exposed in shallow trenches for possibly 230 feet. The vein does not show any pyrite
mineralization and presumably was not explored from the shaft.

These three are the Perkins veins. They strike north to north 15 degrees east and
dip steeply, apparently about 70 degrees, westward and cut grey, brown, and black
laminated quartzite and argillaceous schist, striking about north 10 degrees west and
dipping 25 to 40 degrees east.

About 175 feet to the west of the Perkins veins and just north of the old arrastre
tailings a 12- to 16-inch unmineralized quartz vein, exposed in a small open-cut, strikes
about north 60 degrees east and apparently dips vertically.

In 1880 or 1881 the Reid adit was started at elevation 5,062 feet on the Perkins
Creek side of the ridge and driven south 72 degrees east to crosscut the Perkins veins
at a depth of about 75 feet beneath their outcrop. The adit cuts across thinly inter-
bedded argillaceous schist and grey quartzite striking about north 35 degrees west and
dipping 25 to 40 degrees to the north-east. At 73 feet from the portal the adit crosses
a fault-zone composed of gouge and several feet of broken rock. Apart from several
formational quartz stringers, the adit crosses three 2- to 6-inch quartz veins striking
about north and dipping 75 degrees west, from one of which an assay of gold 0.03 oz.
per ton was obtained. At 337 feet from the portal the adit crosses a 10- to 14-inch
quartz vein striking north 25 degrees east and dipping 62 degrees to the north-west.
The vein is poorly mineralized with pyrite, of which a selected sample of clean pyrite
assayed 0.41 oz. gold per ton. The vein was drifted for 20 feet to the north, and in
the face shows 10 inches of almost barren quartz. The crosscut continues for 100

feet beyond the vein, partly old work and partly work done by Burns Mountain Gold.

Quartz Mining Company, Limited, in 1933. No other veins were crossed.

The section on Fig. 2 shows that all the three Perkins veins on the surface do not
persist to the Reid adit level and indicates that the one wide vein in the Reid adit may
be the central Perkins vein on the surface.

A selected sample (99F) of pyrite from the dump of the Reid adit, which assayed
gold, 1.06 oz. per ton, and silver, nil, indicates that the pyrite may carry substantial
gold values.

Assays of samples from the old arrastre tailings are listed in Table VII, Nos. 66F
to 69F, and of samples of rocker tailings near Perkins’ cabin in Table VII, Nos. 63F
to 65F.

The main underground work, started in 1933, by the Burns Mountain Gold Quartz
Mining Company, Limited, was the driving of a long crosscut to intersect the down-
ward projection of the Perkins vein-zone at a depth of about 275 feet below the outcrop.

The portal of the long crosscut is at an elevation of 4,844 feet on the south slope
of Burns Mountain. The crosscut was driven north 33 degrees west for 1,748 feet
then north 76 degrees west for an additional 420 feet. The air in the crosscut is
deficient in oxygen inward from a point about 700 feet from the portal, consequently
the workings were not examined beyond that point. The crosscut is located on Fig. 2
from surveys made in June, 19387, by M. H. Ramsay, B.C.L.S. It is reported that a
40-foot shear-zone was crossed at a point 110 feet east of the bend in the crosscut and
that a vein striking north 17 degrees east and dipping 72 degrees westward was crossed
259 feet east of the bend. This vein was drifted for 127 feet to the north. At a point
347 feet past the bend a.2-foot quartz vein was crossed. The rocks near the portal of
the crosscut are silvery-grey argillaceous schists and grey quartzite striking about
north 20 degrees west and dipping about 15 degrees east.

The section on Fig. 2 suggests that the vein drifted on in the Burns Mountain
long crosscut is more apt to be a separate parallel vein rather than the main Perkins
vein that has persisted down to that depth. The two crosscuts run directly beneath
the richest part of the surface showings and crosscut a considerable width at two suc-
cessive levels below the surface. If, however, the rich section of vein on the surface

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