Mineral Resources, Hazelton and Smithers Areas,
Cassiar and Coast Districts, British Columbia

INTRODUCTION
GENERAL STATEMENT

This report deals with mineral deposits examined during the 1937
and 1938 field seasons in the vicinity of Hazelton and Smithers. All the
known mineral properties near Hazelton and those on the north half and
southwest slope of Hudson Bay Mountain at Smithers are described.
Certain mineral prospects near Smithers, most of them on the southeast
slope of Hudson Bay Mountain, were not examined because of lack of
time and are not described here. The names of these prospects are as
follows: Vancouver group, Cascade group, Yukon group, Jessie group,
Heather group, Empire group, Dorothy group, Lonesome Star group,
Snowshoe group, Zobnic group, Zeolotic group, Pine Ridge group, Smithers
group, Canadian Citizen group, Neepawa group, Trixie group, and Pat-
riotic group. A number of mineral deposits in Driftwood Creek area, in
Babine Mountains, 15 miles east of Smithers, also were not examined, and
the coal and mineral occurrences in Telkwa River area, 10 miles south of
Smithers, were not visited.

Hazelton, the most northerly point on the Prince Rupert line of the
Canadian National Railway, is 177 miles by rail northeast of Prince
Rupert. Smithers lies 38 miles southeast of Hazelton, but the distance
by railway or highway is 48 miles. Smithers, with a population of about
one thousand persons, is the largest town along the railway between Prince
Rupert and Prince George. It is the shopping centre of a farming com-
munity, and all articles of commerce may be purchased there. Railway
repair shops are located at Smithers, and a substation of the Dominion
Experimental Farm was established 5 miles south of it in 1938. Hazelton,
though much smaller, is also an active trading centre and much business
is done. Smithers and Hazelton are served by a good road, which runs
east to connect with the Caribou-Vancouver highway at Prince George.
The road is being extended southwest from Hazelton to reach Terrace.
Hazelton is off of the main air routes, but its small, serviceable landing
field is frequently used.

The district is noted for the variety of its mineral deposits, which
contain gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, antimony, bismuth, cobalt, tung-
sten, molybdenum, and coal. Gold-copper ore was first discovered in 1899
on Telkwa River. In 1901 coal leases were staked there and in the vicinity
of Kispiox, north of Hazelton. Silver-lead-zinc ore was discovered on
Hudson Bay Mountain in 1905, and in 1908 similar ore containing anti-
mony was found on Nine Mile Mountain at Hazelton. During the next

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