-- - THURSDAY, MARCH 20th, 1952 THE HAILEYBURIAN Page Three Annual Ice Contest Invites Your Guess on Lake Opening The Haileyburian's annual guessing contest on the date of the ice leaving Lake Temiska- ming is. again open to readers The origin of this early feature of the paper has been lost in the mists of time and no one living in the community at the present time knows just when it started but the records of the past fifty- eight, years are intact, with the earliest date given at 1893. Rules governing the contest are simple. Just fill out the coupon provided below and mail it to The Haileyburian Office. The closing date was set when the ice went out on April 9th, 1945. Entries must reach the office or be post- marked not later than that date. The prize is a year's susbeription to The Haileyburian. A record of dates over the 58 years is given below as a guide to those entering the contest. It will be noted that the earliest date for the opening is-April 9, 1945, and the "latest. May 22sd,. °226, so. there is a wide choice. The freeze- up occurred on December 12th last year, which usually indicates an early opening. Yur guess is as good as your neighbor's and little can be gained by.waiting, so get your entry in now. Following is the record: RECORD Use kY Gable, Sita mos sais May 15th 1 B04 e teaeea ik Aprik 25th AUS ie Sag EIR Son May 5th BOO retreat April 30th BOT R SS Per cee co esis May 8th LSI Ss Fo April 27th [2-8] et am carina May 5th TOUR ate igen May 7th | O07 Facies Se eee saan May 2nd ROO Ze Ges ein April 23rd ISOS Re ee ante April 27th SOARES acceso «Suet May 7th OOS ht ae ic 2 April 29th 190GaE: Sere ... May 7th 19076... 25n)-= .... May 16th LOO. aes ae awe ks May 15th {Le Oe Soran ce icieee May 17th 1010) neta April 12th UO Marerera ke Ga... St May 8th Dasari heme May Sth Ber ae pe April 27th Bere soe tee cisc May 14th Rafe. tac. AOrilicoth yao ie cee cay. 2nd ole en May 10th - A ae ae ae April 30th .... April 24th SPT oie Tere oan' May 6th =p veg tee April 26th OP hte ee ei id en ae May Sth 1923 meee May 2st Ui tbe a eRe eh ea er April 29th TKS PS A eer May 2nd LOZG eee we eter Mav 22nd MOA Fa eR Ses sa, April 25th LOZS) Seer et. . May 14th L929 See Mav 5th 193O seers Tee era May 5th LO Sees 2oS! May, Ist 1932 =_- : Se oe Nia aOth 1933 see ee? Ne th) HOS4 pase eee May 5th 1935722 ---- May 9th 19365 --- Mav 13th 1937-=_ ---- May 8th IS RU utes aie Eales 2 April 22nd 1939 pee ele May_10th 1940 _. ---- May 7th 1941 ___ _- April 29th 194275 sen o2 -- April 28th 1946 pe oes rea kL May 7th OLE Nei ges a Se a May 6th 14S rer at April 9th 1946 ___ eae April 20 1947 ___ -- May 18th 104g see. -. April 30th 1949 _____ _--. April 29th LO 5 Bete oe BES May 14th LOSE = oak cr sl April 29th - a = COUPON ' My guess is that the ice will | » be out of Lake Temiskaming= | dts the @Xird that Counts! i. Canada's production of crude oil last year was almost four times greater than ten years ago. 7 ' For Prompt Service Call UNION TAXI ; Phone 88 7.235 = 7 r : Phone 52 Modern Taxi Hotel Haileybury] ig A. D. Hellens Reviews Cobalt Comeback at Mining Meeting (Continued from Page 2) area of 50 square miles, the geo- logy is similar tothe central part of the Cobalt camp--gently dip- ping cobalt sediments resting on Keewatin lavas and intruded by the Nipissing diabase sill. This sill is largely eroded, leaving the lower contact area exposed, Ex- ploration has been hampered due to the fact that 80% of the favor- able area is covered with over- burden. One major mine, the Casey Cobalt, was discovered and worked, but the balance of the area can be classed as unexplored. Overburden has not stopped de- velopers in other mining camps. This area should be re-examined in the light of present day explor- ation, knowledge and methods. Bucke-Lorrain Valley This valley extends from the 10th concession of Lorrain town- ship north for over three miles through the village of North Co- balt and the town of Haileybury. It varies in width from one-quar- ter to one-half miles. Geological conditions for the deposition of silver and cobalt are good. Exploration has been hamper- ed by heavy overburden. How- ever, a limited amount of drilling in the centre of the area discover- ed the Harrison-Hibbert Mine which is now in production. At least 75% of this valley remains to be explored. Gowganda The deposits in this section of the cobalt silver area occur main- ly within the Nipissing diabase sill. Ore shoots are controlled by flat faulting. Detailed structural geology followed up by aggres- sive exploration programs, has located substantial silver deposits for Siscoe Metals and the adjoin- ing Castle Trethewey property. New Morrison Mines, to the south is now under active devel- opment and a substantial amount of silver ore has already been outlined. A considerable part of