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A quartz vein ranging from 1 to 2 feet in width occurs along a fault
striking north 70 degrees east and dipping 70 degrees south. A quartz vein
of the same width lies along a parallel fault 30 feet to the south. Between
the two the sandstone and argillite have been severely brecciated and cut by
minor faults. The brecciated zone has been impregnated and cemented by
vein quartz, and small quartz veins have formed along the minor faults.
The quartz in both the veins and brecciated zones is mineralized with galena,
chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, and light brown sphalerite.

A 20-foot shaft was sunk about ten years ago on some of the best-
looking ore along the fault vein and some of the ore from this operation is
still stock piled. A representative specimen taken from an open-cut by W.
M. Brewer in 1914 assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 56-4 ounces a ton; copper,
4-8 per cent; lead, 6-1 per cent; zinc, 19-4 per cent. A sample taken by
the writer across 48 inches of the mineralized brecciated zone near the
shaft assayed: silver, 4-27 ounces a ton; gold, a trace; copper, 0-44 per
cent; lead, 1-04 per cent; zinc, 2-18 per cent.

One hundred feet southeast of the shaft an adit has been driven north for
50 feet. It intersects the two main veins and the mineralized brecciated zone
between them. Five feet from the adit entrance there is a 4-inch quartz
vein; at 9 feet an 8-inch quartz vein; at 16 feet an 18-inch quartz vein; at
20 feet a 6-inch quartz vein; at 25 feet a 3-inch quartz vein; and at 45 feet
a 21-inch quartz vein. The intervening rock from 10 feet to 45 feet from the
adit entrance comprises the brecciated zone, but it does not carry as much
quartz as in the vicinity of the shaft, nor is it as well mineralized with
sulphides. A channel sample taken across the 21-inch quartz vein near
the face of the adit and on the west side, assayed: silver, a trace: gold,
0-02 ounce a ton; copper, 0-02 per cent; lead, 1:10 per cent; zinc, 0-15 per
cent. An 18-inch channel sample taken across the quartz vein 16 feet from
the adit entrance on the east side, assayed: silver, 0-14 ounce a ten; gold,
none; copper 0:04 per cent; lead, 0-19 per cent; zinc, none.

Belway and Rex Claims
(See Figure 3)

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1914, p. 105; 1918, p. 49;
1927, p. 63; 1931, p. 36.

The Belway and Rex claims, owned by Walter Raymond and William
Corrigan of Terrace, are near the north end of Kitsumgallum lake on the
east shore and are about a mile south of Rosswood. These claims were first
staked in 1924 as the Treadwell and Juneau, and since that time have
changed ownership several times.

The rocks are chiefly fine-grained, grey, micaceous quartzite that
strikes east and west and dips about 30 degrees north. At a rocky point
on the lake the sediments are intruded by a gabbro sill about 70 fect thick.
The gabbro contains up to 80 per cent of green uralite (secondary horn-
blende). Phases of the gabbro in composition approach augite diorite and
amphibolite. In places the overlying, impure quartzites have been con-
verted to sericite schist.

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