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assay return was from a sample with much hematite. Gold, which
seems to be present mainly with the chalcopyrite, ranges up to
1.74 ounces and some assays much higher have been repcrted, but
in the main are less than a half ounce.

Lay reports that an Yaplite"4 ayke, reported by

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— Dykes identified as rhyolite have commonly been called aplite.
in other reports.

prospectors to be the same as that on the Canyon claim, sparsely
mineralized with chalcopyrite, gave selected samples that assayed:
gold, trace, silver, 0.2 ounce, and copper, 1 per cent.

Canyon .£. In the cliffs on either side of Hardscrabble creek

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there is a flat-lying, 5 to 10-foot rhyolite dyke cutting albite-
rich diorite porphyry. The dyke and the adjacent rock are sparsely
mineralized with bornite, hematite, and chalcopyrite that undoubtedly
originated in the dyke. On the west side quartz veinlets carrying
the same minerals are oes to continue for some distance in the
country rock. Samples of the best rock from the dyke assayed:

gold, 0.14 ounce to the ton, silver, 0.8 ounce, to the ton, copper,
2.8 per cent; and from the veinlets beyond the dyke: gold, a trace;
silver, 6.2 ounces; and copper 19.5 per cent.

Phoenix Group «= On this property, on a tributary of Nicholson 4a

3 Ann. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1928, p.145.

ereek, andesine granodiorite is in sharp contact with massive,
green and grey volcanics. There is much mineralization in the
granodiorite near and along the contact. Quartz veins heavily
loaded with pyrite and up to 6 feet wide cut the granite. Some
barren quartz veins or lenses of a similar thickness follow the

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contact. In places a little molybdenite was noted. Three samples