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Angell group owned by E. M. Angell (See Silver Mitts group). A good
trail leads along the north side of the creek, crossing it about half a mile
above the Mitts cabin, from where a steep switchback trail leads up the
mountain to the workings at 4,000 feet.

Above timber-line a series of andesite and basalt flows, ranging from
20 to 50 feet in thickness, stand out as steep rock bluffs. The flows strike
from east to southeast and dip 50 degrees south. At elevation 4,000 feet
a white, quartz-albite dyke striking south and dipping 45 degrees east runs
up the steep face of the mountain. An open-cut on the dyke shows from
2 to 6 inches of altered andesite porphyry wall-rock on the upper side of
the dyke, but there are no sulphides. One hundred feet west a 35-foot adit
has been driven along the foot-wall of a parallel quartz-albite dyke, but
again no ore was found. The adit was driven because of the occurrence
of galena and chalcopyrite in an altered zone along the foot-wall of the
dyke at 100 feet higher elevation. The ore lens is from 2 to 3 feet wide
and possibly 30 feet long, and is localized along the foot-wall side of the
dyke at a point where the dyke makes a sharp turn to the east and con-
nects in a short distance with the main body of the dyke, which continues
up the steep mountain slope. A 24-inch channel sample taken across
the vein assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0-68 ounce a ton; lead, 1-09 per
cent. The vein contains in addition a little copper for which a test was
not made.

At elevation 3,780 feet, directly below the workings mentioned above,
there is a 2-foot quartz vein exposed on the short, steep, rock slide, above
which the vein is drift covered. The vein strikes south 70 degrees east
and dips north 55 degrees. It is in a fine-grained andesite or basalt. The
vein quartz is well mineralized with chalcopyrite and bornite and contains
a little very fine-grained galena. A selected sample across the best part
of the vein assayed: gold, 0-02 ounce a ton; silver, 6-68 ounces a ton;
lead, 0-96 per cent; copper, 6-98 per cent.

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References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1929, p. 150; 1930, p. 135.

This group consists of the Blue Jack Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 claims,
which together with the Galena, Angell View, and Butte Angell groups
comprise a consolidated group of twenty claims named the Butte Angell
group by the owner, E. M. Angell of Prince Rupert. The Silver Mitts
group is 9 miles as the crow flies east from Usk on the south side of the
north fork of Chimdemash creek about a mile above the forks. The claims
are reached by a branch pack-horse trail from the Chimdemash Creek trail,
which follows the north side of the north fork to the Silver Mitts cabin
at elevation 1,840 feet.

On the mountain, on the southeast side of the creek, a trail leads
to an adit (elevation 2,050 feet) driven south 15 degrees east in the andesite
country rock for 35 feet. One hundred feet above the adit there is a fine-
grained, quartz-albite dyke altered and silicified and impregnated with
about 2 per cent of pyrite. The dyke is about 10 feet wide, strikes north
75 degrees east, and dips southeast into the mountain at 70 degrees. The