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FREELAND,\nformer Chief Mining Engineer,\ndied December 19th, 1949.\nWILLIAM J. LYNOTT,\nformer Assistant Mining Engineer,\ndied November 16th, 1949.\nRICHARD NICHOL,\nMine-rescue Instructor,\ndied August 19th, 1950.\nBiographical Notes. \u2014 Mr. Freeland, page 50;\nMr. Lynott, page 51; Mr. Nichol, page 49. CONTENTS\nPage\nIntroduction 7\nReview of the Mining Industry 9\nStatistics^-\nMethod of Computing Production 13\nTable L\u2014British Columbia Mine Production, 1949 and 1950 15\nTable II.\u2014Average Prices, 1901-50 16\nTable III.\u2014Total Production to 1950 17\nTable IV.\u2014Total Production for Each Year, 1852-1950 17\nTable V.\u2014Quantities and Value of Mine Products, 1941-50 18\nTable VI.\u2014Production of Lode Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc, 1887\u2014\n1950 19\nTable VII.\u2014Value of Gold Production to Date 21\nTable VIIL\u2014Total Value of Mine Production, by Divisions, 1945-50 22\nTable IXa.\u2014Production in Detail of Placer Gold, Lode Gold, Silver, Copper,\nLead, and Zinc, 1949 and 1950 23\nTable IXb.\u2014Production Value of Placer Gold, Lode Gold, Silver, Copper,\nLead, and Zinc, 1945-50 24\nTable IXc\u2014Production and Value of Placer Gold and of Lode Gold, Silver,\nCopper, Lead, and Zinc, 1900-50 25\nTable X.\u2014Production in Detail of Structural Materials, 1949 and 1950 26\nTable XI.\u2014Production in Detail of Miscellaneous Metals, Minerals, and\nMaterials, 1949 and 1950 .__: 27\nTableXII (Graph).\u2014British Columbia Mine Production, 1895-1950 28\nTable XIII (Graph).\u2014British Columbia Lode-mines Production, 1913-50.____ 29\nTable XIV.\u2014Coal Production per Year to Date 30\nTable XV.\u2014Coke Production from Bee-hive Ovens from 1895 to 1925 30\nTable XVI.\u2014Coke and By-products Production, British Columbia, 1941-50__ 31\nTable XVII.\u2014Dividends Paid by Mining Companies, 1897-1950 32\nTable XVIII.\u2014Salaries and Wages, Fuel and Electricity, and Process Supplies,\n1950 , 36\nTable XIX.\u2014Tonnage, Number of Mines, Net and Gross Value of Principal\nMetals, 1901-50 37\nTable XX.\u2014Men Employed in the Mining Industry of British Columbia,\n1901-50 -- 38\nTable XXI.\u2014Lode-metal Producers in 1950 39\nTable XXII.\u2014Lode-metal Mines Employing an Average of Ten or More Men\nduring 1950 42\nDepartmental Work\u2014\nAdministrative Branch 43\nCentral Records Offices (Victoria and Vancouver)____ 43\nAmalgamation of Mining Divisions.. 43\nPurchasing of Gold 1 44\nList of Gold Commissioners, Mining Recorders, and Sub-Mining Recorders 44\nGold Commissioners' and Mining Recorders' Office Statistics, 1950 46\nAnalytical and Assay Branch 47\nInspection Branch 48\nMineralogical Branch 50\nGrub-staking Prospectors 52 .\nA 6 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nDepartmental Work\u2014Continued Page\nMuseums j. 53\nPublications . 53\nMaps Showing Mineral Claims, Placer Claims, and Placer-mining Leases 53\nloint Offices 53\nTopographic Maps and Air Photographs 55\nDepartment of Mines and Technical Surveys\u2014\nGeological Survey of Canada 57\nField Work by the Geological Survey in British Columbia, 1950 57\nPublications of the Geological Survey 58\nMines Branch 5 8\nMetal-mining (Lode) 61\nPlacer-mining 195\nStructural Materials and Industrial Minerals 205\nInspection of Lode Mines, Placer Mines, and Quarries 231\nCoal-mining 241\nInspection of Electrical Equipment and Installations 277\nList of Publications 299\nList of Libraries \u2022- 302\nSynopses of Mining Laws \u25a0- 305\nPrices Charged for Acts : 314\nILLUSTRATIONS\nPhotographs\nThe Highland Bell mill, Beaverdell - 117\nOffices, conveyor-shed, and mill partly hidden by trees, at the Reeves MacDonald _ 129\nDrilling with jack-legs in the glory-hole at the Reeves MacDonald 130\nWhitewater mill at Retallack 140\nMount Diadem viewed from Bralome cabin, Britain River area 173\nSerpentine outcrops in the McDame area . 206\nAsbestos stringers in serpentine in the McDame area 211\nThe Vancouver Granite Company's granite quarry on Nelson Island 218\nThe Canada Cement Company's gypsum quarry at Mayook 221\nTimbering the portal of the main slope at the Bulkley Valley Collieries' new No. 3\nmine 274\nFigure. DRAWINGS\n1 to 12. Listed on 67\n13. Sketch showing approximate outline of Rugged Nos. 1 to 6 and vicinity\u201e__ 208\n14. Rugged Group\u2014Main showings 213\n15. Asbestos Deposit\u2014Sproat Mountain 215\n16. Columbia Gypsum\u2014Plan of workings Facing 221\n17. Bird\u2014Mica workings 226 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINISTER\nOF MINES, 1950\nIntroduction\nA Report of the Minister of Mines of the Province of British Columbia has been\npublished each year since 1874.\nThe Annual Report records the salient facts in the progress of the industry, also\nmuch detail about individual mining operations, including those undertaken in the search\nfor, exploration of, and development of mineral deposits, as well as the actual winning of\nmaterial from mineral deposits.\nThe Annual Report of the Minister of Mines now contains introductory sections\ndealing with statistics and Departmental work, followed by sections dealing with Metal-\nmining (Lode); Placer-mining; Structural Materials and Industrial Minerals; Inspection\nof Lode Mines, Placer Mines, and Quarries; Coal-mining; and Inspection of Electrical\nEquipment and Installations at Mines and Quarries, each with its own table of contents.\nAn introductory review of the mining industry and notes at the first of several of the\nmain sections deal generally with the industry or its principal subdivisions. Notes in the\nvarious sections deal briefly with the work done on individual properties during the year\nor describe a property in more complete detail, outlining the history of past work and the\ngeological setting as well as describing the workings and the mineral deposits exposed in\nthem. Some notes deal with areas rather than with a single mine or property.\nThe work of the branches of the Department is outlined briefly in the section headed\n\"Departmental Work.\" This section is followed by notes dealing briefly with the work\nof the British Columbia or Dominion Government services of particular interest to the\nmining industry of British Columbia. Information concerning mine operations and some\nof the activities of the Inspection Branch of the Department of Mines is contained in the\nsection on \"Inspection of Lode Mines, Placer Mines, and Quarries,\" early in the section\non \" Coal-mining \" and in the section on \" Inspection of Electrical Equipment and Installations at Mines and Quarries.\"\nThe section on \" Statistics \" consists of tables supplemented by brief notes. A statement of current and past practice in arriving at quantities and calculating the value of the\nvarious products is given under \" Statistics \" (pp. 13 and 14). Quantities and values of\nthe principal mineral products for 1949 and 1950 are given in Table I (p. 15). The\naverage prices for each of the principal metals and coal for each year, beginning with\n1901, are given in Table II (p. 16). Other tables record the details of mineral output\nfrom year to year for the Province and for the various mining divisions. The numbers\nemployed in various divisions of the mining industry; the expenditures for salaries and\nwages, fuel, electricity, and process supplies; the dividends disbursed; the quantity of ore\nmined and the freight and treatment charges incurred are also tabulated, and the lode-\nmetal producers are listed.\nThe section on \" Statistics \" is supplemented by data on the production of individual\nproperties found in notes on properties in the succeeding sections, and by data relating to\nthe production of individual coal mines and of coal-mining areas tabulated early in the\nsection on \"Coal-mining.\" Review of the Mining Industry in British Columbia, 1950\nBy Hartley Sargent\nThe mineral production of British Columbia in 1950 had a value of $148,155,060,\nwhich is substantially greater than the 1949 value, $133,012,968, and greater than any\nprevious year except 1948, for which the value was $152,524,752. The product of\ngreatest value in 1950 was zinc, valued at $48,882,765, exceeding the value of any single\nmetal in any year except lead, valued at $60,072,542 in 1948. The metals and sulphur,\nderived from lode-mining operations, accounted for more than 85 per cent of the total\nvalue; coal accounted for a little less than 7 per cent, and so did structural materials.\nThe prices of copper, lead, and zinc, and of most other metals had fallen early in\n1949, and remained below the 1949 average in the first half of 1950. About midsummer,\nprices of all base metals began to increase, reflecting the rearmament programme and the\nbeginning of the Korean War. The prices for antimony, mercury, tin, and tungsten\nincreased sharply and the price of silver increased to 80 cents, U.S., per ounce early in\nNovember. The prices for all metals save gold were high at the end of 1950, and the\naverage prices* for silver, copper, and zinc for the year were well above 1949 averages,\nbut the 1950 price for lead was 1.35 cents below the 1949 average, and 3.59 cents below\nthe 1948 average. The prices, especially for lead and zinc, were high in comparison with\naverage prices for years preceding 1947. The 1950 zinc price is the highest average price\nfor that metal for any year.\nCanadian base metals sold in the United States market are subject to the following\nduties: Zinc, 0.75 cents per pound of zinc in ores and concentrates and 0.875 cents per\npound of slab zinc; lead, 0.75 cents per pound of lead in ores and concentrates, and\n1.065 cents per pound of refined lead; copper, 2 cents per pound of copper in concentrates, matte, blister, or refined copper. The duty on copper was reimposed on July\n1st, 1950.\nThe so-called \" freeing of the dollar \" at the end of September left the value of the\nCanadian dollar to be determined by the foreign exchange market. The Canadian dollar\nthen approached parity with the United States dollar, and consequently the value of an\nounce of gold in Canadian funds declined. The Canadian price for gold recovered in\npart later in the year, but remained below the previous fixed price of $38.50. However,\nthe 1950 average price for gold in Canada was higher than the 1949 average.\nMore placer gold was recovered in 1950 than in 1949. Dredges had recovered\nmost of the placer gold in 1948 and 1949, but in 1950 most of the dredges were inactive.\nMost of the 1950 production came from the revived underground placer operation at the\nNoland mine on Spruce Creek in the Atlin Mining Division. Production from Cedar\nCreek in the Quesnel Mining Division was also greater than in recent years. Hydraulic\noperations were handicapped to some extent by shortage of water.\nThe quantity of ore mined at lode mines in 1950 was greater than in any previous\nyear, except the years 1939 to 1942. The gold production of lode mines was not far\nfrom that recovered in recent years. The output of gold from the Nelson, Atlin, and\nSimilkameen Mining Divisions declined, but these decreases were nearly offset by increased recovery of gold at Britannia and by the output of the Silbak Premier and Premier\nBorder properties, for which no production was recorded in 1949. Silver production\nexceeded that of 1949 by about 25 per cent. Important increases in the Portland Canal,\nOmineca, and Fort Steele Mining Divisions were offset in part by decreases in some other\nmining divisions. Output of copper was less than in 1949 or 1948, the output of both\nprincipal producers having declined. Lead and zinc were produced in greater quantity\n* See Table II, p. 16. A 10 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nthan in 1949. In the last quarter of 1950 lead was produced at a rate materially higher\nthan the average monthly rate for the year. Both lead and zinc have been produced in\nconsiderably greater quantity in some previous years, but the value of the zinc in 1950\nexceeds the value in any previous year, while the value of lead and the combined value\nof lead and zinc have been exceeded only in the year 1948.\nCoal mined in 1950 totalled 1,542,404 tons, compared with 1,917,296 tons in 1949.\nThe White Rapids mine in the Nanaimo area was shut down and the output of No. 10\nmine, South Wellington, was materially less than in 1949. Increases in output at No. 8\nmine at Comox and the Tsable River mine partly offset the decreases at Nariaimo. The\nPrinceton-Tulameen area experienced a more serious decline, having lost a large part of\nthe local market to Alberta coal. The East Kootenay district also produced less coal\nthan in 1949, partly because power shortage and inability to obtain enough railroad cars\nmade it necessary to restrict the output in the early months of 1950.\nCoal-producers face severe competition from coal and oil from Alberta, and possibly\nfrom gas. The Telkwa coalfield is expected to increase its output because of new\nindustrial demand.\nThe output of miscellaneous industrial minerals and of structural materials was not\nvery different from that of recent years. Output of clay products was greater than in\n1949, but less than 1948. Operation of the new plant of the Clayburn Company at\nAbbotsford was begun late in May. This plant replaced the brick-making part of the\nplant at Kilgard, destroyed by fire in January, 1949.\nThe number employed in all branches of the mining industry in 1950 averaged\n16,612. Some of the major expenditures were salaries and wages, $42,738,035; fuel\nand electricity, $6,775,998; process supplies, $17,500,663; freight and treatment on\nores and concentrates of metals, $22,113,431; Dominion taxes, $14,877,802; Provincial taxes, $3,442,932; municipal and other taxes, $540,620; Workmen's Compensation, silicosis, unemployment insurance, and other levies, $1,670,252. Dividends paid\namounted to $34,399,330.\nComparison with the statistical records for previous years indicates some interesting\ntrends in the mining industry. The gross value of all mineral products for each of the\nyears 1937, 1941, and 1948 exceeded that of any previous year, that in 1948 being nearly\ndouble the 1937 gross value. The value of lode gold rose from second place in 1937 to\nfirst place in 1941, but in 1948 and 1950 ranked well below lead and zinc and was about\non a level with coal and copper, and not far from structural materials. The total quantity\nof ore mined was highest for the year 1941, when copper ore amounted to about 3,500,000\ntons, silver-lead-zinc ore to about 2,900,000 tons, and gold ore to about 1,350,000 tons.\nAssignment of ore to such classes is complicated by the fact that some gold-silver ores\ncontain important proportions of lead and zinc, and some copper ores contain an important proportion of zinc. The Silbak Premier in the course of time has changed from\na gold-silver to a gold-silver-lead-zinc mine, and Britannia has changed from a copper-\ngold mine to a copper-gold-zinc mine. In 1948 silver-lead-zinc and gold-copper ores\neach made up about 44 per cent of the lode-mine ore, and gold ore 12 per cent. In 1950\nsilver-lead-zinc ore accounted for more than half the total, copper-gold ore for a little\nmore than a third, and gold ore for scarcely a tenth. In 1951 gold ore will account for\na still smaller fraction of the ore mined from lode mines.\nThe increased number of important, widely separated producers of silver, lead, and\nzinc is an interesting development. Britannia has now become an important producer\nof zinc, and Silbak Premier of lead and zinc; the Torbrit at Alice Arm is a substantial\nproducer of silver with minor lead; the Silver Standard at Hazelton is an important\nproducer of silver, lead, and zinc; the Reeves MacDonald and Jersey (Canadian\nExploration) are substantial producers of zinc, lead, and silver. The properties mentioned are in the Vancouver, Portland Canal, Omineca, and Nelson Mining Divisions.\nAs a consequence of the changes and developments, the four mining divisions mentioned REVIEW OF THE MINING INDUSTRY A 11\naccounted for 36.2 per cent of the silver, 5.7 per cent of the lead, and 16.9 per cent of the\nzinc produced in 1950, compared with 20.4 per cent of the silver, 0.6 per cent of the lead,\nand 3.6 per cent of the zinc produced in 1940. In the same period the output of the\nSlocan and Ainsworth Mining Divisions has also increased substantially.\nFacilities for making clay products are greatly improved in the new plants of the\nClayburn Company at Kilgard and Abbotsford. Enlargement of the cement plant at\nBamberton is in progress, and a plant is to be built at Kimberley to make sulphuric acid\nfor use in making ammonium-phosphate fertilizer. The sulphur will be obtained from\nby-product iron-sulphide concentrates produced at the Sullivan concentrator. These\nprojects will result in increased output of clay products, cement, and fertilizer. Thus\nfurther increase in the output of industrial minerals and structural materials is to be\nexpected. The combined value of miscellaneous industrial minerals and materials\u2014\nprincipally fluxes, gypsum, and sulphur\u2014and of structural materials\u2014principally clay\nproducts, cement, limestone, sand, and gravel\u2014was approximately $3,690,000 in 1940\nand $12,645,000 in 1950. This is a large gain even when compared with the increase\nin the value of lead and zinc from $28,870,000 in 1940 to $92,270,000 in 1950. Statistics\nMining statistics are collected and compiled and the statistical tables for this Report\nare prepared by the Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Department of Trade and\nIndustry.\nMETHOD OF COMPUTING PRODUCTION\nThe tables of statistics recording the mineral production of the Province for each\nyear are compiled from certified returns made by the operators of mines, augmented by\nsome data obtained from the Dominion of Canada assay office and from the operators of\ncustoms smelters. The value of each mineral product, in Canadian funds, is calculated\nat the average price for the year (see below). The quantities of metals are net after\nmaking deductions for losses in smelting and refining.\nPrior to 1925 the average prices for gold and copper are true average prices, but, as\na means of correcting for losses in smelting and refining, the prices of other metals were\ntaken at the following percentages of the year's average price for the metal: Silver, 95 per\ncent; lead, 90 per cent; and zinc, 85 per cent. For 1925 and subsequent years the value\nhas been calculated using the true average price and the net metal contents. The procedures adopted for the 1925 Report are still used essentially unchanged, and the same\narrangement of tables has been retained, but new tables have been added from time\nto time.