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wall assayed: gold, 0-01 ounce to the ton; silver, a trace. On the surface
this vein can be traced for 75 feet to the southwest, but for only 15 feet
northeast. Another quartz vein occurs 60 feet to the northeast at a little
lower elevation. This vein averages 1 foot in width and is well exposed for
over 100 feet along its strike. It strikes northeast and dips 35 degrees
northwest. A third quartz lens with a similar strike and dipping 15 degrees
northwest occurs about 120 feet southwest of the inclined shaft, An adit
at an elevation of 650 feet follows this vein for about 40 feet.

One hundred and fifty feet west of the last-mentioned adit a quartz
vein is exposed by trenches for 150 feet at an elevation of 800 feet. It
sirikes northeast, dips 25 degrees northwest, and ranges from 8 inches in
width at its southwest end to 16 inches at the northeast end with a maxi-
mum width of 3 feet. It is lightly mineralized with bornite and some
chalcocite throughout its length and in one place near the centre of the
outcrops these sulphides were seen in comparative abundance. In the
southeast and highest pit the quartz is slightly weathered, stained green,
and contains small seams of bornite and coarse, free gold. A specimen
of the quartz taken from the adjoining upper part of the vein assayed:
gold, 0-01 ounce to the ton; silver, a trace. Two other specimens showing
free gold were found on the dump of a pit 65 feet to the northeast. Twenty
feet northeast of this pit a 17-inch channel sample was taken across the
vein with these assay results: gold, 0-04 ounce to the ton; silver, 0-46 ounce
to the ton. According to Mr. Darby, caretaker at the mine, there are two
other somewhat similar veins at several hundred feet higher altitude on the
claim.

Lucky Luke Mine

(See Figure 12)

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B:C.: 1918, p. 110; 1919, p. 98;
1923, p. 104; 1924, p. 88; 1925, p. 125; 1928, p. 146; 1934, p. C4. Geol.
Sury., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1925, pt. A, p. 116.

The Lucky Luke mine is on the east slope of Kitsalas mountain at an
elevation of 1,000 feet, about 14 miles southwest of Usk. It is approxi-
mately 1,500 feet distant from the railway along the foot of the mountain.
A rough road leads from the mine to the railway and a fair truck road
connects it with Usk. The property consists of four claims, the Lucky
Luke, Hummer, Amigo, and Indian, the latter of which encroaches upon an
Indian reserve along Skeena river. The owners, L. E. Moodie and R.
Lowrie of Usk, operated the property from 1917 until 1923. §. A. Davis
carried on development work in 1923 and 1924 and shipped 25 tons of
hand-sorted ore which gave returns of: 18 ounces of gold, 316 ounces of
silver, and 11,162 pounds of copper. In 1934 R. W. Seely took an option
on the property and continued the development work. Nothing was done
in 1935.

The country rock on the property is chiefly andesitic flows, some of
them porphyritic, and also biotite and chlorite schists. These rocks are
cut by a few, narrow, aplitic dykes. A series of narrow, lenticular quartz
lenses lies along a fault or shear zone striking north 70 degrees west and