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Most of the oro, heweuer; come from three pockots which were at
about the same elevation, 4,150 feet, were confined to about
100 Peek along the slope, and were nearly continuous. Good
natural exposures and workings show that there are ay pockets
containing from a fraction of a ton up to say 20 or 30 tons of
material similar to the ore, except that it is not high grade.
These are scattered along the mountain slope for more than 1,000
feet in a zone that continues mainly Ronnies of the pockets
that were mined at gradually increasing clovations. The material
of the pockets in places grades into the country rock, though for
the most part it is quite distinct in character. Consequently,
the pockets tend to be connected either by narrow bands of the
pocket material or by material somewhat similar in character.
They are very irregular in shape, size, and relative position, so
that except for the indefinite limits of the whole zone there is
no good criterion that would suggest where pockets are most likely
to occur.

The property has been developed by numerous cuts, some

of which have penetrated fairly deeply into the cliff, and by a

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number of adits. Underground work has been done largely to
determine whether the deposits are continuous or to locate the i
zone at greater depth and to trace it into the valley wall. This
development work has yielded very little new ore; only a few small
pockets have been found and where a pocket was followed from the
surface it was found to pinch out. The work yielded little
information as to where continuity might be expected, except that
certain fractures locally showed ore material. The underground
a tended to confirm deductions made from the evidence of the

slope exposures, that the material is in small, irregular pockets.

The volcanics, mostly massive but in places bedded,

are normally dark grey to black and resemble argillite. They are