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south and dips 20 degrees east. A branch drift runs 33 feet east along
this zone from a point 10 feet from the portal. Throughout the adit the
sheared rock is replaced by considerable quartz, but contains only 1 to 2
per cent of tetradymite. An 18-inch channel sample taken across the vein
10 feet from the portal assayed: gold, 0:055 ounce a ton.

Four other short adits were driven into the base of the cliff from the
floor of the quarry, and all explore similar sheared and altered zones.
In some cases they were driven on small pockets of high-grade ore.

During the 1988 season the owners were mining an ore shoot about
a foot in width on a narrow ledge about 20 feet above the floor of the
quarry. Some of this ore consisted of over 50 per cent of tetradymite
and averaged 3 ounces of gold a ton. Considerable, white, altered tuff
containing from 1 to 3 per cent of tetradymite is scattered on the floor of
the quarry and has evidently been discarded as too low grade to ship.
A representative sample of this material collected near the collar of the
raise assayed: gold, 0:32 ounce a ton; silver 0-28 ounce a ton; bismuth,
0:05 per cent. Fragments of similar ore of milling grade lie on the talus
slide below the workings.

In an open-cut 125 feet northeast of the quarry, there is a sheared
and silicified zone 26 inches wide, which strikes north 50 degrees east and
dips 80 degrees southeast. A 26-inch channel sample taken across the
zone in this cut assayed: gold, 0-02 ounce a ton.

Other sheared and altered zones occur at intervals for over 500 feet
southwest of the quarry along the steep slope. Three of these, prospected
by small open-cuts, disclose a very sparse mineralization with tetradymite,
and samples taken assayed only a trace of gold.

At elevation 2,890 feet, directly below the main workings, a band of
tuff is silicified over a width of 2 feet along its upper contact with andesite
on the northeast side of the talus slide. A 2-foot chip sample taken across
the silicified tuff 40 feet south of the trail to the silver-lead-zine vein,
and a few feet northeast of the talus slide, assayed: gold, 0-045 ounce
a ton.

It must be borne in mind that assays from channel samples collected
from deposits such as this one, in which the gold occurs free and is
erratically distributed, may be misleading. The actual grade of the veins
can probably be more accurately judged from samples in bulk.

A. silver-lead-zinc vein lies between elevations of 2,850 and 3,300
feet about 700 feet northeast of the gold-bismuth deposits. It extends up
a steep slope through a vertical distance of 450 feet and a horizontal
distance of 500 feet. The vein occurs along a fault fissure and is enclosed
in fine-grained andesite flows except at the upper end where it passes into
tuffs. It strikes from south 20 to 40 degrees west and dips from 40 to 60
degrees northwest. The vein consists of banded alternations of calcite,
siderite, galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, and pyrite, with a little quartz
and in places some tetrahedrite. It ranges from 4 to 18 inches in width.
The wall-rock adjoining the vein is bleached for widths of a few inches to
1 or 2 feet.

At elevation 2,950 feet an adit has been driven 80 feet southwest along
the vein. In the adit the vein ranges from 5 to 10 inches wide and is
mineralized throughout. An 8-inch channel sample taken across the vein