PART d ANNUAL EEPOET OF THE MINISTEE OF MINES OP THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Yeae Ended 31st Decembee 1937 PRINTED BY AUTHOP,ITY OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. VICTORIA, B.C. : Printed by Chables F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1938. BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES. VICTORIA, B.C. Hon. W. J. Asselstine, Minister. John F. Walker, Deputy Minister. James Dickson, Chief Inspector of Mines. D. E. Whittaker, Provincial Assayer and Analyst. P. B. Freeland, Chief Mining Engineer. R. J. STEENSON, Chief Gold Commissioner. HUH ;SS:: tf%:! ,•-»•' Nickel Plate Mountain, looking north from height of land on south side of Similkameen River. 4 % * % Copper Mountain. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 3 PART D. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MINERAL SURVEY DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). BY M. S. Hedley. GENERAL SUMMARY. The year saw somewhat less mining activity in Districts Nos. 3 and 4 than appeared likely early in the season. This was due in part at least to the general economic uncertainty, and with one notable exception little new interest was shown in base metals. Prospecting appears to have been no more active than in recent years. The Geological Survey released a preliminary map and report by Cairnes on the West Half of Kettle River Area, and D. Mc- Naughton was engaged in completing geological mapping of the general Hedley-Princeton Area. The most noteworthy development was the reopening of Copper Mountain, begun during the winter. Capacity production was attained during the late summer and all concentrates are shipped to Japan. Other centres of production have changed little. Gold Mountain closed down early in the year, but production from Kelowna Exploration and Hedley Mascot has been very satisfactory. Exploration-work on and in the vicinity of Nickel Plate Mountain has resulted in new discoveries as well as extensions of minable ground. Osoyoos Mines has installed a cyanide plant to treat its flotation tailings and is also retreating a considerable tonnage of tailings previously discarded. Fairview Amalgamated increased mill capacity to 150 tons per day, and at the end of the year commenced a new lower adit-level. The McArthur interests at Phoenix maintained a steady pay-roll, chiefly on the old Granby and Brooklyn properties. Lessees in the general Boundary and Kettle River Districts were active. LODE-GOLD DEPOSITS. Hedley Camp. References.—Charles Camsell, Geological Survey, Canada, Memoir 2, 1910; H. S. Bostock, Geological Survey, Canada, Summary Report, 1929, Part A; C. E. Cairnes, Geological Survey, Canada, Preliminary Report, "Mineral Deposits of the West Half of Kettle River Area"; Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1901 to 1936, particularly 1901, 1903, 1906 to 1908, 1912, 1919, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1933 to 1936. The present writer included in 1936 a short summary of the principal geological features in the camp. The beginning of the year showed some loss of confidence in the camp, but in middle and late summer there was considerable new development, and increased rather than reduced production is to be looked forward to. Kelowna Exploration, as in previous years, has carried out a sound programme of mining and development on the Nickel Plate property, and this year spent a large amount of money erecting dwellings, bunk-houses, and a fine community hall at the mine camp. It optioned the McNulty group on Apex Mountain and did considerable work before heavy snowfall forced cessation of operations for the year. Late in the year it optioned twenty claims known as the Tough-Oakes and other groups adjoining the Golden Zone, north of Hedley, and plans a thorough exploration of this new ground during the coming season. This is an interesting section because, although no great amount of mineralization has yet been found, geological conditions appear distinctly favourable. The results of mining at Hedley Mascot have been satisfactory, and geological examination has steadily progressed on the company's holdings. Diamond-drilling has shown the presence of hitherto unknown mineralization which is to be explored by adit 500 feet below the present working-level. Trethewey Syndicate optioned two groups, the Toronto and Galena, and the Horse Fly group, and after a total of some 7,000 feet of diamond-drilling the options were dropped. D 4 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. Canty Gold Mines (Hedley), Limited, which controls all of the late Dune Woods' holdings on Nickel Plate Mountain, carried out an extensive exploratory programme on the Boston, Pittsburgh, and Greenwood. Starting on ground almost entirely mantled by drift and with only one or two showings of mineralization, stripping, diamond-drilling, and a geophysical survey gave sufficiently encouraging results to warrant, late in the year, the erection of a camp and the start of a 450-foot vertical shaft. The geology of this ground, while not yet fully understood, is so different from that of the present operating mines that a brief description will be given. A granodiorite dyke some 400 to 600 feet wide trends approximately north 80 degrees east and at the known western end swings southward to be cut by a major fault which trends north 30 degrees west. In the angle between the granodiorite and the fault mineralization occurs in rocks that have suffered a high degree of metamorphism. These rocks have been intimately shattered, in many places to an amazingly fine degree, and have suffered wholesale recrystallization in combination with introduction of materials from magmatic sources. The resultant rocks are patchy, varicoloured aggregates of augite, epidote, albite, scapolite, quartz, and rarely garnet, frequently seamed with feldspar, quartz, chloropal, and other minerals. Originally they were undoubtedly sediments, but including dioritic dykes which have also been altered. The extent and high degree of metamorphism prohibits structural correlation and consequently makes the task of interpretation of drill-cores very difficult. Mineralization is reported to have been encountered over commercial widths in drill-cores and there is indicated a body or bodies of arsenopyrite mineralization which trends approximately north 50 degrees east and dips very steeply. The shaft is planned to investigate this ground to a depth of 450 feet and drifting will extend for a length of 400 or more feet. Further exploration will be necessary to test the possibility of extensions. Actual rock excavation in the shaft commenced late in January, 1938. This is a public company with a capitalization of 2,000,000 shares, of which Hedley Sterling 1,285,132 are issued. The registered office is at 475 Howe Street and the Gold Mines, Ltd. business office is at Suite 6, 815 Hastings Street West, Vancouver. The directors are E. L. Boultbee, A. P. Dawe, James Lightbody, L. J. Richards, and H. B. Thomson; R. R. Steeves is secretary. The property consists of eight located claims and one fraction situated on the east side of Sterling Creek. It is 9,000 feet in length parallel to the creek, extending from below the main fork nearly to Similkameen River. Sterling Creek flows in a narrow, steep-sided valley, the eastern side of which rises in timbered slopes broken by bluffs, at angles between 25 and 40 degrees, from an elevation of about 2,000 feet to some 4,000 feet. The northern and north-eastern part of the property is marked by prominent bluffs that rise precipitously above the Similkameen River flat. The property is reached by a narrow road that leaves the Hedley-Princeton Highway 4 miles west of Hedley. It is 2% miles from the Similkameen River bridge to the Patsy No. 2 workings at the end of the road. The camp is situated at a point half-way up the creek and from it a trail nearly a mile in length leads north-easterly to the Patsy No. 1 workings. The rock formations consist of a thick series of steeply-tilted argillaceous sediments intruded by dykes and irregular masses of diorite. The sediments strike in general north to north 40 degrees east and dip easterly at medium to steep angles. The detailed structure is not known. The diorite is rather variable in character and is quite irregular in distribution; the whole region contains dykes, stocks, and small irregular masses of this rock. There has been no marked contact metamorphism produced by the diorite. Included in the dark-coloured argillites is a band at least 200 feet in thickness which is exposed on the east bank of Sterling Creek on the south end of the property and which contains the greater part of the Patsy No. 2 workings. This band consists of light-coloured sediments, including impure calcareous rocks, cherts, limestones, and fine fragmental rocks that are possibly tuffaceous. Mineralization is of four kinds. In the Patsy No. 1 workings irregular weak fractures in argillites are filled with narrow widths of pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and traces of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in quartz. Several hundred feet'north-easterly from the main camp an irregular and discontinuous vein of white quartz bearing a little pyrite occurs in 0 Adit at 8' 40" Tr. at 18' 68" Tr. \ . 1 W |~40° 36" 1 26„ Tr. L Tr. L Spec ■zoJL LEGEN D Sedimentary rocks Diorite dyke Shear-zone Fault underground Bedding (Strike & Dip) All sampling results shown in Oz.Gold per ton. Plan Scale 40 20 0 20 40 60 80 100 Feet 0pen-Cui^~H|^Ei.276o' No.3Adit___ No.2Adit__r3kEi.2B3o' No. I Adit ~~_VEI.2590' / ifjr* \ Vertical Projection NOTE: Sampled intervals of drill cores shown In solid black '1 3' '10 Hedley Sterling Gold Mines, Ltd., Patsy No. 2 workings. Plan and vertical projection on line of " O " adit, from compass survey. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 5 argillites. In the Patsy No. 2 workings five more or less bedded shear-zones in the lighter- coloured sediments are locally mineralized with arsenopyrite and quartz in addition to pyrite and some calcite; the arsenopyrite occurs in quartz veins and also locally as filling and replacement of cherty (silicified?) rock. One of these zones penetrates the darker argillites and is there mineralized with calcite and pyrite. The earliest reference to the property, then known as the Patsy, is given in the Annual Report, Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1927, page 240, when the two upper adits on the Patsy No. 1 had been driven, and a bond was taken by American interests. In 1928 a little more work was done on the Patsy No. 1. In 1931 Sterling Gold Mines, Limited, optioned nine claims from Dan McKinnon and associates, the owners, and worked chiefly on the Patsy No. 2 claim. The following year only two men were employed, and in 1933 the work was financed by Canada Lode Gold Mines, Limited; Hedley Sterling Gold Mines, Limited, was formed a year later. Work, under the management of Dan McKinnon, consisted of cross- cutting, drifting, and diamond-drilling on the " O " adit-level, and was suspended in July, 1935. Patsy No. 1 Workings.—These workings are on the Patsy No. 1 claim at the north-east corner of the property, on the edge of prominent bluffs at an elevation of about 2,500 feet. The rocks are argillites which dip, at this locality, steeply to the south, and are intruded by diorite of irregular distribution, one apparently extensive body of which makes up the bluff edge. Mineralization is in weak fractures and shears that cut across the bedding and appear to die out in diorite. There are three short adits. The "lowest or No. 3 adit, elevation 2,460 feet, consists of a section 75 feet long averaging due south from the portal, from the end of which a crosscut 53 feet long trends south 85 degrees west. Twenty feet from the portal a branch trends south 35 degrees west for 45 feet. The portal of No. 2 adit, elevation 2,500 feet, is 42 feet at south 18 degrees east from the portal of No. 3; the adit is 95 feet long on a curving line in an average direction of south 34 degrees west, and at 30 feet from the portal an underhand stope is 15 feet long and 15 feet deep. No. 1 adit is completely stoped out, 25 feet above No. 2, and was about 25 feet long. Above this uppermost adit the vein is continuously exposed for 25 feet on the dip. There is one principal " vein " exposed on the surface and in No. 1 adit, but it has not been located in No. 2 adit. This " vein " strikes north 30 degrees east and dips 40 to 55 degrees north-westerly, and attains a maximum width of about 8 inches. It is a zone of weak fracturing and shearing in which mineralization occurs as a filling of pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and rarely chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in or accompanied by quartz and a little calcite. Mineralization is commonly 3 or 4 inches or less wide; it is discontinuous and locally " jumps " from one fracture to another, and even enters between bedding-planes at a large angle to the general trend. When the structure passes into diorite the mineralization is very weak. A narrow, nearly parallel shear-zone 1 to 4 inches wide is disclosed in No. 2 adit— mineralization on this zone is very light. A cross-zone 1 to 3 inches wide, dipping flatly south-westerly, contains a little calcite and pyrite. A noticeable system of fracturing or jointing dips about 40 degrees westward and occasionally mineralization may be seen on one of these planes. A sample of the mineralization in the bottom of the underhand stope returned: Gold, 2.44 oz. per ton. A sample of the nearly parallel shear in No. 2 adit returned: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton. At the toe of No. 2 dump are seventy-five sacks (about 4 tons) of sorted ore; a grab sample from these returned: Gold, 1.36 oz. per ton. Some 750 feet north of the main camp and 40 feet higher in elevation is a series of open-cuts. These are scattered irregularly along the steep grassy side-hill for 150 feet, and disclose dark-coloured argillites which strike north 40 degrees east and dip steeply southeast. In two of the open-cuts vitreous quartz, 18 to 20 inches wide and sparsely mineralized, appears to follow the bedding, but is evidently discontinuous. Two chip samples, one from each of the cuts, returned only traces in gold. Patsy No. 2 Workings.—The Patsy No. 2 workings are on the claim of the same name at the south end of the property. The lowest or " O " adit is about 20 feet above the creek and the highest open-cut is 200 feet higher on a bluff-covered 40-degree slope. The ground D 6 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. continues to rise steeply to the east in wooded slopes with grassy cover and occasionally broken by bluffs. The sedimentary rocks strike a little east of north and dip at medium to steep angles into the hillside. Fine-grained diorite dykes are quite common and some at least are sill-like in attitude; most of the dykes are no more than a few feet in width. The sediments are predominantly dark-coloured argillites, but the lower part of the hillside, at least as high as the uppermost cut, is made up of light-coloured fine-grained rocks which include impure limestone, chert, limestone, and what appear to be tuffs; these last are finely-granular grey rocks containing small fragments of slaty material. The best structural section is given by the " 0 " adit-crosscut. At the face dark argillites dip steeply westerly and at 125 feet from the face the dip is steep to the east. From the latter point the dip is increasingly flatter in the same direction, and at the portal is about 40 degrees easterly. The inner 320 feet of the adit is in dark-coloured argillaceous rocks and the outer section, about equal in length, is in light-coloured assorted sediments. There is no apparent contortion of the sedimentary series, although local changes in strike and dip of several degrees are seen on the surface. There is no appreciable contact metamorphism produced by the diorite dykes. The " O " adit, 645 feet long at an assumed elevation of 2,500 feet, encounters five bedded mineralized shear-zones known as Nos. 1 to 5 from the portal inwards. No. 1 adit and shaft is at an elevation of 2,590 feet directly over the " O " adit at 80 feet from the portal of the latter; the shaft is sunk 35 feet at 40 degrees on a shear-zone and the adit is driven 20 feet into the hanging-wall. No. 2 adit, elevation 2,630 feet, is 50 feet east of the shaft and is 13 feet long; a mineralized zone shows in its face. No. 3 adit, elevation 2,710 feet, is 180 feet north-easterly from the shaft; it is driven east 105 feet and discloses two mineralized shear- zones and some mineralized cross-fractures in the inner 40 feet. Above No. 3 adit is a 7- by 12-foot open-cut 6 feet deep on one of the shear-zones intersected by the adit. This open-cut is one of a series 300 feet long. Open-cutting has been done for 150 feet north of the shaft on the shaft or No. 2 shear-zone and for 400 feet southerly at scattered intervals on what are probably both No. 2 and No. 1 zones. A study of the accompanying plan and section will show the distribution of the several workings and of the shear-zones. About 750 feet north along the hillside and 50 feet lower in elevation than the upper line of open-cuts are three small open-cuts in light-greenish cherty and limy sediments containing sparsely-disseminated pyrite and a trace of arsenopyrite accompanied by a very little quartz. As intersected by the " O " adit, No. 1 shear-zone is 80 feet from the portal and is drifted on 32 feet south and 126 feet north. No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4, at 150, 190, and 275 feet from the portal, are drifted on northerly for 57 feet, 56 feet, and 30 feet respectively. No. 5 zone, 400 feet from the portal, is drifted on northerly for 250 feet. An individual description of the five shear-zones follows. No. 1.