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(46 b) David Deposit

LOCATION

The David claim adjoins the Conqueror group on the east, and the
showings are located 1,600 feet due southeast of the falls on Bugaboo creek.
The old trail to them has been obliterated. The country is in general
similar to that on the Conqueror, except that it has a steeper slope towards
Bugaboo creek. The deposit lies on the side hill at elevations between
1,400 and 1,600 feet (barometric) above sea-level.

HISTORY AND OWNERSHIP

The David mineral claim was located in 1901 and Crown-granted in
1906. The principal owners are J. W. McGregor, Harry Maynard, James
Baker, and L. H. Anderson, of Victoria, B.C.!

GEOLOGY

The principal showings on this claim are near its southwest corner,
about 1,600 feet due southwest of the falls on the Conqueror, and from
200 to 500 feet south of a line joining the Conqueror and Little Bobs-
Baden Powell deposits (See Figure 27). The claim covers the north-
westerly facing slope of a prominent ridge on which is also situated the
Sirdar deposit. Near the southeastern corner of the claim are steep
bluffs of diorite, similar to those near the Sirdar, but towards the centre
of the southern part of the claim, and in the vicinity of the workings, the
country flattens to some degree and drift-covered slopes mantled with
thick timber lead down to Bugaboo creek.

Rock exposures are not sufficiently abundant in the proximity of the
deposit to reveal clearly the bedrock relations. The only nearby exposures
are in the trenches and pits and the only rocks now revealed are diorite
and a highly metamorphosed variety consisting of epidote and actinolite.
From the location of the deposit in the belt of country comprising the
Conqueror, Sirdar, and Little Bobs-Baden Powell, and from the location of
a diorite-limestone contact a few hundred feet distant, it is probable that
similar rock relations occur here.

OCCURRENCE OF THE MAGNETITE

There is a dearth of information regarding the character of the mag-
netite occurrences on this claim, both in the literature of the past twenty
years and as revealed on the ground today. Lindeman (16, page 11) states
that ‘within a distance of 400 feet along a slope some strippings have
exposed a good magnetite in several places, but do not give sufficient
information to warrant an estimate of ore.” Brewer (21, page 16) states
that “open-cuts have been made in several places, exposing magnetite of
approximately the same grade” as at the Conqueror. These constitute the
only statements regarding the deposit on the David claim that could be
found in the literature.

Magnetite is exposed today in a series of pits and trenches running
nearly parallel to the west line of the claim and extending in a north and
south direction for 235 feet. The walls of these workings are badly caved,

1 Personal communication from J. W. McGregor.