\nBeginning with the Annual Report for 1948, production figures, given in notes dealing with individual lode-mining operations, are the assay contents of the products shipped\n(ore, concentrates, or bullion), no deductions being made for losses in smelting and\nrefining. In previous Annual Reports the production figures given for individual properties are net, after deductions for smelting and refining losses, in accordance with the\nprocedures adopted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and the co-operating Provincial\nDepartments of Mines.\nMetals\nPlacer Gold\nThe data on placer-gold production were very largely obtained from the Gold Commissioners until 1925. The value of placer gold in dollars is now obtained from returns\nreceived annually from the operators. At the old standard price, $20.67 per ounce of\nfine gold, $ 17 was regarded as a close approximation of the average value per ounce of\ncrude placer gold produced in British Columbia. Dividing the production reported in\ndollars by 17 gave the equivalent in crude ounces. The average value $17 per ounce is\nequivalent to a fineness of 822Vi. Beginning with 1932 the average value per crude\nounce has been based on the same fineness but has recognized the varying price of gold.\nThe average price per ounce of crude placer gold for each year is given in Table II.\nLode Metals, Net Contents\nFrom the total assay contents, the net silver, copper, lead, and zinc contents are\ncalculated by making deductions for smelting and refining losses at rates agreed upon with\nthe Dominion Bureau of Statistics and co-operating Provincial Departments of Mines.\nFor the procedure prior to the year 1925, see foot-note under Table II, page 15.\nAverage Prices\nIn the interests of uniformity the Statistical Bureaus of the Provinces and the\nDominion Bureau of Statistics use the same average metal prices in valuing mineral\nproduction. Up to and including the year 1939 the prices used in evaluating metal and\nmineral production were:\u2014\nGold and silver: The average United States prices for the year, as quoted in\nthe Engineering and Mining Journal, converted into Canadian funds at\nthe average exchange rate.\n13 A 14 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nCopper, lead, and zinc: The average London Metal Market prices for the year\nconverted into Canadian funds at the average exchange rate. Until 1932\nthe New York price for copper was used.\nSuspension of trading on the London Metal Exchange in September, 1939, and the\ncontrols of metals during the war years necessitated changes from the procedures which\nhad been followed.\nThe method of arriving at the price for gold continued unchanged, but the prices for\nthe metals controlled were those set by the Canadian Metals Controller. In 1945 the\ncontrols were largely removed from sales but not from prices. Control of metal prices\nended on June 6th, 1947. For 1945 and subsequent years the prices are those computed\nby the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, using information supplied by the principal Canadian refiners of silver and the base metals.\nIn the period 1945-47 the prices received for silver, lead, and zinc sold for use in\nCanada were substantially less than the prices received for these metals exported to the\nUnited States. The prices for silver in 1945 and 1946 and for copper, lead, and zinc in\n1946 and 1947 are weighted averages, taking into consideration sales in Canada at the\nceiling prices and sales abroad at New York prices converted into Canadian funds.\nIn the period 1940-45 and until July 5th, 1946, and beginning again on September\n18th, 1949, the Canadian price of gold has been increased by the premium on United\nStates funds.\nIn computing the average metal prices for 1948, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics\nused generally the monthly quotations in the Engineering and Mining Journal and, where\npossible, evaluated at the world market. For some metals such as silver, antimony, and\ntin, Montreal quotations have been used.\nIn addition to metal sold in Canada, British Columbia silver, lead, and zinc are\nexported to the United States, Great Britain, and other markets abroad, and for some\nyears all British Columbia copper has been sold in the United States. If the United\nStates prices had been used instead of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics average price,\nadditional amounts could be credited to the copper production values, as follows: 1943,\n$473,845; 1944, $315,815; 1945, $82,728; 1946, $458,513; 1947, $515,614; a total\nfor the five years of $1,846,515. For 1948 and subsequent years, copper production is\nvalued at the United States average for export f.o.b. refinery.\nFuel\nIn 1926 a change was made in computing coal and coke statistics. The practice in\nformer years had been to list as coke production only the coke made in bee-hive ovens,\nthe coal used in making it not being listed; coke made in by-product ovens was not fisted\nas coke, but the coal used in making this coke was credited as coal production. The result\nwas that both the coal and the coke production figures were incomplete. Starting with\nthe 1926 Annual Report, the standard practice of the Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa, has\nbeen adopted. This consists of crediting all coal produced, including that used in making\ncoke, as primary mine production. Coke-making is considered a manufacturing industry.\nAs it is, however, of interest to the mining industry, a table included in the Report shows\nthe total coke produced in the Province, together with by-products, and the values given\nby the producers. This valuation of coke is not, of course, included in the total gross\nmine production of the Province.\nCoal production is given in Table XIV. Up to and including the year 1947, production was recorded in long tons (2,240 pounds). Beginning with 1948, production is\ngiven in short tons (2,000 pounds). The quantity of coal produced in the preceding\nyears has been recalculated in short tons. Prices per short ton that give the value previously published when quantities were expressed in long tons, and the price per short ton,\nused for 1948 and subsequent years, are shown in Table II. STATISTICS A 15\nTABLE I.\u2014British Columbia Mine Production, 1949 and 1950\nQuantity,\n1949\nQuantity,\n1950\nValue,\n1949\nValue,\n1950\nPer Cent Increase (+)\nor Decrease (\u2014)\nQuantity Value\nAntimony-\nBismuth-\t\nCadmium...\nMetallics\n lb.\nGold, lode \t\nGold, placer\t\n lb.\nSilver \t\nTin _\n lb.\nZinc lb.\nTotals -\nFuel\nCoal, (2,0001b.).\nNON-METALLICS\nBarite, diatomite, and mica\t\nFluxes\u2014limestone, quartz\t\nGranules\u2014slate and rock\t\nGypsum and gypsum products ..\nIron oxides _\t\nSodium carbonate \t\nSulphur 1\t\ntons\n-tons\n-tons\n.tons\nTotals-\nClay Products and Other Structural\nMaterials\nClay Products\nBrick-\n- - No.\nFace, paving, sewer brick-\t\n - No.\nClays \t\n tons\nStructural tile\u2014hollow blocks\t\nDrain-tile, sewer-pipe, flue-linings..\nPottery\u2014glazed or unglazed\t\nOther clay products\t\nTotals \t\nOther Structural Materials\nCement \t\nLime and limestone -\nSand and gravel \u201e\t\nStone\t\nRubble, riprap, crushed rock -\nTotals\t\ntons\n..tons\nTotal value .\n54,856,808\n288,396\n17,886\n263,580,549\n7,636,053\n276,324,451\n42,212,133\n283,983\n19,134\n307,122,803\n9,507,225\n324,263,778\n1,917,296 1,542,404\n108,531\n5,941\n160,435\n3,220,000\n509,560\n144,325\n7,886\n143,343\n3,910,500\n1,974,380\n179,400\n2,287\n1,112,272\n221,454\n26,758\n1,164,049\n$\n61,020\n210,972\n1,364,170\n10,956,550\n10,382,256\n529,524\n1,550\n27,579\n41,645,726\n7,468\n5,669,769\n633,047\n36,604,700\n216,229\n369,138\n535,274\n.889,458\n.805,553\n598,717\n12,132\n391,530\n9,239\n666,151\n828,259\n281.1601\n882,765\n108,094,331\n125,485,605\n12,462,424\n10,025,626\n19,783\n213,773\n79,661\n616,490\n23,301\n517\n1,546,798\n22,925\n268,411\n104,590\n620,108\n1,421,806\n2,500,323 | 2,437,840\n95,075\n24,793\n135,391\n22,339\n145,512\n265,098\n5,176\n9,676\n103,840\n54,503\n254,262\n32,264\n191,016\n428,418\n5,860\n11,335\n703,060 [ 1,081,498\n3,029,425\n1,295,087\n3,967,132\n44,345\n916,841\n3,088,296\n1,133,776\n3,723,487\n188,675\n990,257\n9,252,830 | 9,124,491\n133,012,968 |148,155,060\n\u201423.1\n-1.5\n+7.0\n+ 16.5\n+24.5\n+ 17.3\n+254.4\n+75.0\n+ 12.5\n-9.7\n+4.1\n+ 13.1\n+682.7\n-100.0\n+6.6\n+23.7\n+35.2\n+30.8\n+33.5\n+ 16.1\n-19.6\n-19.6\n+ 33.0\n+ 32.7\n-10.7\n+ 15.9\n+25.6\n+ 31.3\n+0.1\n-100.0\n\u2014 100.0\n-8.1\n-2.5\n+22.2\n+288.0\n+23.4\n+1,070.0\n+4.7\n+9.2\n+ 119.8\n+87.8\n+44.4\n+31.3\n+61.6\n+ 13.2\n+ 17.1\n+ 53.8\n+2.0\n-12.4\n\u20146.1\n+325.5\n+ 8.0\n-1.4\n+ 11.4\nTungsten: 1950 sale of products accumulated before 1949. A 16\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE II.\u2014Average Prices Used in Compiling Value of Provincial\nProduction of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, and Coal\nYear\nGold,1\nCrude,\nOz.\nGold,\nFine,\nOz.\nstiver,\nFine,\nOz.\nCopper,\nLb.\nLead,\nLb.\nZinc,\nLb.\nCoal,\nShort\nTon\n1901\t\n$\n17.00\n19.30\n23.02\n28.37\n28.94\n28.81\n28.77\n28.93\n29.72\n31.66\n31.66\n31.66\n31.66\n31.66\n31.66\n30.22\n28.78\n28.78\n29.60\n31.29\n20.67\n\t\n23.47\n28.60\n34.50\n35.19\n35.03\n34.99\n35.18\n36.14\n38.50\n38.50\n38.50\n38.50\n38.50\n38.50\n36.75\n35.00\n35.00\n36.00\n38.05\nCents\n56.002 N.T.\n49.55\n50.78 \u201e\n53.36 \u201e\n51.33 ,,\n63.45 \u201e\n62.06 \u201e\n50.22\n48.93 \u201e\n50.812 \u201e\n50.64\n57.79 \u201e\n56.80 \u201e\n52.10 \u201e\n47.20 \u201e\n62.38 \u201e\n77.35 \u201e\n91.93 \u201e\n105.57\n95.80 \u201e\n59.52 \u201e\n64.14 \u201e\n61.63 \u201e\n63.442 \u201e\n69.065 \u201e\n62.107 \u201e\n56.37 \u201e\n58.176 \u201e\n52.993 \u201e\n38.154 \u201e\n28.700 \u201e\n31.671 \u201e\n37.832 \u201e\n47.461 \u201e\n64.790 \u201e\n45.127 \u201e\n44.881 \u201e\n43.477 \u201e\n40.488 \u201e\n38.249 \u201e\n38.261 \u201e\n41.166 \u201e\n45.254 \u201e\n43.000 \u201e\n47.000 ,,\n83.650 \u201e\n72.000 ,,\n75.000 Mont.\n74.250 U.S.\n80.635 \u201e\nCents\n16.11 N.T.\n11.70 \u201e\n13.24 \u201e\n12.82 \u201e\n15.59 \u201e\n19.28\n20.00 \u201e\n13.20 \u201e\n12.98 \u201e\n12.738 \u201e\n12.38\n16.341 \u201e\n15.27 \u201e\n13.60 \u201e\n17.28 \u201e\n27.202 \u201e\n27.18 \u201e\n24.63 \u201e\n18.70\n17.45 ,,\n12.50 ,,\n13.38 \u201e\n14.42 \u201e\n13.02 \u201e\n14.042 \u201e\n13.795 \u201e\n12.92\n14.570 \u201e\n18.107 \u201e\n12.982 \u201e\n8.116 \u201e\n6.380 Lond.\n7.454 ,,\n7.419 \u201e\n7.795 ,,\n9.477 \u201e\n13.078 \u201e\n9.972 \u201e\n10.092 \u201e\n10.086 \u201e\n10.086 \u201e\n10.086 ,,\n11.75\n12.000 \u201e\n12.550 \u201e\n12.80 \u201e\n20.39\n22.35 U.S.\n19.973 ,,\n23.428 \u201e\nCents\n2.577 N.T.\n3.66 \u201e\n3.81 \u201e\n3.88 \u201e\n4.24 \u201e\n4.81\n4.80 \u201e\n3.78 \u201e\n3.85 \u201e\n4.00 \u201e\n3.98 \u201e\n4.024 \u201e\n3.93 \u201e\n3.50 \u201e\n4.17 \u201e\n0.172 \u201e\n7.91 \u201e\n6.67 \u201e\n5.19\n7.16 \u201e\n4.09\n5.16 \u201e\n6.54\n7.287 \u201e\n7.848 Lond.\n6.751 ,.\n5.256 \u201e\n4.575 \u201e\n5.050 \u201e\n3.927 \u201e\n2.710 \u201e\n2.113 \u201e\n2.391 \u201e\n2.436 \u201e\n3.133 ,.\n3.913 \u201e\n5.110 \u201e\n3.344 \u201e\n3.169 \u201e\n3.362 \u201e\n3.362 \u201e\n3.362 \u201e\n3.754 \u201e\n4.500 \u201e\n5.000 \u201e\n6.750 \u201e\n13.670 \u201e\n18.040 \u201e\n15.800 \u201e\n14.454 \u201e\nCents\n4.60 E. St. L.\n4.90 \u201e\n5.90 \u201e\n4.80 \u201e\n4.40 \u201e\n11.25 \u201e\n10.88 \u201e\n7.566 \u201e\n6.94 \u201e\n6.24 \u201e\n6.52 ,,\n3.95 \u201e\n4.86 \u201e\n5.62 -\u201e\n.5.39 ,,\n7.892 Lond.\n7.409 \u201e\n6.194 ,,\n5.493 ,,\n5.385 \u201e\n3.599 \u201e\n2.554 ,,\n2.405 ,,\n3.210 \u201e\n3.044 \u201e\n3.099 \u201e\n3.315 \u201e\n4.902 \u201e\n3.073 \u201e\n3.069 \u201e\n3.411 \u201e\n3.411 \u201e\n3.411 \u201e\n4.000 \u201e\n4.300 ,,\n6.440 \u201e\n7.810 ,,\n11.230 \u201e\n13.930 ,,\n13.247 \u201e\n15.075 \u201e\n$\n2.079\n1902\t\n1903 \t\n1904\t\n1905 \t\n1906 \t\n1907 \t\n3.125\n1908 \t\n1909\t\n1910 \t\n1911 \t\n1912\t\n1913 \t\n1914 \t\n1915 \t\n1916\t\n1917\t\n1918 \t\n4.464\n1919\t\n1920\t\n1921\t\n1922\t\n1923 \t\n1924\t\n1925\t\n1926\t\n1927 \t\n1928 \t\n1929\t\n1930\t\n1931\t\n4.018\n1932\t\n3.795\n1933\t\n1934\t\n1935\t\n1936\t\n1937\t\n1938 \t\n1939\t\n1940\t\n1941\t\n1942\t\n1943\t\n1944\t\n1945\t\n1946\t\n1947\t\n1948\t\n1949\t\n1950\t\nAverage, 1946-50-\n29.73\n36.16\n77.107\n19.788\n13.742\n12.258\n1 Unrefined placer gold, average price per ounce, is taken as $17 divided by $20.67 times the price of an ounce of\nfine gold.\nPrices for fine gold are the Canadian Mint buying prices. Prices for other metals are those of the markets indicated,\nconverted in Canadian funds. The abbreviations are: Mont.=Montreal; N.Y.=New York; Lond.=London; E. St. L.\n=East St. Louis; and U.S.=United States.\nPrior to 1925 the prices for gold and copper are true average prices, but the prices of other metals were taken at\nthe following percentages of the year's average price for the metal: Silver, 95 per cent; lead, 90 per cent; and zinc,\n85 per cent.\nFor coal see last paragraph under \" Fuel,\" page 14.\nThe bases for the prices listed are discussed in detail on pages 13 and 14. STATISTICS\nA 17\nTABLE III.\u2014Total Production for All Years Up to and Including 1950\nGold, placer\t\nGold, lode\t\nSilver -\t\nCopper1 \t\nLead\t\nZinc \t\nCoal and Coke\t\nStructural materials\t\nMiscellaneous metals, minerals, and materials.\n$93,692,241\n376,951,108\n188,156,717\n379,467,354\n569,521,767\n419,275,568\n477,908,903\n136,989,345\n73,228,529\nTotal $2,715,191,532\n1 See last paragraph under \"Average Prices,\" page 14.\nNote.\u2014The total value of placer gold has been adjusted to correct errors in the amounts credited to several of the\nearlier years. This fact should be kept in mind if the above table is compared with previous publications.\nTABLE IV.\u2014Pro\n1852 to 1895\nDUCTION FOR EACH\n$93,552,273\n7,507,956\n10,455,268\n10,906,861\n12,393,131\n16,344,751\n19,671,572\n17,486,550\n17,495,954\n18,977,359\n22,461,325\n24,980,546\n25,882,560\n23,851,277\n24,443,025\n26,377,066\n23,499,072\n32,440,800\n30,296,398\n26,388,825\n29,447,508\n42,290,462\n37,010,392\n41,782,474\n33,296,313\n35,543,084\n28,066,641\n35,162,843\nYear from 1852\n1923 _.\nto 1950,Inclu\n$41,304,320\n(incl.)-_._\n1924\n48,704,604\n1896\t\n1925 ._\u25a0\n61,492,242\n1897.\n1926\n67,188,842\n1898\t\n1927\t\n1928\t\n1929\t\n1930 \t\n60,729,358\n1899\t\n1900\t\n1901\t\n65,372,583\n68,245,443\n55,391,993\n1902\t\n1931\t\n34,883,181\n1903\t\n1904\n1905- .\n1932\t\n1933\t\n1934 \t\n28,798,406\n32,602,672\n42,305,297\n1906\n1935 \t\n48,821,239\n1907\n1936 \t\n54,081,967\n1908\t\n1909__ - -___\n1937\t\n1938\t\n74,475,902\n64,485,551\n1910\t\n1911\t\n1912\t\n1913\t\n1914\t\n1915\n1939\t\n1940\t\n1941\t\n1942\t\n1943\t\n1944 \t\n65,681,547\n75,701,155\n78,479,719\n75,551,093\n65,892,395\n54,923,803\n1916\n1945\n63,343,949\n1917\t\n1918\t\n1919 __\n1920\n1946\t\n1947\t\n1948\t\n1949 -\n71,807,951\n113,221,254\n152,524,752\n133,012,968\n1921\n1950 .\t\n148,155,060\n1922\nTotal..\n$2,715,191,532\nNote.\u2014The total value of placer gold has been adjusted to correct errors in the amounts credited to several of the\nearlier years. This fact should be kept in mind if the above table is compared with previous publications. 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Gold2\nQuantity\nValue\nTotal\n1858-1862-\n1863-1867-\n1868-1872-\n1873-1877..\n1878-1882..\n1883-1887-\n1888-1892-\n1893\t\n1894\t\n1895\t\n1896\t\n1897\t\n1898\t\n1899\t\n1900\t\n1901\t\n1902\t\n1903\t\n1904\t\n1905\t\n1906\t\n1907\t\n1908\t\n1909\t\n1910 \t\n1911\t\n1912\t\n1913\t\n1914\t\n1915\t\n1916\t\n1917\t\n1918\t\n1919\t\n1920\t\n1921\t\n1922\t\n1923\t\n1924 _\n1925\t\n1926\t\n1927\t\n1928\t\n1929\t\n1930\t\n1931\t\n1932 \t\n1933\t\n1934\t\n1935\t\n1936\t\n1937\t\n1938\t\n1939\t\n1940\t\n1941. \t\n1942\t\n1943\t\n1944\t\n1945 \t\n1946\t\n1947\t\n1948\t\n1949\t\n1950\t\nOz.\n580,680\n957,855\n523,250\n530,600\n328,230\n225,970\n148,780\n20,950\n23,850\n28,330\n32,000\n30,210\n37,840\n79,110\n75,220\n57,060\n63,130\n62,380\n65,610\n57,020\n55,790\n48,710\n38,060\n28,060\n31,760\n25,060\n32,680\n30,000\n33,240\n45,290\n34,150\n29,180\n18,820\n16,850\n13,040\n13,720\n21,690\n24,710\n24,750\n16,476\n20,912\n9,191\n8,424\n6,983\n8,955\n17,176\n20,400\n23,928\n25,181\n30,929\n43,389\n54,153\n57,759\n49,746\n39,067\n43,775\n32,904\n14,600\n11,433\n12,589\n15,729\n6,969\n20,332\n17,886\n19,134\n9,871,636\n16,283,592\n8,895,318\n9,020,101\n5,579,911\n3,841,515\n2,529,427\n356,131\n405,516\n481,683\n544,026\n513,520\n643,346\n1,344,900\n1,278,724\n970,100\n1,073,140\n1,060,420\n1,115,300\n969,300\n948,400\n828,000\n647,000\n477,000\n540,000\n426,000\n555,500\n510,000\n565,000\n770,000\n580,500\n496,000\n320,000\n286,500\n221,600\n233,200\n368,800\n420,000\n420,750\n280,092\n355,503\n156,247\n143,208\n118,711\n152,235\n291,992\n395,542\n562,787\n714,431\n895,058\n1,249,940\n1,558,245\n1,671,015\n1,478,492\n1,236,928\n1,385,962\n1,041,772\n462,270\n361,977\n398,591\n475,361\n200,585\n585,200\n529,524\n598,717\nOz.\n1,170\n6,252\n39,270\n62,259\n106,141\n110,061\n138,315\n167,153\n210,384\n236,491\n232,831\n222,042\n238,660\n224,027\n196,179\n255,582\n238,224\n267,701\n228,617\n257,496\n272,254\n247,170\n250,021\n221,932\n114,523\n164,674\n152,426\n120,048\n135,663\n197,856\n179,245\n247,716\n209,719\n201,427\n178,001\n188,087\n145,339\n160,778\n146,039\n181,564\n223,529\n297,130\n365,244\n404,472\n460,781\n557,522\n587,180\n583,416\n571,026\n444,518\n224,403\n186,632\n175,373\n117,612\n243,282\n286,230\n288,396\n283,983\n23,404\n125,014\n785,400\n1,244,180\n2,122,820\n2,201,217\n2,857,573\n3,453,381\n4,348,605\n4,888,269\n4,812,616\n4,589,608\n4,933,102\n4,630,639\n4,055,020\n5,282,880\n4,924,090\n5,533,380\n4,725,513\n5,322,442\n5,627,490\n5,109,004\n5,167,934\n4,587,334\n2,367,190\n3,403,812\n3,150,645\n2,481,392\n2,804,154\n4,089,684\n3,704,994\n5,120,535\n4,335,269\n4,163,859\n3,679,601\n3,888,097\n3,004,419\n3,323,576\n3,018,894\n4,261,307\n6,392,929\n10,250,985\n12,852,936\n14,168,654\n16,122,727\n19,613,624\n21,221,272\n22,461,516\n21,984,501\n17,113,943\n8,639,516\n7,185,332\n6,751,860\n4,322,241\n8,514,870\n10,018,050\n10,382,256\n10,805,553\n9,871,636\n16,283,592\n8,895,318\n9,020,101\n5,579,911\n3,841,515\n2,529,427\n379,535\n530,530\n1,267,083\n1,788,206\n2,636,340\n2,844,563\n4,202,473\n4,732,105\n5,318,705\n5,961,409\n5,873,036\n5,704,908\n5,902,402\n5,579,039\n4,883,020\n5,929,880\n5,401,090\n6,073,380\n5,151,513\n5,877,942\n6,137,490\n5,674,004\n5,937,934\n5,167,834\n2,863,190\n3,723,812\n3,437,145\n2,702,992\n3,037,354\n4,458,484\n4,124,994\n5,541,285\n4,615,361\n4,519,362\n3,835,848\n4,031,305\n3,123,130\n3,475,811\n3,310,886\n4,656,849\n6,955,716\n10,965,416\n13,747,994\n15,418,594\n17,680,972\n21,284,639\n22,699,764\n23,698,444\n23,370,463\n18,155,715\n9,101,786\n7,547,309\n7,150,451\n4,797,602\n8,715,455\n10,603,250\n10,911,780\n11,404,270\nTotals -\n5,121,655 I 93,692,241\n I\t\n13,454,066\nI\n376,951,108 I 470,643,349\nI\n1 Crude gold.