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The lower adit, 125 feet vertically below the main adit, is now caved
about the portal and could not be examined. It is described by O’Neill
(1919) as follows.

“The lower tunnel is 155 feet long and follows two small stringers
which are 2 to 3 feet apart and separated by partly decomposed granite;
farther in the tunnel the stringers join and then separate as before. Each
of the stringers carries an inch or two of chalcopyrite.”

The vein is exposed at intervals above the main adit by four open-
cuts on a 40-degree slope, the top cut being at elevation 2,300 feet. Above
the topmost cut the vein is concealed by talus.

Hecla Claim (23)

The Hecla claim, owned by George Tallman of New Hazelton, is at
the head of Station Creek on the north slope of Rocher Déboulé Mountain,
3 miles south of New Hazelton. It is reached by a good trail that follows
the east side of the creek.

An altered aplite dyke 9 feet wide intrudes the granodiorite on the
steep slope at the head of Station Creek. In an open-cut at elevation
3,900 feet the dyke strikes south up the slope and dips 75 degrees west.
The dyke is cut by small quartz stringers over a width of 4 feet on the
hanging-wall side, and the silicified rock is impregnated with a little pyrite
and chalcopyrite. A representative sample of the mineralized rock assayed:
gold, a trace; silver, 1-06 ounces a ton; copper, 0-22 per cent. At
elevation 4,000 feet the 9-foot dyke is approached by a pegmatitic dyke
about 6 feet wide. The pegmatitic dyke is prospected by an adit that
extends 20 feet south as a crosscut with a 30-foot drift. The pegmatitic
dyke is about flat-lying. It is bleached and somewhat altered, and is
impregnated with a little disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite. A repre-
sentative sample of the mineralized rock collected from the face of the
west drift assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0-53 ounce a ton; copper, 0-39
per cent.

Golden Wonder Group (24)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1917, p. 107; 1918, p. 113. Geol.
Surv., Canada, Mem. 110, 1919, p. 24.

The Golden Wonder group is at the foot of Rocher Déboulé Mountain,
4 miles south of New Hazelton and about 1 mile east of Carnaby railway
station. The road to Comeau’s ranch passes close to the workings.

Several narrow zones containing copper were discovered on this property
by Harris and Comeau about 1914. Later the claims were secured by M. W.
Sutherland, who in 1917 and 1918 put down a 100-foot shaft on the best
looking vein. The claims reverted to the Crown some years ago.

Two parallel zones lying 115 feet apart have been traced by open-cuts
for 200 feet across a low ridge on the southwest side of a small lake. The
ridge is comprised of poorly bedded tuffs with some interbedded argillite.
The strata strike south and dip 75 degrees west. The ridge trends in a
direction somewhat east of north, and the zones strike north 85 degrees east