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St. Eugene Group (Locality 7)
Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1927.

The St. Eugene group of claims is on the east slope of August moun-
tain, west of the northern part of Salmon River glacier. Four parallel
northeasterly striking quartz veins in voleanic rocks are mineralized with
pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite. Three of the
veins are 25 feet apart and the fourth is 150 feet farther east. The veins
are 5 feet or less wide. A sample across a 2-foot section of one vein ran
a trace in gold and 11 ounces of silver a ton, 18 per cent lead, and 8 per
cent zinc.

Salmon Gold Group (Locality 4)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1930, 19381,
and 1932; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1931, pt. A.

The Salmon Gold group of claims is west of Summit lake at the north
end of Salmon River glacier. The principal deposits are at an elevaticn
of about 3,800 feet or 1,000 feet above the lake.

The claims are underlain by augite andesite, an intrusive member of
the volcanic series, invaded north of the mineral deposits by a smal,
irregularly shaped stock of granodiorite and by dykes of various types.

The largest deposit is a silicified zone containing much pyrrhotite and
some arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite, and probably native gold.
The zone is up to 25 feet wide, but the average width is less than 10 feet.
Ii has been traced in a northwesterly direction for 300 feet up to the lower
end of a glacier. The zone appears to be approximately vertical. Drill
holes crossing the main zone at shallow depth indicated spotty values in
gold and the highest assays of drill samples were less than 1 ounce of gold
a ton.

The main zone is joined by several westerly striking quartz veins that
curve to the northwest as they join the larger body. These veins have been
traced for several hundred feet and are in general less than 5 feet wide.
They dip steeply north. The veins hold much more quartz, more pyrite, and
much less pyrrhotite than the main zone. On the surface values in gold are
in general somewhat lower and in silver a little higher than those present
sn the main zone. Diamond drill holes at shallow depth disclosed spotty
values in gold rarely as high as 0-5 ounce, and less than half an ounce of
silver a ton.

Salmon River High Grades, Limited (Locality ©)
Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1925.

The Salmon River High Grades, Limited, own the Daisy group of
claims east of the north end of Salmon River glacier. Two small quartz
veins sparsely mineralized with tetrahedrite occur in contorted sediments.