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Muskateer Group (Locality 140)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1918, 1919,

1920, and 1922; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A, and Sum. Rept.
1928, pt. A.
The Muskateer group of five mineral claims is on the eastern bank
of Kitsault river about three-quarters of a mile north of the Toric mine

and 20 miles from Alice Arm. The Kitsault River trail passes just below

the cabins and workings.

Two mineral deposits are present on the property, both in massive
volcanic rocks. The main deposit is 15 feet or more wide and has been
traced for a distance of 250 feet. The deposit is vertical and strikes
south 60 degrees east. It consists of quartz, barite, jasper, pyrite, sphaler-
ite, chalcopyrite, and galena, and in general appearance closely resembles
the Toric deposit. In an adit the wall-rock is slightly mineralized with
sulphides and contains jasper, quartz, and barite as far as 25 feet from
the wall of the mineral deposit. The deposit is locally well mineralized
with galena. The other deposit has been imperfectly traced by open-
cuts. It appears to strike north. The most northerly open-cut is about
200 feet south of the main deposit. The two deposits are much alike.
Both appear to have formed by filling and replacing a brecciated zone.
The deposits have been developed by open-cuts and adits.

No Name Claims (Locality 130)
Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1923.

The No Name claims Nos. 1 and 2 are between Trout and Clear-
water creeks and adjoin and lie west of the Summit group. The mineral
showings are narrow stringers of quartz with some galena and lie in tuffs
and breccias.

North Star Claim (Leeality 145)
References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1916, 1918,
ae 1920, 1921, 1922, 1928, and 1930; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921.
pt. A.

The North Star claim adjoins and lies north of the Dolly Varden
group. It is reached by a short trail from the Dolly Varden mine
buildings.

In 1918 the claim was taken over by the Alice Arm Silver Mining
Company who in 1919 shipped 27 tons of ore which returned 968 ounces of
silver. In 1921 the company made a second shipment of 86 tons which
returned 1,870 ounces of silver.

The country rock consists of felsites which in the main are apparently
intrusive, cut by closely spaced, roughly parallel dykes striking northeast
and for the most part dipping at nearly vertical angles. The mineral deposit
is a quartz-barite vein up to 20 feet wide that strikes northeast and dips
northwest about 45 degrees. The strike of the vein is roughly parallel to
that of the dykes, but the angle of dip is different and the dykes cut the
vein in many places. The vein js locally well mineralized with pyrite.
galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, and silver minerals. The vein has been
traced by open-cuts and explored by two adits 200 and 400 feet long,
respectively. .