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Blondin, Minister; R. G. McConnbll, Deputy Minktbr MINES nRANCH ErcKNB Haanbl, Ph.D., D'iecto*. THE Production of Copper, Gold, Lead, NickeL Silver, Zinc, and Other Metals IN CANADA During the Ctilendar Year 1915 Advonc$ Chapter of the Annual Report on the Uinerat Production of Canada, 1915 OTTAWA. GOVERNMENT PRINTING BUREAU 1916 No. 425 £ i CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MINES Hon. P. E. Blokdin, Minmtir: R. G. McConnux, Dbpvtv Mimmt MINES BRANCH EuotNi Haanil, Pa.D., Diiktob. THE Production of Copper, Gold, Lead, Nickel, Silver, Zinc, and Other Metals IN CANADA During the Calendar Year 1915 Aitamu Chapter oj Iht Annual Jitport on U Mintral Production oJ Canada, I91S OTTAWA. GOVERNMENT PRINTING BUREAU 1916 No. 4J5 Dr. KtJGBNE Haanbl, Director, Mines Branch Department of Minot, Ottaw Sir.— The accompanying report o .le prcxJuction of Copper Gold, Lead. Nickel. Silver. Zinc and other metals in Canada during the Calendar Year 1915." which is submitted for publication as an advance chapter of the Annual Report on the Mineral Production of Canatia, 1915. has been compiled under direction by Arthur Buisson, B.St-.. Assistant Mining Engineer in this Division. I have the honour K; be, Sir, Your obedient servant, p.. . . , „. . „ John McLcith. Division of Mineral Resources and Statistics. September 12, 1916. CONTENTS. Page Aluhiniuu: — Imports and exports 1 Antimony: — Production in Canada; exports and imports 3 Cobalt: — Production in Canada 5 Copper: — Production in Canada; prices, exports and imports; production in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Yukon ; operating companies 7 Gold: — Refined metal — production in Canada, production in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon ; operating companies 18 Lead: — Production in Canada; refined pig lead ; prices, bounties, exports and imports; production in Ontario and British Columbia .... 35 Mercury: — Production in Canada; imports 45 Molybdenum: — Production in Canada 46 Nickel: — Production in Ontario; exports and imports; prices 49 Platinum and Palladium: — Production in Canada; imports 55 Silver: — Production in Canada; prices; refined silver; production in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Yukon 58 Tin:— Imports 70 Tungsten: — Production in Canada 72 Zinc:— Production in Canada; imports; prices 73 ADVANCE CHAPTER OF THE ANNUAL REPORT ON THE MINERAL PRODUCTION OF CANADA, DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915. (Tons used throughout this report are short tons of 2,000 pounds, except where otherwise stated.) ALUMINIUM. No commercial ores of aluminium have as yet been found in Canada. Aluminium, is, however, made in extensive works at Shawenegan Falls, Quebec, from bauxite ores imported from France, the United States and also forrnerly from Germany, by the Northern Aluminium Company. A wire mill for the manufacture of aluminium wire and cabie£ is also operated by the same firm. There being but one firm engaged in the manufacture of aluminium we are precluded from publishing statistics of production. Imports of alumina, probably including bauxite, and exports of alum- inium are, however, published in the reports of the Department of Customs. During the twelve months ending December 31, 1915, the imports of alumina were 35,016,200 pounds, or 17,508 tons valued at $892,634, as against 28,557,000 pounds, or 14,279 tons, vaiued at $571,419 in 1914. The imports of aluminium in ingots, bars, etc., were in 1915, 2,667,355 pounds, or 1,334 tons, valued at $633,502, besides manufactures of alumin- ium valued at $88,733, compared with 3,812,128 pounds, or 1,906 tons of aluminium in ingots, bars, etc., valued at $752,753, and manufactures of aluminium vaiued at $107,598, in 1914. The exports of aluminium, ingots, bars, etc., in 1915 amounted to 18,680,800 pounds, valued at $3,333,726, together with manufacture? of aluminium valued at $620,562, as against 14,510,800 pounds valued at $2,364,907 and manufactures valued at $5,571 in 1914. The imports of alumina and exports of aluminium during the past ten years, and the imports of aluminium during the past five years, are shown in tabular form as follows: — Annual Imports of 'Alumina' and Exports of Aluminium. Cmlendar Year. 1905. 1906. 1907. 190X. 1909. 19t0. 1911. 1912. 1913. 1914. I91S. Imports of alumina. Pounds. 5,360,800 8,975,400 12,705,300 1,485,500 11,794,100 19,464,400 18,607,200 22,400,500 30,704,200 28,557,000 35,016,200 Value. $138,765 239, 136 268. '92 2.V I,!- 37. 44!l ^ 614,713 571,419 892,634 Exports op ALUMimuH. Ingots, bars, etc. Pounds. 2,535,386 4,521,486 5,478,203 1,713,800 6,134,500 7,722,400 4,990,100 18,285,700 13,015,000 14,510.800 18,680,800 Value. 508,219 899,113 ,1('9,353 .'99,785 918,195 ,160,242 747,587 ,002,363 ,762,214 ,364,907 ,333,726 Manttfactom. Value. $1,588 2,244 1,499 1.727 3,453 3,741 1,555 10,898 8,203 5,571 620,562 V«r. 1910 I9tl 1912 I9IJ 1914 I91S Annual Imports of Aluminium. Iniota, bloonu, ban. 3.IM.2SO 2,327,120 2..196,J75 3,453,686 3,796.J" 756. 3S0 648. 04« 533. 70S 745,694 860,351 722,235 Shipments of both antimony ore and concentrates, and of refined antimony were made from Canadian properties duriiiK 1915, this being the first recorded production of antimony since 1910. Refined antimony was produced at the smelter of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company at Trail, B.C., recovered from the residues of the lead refinery and at the works of Lake George, New Brunswick, of the New Brunswick Metals, Limited, the latter property having been formerly operated by the Canadian Antimony Company. The production was reported as 59,440 pounds and has been valued at 20 cents per pound, or $11,888. The ship- ments of antimony ore or concentrates, reported as 1,341 tons containing approximately 1,050,196 pounds of antimony and valued at $81,283 were derived principally from the mines of the West Gore Antimony Company, at West Gore, Hants county, Nova Scotia. There were also small experi- mental shipments from the Alps-Alturas claims, Slocan Mining Division, owned by W. J. McMillan & Co., Vancouver, B.C., and from the Chinook MounUin group, Kiokook creek, near Kanaka, B.C., owned by \V. S. Clark, Keefers, B.C., and a small shipment from Tagish lake, Yukon. The annual production of antimony ore with the exports of antimony ore and imports of antimony are given in the following tables: — Annual Shipments of Antimony Ore. Year. TOIH. N'alue. 1886 liar 665 584 345 55 26) 10 S3I.490 , 10.860 ! 3.696 1.100 625 60 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 to 1897 1898 1.344 20.UU0 1899 to 1904 1 Year. 1905(a). 1906 (u) 1907/ \*ReHnc(l antimony 1908 (« 1909f \*ReBn«d antimony 1910 1911-1914 1915 ( \*Retinrd antimony Ton«. 527 782 2,016 148 35 364 1.341 X'llluc S 65,000 5,108 5.443 1,575 4.28S 13,906 (a) Ai re,':ordKl by the Nova Scotia IJepaitment of Mines; no value given. (W Exports. 'Refined antimony; 63,850 pounds In 1907. 61.207 pounds in 1909. and 59.440 pounds in 1915. 81,283 11.888 Calendar Year. 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884. 1885 1886 1887. 