150

tically solid sulphide. Surface exposures on the upper vein assay up to 250
ounces in silver a ton. Underground the vein is narrower and much lower
in grade. The lower vein assays 150 ounces or less in silver a ton.

The upper vein is opened by open-cuts and a drift adit 100 feet long.
The lower vein is well exposed in open-cuts. A crosscut adit 45 feet long
driven to intersect the lower vein has not been driven far enough to reach
its objective.

Vancouver Mines, Limited (Locality 20)
Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1925.

Vancouver Mines, Limited, was organized in 1925 and acquired the
Hope group of claims adjoining the Terminus group on the east side of
American creek. An outcrop containing much pyrrhotite contained no
values. An adit 160 feet long follows a quartz vein found to contain nothing
of value. Other large, rusty outcrops have not been developed.

Victoria Mines, Limited (Locality 69)

References; Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1909, 1921, 1924,
1925, and 1926; Geol. Surv., Canada, Memoirs 32 and 159.

The holdings of Victoria Mines, Limited, consist of the Dandy and
Main Reef groups situated at the northern end of the Portland Canal fissure
zone. ‘The country rock is argillite of the upper part of the lower sediments
of the Hazelton group. Volcanic rocks overlie the sediments on the lower
part of the property and the lowest adit begins in volcanic rock. Two adits
on the property are each 400 feet long. Seven others are individually 60
feet or less in length.

Several veins striking north and dipping west have been found on the
property. The Main Reef vein is known to be at least 700 feet long and
varies from 1 to 4 feet in width. It is exposed on the surface 100 feet above
No. 2 adit, has been drifted on for 400 feet in No. 2 adit, and is crosscut
by No. 4 adit 120 feet lower. The vein, therefore, is known to extend to a
depth of 220 feet. In most places the vein is in contact with a narrow,
fine-grained dyke. The vein consists of quartz mineralized with pyrite,
galena, and sphalerite. In most places the vein is below commercial grade,
but a small shoot of ore from which some ore has been shipped exists in
No. 2 adit near the portal.

Another vein is crosscut by No. 4 adit. This vein is 3 feet wide, is
associated with a narrow, parallel dyke, and consists of quartz sparsely
mineralized with pyrite, galena, and sphalerite. The vein is not known
elsewhere on the Victoria holdings. Several other quartz sulphide veins
opened by short adits exist farther up the hill. Only one of these, No. 10,
is shown on Figure 1. The veins are 1 to 4 feet wide and consist of quartz
mineralized with pyrite, galena, and sphalerite. The two uppermost veins
contain a little chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite, as well as the usual pyrite
galena, and sphalerite.

A 4-ton shipment of ore made in 1909 yielded 0-7 ounce of gold, and
20 ounces of silver a ton and contained 23 per cent lead. A 7-ton ship-
ment in 1925 yielded 0-6 ounce of gold and 30 ounces of silver a ton and
contained 35 per cent lead and 10 per cent zine.