Whitesail Lake Map-Area

Garner No. 1 and Marie (14)

References: Geol. Sury., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1924, pt Ay ppso43.55 11925) 2 Be
Minister of Mines, Ann. Rept. 1935, p. A24.

The well-graded trail up Chikamin Mountain from the deep bay in
Whitesail Lake leads to a cabin just at timber-line, 1,750 feet above the lake.
From there a trail leads to the old Nickel Plate or Ruby adit on the Garner
claim 900 feet above the cabin. The adit, 118 feet long, was driven on a
narrow quartz vein that strikes north 45 degrees west, dips vertically, and
carries galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite. The quartz
shows both banded and comb structures, which are evidences of fissure filling.
In 1939 B. T. O’Grady of the British Columbia Department of Mines sampled
the vein in the adit. The results gave an average assay of 0.036 ounce gold,
and 14.4 ounces silver a ton, 0.9 per cent copper, 7.4 per cent lead, and 8.7
per cent zinc. A sample of the vein taken by the writer in 1949 gave 0.04
ounce gold, 14.38 ounces silver a ton, 18.40 per cent lead, and 6.61 per
cent zinc.

About 700 feet higher on the mountain and on the strike of the vein, an
open-cut exposes four stringers, each 1 inch to 3 inches wide, within a zone
of 30 inches. A picked sample from this showing assayed 0.06 ounce gold,
and 71.06 ounces silver a ton, 16.4 per cent lead, and 7.54 per cent zinc.
Some ruby silver noted in this showing probably accounts for the high silver
assay.

Rainy and Gold Coin (15)
Reference: B.C. Minister of Mines, Ann. Rept. 1945, p. A69.

These claims are on the south side of Chikamin Mountain just below
the summit. An adit about 25 feet long, known as the California, and some
open-cuts expose vein matter for a length of about 50 feet. The adit is driven
on a shear zone containing two narrow quartz stringers, 1 inch and 6 inches
wide, respectively, and about 6 feet apart. They strike north 20 degrees west
and dip 70 degrees southwest. The portal of the adit was caved at the time
of the visit, but the dump revealed about 5 tons of sorted vein material. A
selected sample of this material assayed: gold, 0.01 ounce a ton; silver, 119.06
ounces a ton; lead, 12 per cent; zinc, 3 per cent; and copper, 0.50 per cent.

East of this adit and a little lower on the mountain a shear zone that
strikes north 40 degrees east and dips vertically is exposed for about 100 feet.
The zone is about 2 feet wide and contains some quartz with which the
minerals galena, arsenopyrite, and lollingite are associated.

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