larity of the gold from lease No. 402 to that from lease

No. 345 is shown by the former's fineness of 827 parts of
gold and 123 parts of silver. Amongst some of the’ gold res
covered from the Peacock lease was one nugget about the size
of a small bean. The nugget is about half gold by volume and
the gold surrounds and includes some soft, light greyish-green
material which on microscopic examination is found largely to
be altered pyroxene and a very small amount of serpentine.
One other small nugget was partly gold and partly an incrus-
tation of copper carbonate. Unfortunately most of the sold,
other than the large nuggets, lacks quartz or other rock that
might give some indication of its original source.

Most of the gold so far recovered from Alice Shea Creek
has been from lease No. 355. That practically all of it is
exceedingly coarse may be attributed to the steepness of the
creek grade which allowed most of the fine gold to move down-
stream to a flatter grade. The largest nugget, found in 1937,
weighed 52 ounces 15 dwt.; numerous others weighing up to 16
ounces have been found. On the average, the gold is much
coarser than that on either lease No. 345 or No. 402.

Some of the gold, particularly that recovered from slate
bed-rock, has a surface coating of brown iron oxide. Apart
from this superficial coating, the colour of the gold differs
in various nuggets. Moreover, different types of gold are
suggested by the range in fineness of some of V. Shea's gold
shipments. The fineness of which ranges from 775 parts of
gold and 205 parts of silver, to 798 parts of gold and 180
parts of silver. At least three different types of gold have
been recognized, all of which are sufficiently well defined
to be readily identified. One has a brass yellow colour, a
small nugget of which had a fineness of 819 parts of gold.

A second, light orange-yellow in colour, is crystalline in
some nuggets and in others has a peculiar web-like or graphic
surface pattern. Some of these gold nuggets have quartz in
them and their fineness is 773 parts of gold. A third type
is light yellow or almost lemon-yellow in colour. Some of
these nuggets are finely crystalline, rough and hackly with
quartz still adhering to them. Others, that are slightly
worn have a distinctive surface pattern that has resulted
from the flattening of the original crystal outlines. The
Fineness of a small nugget of this last type, is 716 parts of
gold.

Amongst the gold recovered by V. Shea during the summer
of 1939 was an elongated heart-shaped nugget about 2 inches
long. It was estimated to contain less than a fifth gold by
volume. The nugget was white, stained slightly brown with