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from the shaft (Figure 13, locality 1), gold $7, silver 20 ounces per ton,
copper 2 per cent, lead 25 per cent, and zinc 20 per cent; (2) bornite ore
from the middle vein north of the shaft, gold $44, and silver 30 ounces per
ton, copper 22 per cent; (3) chalcopyrite, pyrite in quartz gangue, from
prospect hole 50 feet north of shaft, gold $17, and silver 28 ounces per ton,
copper 18} per cent; (4) at locality 2, Figure 13, ore composed of bornite

and chalcopyrite is disseminated in a basic dyke, gold $10, and silver 7 to .

8 ounces per ton, copper about 5 per cent; (5) in a gulch about 500 yards
east and 900 feet in elevation below locality No. 2 there is a shear zone 4
feet wide with pyrite in a quartz gangue. Two assays from this place
yielded gold $5 and 2 ounces of silver to the ton, and gold $10 and 4 ounces
of silver to the ton.

Galloway! took samples of the mineralized zones on these claims,

across widths of 3 and 6 feet, in order to determine the gold and silver
values, but found only traces of gold and silver.

‘NORTH OF SODA CREEK.

Bodies of quartz carrying copper minerals occur in the hills about 10
to 13 miles in a direct line due north of Soda Creek and 7 miles east of Fraser
river (Figure 1, localities 12 and 13). The northerly outcrops (locality 12)
are 2 miles northeast of the north end of Cuisson lake from where there is
a wagon road leading to the Cariboo road along the Fraser. The owners
are Chas. Foyle and J. Briand of Soda Creek. The elevation by barometer
is about 3,350 feet.

At this locality quartz carrying chalcopyrite occurs in sheared grano-
diorite. ‘The shear planes and the edges of the large quartz bodies trend
on an average north 11 degrees east, and dip in some cases to the east at
angles up to 35 degrees. The sheared zone is about 60 feet wide with a
17-foot ledge of quartz on its west side and lenses of quartz through the
remainder. On the eastern side is unsheared granodiorite. The eastern
edge of the shear zone. outcrops in places for a length of 150 feet and carries
bodies of quartz a few feet wide. No other outcrops were seen either north
or west. A shallow shaft, full of water at the time of visit, sunk on the

thick quartz body on the west edge of the zone, is said to have passed |

through a foot-wall of solid granodiorite dipping east. The amount of
chalcopyvite in samples of quartz on the dump and im the outcrop is very
small. \
One-quarter mile south by east from this shaft is an area of sheared
granodiorite, about 80 feet wide in a northeast-southwest direction, in
which are a number of bodies of quartz. Copper-bearing minerals occuc
in the sheared country rock as well as in the quartz. The ore minerals and
quartz occur in a zone which is irregular in outline and whose probable
trend under the surrounding cover could not be determined. A small open-
cut and shallow shaft are the only developments. The ore minerals seen
on the dump were chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, azurite, and chalcocite.

Galloway? reports assay results of 5 to 6-3 per cent of copper from
selected ore specimens from either or both of these places, and traces of
gold and silver from a number of samples.

poeta J ohn D., Report of the Minister of Mines of British Columbia for 1917, Northeastern district, p. 135.
p. cit., p. e