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southeast. Two shallow shafts are sunk on it about 100 feet apart and ore
is removed between the shafts in a trench 75 feet long and 10 feet deep.
The vein ranges from 6 to 12 inches in width in the surface cuts and carries
about 5 per cent of sulphides. In a cut at the south end of the vein, 130 feet
south of the deeper shaft, an 8-inch channel sample taken across the vein
assayed: gold, 0-025 ounce a ton; silver, 3-16 ounces a ton; lead, nil;
zine, nil.

Fifty feet above the last-mentioned cut, and 360 feet farther south,
there is an exposure of quartz 6 feet in diameter, the strike and dip of
which were indeterminable due to drift cover. A representative sample
of this outcrop assayed: gold, 0-06 ounce a ton; silver, 0-16 ounce a ton.

On the 250-foot level (No. 2 adit) the No. 8 vein is cut by a crosscut
400 feet east of the main shaft. A drift follows the vein 96 feet north and
75 feet south from the crosscut intersection. The vein gangue consists of
white, milky quartz containing up to 10 per cent of fine pyrite and
arsenopyrite, and ranges from 4 feet in width at the crosscut intersection to
8 inches in width at both faces of the drift. An 8-inch channel sample
taken across the vein in the south face of the drift assayed: gold, 0-025
ounce a ton; silver, 0-11 ounce a ton; lead, none. A representative sample
of the vein quartz from the 4-foot lens at the crosscut, carrying about 20
per cent of fine sulphides, assayed: gold, 0-105 ounce a ton; silver, 0-16
ounce a ton.

A parallel vein ranging from 6 to 12 inches wide was seen in the cross-
cut 50 feet west of the No. 8 vein, but no work has been done on it.

Nos. 9 and 10 Veins. These veins lie 400 and 600 feet, respectively,
east of the No. 8 vein and are at an elevation of about 1,970 feet. They
have an average width of 1 foot and each has been traced for about 100 fect.
In both veins the quartz gangue carries up to 5 per cent of pyrite, arseno-
pyrite, galena, and sphalerite. A representative sample from the north cut
on No. 9 vein assayed: gold, 0:03 ounce a ton; silver, 1-73 ounces a ton;
lead, 0-31 per cent; zinc, nil. A representative sample from the main cut
on No. 10 vein assayed: gold, 0-02 ounce a ton; silver, 9-07 ounces a ton;
lead, 1-02 per cent; zinc, 0-15 per cent.

Black Prince Vein. The vein known as the Black Prince is at eleva-
tion 1,940 feet and is 1,000 feet northeast of the No. 9 vein or 1,700 feet
northeast of the shaft on the main vein. It strikes north 55 degrees east
and dips 60 degrees southeast. It is explored by one open-cut and by a
50-foot shaft recorded as sunk in 1911. The vein is 18 inches wide on the
surface and carries about 3 per cent of sulphide, mostly pyrite. A rough
channel sample taken across the vein 50 feet south of the shaft assayed:
gold, 0-04 ounce a ton; silver, 7-46 ounces a ton; lead, 1-07 per cent; zine
1-12 per cent. The Minister of Mines report for 1915 states that 15 tons
of ore from this shaft were shipped that year.

On the east side of the mountain, 1,100 feet southeast of the Black
Prince vein, two short adits were driven in 1911 to explore small veins.
The lower adit, at elevation 1,900 feet, is driven 25 feet west along an
18-inch vein that strikes west and dips 55 degrees north. At the face of the
adit the vein is cut off along a strong cross fault striking north 52 degrees
east and dipping 75 degrees southeast. The vein carries an average of 5
per cent of pyrite and arsenopyrite throughout, and at the portal a pile