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the distribution of tho metals. High gold content occurs from
near the base of the mountain (Coronado) to near the top (Mamie),
but gold is absent in nearby veins that occur in fen ceue range.
Silver and lead are abundant near the base of the nountain in the
Henderson and Coronado, but to a 600-foot depth in the former
there is no change. Galena occurs in the Victory, Mayflower,
Canary, and Necpawa in places in fair amounts at clevations well
above the Mamie where none is reported throughout a very consider-
able range up the slope.

The production of over $1,000,000 worth of ore from the
Henderson vein and the developed showings and grade of ore
indicate that some veins of this type have economic value under
most conditions of metal prices. The deposits, in andesitic,
dacitic, and rhyolitic volcanics, occur mainly on the lower end
steeper part of the mountain. Above them where the slope for a
stretch is less stecp the rocks are in the main woll oxposed,
and show little evidence of fracturing or of mineralization.
The deposits occur near an area of Skeena formation which just
below the dump of the lowest adit on the Victory vein lies as i

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a shell on the mountain slope and has dips of 60 degrees and 4
less to the southwest. A 2- to 3-inch weathered vein in the
Skecna formation occurs directly on the strike of, is similar to,
and believed to be a continuation of, the Victory vein. This and
other similarly mineralized, gash veins in the Skeena indicate

that the formation is older than the mineralization.

Vamie = & series of open-cuts and natural exposures indicate that

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the Mamie deposit may be continuous for almost 3,700 feet from if
somewhat above the lowest adit at 4,270 feet nearly Cirectly up

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tho mountain to 5,500 fect. In the central part the coposit is i