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and some carbonates also occur, The metallic minerals include
pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalorite, and
near the porphyry on the Babine claims some hematite was noted.
Free gold is abundant in places, Pyrite ond arsenopyrite are
the most abundant sulphides and carry most of the gold. On the
Babine, Free Gold, property, pyrite alone is present, and it
carries a high gold content, most of which seems to be embedded
in the pyrite. In the weathered rock it occurs as coarse grains.
In places the galena content is appreciable and is of some
importance because it carries one ounce of silver a ton to the
unit of lead.

Galloway+ notes that the gold veins occur largely in

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the schist belts. Where observed by the writer the schistosity

was very irregular as if it followed bedding planes and was
intricately folded rather than straight and regular as it
commonly is in shear zones. Many of the veins probably follow
the schistosity and conform to irregularities in the structure
of the deposits, so that most veins in the schists as well as in
the volcanics are likely to be irregular.

On the Babine Gold property the gold deposits occur
away from the area of schists in massive andesitic volcanics.
They appear to be confined to a narrow zone of a few hundred
feet near a mass of quartz porphyry to which they are related.
They occur in innumerable, small, and irregular fractures and
shear zones and in a few that are fairly regular and well defined.

Further work on Dome mountain might best be confined
to following the ore in the well-defined, fairly straight, and
steeply dipping zones, even though they do not have as impressive
widths as other showings. Many of the deposits are flat-lying

and as a consequence in places make impressive showings. These

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