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A 3-foot chip sample taken across the mineral zone in the north pit
assayed: gold, 0:01 ounce a ton; silver, 0:15 ounce a ton; lead, none;
zinc, 0-16 per cent; copper, 0:09 per cent. In a pit 80 feet farther south,
a 24-inch channel sample taken across the vein assayed: gold, 0-005 ounce
a ton; silver, 0:32 ounce a ton; lead, none; zinc, 0:90 per cent; copper,
0-15 per cent.

Silverton Group? (2)

Reference: Ann. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1911, pp. 98-99.

In 1911 the Silverton group of claims on the south side of Utsun
Mountain was staked, but as the results obtained were not encouraging no
further work was done. The showings consist of a number of narrow
quartz veins, 6 to 10 inches wide, filling fissures in sediments. The veins
contain bunches of pyrite and arsenopyrite that in concentrated samples
carry up to 0:70 ounce of gold to the ton.

Silver Bell Claim (4)

Reference: Ann. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1933, p. 97.

The Silver Bell claim, owned by William Jeffrey and Arthur Johnson
of Kispiox, is on the road west of Skeena River, about one-half mile south
of the mouth of Kispiox River.

On the west side of the road a dyke of rusty weathering granodiorite
intrudes dark argillaceous sediments. The dyke is about 50 feet wide and
strikes north 30 degrees east. In a large open-cut, 12 feet wide, on the
southeast side of the dyke, there are three parallel faults that strike west
and dip 75 degrees south. The fault planes are marked by horizontal
slickensiding. A quartz vein ranging from 3 to 6 inches in width occurs
along the middle fissure. The quartz carries about 25 per cent of sulphides,
chiefly arsenopyrite, with varying amounts of pyrite, sphalerite, and
galena. A 4-inch channel sample taken across this vein in the face of the
cut assayed: gold, 0-095 ounce a ton; silver, 2:88 ounces a ton; lead,
3°78 per cent; zinc, 3-95 per cent. A representative sample taken from
a 2-ton stack of hand-sorted ore on the rock dump assayed: gold, 0-09 ounce
a ton; silver, 1-77 ounces a ton; lead, 1-99 per cent; zinc, 3-50 per cent.

About 100 feet farther southwest there are two other 6-inch quartz
veins 20 inches apart, which also strike west across the granodiorite dyke
and dip 75 degrees south. These veins appear barren in the small pit
in which they are exposed, but should be stripped and examined farther
along their strike.

As there are five parallel fissures crossing the dyke in a distance of
100 feet, an effort should be made to trace them west into the sediments
in the higher ground. There is a possibility that vein-forming conditions
were more favourable in the sediments.

2 Examined by J. E. Armstrong.