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from the bottom of the shaft assayed: gold, 0-06 ounce a ton; silver, 0-6
ounce a ton. Another sample collected by Mr. Lay across 18 inches on
the face of the drift assayed: gold, 0-20 ounce a ton; silver, 6-8 ounces
a ton; lead, 2 per cent; zinc, 5-4 per cent. An 8-inch channel sample
collected by the writer across the vein 6 feet south of the shaft assayed:
gold, 0:33 ounce a ton; silver, 2-39 ounces a ton; lead, 1-57 per cent;
zinc, 27-56 per cent.

In an open-cut 85 feet south of the shaft there is a sphalerite vein
15 feet long that ranges from 3 to 5 inches in width. Commencing 60
feet farther southwest a vein is exposed for 40 feet in a horizontal direc-
tion along the steep slope. This vein has an average width of 1 foot, and
consists of about equal parts of vein quartz and pyrrhotite with a little
chalcopyrite. An 8-inch channel sample collected across this vein assayed:
gold 0-36 ounce a ton; copper, 0:54 per cent; nickel, none.

There is an open-cut on another small vein 75 feet southeast of the
shaft. This vein is exposed for 40 feet and ranges from 3 to 12 inches in
width. It consists largely of solid sphalerite with 5 to 10 per cent of
quartz gangue and a little galena, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite.

Glacier Gulch Gold Group (52)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1929, p. 164; 1930, p. 140; 1933, p. 97;
1934, p. C5; 1935, p. C35. Geol. Surv., Canada, Paper 36-20, 1936, p. 93.

The Glacier Gulch Gold property is on the south side of Glacier Gulch
5 miles northwest of Smithers, on the east slope of Hudson Bay Mountain.
The claims are owned by Stewart F. Campbell, Grover Loveless, and
Wesley Banta of Smithers. The property is 25 miles west of the Canadian
National Railway station at Lake Kathlyn and is reached by way of a
good motor road that follows up Glacier Gulch to an elevation of 2,600
feet, directly below the workings. A switchback trail leads up to the
workings, which lie between elevations of 3,150 and 3,400 feet, and an
aerial tramline connects the mine with the end of the road. A branch
trail leads 700 feet easterly from the tram-line to a silver-lead-zinc vein,
which outcrops between elevations of 2,800 and 3,300 feet on the same
property. The mine camp is in the timber on the banks of Glacier Creek
near the end of the road.

Glacier Gulch is a narrow, U-shaped, steep-walled ravine nearly a
mile long and trending northeasterly. At the head of the gulch, the ground
rises as a precipitous bluff for 1,000 feet to a glacial, ice-filled valley.
The melting ice supplies an abundant flow of water throughout most of
the year. Rock outcrops are plentiful on both sides of Glacier Gulch,
but prospecting is hindered by the steep slopes, which commonly fall
away at angles exceeding 40 degrees.

Gold associated with bismuth minerals was discovered on this property
by the owners in 1929. Development work during the next few years
disclosed a number of small shoots of high-grade gold ore. In 1933 the
owners shipped 26 tons of ore that contained 82 ounces of gold and 15
ounces of silver, in addition to bismuth, which was not paid for. R. W.
Wilson held an option on the property during 1934 and made another

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