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Ruth and Francis Group (Locality 82)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1912, 1914,
1918, 1922, 1926, and 1927; Geol. Surv., Canada, Memoir 159.

The Ruth and Francis property is at an elevation of 3,300 feet on
the north side of Glacier creek and east of the Lakeview group. The
country rock is argillite of the lower part of the Hazelton group, intruded
by numerous small and moderate sized dykes. The best-known mineral
deposits are located along a creek bed following a fault. Other mineral
showings exist at a higher elevation, but are not being explored. The
fault strikes north 30 degrees east and is vertical. The extent and
direction of fault movement are not known, but distinct horizontal grooves
are present on the fault walls. The east wall of the fault is the east wall
of the mineral deposit, but the west wall of the fault is obscured by mineral
replacement. The deposit is a vein at least 150 feet long and in most places
is 2 or 3 feet wide, but locally is as much as 7 feet wide. It consists of
quartz, jamesonite, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, and galena,
but the last three minerals are rare. Two drift adits each 75 feet long, the
higher 50 feet above the other, have been driven north along the vein. A
body of solid sulphide several feet wide in the upper adit, according to
Clothier, assays 40 cents in gold, 31-6 ounces of silver, 15 per cent lead,
18 per cent zinc, and 8:3 per cent antimony. The vein is less than 2
feet, wide in the lower adit except at the face where it widens rapidly to
5 feet. Other veins striking at various angles to the main vein are known.
The cross veins so far as known are narrow, but in some places contain
high silver values.

Fractures seen in the adits diverge northward from the fault. Some of
these may be ore-bearing and the wider parts of the vein may be at the
junctions of such fractures with the fault. Development, however, is not
yet extensive enough to show any definite relations between wide ore-
bodies and cross fractures.

Shuniah Mines, Limited
Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1929.

Shuniah Mines, Limited, took options on a number of claims on the
west side of American creek north of the Mountain Boy group. Three
veins are known on the Ruby claim but only one has been explored. This
is a quartz-barite-jasper vein of good size sparsely mineralized with galena,
chalcopyrite, and bornite.

Silver Bell Mining Company, Limited (Locality 97)

Be crence Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1925, 1928,
and 1929.

The Silver Bell Mining Company, Limited, was organized in 1922 to
take over the Silver Bell group of claims on the east side of Portland
canal south of the Silverado group. Narrow veins on the property contain
pyrite, galena, and sphalerite.