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of hand-sorted ore was seen containing up to 30 per cent of galena, sphalerite,
and tetrahedrite. An 18-inch channel sample taken across the vein in the
roof of the adit, 10 feet from the face, assayed: gold, 0:01 ounce a ton;
silver, 0°21 ounce a ton; lead, nil; zine, nil. A grab sample from the
4-ton pile of hand-sorted ore on the dump assayed: gold, 0-10 ounce a
ton; silver, 94:70 ounces a ton; lead, 10-68 per cent; zinc, 9-70 per cent.

The other adit, 25 feet higher and 90 feet farther south, is driven 97
feet west into the mountain. Fifty feet from the portal a sparsely
mineralized vein is cut, which strikes north and dips 65 degrees east. A
6-inch, flat-lying branch vein is followed in the adit to where it is faulted at
the face.

Babine Group (19)

The Babine claims are on the north side of Four Mile Mountain, 3
miles north of New Hazelton. An old trail leads north to the prospect
from the north end of the road to the Mohawk mine. ‘The claims have been
neglected since about 1912.

At elevation 2,000 feet a 15-inch quartz vein occurs along a fault fissure
in grey, coarsely crystalline granodiorite. The vein is exposed at the surface
in a small open-cut 35 feet above the portal of an adit that is driven south-
west to the vein. The entrance to the adit is now blocked by a cave in. In
the open-cut the vein carries about 3 per cent of sulphide, chiefly galena. On
the rock dump at the portal of the adit, there is about 10 tons of ore con-
sisting of banded sphalerite and galena in a quartz gangue with a little
chalcopyrite. The vein strikes south 50 degrees west and dips 65 degrees
southwest.

A 15-inch channel sample taken across the vein in the open-cut assayed:
gold, a trace; silver, 2-27 ounces a ton; lead, 2-65 per cent; zinc, nil. A
representative sample collected from the 10-ton stock of hand-sorted ore
assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 7-69 ounces a ton; lead, 11-02 per cent; zinc,
5:94 per cent; antimony, 0-25 per cent; copper, 0-84 per cent.

Roughly 500 feet farther east, a second adit has been driven south to
explore another quartz vein in the granodiorite. The portal of this adit is
also blocked by a cave in and all vein exposures are concealed by slumping in
of the open-cuts. Some of the grey granodiorite on the rock dump is sheared
and altered, and is impregnated with fine seams of pyrrhotite. A representa-
tive sample of this rock comprised of thirty chips picked at random from
the dump assayed: gold, a trace; silver, nil. A sample of ore representative
of a small amount scattered on the dump assayed: gold, 0-06 ounce a ton;
silver, 2-25 ounces a ton; lead, 3-42 per cent; zinc, 9-00 per cent; antimony,
1-14 per cent.

Erie Group (Mohawk Mine) (20)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1909, p. 84; 1910, p. 87; 1911, p. 102;
1914, p. 200; 1920, p. 87; 1925, p. 183; 1927, p. 182; 1928, p. 156; 1929, p. 158.
Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Repts.: 1909, p. 66; 1912, p. 103.

The Erie group of four Crown granted claims is on the west side of
Four Mile Mountain, about 5 miles by motor road east from Hazelton.
The original owner, E. L. Kinman of Vancouver, carried out small-scale
development operations between 1909 and 1914, and commenced the