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A fault lies along the north side of the granodiorite stock at its contact
with volcanic rocks, which outcrop on the north side of the pass. The fault
strikes east and dips 70 degrees south. It is best exposed in an open-cut
at elevation 5,000 feet, where there is 8 feet of sheared, rusted, altered
rock. Elswhere the fault is concealed by drift.

Josie Claim (47)

The Josie claim is on the east shoulder of a cirque immediately east
of the Van Anda claim of the Silver Creek group. A trail leads up to
the workings from the lowest crosscut adit on the Silver Creek group.

At elevation 5,300 feet two parallel sulphide veins in andesite are
prospected by an open-cut and a 6-foot adit. The veins are 20 inches
apart and range from 1 to 8 inches in width. They are composed of
sphalerite, pyrrhotite, and pyrite. The veins strike north 70 degrees east
and dip 57 degrees southeast. They are covered by talus 10 feet west of
the open-cut and pinch out 20 feet east of the cut.

Another sulphide vein outcrops 50 feet higher up the slope in similar
andesitic rock. This vein is 50 feet long and averages 6 inches in width,
but at the open-cut midway along its outcrop narrow mineralized fissures
extend over a maximum width of 3 feet. The vein strikes north 40 degrees
east and dips 65 degrees southeast. It consists largely of dark, solid
sphalerite with minor pyrrhotite and pyrite.

Matuss Claim (48)

This property, owned by Joe Matuss, of Driftwood, is about 8 miles
due northwest of Smithers, on the west side near the foot of the Toboggan
Creek glacier. A trail half a mile long leads southeast to the claim from
Schufer Lake on the tractor road to the Silver Creek group.

At elevation 4,600 feet an adit has been driven 90 feet along a quartz-
arsenopyrite vein that lies in a shear zone in massive andesites. The
shear zone is exposed for 500 feet up a 35-degree slope and contains vein
filling for most of this distance. The vein strikes southwest and dips from
50 to 70 degrees southeast. About 425 feet north of the adit the volcanic
rocks are in sharp contact with shales, argillites, and greywacke. The
voleanic rocks are hard, tough, and resistant, whereas the sediments are
soft, characteristically rust-stained, and form small slabs as a result of
weathering. The upper surface of the andesite beneath the sediments is
smooth, but is irregular with depressions up to a foot in depth and anywhere
from 5 to 25 feet in diameter. These are filled by fine argillite, which
grades up into coarse greywacke composed largely of rounded grains of
andesite. The greywacke is succeeded by dark slate. At the contact these
formations strike west and dip 70 degrees north. Both the volcanic and
sedimentary rocks are intruded by light-coloured quartz-albite porphyry
dykes, most of which range from 4 to 10 feet in width and from 500 to
1,000 feet in length. One of these dykes, 7 feet in width, intersects the
vein 15 feet from the portal of the adit. The dyke is clearly later than
the fissuring.