\n2 Fine gold.\nNote.\u2014Errors in the value for placer gold credited to several of the earlier years have been corrected. This fact\nshould be kept in mind if the above table is compared with previous publications. A 22 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE VIII.\u2014Value of Mine Production by Divisions for Years 1945 to 1950\nMining Division\n1945\n1946\n1947\n1948\n1949\n1950\n$\n254,429\n6,194\n321,227\n1,033,181\n3,368\n42,910,466\n825,803\n191,767\n137,184\n2,412,843\n2,981,253\n516,283\n677,220\n27,099\n142,315\n2,069,351\n32,342\n736,125\n14,533\n35,904\n2,205,091\n37,443\n954,479\n348\n1,247,960\n2,124,478\n1,338\n1,443,925\n$\n77,057\n112,613\n459,965\n988,815\n2,310\n54,256,000\n290,143\n484,670\n310,877\n1,394,343\n3,038,045\n372,005\n1,028,101\n6,967\n70,216\n1,057,802\n14,586\n410,892\n43,731\n39,658\n1,634,831\n58,841\n628,445\n5,954\n1,274,603\n1,668,492\n3,049\n2,074,940\n$\n242,020\n503,699\n868,658\n1,486,961\n7,124\n80,933,067\n279,206\n593,539\n577,372\n2,962,585\n3,368,234\n1,137,752\n1,229,047\n15,094\n99,622\n1,767,818\n32,934\n786,837\n16,078\n42,151\n4,898,314\n47,032\n1,300,194\n2,650\n2,139,817\n5,343,934\n46,795\n2,492,720\n$\n565,648\n412,872\n1,096,922\n1,693,656\n2,596\n110,156,469\n1,155,232\n789,523\n755,958\n3,531,186\n4,105,205\n2,391,739\n2,007,835\n13,718\n204,939\n2,287,295\n52,124\n514,565\n18,632\n42,964\n7,353,503\n129,149\n2,475,242\n250,404\n1,525,519\n5,916,470\n104,867\n2,970,520\n$\n912,814\n35,224\n1,467,527\n1,845,807\n2,968\n82,619,311\n1,472,627\n881,700\n843,961\n4,205,790\n5,656,627\n3,282,152\n1,837,700\n17,937\n786,046\n1,905,267\n85,791\n1,133,204\n50,086\n83,334\n8,414,632\n131,246\n2,738,380\n120,172\n1,594,489\n7,093,622\n140,936\n3,653,618\n$\n1,042,977\nAlberni _\nAtlin\t\n37,704\n1,646,629\nCariboo\u2014 \t\nClinton \t\nFort Steele \u2022\t\n1,671,699\n724\n91,358,605\nGolden -\t\nGreenwood \t\nKamloops \t\nLillooet \t\nNanaimo \t\nNelson \t\n1,837,850\n769,738\n823,867\n4,379,226\n4,523,757\n6,806,943\n2,012,453\nNicola \t\nOmineca \t\nOsoyoos \t\n10,067\n1,647,115\n1,979,665\n88,001\n3,597,962\nQuesnel' \t\nRevelstoke\t\nSimilkameen \u2014 \t\nSkeena - \t\nSlocan \t\nStikine \t\n101,093\n83,066\n6,679,042\n88,565\n2,551,797\n2,672\n1,955,806\nVancouver \t\nVernon \t\n8,573,582\n80,920\n3,803,535\nTotals\t\n63,343,949\n71,807,951\n113,221,254\n152,524,752\n133,012,968\n148,155,060 STATISTICS\nA\n23\n\u00a9 m :\n: :cooxiOHr\noi : : : :cm\u00ab : icniooio : :xn : iocm : : imco :\nco cm * h> : oo : : \u00a9in\nCD 01\nCM O W * **< CO\nco 10\n:o coco h.\n\u00bbr\ninn\n\u2022* \u00a9 :\nCO N OS\u00a9\nr\no\u00a9\no\nIO T-_\nNWHr CM 01\nx K\n; 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!\n\\i\n4) aj\n4> >\noh\n\u00ab S F\nl. cd 4.\n2\nI\n>\n0\nu\nPh\n'<<\n<\nt\nU\na.\noc\nU\nH\n\\Y-\n2\nzz\nc\nc\nP-\nCL\nC\nm\nc7\nH>>\n>\n&c\nft.2 2\ncn hh\n31 s\"\no \"O 2\nO JJo\ns 5 6\nk<~ \u00bb\n0> 0 5J\ncg'2\na*\nrt\nES i-i >\n:ags\nI o3\n11 s\nS 60 CJ\nS 1 I 13\nSI'S O \u00bb\no \"o a 5.3\nftgfiuE\nM H CM M \u2022*\no A 26\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\no\n>o\na\\\n,\u2014i\na\nz\n<\nON\no\\\nft\nft\nH\n<;\n<\nft\n5\nH\nO\n\u00bb\nft\nH\non\nft\no\nft\n<\nH\nft\nQ\nz\no\nH\nu\nD\nQ\nO\nft\nX\nm\n3\nQ XA\n'co \"g\n> o\na\u00bb\no^cocciificoco^coeot-\u00a9Ni^i-t-ifl^cvirHcooDint-cocn*^h'Oc^\n^cKCNi^^i-ooooicci^oeoeoocNi\u00bbc>iu)cocorHcncjWTHCviocvicoT-i-^M\nen^^cocNit-*rHCOirj^cocsit-*ocNirHcooc\u00bbocco^eo^coocoocooh.\u00a9inrHin\nco co\" co* cm cow co* id oi t> ^\"oo \u00a9*t- cj*o cm o -d\" h\" co\" oi co\" ci\" co o oo\" t- io'id m*t> co* * co co\" r* \u00ab\u00bb\" O* T- \u00a9\" CO io\" i>\" oi o\" O CO co\"\nt- CJ 01 COCJ t-C0CICICJC0iOI0\u00bbOh>COh>COCDC0T- GO h\u00ab rH Cl O 10 rH O CO 00 lO^TfOO^OOiOO\nrH T\" Cl T- Cl CJ CM -^COrHT-OOO CO T- rH Cvt V iH CO\u00ab\n\u00a9 CO\n\u00a9 00\n00 CO\nio\"lD*\nIO o\nCS0I\nC*C3\nOther\nClay\nProducts\n\u00ab\u25a0\n| CO\n:eoifl\n; t-co\n:\u00a9co\nioir\"\n\u00a910\nt- CO\nCOM\nCl*-*\n*\u2022\nPottery\n(Glazed\nor Un-\nglazed)\n<*\nco o\n1- CO\nrH 00\niO*lD*\n\u00a9 o\nt-co\nH 00\n10*10*\nDrain-\ntile\nand\nSewer-\npipe\n*&\nlOCO\nt- I\"\n\u2022*I0\nCM**\/\nrH CO\nCJ CO\n: co ifl\n: ci o\n:\u00a9 oi\nicseo\"\n: io ^f\nCO 00\n\u00a9T-\n\u00b0*\nio\"oo*\n\u00a9 CJ\nCJ *T\nStructural Tile\n(Hollow\nBlocks),\nRoof-tile,\nFloor-tile\n\u00ab\u25a0\nio O\nrH \u00ab\nCO co_\nto 0)\n\u00a9 CVI\nrH T-\n: t-co\n: \u00a9 h.\n: \u00a9 co\ni G*r\n: coco\nCI CD\n7-4 *\u25a0\nkO O\nIO**-\n\u25a0* 01\n\u00a9 *\nCOCO\nCOCJ\nci'cvf\nCJ CO\nU9\n>,\n0\no\no\nn\nCl CI\nCS CD\n00 O\nCI h\"\n. \u00bb3\n\u20225.2 o\n\u00bb\n: t- id\n: co ci\n: cor\n; mh\n;\u00a9oo\n-* h.\nCI CD\nt- O\nrJr\"\nI-CD\nrHCJ\n\u00a9\u00a9\nCOCJ\niO*rj\"\nco 10\nrHCJ\nFace,\nPaving,\nand\nSewer\nBrick\n\u00ab*\nco CO\n\u00a9 evi\nCl 00\nrH CI\nCllfl\nIO O\nCJ 00\nIOCP\nC0*T-\nCOCO\nCIO\nt-_10\nCIIO\n3E\"3\n\u25a0a o o\ntee\n\u00ab\u00a9\u25a0\no\n\u00a9\n\u00a9\n:\u00a9o\n;ioio\ni ci\" *\n: t-h-\n\u00a9o\n\u00a9o\nIO o\nrH Ifl\"\nIO o\nCJ h\u00ab\n00 00\nCJ\n\u00a9O\n\u00a9 CJ\n\u00a9 CJ\nCI t\"\nrH T\"\nIO o\n\u00a9 CO\nio'co\n\u00a9 o\n\u25a0g-ol\n\u00ab\u25a0\no^\u00abcoideoncocOTjih>oi>\u00abco^rH^infflioeomoiwcDciooc>jocpc^ :ciifl\u00a9T\"ioh-t~h\u00abt-cD\n*ClCV|T^^G0lDb-e0Tj<\u00abOC0^C0C0NiOC0rHC0r-hiWC0rHroco*C0^COh>C0C0l>\u00ae lOCJCMOOOiOCOClOl\n\u00a9Tt\neo\"\u00a9\"oo \u00a9*oci tj\" oi oo* t- rn\" co\" co ci o\" cn o\" o rn\" co co* * co\" of oo* o h-^uico\" io\"*t\" co'cDrHO t-*co\"co* i th co* go* evT ci cd\" co\" ci\nT- CM CM Cl 00 t-eMCMCIrHT-t-CMlOCOrHCICIIDt-OO COh\u00ab *- CO <\u00bb rH CO Cl T- I lO\u00ab*lOCl\u00a910rHh-\nrH CJ T- CV] T- rH y rH t- \u00a9 h> CQ CI O IQ 10\nci h\u00ab\nCO 00\nrH\u00ab\nt-\"\u00ab\n\u00a9CJ\nas r*\nco\" CO\nRubble,\nRiprap,\nand\nCrushed\nRock\n\u00bb\nio ID CO\n--ID\nCO 01\nci * o\nrH CO O\nOB)CJ\nTj\"iD*rH*\n\"tfh>\u00a9vCSCO\u00a9OJ'*CD\u00a9CD\n\u00a9T-\u00a901\u00a9T-\u00a9h\"Tr*T-rHCD\nOOMOmMXhOOCin\nCS* CJ CI 01 rH \u00a9 T- CJ 01 CM CO\nH CM I- CNI CO - COCO\nrH T\" CO CO\n^001fl\u00a9OeMC000NC0\nC0c0CC\u00a9Oa0<*\u00a9OrH\n^COCO\u00a9* t-lDrH\nl> CO\" CO rH*\n\u25a0* H\nCM O 1 h. 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h\u00a5\n{ft -44 - -\n\u00abi\n,? 4-^\n4 t h - U\n:i i\nJ\/f -J H Cr- ' L\n\u2014 *' -,*\n^n , lLj\n\u00b0 _\u00abi' -1 ^ JL\n11 1 -tml\nQ\n,2r_ I Z\/A\nir ; ^7\nn\n* yr.f 1J>\ny~ t\n\u25a0\/'\\S\\ ^frt\nt 4 -j\ny ^^L\n44 J\n2 *?\u00ab^ _\nc Se\nA \/ -,*^' ,\n-:\nevi\n' \/^ 4^\u00b1t\nn\n7 y S_ 7\n\\r\n'A ' n f\n_ \u00ab3-\u2022-\nUz\no -v-7' 'N- :23\n\" \u00bb\"\" ^ j-'l\nif \"\n- 7 7 \/v-, c*-\/\n\"\"\u00a3 LLV\n%=- ^^:.r;:s, >\u25a0\n, -N -~^2 xr-\nA-\n,?. *=--., ^-\"\n!\u00ab-..-\u25a0\u25a0 ^\u2014>^s\u00abE\n3 BTTt^Sl!\"-'' *\\ ^^\"\"^\no 1\u2014!\u20141\u2014i\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u2014!\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u20141\u2014L=\ninchtooO-Wffi-j-BlO^Ooa- ry ,\u25a0) ^ ui *r\n\u00bb , <* . \u00bb\n=t_l\u20141\u2014la\n\u25a0Cl\n0> \u2014\u2014\nSTATISTICS\nA 29\nTABLE XIII.\u2014British Columbia Lode-mines Production, 1913-50\no\nCO\n\u25a0f\nO\nNT\no\no\no\ni\nO\no\n*\na\no\no\n\u2022o\nn\nO\nry\nr*)\n\u00a3 m\nSg\nD\nO\n0.\nO\nCM It\nO\n\u00b0 S\n1M O\n-J\n_J\ng5\no\nr\\J\nO\nCO\nO\nT\n(\n\/\n\/\n1\n\\\n\\\nI\n1\n1\nt\n1\n\\\n\\\ni\n\/\n\/\n\/\n'\n1\n1\n\\\n\\\n\\\n1\no\nIN\nPI\n\u00ab S\ni\n1\n\"*\"\"\nt\nf\n\/\n1\ni\n\\\nt\n\/\n\/\n*\"\"*\u25a0\nN\n\/\n\/\n\/\n\/\n\\\n1\nt\n1\n\\\n\/\n\/\nf\n\/\nV_\nV\n>\n;\n\/\n.}\n\/,\nO\no- o\nL\n:ac\ni\n\/\n\/\n\u2022\n\\\n\\\n\u2022\n\/\nf\n\\\n1\n\/\no\n\u00ab o\nZ o\nO N\n_l\n-J\ns I\no\n(M\nO\n(0\nO\n\/\n\\\n1\nj\nj\n\/\n\/\nZ\nNC\n\/'\nSV\n>\n\/\n\/\n-\n'\n\/\nr\n\/\n\/\nc\n)Pf\n>ER\nst\n--.\n\/\n\u2022\n\\\n...\n\/\n\\\n\/\no\n10\nU ot\no\nz\nO\nO\n\u00ab\no\ni \u00ab\nM\nO\ncfl\nB*3\nO\no\n\u00ab\nO\na*\nINJ\n\/\nSIL\nVE\n<\nf\nN\n\/'\n\\\nI\n\/\n*s\n\\\n\/\n\\\n\/\ns\nU\n\"Z\n3\nO\nf>\n000\n0 \/\ns.\nto\nu\n1\no\nnoo\n10\ns\n300\n000\n\\\ni^^\n?0\ntoo\ni\nGO\nLD\n\\\n100\n)00\ni\"J ^ ifl \u00bb r- <\n' * \u00a7 *\n' N \" * !\n9 2\n1 i\n;\n\u00bb r- d) <\n' 8 A 30\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE XIV.\u2014Coal Production per Year to Date1\nTons\n(2,000 Lb.)\n1836-85 _ _ 3,392,492\n1886 365,832\n1887 462,963\n1888 548,017\n1889 _ 649,410\n1890 _ _ 759,517\n1891 1,152,589\n1892 _ i 925,495\n1893 ..: 1,095,689\n1894 1,134,507\n1895 1,052,413\n1896 1,003,769\n1897 988,797\n1898 1,272,169\n1899 _J 1,463,083\n1900 .. 1,612,346\n1901 1,635,571\n1902 1,565,081\n1903 1,308,377\n1904 1,404,063\n1905 . 1,550,429\n1906 1,699,379\n1907 2,016,075\n1908 1,879,191\n1909 2,247,253\n1910 _ 3,136,052\n1911 2,456,229\n1912 2,944,261\n1913 2,393,981\n1914 2,028,283\n1915 1,804,465\n1916 2,334,184\n1917 2,407,972\n1918 2,578,514\nValue\n$9,468,557\n979,908\n1,240,080\n1,467,903\n1,739,490\n2,034,420\n3,087,291\n2,479,005\n2,934,882\n3,038,859\n2,818,962\n2,688,666\n2,648,562\n3,407,595\n3,918,972\n4,318,785\n4,380,993\n4,192,182\n3,504,582\n3,760,884\n4,152,936\n4,551,909\n6,300,235\n5,872,472\n7,022,666\n9,800,161\n7,675,717\n9,200,814\n7,481,190\n6,338,385\n5,638,952\n7,294,325\n7,524,913\n11,511,225\nTons\n(2,000 Lb.)\n1919 2,539,646\n1920 2,906,540\n1921 i 2,782,074\n1922 2,813,264\n1923 2,747,610\n1924 2,172,269\n1925 2,607,945\n1926 2,609,640\n1927 2,748,286\n1928 2,829,906\n1929 2,521,402\n1930 _. 2,113,586\n1931 _ 1,912,501\n1932 1,719,172\n1933 1,416,516\n1934 1,508,741\n1935 1,330,524\n1936 1,508,048\n1937 1,618,049\n1938 1,466,559\n1939 1,655,217\n1940 1,867,966\n1941 2,018,635\n1942 2,170,737\n1943 2,040,253\n1944 2,165,676\n1945 1,700,914\n1946 1,639,277\n1947 __. 1,923,573\n1948 1,809,018\n1949 1,917,296\n1950 1,542,404\nTotals .\n121,591,672\nValue\n$11,337,705\n12,975,625\n12,419,975\n12,559,215\n12,266,115\n9,697,630\n11,642,610\n11,650,180\n12,269,135\n12,633,510\n11,256,260\n9,435,650\n7,684,155\n6,523,644\n5,375,171\n5,725,133\n5,048,864\n5,722,502\n6,139,920\n5,565,069\n6,280,956\n7,088,265\n7,660,000\n8,237,172\n7,742,030\n8,217,966\n6,454,360\n6,220,470\n8,587,380\n10,854,108\n12,462,424\n10,025,626\n$452,235,303\niFor all years to 1925 (inclusive) figures are net coal production and do not include coal made into coke; subsequent\nfigures are entire coal production, including coal made into coke. Commencing with 1948 production the short ton\n(2,000 lb.) has been used in all statistical tables, and to facilitate comparison with previous years, the tonnages as noted\nin Table XIV above, from 1836 to 1947, have all been converted from long tons to short tons.\nTABLE XV.\u2014Coke Production from Bee-hive Ovens in British Columbia\nfrom 1895 to 1925\n1895-97\t\n1898 (estimated)..\n1899 \t\n1900\t\n1901 \t\n1902 _\t\n1903 \t\n1904 _\t\n1905 _\t\n1906 _ \t\n1907 \t\n1908 \t\n1909\t\n1910 _\t\n1911 _\n1912\t\nTons\n(2,240 Lb.)\n_ 19,396\n... 35,000\n... 34,251\n... 85,149\n... 127,081\n... 128,015\n... 165,543\n... 238,428\n... 271,785\n... 199,227\n... 222,913\n... 247,399\n... 258,703\n... 218,029\n... 66,005\n... 264,333\nValue\n$96,980\n175,000\n171,255\n425,745\n635,405\n640,075\n827,715\n1,192,140\n1,358,925\n996,135\n1,337,478\n1,484,394\n1,552,218\n1,308,174\n396,030\n1,585,998\n1913.\n1914.\n1915..\n1916.\n1917.\n1918..\n1919.\n1920..\n1921..\n1922.\n1923.\n1924.\n1925..\nTons\n(2,240 Lb.)\n_.. 286,045\n--\u2022_ 234,577\n.... 245,871\n_ 267,725\n_ 159,905\n.... 188,967\n.... 91,138\n\u2014 67,792\n.... 59,434\n.... 45,835\n_ 58,919\n_ 30,615\n.... 75,185\nTotals.\n. 4,393,265\nValue\n$1,716,270\n1,407,462\n1,475,226\n1,606,350\n959,430\n1,322,769\n637,966\n474,544\n416,038\n320,845\n412,433\n214,305\n526,295\n$25,673,600 STATISTICS\nA 31\no\nv-i\nON\ni\u2014i\no\nH\n\u25a0<*\nON\nI\nP\n\u25baJ\nO\nO\nw\nH\ns\no\n53\nO\ni\u2014t\nH\nU\nP\n\u00a7\nco\nH\nO\nP\n8\nft\nI\nPQ\nQ\n<\nW\nM\no\ny\ns\n3\nf*\nOv vo &\nft\nc\nCO vc\nCO\nO coow\nOn rH oo fd\nCN\noo\nvo r- r-\nCN On CN m\nOV\nr- cn o t\u2014\nOn VO cn ft\nft\nu\nm\ncn oo **\u25a0\nr- vd oo r-\nOv\na)\nft t~- CN CO\nt^ \u00bb-* rH 0\\\nCD\na\n^\nr\u00bb \u25a0\u00ab*\u25a0 r\u00bb\noh mo\n>n\nt- On r- VD\nt*V oo\" t^-\" t~\"\nrf>\n*c3\nH(T)>\nCN CN 00 CN\nin\ncd\nCN vo On OO\nin On r- cN\n\u2022n\n>\nCN\n\u2022h ft m\n*%*\\\nOv\n>\nO CN On VD\nCN W\nOs_ fN^cN\ni-*tN\ncn\nrH*-*\nvo*\nm\n&B-\nW-\n\u00ab\u25a0\no\n\u00ab\u2022\n&>\nw\nft\n>n\nOs\nOn\n'\"\",\n*\"H\n\u00a3>\noo\nft 00 CN\nft\n>,\n\u00bbn m t> ft\nft\nVO\nVO ON OO\nft\nQ\n O\n00\ne\ncd\n00\n\u25a0*c\n^vq\nCN\nft\nOv r-^ ft t-^\nm cn\" r-\" cn\nOO\ncn\ncn o\n3\nm\ni-h in On\nVD\n3\ncn CN CN On\nft\na\nCN\n\"\na\ncn rn\n(N ' ' '\ni-i in cn\nOn O VD VO\noc\nm oo co\nVD ft 00 VO\nft\nOv\n\u00a9 ft On\ncn \u00bb-h r- ft\noo VD ft \u00a9\nr~-\nc-\nft oo cn\nVO CN CN O\nCN\na\n00\ncN cN cn\nOn\ntU\nO^ CN On^\nCN rn f- ft\nin\n3\n3\nOv\nH & \"Q\ncn CN vo On\no\nO oo'vo\"\nin oo ft\" t>\nin\n(3\ncn\nO ft VO\nt-h vd m i-h\nin\n\u00ab\nt^\nOn rH on\nO ft On (N\nt\u00bb\n>\n\u25a0*\ncn cn m\ncN in\n00\n>\no\nVD O ft\nNHrt\nin\nv-*CN\ncn\nCNft*\nvo\"\n**\ntfl-\n*\u00a3\nv\u00b1\nOv\nw-\nW\n\u00ab\u25a0\nTt\nft\nOn\nON\n&\ncn\nVO-O\nh-\n>^\no\nr- co on\nft ! 1\nfl\noo\nvd o cn\no\\\nI\no\nO VO ft\nCN !\n00\nOv ft \u25a0*\n\u00a3*;\nCC\nft CN ft\nrn j\n\u00ab\nCN*\nvo r-* oo\"\nCN*\nf\nvo\" On\" F-\"\ncn !\na\nCO ft oo\nC-\n3\ncn\nVD 00 VO\nCN\na\nCN\n\"\na\nc\nCN ' '\nO\ncn cn cN\nr-NOiH\nOn\n\u00abr\nin oo t\u2014\no VO o o\nVO\nft O OO\nCN ON ft CN\ncn oo on\nCN CO cn On\nCN\no\nOn\n00 ft ft\nt- m cn cn\nOO\nCJ\n5\nr-^ ft vo^\nOn^ OO rH r-^\nr>\n3\n3\ncn\n\u2014 ft r-\ncn cn vo oo\nc\nOn* vd\" ff*\no o cn\"m\n00\nd\nOO\nOn r- ft\nHino\\H\n00\n\"5\nft\nin ^ m\ncn cn \u00bbn cn\ncn\n>\nOv\n&9-\nCN CN VD\nCN ft\nr-~CN\ncn\n>\nfj\n\u00bbn vo ft\nVOIflH\ncn\nVD*\ncn\n\nft in cn\ncn\no\n\\c\ncn oo o\noo r>- CO ON\nft\na\n3\nvo\"\nOn CO ft\nCN m VD CN\nvo\nr\nt-\" r-\" t-\"\nCN O ft O\nOn\"\n\u00ab\nVO\ncn o m\nO VD 00 CN\nt-\n*3\noc\ncn cn m\nrH On CN in\nr-\n>\nCO\nft VO\ncn\n>\nvc\nft m m\nin cn i-i\ncd\ntie-\ntfl-\n'-CN*\nm\n\u00ab\u25a0\nrH C*i\nm*\nCN\n0*3-\n\u00bb\nr-\n<^\n\u00ab\u25a0\nw-\nft\nft\nOn\nON\nc\n\u00a7\n3\nCN\nVO\n00\nm*\n66,824\n96,428\n6,528\nO\nOO\nl>\nOn*\nVD\ni\nCO\n3\nft\nC\nf*\noc\n44,517\n55,233\n75,656\nNO\nO\nft\nin\"\nt>\na\ntN\na\nCn1\nrt\nf*\ncn o oo\ni- O Ov VD\nVQ\nir\nvo r- vd\nON On t^ CO\n00\nr- ft in\nr- r- vo th\nCN\nm vo vo\n00 O ft On\ncn\nCO\nm\nft ft r-\nvo cn m t\u2014\nCN\no\nft\nin cn cn\nO O On r~\n\u00b0i\n3\np\nr-\ncn r- cn\ncn m cn r-i\nft\nco\" VD Ov\nft On CO i-H\no\n*rt\nOn VO ft\nO CN vd\nON\na\nft\nC-^H rH\ni-1 r- 00 OO\nO\n>\ncn *t\nOn Ov\nW5- ^J\nCN\n>\nft\nrH ft VO\neg.\nCN O^\nrH \n\u00ab\u25a0\nft\nft\nON\nOn\n-&\nOn\nr- vd co\n,_\n>.\nTf\nm ft oo\nfc\ns\nO\no m r-\nft\n\u00abr\nft \u00abn o\no\n00\nr- vo cn\nr-\n3\no\nin rH On\nVD\ncd\nIT)\nft vo oo\nC\\\na\nO \u00a9 ^\nCN\n3\nrn\nVD CO\n1\n3\ncn m oo\na\nCN\na\nr-\n>N\n>.\nh\nco\nto\n3\n3\n\u2022a\n\u2022o\n3\n3\n3\n.S\na\nt\nC\n0\nV\nO\nO\nw\n3\n0\nw\no\nid\no\nC\n~ 2 c\/\nc\nCJ\nc\n- 2 v\n3\nCJ\nc\nC .\u00a3 c\n0 M F\nc\nc\n0 \" \u00a7\nO\n\u00ab*H\n**\n0\no\ns\n\u00ab \u00abB to *= t\nO . 3 tf O\nCD\n3\n3\nc\n.ct o\nCJ\n2\ne, sh\nvens\nt ove\n, sho\ne, sh\n*c3\n3\nX\nvens\nt ove\n, sho\ne, sh\nd\n1\n>\n3\n5*\nft\n\u2022>\nG\n-\nM O U n -O\nO\nH\nA\nO P co T3\nO\n(\na\n5\nmaking co\nn bee-hive\nn by-produ\nn gas plant\nal coke ma\n7\"\n\"I\nO\n3\n\u25a0a\n5\nu\n\"3\nf\nJ\nJ\n3\nc\nc\nb\nR\nE\nn bee-hive\nn by-produ\nn gas plant\nal coke ma\nT\n0\nt\n1\nCJ\n3\n\u20223\nO\na\n<3\n\u20225 U o u o g 8 fe \u00b0\nc\ncjcjcj OC^ O\n(0 c3 cd ctj tj \"d >,\ni\nc3 c3 cd Tj \"O >-.\n.\u00a7 see o\u00a3-\u00b0\na\nBBS 5gf\noal t\noke\noke\noke\nas s\nar p\nther\noke\noke\noke\nas s\nar p\nther\n<\nC\nC\nc\nc\nC\nC\nh\nC\nC\n0\nCJ\nc\nc\nh\nc A 32 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE XVII.\u2014Dividends Paid by Mining Companies, 1897-1950\nLode-gold Mines1\nCompany or Mine\nLocality\nClass\nAmount\nPaid\nArlington...\nAthabasca..\nBayonne..\nBralorne Mines Ltd \t\nBelmont-Surf Inlet\t\nCariboo Gold Quartz Mining Co. Ltd\t\nCariboo-McKinney Con. M. & M. Co\t\nCanadian Pacific Exploration (Porto Rico)..\nCentre Star \t\nFairview Amalgamated \t\nFern Gold Mining & Milling Co. Ltd...\nGold Belt Mining Co. Ltd\t\nGoodenough (leasers)\nHedley Mascot Gold Mines Ltd...\nIsland Mountain Mines Ltd.\t\nI.X.L. \t\nJewel-Denero \t\nKelowna Exploration Ltd. (Nickel Plate)-\nKootenay Belle Gold Mines Ltd\t\nLe Roi Mining Co\t\nLe Roi No. 2 Ltd\t\nLome (later Bralorne)..\nMotherlode\t\nMount Zeballos Gold Mines Ltd.\t\nNickel Plate (Hedley Gold Mining Co. Ltd.)-\nPioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Ltd\t\nPoorman .... \t\nPremier Gold Mining Co. Ltd..\nPrivateer Mine Ltd\t\nQueen.\nRelief Arlington Mines Ltd. (Second Relief)-\nReno Gold Mines Ltd\t\nSheep Creek Gold Mines Ltd..\nSilbak Premier Mines Ltd \t\nSpud Valley Gold Mines Ltd.-\nSunset No. 2\t\nSurf Inlet Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd...\nWar Eagle \t\nYmir Gold\t\nYmir Yankee Girl\t\nMiscellaneous mines.\nErie\t\nNelson..\nTye Siding\t\nBridge River \t\nPrincess Royal Island-\nWells \t\nCamp McKinney..\nNelson\t\nRossland\t\nOliver\t\nNelson\t\nSheep Creek-\nYmir\t\nHedley\t\nWells\t\nRossland\t\nGreenwood\t\nHedley\t\nSheep Creek...\nRossland\t\nRossland\t\nBridge River-\nSheep Creek\u2014\nZeballos\t\nHedley\t\nBridge River-\nNelson\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold \t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold-copper..\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold \t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nPremier\t\nZeballos\t\nSheep Creek-\nErie\t\nSheep Creek\t\nSheep Creek\t\nPremier\t\nZeballos \t\nRossland\t\nSurf Inlet\t\nRossland\t\nYmir _\nGold-copper..\nGold-copper-\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold- \t\nGold-copper-\nGold\t\nYmir-\nGold-copper..\nGold\t\nGold\t\nGold\t\n$94,872\n25,000\n25,000\n,826,650\n,437,500\n,679,976\n565,588\n37,500\n472,255\n5,254\n9,375\n668,5953\n13,731\n,290,553\n,465,738\n134,025\n11,751\n,040,000\n357,856\n,475,000\n,574,640\n20,450\n163,500\n165,000\n,423,191\n,299,393\n25,000\n,858,075s\n,914,183\n85,000\n308,0002\n433,640s1\n215,625*\n,375,000a\n168,000\n115,007\n120,279\n,245,250\n300,000\n415,002a\n108,623\nTotal, lode-gold mines.\n$72,969,077\ni The gold-copper properties of Rossland are included in this table.