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The workings consist of several open-cuts and three short adits. A
shear zone 2 feet or less wide extends up hill in an easterly direction for
300 feet in the bottom of a small creek. The zone contains a quartz vein
very sparsely mineralized with sulphide. Several quartz veins, individu-
ally a little wider than the one in the shear zone, join it and the adits
have been driven along these branch veins. Two of the branch veins are
1 to 3 feet wide and are well mineralized with pyrite, galena, sphalerite,
and chalcopyrite. The bare metals, however, are not present in sufficient
quantity to constitute commercial ore.

Geological Survey, Canedea

Figure 7. Plan showing vein system on Mayflower group.

Figure 7 shows the location of the veins exposed on the Mayflower
group.
EMPEROR MINES, LIMITED

The holdings of Emperor Mines, Limited, are situated between Glacier
and Bitter creeks at an elevation of 3,000 feet. A good deal of snow was
on the ground at the time the property was visited and some of the open-
cuts were not visible.

The country rock is argillite of the Bitter Creek formation striking
north and dipping west at moderate angles. Numerous dykes and sills of
quartz diorite, gabbro, and lamprophyre occur intruding the argillite.

Two quartz veins occur on the property. The veins are parallel, 200
feet apart, strike north, and dip 50 degrees west. The more easterly vein
is 6 to 30 feet wide and has been traced by open-cuts for 500 feet. The
other vein is 6 feet wide, is not known on the surface, and only in one
place underground. The veins consist chiefly of quartz and a little calcite
and are sparsely mineralized with pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and jameson-
ite. The smaller vein is a single body, but the larger one in places where
it is widest consists of closely spaced quartz veins separated by argillite.