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vein 10 inches wide comes in near the face. An assay from a 10-inch
channel sample taken across the vein at the face gave: gold, a trace;
silver, a trace.

The No. 2 adit, driven 95 feet along the second fault, is 250 feet
farther south at elevation 645 feet. There are a number of short quartz
lenses along it, ranging from 2 to 6 inches in width. A channel sample
taken across a 5-inch quartz vein at the face assayed: gold, 0-08 ounce a
ton; silver, 0-14 ounce a ton.

No. 3 adit, at elevation 700 feet and about 250 feet farther south, was
driven 40 feet along the third fault. The vein along the fault is fairly per-
sistent in the adit and ranges from 2 to 18 inches in width. About 20
feet from the portal the vein contains abundant coarse pyrite for a number
of feet. A 16-inch channel sample taken here on the south wall assayed:
gold, 0-36 ounce a ton; silver, 2-28 ounces a ton. At the face, where the
vein quartz contained no pyrite, a 16-inch channel sample across it assayed:
gold, a trace; silver, a trace.

No. 4 adit was driven 110 feet along the same fault at 90 feet higher
elevation. For 60 feet a quartz vein filling along the fault averages about
6 inches in width, but farther from the portal the fault is barren. Twenty
feet from the portal the vein is 4 inches wide and carries about 2 per cent
of chalcopyrite. Nearer the portal a 12-inch lens on the opposite wall
contains coarse pyrite. A 4-inch channel sample of the vein quartz con-
taining the chalcopyrite assayed: gold, 0-18 ounce a ton; silver, 2-25
ounces a ton; copper, 0:76 per cent.

A 6-inch quartz vein containing a little coarse pyrite is exposed in an
open-cut at elevation 890 feet. It also strikes southeast and dips 45
degrees northeast, and evidently occurs along the same fault as the vein
in No. 4 adit.

Montana Group (5)

- References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1914, p. 121; 1917, p. 96. Geol.
Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1925, pt. A, p. 114.

The Montana claims are about 2 miles south of Kleanza lake on the
Zymoetz River side of the divide near the head of Salmon creek. The
location is about 17 miles southeast of Usk or 21 miles due east of Terrace.
The trail that follows the south fork of Kleanza creek to the pass at eleva-
tion 4,200 feet leads westerly on the south side of the pass beyond the Wells
group to the Montana claims. Another trail, which branches off from the
Zymoetz River trail at Salmon creek, also leads to the workings. The
claims have been open for a number of years.

At the top of a long talus slide between elevations of 4,800 and 5,000
feet, a quartz vein 6 to 36 inches in width is exposed for a length of 250
feet in andesitic voleanic rocks. It occurs along a fault fissure striking a
little north of west and dipping steeply southwest. At the lower end the
vein splits and three small quartz calcite veins occur about 6 feet apart,
roughly parallel to the main vein. Below an elevation of 4,800 feet these
veins are covered by the talus slide. The main vein carries about 2 per
cent of chalcocite and bornite. A 28-inch channel sample taken across the
vein in a cut near its upper end assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0-58 ounce
a ton; copper 1-18 per cent.