—Mineralization occurs erratically within a bedded and poorly-defined shear-zone of a maximum width of 6 feet in light-coloured fine-grained dense sediments. Arsenopyrite and some pyrite occur in quartz accompanied locally by calcite or else as sulphide-filling and replacement in the chert. At the south end of No. 1 drift is a vague bedded zone of light shearing and shattering containing a band 1 to 10 in.ch.es in width of quartz and arsenopyrite in varying proportions as well as some calcite. At the crosscut a foot-wall band of 2 to 4 inches of gouge is 4 feet below a hanging-wall band containing 2 to 6 inches of arsenopyrite, pyrite, quartz, and calcite. North of the crosscut the hanging-wall band is similarly mineralized with an inch to several inches of arsenopyrite and of quartz. At the fork in the level mineralization to a maximum width of 10 inches appears irregularly in one or both of the bands, and in the extreme face there is no mineralization except disseminated pyrite in the weakly-sheared rock. A steep fault is unmineralized. No. 1 zone has not been developed on the surface but is perhaps represented in two open- cuts 400 feet to the south of the " O " adit. These show several inches of oxidized material, including arsenopyrite and quartz. Four samples of selected arsenopyrite from No. 1 drift returned variable values in gold, from 0.04 to 0.90 oz. per ton. Several channel samples shown on the assay-plan returned nil in gold to 0.04 oz. per ton. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 7 No. 2.—No. 2 shear-zone is, on " O " adit-level, poorly defined. Mineralization consists of tight-bedded lenses of arsenopyrite and some pyrite in chert accompanied by a little quartz and calcite, % to 8 inches in width. Although the accompanying plan and section are not strictly accurate, the No. 1 shaft is evidently on the same shear-zone. In the shaft the zone dips 40 degrees and contains at the collar quartz 12 inches wide bearing lenses of arsenopyrite. Half-way down the zone is widest, 6 feet, and contains a foot or more of quartz, weakly mineralized with arsenopyrite. At the bottom of the shaft the zone splits into a hanging-wall bedded section 6 to 12 inches wide and a steeper foot-wall section 12 to 36 inches wide, both consisting of oxidized rock. The hanging-wall split may connect with No. 3 zone. Open-cutting to the north shows weakly-sheared sediments and in one open-cut 40 feet north there is a 2- to 10-inch zone containing quartz and arsenopyrite. Open-cuts to the south are scattered and obscured and give little information. A selected sample of arsenopyrite in No. 2 drift returned: Gold, 0.04 oz. per ton. Two samples in the shaft on the south wall returned: (1.) 8 feet from the collar, 40 inches wide: Gold, trace. (2.) 18 feet from collar, 68 inches wide: Gold, 0.16 oz. per ton. No. 3.—On the " O " adit-level this is a 3- to 4-foot zone of weak shearing and light brecciation with local calcite-filling and a little pyrite. The rock is finely-banded dark- and light-coloured limestone. At the face a sample across a 19-inch shear-zone weakly mineralized with pyrite returned a trace in gold, and a selected sample of pyrite from stringers in the hanging-wall of this zone returned: Gold, 0.036 oz. per ton. This zone may connect with No. 2 zone in the shaft, or may steepen and so be intersected by No. 2 adit. In this adit, in the extreme face, is a 1- to 3-inch stringer of sulphide dipping at 45 degrees; this stringer widens upwards to 12 inches of quartz at the grass-roots. No. U.—This is a poorly-defined shear-zone 3 feet wide on the hanging-wall of a 5%-foot sill of diorite. Irregular and small calcite stringers are accompanied by a little pyrite. The zone is not recognized on the surface. No samples were taken. No. 5.—This is a steeply-dipping shear-zone in dark, locally graphitic argillites, following the foot-wall of an altered diorite sill which is 7 to 8 feet wide on the " O " adit and 2 feet wide on the No. 3 adit. At the " O " adit-crosscut the hanging-wall of the 12-foot zone consists of 8 inches of gouge beneath the dyke, between which and the foot-wall is sheared rock. The foot-wall is drifted on for 30 feet, past which the hanging-wall zone is followed throughout, and is 4 to 8 feet wide. The foot-wall zone diverges at 30 feet and is lost in the west wall. In the first 150 feet of drift there is very-little mineralization; some calcite and scattered pyrite occurs in the crushed and sheared rock. Twenty-five feet past the first timbered section a lens of quartz and calcite, 10 inches wide and sparsely mineralized with pyrite, occurs in the hanging-wall. At 165 feet considerable calcite in stringers and lenses, mineralized with pyrite, appears in the foot-wall, and at 175 feet the calcite is within 3 feet of the hanging-wall. At 190 feet, at the second short westerly crosscut stringers and lenses of calcite mineralized with heavy pyrite dip flatter than the main shear-zone and occur over a width of nearly 5 feet in the foot-wall of the zone about 6 feet below the dyke. This zone of calcite-filling becomes weak and poorly defined at the innermost westerly crosscut, and the end of the drift is in firmer, grey sediments containing small irregular stringers of calcite accompanied by a little pyrite. No. 5 zone is intersected by No. 3 adit, at the face of which light-coloured sediments are weakly sheared for 5 feet in the foot-wall of a 2-foot diorite sill. At 20 feet from the face a 4-foot band of the sediments is weakly sheared and mineralized. At 30 to 40 feet from the face are one bedded stringer and one cross-stringer of pyrite 1 to 3 inches wide, cut by a steep fault. No. 5 zone is again seen in the upper open-cut. Strong oxidation obscures the character of material, but there is a foot-wall section 2 to 3 feet wide containing quartz and arsenopyrite, in the hanging-wall of which is 3 to 4 feet of oxidized material. Open-cuts to north and south show only light-coloured sediments and a little oxidized material. Twenty-eight channel samples were taken across the zone as shown on the assay-plan and two selected samples of pyrite, all in No. 5 drift. The highest of all of these returned: Gold, 0.05 oz. per ton. Two channel samples in No. 3 adit returned each a trace in gold, and one selected sample of pyrite mineralization returned: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton. Three channel D 8 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. samples from the upper open-cut returned from a trace in gold to 0.40 oz. gold per ton, the latter representing the foot-wall section, 27 inches wide, on the north end of the open-cut. Diamond-drilling.—Ten diamond-drill holes, aggregating 1,360 feet in length, have been drilled from the " O " adit. These holes are plotted on the accompanying plan and section from approximate measurements taken by the writer. Holes Nos. 1 and 2 were not located and are plotted from a blue-print of the company. The detailed log of the remaining core from these holes is not worth enumerating, although a few points are worthy of mention. Hole No. 8, from the face of the adit, encounters dark-coloured argillaceous sediments and one 2-foot and one 23-foot section of diorite; two closely adjacent sections of core are missing at 100 to 110 feet and have presumably been assayed, but the results are not known. Holes Nos. 6, 7, 9, and 10 are drilled across No. 5 shear-zone, above and below the adit-level, and each cuts the diorite dyke. In hole No. 7 the remainder of the split core is found in the core-boxes and shows adjacent to the dyke 2 feet of dark argillaceous breccia containing pyrite cubes, next to which is 3 feet of whitish, apparently bleached, clayey sediments containing pyrite cubes; a split, similar section to the latter is encountered at 34 to 40.5 feet. The presumably sampled core in the other three holes has been removed from the core-boxes. Hole No. 3 was not drilled far enough to intersect No. 4 shear-zone and dyke, which indicates a probable warp in the structure. Holes Nos. 2, 4, and 5 do not give any significant information, particularly as in all but one instance the sampled core has been entirely removed. The nineteen sections of core which have presumably been sampled are shown graphically on the accompanying section; most of these clearly represent the several shear-zones. There is split core remaining in the core-boxes in only five sections (holes Nos. 2, 3, and 7), and none of these contains mineralization materially different from that exposed in the near-by adits. No samples were taken of the split core by the writer. At the camp, framed and canvas-covered buildings are sufficient to house and feed a small crew of men. At the Patsy No. 2 workings, alongside the creek, a framed structure houses a small Diesel-driven compressor plant as well as a blacksmith-shop equipped with steel-sharpener. There is also a core-shed. Summary.—On the Patsy No. 1 claim a narrow zone of shattering and shearing in argillites is mineralized in widths from a fraction of an inch to a maximum of 8 inches, and other narrow zones carry slight amounts of mineral. The mineralization, when strong, carries good gold values, but these are more than offset by the smallness and irregularity of the deposit. On the Patsy No. 2 claim are five shear-zones which tend to follow the bedding of light- coloured, in part calcareous and cherty sediments. The zones are not strong, mineralization is discontinuous, and values over minable widths are not commercial. Occasional interesting assays are obtainable of selected arsenopyrite in the lighter-coloured sediments. No. 5 zone penetrates the darker argillites at depth and is there seen to be a fairly strong zone mineralized sparsely with calcite and pyrite, and near the inner end of No. 5 drift the foot- wall of the zone contains as much as 5 feet of calcite heavily mineralized with pyrite; values in No. 5 drift are consistently low. Spotty values are indicated in the upper open-cut, but mineralization is not persistent. The belt of sediments is interesting, because in these arsenopyrite, containing variable gold values, seems to occur in preference to the darker argillites. The mineralization so far encountered, however, is weak and discontinuous. Exploration of the belt might, if it is found to pass across or into an area which has been more structurally active, lead to the discovery of more worth-while mineralization. This public company, with a capitalization of 1,000,000 shares, has its Hedley Yuniman registered office at 417 Metropolitan Building, 837 Hastings Street West, Gold Fields, Ltd. Vancouver. The president of the company is J. W. Gallagher, of Hedley, and the secretary is E. N. Rhodes Elliott, of Vancouver. The property comprises forty-four claims and fractions as well as eight Crown-granted claims held under lease, the latter being known as the Yuniman sub-group. The property is on Bradshaw Mountain, 7 miles east of Hedley. It covers the headwaters of Bradshaw (15-Mile) Creek and extends south-easterly nearly to the drainages of Winters (16-Mile), Olalla, and Cedar Creeks. The lowest elevation is about 5,000 feet and the highest SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 9 nearly 7,000 feet. The section of ground on which most work has been done is on the Yuniman sub-group, and is near an old cabin at an elevation of 6,050 feet on the north side of Bradshaw Creek, a mile below the basin at the head of the creek. The ground is rugged, but is only locally precipitous and is comparatively easy of access. The summits are rounded and sparsely timbered, and bluffs are not plentiful except on the borders of the property; much of the higher ground is used as summer range for cattle. Timber is plentiful on parts of the property and is burned off in some sections. Water for domestic purposes can be obtained from Bradshaw Creek and also in small quantities from numerous springs at elevations in excess of 6,000 feet. A pack-trail extends from Bradshaw's, on the Hedley-Keremeos Highway, up Bradshaw Creek to the cabin, with a rise in elevation of 4,400 feet in the distance of approximately 51/. miles. The trail then climbs rapidly an additional 500 feet nearly to the ridge, and then continues east to the head of Bradshaw Creek, whence trails lead to Apex Mountain and down Shoemaker, Olalla, and Cedar Creeks. The route from Bradshaw is the easiest, climbing rapidly through the lower canyon and continuing up the valley largely over slide materials. LEGE N D Dyke rock Y<-i&< Trench or open-cut c___"J Mineralized zone k No.I czp^Er^F^rW El.6360' No.2 <=■■ C==$ No. 3 c--J[irV-| No.l Adit El 6385' El 6315' \ No.4 czr: '<B El. 6260' :v Scale Feet Hedley Yuniman Gold Fields, Ltd. Sketch-plan of part of property. The geology of the region is illustrated in Cairnes' map and report on " West Half of Kettle River Area," Geological Survey, Canada, Preliminary Report, 1937. Brief mention by Bostock, Geological Survey, Canada, Summary Report, 1929, Part A, page 202, that Nickel Plate Mountain is on the north-west limb of a major anticline and that the area under consideration is on the south-east limb and lower in the sedimentary series. The rocks are mapped as predominantly sediments, including bands of volcanics, with a north-easterly strike and steep dips. A large body of granodiorite occupies the upper reaches of Winters Creek and extends almost to the Cedar Creek Divide; many dykes, most of which are dioritic in composition, intrude the bedded rocks. Of the rocks classed as sedimentary a large proportion are cherts, in addition to argillaceous types. These cherts, or chalcedonic and quartzitic rocks, are frequently seen to be fragmental, with sub-angular to angular fragments a fraction of an inch to several inches in size, a fact usually to be seen only upon close inspection of weathered surfaces. Some of these rocks are banded, supposedly representing bedding, and some are seen to grade into argillaceous, volcanic, or dyke rocks. Replacive action by fine-grained silica has been proved on a small scale in the case of hornfels and dyke-rock on the Yuniman sub-group, and it is strongly to be inferred that siliceous replacement has been widespread. The limits of this action, its focal points, and the structural and mineralogical significance are not known. D 10 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. Mineralization includes quartz veins and obscure zones of shearing and alteration, as well as, in two places, manganese mineral. The metallic minerals are pyrite, arsenopyrite, and rarely sphalerite and galena. The accompanying sketch-plan shows the principal workings in the Yuniman sub-group, on the Black Pine and Bush Rat claims. These workings are located a few hundred feet up the steep grassy slope above the cabin previously mentioned. The three adits and two small shafts were driven many years ago, and the longer trenches have been put in recently by the present company. The rock in and about No. 1 adit is diorite, that at the west end of the trenches is greenstone, in the central part of the trenches it is argillite, and the remainder of the ground is predominantly " chert." The larger dykes are diorite, but there are also dykes of feldspar porphyry, lamprophyre, and andesite, and the total number in this area is large. Overburden precludes accurate mapping. No. 1 adit, elevation 6,385 feet, consists of a crosscut 50 feet long, driven on a steep fracture bearing locally a little arsenopyrite, and a north-easterly drift 35 feet long on a mineralized zone that dips steeply to the north-west. A shaft is sunk 5 feet on this zone 50 feet higher in elevation. This is a tight, irregular, and poorly-defined shear-zone up to several inches in width. The diorite-walls have been strongly bleached for several inches, but not apparently sericitized. Mineralization is sparse and erratic and consists of pyrite and a little arsenopyrite, a trace of sphalerite and galena, and some quartz. A sample of selected material from the dump at the shaft returned: Gold, 3 oz. per ton; silver, 3.5 oz. per ton. No. 3 adit, elevation 6,315 feet, follows the same zone for 100 feet. The zone, between chert-walls, is poorly defined and is a few inches wide, or else consists of two fractures 3 feet apart; it splits near the inner face and is nowhere heavily mineralized. A raise has been put up on the intersection with a northerly-trending vein to the level of No. 2 adit, and this cross-vein has been drifted on for 18 feet in No. 2 adit, elevation 6,360 feet, and a shaft sunk 6 feet on it at a point 25 feet higher; it outcrops down the hillside at an elevation of 6,180 feet. The vein is 4 to 10 inches wide and is composed of vitreous quartz frozen to the walls; in No. 2 adit additional %-inch stringers bring the total width locally to 16 inches. It is mineralized sparingly with pyrite and arsenopyrite and has not the appearance of a strong or continuous structure. In the four long trenches there are several quartz veins, as shown on the sketch-plan. These veins all strike west of north, dip steeply north-easterly, and are from XA inch to a maximum of 14 inches wide. The commonest width is from 4 to 8 inches of crystalline, vitreous quartz mineralized with varying amounts of pyrite and arsenopyrite. The veins do not line up well, as exposed by the trenches, and are partly influenced by the presence of dykes; the eastern ends of the two upper trenches are poorly stripped. The arsenopyrite undoubtedly carries locally good gold values, but average values are hard to arrive at. Samples returned:— (1.) No. 1 trench, 60 feet from west end, 4- to 5-inch vein: Gold, 0.06 oz. per ton. (2.) No. 2 trench, 44 feet from west end, 4- to 14-inch vein: Gold, 0.16 oz. per ton. (3.) No. 2 trench, 51 feet from west end, 3- to 6-inch vein: Gold, 2.40 oz. per ton. (4.) No. 2 trench, 60 feet from west end, 4- to 8-inch vein: Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton. (5.) No. 2 trench, 72 feet from west end, 6-inch vein: Gold, trace. The presence of a number of fractures in such a small area and the fact that high assays are obtainable is undoubtedly interesting. Surface prospecting is the most satisfactory method of development, and it is to be hoped that a continuation of this work will demonstrate greater widths and continuity. Over the remainder of the property, at widely scattered intervals, are a number of shallow workings made for the most part many years ago. These will be given brief mention only. North-west of the above workings some 1,600 feet and at an elevation of 6,300 feet is a 10-foot shaft in dark argillite and black chert exposing a quartz vein, strike north 10 degrees east, dip 85 degrees east. The vein is up to 4 inches wide and contains arsenopyrite, locally in considerable quantity. Some 1,600 feet farther north-west is an 8-foot shaft in dark cherty rocks exposing a shear-zone, strike north 10 degrees east, dip steep to east. On this shear-zone there is an alteration to a clay-like material, but no apparent mineralization. On the Winters Creek slope just east of a triangulation station, elevation Horse Fly, Rollo, King, etc. Topographical and geological map after surveys by company. