aa Two ore-bodies "A" and "si have been discovered to date. They are both in limestone bre¢tcia. Cinn&bar is the only mineral of economic importance and the best ore is found in the breccia nearest the fault planes. Much of the cinnabar occurs as veinlets, blebs, and individual grains filling minute fissures, and in places the cinnabar forms the breccia cement. Cinnabar also occurs in solution cavities, as coatings on the cleavage planes and faces of the calcite crystals. The limestone has also been partly replaced by cinnabar, especially where the wall-rock is finely fractured. The resultant ore-bodies are quite irregular in outline. iy The cinnabar is the massive red variety. Gangue minerals are calcite and quartz. Coarsely~crystalline, pre-cinnaber calcite occurs along fault planes and fills solution cavities and veinlets of post- Cinnabar calcite intersect the ore. Very little quartz was observed in the ore. Most of it is fine-grained, but a few crystals were observed in open cavities. Quartz and cinnabar were deposited contemporaneously. Snell Property The Snell property (See Figure 2) is at the junction of Silver and Kenny Creeks, 26 miles by road from Takla Landing and 10 miles north of Bralorne mercury mine. The claims were staked in the summer of 1941 by Mr. G. Snell and associates. Bralorne Gold Mines, Limited, acquired an option on the property in the autumn of 1941 but, following some sur-~ face exploration, allowed it to expire later in the year. Consolidated — Mining and Smelting Company has held the property under option since and has undertaken extensive surface development and diamond drilling. Qutcrops are scarce except along the creeks, as most of the property is overlain by a heavy mantle of drift. About 1,000 feet south of Snell Creek the drift deposits include at least 120 feet of stratified sand and gravel. Interbedded limestone, argillaceous quartzite, tuff, slate, and schist of Permian age are exposed along Silver Creek and on the lower part of Snell and Prout Creeks. The beds strike northerly and dip steeply to the east. The various lithologic units occur in lenses up to 50 feet thick and several hundred feet long. The limestone and argil~ laceous rocks are the normal Permian types. The tuffs are cream and purple schistose rocks. ifs ; About 1,000 feet up Snell and Prout Creeks green andesites and brownish sandstones of Jurassic age are exposed. They appear to trend northerly and dip about 45 degrees to the west. Near the lower forks of Snell Creek interbedded red hematitic tuff and stratified limestone out~- crop. These rocks are thought to be part of the Permian series, although they may possibly be of Upper Triassic age. The Pinchi fault zone crosses the property from north to south and the fault contact between Permian and Mesozoic strata probably lies just east of the lower forks of Snell Creek. However, if the rocks out- cropping at the lower forks of Snell Creek are Upper Triassic, and not Permian as believed, this fault contact would probably lie just west of the forks of Snell Creek. Many subsidiary faults, striking and dipping in various directions, cut the Permian strata. The more important of these strike north to northwesterly and dip 45 to 75 degrees south to southwest. They are well exposed at the mouth of Snell Creek. The crush zones along the faults are usually less than 6 feet wide. Cinnabar is the only mineral of economic importance on the property. It is associated with minor amounts of stibnite. An ore-body about 40 feet long by 6 feet wide, and carrying 4 to 6 pounds of mercury a ton, occurs in limestone outcropping along Silver Creek at the mouth of Snell Creek. This body ends at a depth of 12 feet against a fault that strikes north 10 degrees east and dips 45 degrees southwest. Most of the ore in this deposit is contained in a siliceous paystreak 4 to 6 in- ches wide that follows a slip plane.