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A second showing, reported in 1917 to be 30 to 40 feet wide with small
fractures containing copper sulphide and calcite, and on which a 50-foot
tunnel had been driven, was not visited.

Wells Group (6)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1924, p. 120; 1927, p. 96. Geol.
Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1925, pt. A, p. 114.

The Wells group comprises about fifteen claims staked in 1913 and
1914 on the mountain south of Kleanza lake, about 17 miles southeast of
Usk. A well-graded branch trail from the Kleanza Creek trail leaves the
west end of Kleanza lake and follows the south fork of Kleanza creek to
a pass at an elevation of 4,200 feet. The summit of the mountain on which
some of the mineral occurrences are found rises west of the saddle to an
elevation of 4,800 feet. A foot trail descends 300 feet on the south side of
the pass and follows a bench westerly to connect with branching trails
to the various workings. The claims have been open many years.

West of the pass, at elevation 4,500 feet, a cut 10 feet by 10 feet in
andesitic volcanic rock exposes a 3-foot sheared zone bordering a fault. The
shear planes and the fault strike west and dip steeply. The fault contains
a 4-inch vein of calcite and epidote, and the andesite is epidote stained and
traversed by numerous calcite veinlets with traces of sulphide. A chip
sample taken across the 3-foot width assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0-06
ounce a ton; copper, 0-08 per cent.

About 1,000 feet farther west, at elevation 4,750 feet, a pit was sunk
on a shear zone 4 feet wide in reddish andesite. The sheared rock contains
many calcite stringers but very little sulphide. A channel sample taken
across 3 feet of the best material assayed: gold, none; silver, none; copper,
0-02 per cent.

A third vein occurs in a deep pit at 100 feet lower elevation and 250 feet
farther northwest. The vein consists of 7 inches of altered, epidotized
andesite mineralized with bornite and chalcocite along a vertical fracture
striking north. Beyond the pit the vein is covered by talus. An assay
from a representative sample of the ore gave: gold, a trace; silver, 0-50
ounce a ton; copper, 3-48 per cent.

Copper sulphides are reported to occur at several other places in the
voleanic rocks on these claims.

Avon Group (7)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1908, p. 65; 1909, p. 84; 1914, p.
122; 1917, p 95. Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum, Rept. 1925, pt. A, p. 114.

The Avon group of three claims is about 1 mile south of the west end
of Kleanza lake on a small creek that feeds the south fork of Kleanza
creek. The claims are on the north side of the Kleanza range and approxi-
mately 16 miles southeast of Usk. The foot trail to the claims connects
with the Kleanza Creek pack-horse trail at the north fork of Kleanza
creek. No work has been done on these claims for about twenty years.

In a steep-walled gulch, at elevation 3,350 feet, a wide band of lime-
stone striking north and dipping 45 degrees east has been altered and sili-

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