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To sum up, the following tonnage estimate is given:

HERO MGCNOLOsee etre ratatrnrae Fernie tieslile ae ieacaie permease 4 3,500
erobableiore. magn aaauachacsee hacen cues nena tcants 60, 000
SESE) oT Sa TSE ets ere a 110,000 (to depth of 100 feet)

Value of the Deposits

Of all the deposits examined near the west coast, these, on account of
the surface extent of the showings, the comparative absence of sulphur
and the accessibility, are considered the most worthy of serious considera-
tion as a possible economic basis for an iron mining industry. The property
warrants additional exploration both by diamond drilling and by further
surface and underground work.

Bibliography
See page 158 for further details

6. Carmichael, H., p. 208.
16. Lindeman, E., pp. 16-17.
20. Lindeman, E., and Bolton, L. L., p. 12.
21. Brewer, W. M., pp. 27-28.
22. Whittier, W. H., p. 61.
25. Stansfield, E., p. 32.
28. Dolmage, V., p. 21.
29. Ann. Rept., 1906, p. 85.

(54 b) Rob Roy-Prince Charlie Group

These two claims are also situated about one mile from Head bay, and
they adjoin the Stormont-Glengarry group on the southwest, Figure 42.
They are both claims of record located by William Poole and J. H.
Gardhouse of Nootka, and cover the southwesterly extensions of the
deposits on the Glengarry and Stormont claims. They supersede the
Fido claim, which has lapsed.

The showings occur along both sides of a small creek, in timbered
country, from elevations of 340 to 490 feet (barometric) above sea-level,
and are reached by a trail from Head bay. Rock exposures are small and
isolated, but the geological relationships are believed to be identical with
those on the Stormont and Glengarry group. Dykes and sill-like masses
of porphyritic diorite cut through greyish limestone, showing in places
marked bedding dipping at 20 degrees to 30 degrees to the west.

Magnetite is exposed in many places, most commonly mixed with
garnet and altered limestone, but in a few places in a n early pure state.
Exposures of it are all small, and no connexion between them and no
general trend of an ore zone are visible. :

The showings are believed to be parts of an irregular disconnected
series of contact metamorphic replacements of limestone, by iron-bearing
solutions that emanated from the underlying intrusive diorite.

No estimate of tonnage of magnetite can be made, and the only value
the claims have is a highly speculative one that has for its sole basis the
successful exploitation of the adjoining Stormont-Glengarry group.

References to these claims may be found in the bibliography of the
Stormont-Glengarry group.

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