veins, quartz-pyrite veins, quartz-tetrahedrite veins, and
molybdenite deposits. The white quartz veins, in places loaded
with pyrite, have so far been found to contain no ores of
commercial grade. The ego tcrtccrancarice voi are very high in
silver and copper, but so far as is known are small and uncommon.

No evidence was noted to suggest that the quartz
monzonite was responsible for any ore deposition.

With many of the smaller isolated stocks of individual-
istic petrographic character, such as those on Legate, Chimdemash,
and Kleanza creeks and near Woodcock, there is associated

mineralization which like the stocks has its own characteristics.
Placer Devosits

Free gold can be panned from the weathered portions of
gold veins in many parts of the district, so it is only natural
that placer gold has been found on such creeks as Lorne, Fiddler,
Hardscrabble, Phillips, Chimdemash, Kleanza, Douglas, Hall, and
Maroon. Of all these Lorne Greek has been by far the most important.
Gola was discovered on this creek in 1885; and has been intermittently

worked since that date. During the years 1903 to 1907 a costly

the creek where it emerges into Skeena valley, but apparently
could not be operated at a profit. In 1907 W. Fleet Robertson
wrote that "the ground undoubtedly contains gold in considerable

quantity, but its recovery ss rendered difficult by an exceedingly

irregular bedrock and the presence of a great number of boulders
which must be broken up". From this it would be inferred that i
these operations were on bedrock though Lay from observations in ii
1930 did not believe this to be the case. A 300-foot tunnel was

driven on the channel in 1923 and i924.