Nelson Creek fault may reveal areas of more intense fracturing where zones of more
closely spaced veins might be found.

| References: Geol. Surv., Canada, Ann. Rept., Vol. III, Pt. C, 1889, p. 40; Geol.
Surv., Canada, Mem. 149, 1926, p. 212; Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 181, 1935, p. 37;
Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1877, p. 896; 1933; p. 126; 1985, p. C 27.]

The Acme group of six located claims is held by Adolph Gustafson,

Acme (14). of Stanley. The claims extend southward down the ridge toward

Stanley from the southern boundary of Lots 1666 and 1665. Some

work was done on the showings many years ago, but most of the exploratory work has
been done by the present owner.

The claims are underlain by hard, light-grey, slabby quartzite which near the
south-west corner of Lot 10435 grades into a bed of pea-pebble conglomerate. The
rocks strike about north 5 degrees east and dip 20 to 30 degrees east. The Last Chance-
Nelson Creek fault runs through the claims, and it is believed that a strand of the fault
is exposed in the westernmost open-cut where 2 feet of gouge and crushed quartz strike
about north 30 degrees east.

The showings are at about elevation 4,700 feet, approximately 800 feet higher than
Stanley. (A) The westernmost showing (see Fig. 5) is a 6-inch quartz vein exposed
on the surface and in a shaft 10 feet deep. The vein strikes north 5 degrees east and
dips 55 degrees west and is sparsely mineralized with pyrite and galena. Specimens
containing fine free gold in the small cavities from which pyrite had been leached were
seen on the dump. A sample of oxidized quartz from the vein was crushed and on
panning yielded a tail of very fine gold. The fineness of gold from this vein is listed in
Table II. A parallel 8-inch quartz vein lies 20 feet to the east, but it contains no
visible mineralization and is not known to contain any gold.

(B) An adit was driven 188 feet on a bearing north 35 degrees west to intersect
the downward extension of these veins at a depth of 75 feet. In it, hard grey quartzite
strikes north 15 degrees east and dips 30 degrees east. Two narrow veins are crossed
by the adit, which is still short of its objective. The first vein, 57 feet in from the
portal, is 4 inches wide and strikes north 15 degrees east. Near the back of the drift
it is cut off by a small bedded fault. Farther in a parallel 6- to 7-inch vein was crossed.
It is stated by the owner that both these veins contain visible gold.

(C) Three hundred feet uphill to the north a vein striking north 30 degrees east
and dipping 60 to 70 degrees north-westward is exposed for a length of about 150 feet
by several pits and open-cuts. The vein is up to 12 inches wide and is sparsely mineral-
ized with pyrite and galena. Some fine free gold is said to have been obtained from it.

(D) About 600 feet to the north-east a vein striking north 15 degrees east and
dipping 70 degrees westward has been traced along its length by pits and stripping for
about 300 feet. The quartz is up to 18 inches wide and is sparingly mineralized with
pyrite, galena, and some sphalerite. At the surface much of the pyrite has been leached,
but several small concentrations of galena may be seen. Selected pieces of quartz
mineralized with galena (sample 169F) assayed: Gold, 0.12 oz. per ton; silver, 1 oz. per
ton; and lead, 2.2 per cent. Fifty feet to the west another parallel vein is exposed in
a trench 60 feet long. The quartz is 6 to 14 inches wide and is sparingly mineralized
with pyrite and galena. A sample (172F) of quartz, with the most abundant pyrite
from this vein, assayed: Gold, nil; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton.

(EZ) On the east side of the 300-foot vein described above under (D) and extending
downhill for several hundred feet are three or more parallel veins up to 3 feet wide,
mineralized with pyrite and galena and striking north 85 degrees east. From one of
them a selected sample of galena (sample 171F) assayed: Gold, 0.01 oz. per ton; Silver,
32.9 oz. per ton; and lead, 79.7 per cent. Between these veins are others, strike north
15 degrees east and dip 70 degrees westward, which with the easterly striking veins
form a conjugate fracture pattern. A selected sample (170F) of leached and rusty
quartz from one of the northerly striking veins assayed: Gold, 0.41 oz. per ton; silver,
0.5 oz. per ton.

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