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is 3 feet wide and carries only 3 to 5 per cent of sulphides. Twenty-five
feet farther along it narrows to 18 inches and mineralization consists of
scattered sulphide impregnation along both sides of a narrow fissure. The
drift leaves the vein for the next 50 feet, but swings back across it for 10
feet at the face. Ten feet from the face the zone is 22 inches wide and
carries up to 15 per cent of sulphides, chiefly arsenopyrite but with some
small pockets of galena and sphalerite. A 22-inch channel sample taken
across the deposit at this point assayed: gold, 0-045 ounce a ton; silver,
2-44 ounces a ton; lead, 2-78 per cent; zinc, 2:11 per cent. At the face
the sheared zone is 33 inches wide and carries about 5 per cent of arseno-
pyrite and 1 per cent of sphalerite.

No. 3 adit at elevation 4,080 feet, 225 feet farther up the hill, is 22
feet long. At the face the zone consists of 3 feet of altered and sheared
andesite with stringers and pockets of arsenopyrite with a little galena and
sphalerite. In an open-cut 70 feet farther up the slope the zone is similarly
mineralized across a width of 6 feet. About 90 feet farther, at elevation
4,165 feet, the zone is 24 inches wide and carries over 20 per cent of
sulphides, about half of which is arsenopyrite and the remainder sphalerite
with a little chalcopyrite. The No. 4 adit at elevation 4,207 feet follows
the zone for 41 feet. For 30 feet from the portal the zone consists of altered,
fractured andesite well mineralized with stringers and impregnations of
arsenopyrite with very little galena or sphalerite. At the face, a fracture
on the northwest side carries from I to 3 inches of arsenopyrite and another
on the southeast side of the adit lies in the middle of a zone 12 inches wide
that is impregnated with disseminated arsenopyrite. The intervening rock
is largely barren.

The following assays are of samples collected by Duthie Mines prior
to 1930. A 31-inch channel sample from the face of No. 8 adit assayed:
gold, 0-20 ounce a ton; silver, 9-7 ounces a ton; lead, 7-4 per cent; zine,
9-2 per cent. A 55-inch channel sample taken across the zone in the cut
70 feet above No. 3 adit assayed: gold, 0-13 ounce a ton; silver, 3-6 ounces
a ton; lead, 0-4 per cent; zinc, 3-8 per cent. From the next open-cut,
160 feet up the slope from No. 3 adit, a 29-inch channel sample assayed:
gold, 0-16 ounce a ton; silver, 1-8 ounces a ton; lead, 1-2 per cent; zinc,
3°2 per cent. A 48-inch channel sample taken from the zone in the cut
at the portal of No. 4 adit assayed: gold, 0-65 ounce a ton; silver, 7-4
ounces a ton; lead, 6-4 per cent; zinc, 1-1 per cent. ,

According to D. Lay, there is an ore shoot in the immediate vicinity
of No. 4 adit, 60 feet long, 3-7 feet wide, assaying: gold, 0-44 ounce a ton;
silver, 10-45 ounces a ton; lead, 7-10 per cent; zinc, 5-49 per cent.

In a cut 100 feet up the slope from No. 4 adit, the zone continues as a
sparsely mineralized sheared zone 18 inches wide. At elevation 4,340 feet,
250 feet up the slope from No. 4 adit, the zone consists of 6 inches of
sheared andesite with stringers of arsenopyrite. It is 50 feet farther to
the last open-cut, beyond which the zone passes under a small basin and
is concealed by drift for several hundred feet. In the last open-cut the

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