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Atlas Gold Copper Mining Company, Limited (Locality 29) References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1928 and 1929.

The Atlas Gold Copper Mining Company, Limited, holdings are west of the George Copper group on Upper Bear river. The company diamond- drilled a copper-bearing deposit and by means of diamond drilling also searched for the western extension of one of the George Copper showings, but with discouraging results.

Aztec Group (Locality 58) References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1920 and 1922.

The Aztec group of four mineral claims is west of Bear river opposite Bitter creek.

Two veins in voleanic rocks are exposed at several places on the hill- side at elevations of 2,300 feet and higher. The “ Iron vein” is up to 9 feet wide and consists of quartz containing pyrite and chalcopyrite. The “Copper vein” apparently strikes westward up Bear River ridge. It is a quartz vein mineralized with chalcopyrite and iron sulphides. Open-cuts between elevations of 2,600 and 3,800 feet exposed vein matter up to 6 feet wide believed by the owners to be on the “Copper vein.” It locally contains a foot or more of very high-grade chalcopyrite ore.

Barite Gold Mines, Limited (Locality 23) Helerene bee Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1924 and 925.

The holdings of the Barite Gold Mines, Limited, are on the north side of Bear river near its head and at an elevation of 5,000 feet. Gash veins of barite are numerous in a zone 380 feet wide and several hundred feet long. Barite veins a foot wide occur elsewhere on the property. Another vein a foot wide is sparsely mineralized with galena.

Bayview Mining Company, Limited (Locality 74) References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1919, 1920. 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, and 1929; Geol. Surv., Canada, Memoir 159.

The holdings of the Bayview Mining Company, Limited, consist of the Bayview group of mineral claims and are on the eastern slope of mount Dolly 24 miles north of Stewart. Most of the discoveries are near the edge of the Coast Range batholith, some within the batholith, some in adjacent argillite, and some in adjacent volcanic rocks.

Three veins have been explored on the Bayview group. The work- ings are about 4,000 feet above sea-level. The veins are parallel to each other and to the contact of the Coast Range batholith which here strikes west. One vein is at the edge of the batholith and the other two are within 700 feet of the edge. The veins are 2 feet or less in width and consist of pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite in a gangue of quartz, The development consists chiefly of open-cuts from some of which ore has been shipped. A total of 9 tons of ore shipped in 1925 assayed 170 ounces of silver a ton, 16 per cent lead, 21 per cent zinc, and a little more than a dollar in gold a ton.