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the most southerly. The veins strike north 80 degrees east (true) and
the main vein dips 55 to 60 degrees to the northwest. Besides the main
vein two others have been opened by cuts along the strike. One shows a
crushed zone in the sedimentary tufis about 4 feet in width and containing
actinolite, quartz, and biotite, with some chalcopyrite; the other shows
a 4 to 6-inch vein in the tuffs, containing galena and pyrite in a gangue of
milky quartz.

The main vein contains gold-bearing arsenopyrite and molybdenite in
a gangue of actinolite and quartz and strikes directly up the hillside, crosses
the ridge, and descends the Juniper Creek side, where it passes under drift.
The vein is closely associated with a 2-foot dyke of fine-grained, grano-
diorite-porphyry which parallels it either along one wall or a short distance
from it. The width of the vein varies from 18 inches to 4 feet and it has
been shown up by cuts and stripping for 2,200 feet horizontally through
an elevation of over 1,100 feet.

.At 600 feet below the top of the ridge a drift tunnel has been driven
on the vein for a distance of 625 feet. The first 85 feet in the tunnel
discloses the vein 18 inches to 2 feet in width, carrying 4 to 18 inches of
solid sulphides on the hanging-wall, which are said to average $80 in gold
and 23 to 5 per cent of cobalt. In stoping from this shoot, according to
information given by Mr. Morkill, the first three tons gave an assay of
5-20 ounces of gold, 4 per cent cobalt, and 22 per cent MOS,.

For the next 40 feet in the tunnel there is an open fissure instead of
the vein; it varies in width from 3 inches at the ends to 2 feet in the middle,
and extends to an unknown distance vertically. There is apparently not
even a crustification of the walls of the fissure.

The open fissure terminates where the walls come together to form
a vein 3 inches wide filled with gouge; the vein immediately widens again,
but is barren of ore for 50 feet; when a small shoot is encountered. At
225 feet a dyke is cut through by the vein and has been offset for 11 feet,
the north side having moved relatively towards the west. At 375 feet from
the portal a raise was being put up in ore consisting of arsenopyrite and
molybdenite in a gangue of actinolite, quartz, and calcite; a 9-inch streak
here ran 20 per cent molybdenum and the general ore from the raise 3 to 4
per cent MOS:. Hand-sorting gives a product carrying 7-4 per cent MOS;
and $10 in gold.!

The gold content of the ore is very variable; for instance, one streak
4 inches across, just past the raise, is said to have assayed $631 in gold.
It is generally considered in the mine that the finely crystalline arsenical
iron carries about $18 to $20 in gold and when it is darker in colour and
coarsely crystallized it carries from $50 to $100 in gold. Under the
microscope there could be seen no reason for such a difference, as in both
eases the so-called arsenopyrite is a mixture, as noted in the paragenesis;
the high analysis quoted above was from fine-grained sulphides. Across
2 feet (the full width of the vein) of ore at the top of the ridge an assay
shows: gold, 4-0 ounces; silver, 0-02 ounce; cobalt, 3-0 per cent.?

On the Juniper Creek side of the ridge an open-cut 6 feet deep exposes
the vein, which is here 2-5 feet in width with 6 inches of sulphides and 2 feet
of decomposed vein material. A sample across the whole vein gave: gold,
0-65 ounce; silver, 0-2 ounce; cobalt, 1-0 per cent.®

1Assays furnished by Mr. Dalby Morkill.

2British Columbia Bureau of Mines, 1917.
3British Columbia Bureau of Mines, 1917.