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Columbia Group (Locality 122)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, and 1922; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A.

The Columbia group of five mineral claims is north of Clearwater creek and about 14 miles east of Kitsault river. A foot trail branching from the Kitsault trail near the mouth of Clearwater creek furnishes access to the property. The principal mineral deposits on the group are two quartz veins cutting argillites. The larger vein is up to 15 feet wide and consists of white quartz very sparingly mineralized with pyrite. Development consists of adits.

Combination Claim (Locality 139)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1913 and 1916; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A.

The Combination claim adjoins and lies north of the Red Point group. It is north of Evindsen creek and half a mile west of Kitsault river. Access is furnished by a foot trail from the Red Point group.

The claim lies in the Copper Belt. The country rock consists of grey breccia and tuffaceous sandstone of the Hazelton group. The mineral deposit is a large vein which extends southeast into the Red Point and northwest into the Racehorse groups. The vein consists of quartz, is up to 20 feet wide, and extends across the whole of the Combination claim. It is locally well mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. Locally the vein contains many rock fragments. The deposit was apparently formed by replacement and filling in a brecciated zone. The value of the deposit depends solely on the copper content (chalcopyrite). Development con- sists of open-cuts and an adit about 150 feet long.

Combine Fraction (Locality 142) Fagherencess, Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1930 and

The Combine Fraction claim adjoins the Red Point group on the north. A quartz vein, several feet wide and containing pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite has been traced for 200 feet.

Copper Cliff Group (Locality 132)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1913, 1916, . 1918, 1926, and 1927; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A.

The Copper Cliff group of four mineral claims is west of Kitsault river and 2 miles north of Evindsen creek. Access is provided by a pack trail branching from the Kitsault trail a mile south of Trout creek.

_ The property 1s in the Copper Belt. The rock in the immediate vicin-

ity of the deposits has not been identified with certainty but probably is

an intrusive felsite. A few hundred feet west is a body of intrusive rock

resembling syenite and a hundred feet east is the edge of a large body of

oe which apparently has been intruded by the rocks of the Copper elt.