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 11 6,836 feet, is a narrow, vertical, rusty shear-zone, striking north 75 degrees east, in a coarsegrained feldspar-porphyry dyke. On the south-west side of the Winters-Cedar Creek Divide, elevation about 6,500 feet, is a zone of oxidation which trends approximately north 30 degrees east and is apparently continuous for several hundred feet. There is on this zone one small open-cut at the southwest end, one 200 feet to the north-east of this, and at 300 feet there is a 40-foot cut in the end of which is a short, completely caved adit. All that can be seen in these workings is rust-stained, finely broken, cherty material. At the headwaters of Bradshaw Creek just short of the Olalla Creek Divide is some stripping in cherty rocks that show manganese- staining. Opposite the cabin, on the bluffs between Bradshaw Creek and the south-easterly branch, at an elevation of 6,350 feet, is an approximately north-south zone of manganese-staining in cherty rocks. This zone is about 150 feet long and is up to 15 feet wide, along which rhodonite occurs irregularly and apparently in pockets. A 12-foot shaft is sunk on a vague shear-zone 3 to 4 feet wide, strike north 20 degrees west, dip steeply north-easterly, containing some pyrite and arsenopyrite. Five claims, the Horse Fly, Rollo, King, Princeton, and Banner, were Horse Fly, Rollo, optioned by the (J. E.) Taylor Holdings Company and in 1937 the King, etc. group was under option to Trethewey Syndicate. In this syndicate Brett - Trethewey Mines, Limited, Northern Canada Mining Corporation, and Hedley Mascot Gold Mines, Limited, hold equal interest. The Rollo is the oldest claim in the Hedley District, having been staked by Peter Scott in 1897; the Horse Fly, Princeton, and King were staked, also by Peter Scott, in 1898. The group lies on the western slope of Nickel Plate Mountain in the angle between the Nickel Plate gravity and electric tramways, on the south side of Horsefly Gulch. The ground is steep and locally precipitous, with, except on parts of the Banner claim, a quite thick covering of timber. Rock-exposures are abundant, particularly where the slopes are steeper than the dip or cut the bedding at an oblique angle, as on the Banner; elsewhere dip-slopes show the underlying rocks, but not always strictly in place, and considerable talus blocks the bottom of Horsefly Gulch. The road from Nickel Plate mine to Hedley Mascot passes the north-east corner of the Horse Fly, giving easy access to the upper part of the property. Both the tram-line and trail from Hedley to the Nickel Plate cross the Banner and skirt the east side of the Horse Fly, and a branch trail leads to the lower workings on the Rollo. Timber is plentiful, but water is limited to the needs of a very small camp. Geology.—The geology of Nickel Plate Mountain has been described in detail by Cam- sell and Bostock, and no new or distinctive features are recognized on this group. The sediments include both Sunnyside and Nickel Plate beds with low westerly dips and very little contortion. Intrusive into these are masses of diorite, in part as sills, and some gabbro is seen, of the whitish altered variety, principally on the upper part of the Horse Fly claim. The accompanying map shows the distribution of intrusives and sediments, without differentiation of either. The Sunnyside limestone is exposed on the south-east corner of the Banner, succeeded by the Sunnyside productive and Nickel Plate lower siliceous beds. The lower siliceous beds outcrop also on the eastern part of the Horse Fly and a band extends down to and widens on the Princeton and north-east corner of the Rollo. Beds of the Nickel Plate formation outcrop on the Rollo and northernmost part of the Banner. It is not known with certainty which those sediments are, stratigraphically, in Horsefly Gulch and on the northern part of the Horse Fly claim, as the known beds cannot be traced through, and the few exposures do not afford sufficient evidence for correlation on the basis of lithology. They are probably Nickel Plate. The diorite, displaying almost everywhere a porphyritic habit with prominent hornblende, shows a strong tendency to follow the bedded structure in the form of sills. This is not universal, and that mass in Horsefly Gulch is undoubtedly stock-like. Several inclusions of sediments are known completely within the diorite, and crosscutting relations may be observed in many places even where the general distribution of diorite is sill-like. The diorite locally merges into the sediments, both the fine-grained " cherty " and coarse-grained D 12 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. silicate types, and isolated patches and bands in sediments show random hornblende and feldspar crystals which are not normally developed during metamorphism; some of such patches and bands pass into diorite proper and some show no apparent connection with the diorite. There seems to be very little folding or contortion of the sediments. Changes in attitude are noticed, but these are not systematic and no definite anticlines or synclines are developed. There is, rather, a local and slight warping, not surprising in view of the extensive intrusions. The only prominent and continuous flexure appears to lie just south of the prominent nose on the Rollo claim, and it is here that most mineralization is localized on this claim. Metamorphism is, on most of the property, quite intense, particularly on the Rollo. and coarse-grained silicate rocks are plentifully developed. Mineralization is of two sorts—(a) following shears and fractures, adjacent to which sulphides may penetrate, where favourable, the surrounding rocks for relatively short distances, and (6) "massive" mineralization of inclusions of sediments or of highly-altered sediments nearly surrounded by diorite. Sulphides include arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, in a rock gangue; in a few instances a very little crystalline quartz accompanies the sulphides. In some cases the sulphides, particularly arsenopyrite, are related to calcite which may represent segregations from limy sediments, recrystallized limestone, or, more rarely, small calcite veinlets. The workings on the group, principally open-cuts, were opened up many years ago and are now badly oxidized or caved in, or both. Many are unrelated and some represent simply surface scratching on indications of mineralization. Near the north-east corner of the Horse Fly is a shear-zone, strike north 80 degrees west, dip 70 degrees south, traced for 300 feet by surface workings (1) to (5). It has also been intersected by diamond-drilling to a depth of 400 feet and proved to be a very uniform structure 6 inches to 3 feet wide. (2) is an 8-foot shaft and (3) is a 15-foot shaft. The shear- zone cuts through sediments and diorite alike and is mineralized with arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite in a gangue of silicified material and accompanied by a little calcite and crystalline quartz. The mineralization follows a well-defined and narrow zone of shearing and, in (2), spreads north along a favourable bed 6 to 8 inches wide for 10 to 12 feet; this following of the bedding appears to be strictly local. A second shear-zone 100 feet to the south, strike north 75 degrees west, dips about 45 degrees southerly and is traced for 70 feet by (6) and (7). These two open-cuts disclose a tight shear-zone 1 to 1% feet wide in garnetiferous sediments, mineralized with arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. Both Assuring and mineralization definitely cut the bedding, but follow it locally and tend to jump across some beds. On the edge of Horsefly Gulch are three apparently unrelated open-cuts. In (8) diorite, locally at least, cuts the bedding, on the foot-wall contact of which, strike north 30 degrees west, is a broken zone a few inches wide which is mineralized, and from which mineralization spreads outwards into the limy sediments. This is seen on a 6- by 8-foot face and amount and continuity of mineralization are obscure. In (9) in the foot-wall of a similar diorite contact, silicified limestone contains a fine dusting of sulphides. (10) discloses several steep fracture-planes striking from north-east to east, and a discontinuous crushed zone, 4 to 6 inches wide, bearing arsenopyrite and dipping nearly parallel to the hillside in dense silicified limestone. Farther west at (11) is an open-cut on a diorite-contact, strike north 30 degrees west, dip 65 degrees south-westerly, on the foot-wall of which, beneath limestone, strike north 10 degrees west, dip 15 to 20 degrees west, is 4 feet of limestone shot through with grains, small stringers, and masses of crystalline quartz, and mineralized with arsenopvrite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite. The total amount of mineralization and the localizing factors are obscure. At (12) is a small open-cut in copper-stained cherts and also garnetite, bearing chalcopyrite, and 100 feet lower on the hillside is a bed of dense green silicate rock, between sheets of diorite, mineralized with disseminated arsenopyrite. On the north side of the Rollo is a large inclusion of garnetite which, particularly at (13), is mineralized with chalcopyrite. The garnetite is massive and contains lenses and irregular masses of coarse calcite up to several feet across, which latter appear to have been segregated from the original rock during metamorphism. The chalcopyrite, and a little pyrrhotite, is in stringers, small masses and disseminations, with no systematic occurrence. One open-cut is on a faintly discernible zone parallel to the steep hillside and contains locally SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 13 a 12-inch strand heavy in chalcopyrite. On the nose of the ridge at (14) is a small inclusion of garnetite and limy silicate rock which fades into diorite. In an open-cut is seen scattered arsenopyrite and less pyrite and chalcopyrite; the whole inclusion would appear to be mineralized. Farther south on the trail, near an old cabin on the Rollo claim, are a number of shallow workings, (15) to (20). These are on a sharp structural flexure which presumably extends up to the top of the ridge at (21). The lowest open-cut is in altered limy sediments and limestone, containing bands of pyrite up to V2 inch wide, and some pyrrhotite. The next above shows an unmineralized contact between grey limestone and cherty sediments, and the next (17) limy sediments and a band of coarse calcite. (18) is a large open-cut in which are two 12-foot adits, just beneath the same band of calcite, and is in sediments including some epidote-garnet rock bearing arsenopyrite in lenses a few inches to 2 feet in width. At the southernmost adit is a mass of nearly solid arsenopyrite, apparently an 18-inch band dipping steeply to the north-west; this material is oxidized and stained pink and green, but a sample returned nil in nickel and cobalt. (19) is a 12-foot adit in limy sediments; a little arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite is seen on the dump. (20) is a cut in strongly-altered sediments containing some scattered mineralization in oxidized material. Above, on presumably the same flexure, is a cut (21) in garnet-epidote rock. A zone up to 2 feet wide and associated with a central fissure bears considerable epidote, with which is associated prominent arsenopyrite. (22) and (23) are two cuts on formation, the former containing, in garnetite, a little arsenopyrite in glassy quartz with no vein form. At (24) are two similar cuts. In flatly-dipping limestone and fine-grained siliceous sediments at (25) are interlacing bands, badly oxidized, but apparently of solid arsenopyrite accompanied by some pyrite. The maximum width is 6 inches and the average 3 inches or less. The bands are irregular and form a fracture pattern in part parallel with the bedding but also cutting it. The remaining open-cuts show only traces of mineral except in (26), where arsenopyrite, both bunchy and disseminated, occurs with a little pyrrhotite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite in coarse-grained silicate rocks. Four samples were taken of selected material with intent to see whether the more solid arsenopyrite carries high gold values or not. The taking of representative or average samples is not possible in view of the condition of most of the workings. (1.) (25) northern open-cut, bands of solid arsenopyrite: Gold, 1.61 oz. per ton; silver, trace. (2.) (25) southern open-cut, heavy red oxide: Gold, 1.78 oz. per ton; silver, 0.42 oz. per ton. (3.) (21) selected chip sample of better arsenopyrite: Gold, 0.86 oz. per ton; silver, 0.2 oz. per ton. (4.) (18) heavy arsenopyrite from near southern adit: Gold, 0.58 oz. per ton; silver, 0.02 oz. per ton; nickel, nil; cobalt, nil. The Trethewey Syndicate in the fall of 1937 did 5,285 feet of diamond-drilling in twelve holes on the Rollo and Horse Fly claims under the direction of V. Dolmage and Stan. Duffell. Four exploratory holes were put down on and near the ridge on the Rollo (see map) and the geologic section was crosscut by this means down to the Sunnyside limestone. Two holes were drilled some 200 feet south-east of (10) in the hope of intersecting commercial mineralization, and one hole was drilled on the east border of the Horse Fly to investigate on this claim a fracture seen on the Terrier. The northernmost shear-zone (1) to (5) was cut by four holes to a depth of 400 feet and was shown to be a very uniform structure differing in no essential respects from the surface showings. A single hole cut the near-by shear-zone (6) and (7) and was continued to cut the northernmost one also. Mineralization encountered in this drilling campaign proved to be sub-commercial, and the option was relinquished in December. The close relation of most of the observable mineralization to zones of shearing and fracturing is in contrast with that at the Nickel Plate. Mineralization of beds adjacent to these " feeders " has taken place, but in all observed cases the effect has been distinctly local. The two inclusions at (13) and (14) are well mineralized and it may be assumed that these represent remnants of once more extensive bodies, now removed by erosion, together with D 14 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. considerable of the upper part of the Nickel Plate formation. The metamorphism on this group is characteristically garnetiferous, and may be contrasted in this respect with that found in and about much of the commercial mineralization on Nickel Plate Mountain, in which epidote, albite, scapolite, and augite are prominently developed. Most of the diamond- drilling was done with the intention of proving the existence of bedded mineralization in the neighbourhood of the relatively small " feeders." Hedley (20-Mile) Creek Area. This company, capitalized at 1,350,000 shares, has its registered office at Golden Zone 524 Vancouver Block, Vancouver. J. A. Collins is president and J. Foss Mines, Ltd. Weart is secretary. The property consists of four Crown-granted claims, under option, and the company controls in addition eight surrounding claims and one fraction. The property is about 7 miles north-east of Hedley at an elevation of about 6,000 feet, on the west side of a rounded summit that lies between several branches of Hedley (20-Mile) Creek drainage. This