the Gowganda camp has not re- ceived a similar type of organiz- ed, well fiananced, aggressive pro- gram of oxplorationand develop- ment. Much ground remains to be explored. Peterson Lake Area The favorable lower diabase contact zone embraces the area underlain by the Peterson and Cart Lakes, and including adja- cent parts of the Nipissing. O'Brien, and Tri-Nova properties A comparatively large, untested lower diabase-Keewatin and dia- base-sedimentary rock contact zone, which is favorable to the occurrence of major silver-cobalt ore deposits remains to be explor- ed, lying within the more central- ly productive part, of the Cobal? area. On surface, only the bar ren part of the sill, that is, the center of the sill, is exposed. This barren portion of the sill can be considered as overburden coy- erosion had taken place. All the and develop new sources of all covered and ering the productive horizons. In the southerly part of the beneath of thousand feet or more ever-gro Peterson Lake area, there occurs Of Keewatin lavas and cobalt reserves shrink with every ounce economy With silver and of metal that is extracted from the tence is based. ground. New camps must be dis- the Worth vein which was quite series sediments. productive, but is largely untested cobalt ore shoots seldom reach- on its strike, it would appear to ing 400 feet above the diabase sil!, line up with an exploratory dia- the Cobalt camp would still be un- mond drill hole which intersected discovered and unexplored. What- Six inches of smaltite on the lowe¥ then zone of the Tri-Nova areas where the Nipissing diabase immediately to lies well below the surface? diabase which adjoins the east of the Peterson Lake property. lower diabase sedimentary South Lorrain Area The Frontier and KeeJey mines were the well known producers of this area, with the former, noted for its high grade cobalt, and the latter for the richness of its silver ore. The Frontier co- balt ore averaged 12% cobalt in comparison to about 9% in Cole- man twnship. This area has a considerable number of known and assumed fault zones, largely untested, but regarded as favor- able for the occurrence of cobalt and silver, The New Lake Basin Approximately 4 miles south- east of the town of Cobalt, a roughly elliptical shaped mass ot Keewatin lavas and sediments 3 miles long and over a mile wide rests on the Nipissing diabase sill The bed of New Lake is in the center of this mass, and from the results of diamond drilling on the Mayfair and Silver Lake proper- ties, it has been indicated that the Keewatin is thicker towards the center of New Lake, giving the Keewatin a basin shape. The area has been named the New Lake Basin. Fourgmajor producers have been found on the fringe of this area. The Temiskaming Mine and the Beaver Mine, which were located during the early days of mining, and more recently, the Silver Miller and the Cobalt Lode. Over 26 million ozs. of silver have al- ready been mined from this area, yet none of the oreshoots out- cropped on surface. The only in- dications were strong calcite veing containing smaltite. When it is considered that the Keewatin rocks reach a depth of over 750 feet in the centre of the mass and that silver oreshoots seldom reach a distance of more than40C ft. above and below the contact of the diabase, the possibilities for exploration are apparent, but over 70% of the basin still remains to be tested. Consider for a mo- ment what the situation would have been inthe Cobalt area if no Nels. Stewart tells You | HOW TO WATCH _ AND ENJOY HOCKEY! Write foryour free copy of "How to Watch and Enjoy Hockey," by Nels Stewart. Just send your name and address (please print) to: Hockey, O'Keefe House, Toronto 2. SCORED All OF THE 5 GOALS MADEIN ONE STANLEY CUP GAME... MAURICE RICHARD, MONTREAL CANADIENS, 1944 f L 4 OT On the north-western that the areas outlined for their part of Peterson group, adjoin- exploration possibilities hold lit- ing the Nipissing and O'Brien, an tle promise for the faint-hearted area of Cobalt sediments occurs, or ill-financed. Only systematic underlying the diabase. It is al- exploration and development is most entirely untested, yet the likely to yield results. To reiter- zone ate, Cobalt is no longer a poor yielded nearly 90% of all the sil- man's camp. With a production ver produced in the central part of record of almost one-half billion the Cobalt camp. Major financ- ounces of ing would be required to properly_hunderd million lbs. of cobalt, -- explore the more favorable area (most of the cobalt was wasted by underground development and during the early production era), by exploratory diamond drilling. no further incentive to explora- known deposits: would be buried metals, in order to supply thi wing demand. 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