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Bellevue Group (Locality 172)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1916, 1920,
1921, and 1930; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1922, pt. A.

The Bellevue group of five mineral claims is on Illiance river about
13 miles from the head of Alice arm. Access is furnished by a pack trail
from Alice Arm and from Silver City. The elevation of the property is
about 2,500 feet above sea-level.

The group was taken under option by the Alice Arm Consolidated
Holdings Company, Limited, in 1920. This company did some surface work
outlining surface exposures and then drove crosscut adits, totalling several
hundred feet in length, to intersect the deposits at a depth of 100 feet. The
results were disappointing and the property has laid idle for many years.
The claims are in Illiance River valley and as the showings are not far
from the bottom of the valley, development at depth is possible only by
means of shafts. The country rocks are bedded tuffs and breccias and
associated tuffaceous sediments. The rocks have been severely sheared in
a northerly direction and the shear planes dip west at moderate angles.
The mineral deposits parallel the strike of the shear planes and appear to
conform also with the shear plane dip. The rocks have been whitened
apparently by the mineral solutions so that all of the country rock is white
or very light in colour.

The mineral deposits are of the silver-lead type and appear to be lens-
like veins 3 feet or less in width containing quartz and country rock as
gangue matter. In some places mineralization extends over a width of 20
feet but only a few feet of this could be classed as ore-body. The chief
mineral is galena, but some pyrite, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite occur.

Mineral deposits although not individually of great length occur at
intervals from one end of the property to the other, a distance of almost a
mile. There is no reason to suppose that all the deposits have been dis-

covered.
Beverley Group (Locality 187)
References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1923 and 1931.

The Beverley group of five mineral claims is east of the head of Alice
arm and 750 feet above sea-level. The mineral showings on the property
are white quartz veins, each several feet wide with very little sulphide.
They cut argillaceous quartzite and greywacke. The showings are developed
by adits.

Billy Barton Group (Locality 185)
Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1929.

The Billy Barton group of six mineral claims is on the easterly slope
of mount Alice and 1,600 feet above sea-level. Two or more narrow quartz
veins sparsely mineralized with pyrite, galena, and sphalerite cut argillite.