is part of the dissected plateau-surface which reaches an elevation, half a mile to the east, of 6,200 feet. The topography is subdued in this vicinity; drift-covered flats and gentle slopes are quite heavily timbered and rock-outcrops are not plentiful. There is consequently abundant timber for mining purposes, but water, except for domestic use, will have to be brought a considerable distance by ditch or flume. An old wagon-road, 12 miles in length leading up Hedley Creek from Hedley, was reconditioned in 1936 and made fit for automobile traffic. In the drier part of the year it is possible, as a short cut from Penticton, to drive north from the old Nickel Plate-Penticton Road a distance of 6V2 miles to the property, although the return trip is very difficult. The mineral deposit occurs partly in sediments that form a fairly large area completely surrounded by members of the Okanagan intrusives, and partly in the intrusive granite. The sediments are locally argillaceous, limy, and cherty types and include a minor amount of greenstone. They are of Permian or Triassic age. They are intruded by a fine-grained biotite granite, south of which is coarser-grained granite slightly younger in age, and all rocks are intruded by porphyritic granite which lies a few hundred feet to the south-east. Post-mineral dykes of andesitic composition are a few inches to a few feet wide; these are fine-grained granular green rocks containing prominent vesicular cavities. The mineral deposits are quartz veins and replacements in both fine-grained granite and in sediments near the contact with the latter. The four Crown-granted claims, Golden Zone, Silver Bell, B.C., and Irish Boy, were staked in 1900, and after some development, which included sinking the A and B shafts 115 and 47 feet respectively, a mill was built in 1908. The mill was operated only for a very short time, due, it is said, to shortage of water, and during the next three or four years very little development-work was done, chiefly on the surface. In 1930 a local syndicate took over the property, and during that year and the two following more surface work was done and an adit was driven at a point several hundred feet west of the two shafts. Following some diamond- drilling and sampling in 1936, the present company was formed in October of that year. A quartz vein 2 to 4 feet wide, in granite, is traced by open-cut and natural exposure from near B shaft, 550 feet west, past a prominent rock draw. The vein is faulted 100 feet to the north past this draw. An adit, elevation 5,790 feet, is driven from near the bottom of the draw westerly for 115 feet; the vein is intersected at a small angle 75 feet from the portal and is drifted on from there to the face, where it is faulted a distance of 3 feet. Midway between the adit and B shaft it is faulted 45 feet; a narrow stringer lies 6 to 10 feet in the foot-wall of the vein for a short distance on both sides of the draw. The vein has a steep dip to the south and represents a simple fissure-filling of hard, vitreous, and locally crystalline and drusy quartz. It averages perhaps 3 feet in width, is up to 4 feet wide as exposed on the surface, and in the adit has a maximum width of 6 feet. It is mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite, and a little chalcopyrite. This vein carries low values in gold and silver. A selected sample from the dump of the adit, containing more sphalerite than pyrite, returned: Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton; silver, 8 oz. per ton; a grab sample from the dump returned: Gold, trace; silver, 1.2 oz. per ton. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 15 B shaft, said to be 47 feet deep, is on a parallel vein 30 feet to the south. This vein is poorly exposed for a distance of 40 feet west and little can be seen as to its character. Material on the dump has the appearance of a replacement type rather than vein-quartz, and contains arsenopyrite and pyrite. Surface Workings LEGEND Scale I Feet Granite ~>>>^ 5 Andesitic dyke WMM Quartz VBB Fault zone {an surface) —-a—" Fault zone (underground) .—*-— Golden Zone Mines, Ltd. Plan of principal, surface, and underground workings after surveys by company. East of B shaft conditions are very different and a number of open-cuts partly expose the geology, as illustrated on the accompanying map. There is rather more granite than shown, east of B shaft, but the rotten nature of the rock and the irregular distribution make accurate mapping difficult. A study of the accompanying map, both surface and underground, will give a better idea of the geology than any verbal description. It is at once apparent that east of the granite-contact proper the quartz is exceedingly irregular; a width of 12 feet, D 16 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. well mineralized with arsenopyrite, is seen in the large cut north-east of B shaft. Other widths and degrees of mineralization are extremely variable. Near the widest quartz a pile of selected material shows very heavy sulphide, both pyrite and arsenopyrite, and some of the latter is extremely fine-grained. A sample of solid sulphide from this pile returned: Gold, 1.94 oz. per ton; silver, 10 oz. per ton. The surface rocks are finely shattered, and in only a few instances is the quartz well exposed, so that details of widths and attitudes cannot be obtained. Four diamond-drill holes were put down from the surface to intersect the vein or veins at depth. The core recovered was so badly broken that the information gained was of little positive value, but mineralized quartz was intersected. "A" shaft was originally put down 115 feet at an average inclination of 72 degrees and a small amount of drifting done. The present company did considerably more drifting on this No. 1 level and sank the shaft vertically a further 100 feet to No. 2 level, on which latter level drifting was still in progress at the close of 1937. All of the ground is shattered and blocky and the larger faults form broad zones of gouge. The sediments dip 60 degrees westerly and are cut by irregular masses of granite and by an easterly-dipping system of post-mineral dykes (not mapped on No. 2 level, 20 feet west of the shaft). A fault-zone on No. 1 level, 130 feet west of the shaft, was caved at the time of the writer's visit in December, and the geology of the inner section, here illustrated, is taken solely from the company's maps. The quartz occurs as fissure-fillings of small size, and as filling and replacement bodies of all widths up to 12 feet, which tend to fade into the formation; widths and attitudes are irregular. The quartz is mostly white and friable and is locally vaguely banded. Mineralization is in contrast with that on the surface; it consists almost entirely of pyrite, which occurs in two instances as nearly solid bands a few inches wide, as pockets, as stringers and scattered aggregates, and as fine platy smears. There is locally a little sphalerite, a very little arsenopyrite, and rarely a silvery mineral, jamesonite. The quartz is partly offset by and partly follows the faulting, forming a rudely coordinate pattern, complex in detail. Not all of the faulting is later than the introduction of quartz, and part at least of the wide quartz is influenced by movement at a large angle to the dominant east-west strike. There are several narrow, approximately east-west strands, one of which is encountered in the shaft about 35 feet above No. 1 level. Values, according to the company's sampling, are quite variable in the wider sections of quartz, including many low assays; better values, from a large fraction of an ounce to 2 oz. and higher, are to be found in the narrower, east-west strands. This is borne out by the writer's sampling, as follows:— (1.) Face of No. 2 level drift, as mapped, main quartz 75 inches wide: Gold, trace; silver, 0.5 oz. per ton. (2.) Face of No. 2 level drift, selected sample of best-mineralized material on foot-wall, including a very little sphalerite: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton; silver, 10.5 oz. per ton. (3.) No. 2 level drift, 24 feet from face, 40 inches on foot-wall of main lead: Gold, 0.01 oz. per ton; silver, 0.6 oz. per ton. (4.) No. 2 level drift, 36 feet from face, stringer of heavy pyrite 4 inches wide on foot- wall of main lead: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton; silver, 6 oz. per ton. (5.) No. 2 level, roughly chipped sample across approximately 8 feet of quartz, 70 feet west of shaft: Gold, 0.06 oz. per ton; silver, 0.6 oz. per ton. (6.) No. 1 level, at fork 55 feet north-west of shaft; narrow 1- to 3-ineh stringer: Gold, 0.74 oz. per ton; silver, 1.2 oz. per ton. (7.) No. 1 level, south-easternmost drift, 22 feet from face, quartz 45 inches wide: Gold, trace; silver, 0.4 oz. per ton. (8.) In shaft, about 35 feet above No. 1 level, across a vein-zone from 8 to 18 inches wide and here 10 inches wide: Gold, 1.30 oz. per ton; silver, 0.6 oz. per ton. In summary, from about B shaft and west is a steeply-dipping fissure-vein in granite, mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite, and a little chalcopyrite. East of this point, in sediments containing small, irregular masses of granite, are irregular fissure-fillings and replacement bodies of quartz, with steep dips and all widths up to 12 feet. These bodies have a general east-west strike, but also tend to follow, and are partly offset by, a somewhat later set of fissures that strike roughly north and south. The mineralogy also is in contrast with that SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 17 farther west; here sphalerite is very rare, and arsenopyrite, while rare underground, is locally abundant on the surface. In comparison with the surface it might be assumed that underground the body or bodies will die out to the east, and in crossing the general granite- contact to the west will change in form and mineralogy, but this has not been proved. Values, in badly-broken country, are erratic, and frequently low, except in some of the narrower east-west strands. References.—Geological Survey, Canada, Memoir 2, page 204; Geological Survey, Canada, Preliminary Report, " Mineral Deposits of West Half of Kettle River Area," page 24; Annual Reports, Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1930-1932. Keremeos Creek. Gold Valley Mines, Limited, was incorporated in April, 1936, to take over Gold Valley the undertakings of a private company of the same name, on property Mines, Ltd. originally acquired by Olalla Mines, Limited, two years previously. The head office of the company is 417 Vancouver Block, Vancouver. The total capitalization is 3,000,000 shares. The property consists of nineteen claims and fractions, five of which are Crown-granted. It is situated on the west side of Keremeos Creek, just below Olalla. The Penticton- Keremeos Highway crosses the eastern margin of the property 28 miles from Penticton and between 3 and 4 miles north of Keremeos. The property flanks the flat bottom of the Keremeos Creek Valley and lies on steep and precipitous slopes that rise to summits in excess of 6,000 feet, 10 miles south-east of Nickel Plate Mountain. Grassy and bluff-covered slopes rise from the valley-bottom at angles between 20 and 35 degrees, and are dissected by occasional dry gullies. The property is divisible into two sections; one, the Sunrise section, immediately south of Olalla, is served by trail a few hundred feet in length from the highway. The Something Good section, nearly a mile to the south, is reached by an excessively steep switchback trail that climbs to a height of 1,000 feet above the highway. Sufficient mining-timber is to be found, and water for the Sunrise section is obtained from Olalla Creek, while at the Something Good water is obtained from the mine-workings and also from a spring 1,000 feet to the north. Equipment and buildings include a blacksmith-shop at each of the Something Good adits, and a portable compressor at the No. 2 adit supplies air to both. A crudely-constructed aerial tram equipped with wooden " buckets " of small capacity leads from the No. 1 adit to a 60-ton bin near the road. On the Sunrise section a frame building houses a semi-permanent compressor installation and also a steel-sharpener. A building a few hundred yards distant in Olalla has been used as a bunk-house. B. C. McDougall has been in charge of a small and variable crew for the past year, except for a suspension of operations during excessively cold weather during the greater part of February and March of 1937. The rocks of the region consist of a thick sedimentary series intruded by pyroxenite, granite, and some dioritic rock. The sediments are fine-grained and commonly dark-coloured argillites, cherts, and quartzites and less calcareous material, all possessing a blocky fracture. Interbedded with the sediments is greenstone which represents in part at least andesitic lava and perhaps local bands of tuff. The amount of greenstone is not known, but is clearly subordinate, and is not seen in the mine-workings. The structure of these rocks is not known. Two prominent intrusive rocks are pyroxenite and granite. The former is a medium- to coarse-grained rock, light to dark green in colour, consisting almost entirely of augite and including a little biotite; it is found both east and west of Keremeos Creek Valley. One large body on the Something Good and Great Eastern claims is, at the elevation of No. 1 adit, nearly 2,000 feet wide and trends up and down the hillside; an offshoot from this body passes immediately south of the adit. A second body, of unknown extent, occurs on the No. 2 Fractional. The pyroxenite weathers to a light green sandy soil. A body of pink soda granite outcrops at the north end of the property and near Olalla. Some dioritic rock is also to be seen, part of which may be a border phase of the granite and part appears to be a dyke; outcrops are too scarce to show the distribution and relationships of these intrusives, but they are all pre-mineral. 2 D 18 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. Mineralization is entirely different at the two ends of the property. At the south end, on the Something Good, a shear-zone in argillites and quartzitic sediments contains in one place small cross-stringers of quartz, and in this section a brecciated foot-wall seam contains gold values. On the Sunrise claim are several small veins of white quartz, in granite and pyroxenite, weakly mineralized with pyrite. One of these veins is seen to contain a lens 3 inches wide mineralized with galena and copper sulphides in addition to pyrite. Something Good Section.—A shear-zone in argillites and quartzitic sediments outcrops on the face of prominent bluffs at an elevation of about 2,600 feet and upwards for 100 feet and more. At the base of the bluffs the rock is pyroxenite, which consists of one large body with an offshoot 100 feet wide in the angle between which lies the shear-zone, apparently in both vertical and horizontal section. The shear-zone, at the lowest point seen, at No. 1 adit is about 4 feet wide and widens upwards to 16 feet, 40 feet above the adit. From the latter point, partly covered by talus and again exposed 50 feet higher on a vertical face, the shear-zone is seen to be a branching structure of sheared and shattered rock. A further 100 feet higher it is lost in overburden and cannot be traced with certainty beyond this point. From 20 to 40 feet above the adit the shear-zone is transected diagonally by narrow quartz stringers striking north 60 degrees west and attaining a maximum width of 3 inches. Some little quartz is also seen as breccia-filling in this section and part has also been brecciated together with the surrounding rocks; the distribution of quartz is erratic and the total percentage low. No. 1 adit, 1,035 feet above the road at an elevation of about 2,600 feet, is, at the portal, 30 feet south of the main body of pyroxenite and 40 feet north of the offshoot of the same rock. It follows the foot-wall of the zone, in sediments, for 350 feet, in which distance it curves gradually from south 75 degrees west to south 55 degrees west. No. 2 adit, 200 feet lower in elevation on the 35-degree slope, is driven south 73 degrees west for 315 feet to a point vertically below the portal of No. 1 adit; from the face a 25-foot crosscut is driven north 40 degrees west. No. 2 adit is in pyroxenite for its entire length and contains no apparent mineralization. Measurements in No. 1 adit have been taken from a point vertically below the edge of a single set of lagging 15 feet above the rail, and which is 12 feet from the edge of the rock-cut at the portal of the adit. For the first 300 feet the adit follows a smooth wall which dips at a very high angle northerly; the adit then crosses into the foot-wall, and at 350 feet a crosscut is driven north-west 24 feet to intersect the shear-zone again. In the first 110 feet there is, adjacent to the smooth wall which is the foot-wall of the shear-zone, 6 to 26 inches of more or less cemented brecciated material, which consists of argillaceous and quartzitic rock and a varying but subordinate amount of vein-quartz, and contains small amounts of scattered pyrite in both fragments and cement. The cement seems to be entirely calcite, and in no part is this breccia material strongly coherent; the fragments are rarely as large as walnuts, and much of the material is of the coarseness of coarse sand. In the hanging-wall of this zone of crushing are shattered and sheared argillaceous and quartzitic sediments, the darker of which are frequently graphitic; these grade into firm ground and may or may not be sharply marked off from the foot-wall zone. From 80 to 110 feet the foot-wall zone becomes less marked, and in this distance grades from a few inches to a foot of finely-crushed and partly- cemented argillite into 1 to 3 inches of gouge. From 110 feet from the portal in to the face the foot-wall slip is accompanied by an inch or so to nearly a foot of gouge or strongly sheared argillite, in many places graphitic. The remainder of the ground exposed in this inner 240 feet of the adit consists of dark-coloured argillaceous to cherty rock sheared and brecciated to a greater or lesser extent, and containing occasional veinlets and tiny lenses of calcite as well as sparse and erratically disseminated pyrite. A crosscut extends 25 feet north of the foot-wall at a point 175 feet from the portal, and shows merely shattered and sheared dark argillites. Sampling.