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(51 b-52) Other Clayoquot Sound Deposits

A few other minor occurrences are known in the country tributary
to Clayoquot sound, but these are too unimportant to warrant detailed
description. These are on: (1) the Hetty Green group, 14 miles above
the mouth of Deer creek, where there is reported (6, page 788) to
be a ‘12-foot open-cut . . . (in) an outcropping, about 20 feet
wide, of magnetite, largely mixed with calcite gangue matter and igneous
country rock, and carrying a small percentage of copper pyrites’”’; (2) the
Ormond claim, Matilda creek, Ahousat, from which a few feet of magnetite
is reported (6, pages 187-188); and (8) Beck’s claim, near the north extrem-
ity of the peninsula separating Matilda creek or arm from the main part of
the sound, where small exposures of impure magnetite occur in association
with diorite and andesite or andesitic tuff. /\” CU

(53) Hesquiat Lake Deposits

Two small deposits of magnetite are known to occur on opposite
sides of Hesquiat lake, a narrow lake 3 miles long, trending a few degrees
east of north and draining through a short gorge into Hesquiat harbour.

About 2 miles from the lower end of the lake a very noticeable contact

I between diorite and limestone crosses in a northwesterly direction, with
diorite on the southwest, and limestone on the northeast, side.

| The Violet mineral claim is located on this contact zone on the north-

ii west side of the lake; the Agnes No. 1 and Agnes No. 2 mineral claims are

I} similarly located on the southeast side. The Violet claim was located on

H June 6, 1902, by Jacobsen, but there has been no record of improvements

since May 4, 1903. The Agnes claims were located by John Eik and

Phillip Jacobsen on June 7, 1902, but no improvements have been recorded

since June 8, 1903. All three claims have, therefore, lapsed to the Crown.

It was with some little difficulty that the showings on these claims

were found in 1924, owing to the impossibility of finding guides and to the

dense undergrowth and obliteration of trails. Searching in the limestone

areas just beyond the above-mentioned contacts resulted in their redis-

covery.
Neither of the deposits warrants detailed or accurate description. Je

VIOLET

The showing on the Violet claim is in a small gulch about 1,200 feet
from the lake shore, at an elevation of 300 to 400 feet. Here an open-cut,
12 feet long, 3 to 4 feet high at the face, exposes magnetite streaked and
spotted with garnet, occurring in a garnetized grey limestone. The
magnetite zone is exposed intermittently for widths up to 12 feet and can
be traced at intervals up the gulch from the 300 to the 400-foot contour.

5 AGNES Nos. 1 AND 2

The outcrops on these claims are on the southeast side of the lake
and about 1 mile inland in a southeasterly direction from a small cabin
located on the shore of a bay. Three small exposures of magnetite, mixed

} with epidote, garnet, and quartz were found along the steep banks of a
small creek. Country rocks are diorite and a contact metamorphosed
type made up of garnet with lesser amounts of epidote and quartz, A