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Ginger Group (5)

The Ginger group of thirty-two claims is 44 miles about east-southeast
of Goldway Peak. It was staked for Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines, Limited,
by L. Lawlor, J. W. Burton, C. French, W. Charlie, D. F. Kidd, J. Thomas,
and J. Bob between July 26 and September 10, 1946. The rocks have a
general northerly trend and are mainly dark green tuffs of the Takla group.
A quartz vein, discovered by the Geological Survey (Lord, 1946, p. 7), is
partly exposed for a length of about 70 feet and probably ranges from 23
to 3 feet in width. It strikes about north 25 degrees west and dips about
80 degrees west. Pyrite occurs as streaks in the quartz, and has partly
replaced the wall-rock for several inches on either side of the vein. A grab
sample of mineralized quartz and wall-rock contained: gold, 0:26 ounce a
ton. Two channel samples, 20 feet apart, and cut from vein widths of 17
and 20 inches, contained respectively!: 0-67 and 0-64 ounce of gold a ton.
The owners report that another quartz vein about a foot wide occurs in a
strong northeast shear zone, and that it provided a grab sample that
assayed 3:04 ounces of gold a ton.

Shell Group (6)?

The Shell group, owned by Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines, Limited,
lies 10 miles east-southeast of Goldway Peak. It embraces twenty-eight
claims staked by N. Hals, W. French, J. Dumbrille, J. Bob, and 8. Hoy
between July 22 and September 12, 1946. More than a score of mineral
occurrences have been found on Shell Nos. 1, 3, 4, and 27 claims, which are
underlain by voleanic members of the Takla group and by granitic and
other dykes. Many of these deposits are of unknown shape and size, con-
taining abundant chalcopyrite and lesser amounts of pyrite, pyrrhotite,
magnetite, malachite, azurite, and quartz. An exceptionally well exposed
occurrence of this type is a vein of nearly solid sulphide minerals, at
least 4 feet wide in places, that has been traced for a length of 150 feet.
Near its widest exposure it afforded a grab sample from about 4 feet of
vein material that assayed: gold, 0-48 ounce a ton; silver, 4-00 ounces a
ton, and copper, 16-25 per cent. A grab sample from an additional 14 feet
of oxidized material at the same place contained: gold, 0:36 ounce a ton;
silver, 1-20 ounces a ton; and copper, 1-90 per cent. Other mineral occur-
rences are quartz veins in a shear zone or zones that strike northwesterly.
These veins contain a little pyrite and chalcopyrite, range up to 5 feet in
width, and have provided rich gold samples.

Cariboo Heart Range

Quartz float was found in talus on the northeast slope of the Cariboo
Heart Range 24 miles east of the north end of Nanitsch Lake. Bedrock is
green and purple andesitic breccia of the Takla group. The quartz, which
is crystalline and accompanied by calcite and pyrite, probably came from
a nearby undiscovered vein 3 inches or more in width and provided a
selected sample containing: gold, 0-71 ounce a ton; silver, 5-43 ounces a ton.

1 Data supplied by J. W. Burton, Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines, Limited.
2 Compiled from data supplied by J. W. Burton, Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines, Limited.