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way station and heads in and flows for some miles through a narrow valley
trending southeast. The ore outcrops are situated on the west side of
the valley, 8 or 9 miles northeast of the railway.

At Barnstead’s mill between Jaffray and Galloway station, a wagon
road leaves the highway paralleling the railway and follows up Sand creek
to a lumber camp. From there a trail continues up the valley and about

% miles beyond the lumber camp passes through a small opening in which
stands a deserted cabin. The ore occurrences lie on the lower slopes of
the west side of the valley at this point and may be reached by a short
4 trail which commences opposite the cabin but is partly obliterated as the
result of lumbering operations.

HISTORY

The property was located some years ago when several short tunnels

On were driven and a few open-cuts made. One or two shallow diamond-

| drillholes were also sunk on behalf of Dr. Ings of Calgary. More recently

the property was relocated and sixteen claims were staked for Messrs. R. E.

Beattie, E. Patterson, C. R. Ward, and other residents of Cranbrook,
B.C. Since then a number of shallow trenches have been dug.

The following list contains the titles of such published statements as
have been noted and that make more than a passing reference to the ore
occurrences.

Lindeman, E., and Bolton, L. L.: “Iron Ore Occurrences in Canada,’’ vols. 1 and 2; Mines
Branch, Dept. of Mines, vol. 2, p.26 (1917). A very brief description based on information
supplied by owner or locater of the propert:

Langley, A. G.: “Eastern District (No. 5)’’; 3 nn. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1919, pp.
115-117. A general account of the ore occurrence.

GENERAL GEOLOGY

In the immediate vicinity of the ore occurrences rock outcrops are
| scarce. On the southeast side of Sand Creek valley, the high, bare mount-
ain ridges are of Palsozoic limestones, whereas on the opposite northwest
side, the ridges and higher slopes are largely of dark slates and fine-grained
quartzites of, presumably, Precambrian age. The strata on the western
| | side have a general westerly dip, the Palsozoic measures on the eastern
side plainly lie in open folds trending northwest-southeast. Possibly the
contact between the two groups of strata is a fault or series of faults striking
along the intervening valley.

The iron ore occurs in pale grey, nearly white, quartzites in part very
fine-grained, in part somewhat coarser, so that the component round
quartz grains are plainly visible. These measures apparently are under-
lain by reddish shales and calcareous beds with interbeds of grey quartzite.
The whole assemblage may be several hundred or more feet thick and
seemingly is underlain and overlain by black slates and dense quartzites.
The strata dip to the southwest at angles varying, for the most part, bet-
ween 50 degrees and 10 degrees and are traversed by faults paralleling
the strike of the strata.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ORE OCCURRENCES

The iron ore is a hematite and is visible at three localities, whose
positions relative to one another and to Sand ereek are shown in Figure
26. The most northerly locality (locality “A’’, Figure 26) lies on a
wooded slope at an elevation of about 600 feet above Sand creek and 500