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What is believed to be a different vein outcrops at elevation 2,300 feet,
about 400 feet southwest of the main adit. It is about 20 inches wide and
is exposed for less than 30 feet along the contact between argillite and
overlying andesite. Structurally it lies 70 feet above the main vein out-
crop. No effort has been made to trace this vein by trenching, but other
vein exposures are reported to outcrop farther southwest along the mountain
side.

Patmore Group (32)

This property is on the south side of Fiddler creek about 6 miles west
by wagon road and foot trail from Dorreen station. The wagon road fo the
Fiddler property is followed as far as Knauss creek, from where a foot
trail 2 miles in length leads westerly to the showings. The property was
first prospected over twenty years ago, at which time a short adit was
driven and surface stripping and trenching done. The claims were relocated
in 1934 by Mr. Patmore of Prince Rupert. Premier Gold Mining Company,
Limited, did a little surface work that year.

No. 1 showing is at elevation 2,550 feet. A number of small quartz
veins in altered, fine-grained quartz diorite have been exposed by trenching
and stripping in an area roughly 100 feet long and 40 feet wide. The
quartz stringers average about 6 inches in width and 50 feet in length and
are well mineralized with galena and sphalerite, with lesser amounts of
pyrite and chalcopyrite. The longer veins, which trend south up the
mountain slope, are intersected by cross veins, but the total amount of vein
quartz does not exceed 10 per cent of the rock mass. The estimate includes
numerous fine quartz veinlets less than $ an inch in width which traverse
the altered quartz diorite. The intrusive is brown stained on weathered
surfaces through oxidation of a small pyrite content.

A representative sample of the mineralized vein quartz taken from a
small pile of hand-sorted ore assayed: gold, 0-12 ounce a ton; silver, 2-28
ounces a ton; lead, 1-00 per cent; zinc, 1-05 per cent.

Other exposures of the altered quartz diorite with quartz stringers were
seen 150 feet west of the No. 1 showing and again 125 feet south up the
mountain side.

No. 2 showing is at the same elevation, 1,200 feet farther west along
the mountain side. The intervening area is drift covered. Mineralized
quartz stringers striking south to southwest occur in altered quartz diorite
in a manner analogous to the occurrence at the No. 1 showing. The veins
and intrusive are exposed by cuts in a stripped area about 50 feet wide
and 60 feet long. There are a number of smaller exposures 200 feet north
down the mountain side. At elevation 2,500 feet a 37-foot adit was run
south at a point just below the stripped zone. The adit is in altered quartz
diorite for 35 feet, with 2 feet of argillite at the face. The argillites strike
easterly and dip 40 degrees north. Argillites are exposed again about 25
feet above the stripped zone, and strike easterly with a dip of 40 degrees
north. The evidence indicates that the altered quartz diorite occurs as a
sill and that its strike and dip correspond approximately with the strike
and dip of the mountain slope. This being so, other occurrences of the
altered diorite cut by mineralized quartz stringers might be found by digging
test pits through the overburden in the area between the two main showings.