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Seas

214

(48 c) Iron Chief or Western Steel Deposit
(See Figure 37)
LOCATION

The old Western Steel Crown-granted mineral claim, relocated and
Crown-granted as the Iron Chief claim, is the most westerly of the Sechart
group and lies very close to the Bald Eagle on the northwest. It is on the
southern slope of Broughton range, and is reached by a trail leading west-
erly from the outcrop on the Bald Eagle.

Scale of Feet

50 100,

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Legend

Drift

Magnetite

Diorite

Geological Survey, Canada.

Figure 37. Magnetite deposit, Iron Chief claim, Sechart peninsula, Barkley sound, Vancouver
island, B.C. Contour interval, 10 feet.

The deposit occurs on a bench on the mountain side, at an average
elevation of 920 feet (barometric) above sea-level. On parts of the claim
there is a good stand of timber consisting of hemlock, spruce, and balsam.
In the area embracing the outcrops, all the large timber has been cut and
the ground was subsequently burnt over. A very dense, almost impassable
second growth of hemlock and cedar, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, now obscures
most of the area, including many of the outcrops, and made the investigation