\n2 Includes \" Return of Capital \" distributions.\n3 Up to and including 1936, dividends paid by Premier Gold Mining Company Limited were derived from operations\nof the company in British Columbia. Subsequent dividends paid by Premier Gold Mining Company Limited have been\nderived from the operations of subsidiary companies in British Columbia and elsewhere and are not included in the figure\ngiven. In 1936, Silbak Premier, a subsidiary of Premier Gold Mining Company, took over the former gold operations of\nthat company in British Columbia. Dividends paid by Silbak Premier are given above.\n* In recent years, company revenue has included profits from operation of the Lucky Jim zinc-lead mine. STATISTICS\nTABLE XVII.\u2014Dividends Paid by Mining Companies, 1897-1950-\nSilver-Lead-Zinc Mines\nA 33\n-Continued\nCompany or Mine\nLocality\nClass\nAmount\nPaid\nRambler :.\t\nField.. \t\nBeaverdell \t\nGreenwood \t\nBeaverdell \t\nNew Denver \t\n$10,000\nBase Metals Mining Corporation Ltd. (Monarch and\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\n586.1431\nBeaverdell-Wellington \t\n97,200\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\u2014 _\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\u2014\t\nSilver-lead-zinc '\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc...\t\nSilver-lead-zinc.-\t\n48,000\nBell \t\n388,297\n25,000\nNew Denver..\t\n5,500\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada, Ltd\u2014\nTrail \t\n273,053,168s\nField\t\nSmithers\t\n5,203\n50,000\nAinsworth\t\nCody \t\nHall Creek\t\n35,393\n45,668\nH B. Mining Co.\n8,904\nBeaverdell \t\nBeaverdell \t\nSimilkameen \t\nSandon\t\n132,464\nHighland Bell Ltd\t\n1,163,147\n6,000\n400,000\nIron Mountain (Emerald) \t\n20,000\nRetallack.\t\nThree Forks\t\n20,000\n213,000\nSandon\t\nThree Forks\t\n50,000\n80,000\nMercury \u25a0\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\n6,000\nSlocan City \t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\n10,257\nThree Forks\t\n70,500\nCody \t\nThree Forks\t\n71,387\nMcAllister -\t\n45,088\nCody \t\n72,859\nNorth Star -\t\n497,901\nNo. One\t\nSandon\t\n6,754\n110,429\nPayne ... ...\t\nSandon.. \t\nGreenwood\t\n1,438,000\n142,328s\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\u2014\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\n25,000\n467,250\nReco -\t\nRuth Mines Ltd\t\nCody\t\n334,992\n125,490\n566,000\nSilversmith and Slocan Star4\t\nSandon \t\nHazelton\t\n1,267,600\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc \t\nSilver-lead-zinc.\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\nSilver-lead-zinc\t\n150,091\nSpokane-Trinket -\t\n10,365\nStandard Silver Lead...\t\nSilverton.,\t\nRetallack \t\n2,734,688\n88,000\nUtica.\t\n64,000\nWallace Mines Ltd. (Sally) \t\n135,000\nWashington\t\n20,000\nWhitewater\t\n592,515\nMiscellaneous mines \t\n. 70,239\n$285,565,820\n1 Includes $466,143 \"Return of Capital\" distribution prior to 1949.\n2 Earnings of several company mines, and customs smelter at Trail.\n3 Includes $10,504 paid in 1944 but not included in the yearly figure.\n* These two properties were amalgamated as Silversmith Mines Limited in August, 1939. A 34 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE XVII.\u2014Dividends Paid by Mining Companies, 1897-1950\u2014Continued\nCopper Mines\nCompany or Mine\nLocality\nClass\nAmount\nPaid\nBritannia M. & S. Co.1\t\nCanada Copper Corporation-\nCornell\u2014 \t\nGranby Cons. M.S. & P. Co.2..\nMarbleBay\t\nHall Mines\t\nMiscellaneous mines..\nTotal, copper mines..\nBritannia Beach\t\nGreenwood\t\nTexada Island\t\nCopper Mountain ..\nTexada Island _\t\nNelson \t\nCopper..\nCopper..\nCopper..\nCopper-\nCopper..\nCopper..\nCopper..\n$13,274,022\n615,399\n8,500\n28,634,588\n175,000\n233,280\n261,470\n$43,202,259\n1 Britannia Mining and Smelting Company Limited is a subsidiary of the Howe Sound Company, which is the\nholding company for Britannia and for other mines in Mexico and the State of Washington. Dividends paid by the\nHowe Sound Company, therefore, \u00bbannot be credited to British Columbia. Dividends in the above table for Britannia\nhave been paid by that company, none being paid subsequent to 1930, until 1939. In making comparison with yearly\ntotals, the amounts shown as paid by the Howe Sound Company have been deducted for the years shown, so the total\nin the annual report concerned will show the higher figure.\n2 The Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power Company dividends commenced in 1904 and cover all\ncompany activities in British Columbia to date, the present operations being conducted at Allenby and Copper Mountain.\nThe dividends as set out in the table in the Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1942 were incorrect; the correct total\nis as above. The figure now includes all dividends, capital distributions, and interim liquidating payments, the latter\nbeing $4,500,000, paid, in 1936, prior to reorganization.\nThe term \" Miscellaneous \" noted in each class of dividend covers all payments of $5,000 and under, together with\npayments made by companies or individuals requesting that the item be not disclosed.\nIn compiling the foregoing table of dividends paid, the Department wishes to acknowledge the kind assistance given\nby companies, individuals, and trade journals in giving information on the subject.\nCoal\nWellington Collieries Ltd., Nanaimo $16,000,000\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd., Fernie 14,483,086\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd 394,258\nTotal $30,877,344\nMiscellaneous, Structural, and Placer Gold\nVarious\n$4,149,655\nAggregate of all Classes\nLode-gold mining $72,969,077\nSilver-lead-zinc mining and smelting 285,565,820\nCopper mining 43,202,259\nCoal-mining 30,877,344\nMiscellaneous, structural, and placer gold 4,149,655\nTotal\n$436,764,155 STATISTICS\nA 35\nTABLE XVII.\u2014Dividends Paid by Mining Companies, 1897-1950\u2014Continued\nDividends Paid Yearly, 1917-50, Inclusive\nYear\n1917_\n1918_\n1919\nAmount Paid\n $3,269,494\n ._- 2,704,469\n 2,494,283\n1920 _\u2014 1,870,296\n1921 736,629\n1922 3,174,756\n1923 2,983,570\n1924 2,977,276\n1925 5,853,419\n1926 8,011,137\n1927 8,816,681\n1928 9,572,536\n1929 11,263,118\n1930 10,543,500\n1931 4,650,857\n1932 2,786,958\n1933 2,471,735\n1934..- 4,745,905\n1935 7,386,070\nYear Amount Paid\n1936 $10,513,705\n1937 15,085,293\n1938 12,068,875\n1939 11,865,698\n1940 14,595,530\n1941 1.6,598,110\n1942 13,627,104\n1943 11,860,159\n1944 11,367,732\n1945 10,487,395\n1946 15,566,047\n1947 27,940,213\n1948 37,672,319\n1949 33,651,096\n1950 34,399,330\nTotal-.- $373,611,295\nDividends Paid during 1949 and 1950\n1949\n$120,000\n498,800\nBase Metals Mining Corporation Ltd. _\nBralorne Mines Ltd.\t\nBritannia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. \t\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd 225,280\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting\nCo. of Canada, Ltd 31,121,502\nThe Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd. __\u201e 248,472\nGranby Consolidated Mining Smelting\nand Power Co. Ltd 787,906\nHighland Bell Ltd 156,586\nIsland Mountain Mines Ltd. 73,550\nKelowna Exploration Co. Ltd. \t\nSheep Creek Gold Mines Ltd 150,000\nSilver Standard Mines Ltd. \t\nOthers 269,000\n1950\n$498,800\n771,135\n168,978\n31,121,647\n248,472\n483,085\n156,586\n52,536\n300,000\n150,000\n150,091\n298,000\nTotals\n$33,651,096 $34,399,330 A 36\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE XVIII.\u2014Salaries and Wages, Fuel and Electricity,\nand Process Supplies, 1950\nClass\nSalaries and\nWages\nFuel and\nElectricity\nProcess\nSupplies\nLode-mining \t\n$32,441,761\n308,374\n5,693,002\n1,154,826\n3,140,072\n$4,715,215\n34,452\n345,878\n307,426\n1,373,027\n$12,454,722\n57,548\n1,053,294\n3,036,984\n898,115\nTotals, 1950 _\n$42,738,035\n41,023,786\n38,813,506\n32,160,338\n20,190,200\n22,620,975\n23,131,874\n26,051,467\n26,913,160\n26,050,491\n23,391,330\n22,357,035\n22,765,711\n21,349,690\n17,887,619\n16,753,367\n$6,775,998\n7,206,637\n6,139,174\n5,319,470\n5,427,458\n7,239,726\n5,788,671\n7,432,585\n7,006,109\n3,776,747\n3,474,721\n3,266,0001\n3,396,106\n3,066,311\n2,724,144\n2,619,639\n$17,500,663\nGrand totals, 1949 ...\t\n17,884,408\nGrand totals, 1948\t\nGrand totals, 1947. ~ \t\n11,532,121\n13,068,948\nGrand totals, 1946\t\n8,367,705\nGrand totals, 1945\t\nGrand totals, 1944 \t\nGrand totals, 1943 \t\nGrand totals, 1942 \t\n5,756,628\n6,138,084\n6,572,317\n6,863,398\nGrand totals, 1941 \t\nGrand totals, 1940 \t\n7,260,441\n6,982,162\nGrand totals, 1939 \t\nGrand totals, 1938 \t\nGrand totals, 1937 \t\nGrand totals, 1936 \t\nGrand totals, 1935 \t\n6.714,347\n6,544,500\n6,845,330\n4,434,501\n4,552,730\nGrand totals, 1935-50 \t\n$430,198,564\n$80,629,4961\n$136,998,343\n1 Estimated.\nNote.\u2014The above figures, compiled from returns made by companies and individuals, illustrate the amount of\nmoney distributed in salaries and wages, fuel and electricity, and process supplies (explosives, chemicals, drill-steel,\nlubricants, etc.). STATISTICS\nA 37\nTABLE XIX.\u2014Lode Metal Mines\u2014Tonnage, Number of Mines,\nNet and Gross Value of Principal Metals,4 1901-50\nYear\nTonnage1\nNumber\nof\nShipping\nMines\nNumber\nof Mines\nShipping\nover 100\nTons\nGross Value\nas Reported\nby Shipper2\nFreight\nand\nTreatment\nNet Value\nto Shipper3\nGross Value\nof Lode\nMetals\nProduced1\n1901\t\n920,416\n998,999\n1,286,176\n1,461,609\n1,706,679\n1,963,872\n1,804,114\n2,083,600\n2,057,713\n2,216,428\n1,770,755\n2,688,532\n2,663,809\n2,175,971\n2,690,110\n3,188,865\n2,761,579\n2,892,849\n2,112,975\n2,178,187\n1,562,645\n1,573,186\n2,421,839\n3,397,105\n3,849,269\n4,775,073\n5,416,021\n6,241,310\n6,977,681\n6,803,846\n5,549,103\n4,340,158\n4,030,978\n5,116,897\n4,916,148\n4,381,027\n0,145,144\n7,377,021\n7,211,223\n7,937,358\n7,938,803\n6,708,277\n5,429,557\n4,763,332\n4,377,722\n3,705,375\n4,953,030\n5,655,266\n6,095,441\n6,782,912\n119\n124\n125\n142\n146\n154\n147\n108\n89\n83\n80\n86\n110\n98\n132\n109\n193\n175\n144\n121\n80\n98\n77\n86\n102\n138\n132\n110\n106\n68\n44\n75\n109\n145\n177\n168\n185\n211\n217\n216\n200\n126\n48\n51\n36\n50\n75\n97\n118\n112\n78\n75\n74\n70\n79\n77\n72\n59\n52\n50\n45\n51\n58\n56\n59\n81\n87\n80\n74\n00\n35\n33\n28\n37\n40\n55\n52\n49\n48\n32\n22\n29\n47\n69\n72\n70\n113\n92\n99\n92\n96\n76\n32\n31\n27\n32\n33\n51\n54\n58\n$14 100 282\n1902\t\n1903\t\n12,103,237\n1904\t\n1905\t\n15,980 164\n1906\t\n18,484,102\n1907\t\n17,316,847\n1908\t\n15,847 411\n1909\t\n15,451 141\n1910\t\n14,728,731\n1911\t\n11,454 063\n1912\t\n17,662,766\n1913\t\n17,190,838\n1914\t\n15,225,061\n1915\n19,992,149\n1916\n31,483 014\n1917\n26,788 474\n1918. ..\n27,590,278\n1919\n19,750,498\n1920\n19,444,365\n12,920,398\n1922\n19,227,857\n1923\n25,347,092\n1924\n35,538,247\n46,200,135\n1926\n$38,558,613\n27,750,364\n29,070,075\n34,713,887\n21,977,688\n10,513,931\n7,075,393\n13,976,358\n20,243,278\n25,407,914\n30,051,207\n43,954,077\n35,278,483\n40,716,869\n43,670,298\n46,681,822\n45,199,404\n33,293,703\n26,449,408\n31,383,025\n46,016,841\n76,311,087\n100,128,727\n79,814,004\n86,751,361\n51,508,031\n44,977,082\n1928\n48,281,825\n51,174,859\n40,915,395\n-\n22,535,573\n19,700,235\n25,007,137\n33,895,930\n40,597,569\n43,666,452\n1937\t\n$48,017,920\n40,222,237\n45,133,788\n50,004,909\n52,354,870\n50,494,041\n37,234,070\n29,327,114\n34,154,917\n48,920,971\n81,033,093\n118,713,859\n99,426,078\n108,864,792\n$4,663,843\n4,943,754\n4,416,919\n6,334,611\n5,673,048\n5,294,637\n3,940,387\n2,877,706\n2,771,292\n2,904,130\n4,722,010\n18,585,183\n19,613,185\n22,113,431\n62,912,783\n1938\t\n53,877,333\n1939\t\n53,522,098\n1940\t\n62,848,642\n1941\t\n62,216,019\n1942\t\n55,359,479\n1943 :\t\n46,089,042\n1944\t\n39,315,910\n1945\t\n49,997,071\n1946\t\n56,519,691\n1947\t\n93,176,165\n1948\t\n125,979,961\n1949\t\n105,259,001\n1950\t\n121,635,457\n1 Does not include mercury nor tungsten ores.\n2 Data not collected before 1937.\n3 Previous to 1937 the shipper reported \"Net Value at Shipping Point,\" no indication being given as to how the net\nvalue was computed. From 1937 on the shipper has reported \" Gross Value.\" from which deduction of freight and\ntreatment gives \" Net Value.\"\n4 Gross value as represented by valuing gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc at yearly average prices. A 38\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTABLE XX.\u2014Average Number Employed in the Mining Industry\nof British Columbia, 1901-50\nYear\nLode-mining\nCoal-mining\n<\nStructural\nMaterials\nis\nh\nas\n1901..\n1902-\n1903-\n1904-\n1905-\n1900-\n1907-\n1908-\n1909-\n1910-\n1911-\n1912-\n1913-\n1914-\n1915-\n1916-\n1917..\n1918-\n1919-\n1920-\n1921-\n1922-\n1923-\n1924-\n1925-\n1926-\n1927-\n1928-\n1029-\n1930-\n1931-\n1932-\n1933-\n1934-\n1935-\n1936-\n1937-\n1938-\n1939-\n1940-\n1941-\n1942-\n1943-\n1944..\n1945-\n1946-\n1947-\n1948-\n1949-\n1950-\n299\n415\n355\n341\n425\n688\n874\n1,134\n1,122\n1,291\n1,124\n1,371\n1,303\n1,252\n1,004\n939\n489\n212\n255\n209\n347\n360\n348\n303\n327\n2,736\n2,219\n1,062\n2,143\n2,470\n2,680\n2,704\n2,567\n2,184\n2,472\n2,435\n2,472\n2,773\n2,741\n2,709\n3,357\n3,290\n2,026\n2,513\n2,074\n1,355\n1,510\n2,102\n2,353\n2,298\n2,606\n2,671\n2,707\n2,926\n2,316\n1,463\n1,355\n1,786\n2,796\n2,740\n2,959\n3,003\n3,849\n3,905\n3,923\n3,901\n2,920\n2,394\n1,896\n1,933\n1,918\n3,024\n3,143\n3,034\n3,399\n1,212\n1,126\n1,088\n1,163\n1,240\n1,303\n1,239\n1,127\n1,070\n1,237\n1,159\n1,364\n1,505\n1,433\n1,435\n2,036\n2,198\n1,764\n1,746\n1,605\n975\n1,239\n1,516\n1,680\n2,840\n1,735\n1,916\n2,469\n2,052\n1,260\n834\n900\n1,335\n1,729\n1,497\n1,840\n1,818\n2,266\n2,050\n2,104\n1,823\n1,504\n1,699\n1,825\n1,750\n1,817\n2,238\n2,429\n2,724\n2,415\n3,948\n3,345\n2,750\n3,306\n3,710\n3,983\n3,943\n3,694\n3,254\n3,709\n3,594\n3,837\n4,278\n4,174\n4,144\n5,393\n5,488\n4,390\n4,259\n3,679\n2,330\n2,749\n3,018\n4,033\n5,138\n4,341\n4,587\n5,176\n4,978\n3,576\n2,297\n2,255\n3,121\n4,525\n4,237\n4,799\n5,421\n6,115\n5,955\n0,027\n5,724\n4,424\n4,093\n3,721\n3,083\n3,735\n5,262\n5,572\n5,758\n5,814\n808\n854\n911\n966\n832\n581\n542\n531\n631\n907\n720\n1,168\n919\n996\n1,048\n1,025\n960\n801\n849\n822\n072\n960\n1,120\n1,203\n1,259\n2,461\n2,842\n2,748\n2,948\n3,197\n3,157\n2,036\n2,436\n2,890\n2,771\n2,678\n3,027\n3,158\n3,187\n2,944\n3,072\n3,555\n2,835\n2,981\n2,834\n2,813\n3,461\n3,884\n3,763\n3,759\n3,041\n931\n3,101\n910\n3,137\n1,127\n3,278\n1,175\n3,127\n1,280\n3,415\n1,300\n2,862\n907\n4,432\n1,641\n4,713\n1,705\n5,903\n1,855\n5,212\n1,061\n5,275\n1,855\n4,950\n1,721\n4,267\n1,465\n3,708\n1,283\n3,694\n1,366\n3,760\n1,410\n3,058\n1,709\n4,145\n1,821\n4,191\n2,158\n4,722\n2,163\n4,712\n1,932\n4,342\n1,807\n3,894\n1,524\n3,828\n1,615\n3,757\n1,565\n3,646\n1,579\n3,814\n1,520\n3,675\n1,353\n3,389\n1,256\n2,957\n1,125\n2,628\n980\n2,241\n853\n2,050\n843\n2,145\n826\n2,015\n799\n2,280\n867\n2,088\n874\n2,167\n809\n2,175\n699\n2,229\n494\n1,892\n468\n2,240\n011\n2,150\n689\n1,927\n503\n1,773\n532\n1,694\n731\n1,594\n872\n1,761\n545\n1,745\n516\n3,974\n4,011\n4,264\n4,453\n4,407\n4,805\n3,769\n6,073\n6,418\n7,758\n6,873\n7,130\n6,671\n5,732\n4,991\n5,060\n5,170\n5,247\n5,966\n6,349\n6,885\n0,044\n6,149\n5,418\n5,443\n5,322\n5,225\n5,334\n5,028\n4,645\n4,082\n3,608\n3,094\n2,893\n2,971\n2,814\n3,153\n2,962\n2,976\n2,874\n2,723\n2,360\n2,851\n2,839\n2,430\n2,305\n2,425\n2,466\n2,306\n2,261\n493\n647\n412\n492\n843\n460\n536\n376\n377\n536\n931\n724\n900\n652\n827\n766\n842\n673\n690\n921\n827\n977\n1,591\n2,120\n1,916\n324\n138\n308\n544\n344\n526\n329\n269\n187\n270\n288\n327\n295\n311\n334\n413\n378\n326\n351\n335\n555\n585\n656\n542\n616\n124\n122\n120\n268\n170\n380\n344\n408\n360\n754\n825\n938\n369\n561\n647\n422\n262\n567\n628\n586\n679\n869\n754\n626\n660\n7,922\n7,356\n7,014\n7,759\n8,117\n8,788\n7,712\n9,767\n9,672\n11,467\n10,467\n10,967\n10,949\n9,906\n9,135\n10,453\n10,658\n9,637\n10,225\n10,028\n9,215\n9,393\n9,707\n9,451\n10,581\n14,172\n14,830\n15,424\n15,565\n14,032\n12,171\n10,524\n11,369\n12,985\n13,737\n14,179\n16,129\n16,021\n15,890\n15,705\n15,084\n13,270\n12,448\n12,314\n11,820\n11,933\n14,899\n10,397\n16,621\n16,612\n1 The average number employed in the industry is the sum of the averages for individual companies. The average\nfor each company is obtained by taking the sum of the numbers employed each month and dividing by 12, regardless\nof the number of months worked. STATISTICS\nA 39\nU U U,\nu u u\n , . . 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Ltd.)..\nUtica (Utica Mines (1937) Ltd.) \t\nWhitewater (Retallack Mines Ltd.)\t\nYale Lead and Zinc Mines Ltd\t\nPolaris-Taku Mining Co. Ltd.\nCariboo Gold Quartz Mining Co. Ltd.._\nIsland Mountain Mines Co. Ltd..\nSullivan (Cons. M. & S. Co. of Canada, Ltd.) -\t\nMonarch and Kicking Horse (Base Metals Mining Corp.\nLtd.)\nParadise (Sheep Creek Gold Mines Ltd.)..\nHighland Bell Ltd _ -\nBralorne Mines Ltd \t\nPioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Ltd.-\t\nVananda Mines (1948) Ltd..\nH.B. (Cons. M. & S. Mining Co. of Canada, Ltd.)..\nJersey Lead-Zinc (Canadian Exploration Co.)\t\nKenville and Arlington Mines.\nQueen (Sheep Creek Gold Mines Ltd.)..\nReeves MacDonald Mines Ltd\t\nSilver Standard Mines Ltd..\nNickel Plate (Kelowna Exploration Co. Ltd.)...\nFairview (Cons. M. & S. Co. of Canada, Ltd.)..\nSilbak Premier Mines Ltd\t\nTorbrit Silver Mines Ltd\t\nStannite Mines Ltd...\nCopper Mountain (Granby Cons. M.S. & P. Co. Ltd.)..\nBosun (Santiago Mines Ltd.)-\nLucky Jim (Sheep Creek Gold Mines Ltd.)..\nViolamac Mines (B.C.) Ltd...\nWestern Exploration Co. Ltd. (Enterprise,\nStandard)..\nMammoth,\nBritannia Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd..\nNon-shipping Mines\nBluebell (Cons M. & S. Co. of Canada, Ltd.) \t\nBig Bull (Cons. M. & S. Co. of Canada, Ltd.)- \t\nTulsequah Chief (Cons. M. & S. Co. of Canada, Ltd.)\nEstella Mines Ltd \t\nGiant (Silver Giant Mines Ltd.) _\nMastodon (Dr. D. F. Kidd) \t\nCarnation (Kelowna Exploration Co. Ltd.)\t\nB.R.X. (1935) Cons. Mines Ltd\t\n286\n365\n280\n311\n278\n365\n365\n281\n248\n272\n252\n274\n365\n365\n243\n365\n322\n305\n365\n336\n279\n365\n305\n365\n300\n352\n290\n305\n336\n352\n279\n]\n295\n311\n365\n365\n323\n248\n220\n254\n90\n365\n365\n262\n107\n365\n336\n364\n305\n365\n352\n305\n352\n262\n3,776\n220\n20\n8,383\n10,300\n2,877\n15,846\n19,570\n366\n,799,852\n382\n3,044\n13,339\n60,110\n95,667\n60,689\n40,580\n2,680,962\n45,330\n12,002\n4,107\n185,074\n73,551\n128,485\n3,205 =\n15,021\n213,376\n21,104\n123,689\n79,167\n130,290\n1,749,964\n230\n96,640\n671\n12,222\n858,698\n22\n28\n19\n21\n31\n134\n171\n111\n1,595\n80\n20\n51\n467\n234\n28\n35-\n169\n182\n40\n108\n73\n142\n14\n157\n137\n15\n664\n10\n79\n42\n55\n616\n65\n43\n17\n24\n13\n22\n11\n29\n15\n15\n11\n496\n12\n12\n26\n14\n22\n52\n3\n12\n13\n70\n11\n29\n248\n10\n19\n202\n(a)\n1 The average number employed includes wage-earners and salaried employees. The average is obtained by adding\nthe monthly figures and dividing by 12, irrespective of the number of months worked.