1888 1889 Exports of Antimony Ore. Tons. Value. 1 1 40 $ 1,948 34 3,308 323 11,673 165 4.200 483 17,875 758 36,250 665 31,490 229 9,720 352J 6,894 JO 695 ! Calem' Yea 1890 1891 1892-1897 . 1898 1899. 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 Tons. Value. Calendar Year. Tons. Value. ! 38 ' 31 * 1.000 60 11905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 [1911 11912-1914 !191S i 525 420 1,327 148 4 239 57 * 27.118 17.064 37.807 5.443 120 14,0*5 4,946 1.232 6' 210 10 90 15.295 190 3,441 1,643 13.658 4.332 7.237 33 160 1,149 82,990 Import* of Antimony. KiKml Y«v. I«W). IIUII. isai. IMU. ISM. IMS. IIM. IWI7. IMM. 1889 1840. I8«l Pound*. 12,147 iM.isti 105,. 146 44.^, MM) »i,Oli 89,787 87,827 120, t2S llu.au 117, OMi 114,084 Valup. FiraU Vw. t .^,90J 7,0h0 I.VU44 IS,. 564 8,182 6,931 7,122 12.242 ;l«00 1I.2(IAU|«0I l7,4.1'Ji|l902 •7,4».1,1190J 1892 !l89J. 1894 I89.f. 1896 1897 1898 1899. nnindn. 180,308 181, 82J I.W,.'(7I 79,707 IM,209 M4,66l 1.56, 4.f I 289,066 186,997 J.W, 7J7 W4,822 8'>8,I46 Valur. I 17,680 14,771 12,249 6,UI 9, ,5.57 8,0.11 I2,.).5(> 16,851 20.001 24,714 .1'1,276 65,4.14 i'WM 418.94J il'WS 186 454 k-«» , 403,«lJ '.i-aii'iuiai yt'ar. | """ S34,I04 426,736 591,530 483,2821 S79,46«l 1,053,728 690,699 6«4,IJ0 i. 030, 1.50 Value. • 37, ii; 12,82) 36,29; 88,.53C •■0,961 41,731 34.448 38,823 67,6.53 51.829 57,71.5 ■'5S,23» loi. (*""'"'""'•. "" WBului of, 1 < nianufariurod . . 1 Antimony aalu Teul... not Kround, jiulvcrlied or othrrwlw Duty frif. I,'>62,I94 67,956 '',010,1.50 t344,9|8 10,320 •333,238 MMntV"T' ''"*'? °' ''"t^ony. as quoted by the "Engineering and Mining Journal," arc shown in the following table:- "K'"**""? and Average Prices of Antimony. 1913. 1914. Cooluon'.] V.S.' i Ordin- Cook- ' U.S." ariM.' lon'i 1913. January . February Uarch... AprU. May. June July. Augun . September October.. November . Oecember. ' V-94 1 9-53 8-97 9-47 ; 9. 09 8-25 9-28 ' 8-83 818 913 1 8. 50 7-98 8-88 1 8-37 7-79 8-79 i 8-27 7-64 8-54 1 808 7-55 8-38 i 7-91 7-39 8-37 i 7 ■ 9.! 7-37 7«0 7-27 6-49 7-62 ' 7-30 6-45 7 50 7. 25 6 13 7J88 7230 <-315 7-363 7-. 165 7-230 7-210 17 2.50 It -830 14-680 17-750 16-130 ' 8. 22 10 732 Ordin- ariea. Cooluon 's U.S.' -- 6125 <7-90 21-25 A-IOO 6-053 28-75 6 006 31-88 5-845 42-70 5-823 47 -.50 5-6,58 .50-44 13-800 48-00 -■■ 9-940 i 44-56 12 ()60 45 -.50 ■ . 14 4'0 47 - 25 13-310 ; 33 00 - -..j Ordln- ariea.' 8-763 ' United Statea branda. Huniiarian, Chineae, or other "Foreign" branda. 40-06 I I .,o.3j , m J*"^ ^""^c f, ^''^''"""y- °'-di"^0' grades, in New York ranged between Value. • 27.111 I2,R2S S«,2«r U.SM '30,961 41,711 M.Mt «',«5J SI, 829 .'7,715 3S5,2J| t344,OI8 10.320 f)rdln. ariea.i 15-85 18-21 2213 2488 35-30 37-69 38-13 3300 28-63 31-45 38-88 39-25 30 -M COBALT. The »ilver-ci)balt-nickel-arsenide8 of Coleman and adjacent townships, more familiarly known as the Cobalt district, in the Province of Ontario, are now the principal sources of the world's production of cobalt. The recovery of this metal in Canada has been in the form of cobalt- oxide and mixed oxides of cobalt and nickel, produced by the smeltera treating the above ores, together with cobalt residues produced at the high grade mill of the Nipissing Mining Company. Formerly these residue* have been chiefly exp oxide 1 Pound*. 1 Value. 1912 1913 257,677 660 079 tl28.843 525.028 571,710 .138,273 1914 I91S. j 899,'027 1 423.717 i Nickel oxide. 91,377 268,304 392,512 282,025 ' Mineral Reaourccs of the United States. 1413. p. 34o. -_l Pounds, i Value. t 9.137 30,122 34,883 I 31.262 I Mixed oxideii of cobalt and nickel and other cobalt material. Pounds. 