Whitesail Lake Map-Area

and Smelting Company of Canada Limited had a base camp in a protected
bay on the Core group, and did a little trenching. No veins were uncovered,
but it is reported that some heavily pyritized material carried a little gold.

The south slope of Core Mountain is marked by a distinct fault that
strikes northeast and dips vertically to steeply southeast. The fault is marked
topographically by a narrow gorge occupied by a creek. A small mass of
gabbro lies to the northwest of the fault, with broken and altered Hazelton
group rocks to the southeast. Locally, the course of the fault is marked by
much silicification and carbonatization of the wall-rocks and by the occurrence
of much pyrite. Some pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite were also observed.
Between the fault and the lake shore the Hazelton group rocks contain a
little disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite.

Riverside Group (4)
Reference: B.C. Minister of Mines, Ann. Rept. 1945, pp. 65-67.

This group of four claims, staked by J. W. McNeill, J. Knox and the
late G. Seel, all of Ootsa Lake, lies on the north side of Tahtsa River about
13 miles below the junction with Kasalka Creek and close to Huckleberry
Mountain. Dark green tuff, breccia, and flows of the Hazelton group, which
constitute the strata on Huckleberry Mountain, also underlie the claims of
this group. On Huckleberry Mountain and adjacent hills pyrite and arseno-
pyrite occur in narrow quartz veins and small patches of disseminated sulphides
in the bedrock. The veins are commonly 1 inch to 6 inches and rarely up to
a foot or more in width, and have an irregular strike. On the Riverside claims
a quartz vein 2 to 5 inches wide, striking north 75 degrees east and dipping
vertically to 85 degrees southeast, is exposed for 100 feet. The vein is
mineralized with arsenopyrite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, and it is
reported that the highest assay gave 0.36 ounce gold a ton.

Smith-Nash Group (8)
Reference: B.C. Minister of Mines, Ann. Rept. 1952, p. 97.

In the late summer of 1952 George Smith and Fred Nash of Vancouver
staked a group of fourteen claims and one fraction on the steep south slope of
the southwest extension of Sandifer Peak. The claims cover several limonite
stained quartz veins seen by the stakers while flying over the area. They
subsequently hired a helicopter from nearby Kemano and landed near one

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