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Open-cuts in the southern corner of the Proserpine East claim disclose
two quartz veins 15 and 2 feet wide striking north 65 degrees east and
north 80 degrees east respectively. Each vein has been traced for 60 feet.
No vein was seen in the open-cuts on the Penelope claim.

PROSERPINE SYNDICATE

The Proserpine Syndicate holds a group of claims between the
Penelope claim and Grouse creek. Shafts, short adits, and open-cuts were
opened many years ago, and the present holders have continued surface
exploration and have extended some of the adits and driven others.

The claims are underlain by the Rainbow member and by the lower
part of the Baker and the upper part of the Lowhee members.

Workings are clustered along the northeast side of the Warspite claim
and consist of the Warspite adit 440 feet long, the Warspite and another
shaft, and a number of trenches. The adit cuts a bed vein and a few
narrow transverse veins. A shaft 34 feet deep follows a vein 1 foot wide
down to the adit. This vein is of the transverse type and is well mineralized
with pyrite. At the time of the writer’s visit the adit had penetrated a
light-coloured rock full of irregular quartz veinlets. The rock is too much
altered for identification but is believed to be a quartz porphyry. The
Warspite shaft is on a quartz vein approximately parallel to the strata.
Where seen it was 1 to 4 feet wide and well mineralized with pyrite, and is
reported to be much wider in some places. In open-cuts nearby are quartz
veinlets, striking north 15 to 35 degrees east, mineralized with pyrite and
galena.

Surface workings extend from the eastern corner of the Warspite
claim eastward into the Blighty claim and southeastward along the north-
east side of the Tipperary claim. There is a diagonal vein 1 to 2 feet wide
striking north 75 degrees east in the eastern corner of the Warspite claim
and nearby in the Blighty claim is a 3-foot vertical vein striking south
40 degrees east with a 2-foot branch vein striking north 30 degrees east.
The open-cuts on the Tipperary claim expose one vein 2 feet wide striking
south 30 degrees east and a dozen or more veins of the transverse type
striking north 15 to 35 degrees east, one or two of which are 1 foot wide.

The cuts extend southeast through the Kitchener claim and expose
one bed vein and at least six veins striking north 60 to 85 degrees east and
dipping steeply south. These veins vary trom 8 inches to 2 feet in width.
One trench near the southeast boundary of the claim exposes a small
body of quartz-porphyry.

_ The workings extend southeast through the adjoining Independence
claim. At the boundary between the Kitchener and Independence claims
a bed vein and a diagonal vein are exposed, both about 6 feet wide and
well mineralized, locally at least, with pyrite. The bed vein also con-
tains considerable siderite. A few hundred feet northeast on the same
boundary two shafts supplement the open-cuts and expose several veins,
mainly of the bed vein type. The Bell adit, 700 feet long, has been-driven
southwest under the shafts and also under the bed and diagonal vein

: , adit is pre-
sumably the same bed vein that is exposed on the surface. Under the