATISTICS (FIRST QUARTER)
1936
1937
851,625
1,054,671
1,472,716
666,147
2. Ore treated......
3. Refined copper in blister . . . ....Ibs. 39,352,411
19,967,525
4. Refined nickel produced
855,784
54,206,884
17,211,257
1,044,552
69,151,163
25,818,416
1,469,377
75,052,040
33,768,825
5. Matte exported
6. Nickel content of matte
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7. Copper content of matte . . .
9,578
11,810,229
2,425.169
14,505
18,583,093
3.723,427
12,974
16,144,103
3,981,283
Item
1934
1935
696,320
10,293
9,997,281
5.694.576
For total nickel from all sources add items 4 and 6.
For total copper from all sources add items 3 and 7.
SILVER-COBALT
The production of silver was greater in the first quarter of 1937, due to
larger sales on the part of the Deloro Smelting and Refining Company. The
Cobalt and Gowganda Areas were as active as formerly. Many individual
lessees carried on mining operations in a small way, shipping ores to Deloro
mainly and to buyers of small lots.
Silver showed a gain of 25.9 per cent, in quantity while Cobalt was down
slightly in both quantity and value.
SILVER PRODUCTION—FIRST QUARTER
19 37
19 36
Source
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . ...... ...
Ounces
Value
Ounces
Value
150,488
79,049
103,298
594,400
867,314
30,289
44,016
267,480
401,644
55,982
136,159
574,190
^179,000
25,151
60,455
258,386
927,235
1409,099
1,167,975
8522,992
The price of silver on the New York market for the three months of 1937
averaged 44.93 cents per fine ounce, which was slightly lower than the quarterly
average in 1936 when 45.583 cents was quoted.
IRON ORE, PIG IRON, FERRO-ALLOYS, AND COKE
As compared with the figures for the first quarter of 1936, there was an
improvement in the production figures for every item in the table below, except
ing ferro-alloys. During the period the Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie oper
ated one of its 450 ton furnaces for January and February and blew in another
450 ton unit during March. The Steel Company of Canada at Hamilton had
2 furnaces totalling 825 tons in blast for the three months. The Canadian
Furnace Company at Port Colborne did not operate its 350 ton unit during
the period
PRODUCTION DURING FIRST QUARTER, 1935-1936-1937 1
First Quarter
Schedule
Basic.
Malleable
Steel production, total.
Imported. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Exported. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . .
Apparent consumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1935
1936
1937
133,750
77,406
37,676
11,981
27,749
106,418
103,938
2,480
8,508
188,694
111,117
74,785
22,172
14,160
177,165
174,904
2,261
14,893
253,062
133,393
109,100
15,495
8,798
227,993
221,236
6,757
14,090
345,543
70,628
365,008
116,356
416.171
481.364
370,550
56,832
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