Excerpt from The Transactions of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and of the Mining Society of Nova Scotia, 1923, Vol. 26 During 1922 the mining and metallurgical industries of the Country have made considerable advancement and there is every reason to be gratified with the general improvement in the production of gold, silver, nickel, copper, lead and zinc throughout the year. A decided increase in the production of gold, silver, lead and zinc was recorded, the gold production for the Province of Ontario exceeded by forty percent the production of that province in 1921 while the production for the whole Dominion advanced thirty percent. Council is gratified with the substantial improvement in the mining industry of the country throughout the year and is hopeful that the year we are now entered upon will show a further and continued improvement. 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.