It is evident that both the north-north-easterly and the east-north-easterly trending
veins on Burns Mountain may be gold-bearing. Moreover, sections of some veins
appear to have been high grade. Unquestionably, some gold has in the past been
recovered from favourable sections of the veins where they were well mineralized.
The key to the successful development of the present showings and to the planning of
further exploratory work lies in determining the reasons for the localization of better
mineralization; these at present are not evident.

[References: Geol. Surv., Canada, Ann. Rept., Vol. III, Pt. C, 1889, p. 38; Geol.
Surv., Canada, Map 365, Lightning Creek, 1895; Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 149, 1926,
p. 209; Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 181, 1935, p. 34; Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann.
Rept., 1914, p. 66; Minister of Mines, B.C., Bull. No. 1, 1932, pp. 68, 64. |

The Standard Location (Lot 62), the Lucky Cap (Lot 63), and the
Standard Side Location (Lot 64), Mineral Claims, Crown-granted in 1885, are
Location, owned by the estate of the late C. J. Seymour Baker, care of Carew
Lucky Cap, Martin, K.C., Central Building, Victoria. The claims are on the sum-
and Side mit of Burns Mountain at about 5,500 feet elevation and may be
Loeation (30). reached by about 1 mile of trail from the end of the road at the camp
by the Perkins veins. The wide quartz veins outcropping in openly
wooded ground near the summit of Burns Mountain evidently were found at much the
same time as the Perkins veins. By 1883 the Burns Mountain Quartz Mining Com-
pany had acquired the claims and work had begun on driving a crosscut to intersect
the downward extension of the veins at a depth of about 170 feet beneath the outcrop.
The last mention of work by that company was in 1887. Since then there is no record
of further underground work having been done.

The rocks on the claims are mainly light- to medium-grey quartzites, some of which
are interbedded with thin layers of soft, dark argillaceous schist, all having a general
strike of north to north 10 degrees east and with dips of 15 to 25 degrees east. A con-
siderable amount of drag-folding of fairly small amplitude is indicated by attitudes
differing from the regional trend of the formation.

Surface cuts (see Fig. 4) have partly explored at least three quartz veins striking
from north 30 to 35 degrees east and dipping about 75 degrees to the north-west.

The middle vein, exposed in two open-cuts and a 58-foot shaft, has a total length of
140 feet. It ranges in width from 3% to 5 feet for a length of 80 feet and narrows at
its southern end. On it, at elevation approximately 5,535 feet, a shaft was sunk by the
Burns Mountain Quartz Mining Company to a depth of 58 feet. The shaft is caved and
filled with water. It is reported by Bowman (1889, p. 38) that “At their principal
shaft the Burns Mountain Co. has sunk on a ledge 5 feet wide at the surface to a depth
of about 50 feet. In the last half of that distance the ledge suffered a break, the quartz
diminished to 244 feet, pinched out, came in again in considerable force, but its further
continuity has not been determined. Selvage lines and gangue with broken rock filled
the place of the vein where broken.” The vein-quartz, according to Bowman, was
mineralized with pyrite, galena, and some visible gold. Only pyrite mineralization was
seen in material from the shaft-dump and other pits; no visible gold was seen. One
sample (149F), from the dump, of selected quartz containing about 15 per cent. pyrite
assayed: Gold, trace; silver, nil. Another sample (150F), from the open-cut north of
the shaft, of selected quartz containing about 10 per cent. pyrite assayed: Gold, trace;
silver, trace.

About 50 feet to the west of the shaft-vein, open-cuts, quartz outcrops, and quartz
float indicate the presence of a parallel vein having a maximum width of 8 feet. A vein
exposed for 165 feet is separated along strike from a 50-foot length of vein by 1290 feet
where no quartz is exposed. Whether it is a single vein with an exposed length of 340
feet or two shorter separate veins is not known. The quartz is only sparingly mineral-
ized with pyrite.

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