\n2 Estimated.\n3 Number not reported, work principally construction. Departmental Work\nADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH\nThe administrative branch is responsible for the administration of the Provincial\nmining laws regarding the acquisition of mineral rights, and deals with other departments\nof the Provincial service for the Department or for any branch.\nGold Commissioners, Mining Recorders, and Sub-Mining Recorders, whose duties\nare laid down in the \" Mineral Act \" and the \" Placer-mining Act,\" administer these Acts\nand other Acts relating to mining. Mining Recorders, in addition to their own functions,\nmay also exercise the powers conferred upon Gold Commissioners with regard to mineral\nclaims within the mining division for which they have been appointed. Similar duties\nmay be performed by Mining Recorders with regard to placer claims but not in respect\nof placer-mining leases. Recording of location and of work upon mineral claims, placer\nclaims, and placer-mining leases as required by the various Acts must be made at the\noffice of the Mining Recorder for the proper mining division. Information concerning\nclaims and leases and concerning the ownership and standing of claims and leases in any\ndivision may be obtained from the Mining Recorder for the mining division in which the\nproperty is situated. Sub-Mining Recorders, who act as forwarding agents, are appointed\nat various places throughout the Province. They are authorized to accept documents\nand fees, and forward them to the office of the Mining Recorder for the correct mining\ndivision. Officials and their offices in various parts of the Province are listed in the\ntable on pages 44 and 45.\nCentral Records Offices (Victoria and Vancouver)\nThe transcripts of all recordings made in Mining Recorders' offices throughout the\nProvince are sent to the office of the Chief Gold Commissioner in Victoria twice each\nmonth, and include the names of lessees of reverted Crown-granted mineral claims.\nThese records and maps showing the approximate positions of mineral claims held by\nrecord and of placer-mining leases may be consulted by the public during office hours at\nVictoria and at the office of the Gold Commissioner at Vancouver, 810 Hastings Street\nWest. The maps conform in geographical detail, size, and number to the reference and\nmineral reference maps issued by the Department of Lands, and the approximate positions\nof mineral claims held by record and of placer-mining leases are plotted from details\nsupplied by the locators. Provision has been made to supply the general public, on\nrequest to the office of the Chief Gold Commissioner, with copies of the maps.\nCopies of the various Acts, upon payment of the prices listed on page 314, can be\nobtained from the office of the Chief Gold Commissioner; the King's Printer, Victoria;\n810 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; or from the offices of the Gold Commissioners\nthroughout the Province.\nAmalgamation of Mining Divisions\n(Particulars of Mining Divisions amalgamated since 1942.)\nDate\nMining Divisions Amalgamated\nNew Name\nMining\nRecorder's\nOffice\nOct. 1, 1949\nDec. 1, 1949\nApr. 1, 1951\nRevelstoke and Lardeau\t\nKamloops and Ashcroft\t\nSkeena and Portland Canal.\nRevelstoke .\nKamloops..\nSkeena\t\nRevelstoke.\nKamloops.\nPrince Rupert.\n43 A 44\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nPurchasing of Gold\nLate in 1935 the Department of Finance, co-operating with the Department of\nMines, undertook to purchase placer gold, in quantities of not less than 3 pennyweight\nand not more than 2 ounces in weight, from individual placer-miners. The Gold Commissioners throughout the Province are paying a cash price of $31 per ounce for clean\nplacer gold and are purchasing dirty placer gold and amalgam on a deferred-payment\nbasis. Purchases made under this arrangement are as follows:\u2014\nYear\nNumber of Lots\nPaid\nPaid per Oz.\n1939\t\n1940 - \t\n2,322\n1,336\n631\n229\n93\n59\n63\n115\n107\n100\n69\n64\n$60,000\n31,600\n16,825\n8,068\n2,705\n1,196\n1,604\n3,911\n3,502\n3,224\n2,072\n2,095\n$29.00\n29.00\n1941 \t\n29.00\n1942 -\t\n29.00\n1943 \t\n29.00\n1944 \t\n29.00\n1945 \t\n29.00\n1946 -\u2014 -\t\n28.001\n1947 -\t\n1948 - \u2014 --\n1949 \u201e . - \u2014 -\t\n1950 - ----- \t\n28.00\n28.00\n31.002\n31.00 '\nTotals \t\n5,188\n$136,802\n1 Price paid by Gold Commissioners following the reduction of the official Canadian price for fine gold.\n2 Price paid, effective October 1st, 1949, following the devaluation of the Canadian dollar. For the earlier\npurchases made in 1949, the price paid for gold was $28 per ounce.\nThis purchasing scheme was established during the depression years to give the\nindividual miner the best possible price for his gold, and this was realized in that the total\nprice paid has been almost exactly the same as the receipts from the Royal Canadian Mint.\nList of Gold Commissioners, Mining Recorders, and Sub-Mining Recorders\nin the Province\nMining Division\nLocation of Office\nGold Commissioner\nMining Recorder\nSub-Recorder\nAinsworth-\t\nB. F. Palmer.\nPoplar.\t\nA. Robb.\nT. W. Harding\t\nT. W. Harding\t\nR. MacGregor.\nW. H. Cochrane.\nR. R. Barr.\nH. M B Sutton\nAtlin\t\nA. E. Roddis\t\nA. E. Roddis.\nJ. W. Stewart.\nPouce Coupe \t\nH. O Callahan\nTelegraph Creek\t\nMrs. M. C. Allen\nT. G. Emery.\nBarkerville \t\nFort McLeod..\t\nW. L. Draper\t\nW. L. Draper.\nJ. E. Mclntyre.\nT. R Maxwell\nPrince George\t\nG. H. Hallett.\nS. Allen.\nW. H. Cope _ _\nW. H. Cope.\nHaylmore\t\nW. Haylmore.\nCranbrook\t\nFernie\t\nE. L. Hedley\t\nE. L. Hedley.\nF. E. P. Hughes.\nS. M. Carting..\t\nS. M. Carting.\nInvermere \t\nGrand Forks \t\nT N Weir\nW. E. McLean\t\nW. E. McLean.\nMiss E. R. Wilkinson\nL. F. Crump.\nS. W. Dobbie\nGreenwood. \t\nKamloops \t\nD. Dalgleish \t\nD. Dalgleish\t\nR. A. McDonnell.\nD. H Bruce\nChu Chua _ _ _ .\nSub-office Salmon Arm _ \t\n \t\nW. T. McGruder. DEPARTMENTAL WORK\nA 45\nList of Gold Commissioners, Mining Recorders, and Sub-Mining Recorders\nin the Province\u2014Continued\nMining Division\nLocation of Office\nGold Commissioner\nMining Recorder\nSub-Recorder\nLillooet _ 1\t\nG. H. Beley\t\nG. H. Beley \t\nNanaimo _\t\nNanaimo...\t\nW. H. Cochrane\nW. H. Cochrane.\nR. MacGregor.\nG. W. McFarland.\nQuatsino \t\nJ. B. Willcock.\nHenry Carter.\nNelson \t\nS. Hamilton \t\nS. Hamilton -\u201e\t\nMiss W. M. Pale-\nthorpe.\nB. J. H. Ryley.\nNew Westminster\t\nJ. F. McDonald \t\nG. C. Kimberley.\nE. L. Anderson.\nSub-office\nHope\nD. Dalgleish (Kamloops)\nK. D. McRae \t\nT. G. O'Neill.\nK. D. McRae.\nOmineca \t\nSmithers ,\t\nL. G. Skinner.\nW. E. Horwill.\nFort St. James \t\nFort St. John\t\nMiss E. M. Stacey.\nC. H. Drake.\nT. C. Hamilton.\nG. H. Hallett.\nT. J. Thorp.\nVanderhoof \t\nTerrace _\t\nT. S. Dalby\t\nT. S. Dalby.\nHedley\nK. B.Blakey.\nH. O. Callahan.\nG. H. Hallett.\nQuesnel \t\nWilliams Lake\t\nMiss J. Foster\t\nMiss J. Foster.\nKeith ley Creek\t\nLikely\t\nL. R. Speed.\nS. Allen.\nRevelstoke ,\t\nW. G. Fleming\t\nW. G. Fleming.\nSimilkameen .,\nPrinceton -\t\nHedley\nChas. Nichols\t\nChas. Nichols.\nG. Forbes\t\nG. Forbes.\nW. S. Orr.\nTerrace ,\nNew Denver\t\nC. Macdonald (Kaslo).\nSlocan \t\nF. Broughton. ....\nMiss M. Butlin.\nW. E. Graham.\nVictoria \t\nK. B.Blakey.\nMrs. M. C. Allen.\nFort St. John -\t\nJ. W. Stewart.\nPouce Coupe\t\nRossland\t\nVancouver.\t\nAlert Bay \t\nH. O. Callahan.\nTrail Creek . .\nE. B. Offin-\t\nJ. Egdell\t\nE. B. Offin.\nMrs. D. White\n(Deputy)\nMiss F. Schachter.\nA. J. Dillabough.\nJ. P. Scarlett.\nJ. B. Willcock.\nVernon \t\nA. E.Wilson\t\nA. E. Wilson.\nK. B. Blakey\t\nR. H. McCrimmon\n(Deputy)\nMiss D. T. Arnott. A 46\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\no\nOS\n<\nH\nw\nCJ\nE\n&\nC\nw\nQ\ns\no\no\nw\no\nz\np\nz\n<\n\"in\nw\nz\no\no\nU\nQ\nO\no\no o\na\nCi\n^\nm\no\n\u00a9\nir\nr~\nm\nw\nc~\n\u00a9\n\u00a9\noo cn\nv-) CN \u00bbH\n\u2022^\nVO OO\nu\ntft\nhhOMhttSomtoifiifiinric\nomninOOifnoinHinn\nrf Th\nc\nsjd!303\"a \u00a7UIUTJ^\no\na\\VO'*Ow*hNOTrtMirl(NhVOa\n>\nCNCNOvrHtNr-tNOsr-O-HOOOOOV\nonomhh'^cn^tono\ncn oo\n\u00ab\n^\u25a0mvDO-'t\u00abiN\\DTtrHvonHin\nvo oo\n6ft CN rH\ncn cn\n(A\nin\u00abnOOOOiriOOOinu->own\u00a9tn\nWi \u00a9\nr^r-oommcNOv-iOr-cNOr-or\nom\u00a9cNt--nor-\ncn cn\ntSJ3UIp\\I 392-1\nO ^D \"-\"\u201e >o >-i r- *C m ^ M^ \u25a0* m ^ ^ ^ t-\ntNyD^yDOv^^-J^l-^O^OOOCTv\nrH OO\nCN CS th\n\u00ab\u25a0\nV*\n*DJ3\n! 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A laboratory examination\nof a prospector's sample generally consists of the following: (1) A mineralogical\ndetermination of visible minerals and a classification of the type of rock; (2) a spectro-\ngraphic analysis to determine if any base metals are present in interesting percentages;\n(3) assays for precious metals, and for base metals shown by the spectrographic analysis\nto be present in interesting percentages; (4) test for radioactivity. The laboratory\nreports were distributed in the following manner amongst bona-fide prospectors, bona-\nfide prospectors who were grantees under the \" Prospectors' Grub-stake Act,\" and\nDepartmental engineers :<\u2014\nSamples\nand\nSpecimens\nMineralogical\nDeterminations\nSpectrographic\nAnalyses\nAssays\nRadio-\nassays\nReported\nBona-fide prospectors \t\nBona-fide prospectors (grantees)..\nDepartmental engineers\t\nTotals \t\n902\n226\n799\n1,927\n854\n226\n23\n1,103\n827\n211\n276\n1,486\n474\n2,022\n135\n29\n34\n1,314\n3,982\n198\nProximate analyses and calorific determinations were made on five coal samples\nfor the Department of Mines.\nWork for other Departments included the analysis of nineteen samples of agricultural material for the Department of Agriculture, four samples of anti-freeze for the\nPurchasing Commission, seven samples of water for the University of British Columbia,\nthree samples of type metal for the King's Printer, two samples for the Department\nof Lands and Forests, and one each for the Department of Trade and Industry and\nthe British Columbia Research Council.\nFor the Attorney-General's Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,\nseventy cases of a chemico-legal nature were undertaken, involving the study of 252\nexhibits. These cases included seventeen cases of a toxicological nature, five analyses\nof blood for alcohol, seven analyses of liquors, four analyses of suspected narcotics,\nand three analyses of gasoline seized under the \" Coloured Gasoline Tax Act.\" The\nremaining cases were of a widely varied nature. One case involved the identification\nof footprints with respect to shoes worn by the accused in a breaking and entering\ncase. Comparison of the prints showed that they could have been made only by\nthe shoes in question.\nIn co-operation with the Department of Mining and Metallurgy, University of\nBritish Columbia, the investigation of possible sources of the metals gallium and\ngermanium, commenced in 1948, was continued. This involved the analysis of four\nsamples of tars and residues for these metals.\nAt the request of the British Columbia Research Council and in connection with\nan investigation concerning possible deficiencies of certain trace elements in some\nspecimens of sugar-cane, work was continued on the analysis of a series of sugar-cane\njuices for these trace elements.\nThe policy adopted in 1948 of examining all samples for the possible presence of\nradioactivity was continued throughout 1950. Radioassays were made on 770 samples.\nA total of 64 lots of placer gold, amounting to 67.5864 ounces and representing\npurchases from individual placer-miners, was received from Gold Commissioners.\nProvincial Government examinations for certificates of competency and licence\nto practise assaying in British Columbia were held in Trail, Chapman Camp, and\nVictoria in May. Of the five candidates who sat for the examination, one passed the A 48 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nentire examination, three passed supplemental in wet assaying, and one failed supplemental in wet assaying.\nINSPECTION BRANCH\nOrganization and Staff\nInspectors and Resident Engineers\nH. C. Hughes, Chief Inspector Victoria.\nRobert B. Bonar, Senior. Inspector of Coal Mines Victoria.\nL. Wardman, Electrical Inspector Victoria.\nJ. A. Mitchell, Resident Engineer Victoria.\nJ. H. Bennett, Resident Engineer Victoria.\nRobert B. King, Inspector and Resident Engineer Vancouver.\nA. R. C. James, Inspector and Resident Engineer Cumberland.\nJ. E. Merrett, Inspector and Resident Engineer Lillooet.\nE. R. Hughes, Inspector and Resident Engineer Princeton.\nJ. W. Peck, Inspector and Resident Engineer Nelson.\nF. J. Hemsworth, Inspector and Resident Engineer Prince Rupert.\nD. R. Morgan, Inspector and Resident Engineer Fernie.\nOn January 31st, 1950, James Strang, Chief Inspector of Mines, retired and was\nsucceeded by H. C. Hughes. At the same time Robert B. Bonar became Senior\nInspector of Coal Mines.\nEffective April 15th, 1950, A. R. C. James became Inspector and Resident Engineer\nfor the Vancouver Island and Northern Interior coal areas, with headquarters at Cumberland.\nThe Inspectors are stationed at the places listed and inspect coal mines, metalliferous\nmines, and quarries in their respective districts. They also examine prospects and mining\nproperties.\nBoard of Examiners for Coal-mine Officials\nH. C. Hughes, Chairman Victoria.\nRobert B. Bonar, Secretary Victoria.\nE. R. Hughes, Member Princeton.\nR. B. Bonar, E. R. Hughes, and the Inspector of Mines for the district in which an\nexamination is being held form the Board for granting certificates of competency to coal-\nminers.\nAn Inspector of Mines is empowered to grant provisional certificates to coal-miners\nfor a period not exceeding sixty days between regular examinations.\nInstructors, Mine-rescue Stations\nRichard Nichol* Nanaimo Station.\nPeter Kemp Nanaimo Station.\nArthur Williams Cumberland Station.\nThomas H. Cunliffe Princeton Station.\nJoseph J. Haile Fernie Station.\nH. W. Aitchison , Nelson Station.\n* Died August 19th, 1950.\nStaff Changes\nOn August 20th, 1950, Peter Kemp was appointed instructor at the Nanaimo Mine-\nrescue Station, on a temporary basis to replace Richard Nichol.\nOn August 1st, 1950, H. W. Aitchison was appointed mine-rescue and first-aid\ninstructor in charge of a mobile mine-rescue and first-aid unit, with headquarters at Nelson. departmental work a 49\nJames Strang\nJames Strang, Chief Inspector of Mines and Chairman of the Board of Examiners\nfor Coal-mine Officials, retired at Victoria on January 31st, 1950.\nHe was born at Penecuik, Scotland, on January 27th, 1885, and was educated at\npublic and private schools, graduating from Heriot Watt Technical College, Edinburgh.\nHe had a first-class coal-miner's certificate from Great Britain and was assistant manager\nof the Preston Grange Colliery at Midlothian. He came to Canada in 1910 and was\nemployed as surveyor, overman, and manager of the Extension mines at Nanaimo, holding the latter position for eight years. He joined the staff of the British Columbia Department of Mines on December 15th, 1926, as Inspector of Mines and Secretary of the\nBoard of Examiners for Coal-mine Officials. He took over the position of Chief Inspector\non April 30th, 1947, and also became Chairman of the Board of Examiners.\nHe was a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and served as\na member of the Ryan Safety Trophy Committee for British Columbia.\nHe took a keen interest in his work and was outstanding in his ability to appreciate\nthe miners' and operators' problems and to work with them. The same attitude was maintained toward his staff and associates in the Mines Department. He took a great interest\nin mine-rescue and first-aid work and, during his tenure as Chief Inspector, was responsible for promoting mine-rescue training in metal mines to the extent that, before he\nretired, nearly every metalliferous mining area had a nucleus of men trained in mine-\nrescue. He gained a host of friends in both the industry and in the Department, who wish\nhim and Mrs. Strang many years of continued health and happiness.\nJohn MacDonald\nJohn MacDonald was born in Cowdenbeath, Scotland, on December 28th, 1884.\nHe commenced work in the mine when he was 11 years of age, working his way up\nthrough the various underground jobs until, at the age of 16, he was coal-getting at the\nface.\nIn 1902, at the age of 18, he went to the United States, where for three years he\nworked in the mines of southern Illinois. He then returned to Scotland and was engaged\nas a general underground contractor at Kelty Colliery near Cowdenbeath for the next\nfour years.\nHe came to British Columbia in October, 1910, and settled at Merritt. He obtained\nwork at the Middlesboro Collieries of the Nicola Valley Coal and Coke Company, and\nremained at this group of mines for ten years, being promoted successively to fireboss,\nshiftboss, and overman. During this period he undertook a long course of studies in\nmining engineering through the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pa.,\nand qualified for a first-class certificate of competency in October, 1919.\nIn July, 1920, he joined the staff of the Department of Mines and was appointed\nInspector of Mines for the East Kootenay District, with headquarters at Fernie, where he\nremained until 1937. At the end of that year he was transferred to the Vancouver Island\nDistrict and was stationed at Nanaimo. He remained there until his retirement on\nDecember 31st, 1949. He was a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and was president of the East Kootenay Mine Safety Association while in Fernie\nand the Vancouver Island Mine Safety Association while in Nanaimo. His enthusiasm\nfor his work and his long and varied experience in the coal-mining industry made him\na valued member of the Mines Department staff, and he gained a host of friends and well-\nwishers, both in industry and in the Department.\nRichard Nichol\nRichard Nichol, mine-rescue instructor at Nanaimo, died of a heart attack while on\nholidays on August 19th, 1950. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1888. After A 50 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nworking for some years in the coal mines of his home district, he came to the United\nStates and worked for a few months in the mines at Des Moines, Iowa. He came to\nNanaimo in 1910, and for the next twenty-five years he worked as a miner in the Nanaimo\nmines of the Western Fuel Company and its successor, Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir)\nLimited.