—In No. 1 adit holes have been drilled in foot-wall, hanging-wall, and back to a depth from collar between 4 and 5 feet, averaging about 4% feet. Holes are drilled into the foot-wall at 5-foot intervals between 148 and 342 feet and into the hanging-wall between 148 and 348 feet; holes are drilled at 10-foot intervals upwards in the back from 150 to 340 feet. Sludge samples are reported to have been taken from all of these holes, 100 in number, but the assay returns are not at hand. The writer took samples throughout the length of the adit, commencing at 20 feet from the outer edge of the lagging. Samples were cut with a moil across the foot-wall crushed zone, and restricted to this zone except where it was bounded by shattered or sheared rock, when the sample was extended to firm ground. In the innermost 100 feet samples were cut across the most shattered portion, regardless of whether there was a clearly-defined foot-wall zone or not. Both crosscuts were sampled for their full length. From 20 to 80 feet the foot-wall zone was cut every 5 feet. From 80 feet in the foot-wall zone is less well marked and the sample interval was extended to 10 feet, the sample in each case being of strongly shattered or sheared ground as distinct from the normal blocky sediments. From 190 to 240 feet the back breaks to a shear-zone dipping southerly 15 to 45 degrees, and samples were not taken in this interval except as representing the material of this zone which appears to cross through, and to offset slightly, the main foot-wall slip. The westerly wall of each crosscut was sampled in 5-foot sections. The returns of this sampling are given below in tabular form. The samples were all run for silver, but as the highest return was 0.6 oz. per ton, corresponding to the highest gold value, and very few were above a trace, the silver values have been omitted. Sample No. Distance from Portal. Width. Gold. Remarks. Feet. Inches. Oz. per Ton. 4348b 20 7 0.30 Foot-wall breccia-zone. 49 20 35 Nil In hanging-wall of above. 4350b 25 11 0.16 Foot-wall breccia-zone. 51 30 13% 0.24 Foot-wall breccia-zone. 52 30 36 0.02 In hanging-wall of above. 53 35 13% 0.36 F.W. breccia-zone. 54 40 23 0.44 F.W. breccia-zone. 55 45 23 0.36 F.W. breccia-zone. 56 50 25 0.54 F.W. breccia-zone. 57 55 15 0.22 F.W. breccia-zone. 58 60 27 0.06 F.W. breccia-zone. 59 65 20 0.06 F.W. breccia-zone. 4360b 70 32 0.72 F.W. breccia-zone. 61 75 52 0.30 F.W. breccia-zone (zone not clearly denned). 62 80 56 0.16 F.W. breccia-zone (zone not clearly denned). 63 90 11 0.32 F.W. breccia-zone (solid hanging-wall). 64 100 16 1.60 F.W. breccia-zone. 4365b 110 11 2.20 F.W. breccia-zone (solid hanging-wall). 66 120 54 0.04 Shear-zone. 67 130 25 0.08 On foot-wall. 68 140 15 Trace On foot-wall. 69 150 42 Trace On foot-wall. 4370b 160 37 0.02 On foot-wall. 71 170 70 Trace Across back. 72 180 60 Trace Across back. 73 180 60 Trace Across back at crosscut. 74 180 60 Trace West wall of crosscut. 75 180 60 Trace West wall of crosscut. 76 180 60 Trace West wall of crosscut at face. 78 200 12 Trace Flat shear in back. 79 210 20 Trace Flat shear in back. 4380b 250 50 Trace Shear-zone. 81 260 48 Trace Shear-zone. 82 270 70 Trace Shear-zone. 83 280 40 Trace Shear-zone (foot-wall, strongly crushed). 84 280 40 Trace Shear-zone (hanging-wall, blocky ground). 85 290 55 0.02 Shear-zone. 86 300 64 Trace Shear-zone. 87 310 62 Trace In F.W. of foot-wall slip. 88 320 52 Trace In F.W. of foot-wall slip. 4389b 330 51 Trace In F.W. of foot-wall slip. 90 340 46 Trace In F.W. of foot-wall slip. 91 350 60 Trace W. wall crosscut, 15-10 feet from face. 92 350 60 Trace Ditto, 10-5 feet from face. 4393b 350 60 Trace Ditto, 5 feet at face, on strong shear. I D 20 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. An interesting section is undoubtedly shown in the first 110 feet in from the portal. The writer has not averaged this section, however, because only a few of the samples are taken over minable widths. He believes that a resampling at 3-foot intervals over practical mining- widths would be necessary before an accurate estimate of the value of this section could be made. The inner 240 feet of the adit is of no interest. Values are restricted to that portion of the foot-wall of the shear-zone in which there has been some cementation by calcite of crushed and granulated material that contains some vein-quartz in addition to rock. The end of the mineralized section is coincident with the appearance of a poorly-defined shearing that emerges from the north wall of the adit, and from that point to the face the structure is characteristically that of an ordinary shear-zone in rocks of the type described. The shear-zone has not been intersected by No. 2 adit, so it is not known whether values exist in pyroxenite walls. The distance on the shear-zone to pyroxenite below No. 1 adit is not known. Appreciable values are restricted in No. 1 adit to a section little more than 100 feet long, of an average height to surface of 50 feet or less and of unknown depth. The situation of the workings makes transportation difficult and expensive, and, in view of the broken character of the ground and difficulty of sorting, neither clean nor cheap mining is indicated. Two grab samples were taken from the surface of the full 60-ton bin near the road. One was of fines and one of the more highly-cemented breccia characteristic of the outermost 80 feet of No. 1 adit. These samples returned each a trace in gold. Sunrise Section.—As previously mentioned, the rocks underlying this section include granite, pyroxenite, and sedimentary and dioritic rocks, the distribution and relationship of which are obscured by overburden. Mineralization is in the form of narrow quartz veins. On the highway, a quarter of a mile south of Olalla, is an old adit driven 88 feet in a direction south 75 degrees west. This adit follows a vertical quartz vein 5 to 16 inches wide, frozen in granite. The quartz contains calcite locally and is very sparsely mineralized with small grains of pyrite. At 34 feet from the portal the vein, here containing considerable calcite, is partly lost in the north wall, from which it emerges at 54 feet, and is continuous to the face. A crosscut is driven 10 feet north at 68 feet, and a similar strand of quartz 6 feet distant is drifted on for 10 feet to the west. Three samples were taken in this adit:— Face of north drift, quartz 17 inches wide: Gold, nil; silver, nil. Main adit, opposite crosscut, 5 inches wide: Gold, trace; silver, trace. Main adit, 28 feet from portal, 16 inches wide: Gold, trace; silver, trace. An old shaft is sunk to a reported depth of 45 feet on what is evidently the same vein at a point 150 feet westerly and 110 feet higher than the adit. This shaft shows the vein to be vertical and 8 to perhaps 20 inches wide, between solid and unaltered granite-walls. The vein cannot be traced farther, but some 600 feet westerly from the shaft and 260 feet higher is an open-cut in pyroxenite and exposing quartz that may or may not be the continuation of the same vein. The quartz is in two members 6 feet apart, dipping 70 to 85 degrees northerly, and is quite irregular. The width varies from 5 inches or less to 32 inches, and no appreciable mineralization is to be seen in the white and friable quartz. Neither of the veins appears to be continuous; the foot-wall vein pinches out at a depth of about 12 feet and the hanging-wall vein appears to lens out along the strike. Samples returned:— Foot-wall vein, west side of cut, 32 inches wide: Gold, trace; silver, 0.4 oz. Foot-wall vein, east side of cut, 8 inches wide: Gold, nil; silver, nil. Hanging-wall vein, west side of cut, 15 inches wide: Gold, trace; silver, 0.4 oz. An adit is collared 130 feet north of this cut and 100 feet lower, and is driven 217 feet in a direction south 6 degrees east directly beneath the cut. No mineralization of any significance is encountered by this adit, which is in pyroxenite for its entire length. One small and discontinuous lens of quartz is to be seen on the west wall 45 feet from the portal, at 170 feet an 11-foot branch is driven easterly in sheared pyroxenite, and at random intervals throughout the remainder of the crosscut sparse stringers and tiny lenses of calcite and quartz are seen to occur. Unless there has been some faulting, for which there is no evidence, the veins exposed in the upper cut do not persist to the level of the adit. On the edge of the highway, 130 feet northerly from the old adit, is an open-cut which has been continued as an adit a distance of 10 feet in a direction of south 80 degrees west on a shear-zone which dips 75 degrees northerly. This shear-zone contains as much as several inches of quartz or quartzose material, of irregular distribution. A sample across the face, showing an average width of 19 inches, including practically no quartz, returned: Gold, 0.04 oz. per ton; silver, trace. At the top of the portal in the foot-wall of the zone is a lens of quartz to a maximum width of 9 inches, including an extreme foot-wall band 3 inches wide mineralized with galena, chalcocite (?), and perhaps other copper- and silver-bearing sulphides. This material is reported to assay high in gold and silver, but was not sampled by the writer because of the spotty nature of mineralization and the fact that the whole lens is not continuous. In addition to these showings on the Sunrise section of the property, several hundred feet north-west of the old adit, and 100 feet or so apart, are three piles of a hundred to several hundred pounds of quartz, the sources of which are not clearly indicated, although of local derivation. Between this point and the new upper adit a little work has been done on granite that is seen to contain a strand of quartz 4 to 10 inches wide and dipping 15 degrees northwesterly. Another exposure of white quartz is seen 65 feet north-easterly from the portal of the upper adit, but no work has been done on it and width and attitude are not apparent. Conclusions.—On the Something Good section of the property No. 1 adit discloses a mineralized section 100 feet or so in length that contains interesting gold values. The upward extension of this section is distinctly limited and the downward continuation has not been proved. The chief matter in doubt is the behaviour and value of the shear-zone in pyroxenite, the boundaries of which body of rock are not known beneath the portal of the adit. Even if values do not persist downwards into pyroxenite there may be 100 feet of depth in sediments, and close-interval sampling following further development may show a minable body of limited dimensions. Calculations at the present stage of development are inadvisable. On the Sunrise section there is at present no minable tonnage. The continuity and value of the quartz veins so far developed are not encouraging. Surficial exploration, so far hardly attempted, is the only means of further exploring this part of the property. Kelly Creek. Kelly Creek flows into the Tulameen River from the north-west about 12 miles above the village of Tulameen. The stream is about 6 miles in total length and flows in a broad, open valley at a low gradient from the southern base of Coquihalla Mountain (elevation 7,068 feet). A trail leads up the valley and branches at the second fork. The country traversed is Eagle granodiorite, to the west of which and at the headwaters are Cretaceous sediments, tuffs, and breccias capped, at Coquihalla Mountain, by Tertiary lava (see Cairnes' report and map, Geological Survey, Canada, Summary Report, 1922, Part A, page 95). Quartz veins occur in the Cretaceous rocks at the first fork 3 miles from the river, between the second forks, and also on the north-east valley-wall 1 mile from the second fork. On the high summit across the creek and due south of Coquihalla Mountain there is scattered sulphide mineralization in volcanic rocks. The rock of this summit is fine-grained and light-green in colour and contains considerable quartz; microscopic examination classes it as granodiorite, and it might be intrusive. Immediately below the first main fork of the creek, 3% miles by trail from W. B. Marks. Tulameen River, W. B. Marks owns two claims known as the Evening Star group. The showing is in a small canyon on the creek at an elevation of about 4,000 feet. A quartz vein, dip 50 degrees west, is exposed for a length of 30 feet in greenstone by open-cut and short adit. The vein is 5 to 12 inches wide and tends to split into stringers; in the face of the 20-foot adit two stringers an inch or so wide are apparently in the hanging-wall of the vein proper, which is not at this point seen. The quartz contains locally considerable pyrite and a little chalcopyrite. In the open-cut a sample of the vein, averaging 7 inches wide, returned: Gold, 0.30 oz. per ton; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton; a grab sample of the dump returned: Gold, 0.28 oz. per ton; silver, 0.2 oz. per ton. The vein has not been traced farther. One-quarter mile west of this point, in partly silicified, sheared greenstone, is some irregular frozen quartz mineralized with pyrite and a little chalcopyrite. D 22 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. One mile north of the second fork, at an elevation of about 4,850 feet, in the bed of a small tributary creek is a quartz vein exposed for a total length of 20 feet by open-cut and short adit. The vein has a strike of north 80 degrees west and a dip of 60 degrees north in sheared greenstone; it is from 5 to 26 inches wide, tends to split, and is mineralized with pyrite, a little chalcopyrite, and a trace of galena. A sample across the widest part, 26 inches wide, returned: Gold, 0.32 oz. per ton; silver, 2 oz. per ton; and a sample across 5V2 inches at the portal of the adit returned: Gold, 0.31 oz. per ton; silver, 1 oz. per ton. The prominent ridge south of Coquihalla Mountain, elevation about 5,650 feet, consists of light greenish-grey volcanic (?) rock, intruded near the valley-bottom by granodiorite. On the crest of the ridge the rock for a distance of about 300 feet is altered and weakly sheared, with development of epidote in tiny films and patches and also small veinlets of quartz. Small amounts of pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite can be detected in this material. Only a slight amount of surface work has been done here, and part of the mineralized rock was said to be covered by snow early in July. Sulphides occur in very small quantity, and the distribution is obscure, but the area seems well worthy of surface prospecting; the north side of the ridge is excessively steep for 1,500 feet. Archie Chisholm, of Tulameen, owns one claim at the base of this same Chisholm. ridge on the eastern side. A quartz vein striking north 10 degrees east and dipping 50 degrees west, in sheared greenstone, is 130 feet higher than the creek, at an elevation of about 4,400 feet. The vein averages about 10 inches wide, contains some carbonate, and is mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. A sample from the dump returned: Gold, 0.04 oz. per ton; silver, 0.2 oz. per ton. Some 100 feet higher in elevation is another similar vein striking north 60 degrees east, mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite. A selected sample from this vein returned: Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton; silver, 1.9 oz. per ton. Central Camp. This group, centred about the old Mabel claim, consists of ten claims and Mabel. fractions, six of which are Crown-granted. It is owned or controlled by Dr. G. H. Worthington, of Vancouver, and associates; J. G. Creelman is foreman in charge of the work. The group is in the old Central Camp and is situated on the summit on the road which leads from Boundary Falls to the highway west of Grand Forks. This is a part of the plateau-surface at an elevation of about 4,700 feet and is characterized by a subdued rocky topography, well timbered. The rocks are chiefly sedimentary and schistose, intrusive into which is a broad dyke of diorite. Serpentine outcrops at the east end of the property. On the Mabel is an old shaft sunk prior to 1900 on an irregular zone, strike north 35 degrees west, dip about 70 degrees north-easterly. An open-cut extends 30 feet north-west from the shaft in schistose sediments and ends in diorite. The workings are caved in, but the zone appears to have been one of quartz stringers in the schist. A little glassy quartz remaining on the dump shows pyrite and sphalerite. A new shaft is being