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The rocks exposed in the adit are like those on the Silver Standard
property, consisting of grey, coarse- to fine-grained, massive arkose beds
with interbedded tuffs and finely laminated argillites. These sediments
strike dominantly northeast and dip from 10 to 25 degrees southeast.

A 6-inch channel sample taken across the vein in the roof of the drift
25 feet northeast of the crosscut assayed: gold, 0-01 ounce a ton; silver,
0-028 ounce a ton; lead, a trace; zinc, 0-10 per cent. Another 6-inch
channel sample, taken across the vein in the roof of the drift 40 feet north-
east of the crosscut, assayed: gold, 0:04 ounce a ton; silver 0°35 ounce a
ton; lead, a trace; zinc, 0-10 per cent.

At 430 feet from the portal, a 2-inch vein of quartz and calcite dipping
45 degrees east is cut. The adit is a few feet short of striking a possible
continuation of the main vein from the Silver Standard mine.

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References: Geo. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1912, p. 105; Mem. 110, 1919, pp. 27-32.
Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1911, pp. 81 and 99; 1912, pp. 112 and
116; 1913, p. 105; 1914, p. 194; 1915, p. 76; 1916, pp. 89 and 119; 1917, p. 106;
1918, p. 115; 1919, p. 101; 1920, p. 84; 1921, p. 97; 1922, p. 98; 1923, p. 105;
1924, p. 93.

The Silver Standard mine is on Glen Mountain about 6 miles by good
motor road northwest of New Hazelton railway station. The principal
veins and mine workings are on the west side of the mountain between
elevations of 1,200 and 2,000 feet. The property was first staked in 1910
by Messrs. McBean and Long, from whom it was purchased and developed
by Stewart, Welsh, McLeod, and associates of Vancouver. The first
shipments of gold-silver-lead-zine ore were made in 1913, and by June
1917, 2,229 tons of silver-lead ore had been shipped, carrying 746,259
pounds of lead, 516-8 ounces of gold, and 304,411 ounces of silver, with an
average of 20-3 per cent of zinc. In 1916 and to the end of May 1917
393-9 tons of zine ore were shipped, which averaged 43-16 per cent of zinc,
0-24 ounce of gold, and 60-02 ounces of silver, making a total of 328,050-5
ounces of silver. In 1918 a 50-ton mill of the water concentrator type was
built. About 4,000 tons of ore was treated in the mill in both 1919 and
1920, but the mine was closed throughout 1921. The mine reopened for
8 months early in 1922, when an additional 900 tons or ore was mined and
milled. From 900 tons, 165 tons of concentrates were produced with returns
of 45 ounces of gold, 20,191 ounces of silver, 21,071 pounds of zinc, and
30,979 pounds of lead. The 1923 Annual Report of the Minister of Mines,
British Columbia, gives the production record of the Silver Standard mine
as: 14,500 tons of ore mined and milled to produce 1,100 ounces gold,
626,000 ounces silver, 1,225,000 pounds lead, 1,400,000 pounds zinc, with a
eross value in the neighbourhood of $500,000.

The property was under active development by Canadian Cadillac
Gold Mines, Limited, of Montreal, during 1938, but operations were sus-
pended early in 1939 owing to lack of funds.

Glen Mountain is composed of a thick series of gently folded sedi-
mentary rocks ranging from coarse, grey, impure sandstones and grey-
wacke to finely laminated, grey to green argillites. The sandstones contain