\nHe undertook a course in mine-rescue work, obtaining his certificate in 1918, and\nwas a regular member of mine-rescue teams for many years. In June, 1935, he joined\nthe staff of the Department of Mines as instructor at the Nanaimo Rescue Station, a position which he held up to the time of his death. During this period Mr. Nichol assisted in\nthe direction of rescue and recovery work following the explosions at No. 10 mine, South\nWellington, in 1940, and at the Pacific Eastern mine in the Bridge River district in 1947.\nIn the past few years he rendered valuable service by instructing metal-mine personnel in many parts of the Province in mine-rescue work and in the use of the Chemox\napparatus. He took a great interest in this work and was outstanding in his knowledge of\nmine-rescue equipment and procedure. Teams trained under him at Nanaimo attained\na degree of proficiency equal to the best. He also undertook the training of metal-mine\nteams in other areas in the Province. During his residence in Nanaimo Mr. Nichol took\npart in many civic activities. He was for some years a member of the Harewood Volunteer Fire Brigade, and during World War II took a prominent part in A.R.P. work. His\ngenial personality and ability gained him the friendship and respect of all those with whom\nhe was associated, both in industry and in the Department.\nMINERALOGICAL BRANCH\nField work by officers of the Mineralogical Branch consists principally of geological\nmapping and examination of mineral deposits. The results are published partly in\nthe Annual Report of the Minister of Mines and partly in a series of bulletins. The\nMineralogical Branch supplies information regarding mineral deposits and the mineral\nindustry in response to inquiries received in great number. The activities of the\nBranch also include identification of rock and mineral specimens submitted by prospectors and others, and the examination of all samples submitted by prospectors to\nthe Analytical Branch.\nStaff\nEngineers on the permanent staff of the Mineralogical Branch are now classified\nas Assistant Geologists, Associate Geologists, Geologists, or as Mineral Engineers\u2014\nGrade 1 or Grade 2.\nJ. T. Fyles, M. C. Robinson, and G. G. L. Henderson were appointed to the staff.\nThey and W. R. Bacon were granted leave of absence to continue postgraduate studies\nduring the winter of 1950-51. John S. Stevenson left the staff to become associate\nprofessor of mineralogy in the Department of Geology at McGill University. W. H.\nMathews, of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley;\nW. H. White, of the Department of Geology, University of British Columbia; and\nH. W. Nasmith undertook field work for the Department of Mines in 1950.\nP. B. Freeland\nPhilip Broke Freeland was born in Charlottetown, P.E.I., on November 30th, 1878.\nAs a child he went to England with his parents and was educated there. On graduating\nfrom the Cambourne School of Mines, Cornwall, in 1901, he went to Arizona and\nspent four years there working as assayer at the Sultan mine, Grey Eagle mine, and\nRapid Transit mine.\nHe first came to British Columbia in 1906 and worked for a year as sampler at\nthe Hall mine smelter at Nelson. DEPARTMENTAL WORK A 51\nFrom 1907 to 1910 he worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway as transitman,\nin 1911 as locating engineer on Sooke Water Supply, in 1912 as mining engineer for\nCartwright and Matheson on a reconnaissance survey from Bella Coola to Fort George,\nand in 1912 and 1913 as engineer in charge of Kallapa mine, V.I. In 1913 he was\nengineer in charge of construction at the Scott Goldie quarry, Burrard Inlet.\nFrom 1914 to 1917 he was employed by the Granby Company at Phoenix as\nmining engineer and surveyor.\nIn May, 1917, he joined the staff of the Department of Mines as one of the\noriginal group of Resident Engineers. From 1917 to 1935 he was Resident Mining\nEngineer for the Southern Mineral Survey District, No. 4. The headquarters for the\ndistrict were at Grand Forks until 1931, when they were moved to Penticton. In 1932\nMr. Freeland became Resident Mining Engineer for the Central Mineral Survey District,\nNo. 3, also; the headquarters for the combined districts were at Penticton.\nIn 1935 he moved to Victoria as consultant to the Department of Mines and\nwas appointed- Chief Mining Engineer in 1937.\nHe retired from the staff of the Department of Mines as Chief Mining Engineer\non March 30th, 1943.\nHe joined the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1918 and served\nas councillor from 1946 to 1948.\nHe was one of the original members of the Association of Professional Engineers,\nand served as member of Council from 1938 to 1940, and in 1943; as vice-president\nin 1941; and as president of the association in 1942.\nHis death occurred at 1050 St. Patrick Street, Victoria, on Monday, December\n19th, 1949, aged 71.\nHe is survived by his wife in Victoria and a sister and two brothers in England.\nWilliam J. Lynott\nWilliam J. Lynott was born in Vancouver on December 12th, 1913. He was educated in Brockville, Ont., and in Vancouver, graduating from the University of British\nColumbia in 1941 with the degree of B.A.Sc. in geological engineering. He spent four\nyears in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an aeronautical engineer. In July, 1945, he\njoined the staff of the Department of Mines and for the winters 1946-47 and 1947-48\nwas granted leave of absence to complete postgraduate work at Princeton University for\nhis M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. In September, 1948, he joined the faculty of St. Louis\nUniversity, St. Louis, Mo., as an instructor in geology and remained there until his death\non November 16th, 1949.\nField Work\nField work was undertaken by eleven engineers assisted by eleven temporary\nassistants.\nW. R. Bacon began geological mapping in an area tributary to Pender Harbour and\nSeechelt Inlet, on the Mainland coast.\nJ. M. Black mapped an area near Hazelton, including Glen and Nine Mile Mountains. He also completed field work at Atlin in an area that includes McKee, Spruce,\nand Pine Creeks.\nJ. T. Fyles continued geological mapping in the Cowichan Lake area.\nM. S. Hedley completed field work for the detailed geological mapping of an area in\nthe Slocan Mining Division extending from Sandon southwesterly toward Silverton. He\nalso examined properties in the East Kootenay District.\nG. G. L. Henderson began geological mapping of an area near Windermere. The\narea includes Windermere Creek and extends southeasterly to the Kootenay River.\nS. S. Holland continued detailed geological mapping in an area southeast of Barker-\nville, working between Cariboo Hudson mine and Yanks Peak. A 52\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nJ. W. McCammon made detailed examinations of a mica deposit near Armstrong,\nan asbestos deposit near Sidmouth, of part of the gypsum belt near Windermere, and of\nthe clay deposit at Blue Mountain northeast of Whonnock. He also made briefer examinations of other deposits of industrial minerals.\nM. C. Robinson continued detailed geological mapping in the Standard mine area\nnear Silverton. This area adjoins the one mapped by Hedley.\nJ. S. Stevenson made a detailed examination of the Sunloch and Gabbro copper\nproperties at Jordan River on Vancouver Island and made preliminary studies in the\nBoundary area.\nW. H. Mathews devoted August and part of September to field studies in an area\nthat includes Fort St. John in the Peace River District. This work, designed to obtain\ninformation on ground-water possibilities and to assist in soil classification, was undertaken primarily to assist the Department of Agriculture.\nH. W. Nasmith, in collaboration with P. G. Odynsky, of the Water Rights Branch of\nthe Department of Lands, made studies bearing on ground-water in the area near the\nconfluence of Haslam Creek and Nanaimo River.\nW. H. White did field work for the Department of Mines in June and July. He\nstudied the metal content of twigs from trees growing over and near areas of copper\nmineralization at Phoenix and Highland Valley, and of silver-lead-zinc mineralization\non La Forme Creek north of Revelstoke, and examined the Mastodon silver-lead-zinc\nproperty on La Forme Creek.\nGRUB-STAKING PROSPECTORS\nGrub-staking of prospectors by the Department of Mines continued in 1950. As in\nprevious years, a maximum grub-stake of $300 per man was provided, plus an additional\namount of up to $200 if travelling expenses were paid.\nStatistics\nField Season\nApproximate\nExpenditure\nMen\nGrub-staked\nSamples and\nSpecimens\nReceived at\nDepartment\nLaboratory\nMineral\nClaims\nRecorded\n1943. . \t\n1944 ~ \t\n1945 \t\n$18,500\n27,215\n27,310\n35,200\n36,230\n35,975\n31,175\n26,800\n90\n105\n84\n95\n91\n92\n98\n78\n773\n606\n448\n419\n469\n443\n567\n226\n87\n135\n181\n1946 \t\n1947 \t\n1948 \t\n1949 \t\n1950 \t\n162\n142\n138\n103\n95\nSamples and specimens sent in by grub-staked prospectors are examined by an\nengineer before spectrographic analysis and assay. The information given a prospector\nabout a sample includes its mineralogy and the analysis by spectrograph, as well as the\nassay. Also, all samples are tested for radioactivity.\nOn two properties, grub-staked prospectors reported they were able to secure capital\nfor development work in 1951. Several other properties were examined by representatives of mining companies, and a large amount of exploratory work may be done on one\nof the properties.\nThe grub-stake programme was supervised by J. A. Mitchell and J. H. Bennett,\nassisted by D. H. Rae during the summer. DEPARTMENTAL WORK A 53\nMUSEUMS\nThe Department has a large exhibit of ores and minerals in the museum on Superior\nStreet, Victoria; smaller collections are displayed in the joint office in Vancouver and\nin the offices of the Inspectors of Mines in Nelson and Prince Rupert.\nInformation regarding collections of specimens of rocks and minerals available to\nprospectors and schools in British Columbia will be found on page 302.\nPUBLICATIONS\nAnnual Reports of the Minister of Mines, bulletins, and other publications of the\nDepartment, with prices charged for them, are listed on pages 299 to 301.\nPublications may be obtained from the offices of the Department in Victoria and\nelsewhere in the Province. They are also available for reference use in the Department's\nlibrary (Mineralogical Branch) at Victoria, in the joint office in Vancouver, and in the\noffices of the Inspectors of Mines in Nelson and Prince Rupert, as well as in public\nlibraries listed on page 302.\nMAPS SHOWING MINERAL CLAIMS, PLACER CLAIMS, AND\nPLACER-MINING LEASES\nFrom the details supplied by the locators, the approximate positions of mineral claims\nheld by record and of placer-mining leases are shown on maps that may be inspected in\nthe Central Records Offices of the Department of Mines in Victoria and in Vancouver.*\nCopies of these maps may be obtained on request, as outlined on page 301. The boundaries of surveyed claims and leases are shown on the reference maps and other maps of\nthe British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests.\nJOINT OFFICES OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND\nTHE DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND TECHNICAL SURVEYS, CANADA\nThe Provincial Department's engineer, the Gold Commissioner and Mining Recorder\nfor the Vancouver Mining Division, and the officers of the Dominion Geological Survey\nnow occupy one suite of offices.* All official information relating to mining is now\navailable to the public in the one suite of offices in Vancouver.\nThe services offered to the public include technical information on mining, the\nidentification of mineral specimens, distribution of Dominion and Provincial mining publications, a reference library, a display of rocks and minerals, and a central records office.\n* The office was moved in the summer of 1950 from 305 Federal Building to 808-810 Hastings Street West. Topographic Maps and Air Photographs\nTopographic mapping and air photography are carried on by the Surveys and Mapping Service of the British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests and by services\nof the Dominion Government Departments of Mines and Technical Surveys and of\nNational Defence.\nAircraft in the service of the Dominion and Provincial Governments have flown\nover virtually the whole of British Columbia to obtain vertical air photographs. Information on the type of air photographic coverage and on topographic mapping of various\ntypes to the end of 1950 is included in the Annual Report of the Deputy Minister of\nLands for 1950. In that Report coverage by air photographs and by topographic maps\nis indicated on a series of base maps which also show the reference grid and the lettering\nand numbering system by means of which reference to any part of the Province may\nbe made.\nIn 1950 the Topographic Division of the British Columbia Department of Lands and\nForests had five survey parties in the field, obtaining control for standard topographic\nmaps at 1 mile to the inch with 100-foot contours. They obtained control for fifteen map-\nsheets having an area of 4,813 square miles. A sixth party obtained additional control\non three sheets on Vancouver Island.\nIn 1950 the Dominion Topographic Survey and the Army Survey Establishment,\nworking in conjunction, had fourteen parties in the field. Field work was completed on\nfourteen 1-mile sheets covering an area of about 4,000 square miles and on fifteen 4-mile\nsheets having an area of about 50,000 square miles.\nInterim maps showing planimetry, based on air photographs and existing ground\ncontrol, are being compiled by the map compilation division of the Air Survey Division\nof the Surveys and Mapping Service of the British Columbia Department of Lands and\nForests. These maps record much topographic information and show the centres of\nvertical air photographs in the area covered. They are a very valuable source of topographic information in advance of the more detailed standard topographic maps.\nComplete information about topographic maps, interim maps, and air photographs\nfor British Columbia made by the Dominion or Provincial service may be obtained from\nthe Topographic Division and the Geographic Division of the Department of Lands and\nForests. Air photographs may be bought or, under some circumstances, may be borrowed\nfrom the Air-photo Library of that Department.\n55 Department of Mines and Technical Surveys\nThe Dominion Government Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, created by\nan Act of Parliament introduced in November, 1949, took over most of the branches and\nfunctions related to mining of the former Department of Mines and Resources. The\nMines Branch, Geological Survey of Canada, and Surveys and Mapping Branch are the\nthree branches of the Department of the most direct interest to the mining industry. Brief\nreference to the work of the Surveys and Mapping Branch in British Columbia is made in\nthe preceding note headed \" Topographic Maps and Air Photographs.\" A note on the\nGeological Survey of Canada follows this paragraph and is followed by a note on the\nMines Branch.\nGEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA\nBy an arrangement made at the time the Province of British Columbia entered Confederation, geological investigations and mapping in the Province are carried on by the\nGeological Survey of Canada. Several geological parties are in the field each year. Many\nexcellent reports and maps covering areas of British Columbia have been issued by the\nGeological Survey of Canada, and they have made available a great amount of information\nthat has been of much benefit to the mining and prospecting activities in British Columbia.\nA branch office of the Geological Survey of Canada is maintained at 808-810\nHastings Street West, Vancouver. Maps and reports on British Columbia can be obtained\nthere. W. E. Cockfield is in charge of this office.\nField Work by the Geological Survey of Canada in British Columbia, 1950\nJ. E. Armstrong continued geological mapping in the Vancouver North area (longitude 123\u00b0 to 123\u00b0 30', latitude 49\u00b0 15' to 49\u00b0 30'); co-operated with Provincial and\nFederal departments in soil surveys and the interpretation of Pleistocene geology and its\nrelation to ground-water supply; investigated the water-supply problem on Cape Mudge\nIndian Reserve, Vancouver Island; and supervised the work of other Geological Survey\nparties in the lower Mainland and on southeastern Vancouver Island.\nW. L. Brown commenced a study of the Pleistocene geology and ground-water conditions in the New Westminster area (longitude 122\u00b0 30' to 123\u00b0, latitude 49\u00b0 to 49\u00b0 15').\nH. S. Bostock visited areas in northern British Columbia in connection with the\ngeological examination of construction sites pertaining to the Yukon River power and\nstorage project, and supervised the work of other Geological Survey parties assisting this\nproject.\nR. L. Christie continued geological mapping in the Bennett area (longitude 134\u00b0 to\n136\u00b0, latitude 59\u00b0 to 60\u00b0).\nW. E. Cockfield made preliminary studies of dam-sites on Shuswap River near Mabel\nLake, on Columbia River near Mica Creek, and on Fraser River at Moran; with W. L.\nBrown, investigated the water-supply of three Indian Reserves near Hazelton and the\nfoundations for proposed fishways at Moricetown Falls on Buckley River; and visited\nseveral mining properties.\nR. de Wit examined some Devonian sections in the Rocky Mountains west of Hudson\nHope.\nS. Duffell continued geological mapping of the Whitesail Lake area (longitude 126\u00b0\nto 128\u00b0, latitude 53\u00b0 to 54\u00b0).\nHans Frebold commenced a stratigraphic and pak-eontological study of the Jurassic\nsystem as represented by the Fernie group of the Rocky Mountains.\nJ. G. Fyles commenced an investigation of Pleistocene geology and ground-water\nconditions in the Home Lake area (longitude 124\u00b0 30' to 125\u00b0, latitude 49\u00b0 15' to 49\u00b0\n30'), Vancouver Island.\n57 A 58 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nH. Gabrielse continued geological mapping of the McDame Creek area (longitude\n128\u00b0 to 130\u00b0, latitude 59\u00b0 to 60\u00b0).\nE. Hall continued his work at Columbia River dam-sites, examining and correlating\ndrill cuttings and cores for the Dominion Water and Power Bureau.