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these intrusive rocks to be different from the other intrusives
and related to the Coast Range batholith. The ores here are
copper, zinc, and lead. On the Big Four property on Clear
creek, where the showings are reported to be large, she gold
content is unimportant and it is also low in silver. On Milk
ereek silver assays are usually good (12 ounces to 70 ounces a
ton). The deposits are mainly small veins (6 inches to 4 feet
wide), though wide quartz veins high in gold and low in silver
(2 ounces to 5 ounces a ton) are said to oceur on the Kitchener
in granodiorite near the contact.

On the Milk-Clear Creek section the following are
described: the Big Four depositsL (1929, page 17; 1926, page 38;
1920, page 90; 1917, page 120; and 1914, page 229), the Milk
Creek deposits, Surprise (Morning Star and New York)i (1920,
page 91), Kitchener Groupl»2(1925, page 138) and GrandviewL
(1929, page 170).

Southern Part. Not a great deal is known about the southern
part of the area between Telkwa and Morice rivers, but some
granitic masses have been reported. Sparsely mineraiized
deposits, mainly copper-silver, occur low down on Sunrise creek
which the railway crosses between Wolcott and Barrett (Black
Bear and Silver Stream, 1931, page 75, Confederation and Vaino,
1928, page 170), and a prospector reports having found mineral-

ization on the north fork of the Morice, some of which gave

high gold assays. In the main it would appear probable that i,
this section, which is not very accessible, has been prospected

relatively little.

Morice River and Lake
Morice lake can be reached either by river boat or

trail from Houston. Lay describes the arene and notes that in

2 ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C. Bae

2 pept. of Mines, B.C., Bull. No. 1, 1932.
3 ann. Rept. Minister of Mines, B.C., 1929, p. 178.

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