1,285,280 3,216,000 2,079,001 I Value. $i63,9U 90, 2M T9.9M The marlci't for robalt in I9H w.-im »/..«, ^„ . » • .trenKthen an «x,n an conditions in Kurop. JH-come normal the MinlTranVh' ^0^ h" t" .^"1"" ""' •"'""' """y''- """"'''•'- '' by .hc'on/''' r^'-f " "^ ""■ "'^*'"' '*^'''"'"« «"""v Ac." pa,He were Li " '-«!"'««"•* in >907. lH,untie« amoun.inK to $26.r 4 7 werc^paid .o refineru. on .-obalt^xidc. and SIO.280.28 'on nrclceUxid oaMTear 1914, and previous reports of this Division. H. T',"K^r^u^.T,lj ."p^hi,"- •■'•->«»«io« of M^Ulllc robU. by R«,uc,l„„ „, ,Ur O^Ue." H»uon on ,., B.ac.^fe.'"^'' '"' *"■ •■^'"»" ^""V. with No^Cor™.,, P,op.„,„,, „^ ^. ^ „ ^r. IC„„. COPPER. The total production of copper in Canada in 1915 estimated on the basis of smelter rwovery from ores treated, was 100,785.150 pounds, which, at the average p. ice of copper for the year in New York, 17-275 cents per pound, would 'h- worth $17,410,635, as against 75,735,960 pounds, valued at $10,301,606 in 1914; that is. an increase of about 25 per cent in quantity and 41 per cent in value. Since 1912 there had been a gr.-idual falling ofl in quantity, and owing to the decrease in the price of the metal, a still greater falling off in value, but, due to the great demand for copper for munitions, the production in 1915 exceeded, l>oth in quanti and value, that of any preceding year. Statistics showing the annual copper production in Canada since 1886 arc given in the following table, which shows the yearly increase or decrease as the case may be and also the yearly price per pound in New York — Annual Production of Copper. V«r. PoumU. I««6. tM7.. IMS.. lan. IMO.. 189].. It9i.. 1894.. I89S.. 1896.. 1897.. 1898.. 1899.. 1900.. 1901.. 1902 . I90J.. 1904.. I90S.. 1906.. 1907.. I90H . 1909«. t9IU. . 1911.. 1912.. 191 J.. 1914.. 1915.. DiCCKICA4K. Pound!*. 1,1 17 15 IH .17 JS 42 41 4M sa SA A.) 52 55 55 77 7A, 75. 100, ,.W5,000 ,260,424 ,562,H64 ,H0«.752 ,01.1,671 ,52'»,401 ,OS7,275 , 109,S5h , 70»t , ;h<) , 771.6,1« ,.1'H,012 ,.100,X((J ,747,1.16 07H,475 ''t7,l.H X2;,0I« K04,.!5Q 6X4,454 .iH.l,72> 0«2,75.t 6()M,8H,'I 97<>,2n5 702,871 4')J,S6J 6')2,5A'» 64H , 01 1 HI.'. 127 ''76,Q25 7.15,960 785, 15J (./) 244.576 ',302.440 t,216,88tt W) 776,081 .l,5H,7JO 2,442.126 1,022.J81 (■/) 401,067 62,850 6-99 70 60 22-40 11 -AV .58-46 25-63 14-40 4 94 81 1 l,62i,,i;! 20 86 , 1 J,'*07,7<)0 41 60 i i 4,446,334 33-43 j ,( J) 2.668,661 15-04 ! 3,858,663 25 -.59 1 18,889,881 90 75 977.240 2-58 i 3,880.195 10-00 1 M) 1.300.732 3 05 t 6,70>>,031 16 21 i 7,517,135 15 63 1,169,317 2-46 6,723,668 11-80 1 3, 198, .506 6-09 W) 44,358 79 22,184,116 28.50 (.(I 855.202 1 10 1 id) 1.240.965 1.64 1 25,049,190 24 85 1 \-,lluo. $ .185,550 .166 798 927, lO' 936,341 947,153 1.226,701 818,580 871,809 7,16,960 .".16,228 1,021,960 1.. 501. 660 2.131,080 2,655,319 3,065,922 6,01)6,581 4,511,183 5,649,487 5, .106, 635 7,497,660 10,720,474 11,. 198, 120 8,413,876 A. 814, 754 7,094,094 6,886,998 12,718,.S48 11,7.53.606 10,101,606 17,410,635 t IniHKASHOH 1 OKmK.HK. iVnts \;.lu.. ' puumt. — — . — II 00 |(.i)t 18,752 4-86 11 25 .560,, (09 152-70 16-66 9, >34 0-'l9 13 75 1II,.SI2 1 IS 15 75 2;9,5:.o 29-51 12 87 U) 408,123 33-27 11 55 53,229 6 -.50 10 75 {./) 1,14,849 15-46 9 .56 99,268 13-47 10-76 185.732 22-21 10-88 479. 7!K) 46 94 11-29 6,13,320 42 17 12 03 520,3,19 24-37 1761 410,6»>3 1 5 - 46 16-19 3,030,6,S9 98-84 16-117 (./I 1.585,198 26 00 11-626 1.1,18,104 25 23 13-235 (J) 342,852 6-07 12 823 2.191.025 41-29 15 .590 3,222,814 42 98 . 