\nJ. W. Hoadley completed geological mapping of the Zeballos area (longitude 126\u00b0\n30' to 127\u00b0, latitude 49\u00b0 45' to 50\u00b0).\nJ. A. Jeletzky continued detailed stratigraphic studies of the fossiliferous Mesozoic\nformations along the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.\nA. G. Jones continued geological mapping of the Revelstoke area (longitude 118\u00b0\nto 119\u00b0, latitude 50\u00b0 to 51\u00b0).\nB. A. Latour visited various coal areas and held interviews with Provincial authorities in an effort to obtain information that would assist in more complete computation of\nthe coal reserves of the Province.\nG. B. Leech commenced geological mapping of the St. Mary Lake area (longitude\n116\u00b0 to 116\u00b0 30', latitude 49\u00b0 30' to 49\u00b0 45').\nH. W. Little continued geological mapping of the Nelson area (longitude 117\u00b0 to\n118\u00b0, latitude 49\u00b0 to 50\u00b0).\nJ. E. Reesor commenced geological mapping of the Dewar Creek area (longitude\n116\u00b0 to 116\u00b0 30', latitude 49\u00b0 45'to 50\u00b0).\nJ. A. Roddick commenced geological mapping of the Coquitlam area (longitude\n122\u00b0 30' to 123\u00b0, latitude 49\u00b0 15' to 49\u00b0 30').\nH. W. Tipper continued geological mapping of the Nechako area (longitude 124\u00b0\nto 126\u00b0, latitude 53\u00b0 to 54\u00b0).\nPublications of the Geological Survey\nThe following reports relating to British Columbia published by the Geological\nSurvey were received by the British Columbia Department of Mines during 1950:\u2014\nPaper 50-9: Preliminary Map, Zeballos, British Columbia, by J. W. Hoadley.\nPaper 50-19: Salmo Map-area, British Columbia, by H. W. Little.\nPaper 50-37: Stratigraphy of the West Coast of Vancouver Island between\nKyuquot Sound and Esperanza Inlet, British Columbia, by J. A. Jeletzky.\nGeological Survey Bulletin No. 16: The Groundhog Coalfield, British Columbia, by A. F. Buckham and B. A. Latour.\nMINES BRANCH\nThe Mines Branch has branches dealing with mineral resources, mineral dressing\nand process metallurgy, physical metallurgy, radioactivity, and fuels and explosives.\nPublications of the Mines Branch pertaining to British Columbia received in 1950 include\ntabular pamphlets dealing with coal mines, gold mines, stone quarries, petroleum refineries, and milling plants in Canada, and the reports listed below:\u2014\nMines Branch Special Report 828: The Mining Laws of Canada, by Arthur\nBuisson.\nMines Branch Special Report 829: The Canadian Mineral Industry in 1948.\nMemorandum Series 107: The Peat Moss Industry in Canada, by A. A.\nSwinnerton.\nMemorandum Series 108: Notes on Antimony Deposits and Occurrences in\nCanada, by W. R. McClelland.\nMemorandum Series 109: Determination of Uranium in Ores, Review of\nChemical Methods, by F. T. Rabbitts.\nMemorandum Series 111: Recent Investigations into the Beneficiation of\nCanadian Gypsum, by A. R. MacPherson. DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND TECHNICAL SURVEYS A 59\nThe Mineral Dressing and Process Metallurgy Division investigates the milling of\nores and industrial minerals from many deposits and also tests clays and other ceramic\nmaterials. In addition to the results of tests on samples of clays submitted by the British\nColumbia Department of Mines, the Department has received the following reports on\nwork performed by the Mineral Dressing and Process Metallurgy Division, in 1950, on\nBritish Columbia ores:\u2014\nInvestigation No. Title\nMD2581. Flotation Concentration Tests on a Sample of Lead-Zinc Ore from\nthe Cronin Babine Mines Limited, Smithers, B.C.\nMD2622. Recovery of Copper, Cobalt, and Gold from an Arsenical Concentrate from Kelowna Exploration Company, Nickel Plate Mine,\nHedley, B.C.\nMD2640. Table Concentration and Flotation Tests on a Sample of Silver-Lead-\nZinc Ore from the Highland Bell Mine at Beaverdell, B.C.\nMD2725. Jigging and Flotation Tests on a Lead-Zinc Ore from Violamac\nMines Limited, New Denver, B.C. Metal-mining (Lode)\nCONTENTS\nPage\nGeneral Review 69\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014\nAtlin\u2014\nHelicopter Exploration Co. Ltd 71\nGolden View : 71\nBoulder Creek\u2014\nBlack Diamond 72\nMcDame Creek\u2014\nDavis 73\nTaku River\u2014\nPolaris-Taku (Taku River Gold Mines Ltd.) 73\nBig Bull (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nLimited) : 74\nTulsequah Chief (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of\nCanada, Limited) 74\nB.W.M 75\nPortland Canal\u2014\nTide Lake\u2014\nEast _'___ 76\nSalmon River\u2014\nSilbak Premier Mines Limited . 76\nIndian Mines (1946) Ltd 77\nSilver Tip (Silver Tip Gold Mines Limited) 77\nUnicorn Mines Limited 78\nBear River\u2014\nRed Cliff 78\nHeather and Enterprise (George Enterprise Mining Company) 78\nBig Four Silver Mines Ltd \u25a0_ 78\nMarmot River\u2014\nGold Drop (Gold Drop Mines Limited) 78\nAlice Arm\u2014\nTorbrit Silver Mines Limited 79\nGalena 80\nObservatory Inlet\u2014\nAnyox (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nLimited) 80\nMayo Mountain\u2014\nBeaver 80\nDorreen\u2014\nFiddler (Dorreen Gold Mines Limited) 81\nHazelton\u2014\nGlen and Nine Mile Mountains Area\u2014\nLocation and Access 82\nHistory 82\nGeneral Description 84\n61 A 62 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014Continued\nHazelton\u2014Continued\nGlen and Nine Mile Mountains Area\u2014Continued pAGE\nGeneral Geology 84\nStructural Geology 85\nVeins 86\nDescriptions of Properties\u2014\nSilver Standard (Silver Standard Mines Limited) 87\nSurprise 95\nNational Exploration Ltd 95\nAmerican Boy (American Standard Mines Limited) 95\nSilver Cup 1 96\nSunrise 97\nLead King 98\nSilver Pick 98\nErie (Mohawk) 98\nComet 99\nVictoria (Western Uranium Cobalt Mines Limited) 99\nRocher Deboule (Western Uranium Cobalt Mines Limited) 100\nSmithers\u2014\nDuthie, Mamie, etc. (Sil-Van Consolidated Mining and Milling Company) 100\nGlacier Gulch, Coronation, and Biff (Glacier Gulch Mining Co., Ltd.)____ 100\nCronin Babine Mines Limited 101\nTahtsa Lake\u2014\nEmerald (Emerald Glacier Mines Limited) 101\nOmineca\u2014\nBeveley (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nLimited) 101\nCariboo\u2014\nWells-Barkerville Area\u2014\nCariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company, Limited 101\nIsland Mountain Mines Company Limited 102\nMarguerite\u2014\nCopper King 106\nKeithley Creek\u2014\nMidas 107\nSpanish Creek\u2014\nRae, Bear, Cariboo 107\nBlue Creek\u2014\nElizabeth, Yalakom (Bralorne Mines Limited) 107\nBridge River\u2014\nBralorne Mines Limited 108\nPioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Limited 108\nB.R.X. (B.R.X. (1935) Consolidated Mines Limited) 109\nWayside (L.A.P. Mining Company Limited) 109\nCongress Gold Mines Limited 109\nGray Rock (Gray Rock Mining Company Limited) 110\nAnderson Lake\u2014\nGolden Contact (Golden Contact Mines Limited) 110\nBarriere River\u2014\nWhite Rock 111 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 63\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014Continued\nNicola\u2014 page\nGuichon Mine Limited 112\nTulameen River\u2014\nElAlamein (El Alamein Mines (1950) Limited) 112\nSilver King and Jensen (Silver Hill Mines Ltd.) 112\nCopper Mountain\u2014\nCopper Mountain (The Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power\nCompany Limited) 113\nHedley\u2014\nNickel Plate and French (Kelowna Exploration Company Limited) 114\nIota (Islay B) 115\nFairview Camp\u2014\nFairview (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nLimited) 115\nNorth Okanagan\u2014\nWhite Elephant (Pre-Cambrian) 115\nMount Vernon _\u25a0_ 115\nSilver Star 116\nCamp McKinney\u2014\nWaterloo , 116\nWestbridge\u2014\nMaybe -\u25a0 116\nBeaverdell\u2014-\nHighland Bell Limited 116\nWellington (Silver Bounty Mines Limited) 116\nHighland Silver (Cranberry Creek Gold Mining Co. Limited) 117\nGold Drop 117\nLightning Peak\u2014\nWaterloo, Dictator (Paycheck Mining and Development Company\nLimited) 118\nGreenwood\u2014\nProvidence 118\nDynamo 118\nLead King 118\nPaulson\u2014\nAlbion (Granville Mines Corporation, Limited) 118\nRossland\u2014\nMidnight and I.X.L. (Kootenay Central Mines Limited) 118\nBluebird (Rossland Mines Limited) 119\nDouglas 119\nNelson\u2014\nEagle Creek\u2014\nGranite-Poorman (Kenville Gold Mines Limited) 119\nKokanee Creek\u2014\nMolly Gibson 120\nYmir\u2014\nGoodenough (Protection) 120\nDundee 120\nYmir Yankee Girl 120\nCentre Star (Wesko) 121\nX-Ray (Ymir Good Hope Mining Company) 121\nLast Chance 121 A 64 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014Continued\nYmir\u2014Continued PAGE\nJack Pot 122\nOxide 123\nSalmo\u2014\nErie Creek\u2014\nArlington - 123\nSheep Creek\u2014\nSheep Creek Gold Mines Limited 123\nBell (Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited) 124\nReno and Gold Belt 124\nGold Belt 124\nKootenay Belle 124\nNugget 124\nAspen Creek\u2014\nH.B. (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nLimited) 124\nIron Mountain-\nEmerald, Jersey (Canadian Exploration Limited) 126\nLost Creek\u2014\nTungsten King, Truman, Black Rock \u2022_ 128\nNelway\u2014\nLomond (International) 128\nDiem Mines Limited 128 \u2022\nReeves MacDonald Mines Limited 129\nSouth Kootenay Lake\u2014\nSummit Creek\u2014\nBayonne...-, - 131\nSpokane 131\nSanca\u2014\nLakeview 131\nPilot Bay\u2014\nPilot Bay Concentrator and Smelter 131\nCrawford Creek\u2014\nSilver Hill 132\nColorado (Colorado Mining and Milling Co. Ltd.) 132\nNorth Kootenay Lake\u2014\nRiondel\u2014\nBluebell (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of\nCanada, Limited) 132\nHowser\u2014\nSurprise 133\nAinsworth\u2014\nKootenay Florence (Ainsmore Consolidated Mines Limited) 133\nHighlander, etc. (Yale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited) 133\nBlack Diamond 134\nSpokane Trinket 134\nSilver Hoard 134\nNeosho 134\nStar, Sunlight 134\nNicolet and Snelling 135\nLakeshore 135 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 65\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014Continued\nNorth Kootenay Lake\u2014Continued\nAinsworth\u2014Continued Page\nLaura M 135\nCarey Fraction 135\nEarly Bird 135\nTwin 135\nLibby and Highland 135\nAyesha (Northern Exploration Limited) 135\nBelle Aire 136\nWoodbury Creek\u2014\nWoodbury 136\nDaisy Bell (Woodbury Mines Limited) 137\nScranton (Scranton Consolidated Mining Company) 137\nKeen Creek\u2014\nB.N.A. (B.N.A. Mines Limited Liability) 138\nMontezuma 138\nGold Cure (Red Hawk Gold Mines Limited) 138\nCork Province (Base Metals Mining Corporation Limited) 138\nPaddy Peak\u2014\nUtica (Utica Mines (1937) Limited) 139\nRetallack-Three Forks\u2014\nWhitewater (Kootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited) 140\nKeystone Charleston (Slocan Charleston Mining Company Limited) 141\nJackson (Selkirk Mining Company Limited) 142\nWellington (Waddington Mining Corporation, Limited) 142\nLucky Boy 142\nLucky Jim (Zincton Unit, Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited) 142\nSilver Glance, Panama, and London (London Hill Mines Ltd.) 143\nRambler 143\nMcAllister (Noonday Mines Limited) 143\nMonitor 143\nSandon\u2014\nRuth Hope 144\nSilversmith (Carnegie Mines Ltd.) 144\nRichmond Eureka - 144\nNoble Five and Deadman 144\nBluebird (Bluebird Mines Limited) 144\nAltoona 145\nShady Fraction . 145\nCarnation (Kelowna Exploration Company Limited) 145\nWonderful, Corinth (Silver Ridge Mining Company Limited) 145\nSylverite (Slocan Base Metals Limited) 146\nPalmita 146\nElkhorn 146\nVictor (Violamac Mines (B.C.) Limited) 146\nQueen Bess (Bess Mines Limited) 147\nSlocan Lake\u2014\nBosun (Santiago Mines Limited) \u201e. 147\nWestern Exploration Company Limited\u2014\nMammoth 148\nStandard 148 A 66 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014Continued\nSlocan Lake\u2014Continued\nWestern Exploration Company Limited\u2014Continued Paoe\nEnterprise 148\nStandard Mill 148\nVan Roi, Hewitt (Van Roi Consolidated Mines Ltd.)___.. 148\nGalena Farm 149\nNoonday 149\nMetallic . 149\nA.U. (Lucky Thought) 149\nWhite Hope 150\nSpringer Creek\u2014\nOttawa 150\nHoward Fraction 150\nNorth Lardeau\u2014\nSpider (Sunshine Lardeau Mines Limited) 150\nNettie L., G.Y.P. Fraction, and Ajax (Trout Lake Mining Company\nLimited) 151\nSouth Lardeau\u2014\nSt. Patrick (Hamil Silver-Lead Mines, Limited) 151\nSurprise 151\nUpper Arrow Lake\u2014\nBig Ledge 151\nCreston :\nAlice 152\nDelaware 152\nKimberley\u2014\nSullivan (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nLimited) 152\nSt. Mary River\u2014\nBoy Scout (Thomas Consolidated Mines, Incorporated) 155\nLeader 155\nWasa\u2014\nEstella (Estella Mines Ltd.) 155\nWindermere\u2014\nParadise (Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited) 156\nMineral King 157\nSpillimacheen\u2014\nSilver Giant (Silver Giant Mines Limited) 157\nA and B (Lead Hill Mining Company Limited) 157\nField\u2014\nMonarch and Kicking Horse (Base Metals Mining Corporation Limited) 157\nKinbasket Lake\u2014\nMogul and Timbasket (Kootenay Exploration Limited) 158\nRevelstoke\u2014\nRegal Silver, Snowflake (Stannite Mines Limited) 158\nMastodon 159\nSkagit River\u2014\nA.M. (Canam Mining Corporation Limited) 167\nGold Coin 167\nCheam Range\u2014\nLucky Four (Rico Copper Mines Limited) 167 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 67\nNotes on Metal Mines\u2014Continued\nPitt Lake\u2014 pAGE\nStandard 167\nHowe Sound\u2014\nBritannia Mining and Smelting Co. Limited 168\nMcVicar (Surf Inlet Consolidated Gold Mines Limited) 169\nPender Harbour\u2014\nCambrian Chieftain 170\nBritain River 172\nTexada Island\u2014\nLittle Billie (Vananda Mines (1948) Limited) 178\nGordon and William 178\nVancouver Island\u2014\nElk River\u2014\nQuatsino Copper-Gold Mines Limited 180\nZeballos\u2014\nPrivateer Mine Limited 180\nDuncan\u2014\nTwin J (Vancouver Island Base Metals Limited) 180\nJordan River\u2014\nSunloch and Gabbro 180\nAccess 181\nHistory 181\nProduction 183\nGeneral Statement 183\nTopography 183\nGeneral Geology . 183\nDetailed Geology 18 5\nOre Deposits 187\nOre Tonnages 191\nBiogeochemical Studies 191\nDRAWINGS\nFigure\n1. Glen and Nine Mile Mountains area\u2014surface geology Facing 82\n2. Plan of Silver Standard mine and Surprise adit Facing 87\n3. Mastodon group\u2014surface and underground workings 160\n4. Mastodon workings\u2014geology and sample locations 162\n5. Mastodon group\u2014zinc content of trees Facing 166\n6. Cambrian Chieftain\u2014surface geology, diamond-drill holes, and workings on\nmain showings Facing 171\n7. Britain River area\u2014geology 174\n8. Britain River\u2014plan of upper quartz vein 176\n9. Geology of Sooke-Jordan River area showing distribution of gabbro bands and\ncopper zones 182\n10. Sunloch-Gabbro\u2014plan showing geology, mineralized zones, workings, locations\nof tree samples, and of some diamond-drill holes Facing 185\n11. Sunloch-Gabbro\u2014details of mineralization in adits and diamond-drill holes, on\nRiver, Centre, and Cave zones Facing 187\n12. Sunloch-Gabbro\u2014vertical section along a line bearing north 60 degrees east\t\n Facing 187 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 69\nGENERAL REVIEW\nThe quantity of ore mined, the quantity of each metal and its value, the\naverage number employed, for 1950 and preceding years, and other data are tabulated under \" Statistics,\" in the section that begins on page 13. The tables are listed\non page 5.\nDuring 1950 there were further advances in the price of all metals except gold. The\nprices for copper, lead, and zinc rose materially in the second half of the year after the\noutbreak of hostilities in Korea in July. The price of zinc reached an all-time high; the\nprice of copper rose to the highest level since 1917. The high prices stimulated search\nfor new base-metal properties and accelerated the development of known ones, some of\nwhich had lain idle for years.\nGold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc produced at British Columbia lode mines in 1950\nhad a gross value of $121,635,457. The total quantity of ore mined amounted to\n6,782,912 tons and came from 112 mines, of which fifty-eight produced 100 tons or more.\nThe average number employed in the lode-mining industry in 1950, including mines,\nconcentrators and smelters, was 10,822.\nIn 1950 twenty-four mills were operated; of these, Highland Bell and Violamac\ncame into production for the first time, and Sheep Creek was closed. At the year-end\nmills were being operated at only seven* gold mines, and economic conditions were becoming increasingly difficult for gold-mining. Kelowna Exploration Company Limited\nbrought the Oregon claim (French mine) into production, trucking 2,740 tons of ore to\nthe company's mill at Hedley. A sink-float plant was put into operation at the Whitewater mill and construction was started on one near Sandon, both to treat ore from mines\nand old dumps in the Slocan area. Of the mills in operation, five accepted ore on a\ncustom basis. Roasting and cyanidation of gold-bearing concentrates was undertaken at\nthe Polaris-Taku, the first time this practice has been adopted in British Columbia. At\nthe end of 1950, mills were being built at the Silver Giant, Cork Province, and Yale Lead\n& Zinc properties.\nThe principal producer of silver, lead, and zinc is the Sullivan mine, whose concentrates are shipped to the company's smelter at Trail. The Trail smelter recorded custom\nreceipts of 15,922 tons of crude ore from eighty-four properties in British Columbia. It\nalso recorded the receipt of 17,833 tons of lead concentrates and 73,523 tons of zinc\nconcentrates. Shipments to the Tacoma smelter included the copper concentrates produced at the Britannia and Copper Mountain mines, and gold-bearing concentrates from\nthe Polaris-Taku, Bralorne, and Nickel Plate mines. Crude ore was shipped to the\nTacoma smelter from the Cambrian Chieftain and the Little Billie. Lead concentrates\nfrom Silbak Premier went principally to the smelter at East Helena, but a small quantity\nwent to Tacoma.\nExploration and development were carried on in many parts of the Province, notably\nat the Sunloch- Gabbro property, Southern Vancouver Island, in the Pend d\u00bb'Oreille-Salmo\nand Slocan-Ainsworth areas, at the Mastodon property north of Revelstoke, and near\nHazelton. After many years of inactivity, work was resumed at the Rocher Deboule\ncopper property near Hazelton and the Estella silver-lead-zinc property near Wasa.\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company continued underground development work at the Big Bull and Tulsequah Chief properties near Tulsequah, at the Bluebell\nnear Riondel, and at the H.B. near Salmo. Shipments of ore were recorded from the\nlatter. The company also continued with its diamond-drilling programme at the Big\nLedge property on Pingston Creek.