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Nothing is known of the precious metal content of the veins, but in
view of the fact that almost no exploratory work was done and the lease
on the claims was allowed to lapse, it is assumed that assay returns were
disappointing.

LEAD-COPPER SHOWING NEAR TUTIZZI LAKE

The ridge immediately north of the west end of Tutizzi Lake exposes
many quartz veins containing lead and copper minerals. One of the best
mineralized of these is exposed in an iron-stained zone about 30 feet wide
in medium-grained diorite cutting coarse-grained hornblendite and pyroxen-
ite. It consists of about 3 feet of brecciated, rusty quartz, which in turn
contains a more compact quartz vein with a maximum width of 15 inches,
heavily mineralized with galena and chalcopyrite. Assays of two grab
samples of this material averaged: gold, 0-0075 ounce a ton; silver, 5:05
ounces a ton; copper, 1-44 per cent; and lead, 50-38 per cent. This vein
is exposed for a length of about 30 feet.

Quartz veins are numerous in the surrounding area, some attaining a
width of 3 feet and a length of several hundred feet. All contain some
galena or chalcopyrite, but in general the quantity of sulphides is small,
and all the veins sampled gave low gold and silver assays.

CHIEF THOMAS SHOWING (16)

The Chief Thomas showing consists of a single quartz vein in slightly
gneissic quartz diorite, exposed on the south side of a peak east of the
headwaters of Etschitka Creek at an elevation of 7,500 feet. The vein
is 6 to 10 feet wide, at least 350 feet long, and stands vertically. Sulphide
minerals are distributed at intervals across the vein, but are most con-
centrated and continuous along the west side of the vein, where 1 foot of
quartz and 18 inches of the adjacent rock are heavily impregnated with
malachite and contain many blebs and patches of bornite, chalcopyrite,
and pyrite. The largest solid sulphide mass observed was 2 by 8 inches
in surface area. Part of the quartz is badly fractured and ‘vuggy’, and
contains much dark red to specular hematite. Limonite boxworks are
well developed in places.

Only the western contact of the vein is exposed. Here the wall-rock
has been converted, for a width of about a foot, to a fine, compact
material composed largely of malachite, flanked by 1 foot to 3 feet of
malachite-stained quartz diorite.

The vein has not been systematically sampled. Two grab samples, free
from the larger sulphide blebs, assayed: gold, trace to 0-015 ounce a ton;
silver, trace to 0:27 ounce a ton; and about 1 per cent copper.

ELIZABETH GROUP (17)

The Elizabeth group, staked in the autumn of 1946 for The Con-
solidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited, covers a
shear zone in granodiorite and quartz diorite near the head of the east
branch of Etschitka Creek. The zone contains numerous quartz and
quartz-carbonate veins, in two intersecting sets, one of which is reported
to have provided fairly consistent, but low, assays in gold and silver. No
exploratory work was done on the deposit in 1947 or 1948.