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average width. A sample weighing 1 pound and 11 ounces, taken by
breaking off quartz chips from a large number of the quartz veinlets,
assayed only a trace of silver and no gold.

About 150 feet farther northeast a deep pit has been sunk at the
contact of an aplite dyke intrusive into black slates. Several, small
quartz stringers lie along the contact and in the slate. About 200 feet
farther northeast and farther down the slope, two other pits expose small
quartz stringers in black slates. A short distance west of these pits the
aplite dyke is intersected and cut by the brown-weathering dyke.

Black Wolf Group
(See Figure 5)

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1921, p. 43; 1924, p.
47; 1925, p. 68; 1926, p. 72; 1927, p. 64; 1928, p. 73; 1930, p. 74.

The Black Wolf claims are situated on the west slope of Maroon
mountain between elevations of 4,500 and 4,900 feet, about 44 miles due
east of the north end of Kitsumgallum lake. The main Maroon Moun-
tain trail from Rosswood crosses the claims and passes close to the work-
ings. The claims were first staked in 1921 and in 1924 passed into the
hands of the Black Wolf Mining Company of Seattle. In 1925 a 70-
foot adit was driven along a narrow gold quartz vein and 300 sacks of ore
was packed down to Kitsumgallum lake. In 1928 some 25 tons of ore was
taken from an adit driven along a vein in conglomerate. Nothing has
been done in recent years.

The geology is essentially the same as that on the Bear claim. The
conglomerate band continues south across the Hawk, Hall fraction,
and Black Wolf No. 1 claims. In this distance, the average dip to the
east changes from 55 on the Bear to 15 degrees on the Black Wolf claims.
Quartz veins occur parallel the bedding in the underlying argillaceous
sandstones and slates about 50 feet below the conglomerate horizon, and
one vein occurs in a fracture cutting diagonally across the conglomerate.

The vein in the conglomerate outcrops high up on a rock bluff. It
strikes easterly and dips 40 degrees north. The walls of the vein are
slickensided and the striations plunge at 20 degrees to the east. Where an
adit 50 feet long has been driven on the vein, the vein is well mineral-
ized with pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite and maintains an
average width of about 12 inches. Below the adit the vein may be fol-
lowed along the rock bluff for about 50 feet in the conglomerate and in
places is 2 feet wide. Above the adit it is quite narrow and may be seen
to pinch out in 50 feet. A sample 1 foot long taken across the vein in the
face of the tunnel, by the resident engineer in 1927, assayed: gold, 1-06
ounces a ton; silver, 2 ounces a ton; lead, 1 per cent; zine, 5 per cent.

Two hundred feet east of the small lake on the Black Wolf No, 1
claim a 70-foot adit was driven along a nearly horizontal quartz vein that
outcrops part way up a rock bluff. At the entrance the vein strikes south
60 degrees east and dips 5 degrees northeast. It has a maximum width
of 10 inches and narrows gradually to 4 inches in about 30 feet in both