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King Tut Group (57)

References: Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1924, p. 96; 1927, p. 136; 1928,
p. 161.

The King Tut prospect is on the southwest slope of Hudson Bay
Mountain, 7 miles west of Smithers and 4 mile south of the Duthie mine.
The vein and workings are on the west bank of a small creek about 4 mile
east from the motor road to Smithers. The property was owned by
R. L. Gale, but is now open. In 1924, Milligan Brothers sank a 50-foot
shaft on the vein and exposed it in several open-cuts. J. J. O’Brien and
F. H. Taylor held an option in 1927 and 1928, and explored the vein
from the creek level by a 350-foot crosscut and a 65-foot drift.

The claims are underlain by volcanic rocks, and in the vicinity of the
workings rhyolite, andesite, tuff, and andesite flow breccia are the pre-
dominant types.

A sheared zone ranging from 1 to 4 feet in width has been traced by
open-cuts and a 50-foot shaft for about 500 feet between elevations of
3,400 and 3,600 feet. It lies about 225 feet above the bed of a small moun-
tai stream and runs parallel to the stream. The shearing strikes north
65 to 70 degrees east and dips from 70 degrees southeast to 70 degrees
northwest. In general the sheared zone is very sparsely mineralized. The
sheared rock, in most places rhyolite or andesite, is altered and bleached,
but contains only a little pyrite, siderite, and arsenopyrite. On the dump
at the shaft a few specimens of altered rhyolite were seen that carry up to
3 per cent sulphides, mostly sphalerite with a little galena and chal-
copyrite associated with siderite stringers.

At elevation 3,200 feet a crosscut adit is driven north 24 degrees west
for 350 feet from the bed of the mountain stream. The adit passes through
105 feet of tuff breccia and then enters a zone of rhyolite and andesitic
flows. The contact of the flows and tuff breccia strikes north 40 degrees
east and dips 35 degrees southeast. The sheared zone is intersected at
310 feet from the portal and is followed by a 65-foot drift to the northeast.
It ranges from 1 to 2 feet wide in the drift and is very sparsely mineralized.
In places it carries 1 or 2 per cent of arsenopyrite. A 12-inch channel
sample taken across this vein at the intersection of the crosscut and drift
assayed: gold, a trace; silver, 0:32 ounce a ton.

DESCRIPTIONS OF COAL DEPOSITS
Kispiox Coal Area! (3)

References: Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Repts.: 1909, p. 67; 1912, p. 89; Mem. 69,
pp. 163-167.

Coal seams and carbonaceous shales occur at many places along
Skeena and Kispiox Rivers from their junction to 7 miles above. This
area is underlain by greywacke, shale, and conglomerate. Fossil plants
collected from the coal-bearing beds show a range in age from Kootenay
to Blairmore. The strata are highly disturbed, faulting and overturning

1 Examined by J. E. Armstrong.
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