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and some carbonates also occur, The metallic minerals include pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalorite, and near the porphyry on the Babine claims some hematite was noted. Free gold is abundant in places, Pyrite ond arsenopyrite are the most abundant sulphides and carry most of the gold. On the Babine, Free Gold, property, pyrite alone is present, and it carries a high gold content, most of which seems to be embedded in the pyrite. In the weathered rock it occurs as coarse grains. In places the galena content is appreciable and is of some importance because it carries one ounce of silver a ton to the unit of lead.

Galloway+ notes that the gold veins occur largely in

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ae ee i ee ee yl pes the schist belts. Where observed by the writer the schistosity

was very irregular as if it followed bedding planes and was intricately folded rather than straight and regular as it commonly is in shear zones. Many of the veins probably follow the schistosity and conform to irregularities in the structure of the deposits, so that most veins in the schists as well as in the volcanics are likely to be irregular.

On the Babine Gold property the gold deposits occur away from the area of schists in massive andesitic volcanics. They appear to be confined to a narrow zone of a few hundred feet near a mass of quartz porphyry to which they are related. They occur in innumerable, small, and irregular fractures and shear zones and in a few that are fairly regular and well defined.

Further work on Dome mountain might best be confined to following the ore in the well-defined, fairly straight, and steeply dipping zones, even though they do not have as impressive widths as other showings. Many of the deposits are flat-lying

and as a consequence in places make impressive showings. These

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