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Show Lake of 8ulphate. A lake near Bigger, Saskatchewan, . snd about three hundred miles north-wt north-wt of Rogina, has ben found to b saturated with sodium sulphate, and the deposit under the lake and alongside along-side the edge to be nearly 97 per cent pure sulphute. The mineral la used extensively in the Manufacture of sulphuric sul-phuric arid. In photography and other , Industrial purposes. The lake. occupies occu-pies an area of about two hundred acres. The edg? Is muddy, bat on boring dowa a sulid bed of mirublllte crystulg Is found. |