19.278 |>77,A54 6 32 20 004 2,984,244 26 18 13-208 12 982 12 738 279.340 4 10 i (,yi 207,096 2 92 12 376 5,831,550 45-85 1A,34l (J) 9ft4,942 7 - 59 15 269 (J) 1.452.(XX) 14-10 13 602 7,109,029 40-83 , 17 27S i The production of copper in Canada in 1915 included 44,597 pounds recovered in copper sulphate; 42,050,347 pounds contained in blister 2 copper cxpt)rti-d for ri-fining; 44.185.455 poundH rontainwl in matu-, rhicHy nickel-copper matte, exporteil for refining, and 14.504.751 pound., in ore. after alUminK for smelter Iowwh, exported for iimeltinK and refining. The total pnKluction in 1«14 includctj: 38,508 pound* recovered in copper sulphate; 25.554.911 pound* in blister copper exported for refining; 32,782.973 pound* in "matte" exported for refining; and 17.359,568 pound* in ore. after allowing for smelter losee*, also exported for *mclting and refining. The Province of British Columbia in 1915 contributwl 56-2 per cent of the total production, a* aga-nst 54-4 per cent in 1914. Ontario con- tributed in 1915 over 39 per cent of the total as again!«t 38 2 per cent in 1914, and C>uel)ec 4 • 1 per cent in 1915,as compared with 5 • 5 per cent in 1914. Production of Copper by Provlncw, W13, 1914, and 1915. Provtiitft. Utirhcc . Ontarui . . Hritilh rolujiihl.i. (httrr 79 .M.IIH1,<»2«I l.«5i..'Jl 4II.7')I.57<» 6.WI,«I6 • ',»4J,S.I0 2HI,4IW 1914. IHmihI*. i Value. Tl>t4l 4,JOI,4"»7 |« S71.4MM JH,')4H,ill ! .1. "1.17.. lift 41 MW.-'IIZ I .<.MHi.fi.tft tl!.i(i7,UM 1 lllV'»4h 111.1. ■•Diimt*. i V»li«. 4.l«7,4«i !• 7I9.IIS .(•I, IAI,4(i4 1 t.lVt.tM Sh.Wi.VMI «,7»i,7U t ,1.1.1, il6 tl.llS 7ft.t)76,')i1 Il .71.l,ft0ft 7.1. 7.1.1, "»«» I lO.lOI.Mtft lim.-M.IW I 17.4I0.M5 •Includn Nova S-oH.t and Yukon. tVukon only. Prices.— The price of c ,pp< in New York, which was quoted at aliout 12 70 cents in the first davs of 1915, ro-e steadily to 20 cents in the middle of June, it then decreased gra.lually co 15-75 cents in the last week in August, to again increase and reach a maximum of 22 i cents in the last week in Decemlx;r. The monthly average prices in New York and London are given in the following tables : — Monthly Averaje Prices of Electrolytic Copper In New York. (In ecnti per pound.) Month*. 191 1. 1912. I «• NovenibiT !t*!5 December lJ-1.12 Ye«rl y aver aiie \2 .ill> *Naquoui> 1411 76 nil 6N 671 611 911 U 6UI 13 2i7 11 744 16K41 m 771 61 1i4 11 1U Y wly 1 •\o quotallotii. Exports and Imports.— \\h\\ thf txaptiiui of a small output of copjM r >ulphate at Trail, B.C., the copper production of Canada is exporti-d for refining. The exports of copper in ore, matte, rcRulus. etc.. during the calendar year 1915 were 81.437,06.1 pounds, valued at $8,671,641, of which MI -24 per '^nt in quantity and 86-66 per cent in value were exp,16n 1,917 ,965 ,070 1,3.16 ,243 i,908 ,885 1886 1887 1888.. 1889.. 1890. 1891 . 1892 . 1893 . 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1890. 1900. 4,792,201 1,625,389 3,742,352 5,462,052 14,022,610 11, 572, .181 11,371,766 23.631.523 249, 137, 257, 168, 398, .148, 277, 269, 91, 236,' 281, 8.50,. 840, 1,199,' 1,741, 1901 .12,488 1902 I 26,094 1903 .18.364 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909. 1910. 1911. 1912 1913» 1«I4» I'Jt.S* .18,5,53 40,740 42,. 198 54,688 51,136 .S4,447 36,964 55,287 78,488 85,147 7 7,. 198 106,891 8.2 498 676 282 861 538 ,4.50 371 7,50 ;i27 710 564 560 723 179 404,908 476,516 873,827 216,214 443,873 303,366 749,609 934,559 832,246 840,553 467,725 ,036,479 ,927,814 ,270,689 076,909 'Includes "Old and Scrap. The total imports of copper during the calendar year 1915 were valued at $3,957,770 and included: crude and manufactured copper 20,245,407 pounds, valued at $3,593,818; copper sulphate 1,854,850 pounds, valued at $99,282; and the manufactures of copper, valued at $264,670. The following tables of imports show a decrease of about $300,000, as compared with 1914 and the imports of 1915 are only about S3 per cent of those in 1913. Imports of Copper 1914 and 1915. 