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KAMLOOPS MINING DIVISION

(31 a) Glen Iron Mine
(See Figure 20)

LOCATION

The Glen iron mine is in Kamloops Mining division and is situated
close to the south shore of Kamloops lake, 13 miles west of Kamloops or
% mile east of Cherry Creek station on the Canadian Pacific railway.
The ore exposures and various mine workings occur on a steep hill-side
forming part of Cherry bluff which rises directly from Kamloops lake
along whose edge the railway runs. The principal mine workings are
about 1,200 feet from the lake shore and at an elevation of 400 feet above
it. The property consists of 165 acres held under Crown grant as well as
several mining claims. The owners are represented by Mr. F. J. Fulton of
Kamloops.

HISTORY

The presence of veins of magnetite was known at a comparatively
early date, but apparently the deposits were not acquired until 1889.
Shortly thereafter shipments of ore were made to be used as a flux in
copper smelters. Shipments ceased in 1902 after a total production of
about 15,000 tons had been made and since that date the property has
lain idle. During mining operations an open-cut 430 feet long was made
along a vein-like body of ore. The open-cut varies in width from 10 to
20 feet and in places is more than 40 feet deep. It extends westerly uphill
from a gully and towards its lower, easterly end a tunnel has been driven
westward into and along the ore-body. The tunnel is 150 feet long and
for the most part 15 feet wide. The ore above part of the length of the
tunnel has been withdrawn from a stope whose height is unknown, but
presumably is nowhere more than 40 feet.

The following is a list of the published accounts referring to this
property.

Dawson, G. M.: ‘Preliminary Report on the Physical and Geological Features of the South-
ern Portion of the Interior of British Columbia, 1877"'; Geol. Sury., Canada, Rept. of Prog.
1877-78, pt. B, pp. 117-118. Contains a generalized description of the deposits which are
referred to as veins in an ‘‘extensive diorite mass’’. It is suggested that the veins may be
of Tertiary age and have been produced during the last stages of the volcanic activity
which gave rise to the Tertiary lavas of nearby areas.

Ann. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1890, p. 377; 1891, p. 4
p. 751; 1895, p. 698; 1896, p. 567; 1897, p. 614; 1 p. 1104; 1900, p. 890; 1901,
p. 1,079; 1902, p. 163; 1903, p. 181; 1913, pp. 184-185; 36-237; 1922, p. 149. Brief
notices, for the most part indicating progress made in mining and development.

893, p. 1,068; 1894,

McEvoy, J.: (in) Geol. Sury., Canada, Sum. Rept., 1892, pp. 9-10. Contains brief notes
on positions and sizes of outcrops of ore.

Dawson, G. M.: ‘‘Report on the Area of the Kamloops Map-sheet, British Columbia’; Geol.
Surv., Canada, 1895, pp. 158 and 341-343. The ore-bodies described as veins; the country
rock part of a large intrusive body of variable composition and considered soe “to
indicate . . . . the site of a focus of volcanic activity of the Tertiary period’’.

Lindeman, E., and Bolton, L. L.: ‘Iron Ore Occurrences in Canada’’; M ines Branch, Dept.
of Mines, Canada, vol. 1, pp. 30-31 (1917). | General statements regarding the mine work-
ings.

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