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wall assayed: gold, 0-01 ounce to the ton; silver, a trace. On the surface this vein can be traced for 75 feet to the southwest, but for only 15 feet northeast. Another quartz vein occurs 60 feet to the northeast at a little lower elevation. This vein averages 1 foot in width and is well exposed for over 100 feet along its strike. It strikes northeast and dips 35 degrees northwest. A third quartz lens with a similar strike and dipping 15 degrees northwest occurs about 120 feet southwest of the inclined shaft, An adit at an elevation of 650 feet follows this vein for about 40 feet.

One hundred and fifty feet west of the last-mentioned adit a quartz vein is exposed by trenches for 150 feet at an elevation of 800 feet. It sirikes northeast, dips 25 degrees northwest, and ranges from 8 inches in width at its southwest end to 16 inches at the northeast end with a maxi- mum width of 3 feet. It is lightly mineralized with bornite and some chalcocite throughout its length and in one place near the centre of the outcrops these sulphides were seen in comparative abundance. In the southeast and highest pit the quartz is slightly weathered, stained green, and contains small seams of bornite and coarse, free gold. A specimen of the quartz taken from the adjoining upper part of the vein assayed: gold, 0-01 ounce to the ton; silver, a trace. Two other specimens showing free gold were found on the dump of a pit 65 feet to the northeast. Twenty feet northeast of this pit a 17-inch channel sample was taken across the vein with these assay results: gold, 0-04 ounce to the ton; silver, 0-46 ounce to the ton. According to Mr. Darby, caretaker at the mine, there are two other somewhat similar veins at several hundred feet higher altitude on the claim.

Lucky Luke Mine

(See Figure 12)

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B:C.: 1918, p. 110; 1919, p. 98; 1923, p. 104; 1924, p. 88; 1925, p. 125; 1928, p. 146; 1934, p. C4. Geol. Sury., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1925, pt. A, p. 116.

The Lucky Luke mine is on the east slope of Kitsalas mountain at an elevation of 1,000 feet, about 14 miles southwest of Usk. It is approxi- mately 1,500 feet distant from the railway along the foot of the mountain. A rough road leads from the mine to the railway and a fair truck road connects it with Usk. The property consists of four claims, the Lucky Luke, Hummer, Amigo, and Indian, the latter of which encroaches upon an Indian reserve along Skeena river. The owners, L. E. Moodie and R. Lowrie of Usk, operated the property from 1917 until 1923. §. A. Davis carried on development work in 1923 and 1924 and shipped 25 tons of hand-sorted ore which gave returns of: 18 ounces of gold, 316 ounces of silver, and 11,162 pounds of copper. In 1934 R. W. Seely took an option on the property and continued the development work. Nothing was done in 1935.

The country rock on the property is chiefly andesitic flows, some of them porphyritic, and also biotite and chlorite schists. These rocks are cut by a few, narrow, aplitic dykes. A series of narrow, lenticular quartz lenses lies along a fault or shear zone striking north 70 degrees west and