sunk 125 feet to the south-east and 30 feet lower, and was about 60 feet deep at the time of the writer's visit. It is at an inclination of about 65 degrees to the north-east and for the greater part of the distance follows the foot-wall of a broad dyke of diorite, in brown, micaceous schist. Mineralization occurs only in the schist which trends a little south of east and is truncated by the diorite at a small angle; the shaft follows this intersection. The distribution of mineralization is obscure, but it is associated with a marked silicification of the schist and is partly in and partly accompanied by very irregular quartz in bands which parallel the schistosity and in irregular ribbons which cut across it; the whole tends to be discontinuous, although there are apparent total widths as great as 8 feet. Sulphides include chiefly pyrrhotite and less chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Pyrrhotite occurs as impregnations in schist and chert, as fracture-fillings in the rock, and strikingly in semi-crystalline vein-quartz; chalcopyrite is finely and intimately associated with the pyrrhotite, and sphalerite occurs as less common patches and aggregates of grains. A sample across 44 inches at the bottom of the shaft returned: Gold, trace; silver, 0.2 oz. per ton. Three selected samples were taken from the dump—(1) of nearly pure pyrrhotite returned: Gold, 0.68 oz. per ton; silver, 0.8 oz. per ton; (2) of material carrying considerable sphalerite returned: Gold, 1.36 oz. per ton; silver, 1.5 oz. per ton; zinc, 4.6 per cent.; (3) SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 23 of pyrrhotite in quartz with chalcopyrite returned: Gold, 0.74 oz. per ton; silver, 0.5 oz. per ton; copper, trace. It is not known what relation this mineralization bears to that in the original shaft. About 400 feet west of the shaft is an old pit, on the dump of which is schist containing a little quartz and pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. Other open-cuts extend on this westerly line for half a mile at wide intervals; with the exception of some recent stripping on schist formation, these old surface workings are badly caved and show narrow widths of quartz mineralized chiefly and in small amounts with pyrite. On the Falcon claim is an old 15-foot shaft on a band of nearly solid pyrite, dip 60 degrees north-west. This shaft was being cleaned out. On the Oro claim is an old shaft said to be 65 feet deep, on the dump of which is schist impregnated with pyrite. Other showings, poorly exposed, are to be seen north and east of the Mabel shaft. Shipments amounting to a total of 72 tons were made to the Trail smelter and yielded 11 oz. gold and 35 oz. silver. Beaverdell Area. This group of three claims is owned by W. R. Fowler and associates, of Rosemont. Okanogan, Washington. It is 7 miles north-east of Beaverdell on the west side of St. John Creek, at an elevation of about 4,400 feet. The nearly level plateau-surface here falls off rather sharply into the small valley of St. John Creek; the plateau has been largely burned over, but the timber in the valley has been unaffected. A rather steep road was constructed in 1937 from the Harrison Ranch in Beaver Creek Valley up to a good cabin near the uppermost workings. The ground is in an area of Wallace formation about half a mile wide nearly surrounded by quartz diorite. The geology is so mapped by Reinecke, but actually there is considerable quartz diorite seen penetrating the older rocks which represent remnants of the batholithic roof. The Wallace here is represented by sediments, some of which are limy, and all are highly altered, even to the point, locally, of granitization. The mineralization is in rather obscure zones in Wallace formation and consists of sulphide impregnations accompanied by more or less quartz. There are a number of scattered workings extending from the cabin, elevation 4,400 feet, eastward and downhill a distance of 900 feet with a difference in elevation of 180 feet. Near the cabin is a vertical shaft which is perhaps 60 feet deep and is now full of water. From the material on the old dump it may be judged that the shaft encountered no great amount of mineralization, although some mineralized quartzose stringers are seen just below the collar; recent work by the present owners has shown that these stringers open out, immediately to the north and for a distance of some 20 feet, into a band which dips 45 degrees easterly in Wallace formation. This band contains considerable pyrrhotite, less pyrite, and a little chalcopyrite in glassy quartz and silicified wall-rock. Some narrow bands of quartz containing flaky and cellular pyrite are said to carry consistently high gold values; a sample of such material assayed: Gold, 2.40 oz. per ton; silver, 0.4 oz. per ton; arsenic, trace. Some 60 tons of mineralized material, largely pyrrhotite, was on the dump awaiting shipment. An open-cut 30 feet northerly on the strike fails to uncover the continuation of this band, which may, however, have an irregular strike. Other small open-cuts near by and near the cabin show Wallace formation containing pyrrhotite mineralization, the attitude of which is obscure. South and south-west of the shaft a distance of 150 feet are two open-cuts in Wallace formation near quartz diorite; in these there is some irregular mineralization. South-east of the shaft, along a Wallace-diorite contact, are a few open-cuts in which traces of mineralization are seen. At the lower end of the line of showings are two open-cuts driven into the side-hill a distance of 22 and 34 feet; they are 70 feet apart and show pvrrhotite-pyrite mineralization in Wallace formation in and accompanied by quartz and silicified rock. A 12-foot shaft 620 feet south-east of the main shaft shows a quartz vein 3% feet wide in a zone 6 to 10 feet wide; the strike is north 50 degrees west and the dip is vertical. The finding of high-grade material, missed during the sinking of the main shaft by a few feet, is interesting; unfortunately, the degree of oxidation makes it impossible to tell whether the higher gold values are associated with quartz stringers of a second generation or are an integral, if spotty, part of the main mineralization. Considerable stripping and D 24 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. careful sampling could be done to prove continuity or otherwise of these apparently unrelated and as yet little understood showings. Forty-one tons of ore shipped to the smelter yielded 26 oz. gold and 28 oz. silver. This group of four claims, owned by William Youngson and associates, of Midnight. Beaverdell, is 1% miles south of Beaverdell, just off the highway. The showings are on the steep, timbered, and grassy slope between 75 and 150 feet above the valley-flat. A shear-zone in quartz diorite contains tetrahedrite and galena, and a little pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite in white, finely crystalline quartz. A series of open-cuts 150 feet long trends north 70 degrees east, and 100 feet farther westerly on the same line is an adit driven by hand-work for 50 feet. The shear-zone dips 50 degrees southerly and is from a few inches to 2 feet wide and contains several inches of quartz at most; one section consists of crystalline quartz containing pyrite and other sections are of sheared and altered rock containing bands of sulphides with small amounts of quartz. The adit had not reached the shear-zone in October, but a fault was encountered, strike north 50 degrees west, dip 55 degrees south-west, on the foot-wall of which the quartz diorite was altered to the sericitized " ledge-matter " typical of Wallace Mountain and in which random grains of tetrahedrite were seen. The degree of oxidation on the surface obscures details of mineralization and structure, and until the shear-zone can be located and drifted on underground it is too early to form definite opinions. High gold assays, in terms of ounces, have been reported. A sample of sorted material from the uppermost open-cut returned: Gold, 0.46 oz. per ton; silver, 30.6 oz. per ton; copper, 2.2 per cent.; lead, 8.3 per cent.; and a specimen sample returned: Gold, 0.70 oz. per ton; silver, 61 oz. per ton; copper, 4.3 per cent.; lead, 14.4 per cent. The finding of substantial gold values is comparatively new in this part of the district, and the reported finding of similar float near by is, in the opinion of the writer, indicative of other shear-zones and warrants detailed prospecting in spite of heavy overburden. COPPER-GOLD DEPOSITS. Similkameen River Area. This company has its main office in Olympia, Washington. Fred F. Foster, Red Buck Mines, of Spokane, is mine manager, and Jesse R. Villars, of Montana, is con- Ltd. suiting engineer. The group of seven claims is on the west side of the Similkameen River Canyon, 11 miles south of Princeton and 1% miles north of Copper Mountain main adit. The camp and lowest adit are 30 feet above the river, at an elevation of 2,550 feet. The canyon-wall here is steep, having at this point an average slope of 37 degrees between road and river, and even steeper sections exist a few hundred feet north and south. The road is about 800 feet above the river, and above the road the slope is much less precipitous. The east side of the canyon is equally steep, except for a section in the bend of the river immediately opposite. The camp is reached by a steep zigzag foot-trail from the road, or by foot-trail and log bridge from the Copper Mountain branch of the Kettle Valley Railway, opposite, which is some 300 feet higher in elevation than the river. The geology of the region has been fully described by Dolmage, who writes of the Red Buck in part (Geological Survey, Canada, Memoir 171, page 36): "The deposits occur in latite and andesite of the Wolf Creek formation where it is extensively impregnated with pegmatite and intruded by irregular masses of Lost Horse intrusives. The pegmatite consists of orthoclase, albite, and quartz, thus closely resembling that on the Duke of York. The pegmatite veins generally trend in a north-westerly direction following the general strike of the Wolf Creek formation. The ore-bodies are very irregular in form and indistinct as to limits, but tend roughly to follow the strike of the pegmatite. The ore consists of irregular disseminations of chalcopyrite and pyrite with much feldspar and other pegmatitic material distributed through andesite and latite over a large section of the Red Buck and adjoining claims. The deposits have not been sufficiently exposed and their limits are too indefinite to enable them to be accurately delineated." To this the writer can add nothing, except that during his examination he found many intergrading rock-types of the varieties named, in a SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 25 complex area of intrusion. He failed to see, on the ground, any systematic arrangement of intrusion or mineralization, and little to account for the localization of mineralization. The property, principally the Red Buck claim, has been known for many years, having been staked prior to 1895. Most of the early development-work was done by 1900 and some time not long after the ground was drilled by B.C. Copper Corporation. In 1910 a shipment of 40 tons of sorted ore returned: Gold, 0.14 oz. per ton; silver, 1.5 oz. per ton; copper, 6.63 per cent.; and in 1915 a 30-ton shipment returned: Gold, 0.08 oz. per ton; silver, 0.9 oz. per ton; copper, 6.63 per cent. The Red Buck was optioned by Fred Foster and associates in 1928, and later Red Buck Mines, Limited, was formed. The two lowest adits and the raise were driven by hand-work by this company. No.lAdit El 2550' LEGEND Fault or clay slip Scale Feet Red Buck Mines, Ltd. Plan of principal workings after company surveys. There are a number of old open-cuts, chiefly about No. 3 adit, but as none of these is deep, some are filled in, and all are badly oxidized, nothing much can be learned from them beyond the presence of copper-stain and some unoxidized chalcopyrite. An old adit, elevation 2,695 feet, is some 400 feet south of No. 3, across slide-rock in bluffs. This is driven south 15 degrees west for 30 feet, then south 50 degrees west for 43 feet to the face in dark-grey volcanic rock. This rock has been minutely shattered, along some of the individual planes of which has been introduced pink feldspar, from paper-thin films to several inches in width. There has been (hydrothermal) alteration also on some planes, producing a light bleaching in an irregular and coalescent pattern, from paper-thin films to patches several inches across. This altered material is mineralized with chalcopyrite and pyrite as scattered grains and short, tiny films. The feldspar films and masses and the alteration appear to be related; most, but not all, of the mineralization is related to the alteration, and scattered grains of chalcopyrite can be seen in most rocks in this vicinity. Some 100 feet north and north-west of the portal is greenstone. About the portal of No. 3 adit are copper-showings in monzonitic rocks over an area 50 feet each way, and also for 100 feet north-west of the adit. There does not seem to be any regular or continuous body, but rather discontinuous patches of mineralization, and the total amount of copper present, while not large, is impossible to estimate. No. 3 adit is 180 feet long, 23 feet below which is a sub-level 40 feet long driven from a winze, in monzonitic rock cut by pegmatite. Mineralization, consisting of chalcopyrite and some pyrite, is almost entirely restricted to the outermost 100 feet of the adit, and in this section is locally heavy, particularly in the outermost 30 feet. Oxidation partly obscures the geology, and it is not possible to form an opinion of the shape, attitude, or controlling factors of the deposit. Both in the adit and in the sub-level strong mineralization is locally, but only locally, limited by shear- or joint-planes striking north-east and dipping 60 degrees north-westerly; in one or two places mineralization is bounded by a plane striking north-west. Beyond this fact the relations are obscure. A raise from No. 1 level, the upper part of which is now inaccessible, is said to have encountered no significant mineralization until a relatively few feet below the No. 3 adit sub-level. No. 2 adit, elevation 2,654 feet, was driven west 130 feet at the time of the writer's visit, early in August. The rock is pale-greenish diorite which, in the inner 20 feet, is locally altered in light-coloured, siliceous seams and patches and is lightly mineralized with chalcopyrite and pyrite. A large fault-plane crosses the adit diagonally about 80 feet from the portal. Two sets of steep joint-planes, probably unrelated to the mineralization, strike north 30 degrees west and north 30 degrees east. Mineralization is restricted to the innermost 20 feet of the adit, and is erratic, discontinuous, and not heavy. No. 1 adit, elevation 2,550 feet, consists of a section driven west for 560 feet, from which are two branches to the north and three to the south. One drift, 155 feet from the portal, follows a major fault to the south, but is bulkheaded off, as shown on the accompanying map. The outer 110 feet of the adit is in greenstone, then to 350 feet is in grey diorite, and then to 425 feet is in greenstone, cut by red pegmatite and locally crushed. The inner section of the adit, past the major fault-zone, is in monzonitic and dioritic rock, and some pegmatite. From about 255 to 300 feet from the portal is a section fairly well mineralized with pyrite and a little chalcopyrite; a chipped sample on the north wall, across 5 feet horizontal, at the east end of this section assayed: Gold, trace; silver, trace; copper, nil; and another sample over a 4%-foot interval at the centre of this section assayed: Gold, 0.01 oz. per ton; silver, trace; copper, 0.2 per cent. The raise, which connects with No. 3 level above, is accessible only to a bulkhead 120 feet above the adit, which is at a fault-zone. A fault-zone 90 feet above the adit is evidently the same as that cut and then drifted on in the inner section of No. 1, and the same as that cut in No. 2. Some pyrite mineralization is seen beneath the bulkhead, and worth-while copper mineralization is reported to have been encountered by the raise a few feet below the sub-level beneath No. 3 adit. Nos. 1 and 2 adits do not add materially to the knowledge of mineralization on the property. They do show the presence of faults of perhaps major importance. Until more work is done it is impossible to estimate the value of the copper body in No. 3 adit, regarding which size, attitude, and continuity are matters for conjecture, and concerning which it can only be said that high assays in copper are obtainable. The company during the summer made arrangements with the Canadian Pacific Railway for a 600-foot spur on the railway opposite camp, and were engaged in putting in a 112- horse-power Diesel engine, a 550-cubic-foot compressor, and drill-sharpener, etc. From a 100- ton bin at No. 1 adit-portal a Riblett Airline tram of 750 tons daily capacity was constructed to a 350-ton bin at the switch, a distance of approximately 1,300 feet, with a vertical rise of 375 feet; the tram to be electrically driven with Diesel-generated power. At the time of the writer's visit, early in August, No. 2 adit was being driven by hand-work. Tulameen Area. Dan Vuich, of Tulameen, owns six claims on the west side of Tulameen Lucky Todd. Valley at the