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The showing consists of several large boulders and many
smaller picces of carbonatized serpentine containing cinnabar. The
largest boulder is 11 by 7 by 6 feet. This float is contained in poorly
stratified gravel, from 5 to 10 feet thick, resting on boulder clay. The
large boulder lies directly on the boulder clay. Stripping carried out
during the summer of 1941 failed to locate the source of the cinnabar
float. The bedrock exposed is Permian argillite and greywacke.

MURRAY GROUP

This group of claims is situated south of Murray Ridge and
west of the Fort St. James=Manson Creek road, about 6% miles north of
Fort St. James. The claims were staked in 1941 for the Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Company. Several pieces of carbonatized serpentine
containing cinnabar have been found on the property. The claims are
overlain by 5 to 25 feet of boulder clay and gravel, Extensive stripping
has not revealed the source of the cinnabar float. Wherever bedrock has
been exposed it is Jurassic andesite.

OTHER CINNABAR OCCURRENCE

Cinnabar is reported to have been found in the autumn of
1941 in carbonatized serpentine $ mile cast of Takatoot Lake. Claims
were staked for the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. The
property is along the Pinchi fault zone. The writer was unable to visit
the showing.

A few specks of cinnabar have been found in silicified
Permian limestone about # mile east of the north arm of Tehentlo Lake in
the Pinchi fault zone.

Specks of cinnabar occur along a carbonatized and silicified
zone in the Permian schists about 4 miles northwest of the Pinchi Lake
mercury mine. This zone apparently lies along a branch fault of the
Pinchi fault zone.

A group of claims were staked by R. Baker and associates in
Permian limestone about # mile east of Fort St. James. Cinnabar is
reported to occur in the limestone.

A few small particles of cinnabar were observed in the
carbonatized rock along the Pinchi fault zone at the following localities:
at the east end of Tezzeron Lake; along the south face of Pinchi Mountain;
and on the southeast side of Pinchi Lake, :