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Wild Cat Group (Locality 148)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1918, 1921,
1922, 1927, and 1932; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A.

The Wildcat group of five mineral claims is west of Kitsault river, a
short distance south of Homestead creek, Access is furnished by a foot
trail leaving the Dolly Varden Mines railway at the mouth of Homestead
creek,

The country rock consists of felsite containing inclusions of argillite.
In places the rock contains pyrite and chalcopyrite impregnations, but
only vein-like deposits appear to have promise. The chief mineral deposit
is a vein several feet wide, mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena,
sphalerite, ankerite, and quartz. Locally the deposit is country rock and
sulphides with no apparent fissure. The body strikes northeast and dips
northwest at moderate angles. Adits have been driven at elevations of
respectively 30 and 230 feet below the outcrop, but do not appear to have
encountered the ore-body. Dykes striking northeast are very numerous
in the adits and these may have cut away the mineral deposit in some
places.

Wolf Claim (Locality 184)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1916, 1925,
1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, and 1930; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1928, pt. A.

The Wolf mineral claim is on the mountain slope north of Alice Arm.
The known ore deposits are at the base of the mountain near the mouth of
Falls creek less than a hundred yards from the Dolly Varden Mines rail-
way. In 1925 the property produced 17 tons of ore yielding 3 ounces of
gold, 2,212 ounces of silver, and 583 pounds of lead. In 1927 a shipment
of 28 tons returned 4 ounces of gold and 2,051 ounces of silver. A part of
the first shipment assayed over 300 ounces of silver a ton.

The country rock is argillite and argillaceous quartzite intruded by
many lamprophyre and diorite dykes. The sediments strike north and
dip 20 degrees west. Most of the dykes are vertical and strike north 30
degrees east. The mineral deposits are three, narrow, silver-bearing quartz
veins lying parallel with the enclosing strata and structurally about 100
feet apart. The veins are in general about 1 foot wide. The middle vein
is exposed by open-cuts for a distance of 150 feet. Underground work
has proved a strike length of 220 feet and a dip depth of 70 feet, The
other veins have not been explored underground. The middle vein divides
to the north into branches. It consists of white quartz containing some
ankerite, calcite, and barite and also rock fragments, and contains bands
and disseminations of silver-bearing sulphides. The sulphides are chiefly
in bands along the foot-wall of the vein. These bands of sulphide are up
to 8 inches thick and consist of rich silver ore. The metallic minerals are
chiefly pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, tetrahedrite, ruby silver,
and native silver.