Pyrite Deposits, — In places, as at WikeFs pyrite claim, and
in other localities near the city of Hot Springs, there are
bands, beds, or veins of some special mineral, such as calcite,
pyrite, etc., and there are instances, like the Kellogg mine in
Pulaski county, where the shale beds enclose valuable ores in
this way. Cases might also be cited in which the shale beds
themselves are more or less impregnated with nodulary con-
cretions of pyrite and other minerals. A very few of these
have been opened and lightly worked. If there be any com-
mercial value in these shales .as gold producers,*the pyritous
portions must necessarily prove the most remunerative. Yet
it is true that not one of the workings of this character has
produced any gold worth mentioning, and the minerals taken
from these claims yield no more than traces of gold by assay.
