To : Jacqueline S. Russell Our Reference No.: 19429 Dear Ms. Russell, Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding a newspaper article from the "Illustrated London News" dated August 18, 1860. As this title is held in our Rare Book collection and cannot be photocopied, please find below a transcript of the article you have requested. Supplement, August 18, 1860 The Illustrated London News, page 159 [engraving] Copper Mine or Quarry, near Montreal, Canada. - From a sketch by our special artist, G.A. Andrews. THE COPPER-MINE NEAR MONTREAL, CANADA The commercial part of the community who reside in Montreal and the neighbourhood have lately been thrown into a state of considerable excitement by the discovery of an immense deposit of copper ore in the hillside near the village of Action, Canada East, a small place, situated on the line of the Grand Trunk Railway, about forty miles from Montreal, between that place and Richmond junction. Not only the inhabitants, of this part of Canada, but many persons from the United States, daily visit the spot. Excursion-trains run from Montreal expressly to visit the mines; and, as the proprietor makes a charge for admission to the mine, he is likely to make a rich harvest of gold and silver, as well as of copper, by his discovery. The approach to the mine is through a wood of the ordinary character, about half a mile of which having been passed through, the visitor arrives at a wicket gate, where a fee is demanded for liberty to inspect the works. Entering the inclosure, an extraordinary scene presents itself. The face of a considerable hill has been laid open, and what appears a large stone quarry is being worked by about a hundred men, who are continually blasting with gunpowder, and using all the ordinary means for getting out blocks of dark grey stone, which, on a closer examination, will be found to be good rich copper ore. Two or three quarries have been opened on the side of the hill, and a shaft has been sunk to a considerable depth; and, so far as the search has been made at present, the whole mass of the hill appears to be of the same valuable material. The largest quarry now open is about eighty feet long by sixty wide and thirty deep, measuring from the highest part of the hill excavated. The overburden is a yellow loamy sand, about eight feet thick, immediately under which is the metal-bearing rock. The upper part of the formation is much cracked and dislocated, and quartz dykes intersect the hill in several places. The surface of the ground is ordinary forest. At the excavation the roots of the trees can be seen penetrating through the loam into the cracks and fissures of the rock which carries the metal. The yield of copper is eleven tons of ore, carrying 20 per cent of copper, for every cubic fathom of rock excavated. Should you require any further information, please feel free to contact us again. Sincerely, Luc-Emmanuel Pinard Reference and Genealogy Division Library and Archives Canada