Claim 4 straddles Roddacker Creek and claims 1, 2, 3, 5,

and 6 adjoin 4 to the north. The main fault of the Pinchi fault zone
strikes approximately north 25 degrees west across claims 1 and 4 and lies
ebout 200 feet west or claims 2, 3, 5, and G. Permian limestone occurs
waee of this fault and Upper Triassic sedimentary rocks on the sast.

fmother fault, 800 feet east of the main fault, was observed on claim 5,
Tt strikes approximately north 15 Gegrees wast. Cinnabar is reported to
occur in the brecciated zone along the fault. Specks of cinnebar were
also observed in quartz stringers cutting Upper Triassic argillite, sand-
stone, and tuff just north of Roddacker Crvek on cleim 1, ‘Stripping,
trenching, and diamond drilling during the summer of 1941 failea to reveal

cinnabar in commercial quantities et this locality.

KWANIKA GROUP

fhe Kwanika group of claims’ is on Kwanika Creek and may be
reached by a trail about 3 miles long from Tsayta Lake. Tsayta Lake is
55 miles by water plus 76 ae by road, or 90 miles by air, from Fort
St. James. The claims were staked by the Roddacker brothers in the
summer of 194] and were ae to the Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Company in the autumn of tho same year.

A belt of northerly trending Pormian limestone crosses

Kwenika Creek at a sharp bend about 2 miles above its mouth and’ upstream
diverges to the west of the stream. Thinly bedded, Upper Triassic grey~
wacko, argillite, and tuff are cxposed alleys Kwanika Creck above the bend.
Tongues of the grenodiorite-diorite batholith lying east of hwanika Crock
cut the Upper Triassic and Permian rocks exposed along the creek, The
‘Pinchi fault zone crosses Miwanike Creek at the bend. The limestone in the
‘fault zone crosses Kwanika Creck at the bend. The limestone in the fault
zone has been altered to a buff-coloured, dolomitia l4mestone. North of
the bend the fault zone iis covered by at least 25 feet of drift, but
probably forms the contact between ine Permian rocks on’the west and the
Upper Triassic rocks on thy caste

The main cinnabar showing is on the creck approximately 42
miles from its mouth. Thée'cinnebar occurs in a dolomite stringer + inch
wide in Upper Triassic argillite. The stringer is about an inch from the
contact of a narrow granodiorite sill. ‘the argillite and sill strike north
5 degrees west and cip nearly vertically.” Mie “éitndbdrsbedr ing stringer is

xposed for 6 feet on the west bank of thé éf6e Ke ‘Apptorimately 2 = mile
Hiense upstream dolomite stringés + indh wide, Gontaining rea lear,
native arsenic, and pyrite, oceur in Upper Triase sic greywacke and ergillite,
One-quarter mile above this showitig dvother “déloniti ¢ stringer éontains
specks-of cinnabar. Arquerite, dirrdbdar, arid ietive gold are (obtained on
panning the gravels of Kwanika Créék. AOC ea RUG a ;

_fhe. Upper Triassic rocks at these.various localities are —
apparen tly too compact to contain cinnabar except along fracture planes,
If larger concentrations of cinnabar are to ba found in this area they
would most likely occur west of Kwanike Creek along the Pinchi fault zono,
especially in the Permian limestone. i

TCHENTLO GROUP

This property is located along the west side of the north
arm of Tchentlo Lake. It is 65 miles Dye water plus 75 miles by road, or
70 miles by air, from Fort St. James. The claims were staked in the
summer of 1940 for the Consdlidated ee and Smelting Company.

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