mouth of Railroad Creek. The hillside proper rises steeply, at an average slope of 30 degrees, and is covered thinly by slide and detrital material. A foot-trail extends from the road north-westerly across the showings. The rocks are members of the Cretaceous bedded series in an embayment in the contact of a large body of Eagle granodiorite which lies to the east. Most of the rock about the showings is greenstone intruded by phases of what is probably Eagle granodiorite, which rock outcrops immediately south of the showings. Mineralization is in poorly-defined zones and disseminations on which work to date has failed to demonstrate continuity or precise relationships. The workings consist of a little surface work and eleven adits of an aggregate footage SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 27 of more than 600 feet; the adits are all crosscuts except in two instances, and many have been abandoned either before reaching their objective or because results were not promising. An adit, elevation 4,550 feet, 770 feet above the road, is driven north 85 degrees west for 25 feet, then northerly for 60 feet. In the second section a copper-bearing zone of shearing is followed for 25 feet, when it is cut by north-easterly faulting, and a similar zone is encountered in the innermost 15 feet; these two zones may be the same, faulted. Sparse pyrite and chalcopyrite occur over a width of between 3 and 6 feet; the zone cuts out on a fault at the south end and is throughout its length complicated by shears and slips which strike at a small angle to the drift. A second adit, 60 feet south, is driven in partly-sheared greenstone near a contact with diorite north 75 degrees west for 40 feet, and shows traces of mineralization. A third adit 100 feet north 20 degrees west from the first, and 15 feet higher, is driven north 25 degrees west 36 feet, then north 75 degrees west 30 feet; 12 feet from the portal a branch is driven west 18 feet. In the first section a westerly-dipping zone of shearing is followed, but with easterly-dipping components and flat rolls; the first branch is in greenstone and the innermost section follows a southerly-dipping fault in greenstone and some talcose schist, with slight evidence of mineralization. The zone in the first course is disclosed to good advantage in a large open-cut in greenstone and talcose schist at the portal; mineralization is here seen across 15 feet east-west in both easterly and westerly dipping strands. Sulphides include chalcopyrite, pyrite, bornite, and tetrahedrite. A sample across 50 inches at the west side of this exposure returned: Gold, trace; silver, 11 oz. per ton; copper, 1.6 per cent.; and a sample across 34 inches on an easterly-dipping strand near the east side returned: Gold, trace; silver, 0.6 oz. per ton; copper, 1 per cent. Other adits near here and to the north are driven westerly as crosscuts on what has apparently been considered an approximately north-south zone. This is essentially true, but mineralization tends rather to be localized within it on short, narrow zones of shearing and to be interrupted by nearly parallel breaks, and also to occur patchily with little apparent control. This is an area of general metamorphism, and intrusion of dyke-like bodies, a few hundred feet north of the westward bulge in the main body of granodiorite. Evidence of copper mineralization can be seen along a northerly line, slowly ascending the valley-wall to an elevation of 5,100 feet in a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. The rocks are " greenstones " as well as sandy sediments and breccias. More stripping might yet be done in order to define, if possible, the limits and intensity of mineralization. GOLD-SILVER-LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS. Tulameen Area. This property, consisting of five Crown-granted and five located claims, is Cousin Jack, owned by John Osborne, W. D. Vallance, and associate, of Tulameen and Blakeburn. It lies on Boulder Mountain 4% miles north of the village of Tulameen and 1 mile due west of the railway at the head of Otter Lake. The topography is subdued, the southern section being nearly flat and the northern section sloping at medium to high angles to the east and north-east. A short distance east of the property the ground falls off rapidly to the Otter Creek Valley. There is adequate timber for mining purposes, and water is obtainable, for domestic use only, from a spring near the cabin. An excessively steep trail leaves the Tulameen-Merritt Highway on Otter Lake near Smith Creek, and climbs the 1,670 feet rapidly to the summit of Boulder Mountain, and then drops 100 feet in the next half a mile to the cabin, elevation 4,130 feet. (Note.—On Geological Survey, Canada, Map 46a, the elevation reads approximately 4,600 feet.) An alternative trail, used for pack-horses, crosses Rabbitt Mountain and Boulder Creek, and is about 4% miles in length from the Law's Camp Road. The rocks are members of the Tulameen series, intruded by Boulder granite. The showings lie 1,000 feet to 1,500 feet north-west and west of the granite-contact, in greenstone which is more or less sheared. The shearing, the planes of which dip westerly at angles between 15 and 25 degrees, is locally so intense as to produce a chlorite-sericite schist, and when most intense the rock is pyritic. Mineralization is in four well-defined zones that strike west of north and in part follow the dip of the schistosity and in part are nearly vertical. Two isolated exposures may indicate two additional zones which have not been traced. D 28 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. The most westerly zone is traceable for some 1,200 feet and is opened up by two adits and a number of open-cuts. No. 1 adit (1), elevation 4,235 feet, is 70 feet long, in addition to which there is an 18-foot open-cut at the portal. Mineralization includes chiefly pyrite and sphalerite and a little galena in varying proportions in quartz and silicified greenstone. It Cousin Jack. Sketch-map of principal showings from survey by W. D. Vallance. occurs as impregnation and replacement of the schistose greenstone and only to a minor extent as fissure-filling by quartz. Some of the material is banded, evenly, or warped and convoluted. Width and attitude are uncertain, because the mineralization both cuts across and follows the planes of schistosity. The strongest section is at the portal and is lost in the SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 29 bottom of the adit; throughout the adit are bands, stringers, and masses, individually up to 2 to 4 feet wide, with predominating flat westerly dips. In No. 2 adit (2), elevation 4,190 feet, 122 feet long, there is a rib of quartz across the back 65 feet from the portal that is 20 inches wide, and this widens downward irregularly to several feet in width. The dip is steep to the west and the mineralization is not heavy. Some irregular white quartz occurs near the portal and some at 70 to 90 feet from the portal. The open-cuts on this zone show apparent widths of 4 to 5 feet or more of quartzose material more or less strongly mineralized; there is apparently variation represented between the extremes of habit seen in the two adits. It is difficult, if not impossible, to judge the width and attitude in these or in most open-cuts on the property; the strike seems quite uniform and the dip is westward at a high angle, but there is a tendency everywhere for the mineralization to penetrate along the planes of shearing, so that in cross-section any body is seen to consist of an irregular stem with branch-like offshoots, principally on the west side. An open-cut at (3), elevation 4,150 feet, discloses stringery quartzose mineralization in weakly-sheared greenstone, dipping apparently flatly westward. This is across 8 to 10 feet but is poorly exposed. A zone (4) north of the cabin is traced for 550 feet. At the southern end is an open-cut on a nearly vertical lead of quartz in sheared ground; the lead is here about 5 feet wide, not all quartz, and is weakly mineralized with pyrite and sphalerite. An open-cut at (5), elevation 4,105 feet, just opened up, discloses quartz, apparently flat and less than 12 inches wide, with some likely-looking mineralization. An adit at (6), elevation 4,000 feet, 25 feet long, bearing south 55 degrees west, is in flatly-sheared greenstone containing considerable pyrite in fine scattered grains. There is a little flatly-dipping mineralization above the portal which is not encountered in the adit. The next main zone at (7), elevation about 3,980 feet, is traced 350 feet and on it are four open-cuts. These disclose more or less sheared greenstone in which are ribs of quartz or siliceous sulphide seams, some dipping steeplv and some flatly, as well as crenulated ribbons of quartz and sulphide mineralization. The apparent width of the zone in these open-cuts is about 2 feet, and mineralization is variable and only locally strong. The easternmost zone (8), elevation about 3,915 feet, is traced for 200 feet, and is opened up by three open-cuts, a short adit-crosscut 20 feet long, and a filled-up shaft said to be 35 feet deep. The mineralization exposed by these several workings is hard to describe without going into extreme detail; it is very irregular, in flat, steep, and curving strands individually up to 2 feet wide and over apparent widths up to 6 feet and more. One sample—which assayed: Gold, 0.16 oz. per ton; silver, 1.4 oz. per ton; lead, 12.9 per cent.; zinc, 18.6 per cent.—was taken across a steep 18-inch band containing the most galena seen; another sample, channelled 5% feet down the face of the adit, including little mineral except in the central 2 feet, assayed: Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton; silver, trace; lead, nil; zinc, 3.1 per "ent. More opening-up accompanied by bulk-sampling would be necessary before averages of dimension and metal content could be obtained. The results of sampling by the Resident Engineer in 1935 and 1937 are shown graphically on the accompanying sketch-map. These samples have been taken more or less at random, and from them it is not safe to estimate the average value of these quite complex deposits. Work has progressed slowly for the last four seasons towards a more extensive opening-up of the various showings. SPECIAL REPORTS. Typewritten copies at 25 cents each are available to those who specially request reports on the following properties:— Tulameen Area: Grasshopper Mountain, Lloyd George, Britton, Britton Mountain, Sootheran. Pass Creek: Maple Leaf. Highland Valley: Snowstorm. Beaverdell: Florence, Hard Cash, Charybdis, Cranberry Creek, Gachain. D 30 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. PROGRESS NOTES. BY H. E. Miard and John G. Biggs. LODE-GOLD DEPOSITS. North Thompson River Area.* Windpass Gold Mining Co., Ltd.—A. J. Smith, general manager. The Windpass mine, situated 5 miles from Boulder, on the Canadian National Railway, is at an elevation of 5,340 feet, and transportation to the mill, 2.5 miles distant and at an elevation of 1,828 feet, is by an aerial tram. During the year the inclined shaft was completed to the 900-foot level and a considerable amount of drifting and raising done on Nos. 7, 8, and 9 levels on each side of the shaft. This operation supplied 75 per cent, of the ore milled during the year. The inclined shaft at the Sweet Home mine was deepened during the year for development and prospecting purposes. The ore from the Sweet Home is carried by motor-trucks to the Windpass aerial tram. Power is supplied by a 400-horse-power Diesel electric plant at the mill-site and carried by a high-tension line to the mines. A fire at the power-house on June 14th caused a shut-down for two months. Sixty-three men were employed and 13,180 tons of ore, yielding 4,742 oz. gold, was mined during the year. Hedley Camp.* Kelowna Exploration Co., Ltd.—W. C. Douglas, general manager; Floyd Turner, mine manager. This company operates the Nickel Plate mine, on Nickel Plate Mountain, about 4,000 feet above and 4 miles distant from Hedley, where the concentrator is located. Transportation to the concentrator is by a surface electric-haulage system from the mine to a point above the concentrator, where the ore is transferred from the mine-cars to a surface incline 10,000 feet long, in two sections, with a difference in elevation between top and bottom of 3,500 feet. Balanced skips carry 6 tons of ore and are controlled by electric motors. The workings of the Nickel. Plate mine and adjacent Hedley Mascot mine are directly connected, with a decided advantage to the ventilation of both mines. An important development at this property during 1937 was the driving of the " Bull Dog " adit at the same elevation as the top terminal of the surface incline and some 3,000 feet south of the Nickel Plate mine. A townsite has been laid out about half a mile from the mine and modern accommodation built for families and single men. Recreation facilities are provided by a new community hall, motion-picture equipment and tennis-court, and a new school. Eighty-six men are employed underground and 121 on the surface. Production amounted to 77,887 tons of ore, yielding 29,929 oz. gold and 4,622 oz. silver. Hedley Mascot Gold Mines, Ltd.—C. W. S. Tremain, general manager. This mine is situated 1 mile north of Hedley. During the year a second Bellis and Morcom motor-driven compressor of 750 cubic feet capacity was installed and a new bunk-house built. Production amounted to 59,115 tons, yielding 21,422 oz. gold and 6,492 oz. silver. In addition to production, a considerable amount of prospecting has been carried out by drifting and diamond-drilling. Seventy-five men are employed. Hedley Amalgamated Gold Mines, Ltd.—Herbert Neil, manager. This mine is situated 1V2 miles north-west of Hedley. Development has been carried out in the "Red Tunnel." Towards the end of the year a winze was sunk 200 feet from the portal, and some drifting was carried on from the bottom of the winze. Power is provided by a motor-driven Gardner-Denver compressor of 500 cubic feet capacity. Employees live in Hedley and are transported by a motor-truck. Ten men were employed at the end of the year. * By John G. Biggs. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 31 Gold Mountain Mines, Ltd.—Frank Dollemore, manager. This property is 3 miles west of Hedley. In January a 50-ton-capacity mill was completed and put into operation for several months, then shut down and had not resumed operations at the end of the year. Fair view Camp.* Fairview Amalgamated Gold Mines, Ltd.—J. A. McKenzie, manager. This mine is 4 miles west of Oliver at an elevation of 3,050 feet. It operated throughout the year with a varying tonnage. The main adit has been driven 2,600 feet, and during the year a raise was put through to the surface at a point 1,100 feet from the portal and has considerably augmented the ventilation of the mine. Stoping above the main level provides the required ore at the present time, and during the latter part of the year a second adit was started 130 feet below the main adit with a view to production at this level. Power is obtained from the West Kootenay Power Company and a Gardner-Denver compressor of 750 cubic feet capacity supplies air for the drills. The mill, increased to 150 tons daily capacity, is situated at the Morning Star mine, 2 miles distant by motor-road. Sixty men were employed. Osoyoos Lake Area* Osoyoos Mines, Ltd.—J. O. Howells, manager. This mine is immediately west of Osoyoos. There are three adits, known as Nos. 1, 2, and 3, at elevations of 1,460, 1,545, and 1,580 feet respectively. During the year mining was carried on in the upper two adits, while further exploratory work was done in the lower adit, which is also the main haulage-level. During the year the capacity of the flotation section of the mill was increased to 75 tons daily, with the addition of cyanide treatment for the tailings. Fifty-two men were employed. Vernon Area* Kalamalka Gold Mine.—P. Murphy, manager. This mine is situated at Lavington, 11 miles east of Vernon, and is reached by a good road. After a considerable period of inactivity operations were resumed here during the summer by seven men. Carmi Area. Carmi.—Forty-two tons of ore shipped from this property by the owner, Jas. Kerr, of Carmi, yielded 28 oz. gold and 267 oz. silver. Kettle River Area. Mogul.—From this property, situated on Horseshoe Mountain, 24 miles by road from Westbridge, Clyde Sherdahl and S. Berglund, of Rossland, shipped 99 tons of ore to the Trail smelter, this yielding 146 oz. gold and 45 oz. silver. Greenwood-Boundary Falls Area. Bay.—J. W. Van Strieder and Jno. Klinosky, of Greenwood, shipped 13 tons of ore from this property to the Trail smelter, with total metal contents amounting to 12 oz. gold and 48 oz. silver. Elkhorn.—F. Jaubin and J. W. Van Strieder shipped 18 tons of ore from this property, situated about 1 mile north of Greenwood. The metal contents amounted to 3 oz. gold, 444 oz. silver, 307 lb. lead, and 365 lb. zinc. Number Seven.—This property, belonging to the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada, Limited, and situated a few miles from Boundary Falls, has been operated on lease by W. E. McArthur for the past three years. Comparatively little work was done in 1937. Shipments amounted to a total of 186 tons, yielding 34 oz. gold, 1,015 oz. silver, and 2,392 lb. lead. City of Paris.