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feet in width and has been traced for over 1,500 feet in a northeast direction.
The writer collected half a dozen samples along the zone between elevations
of 1,250 and 1,450 feet, which assayed only traces of gold and silver.

At elevation 1,200 feet, a short distance east of the four pits, a small
quartz lens containing galena and tetrahedrite is exposed in the bed of a
creek.

Excelsior Claim (2)

The Excelsior claim, owned by T. Turner of Terrace, is about 1 mile
northeast of the highway bridge across Zymoetz river, 7 miles northeast
of Terrace. A truck road follows along the north side of the river from
the bridge for half a mile to a cabin, from where a winter road leads to
the discovery. The vein was discovered in September 1936.

A moss-covered rock knoll about 40 feet in diameter protrudes through
the drift cover on a flat-lying part of the mountain-side at elevation 1,300
feet. The west side of the outcrop has been stripped over a width of 10
feet, and the fresh rock broken to reveal sheared and silicified granodiorite
cut by numerous anastomosing quartz stringers. The vein carries approxi-
mately 1 per cent chalcopyrite and 1 per cent pyrite, evenly distributed.
Similarly sheared and silicified granodiorite was seen near the centre of
and on the east side of the outcrop, where the moss had been stripped back
a few feet, so that this sheared zone is probably more than 40 feet wide.
The direction of schistosity is north and south and search should be made
in these directions for the continuation of the shear zone.

The writer collected two samples from the trench on the west side
of the outcrop. A chip sample taken across 4 feet assayed: gold, 0-04
ounce a ton; silver, 0-40 ounce a ton; copper, 0°3 per cent. The second
sample, consisting of several fragments of the vein picked at random in
the rock cut, assayed: gold, 0-04 ounce a ton; silver, 0-32 ounce a ton;
copper, 0-3 per cent. r

As the two assays indicate the presence of gold in the shear zone,
further development work and bulk sampling are advised in view of a
possibility of finding a large low-grade ore-body.

Vicior Group (3)

The Victor group is about 5 miles southeast of Usk on the west slope
of Kleanza mountain. The claims are a mile south of the Columario mine
and a pack-horse trail 2 miles in length leads south from the mine to the
workings. Captain Willman of Usk was the late owner.

Fine-grained, green and grey, andesitic rocks in the vicinity are in-
truded by small stocks of medium-grained, grey diorite. A series of quartz
veins striking southeast and dipping steeply northeast occur along faults
in both andesite and diorite, or along faulted contacts between the two
rock types.

No. 1 vein is a quartz vein, ranging from 15 to 36 inches in width,
that outcrops for over 500 feet up a 33-degree slope between elevations of
3,750 and 4,050 feet. The vein strikes south 35 degrees east and dips
55 degrees northeast. It is enclosed in andesite with a small mass of
diorite along the hanging-wall at the upper end. The vein quartz is