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tapping the lead at 40 feet depth and showing the same class of ore, whereas
copper was expected to be found” (29).
The deposit is evidently of no value as an immediate source of iron
ore.
Bibliography

See page 158 for further details
29, Ann. Rept., 1903, p. 194; Ann. Rept., 1907, p. 199.

Kea (56) June Deposit, Quatsino Sound
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(See Figure 44)
LOCATION

The June group, consisting of five Crown-granted mineral claims, is
located on an easterly-facing slope leading down to Alice and Victoria
lakes, and is from 4 to 6 miles east of June landing, on the southeast arm
of Quatsino sound. The workings may be reached by a good pack trail
from June landing, over which all the supplies are hauled for the Coast
Copper Company’s operations at the Old Sport mine. The magnetite
showings are only 200 yards southeast of the trail, mainly on the June
claim. The tunnel and dump may be seen from the trail by looking
southerly across June creek.

The deposit occurs in thickly timbered country with dense under-
brush, and many of the old workings are obscured by a second growth of
evergreens. They are on a gentle slope facing June creek to the north-
west, and have elevations varying between 490 feet (portal of tunnel)
and 630 feet above sea-level. Rock exposures are few except on top of
the knoll at the southwest where an old quarry reveals some geological
relationships.

HISTORY AND OWNERSHIP

This group contains the Amazon, Helen, June, Olga, and Iron Knob
claims, owned by the Copper Mountain Mining and Development Company
of Tacoma, U.S.A., which were located in 1901 and 1902 as a copper pros-
pect. The tunnel was driven several years ago in the hope of intersecting
the body of magnetite and bornite exposed in the large open-cut, but as
this was unsuccessful, development was abandoned. In 1916, N.S. Clarke
and associates of Seattle took a bond on the property and prospected other
parts of the ground, mainly for copper. Since that time no further work
has been done.

GEOLOGY

Hornblende diorite, andesite, andesitic tuff, and limestone are all
exposed in the vicinity of the magnetite showings, but the geological
relationships between these rocks were not definitely determined. Lime-
stone was only found in one exposure on a cliff face where it is silicified and
in vertical contact with diorite. Nests of crystalline calcite and grains of
galena are scattered through the limestone. The contacts between the
diorite and the volcanic rocks within the tunnel were well-marked, and
appear to be intrusive in character. It seems probable that the diorite
occurs as a number of parallel dykes or sills in the andesites and tuffs,

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