1914. 19IS. Pounds. Copper, old and scrap Copper in pigs, ingot.s or in bloclc.s Copper in bars, and rods, in coils, or othirwise, in lengths, not less than 6 feet. unnianuf:u tiirwl. . . Copper, in strips, sheets or plates, not planished or coated, etc ■ ■ Copper tubing in lengths not less than 6 feet and not polished, bent or otherwise m:intifacture* ,,• - (n 3 » s "f IN S S " **i * '^ t» r» ^ ♦^ e r^ (N T a> 00 M 12 Copper: Imports of Pifts, Old, Scrap, etc. Fiscal Year. I8«) IMI 1M2 1 I8M I 1M4 1885 1 t88« 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 Pounds. 31,900 9,800 20,200 124,500 4U,2(M 28.600 82,000 40,100 32,300 32.300 112.200 107,800 513,600 168,. too 101.200 72,062 86,905 49,000 Fiscal Year. S 2,l.t0 1.157 1.984 { 20,273 ! 3,180 2,016 6,969 I 2., 107 ! 2.322 i 3.288 1 11.521 ; 10.452 ' 14.894 16.331 7.397 6.770 9,226 5,449 1898 1,0.50.000 1899 1,655,000 1900 1 1.144,000 1901 951. .500 1902 ! 1.767.200 1903 2.038.400 1904 i 2,115.300 1905 1 1,944,400 1906 2,627,700 CiiU'ndar Yrar. 1907 I 3,653,200 1908 2,488,600 1909 4,332.700 1910 i 4,914.200 1911 5,915,700 1912 5.522.300 1913 ' 5,910.900 1914 1 3.861.1»/0 1915 I 4.839,700 Value. 80,001) 246,740 180,990 152.274 325,832 2 5 2,. 594 270,315 266,548 441,854 737,175 366.122 568.720 640,181 734,346 863,453 932,885 523,215 785,814 Imports of Manufactures of Copper. Fiscal Year. Value. 1880 $123,061 159.163 220.235 247,141 1.14,. 5.14 181,469 219,420 325,365 3M,459 402,215 472,658 .563,522 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887. 1888. 1889 1891 18W 1894 458,715 175,404 I89S 251,615 I8«>6 285 , 220 1897 264.587 1898 786 529 189'J 551.586 1,090,280 1901 1902 1903 951,045 1,281,522 1,291,535 Value. 1904 1905 $1,191,610 1,775,881 1906 Calendar Vear 1907 1908 2,660,303 3,246,340 1,854,130 1909 1910 1911 1912 2,467,233 3, 729, ,592 4,113,705 6,081,683 1913 6,373.250 1914 3. 57'!.. 555 1915 3,072.639 There is also an importation of copper in the form of brass. The imports of brass in 1915 included 3,810,948 pounds ui metal in crude and manufactured form (see Chapter on Zinc) containing possibly 2,667,66.^ pounds of copper, valued at S714,410, and also manufactures of brass, quantity not recorded, valued at 82,463,532. Consumption of Copper. — In view of the large import of manufactured copper and brass for which no quantity is recorded, it is difificult to estimate closely the consumption of copper. It is apparent, however, that the consumption in 1915 exceeded 23,000,000 pounds, while it is probable that the metal contained in other manufactures of copper and brass was not more than 5,000,000 pounds. The consumption in 1913 exceeded 44,000,000 pounds. 13 Quebec. The mines in the Eastern Townships were still more active in 1915 than in the past years, and the slight decrease in production is attributed to the destruction by fire of the power plant and concentrator of the Eustis Mining Company. The production amounted to 4,197,482 pounds, valued at $725,115, representing the estimated recovery from 139,865 tons of ore and con- centrates. Statistics of the copper production of Quebec province since 1880 are shown in the following table: — Quebec: Production of Copper. Yfar. Pounds. \iiluc. Year. 1KK7, 1H8<) 189;) IHVI. 1 81) J. IS9.). I.H94. 