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from the roof of the adit, 10 feet from the portal, assayed: gold, 0-015
ounce a ton; silver, 6-58 ounces a ton; lead, 4:41 per cent; zinc, 1-66
per cent. A 6-inch channel sample taken across the vein on the face of
the adit assayed: gold, 0-06 ounce a ton; silver, 17-69 ounces a ton; lead,
1-10 per cent; zinc, 2-66 per cent.

Above the adit the vein is exposed for 180 feet up a 47-degree slope.
Along this section it has an average width of 6 or 8 inches and is well
mineralized. At elevation 3,085 feet, in a 14-foot adit, the vein is 4 inches
wide and contains abundant sulphides. A 4-inch channel sample taken
across the vein in the roof of the adit, 3 feet from the portal, assayed:
gold, 0-14 ounce a ton; silver, 18-14 ounces a ton; lead, 9:55 per cent;
zine, 9:54 per cent.

In an open-cut at elevation 3,235 feet the vein consists of 6 inches of
sheared and silicified andesite replaced by and cut by stringers of pyrite,
arsenopyrite, galena, tetrahedrite, and sphalerite. A 6-inch channel
sample taken across the vein in this cut assayed: gold, 0:05 ounce a ton;
silver, 28-75 ounces a ton; lead, 2-39 per cent; zinc, 1-26 per cent.

In the topmost cut at elevation 3,285 feet the vein is enclosed in
volcanic tuffs and consists of 5 inches of sheared and altered rock replaced
by about 10 per cent of pyrite.

Victory Group (53)

References: Ann, Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1908, p. 64; 1911, p. 116; 1914, p.
216; 1917, p. 113; 1918, p. 118; 1919, p. 102; 1922, p. 111; 1923, p. 109; 1925,
p. 186; 1927, p. 186; 1928, p. 161; 1930, p. 240. Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum.
Repts.: 1908, p. 44; 1925, pt. A, p. 184. B.C. Dept. of Mines, Bull. No. 1,
1932, p. 53.

The Victory, Triumph, and Standard claims, owned by Mrs. D. C.
Simpson of Smithers, are on the southwest slope of Hudson Bay Mountain,
8 miles due west or 18 miles west by good motor road from Smithers.

The claims were staked by D. C. Simpson about 1906 and development
work was carried out each year until 1918, when a carload of silver-lead-
zine ore was shipped to the smelter. In 1919 the Skeena Mining and
Milling Company was organized to develop both the Victory and Coronado
groups. The company commenced work on the latter property, but
operations were soon suspended. In 1927 and 1928 the John J. O’Brien
Company did considerable underground work, but later dropped their
option. During 1938 a small shipment of hand-sorted silver-lead ore was
sent to Prince Rupert.

Rhyolitic and andesitic flows and flow breccias, tuffs, and breccias out-
crop in the vicinity of the workings and form the wall-rocks of the mineral
deposits, which are sulphide replacements and fissure fillings along sheared
zones and faults. The sulphides present, in order of abundance, are as
follows, arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, and chalcopyrite.
The sheared wall-rock adjacent the deposits is bleached to a light yellow
colour and is silicified. Fault striz commonly plunge 25 to 30 degrees south-
west. In the vicinity of the camp buildings and elsewhere below an ele-
vation of 3,750 feet, the volcanic rocks are concealed by a shallow covering

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