—This is an extensive mine, abandoned for more than thirty years but with workings still generally accessible, although a winze, said to be 370 feet in depth, is, of course, now flooded to the collar. It is evident that an ambitious programme of development was carried out there at one time, evidence of it being still found in the remains of surface structures as well as underground. H. M. Brinkman and Celius Nelson, of Grand Forks, hold a lease on the property, the principal owner of which is Miss Margaret Johnson, of Los Angeles, Cal. Sixty-one tons of ore, shipped to the Trail smelter, yielded 12 oz. gold, 853 oz. silver, 151 lb. lead, and 164 lb. zinc. * By John G. Biggs. D 32 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. Jewel Lake Area. Dentonia.—Owned by the Dentonia Mines, Limited. Head office, 706 Credit Fonder Building, Vancouver. Manager, Major A. W. Davis. Underground operations were suspended at the end of 1936, but final shipments of 36 tons of ore and 3 tons of concentrates were made to the Trail smelter at the beginning of 1937. The ore yielded 53 oz. gold, 433 oz. silver, and 2,184 lb. lead; while the total metal contents of the concentrates amounted to 18 oz. gold, 93 oz. silver, and 265 lb. lead. The operation of the cyanide plant, treating the tailings of the flotation-mill, resulted in the production of 236 lb. bullion carrying 452 oz. gold and 2,506 oz. silver. Amandy.—Shipments totalling 140 tons were made from this property by the owner, E. C. Henniger, of Grand Forks. This yielded 52 oz. gold and 961 oz. silver. North Star.—Operated by the Greenbridge Gold Mines, Limited. Head office, McLean, Philpot & Co., Ltd., Stock Exchange Building, Vancouver. Development-work proceeded with a crew of six (three underground) until the beginning of August, when the working force travelled to Northern British Columbia to dismantle a mill purchased by the company; the machinery being subsequently brought to Grand Forks, where it was intended to install it on a site permitting the mill to serve several properties. The general conditions prevailing in the mine and on the surface were always satisfactory. The development-work done amounted to 343 feet of drifting and 357 feet of raising. The total tonnage mined amounted to 473; from which 31 tons shipped to the Trail smelter yielded 4 oz. gold-and 62 oz. silver, and the tonnage milled yielded 13 tons of concentrates, with total metal contents amounting to 44 oz. gold, 228 oz. silver, and 659 lb. lead. Grand Forks Area. Yankee Boy.—Situated on Hardy Mountain, about 4 miles from Grand Forks, and operated by the Riegel Mines, Limited, for some time, first with Clyde B. White and later with Oscar Thompson as manager. The company employed a crew of eight (seven underground) in development-work for some time, 540 feet of drifting being done, and then abandoned the property and removed all equipment from it. In the latter part of the year a group of four lessees, headed by Wilhelm L. Schwarz, of Grand Forks, worked out a few shoots of fairly high-grade ore, conveniently accessible from the surface. Shipments amounting to a total of 362 tons were made to the Trail smelter, this yielding 251 oz. gold and 332 oz. silver. Little Bertha.—This property, owned by the Pathfinder Mining Company, of Pullman, Wash. (D. C. Manly, manager, Grand Forks), was operated by lessees during the first and part of the second quarter of the year, who shipped 411 tons of ore to the Trail smelter, yielding 157 oz. gold and 1,503 oz. silver. The development-work done consisted of 30 feet of drifting and 30 feet of raising. Olympic.—On this claim, owned by Jno. Kitchen, of Grand Forks, and situated on Smelter Lake, above the Kettle Valley Railway, some exploratory work was carried on for a time under the direction of A. W. Kelly. Four men were employed. This operation must not be confused with a property of the same name in the Beaverdell area. Franklin Camp. Union.—This property was operated under lease by A. J. Fee & Co., of Grand Forks. Twenty-four tons of ore shipped to the Trail smelter yielded 101 oz. gold, 214 oz. silver, 1,307 lb. lead, and 1,446 lb. zinc. The metal contents of 2 tons of concentrates, also shipped, amounted to 6 oz. gold, 35 oz. silver, 12 lb. lead, and 27 lb. zinc. Paulson Area. Molly Gibson.—This property, situated in Burnt Basin, about 4 miles from Paulson, has been operated by the Molly Gibson Mines, Limited (managing director, A. E. Petzold, 1318 Twelfth Avenue West, Calgary, Alta.; secretary, I. J. Trembath, Rossland), for a couple of years, all operations being limited to exploratory and development-work and concentrated almost exclusively on the adit known as the Purcell tunnel. The ore-zone is found in an extremely hard siliceous limestone and, consequently, progress has been rather slow. The mechanical equipment consists of a CIR 9- by 8-inch portable compressor and of a No. 4 IR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 33 drill-sharpener. A crew of seven (four underground) was employed until the latter part of the year under the direction of George H. Tyrrell. The development-work done consisted of 194 feet of drifting and 316 feet of crosscutting. GOLD-COPPER DEPOSITS. Phoenix-Eholt Area. Brooklyn.—This property, owned by Robert Forshaw, of Greenwood, was operated under lease by W. E. McArthur. Some exploratory work will be undertaken, as circumstances permit, to investigate its possibilities, certain features leading to the belief that profitable operations can be conducted on a comparatively small scale. A considerable amount of repair-work was intelligently effected, both on the surface and underground. The ore is hauled by trucks to the Providence mill, owned and operated by the lessee, at which the output of the neighbouring Granby is also treated. A crew varying in number between four and six was employed. The total tonnage mined and milled was 1,879, this yielding 624 oz. gold, 456 oz. silver, and 34,114 lb. copper. Granby (Old Ironsides).—This property has been purchased from the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting, and Power Company, Limited, by W. E. McArthur (P.O. Box 629, Greenwood). The ore is hauled by trucks to the mill, a distance of approximately 6 miles. The operations, conducted entirely on the glory-hole system, employed seventeen men (eleven at the mine and six at the mill). . A total of 15,376 tons mined yielded 1,791 tons of concentrates, with total metal contents amounting to 1,451 oz. gold, 3,947 oz. silver, and 433,450 lb. copper. The removal of the old ore-bins and of overhanging portions of the walls in the glory-hole eliminated features which had complicated the situation to some extent when operations were resumed at the mine after it had been abandoned for nearly twenty years. Athelstan.—After some repair and exploratory work had been done on this property, situated in Wellington Camp, by W. E. McArthur, operations were discontinued temporarily, partly on account of the fact that the high percentage of sulphides present in the ore rendered the ratio of concentration insufficient to permit shipment under advantageous conditions. B.C.—This property, situated near Loon Lake and abandoned since 1903, was acquired some time ago by A. M. Docksteader and E. Vant. The mine, opened by a vertical shaft now flooded and inaccessible, was apparently fairly extensive, but before suspending operations and removing its machinery the former operating company worked out the ore remaining above a large square-set stope on the 150-foot level up to the surface, wrecking the upper part of the shaft in the process. When the mine was visited in October, operations had been suspended temporarily and the construction of a small mill was being considered. This project, if carried out, would imply also development-work of some kind. A slab of ore left on one of the walls of the former glory-hole was mined and shipped in the course of the summer; the tonnage thus obtained amounted to 39, yielding 76 oz. silver and 4,801 lb. copper. Blue Bell.—Situated at Summit Camp and owned by M. Ludlow, of Eholt. J. W. Phillips and F. Simpson took a lease on this property and employed four men for some time in exploratory work, which consisted chiefly in driving a short drift about 50 feet below the surface from the shaft sunk on the claim before its abandonment in 1903. The shaft itself is said to be 130 feet in depth. COPPER DEPOSITS. Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting, and Power Co., Ltd.*—A. S. Baillie, president and general manager; W. R. Lindsay, general superintendent; Geo. Buckle, mine manager. The Copper Mountain mine of this company is 12 miles south of Princeton and is reached by a good road and also by a branch line from the Kettle Valley Railway at Princeton. The surface elevation at the mine is 4,000 feet and practically all the workings are below this elevation. The ore-crushing plant is located below the portal of No. 6 adit, which is the main transportation level; this level at a point 2,700 feet from the portal intersects the main No. 1 shaft at a depth of 800 feet from the surface. Practically all production at present is from above No. 6 level, but preparations are being advanced for extensive mining below this level. The concentrator is at Allenby, 7 miles nearer Princeton, and much work was done here, before starting operations, to incorporate modern advances in concentration, since this operation was shut down in 1930. D 34 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1937. A total of 509 men were employed at the end of the year, as follows: 172 men underground, 170 on the surface, 44 in the mill, and 103 at the power plant. Repairs and preparations for mining were under way from the beginning of the year and production started in June. By the end of the year 3,000 tons of ore per day was being mined, with a net production for the year of 452,352 tons of ore, which yielded 7,692,756 lb. copper, 2,102 oz. gold, and 58,436 oz. silver. GOLD-SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS. Greenwood Area. Providence.—At this property, situated about 1 mile north of Greenwood and operated by the Riegel Mines, Limited, the operations carried on in the course of the year were limited to exploratory, development, and repair work; the last point, in particular, having been seriously neglected by a previous operator. No. 1 shaft was cleaned out, retimbered, and again made available as an airway and means of exit. The mechanical equipment at No. 2 shaft consists of a single-stage, Gardner-Denver XH model compressor, with a capacity of 265 cubic feet, driven by a 40-horse-power G.E. induction-motor, and a single-drum hoist driven by a 30- horse-power G.E. motor. The pumping equipment in the same shaft is particularly efficient. The number of men employed varied between twelve and eighteen, with six and thirteen underground, respectively. The operations were directed by Clyde B. White in the early part of the year and later by Oscar Thompson. The development-work done consisted of 1,325 feet of drifting, 80 feet of raising, 550 feet of crosscuts, and 125 feet of shafts. SILVER-LEAD DEPOSITS. Beaverdell Area. Highland Bell.—This property, owned and operated by the Highland Bell, Limited (head office address, P.O. Box 464, Penticton), maintained its now well-established reputation as being the most profitable operation on Wallace Mountain. Development proceeded from the winze sunk below the Staples crosscut adit; while persistent and well-guided exploration of the older workings led periodically to the discovery of ore-shoots which contributed their quota to the production. Constant study of the highly-disturbed ground and careful correlation of features met at one point with those encountered in other parts of the workings are prime conditions of success on Wallace Mountain. A CIR 440-cubic-foot compressor, driven by a 90-horse-power Rushton-Hornsby Diesel engine, has been added to the power plant. The provision of stronger hoisting equipment at the winze has become necessary. A crew of thirty (twenty-two underground) was employed throughout the year under the direction of N. M. Mattson. The development-work done comprised 540 feet of drifting, 320 feet of raising, and 160 feet of sinking. Shipments of ore totalling 3,141 tons were made to the Trail smelter, this yielding 116 oz. gold, 407,645 oz. silver, 308,085 lb. lead, and 464,592 lb. zinc. Sally.—Adjoining the Highland Bell and operated by the Sally Mines, Limited (head office address, P.O. Box 420, Penticton), with N. M. Mattson as manager. Exploratory work was carried on and some stoping was done with a crew of five (four underground). The tonnage mined and shipped amounted to 295, yielding 6 oz. gold, 24,126 oz. silver, 14,249 lb. lead, and 22,834 lb. zinc. Beaverdell-Wellington.—Operated by the Beaverdell-Wellington Syndicate, with A. J. Morrison as manager. This has been a remarkably successful operation, deriving added interest from the fact that the property consists of a single claim. A crew of twenty-one (fifteen underground) was employed throughout the year. The development-work done in the course of the year consisted of 606 feet of drifting and crosscuts and 375 feet of raising. Shipments amounting to a total of 970 tons yielded 55 oz. gold, 199,463 oz. silver, 139,997 lb. lead, and 198,727 lb. zinc. Beaver.—This property, owned by the Beaver Silver Mines, Limited (head office, 708 Yorkshire Building, Vancouver), and operated by a group of five lessees headed by Hilmer S. Nordman, adjoins the Highland Bell. A considerable amount of repair-work had to be undertaken before mining operations could begin, but this was done carefully and intelligently. Shipments amounting to a total of 166 tons were made to the Trail smelter and yielded 8 oz. gold, 29,822 oz. silver, 15,867 lb. lead, and 36,292 lb. zinc. SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL DISTRICTS (Nos. 3 AND 4). D 35 Tiger.—John L. Nordman and partner shipped 15 tons of ore from this property, with total metal contents of 2,563 oz. silver, 1,776 lb. lead, and 2,721 lb. zinc. Wallace.—Operations on this group of claims, held by the Wallace Mountain Mining Company, were limited to exploratory work, three men being employed (two underground) under the direction of N. M. Mattson. A single-stage, 10- by 12-inch compressor, driven by a McCormick Deering gasoline-engine, was installed. The work done consisted of 100 feet of crosscuts. British.—The British Silver and Gold Mines Syndicate, with headquarters at Princeton, employed four men in exploratory work on this property, adjoining the Wellington, with John Evans in charge of operations. The development-work was done without the assistance of machinery of any kind. Advance and Crater Lake.—In the same area two lessees worked for some time on the Advance, owned by John Southern, of Beaverdell, and further exploratory work was done on the group of claims held by the Crater Lake Mining Company on Dry Creek. SILVER-LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS. Greenwood Area. Last Chance.—A group of claims situated near Boundary Falls, including the Last Chance and the Republic, was held under option for some time by the Greenwood Gold Mines, Limited (head office, 1216 Dominion Bank Building, Vancouver), with N. 0. Carpenter and later Ira J. Babe as manager. A small power plant, consisting of a Holman single-stage 7%- by 6-inch compressor, driven by an International P.K. model internal-combustion engine, was installed and 550 feet of drifting was done on the Last Chance claim and close to the surface. A crew of ten (six underground) was employed for eight months. The tonnage shipped amounted to 114, this yielding 4 oz. gold, 696 oz. silver, 12,093 lb. lead, and 4,432 lb. zinc. Lightning Peak Area. Waterloo.—From this property, the operation of which is burdened with excessive transportation costs due to its difficult accessibility, F. Nesbit, of Edgewood, shipped 1 ton of ore which yielded 30 oz. silver, 149 lb. lead, and 457 lb. zinc. Paulson Area. Eva Belle and Halifax Groups.—These two groups, situated in Burnt Basin, are part of a total of twenty-one claims on which options were held by Joseph Grafton, of Rossland, the balance being known locally as the Tunnel and Lone Hand groups, beside the Ennismore and Gray Rock claims and the Gray Rock Fraction. All are easily accessible, being not more than 4 miles from Paulson. A few prospectors have been investigating the possibilities of this section for a number of years, but very little has been done up to the present time on these properties. Four men were employed for some time, the work done consisting chiefly in sinking test-pits and advancing a short adit-crosscut. PLACER-GOLD DEPOSITS. Greenwood Area. Boundary Creek Placers, Ltd.—The construction of a pipe-line, 10,000 feet in length, bringing water from the falls for hydraulicking operations, was completed early in the season. Twelve men were employed under the direction of J. W. Phillips. NON-METALLIC DEPOSITS. Christina Lake Area. Fife Lime Quarry.—Owned and operated by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited. Twelve men working on contract shipped 17,947 tons of limestone from this property to the Trail smelter.
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Title | PART D ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES OF THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 1937 |
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Date Issued | [1938] |
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