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A large pit 10 feet square and 10 feet deep has been sunk on the south
side of the gabbro sill near the water’s edge. Seventy feet east of the pit
an adit has been driven north for 33 feet along two small fractures in the
gabbro sill. Very little movement has taken place along these fractures
and there is no vein filling, but the wall-rock is slightly altered, carries
epidote, and is mineralized with a few splashes of chalcocite and bornite.

About 350 feet south from the gabbro sill, an adit has been driven for
50 feet east-northeast along a shear zone in grey, micaceous quartzite. The
shear zone is 30 inches wide, strikes north 70 degrees east, and dips 30
degrees northwest, and is parallel to the bedding of the enclosing sediments.
In a number of places the shear zone contains epidote and bornite. A
number of specimens on the dump are well mineralized with bornite and
are stained green with a coating of malachite. Free gold is reported to
have been found in specimens of this description in the early days. A
representative grab sample of this ore tested by the Mines Branch at
Ottawa assayed 0-34 ounce of silver and 0-24 ounce of gold a ton.
Samples submitted by Joe Felber to J. T. Mandy in 1931 assayed 0-24
ounce of gold with 0-6 ounce of silver.

An open, mud-filled fissure 4 inches wide, striking north 75 degrees
east and dipping 65 degrees north, cuts across the sheared zone at the face
in the adit but does not displace it. Surface waters working down along
this crevice have leached the metallic minerals from the shear zone in its
vicinity.

Portland Claims
(See Figure 4)

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1922, p. 47; 1923, p. 47;
1924, p. 48; 1925, p. 69; 1927, p. 63; 1930, p. 74. Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum.
Rept. 1923, pt. A, p. 42.

During 1924 and 1925, Kalum Lake Mines, Limited, carried out devel-
opment work on the Portland claims which lie on the west side of Kitsum-
gallum lake near its lower end. The claims were first staked in 1921 by
C. A. Smith of Terrace. Nothing has been done in recent years.

The vein showings occur in a prominent outcrop of granodiorite that
rises some 75 feet above Kitsumgallum lake. Along the north end of the
outcrop, near the water’s edge, the intrusive contact of the granodiorite
with impure quartzite is exposed for 80 feet. Both rocks are silicified and
impregnated with pyrite along their contact in a zone 1 to 2 fect wide that
has been oxidized on the surface.

On the west and southwest, the granodiorite and quartzite are intruded
by a partly exposed body of altered diorite. Three parallel dykes of the
diorite extend from the diorite mass with a strike south 25 degrees east
across the granodiorite outcrop to the water’s edge. The southernmost
dyke is 14 feet wide and the other two are each about 6 feet wide. The
diorite is medium- to fine-grained with a granular texture. It is dull grey
and is characterized by conspicuous, pink-rimmed, oval-shaped calcite
phenocrysts. The granodiorite between, and for 10 feet on either side of,

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