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The Bowleg group of claims joins the Kwanika group on the west,
and is owned by Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. Stripping and
diamond drilling indicate that these claims are underlain by brecciated
Permian limestone intruded by serpentine sills. Exploration was under-
taken in an attempt to discover the source of the cinnabar’ float on the
Trump claim of the Kwanika group 400 feet east of On sae property,
Nee has ae been fone.

Victory Group. -

The Victory group of claims joins the Kwanika group on the south
and was staked by Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. The Pinchi
fault zone crosses the property from north to south. Brecciated and
dolomitized Permian limestone lies west of the fault zone and Upper Trias-
sic sedimentary. rocks and granodiorite to the east. Stripping carried
out arta the summer of 1942 failed to discover any cinnabar.

; Indata Lake. Mercury Showing

This property is on the east side of Indata Lake, auyiets 1 mile
from the south end. It may be reached by road from Fort St. James to the
east end of Chuchi Lake (first Nation Lake), a distance of 75 miles, and
thence by water up the Nation Lakes. for an additional 40 miles. . The
property comprises nine claims, staked in the summer of 1940 by .

Messrs. D. and M. Rottacker and associates. Consolidated Mining and Smelt-
ing Company obtained an option on the group in the autumn of 1940, but re-
linguished it in the autumn of 1941 after doing some  PLDAQE GURY 2) work.

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. Qutcrops indicate that these claims are underlein almost en-
tirely by blue-grey Permian limestone. Several small dykes and sills of
serpentine cut the limestone. A. major braneoh fault of the cette fault
zone extends along the eastern poundany. of the claims.

A brecciated fault zone, 10 to 20 feet ales) is. exposed on the
Sunrise claim on the east shore of Indata Lake and contains the main cinna-
bar showing. The fault strikes north, dips west at about 70 degrees, and
has been traced for 1,000 feet from the lake to where it disappears under.
25 feet of boulder clay and gravel. It is offset for a few inches to
10 feet along a series of cross faults. striking north 55 degrees east. At
its north end the fault follows the contact of a serpentine dylc with lime-
stone for 175 feet. Along the fault the normal grey limestone has been
changed to buff-coloured carbonate across a width of 30 feet. A chemical
analysis shows & small increase in the silica, iron, and magnesium con-
tent. The serpentine dyke has also been. altered across its entire width
of 15 feet to a reddish buff, ankeritic carbonate with minor amounts of |
cherty material and green mica. The cherty material occurs in irregular
nodules a few inches in diameter. Stringers of magnesite and of quartz,
1/8 inch to 2 inches wide, cut the altered dyke.

Most of the cinnabar occurs as scattered grains, either in the
cherty fragments in the serpentine dyke or in similar fragments in the
fault breccia, and is not sufficiently concentrated to constitute ore.

Indata. Group

The Indate group of claims is east of the Indata Lake mercury
showing. The group comprises the Indata Nos. 1 to 6 claims, and is owned
by Corsclidetoa Minine and Smelting Company. It may be reached by a trail