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at elevation 4,500 feet, about 200 feet west of the most westerly pit on the
upper vein. Two other veins occur at the same elevation, 60 and 120 feet
farther south, respectively. All three are quartz veins that occupy faults
in the diorite. They strike from south 30 to south 50 degrees east and dip
70 degrees southwest. Hach vein ranges from 6 to 12 inches in width, with
2 to 3 feet of altered wall-rock. The vein quartz is sparsely mineralized
with galena and occasionally with tetrahedrite and a little chalcopyrite. A
typical 8-inch channel sample taken across the second vein assayed: gold,
none; silver, none; lead, 0-22 per cent.

The two latter veins converge and join about 100 feet farther down the
slope, and at their junction increase to 10 feet in width. At elevation 4,300
feet this vein has decreased to 6 inches of vein quartz. Here, an adit 125
feet in length was driven to crosscut the vein about 100 feet east of the
portal. Ten feet from the face there is a 6-inch quartz vein with sparsely
distributed tetrahedrite. The writer collected a channel sample across it
that assayed: gold, none; silver, 0-20 ounce a ton; copper, none; lead, none.

M. and K. Group (13)
(See Figure 2)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1916, p. 100; 1917, p. 99; 1919, p.
99; 1921, p. 96; "1995, p. 128; 1928, p. 148; 1929, p. 153. Geol. cine Canada,
Sum. Rept. 1925, pt. "A, 11.

The M. and K. group is on the mountain on the north side of the east
fork of Legate creek, about 15 miles by trail southeast of Pacific. The
claims are reached by a switchback trail, now badly overgrown, which
leaves the east fork trail half a mile east of the middle fork. The original
stakers, Whitmore and Orr, bonded the property to J. J. Price in 1916.
The following year he shipped 130 tons of float ore, which returned about
25 per cent lead, 20 per cent copper, and 25 ounces of silver a ton. The
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited, carried
out a little exploration work on the claims in 1928 and 1929, but failed to
locate a further source of the rich sulphide ore.

The upper part of the mountain is comprised of andesitic flows with
interbedded volcanic breccia and tuff. Intrusive diorite outcrops below
an elevation of 3,800 feet. The diorite is part of a granitic stock that ex-
tends for about 2 miles west and south.

The original discovery consisted in finding blocks and fragments of
solid sulphide for a distance of 500 feet on a talus slide between elevations
of 4,600 and 4,850 feet. The ore occurred in pieces up to 2 feet in diameter
and was scattered over a width of about 200 feet. Most of the ore has since
been sacked and packed away, but some still remains. The sulphides con-
sist of an intergrowth of chalcopyrite, galena, bornite, and sphalerite, with
small amounts of tetrahedrite and specularite. A typical sample picked
from the slide assayed: gold, a trace; platinum, none; silver, 3-10 ounces
a ton; copper, 10-98 per cent; lead, 26-51 per cent. There was in addition
zine, for which a test was not made.

About 80 feet east of the talus slide, at elevation 4,675 feet, an adit
was driven north 50 degrees east for 79 feet and then south 60 degrees east