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the two more southerly dykes is sheared in a direction parallel to the strike
of the dykes and is cut by small, milky white quartz stringers which lie
along the planes of shearing. a

On the contact between the main diorite body and the granodiorite, a
prospect shaft was sunk in 1922 on an oxidized seam which increased to a
foot of quartz at a depth of 20 feet. This shaft, 50 feet from the water’s
edge, is now water filled and cannot be inspected. Several tons of pyritized
quartz are on the dump.

About 50 feet east of the diorite-granodiorite contact, Kalum Lake
Mines, Limited, in 1924 and 1925, sank a shaft inclined towards the con-
tact. The shaft is reported to have been sunk 60 feet and a drift run
westerly on a vein for 210 feet. This shaft is now water filled. According to
G. A. Clothier (1925) the vein consists of a foot or more of quartz con-
sistently mineralized with pyrite and a little chalcopyrite. A sample of
selected sulphide collected by J. T. Mandy in 1930 from the dump near the
shaft house assayed: gold, 0-62 ounce to the ton; silver, 2:2 ounces to the
ton. On the main rock dump, altered granodiorite cut by quartz stringers
is abundant.

Three hundred feet southeast of the shaft, an adit has been driven for
85 feet along a quartz vein in granodiorite. The vein above the adit entrance
consists of quartz and strikes north 75 degrees east and dips 65 degrees
south. Forty feet within the adit the vein narrows to 6 inches and a second
parallel vein 4 inches wide comes in along the north wall. At this place
a 10-inch lamprophyre dyke cuts across the veins. Both veins occur along
slickensided fault fissures of small displacement. The lamprophyre dyke
is later than the faulting and vein formation. At the southwest end of the
- adit the veins have pinched to mere stringers separated by 2 feet of
altered granodiorite. Two channel samples, each 17 inches long, were taken
across the face. One assayed 0-01 ounce of gold a ton with a trace of
silver, and the other showed only a trace of silver and no gold. A sample of
quartz from the north side of the adit, 50 feet from the entrance, assayed:
gold, 0-01 ounce a ton, and silver, 0-15 ounce a ton.

North and west from the shaft the country rock is slate and quartzite,
but it is about 600 feet to the nearest outcrop along the lake, the inter-
vening area being heavily covered with gravel. The contact of the sedi-
ments with the intrusive rocks is believed to lie only a short distance north-
west of the shaft, probably less than 100 feet.

Bear Claim

(See Figure 5)

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1920, p. 41; 1921, p. 43;
1923, p. 47; 1924, p. 47; 1925, p. 68; 1926, p. 72; 1927, p. 63; 1928, p. 72;
1930, p. 74.

The Bear claim, owned by Matt Allard of Terrace, is situated on the
west slope of Maroon mountain about 5 miles due east of the north end
of Kitsumgallum lake. An excellent trail about 6 miles in length leaves
the lake about 1 mile south of Rosswood at Olanders ranch, and leads