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Tyee Group (Locality 129) Reference: Annual Report cf the Minister of Mines, British Columbia 1930.

The Tyee group of mineral claims is east of Kitsault river and about half a mile south of Clearwater creek. Access is furnished by a short trail branching from the Kitsault trail 14 miles north of Trout creek.

The country rock consists of tuffs striking northeast and dipping at moderate angles northwest. The mineral deposits are narrow veins of galena 1 to 6 inches wide. One exposure shows galena scattered through rock over a much greater width, but this occurrence has not been traced beyond the exposure. The narrow veins strike north-northeast, are approxi- mately vertical, and consist of fairly pure galena. |

United Metals Mining Company, Limited (Locality 170)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1980.

United Metals Mining Company, Limited, owns three claims in Illiance valley north of the Bellevue group and about 14 miles from Alice Arm. Access is furnished by the Illiance trail.

The deposits consist of lenticular veins that lie in sheared tuffs and breccias and strike north parallel to the shear planes of the enclosing rocks. The main showing is a vertical vein up to 3 feet wide and consisting of quartz, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite. The vein has not been traced for much more than 50 feet. It consists largely of sulphide.

Utopia Group (Locality 185)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1922, 1924, and 1929.

The Utopia group of six mineral claims is 14 miles north of Alice Arm. Access is furnished by a trail from Alice Arm.

The mineral deposit is a light coloured aplite dyke cutting argillites. The dyke is about 10 feet wide and holds numerous narrow quartz veinlets which contain pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite.

Vanguard Group (Locality 127)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A, and Sum. Rept. 1928, pt. A.

The Vanguard group of four mineral claims is 3,000 feet above sea- level in the area between Kitsault river and West Fork creek. The property is 22 miles from Alice Arm. <A good pack trail branches from the Kitsault River trail at the mouth of West Fork creek and crosses the Vanguard claims.

The country rock consists of felsite and dark grey tuff and breccia in contact with argillite a few hundred feet northeast of the mineral show- ings. Several mineral deposits are known and all contain copper minerals and values in silver and gold. The chief deposit is approximately parallel