137

Seven hundred and fifty yards southward along the strike of the
mineralized zone exposed on the Union Jack claim, is a shaft, now full of
water, sunk in hematite ore and situated on the American Flag claim at a
point just east of the trail. Outcrops are practically limited to the margins
of the shaft. The east boundary of the ore-body appears to be a dyke;
towards the west side of the ore mass, vein quartz is abundant. Judging
from the material on the dump, much first-class, compact, hematite ore
was encountered in the shaft. Blakemore! describing this occurrence
at the time the shaft was sunk, states that the ore zone was nearly 20 feet
thick and that the thickness and quality remained constant to the bottom
of the shaft. Langley? states that a sample taken across the 10 feet of
one: now exposed at the surface gave, on assaying, the following
results:

Per cent
Metallic iron 55
Sulphur....... trace
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SHIGEEs congo advaoad acon sob 6 hb SO teas Oe AH OS Tapa BROT cmOOrE Onan cocrAaD 6-10

The body of ore at the shaft on the American Flag claims appears to
strike in a southerly direction and to dip at a very high angle to the west.
No other outcrops of rock or ore occur in the immediate vicinity and none
for long distances in either direction along the line of strike.

Southeast of the shaft, 225 yards away, near the southeast corner of
the American Flag claim, a shallow trench shows a few feet of altered
quartzite seamed with hematite and holding at one place, much pyrite.

On the O-Ray claim 400 yards south of the American Flag shaft,
another shaft, now full of water, has been sunk in hematite ore, as
is indicated by the materials on the dump. Blakemore’ states that the
shaft is 50 feet deep and the ore-body nearly 20 feet thick. Langley
referring to this occurrence states that the shaft is 35 feet deep and that
“at the bottom . . . . an 18-foot cresscut has been run from
wall to wall. Across this width, a representative sample was taken which
ran as follows: iron, 55-2 per cent; sulphur, nil; phosphorus, trace;
silica, 7-9 per cent. The wall-rock exposed in either face of the crosscut
was decomposed quartzite heavily impregnated with iron”. ero

The ore zone at the O-Ray shaft appears to strike in a southerly
direction and to dip at a very high angle to the west. Seventy yards
southward, a short trench on the west side of the trail discloses quartz-
veined rock followed eastward by 6 feet of hematite bearing a little vein
quartz. No other exposures either of rock or the mineralized zones occur
in the immediate vicinity. To the east, on the east slope of the ridge
top, 350 yards away, a shallow trench shows altered quartzite sparingly
impregnated with hematite and vein quartz.

A series of exposures occur farther south on the Maple Leaf claim.
East of the trail a shaft has been sunk at a point nearly 800 yards south
of the O-Ray shaft. The material on the dump indicates that ore and
an altered igneous rock were encountered. Blakemore® states that this
shaft was sunk 50 feet on a ‘“‘vein”’ of ore 6 feet wide.

1 Op. cit., Jour. Can. Min. Inst., vol. 5, p. 77.

2 Op. cit., Ann. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1921, p. 147.
3 Op. cit., p. 78.

4 Op. cit., p. J47.

5 Op. cit., p. 77.