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drift. It is a dense, finely crystalline rock with a light greenish yellow to
white colour, and it varies in width from 18 feet to 24 feet. In its widest
parts it contains small quartz phenocrysts, giving it somewhat the appear-
ance of a quartz porphyry.

The mineral deposits consist of quartz veins, most of which occur at
intervals along the contacts of the quartz albite dyke and some of which lie
in quartz diorite a few feet away from but parallel to the dyke. The strike
of the dyke varies from north 70 degrees east to north 80 degrees east and
the dip is north from 70 degrees to 75 degrees. The strike and dip of the
quartz veins conform to the strike and dip of the quartz albite dyke. The
veins range from 1 to 6 feet in width and average about 24 feet. Their
lengths are between 100 and 600 feet with intervening zones where no vein
material is present. The dyke outcrops at frequent intervals for over
6,000 feet. The most westerly exposure is at an elevation of €00 feet and
the most easterly is above an elevation of 1,800 feet. Trenching has dis-
closed the presence of quartz lenses along the west part of the dyke for a
horizontal length of 2,300 feet and a vertical range of 600 feet. It is
probable that trenching would reveal other veins along the northeast part
of the dyke.

At an elevation of 475 feet an adit has been driven for 45 feet along a
vein cutting dark green, altered, quartz diorite. The dyke is believed to lie
only a short distance north of the vein, but overburden covers all rock
outcrops. The vein varies from 1 to 3 feet in width and consists of fractured
quartz mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and argentite. A
channel sample taken by the writer across 15 inches at the face of the drift
assayed 0-38 ounce of gold, and 10-54 ounces of silver a ton.

On climbing the hill, the first outcrop of the quartz albite dyke is seen
at an elevation of 600 feet, about 400 feet east of the lower adit, and here
two veins are associated with the dyke. A sample taken in 1927 by
Douglas Lay, across a width of 4 feet on the more northerly of the two
veins, assayed as follows: gold, 0:12 ounce to the ton; silver, 2 ounces to
the ton; lead, nil; zinc, 1 per cent. About 150 feet southeast of this point,
two open-cuts have exposed a second quartz albite dyke which is apparently
a branch from the main dyke. The lower open-cut shows a quartz vein, 4
feet in thickness, lying on the northwest side of the dyke, the second open-
cut situated about 100 feet northeast along the strike of the dyke shows
a quartz vein 2 feet in thickness on the southeast side of the quartz albite
dyke. Both veins are sparsely mineralized with pyrite. The actual width
of this smaller dyke is not apparent, but judging by its finely crystalline
character it cannot be over 10 or 12 feet.

The main quartz albite dyke with its associated veins is hest exposed
at an elevation of 900 feet, about 1,400 feet east of the lower adit, where a
shaft was sunk to a depth of 40 feet on a vein on the northwest side of the
dyke. The quartz carries considerable pyrite and has a somewhat ribboned
structure caused by slight shearing. Three channel samples were taken
by the writer across a 76-inch vein section on the west side of the shaft.
The lengths over which each sample was taken and their corresponding
assay values are as follows: 17 inches—0-015 ounce gold and 0-21 ounce
silver: 22 inches—O-06 ounce gold and 0:26 ounce silver; 27 inches—0-07