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Wheaton Creek, on the ridge west of Alice Shea Creek, and on
the ridges to the north and south of Philippon Creek. In

fact, there are stringers in most of the sedimentary areas.
There are some, up to a foot wide, in a limestone bed on the
Turnagain slope of the ridge north of Philippon Creek. Other
veins are in outcrop areas of the diorite and quartz-diorite
intrusives. None, however, were at any time seen in serpentine
Even quartz veins in the diorite on the ridge west of Alice
Shea Creek ended at the contact of the serpentine with the in-
trusive.

The veins in general are narrow, many being less than 2
feet wide. The stringers in the slate and schist are entirely
quartz; whereas, some of the wider veins are composed largely
of white milky quartz together with a small amount of calcite
or ankerite. Many of the veins lack sulphide mineralization,
but a few contain a small amount of pyrite in scattered grains
and patches. Pyrite was the only sulphide seen in the quartz
veins.

Samples were taken of the best mineralized material from
five separate veins. The assay return in each instance was
nil for both gold and silver. Other samples of oxidized vein-
quartz were roasted, crushed and panned in the field but yield-
ed no trace of gold.

A 22-inch quartz vein is partly exposed in an open-cut
at the south end of the bench, about 900 feet south of Bar-
rington's camp. The vein appears on the contact between ser-
pentine and the sediments that lie to the north. The quartz
is white, watery-looking, sparsely mineralized with pyrite,
and is broken and oxidized near the surface. An assay of a
sample of this quartz yielded nil for gold and silver. Some
of the oxidized material from the vein and overlying debris
was concentrated by washing in a gold pan: even the concen-
trates assayed nil for gold.

A group of six mineral claims, the Acme Nos. 1 to 6,
was staked by H. Ficklin to cover the area around the above
mentioned vein exposure. The group was staked along loca-
tion-lines running north-westward, parallel to the strike of
the slate and argillite which it covers. These claims strad-
dle Wheaton Creek to the north of the serpentine-sedimentary
contact near Barrington's camp (see Fig. 3).

Very little work has been done on the claims, and it is
understood that no veins containing gold have been found.

During the summer of 1939 considerable interest was

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