NORTH-WESTERN DISTRICT (No. 1).

On the Silver Cap group of two claims, owned by Pete Hamel and Dan

Devil’s Elbow McShane, several small disconnected showings of chiefly zinc-blende with

Mountain. occasionally some galena haye been prospected by stripping and several open-

euts. Lenticular showings of pyrrhotite and magnetite carrying a little

chalcopyrite have also been open-cutted. A sample across the best showing, in a 12-foot open-cut,

at altitude 3,900 feet, assayed: Gold, 0.02 oz. to the ton; silver, 0.6 oz. to the ton; lead, nil; zine, 4 per cent.

These mineral occurrences are very irregular and lenticular in form. They are associated with a complex of highly metamorphosed argillite and limestone, in places altered completely to garnetite and intersected in all directions by spurs from the underlying granite. The occur- rence represents very shallow and shattered pendant remnants and does not offer much com- mercial promise.

On the Stikine group, owned by Jack Bodel and C. A. Tervo, of Telegraph Creek and Victoria, the usual assessment has been carried on. Similar small lenticular showings of zinc- blende in garnetite, in which are patches of good-grade ore, are affected by the same adverse geological conditions as the Silver Cap showings and do not offer much commercial promise.

On the Peelock claims, owned by Sandy McNab, of Telegraph Creek, five extensive open-cuts covering 150 feet along a bluff face have been driven in solid garnetite, in which some very sparse zinc-blende and galena mineralization is revealed after careful search. The showing is not of commercial importance and is acutely affected by the generally adverse geological condition of Deyil’s Elbow southerly slope.

On the Apex group, owned by Pete Hamel and Dan McShane, of Telegraph Creek, explora- tion was carried out during the season. This group was not examined. It is situated at about 5,500 feet altitude in a pendant complex of argillite and limestone that can be seen to be less disturbed than the area already described, and to be of about 3,000 feet thickness above the underlying granite.

The Central group, owned by Pete Hamel, is situated on the lower altitudes of Devil’s Elbow southerly slope. Time was not available for the group to be examined, but an engineer who had seen the showing reported it to be the most promising showing on the mountain. It has been explored by open-cuts which are reported to have exposed good chalcopyrite mineralization in a replacement zone. .

The northerly and south-easterly slopes of Devil’s Elbow mountain, which are farther away from the granite-contact, would offer a more promising region for prospecting than the slope to the Stikine river.

This group of twelve claims is owned by Frank Jackson, of Jackson’s Landing.

Jackson. It is situated at altitude 3,500 feet on the south side of the Chutine river, about 114 miles from the stream and about 4 miles from the mouth of the

river. Three well-defined shear-zones occur in a light-coloured pyritized volcanic associated with gabbro. Two of the zones, 3 to 4 feet in width and several hundred feet apart, strike north- westerly and dip steeply south. What appears to be the main zone, in which undelimited widths up to 10 feet are exposed, strikes approximately north-east along the crest of the ridge for a distance of about 700 feet. The outcrops are intensely oxidized, but in the solid places show encouraging mineralization of zinc-blende, some galena, chalcopyrite, malachite, and azurite, with a little grey copper. A sample across 3.5 feet of quartz vein mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, specularite, and some galena assayed: Gold, 0.02 oz. to the ton; silver, 2.4 oz. to the ton; copper, 0.4 per cent.; lead, trace. A sample of the solid material on the dump from an oxidized outcrop 5 feet wide at 3,650 feet altitude assayed: Gold, trace; silver, 4.8 oz. to the ton; copper, 1.6 per cent.; lead, 1 per cent.; zinc, 5 per cent. A sample of the solid material from the dump of an oxidized outcrop 7.5 feet wide assayed: Gold, trace; silver, 3 oz. to the ton; lead, 1 per cent.; zinc, 6 per cent. A sample from 4 feet of solid vein-matter from a heavily oxidized outcrop totalling 10.2 feet in width assayed: Gold, trace; silver, 3 oz. to the ton; copper, 0.4 per cent.; lead, 0.8 per cent.; zinc, 6 per cent. The showing warrants syste- matic exploration and the area, particularly the lower elevations, should be further prospected.

Near the head of Limpoke creek thirteen claims were staked during July for Barrington Bros., of Wrangell, on a reported extensive low-grade showing of chalcopyrite occurring in what appears from hand samples to be a pegmatite. Supplies and equipment were taken in late in the season for the exploration of the occurrence during the winter.