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Homeguard Group (Locality 149)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1919, 1922,
1923, 1924, 1928, and 1929; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1922, pt. A.

The Homeguard group of three mineral claims is on the east side of
Kitsault river 14 miles from Alice Arm. The showings are in Kitsault
valley and are reached from the Dolly Varden Mines railway by a bridge
over the river and by a short trail.

The group was under option to the Granby Consolidated Mining,
Smelting, and Power Company in 1916 and this company proved that the
rather pretentious copper showings were large boulders. In 1929 the claims
were prospected by a Radiore electrical survey with negative results.

The claims are in large part drift covered but there can be very little
doubt that the country rock is such as occurs in the Copper Belt. The
rocks strike north-northwest and occupy the ground between elevations of
800 and 1,700 feet. Below this ground the rocks are sediments and above
they are felsites and breccias.

The boulders of ore vary in size from quite small to those having
diameters of 15 feet or more. The ore consists of pyrite and chalcopyrite
in altered rock, closely resembles the ore found in other parts of the
Copper Belt, and in all likelihood has come from deposits in this belt of
rocks. As the material of the boulders would be commercial ore if present
in large quantity search for the source of the boulders has been prosecuted
with considerable vigour. Their large size suggests that they are very close
to their source which if on the Homeguard property must be between
elevations of 800 and 1,700 feet. If they have been moved southward by
glaciers as might be expected, the source might weil be at the north end
of the Homeguard group but east of Kitsault river.

Homestake Group (Locality 123)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1918, 1919,
1920, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1927, and 1930; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921,
pt. A.

The Homestake group of four mineral claims is west of the head of
Kitsault river and at an elevation of over 3,000 feet. The property is
about 25 miles from Alice Arm. Access is by the main Kitsault trail
which ends at the Homestake.

The country rock consists of fragmental and massive rocks of the
Copper Belt. On the western side of the property the rocks are intrusive
felsites, but on the eastern side the rocks appear to be tuffs.

The mineral deposits lie in shear zones and brecciated zones and are
quartz veins containing pyrite, chalcopyrite, and some galena, sphalerite,
barite, and fragments of country rock. The deposits are up to 50 feet
wide and one vein is known to be over 1,500 feet long. The principal vein
strikes northwest and dips steeply northeast. It has been explored by
surface cuts and adits.