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bodies are isolated from each other and are not continuous; but by following
out the strike of the foliation of the norite another body may be found several
hundred feet away. In places quartz stringers 2 to 6 inches wide crosscut the
formation and in these the principal sulphide is arsenopyrite with sometimes
specular hematite, pyrite, or galena.

“Deposits of this character are found in several places in the belt of norite
lying between Sucker bay and Norite bay and extending along the strike of the
norite from the islands about Channel point northeastward for several miles
inland. Typical deposits of this character are those on the Norah, Victory,
Excelsior, Garrett, and North Star mineral claims. The metals found by assay
to occur in them are nickel and copper, but the average value is not high. Some
platinum is also said to have been found.

“Samples 1, 2, 3 were collected by the writer from the more important
localities where some development work had been done and assayed both by the
Mines Branch in Ottawa and by J. A. Kelso, director of industrial laboratories
in the University of Alberta. Samples 4, 5, 6 were collected by F. J. Alcock
during 1914. The results of analyses are as follows:

Analyses of Fond du Lac Ores

— 1 2, 3 4 5 6
Copperas Gone C2. F. 0-09 INL. [22 , BREEN Trace Trace 6-65
NICKEL 2. ees Nil Nil 0-10 Trace 0-20 1-07
Golde sos oa ee ee Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil
Silvers. 3 tye Few fsx os Su Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil

. From the Norah mineral claim, carrying disseminated pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. (Anal-
ysed by Mines Branch, Dept. of Mines.)

. From the Norah mineral claim. (Analysed by J. A. Kelso, University of Alberta.)

. From the Garrett mineral claim, formerly known as the Lake Point. (Analysed by J. A.
Kelso, University of Alberta.) &

. From the Norah mineral claim. (Analysed by Mines Branch, Dept. of Mines.)

. From the Garrett mineral claim, formerly known as the Lake Point. (Analysed by
Mines Branch, Dept. of Mines.)

. Picked sample containing small quantities of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and py rPonie from one

of the small fractures on the Paris claim.

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(or)

“On the Paris group of claims, or what was originally known as the
Athabaska group, the rock is a dark, fine-grained variety associated with a
porphyritic granite gneiss. The rock outcrops in a low cliff.on the shore of the
lake and is sparingly mineralized with pyrite and pyrrhotite which is disseminated
through it and gives a rusty stain to the outcrop. Im narrow fracture planes
there is a little more iron sulphide, apparently secondarily deposited, but nowhere
does there seem to be any concentration of the sulphides sufficient to form an
ore-body of workable dimensions. Assays show the principal valuable metal at
this-point to be nickel.

“At this point native silver was ae to have been found in 7. small
fractures traversing the rock, but I could find no evidence of that metal.

“The claims situated at the head of Camille or Fishing bay are of some-
what different character. Here the prevailing rock is a garnetiferous gneiss
presumably altered Athabaska sandstone, intruded by sheets of norite. The

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