1S95, ,i,.!40,nnn s ,fii7,400' ixw. 2.<«7,goo 5,562,X64 5, .US, 0(10 4,710,606 ,'5,401,704 4.K«,4,SO 4,46X,3.S2 i,176,4.W 2,242,462 ,f.iO,.S|4 <)27.I(I7 7.10, XUI 741. WOl 6'),';. 46') I .'!64,042, 4S0,i4sl 20S,0ft7: 241.2!tKj i.s'.i; l»'« I «')'< vmo i')i)i I'lOi t'»0.t 1904 1903 Pound!*, i Value. i .'61.9(U 279.424 , 2.S>,6.iS 2H7.494 : .tSQ,41» 246, 17« 190,666 1.S2.467 97,4.>.'' 1 906 1907. 190S 190<) 1910 1911 191_> 191, 1914 191,i Pounds. Valuf 1,9.S1.169 S ,!S1,9J() 1.. SI 7, 990: JO 1.659 l,2«2.024l 1.0.S,s,212j H77,J47l 2.4.16, 190' .l,2S2.2IO ,1.45,S,»)17| 4,201,4971 4.197,4X2' 169, 3J0 141.272 111.757 301.50.1 .536.346 527,679 571,48s 725. 11 'i Ontario. The copper production from Ontario comes mainly from the nickel- copper ores of Sudbury district. The chief companies are: The Canadia.i Copper Co., Limited, shipping from the Creighton, Crean Hill, the No. 2, the \o. 3, or Frood, and the Vermillion mines; and the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., operating the Garson, Victoria, Frood Extension, Levack, Worthington and Kirkwood mines! The Alexo Mining Co., operating near Porquis Junction on the r. & N.O. Rari\;-y, shipped a considerable tonnage of nickel-copper to the Mond .\i. kcI Company's smelter at Coniston. The Sudbury Leasing and Development Company, of Suduury, also was an important shipper to Coniston. The British America Nickel Corporation did not operate anv of its properties during 1915. A few small shipments of copper ore were made from the following: Price-Brewer mine, near Latchford— the Pruce mine, near Bruce Mines, Algoma— and the property of the Sable River Copper Co., near Massey. There is also a small recovery of copper from Cobalt District silver ores sent to United States smelters. The copper production from Ontario in 1915 amounted to 39,361,464 pounds, valued at §6,799,693, i.e., 39 per cent of the production of Canada. .J ZtlM 14 The total tonnage of nickel-copper ores smelted in 1915 was 1,272,283 tons. There were produced during the year 67,703 tons of bessetner matte, containing 19,608 tons of copper and 34,039 tons of nickel, the shipping value of the matte being reported as $10,352,344. Details of the production of these o'es are given more completely and in tabular form in the article on "Nickel." The Onta-io Government offers a bounty on copper over 95 per cent pure metal, and on copper-sulphate produced from ore mined and refined in the Province. The text of the Act was quoted in the Annual Report on Mineral Production of Canada, 1914, p. 60. Statistics of the copper production of Ontario since 1886 are given in the table following: — Ontario: Production of Copper. Year. Pounds. ! Value. Year. Pounds. Value. 1 1 Year, Pounds. Value, 1886 16.S,000 $ is.i.sn 1896 .l,l67,2.'iS $ 344,598 ! 1906 10.638,23112,050,838 1887 322.524 ,16,284 1897 .S,.i 2.S4,.';,1H 1902 7,408,2021 861,278 1912 22,2,50,601 3,635,971 1S93 .t.641..S04' ,191,461 190,1 . . . 7.172,.-;.13 949,285; 1913 2.1,885,929 3,952,522 1894 .S, 207. 679 417,8.';4 1 '04 4,913,.S94' 630,070 1914 28,948,211 3,937,53* I89.S 4,.';r6. 