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 2