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12-foot open-cut at its east end at elevation 5,000 feet. The west segment
is offset only a few feet. It is 40 feet long and ranges from 6 to 12 inches
in width. The east segment of the vein is offset about 15 feet to the north.
It is 160 feet in length and also ranges from 6 to 12 inches in width. The
veins are of quartz well mineralized with jamesonite, sphalerite, and galena,
with a little pyrite, cosalite, and arsenopyrite. The sulphides occur dissem-
inated through the quartz and as alternate bands of solid sulphide.

A 24-inch channel sample taken across the vein in the open-cut at
elevation 5,000 feet assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 5-24 ounces a ton; lead,
11-01 per cent; zinc, 5-71 per cent; antimony, 2-68 per cent; arsenic, 2-43
per cent. An 18-inch channel sample taken across the same vein, 90 feet
west at 50 feet higher elevation, assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 3-51 ounces
a ton; lead, 8-00 per cent; zinc, 6-55 per cent; antimony, 2:16 per cent;
arsenic, 3:20 per cent. An 8-inch channel sample taken across the east
segment of the vein, 130 feet east of the open-cut, assayed: gold, 0-015
ounce a ton; silver, 0:60 ounce a ton; lead, 0-36 per cent; zinc, 0-81 per
cent; antimony, none. A 10-inch channel sample taken across a strong
vein at elevation 4,800 feet, 180 feet southwest of the inclined shaft,
assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 15-23 ounces a ton; lead, 8:18 per cent;
zinc, 16-70 per cent.

A mineralized shear zone in the granodiorite occurs on the steep east
side of the cirque at elevation 4,940 feet. In a 10- by 20-foot open-cut
the sheared and bleached granodiorite is impregnated with small veinlets
of quartz, galena, sphalerite, and jamesonite over a width of 8 feet. A
representative sample of this ore assayed: gold, nil; silver, 3-74 ounces a
ton; lead, 2-82 per cent; zinc, 3-30 per cent. Fifty feet south of the open-
cut, the continuation of the shear zone is covered by talus, and 50 feet
north it narrows and splits into two parts, which follow north around the
nose of the ridge. The eastern branch is exposed for 100 feet and the
western for 160 feet. Both range from 6 to 18 inches in width and are
heavily mineralized with jamesonite and sphalerite..

A considerable tonnage of high-grade silver-lead-zine ore containing
a little antimony and bismuth is indicated from the surface exposures.

Sloecan Group (10)

The Slocan mineral claims, owned by J. A. Miller of South Hazelton,
cover the top of Nine Mile Mountain eastward from the peak and extend
down the precipitous north slope to form a unit with the Lead King
claims. The showings are reached by way of the trail to the Sunrise
property, there being an easy gradient from the Sunrise workings to the
mountain top. The claims are 8 miles northeast of South Hazelton, but
by road and trail the distance is 16 miles.

At elevation 5,500 feet, on the east side of the highest part of the
mountain, a sheared zone 2 feet wide has been traced for 150 feet by a
number of trenches. The country rocks are sandstones, tuffs, and argillites
intruded about 600 feet to the north by the granodiorite stock that outcrops
for 3 miles along the north side of the mountain. The sheared rock is
sparsely mineralized, but carries at its centre a sulphide vein composed