1,17 492.414 IDO,- 8,779,2,S9 1., 168,686, 1915 .. . ,19,, 101, 464 6,799,693 Bricisli Columbia. According to returns received from the smelters, the total quantity of copper contained in matte, blister, and copper-sulphate produced in British Columbia during 1915, and including an estimate of smelter re- covery for copper ores exported, was 56,692,988 p)ounds, after deducting the amount of copper produced from foreign ores. The production of 1914 on a similar basis was 41,219,202 pounds, and in 1913, 45,791,579 pounds. Returns of smelter production in this Province were not collected by this Department previous to 1908, and a complete record of statistics of production on this basis is not available. The following table shows that the production in 1915 exceedea by over six million pounds, that of 1912, which had been a maxim-m and that the value of the production in 1915 was more than double that of 1908, when this Department first collected returns of smelter production. British Columbia: Production of Copper. Year. Pounds, 1908 1 37,041,115 1909' I 35,658,952 1910 I ;5, 270,006 1911 : iS.^r'.ii^ \'aluc. : Year. 1912 Pounds. Value. $4,892,390 4 629 245 50,526,6.56 45,791,579 41,219,202 56.692.988 $8,256,561 ; 1913 6,991,916 4 492 693 1914 5,606,636 4!366!l9S 1915 9,793,714 15 Mncc 1909 the method of compilation of statistics of copper production by the Provmcal Bureau of Mines of British Columbia, which is based upon ore shipments from mines, provides for a deduction of five pounds of copper per ton of ore shipped on account of smelter losses, a method which gives a result closely approximating that obtained by this Branch. Previous to 1909 no allowance for smelter losses was made. The production of copper in this Province, according to the Provincial i;™'!?''''"^ "" *''*''' "^ 56.918.405 pounds in 1915. as compared with 45.009.699 pounds in 1914. Statistics of the annual production .since 1894 as ascertamed by the Provincial Department of Mines, and the production by districts since 1910 are shown in the tables following:— British Columbia: Copper Content of Ores Shipped. f Calendar Year. Copper con- tained IN ORES SHIPPED. Incrkase or DhCRtASK. Pounds. Pounds. 1S<>4.. 1895. . 1896. . 1897 . . 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 19(M.. 190.'! . 1906. 1907 . 190S. . 1909. 1910t. 19IU. 19Ut. 19131. 19Ut. 19151 3 S 7 7 o 27 11 ,(4 il 4> 40 47 *S .<« M, 51, 45, .4.S, 56, 324 952 818 .325 ,27 ,722 .977 603 636 .3.19 "10 ,692 ,990 ,832 ,274, ,597, 243, 927, 546, 460, (K)9 918 680 840 ,5,56 ,180 ,678 ,,591 .080 ,746 057 921 128 251 488 720 614 245 934 656 .537 305 699 405 628 160 2 ,865 716 1 ,506 624 1 ,946 498 450 9H 2 ,254 489 1/ .62f. 666 2 032 311 4 723 864 { '50 207 i 5 29> W»2 157 .„> 6 441 804 (rf)l 677 369 (J)l, 316, .'7S' 14 618 881 W)4 996 x^> (d) t 450 606 11 908. 706 193 00 .301 -00 .19 00 36 00 6-00 29 00 17700 7 00 16 00 3 7 5-6 14 1 5 02 15-8 ( 3-6 (rf) 3-4 39-6 d) 97 d) 31 26-4 "melte^loSis."'''"* ''*' """''' *^°'"'°'''» Bureau <>' Mines. Value. $ 31,039 102.526 415.4.59 601,213 874,7.83 1,359,948 1,615,289 4,448.896 3,445,488 4,547,735 4,579,110 5,876,222 8,287.706 8,168.177 6,244.031 S,9|«.522 4.871,512 4,571,644 8,408,513 7,094,489 6,121.319 9,835,500 t Allowing 5 pounds copper per ton of ore for British Columbia : Production of Copper by Districts, t (In pounfK). <-aribao — Oniim-ca. . . CasaL-ir- Skecna. etc . . ' West K'wtenay — ' ¥''??"•••, I 231.936 Trail creek ] 3.577,745 Boundary Ashc.-oft & Kamloup:' Similkamecn Coa-st districts I 31,354,985 I 1.178 I iioisiow 1911. 1912. 19,151 3,429,702 22,327,359 152,723 10,998.721 Totals. 88.403 26,257 2,539,900 33,372.199 i.5i429'778 38,243,934 16,927,656 51,456,537 1913. 1,838 1,336 815,126 2,538,661 28,621,973 29,505 8.073 14,443.793 46,460,305 t Af usr deducUng five pounds of copper per ton of ore for slag losses. 6,000 ,123,376 586,764 779,830 428,959 14,525 13,070,245 45 1915. 2.831,279 21,915,481 30,240 4,651,681 17,402,662 295,164 21,701 9,770,197 009,699 ! .56,918,405 16 According to the preceding table, the ores from the Cassiar procliKc