51

face. An adit 120 feet in length connects with the north drift 21 feet north
of the shaft. Immediately north of the shaft the vein consists of 6 inches
of quartz containing up to 50 per cent of pyrite. A channel sample taken
across this part of the vein assayed: gold, 0:08 ounce a ton; silver, 0°36
ounce a ton. On the north wall of the east crosscut the vein is 24 inches
wide, consisting of 12 inches of calcite well mineralized with galena and
sphalerite and 12 inches of brecciated argillite containing up to 10 per cent
of pyrite. Fifteen feet farther north the vein pinches and gouge about
4 inches thick continues to the end of the drift except for one small 3-inch
calcite lens. A 24-inch channel sample taken across the vein at the east
crosscut assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0-24 ounce a ton; zinc, 1-95 per
cent; lead, undetermined.

On No. 2 level a drift was run north for 105 feet, with crosscuts running
east and west for 25 feet at a point 68 feet north of the shaft. In the north
half of the drift the vein averages about 4 inches in width, but elsewhere
there is 4 to 6 inches of fault gouge with no vein filling. A channel sample
taken across the vein at the crosscuts assayed; gold, none; silver, a trace.

In the shaft the vein persists from the surface down as far as the first
level, but there is very little vein filling between the first and second levels.
Commencing several feet below the No. 2 level, a 50-foot continuation of
the inclined shaft is water filled.

The Chisholm adit, 75 feet in length, is at elevation 4,560 feet, about
2,500 feet north of the inclined shaft. The adit is driven in almost flat-
lying, tuffaceous beds impregnated with a little pyrite and chalcopyrite.
Forty feet from the portal a branch drift runs 31 feet northwest along a
6-inch quartz calcite vein dipping 50 degrees northeast. The vein contains
up to 20 per cent of pyrite. A channel sample taken across the vein on the
east wall of the adit assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0-36 ounce a ton. Near
the face of the main adit a number of small vertical fissures contain seams
of solid pyrrhotite with little chalcopyrite up to 1 inch in thickness. An
assay of a representative sample of this sulphide gave: gold, a trace;
silver, 0-41 ounce a ton; copper, 0-32 per cent.

About 200 feet north of the Chisholm adit a lens of massive pyrrhotite
containing a little chalcopyrite is exposed in a deep trench. The sulphide
body strikes north and dips 65 degrees east. At the trench its width is 15
feet, but along the surface the lens pinches out at points 60 feet north and
50 feet south. A typical sample of the solid sulphide assayed: gold, a trace;
silver, 0-16 ounce a ton; platinum, none; nickel, none; copper, 0-08 per
cent.

In summary it might be said that several small lenses of galena and
sphalerite occur on the property, but that the pyrrhotite and pyrite deposits
are too low in gold and silver to be of economic importance.

Hughie Group (41)
References: Ann. Repts,, Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1925, p. 130; 1927, p. 129; 1928, p.
150; 1929, p. 153.
The claims are on the west slope of Seven Sisters mountain about 3
miles by trail south of Cedarvale. The workings are a short distance from
the Seven Sisters pack-horse trail.