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of jamesonite, galena, and pyrite with a little quartz gangue. The vein
strikes north 55 degrees west and dips 30 degrees south. It ranges from
3 to 6 inches in width. A 4-inch sample taken across the vein in the face
of a 40-foot open-cut assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 5-96 ounces a ton;
lead, 12-32 per cent; antimony, 4-95 per cent.

A few hundred feet farther east, at elevation 5,400 feet, a 6-inch quartz
vein is followed for 100 feet by a series of rock cuts. The vein carries an
abundance of jamesonite, sphalerite, and galena. It strikes north
30 degrees west and dips 37 degrees southwest. The enclosing sediments,
mostly tuffaceous sandstones and argillites, strike south 40 degrees west
and dip 80 degrees southeast. A 6-inch channel sample taken across a
typical part of the vein midway along its outcrop assayed: gold, a trace;
silver, 4-10 ounces a ton; lead, 3-73 per cent; zinc, 1-88 per cent;
antimony, 1-65 per cent. About 100 feet south of the vein, and at the
same elevation, there are a number of narrow, graphitic coal seams. A
rough surface sample taken from the largest seam, 12 inches thick, was
assayed by the Fuel Testing Laboratories at Ottawa. On a dry basis the
sample contained 70-3 per cent ash, 6:9 per cent volatile matter, and
22-8 per cent fixed carbon.

At elevation 5,300 feet, roughly 600 feet farther southeast on the
east side of a draw that drains south, an 18-inch quartz carbonate vein
is exposed in the sediments by two open-cuts. The vein strikes north
50 degrees east and dips 70 degrees southeast. It carries about 3 per cent
of arsenopyrite. A representative sample of the vein assayed: gold, nil;
silver, 0:08 ounce a ton.

About 1,000 feet farther northeast on the Kootenay claim, a 33-foot
adit is driven southwest on a narrow quartz vein at elevation 5,260 feet.
The adit is on the north side of the mountain at the top of a bluff that
drops vertically for several hundred feet. The vein in the adit ranges
from 3 to 6 inches in width, strikes west, and dips 20 degrees south. The
quartz gangue carries galena, jamesonite, and sphalerite. A very similar
vein outcrops at the portal of the adit, strikes west, and dips 35 degrees
north. It has been stripped along the surface and a little ore is piled
near the adit. Both veins occur along slickensided faults in argillaceous
sediments close to the granodiorite stock that lies along the north side of
the mountain. Offshoots from the granodiorite mass cut the sediments
40 feet east and 30 feet west of the adit. A representative sample of the
ore assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 9-85 ounces a ton; lead, 22-98 per cent;
zinc, 14-57 per cent.

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References: Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1910, p. 98. Ann. Repts., Minister of
Mines, B.C.: 1909, p. 84; 1910, p. 87; 1914, p. 205.

These claims are on the north side of Nine Mile Mountain 8 miles due
northeast of South Hazelton, or 13 miles by the Nine Mile Mountain road
with an additional 4 miles by trail east along the north side of the
mountain from Silver Cup Basin. The claims are immediately east of the
Lead King and Slocan groups. No work has been done here for many
years.