\nFew new discoveries were recorded, but more reverted Crown-granted claims were\nleased than in previous years, thus indicating a renewed interest in properties that had lain\nidle for varying periods.\n* Includes Silbak Premier, where the value of silver, lead, and zinc combined exceeded that of gold. A 70 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nBecause of materially increased prices, interest was aroused in several magnetite\ndeposits chiefly to provide iron ore for export.\nTo facilitate the search for properties, The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company established an exploration office in Prince Rupert, Kennco Explorations (Canada)\nLimited opened an office in Prince George, and Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company maintained a base at Teslin Lake.\nIn addition to long-established methods, chemical testing of soil samples and of tree\nsamples, to detect the presence of copper and zinc, was applied in prospecting areas\ncovered by overburden.\nHelicopters were used for the first time in the Province for exploration and for\ntransportation of supplies and personnel. Helicopter Exploration Company Limited used\na helicopter to inspect ground, carry prospectors, and service camps. Rico Copper Mines\nLimited used a helicopter to transport supplies and personnel to their upper camp.\nRecent improvements in mining practices are being widely adopted. The use of\ntungsten carbide bits spread rapidly and in many mines light air-leg rock drills were used\nin preference to the heavier leyners and stopers which have been standard equipment for\nmany years. Recently developed, short-period delay electric blasting-caps have also been\nintroduced. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 71\nNOTES ON METAL MINES\nATLIN (59\u00b0 133\u00b0)*\nCompany office, 844 Hastings Street West, Vancouver. Karl J.\nHelicopter Explora- Springer, president. This company pioneered a new type of pros-\ntion Co. Ltd. pecting in the Atlin district during the 1950 field season. A Hille\n360 helicopter was used for transportation and for close inspection\nof geological features in mountainous areas otherwise difficult of access. The company\nreports that the helicopter proved good for reconnaissance and geological mapping, for\nshort hauls, and for transportation over difficult terrain. Disadvantages reported were\nthe short operational range and the small pay-load. D. M. Cannon was in charge of a\ncrew of eight men.\nGold\n(59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W.) Eight Golden View claims are recorded in the\nGolden Viewf name of N. Matson. Adjoining these on the west, south, and east\nare nine claims held by Transcontinental Resources Limited, and\nsouth of these are four claims held by L. G. White. These claims are on the lower part\nof the slope on the south side of Little Spruce Creek. Showings about \\Vi miles southwest of Spruce Creek at an altitude of about 3,900 feet were being explored in 1950.\nA trail that leaves Spruce Creek, about 100 yards below the mouth of Little Spruce Creek,\nextends about 3 miles southerly to the showings.\nProspectors looking for sources of the placer gold of Atlin district creeks early in\nthis century found quartz veins in the valley of Little Spruce Creek and explored some of\nthem by shafts and adits. The presence of old claim posts and evidence of old trenches\nnear the showings suggest that most of the veins now being explored on the Golden View\nclaims were found at that time. In the summer of 1949 Mr. Matson found outcrops of\nquartz veins containing visible gold and started trenching to explore the veins. He continued this work in 1950.\nTan and green rocks near the veins are altered rocks near the contacts between a\nmassive greenstone series and some serpentinized intrusives. Most of the minerals have\nbeen replaced by carbonate. Much silica has also been introduced, and quartz veins as\nmuch as an inch wide are very common.\nSmall flakes of native gold are found in specimens from what is called the Main vein\nwhich is exposed in one pit. This zone, strike northwesterly and dip southwestward,\nconsists of several nearly parallel veins of white, grey, and watery-looking quartz in a\nsheared zone 1 foot wide. The veins contain small flakes of malachite, azurite, and a dark\nmetallic mineral. The wallrock of the zone and between the veins is altered carbonate\nrock. A sample taken across the zone where it is 9 inches wide assayed: Gold, 0.52 oz.\nper ton; silver, 0.76 oz. per ton. Numerous faults cut the rocks at this point, and the\nzone appears to be displaced by one of them.\nAbout one claim-length to the southeast are two trenches about 90 feet apart, in\nwhich is exposed a vein zone, nearly on the strike of the Main vein. This vein also strikes\nnortheasterly but dips southeastward. From one trench, a sample taken across the zone\nwhere it is 20 inches wide assayed: Gold, 0.25 oz. per ton; silver, 0.2 oz. per ton.\nAnother sample taken across the vein where it is 14 inches wide assayed: Gold, 0.04 oz.\nper ton; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton.\nA second vein zone about 500 feet north of the Main vein can be followed in ten\ntrenches for about 200 feet. This zone, strike northwest and dip southwest, consists as\na rule of two quartz veins each generally less than 6 inches wide separated by as much as\n* By F. J. Hemsworth, except as noted.\nt By J. M. Black. A 72\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\n2 feet of carbonate rock. The quartz contains small grains of chalcopyrite. Four samples\nwere taken from this zone, including the wallrock between the veins. Samples Nos. 1\nand 2 from near the southeast and Samples Nos. 3 and 4 toward the northeast assayed\nas follows:\u2014\nSample No.\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\n1\t\nInches\n24\n36\n18\n16\nOz. per Ton\n0.02\n0.01\nNil\n0.01\nOz. per Ton\n2 \t\nTrace\n3 \t\nNil\n4. \t\nAbout a claim-length south of the Main vein are two quartz veins about 300 feet\napart. These strike west-northwesterly and dip steeply northeastward. One of these is\nas much as 10 inches wide and a sample from it, where it is 8 inches wide, assayed: Gold,\n0.14 oz. per ton; silver, nil.\nBoulder Creek (59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E.)\nTungsten\nThe Black Diamond group of four claims is held by N. S. Fisher\nBlack Diamond and O. Olsen, of Atlin. The property is on the west side of Boulder\nCreek, 3 miles north of Surprise Lake and 16 miles by motor-road\nfrom the town of Atlin. The claims cover a rectangular area that has its northeast corner\nnear the Boulder Creek dam and extends up a gently rolling slope between elevations of\n4,000 and 4,600 feet. The property is above timberline, but there is a moderate supply\nof fair timber near Surprise Lake.\nThe tungsten mineralization occurs as wolframite and ferberite in a lenticular quartz\nvein which outcrops near the centre of the claims at an elevation of 4,300 feet. The vein\nstrikes north 30 degrees east and dips 60 degrees to the west, and is exposed in six open-\ncuts over a distance of 230 feet. When examined in July, 1950, the open-cuts were partly\nfilled, due to caving, but the vein appeared to be from 6 to 30 feet wide. Some granite is\nincluded in the latter width.\nThe claims were located in 1939 by MacLeod White, who was superintendent for\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited, who were then\nplacer-mining on Boulder Creek. Surface stripping and trenching were done in 1939,\n1940, and 1941 on three showings, which were named the South, the North, and the\nWolframite. The South showing is on ground now forming part of the Black Diamond\ngroup. The North showing is lVz miles to the northeast at an elevation of 5,200 feet,\nand the Wolframite is 1 Vi miles to the north of the Black Diamond group at an elevation\nof 5,800 feet.\nThe first work done on the ground was in 1903 during the Atlin gold-rush. An\nopen-cut was dug on the vein on the Black Diamond ground, and an 8-foot shaft was sunk\non the vein on the North showing. At that time gold was the objective. In 1939 The\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Company, while placer-mining on Boulder Creek,\nfound wolframite with the placer gold in the sluice-boxes. The old workings were then\nexamined and wolframite and ferberite were discovered in the quartz veins. In 1942\nFisher and Olsen leased the Boulder Creek Placers from the Consolidated Company.\nSome further stripping and trenching were done on the South vein, and in 1943 a small\nshipment of cobbed ore was made to the Prince Rupert Sampling Plant. This lot of\n0.8985 ton assayed: Gold, 0.31 oz. per ton; tungstic oxide, 15.20 per cent*; and small\npercentages of tin, bismuth, lead, and copper. No other shipments have been made from\nthe lode claims. In 1949 a quantity of black-sand concentrate from the placer clean-up\n* Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1943, p. 52. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 73\nwas reconcentrated in Atlin and yielded 3 tons of cleaned concentrate that was shipped\nto Derby and Co., Ltd., of London, England. The shipment included coarse concentrates that'weighed approximately 1,300 pounds, and fine concentrates that weighed\napproximately 4,700 pounds. The coarse concentrates assayed: Tungstic oxide, 46.88\nper cent; tin, 7.42 per cent. The fine sands assayed: Tungstic oxide, 49.01 per cent;\ntin, 10.75 per cent. The tungsten minerals recovered in the placer operation come from\nbroken-down vein matter and are concentrated on the bedrock by stream action. The\nsource of the tin is not known. It may have been a constituent of the igneous rocks of\nthe area or of the veins or stringers of quartz.\nGranite outcrops on Boulder Creek from the placer camp northward. The contact\nwith the overlying Gold series of sediments and volcanics is about half a mile south of the\nSouth showing. The country rock adjacent to the vein is coarse-grained grey granite.\nA granite porphyry dyke outcrops 50 feet west of the vein. A similar dyke is exposed\non the footwall side of the vein in the lower open-cuts. Wolframite and ferberite occur\ndisseminated and in small masses throughout the vein quartz. Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and\ngalena are scattered through the vein. The tungsten minerals appear to be concentrated\non the hangingwall side.\nBecause the open-cuts were caved, no samples were taken by the writer. Twenty\nsamples taken by The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company engineers in 1941,\nover a length of 230 feet and across an average vein width of 9,3 feet, indicated an average\ngrade of 0.60 per cent tungstic oxide.*\nMcDAME CREEK (59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W.)f\nGold\nThis property, owned by Gerald Davis, of Wrangell, Alaska, is on\nDavis the south side of upper McDame Creek, close to the east end of\nMcDame Lake. Several quartz veins, striking east and dipping\nvertically, are exposed by surface cuts. The veins are from 2 to 3 feet wide and consist\nmostly of milky quartz, but narrow bands of pyrite and marcasite occur, usually along the\nwalls. In places the sulphides are leached, leaving rusty, vuggy quartz. The vugs often\ncontain visible gold.\n. During the summer of 1950 Gerald Davis built a bridge across upper McDame\nCreek and transported a 5-ton mill, a Lister diesel engine, and other equipment to the\nproperty. It is reported that he mined and milled some ore during the winter.\nTAKU RIVER (58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W.)f\nGold\nCompany office, 1500 Royal Bank Building, Vancouver; mine\nPolaris-Taku office, Tulsequah. W. B. Milner, president. G. W. Robinson,\n(Taku River Gold manager, was transferred from the mine to the Vancouver office\nMines Ltd.) in November, 1950. He was succeeded by P. W. MacMillan, acting\nmanager, who in turn was succeeded by J. A. Willcox as resident\nmanager. Alaska Coastal Airways carries passengers and express to the property by\naeroplane from Juneau, Alaska. Freight is brought in from Taku Arm by river boat\nduring the summer months.\nThe mine was operated continuously throughout the year. Ore broken amounted\nto 87,670 tons; 12,212 tons from development, 9,405 tons from stope preparation, and\n66,053 tons from stoping. Shrinkage stoping produced 57,580 tons, and open stopes\n8,473 tons. Oreshoots on the eastward extension of the \" B \" vein, on the 450 and 600\nlevels, were the main source of ore during the year.\n* Unpublished report on Tungsten group, by MacLeod White, P.Eng.\nt By F. J. Hemsworth. A 74 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nFor 1950, development footage was 6,256 feet (5,200 feet lineal advance and 1,056\nequivalent feet of slash), consisting of 3,987 feet of drift, 73 feet of crosscut, and 2,196\nfeet of raise. Total diamond drilling was 17,733 feet, of which 1,258 feet was drilled\nfrom the surface and 16,475 feet from underground.\nEarly in 1950 a report of the mine was prepared by Alex. Smith, geologist. The\nwork done for this report included a complete relogging of all diamond-drill core and\ngeological mapping of all the mine workings. From this information a revised set of\ngeological maps was made and an exploratory diamond-drill programme planned.\nThe flotation mill was operated continuously throughout 1950, treating 95,667 tons\nof ore and producing 10,566 tons of concentrate with a gross content of 35,904 ounces\nof gold.\nThe 20-spindle Edwards roaster and accompanying cyanide plant, which were run\nfor a short test period in 1949, were operated from September, 1950, after some additions\nand changes in the equipment and circuits were made. At the end of the year the roaster\nwas treating just over 8 tons of concentrate per day. This is only a quarter to a third of\nthe concentrates produced in the flotation plant. The concentrate has a sulphur content\nof 20 to 21 per cent, which is not quite sufficient to maintain the roast without using some\noil. The oil consumption has been reduced by increasing the pyrite content of the feed\nand keeping it as high as is consistent with economic recovery in the flotation plant. Other\nchanges that contributed to a saving in oil were the installation of dry, chromalloy rabbles\nin place of the water-cooled rabbles, and the addition of further insulation on the roaster.\nThe weight loss by the concentrate in passing through the roaster is usually about 25\nper cent, which gives the calcine treated in the cyanide plant an assay of about 5 ounces\nof gold per ton. Some difficulties with the antimony in the cyanide circuit were anticipated but did not materialize. The concentrate seldom contains more than 2 per cent\nantimony, which is reduced to approximately 0.4 per cent in the washed calcine. The\nrecovery of gold from the calcine in the cyanide plant has been from 90 to 92 per cent.\nOccasionally a higher or a lower recovery is made, depending upon the nature of the roast.\nProduction: Ore milled, 95,667 tons. Metal recovered, cyanide-plant recovery and\ngross content of concentrates shipped: Gold, 33,228 oz.;. silver, 1,182 oz.; copper,\n23,759 lb.\nGold-Silver-Copper-Lead-Zinc\nJ. C. MacLean, superintendent. The mine is on the north side of\nBig Bull (The the Taku River, 5 miles east by road from the Polaris townsite.\nConsolidated Min- In 1950 development work was carried out from the new shaft on\ning and Smelting two levels, 150 feet and 300 feet below the adit level. Total\nCompany of advance for the year was 3,752 feet, consisting of 2,595 feet of\nCanada, Limited) drift, 633 feet of crosscut, 471 feet of raise, and 53 feet of sub-\ndrift. Diamond drilling totalled 6,580 feet, all from underground\nstations. Work was carried on throughout the year. The number of men employed\naveraged forty-three.\nA pile trestle bridge across the Tulsequah River was washed out in the flood and\na new one of more substantial construction was built.\nJ. C. MacLean, superintendent; Rod Douglas, resident engineer.\nTulsequah Chief The Tulsequah Chief is on the east side of the Tulsequah River,\n(The Consolidated 4 miles north of Polaris townsite. In 1950 work was started in\nMining and Smelt- May, and development was carried on continuously for the re-\n, ing Company of mainder of the year. A new low-level adit, named the 5400 tunnel,\nCanada, Limited) was driven 2,395 feet. This adit crosscut is 500 feet lower and\n300 feet north of the 5900 tunnel. Diamond drilling totalled\n632 feet. A new dry, power-house, and blacksmith-shop were constructed. The average\nnumber of men employed was seventeen. ^^^\u2014\nMETAL-MINING (LODE) A 75\nCopper\nThe B.W.M. copper property, owned by George Bacon and Ralph\nB.W.M. Wolverton, consists of eleven claims, the B.W.M. Nos. 1 to 11,\ndivided into two groups, the Bacon group, and the Daisy group.\nThe claims are on the upper slopes of a mountain that rises above the north side of King\nSalmon Lake, in the Taku River area of the Atlin Mining Division. King Salmon Lake,\nat the head of the south fork of the King Salmon River, is about 1,800 feet above sea-\nlevel and is about 2 miles long and a quarter of a mile wide. The lake is a good landing\nsite for aircraft with floats and, by air, is about 30 miles from Tulsequah and about 80\nmiles from Atlin.\nThe mountains on the north and south sides of the lake reach elevations of around\n5,000 feet. The slopes are fairly steep, but the country is not as rugged as the area to the\nwest. The slopes are wooded with small spruce and jack pine. Timberline is at about\n4,000 feet elevation.\nA good pack-trail has been built from the north side of the lake to the showings,\na distance of about 2 miles. The trail switchbacks up the mountain to a flat, at 4,000\nfeet elevation, where a tent camp had been erected beside a small stream. The claims are\non a knoll at the top of the mountain, between elevations of 4,000 and 4,500 feet.\nThe easiest means of access to the B.W.M. property is by aircraft to King Salmon\nLake, but it may be reached from Tulsequah by river boat for 20 miles up the Taku\nRiver to the mouth of its tributary, the King Salmon River, thence by trail 20 miles to\nthe property. The Taku River is navigable for small, flat-bottomed power-boats during\nthe summer months. Another route is overland from Telegraph Creek, a distance of\nabout 125 miles. The construction of a road from Tulsequah, Atlin, or Telegraph Creek\nwould be a difficult and costly undertaking.\nMost of the area covered by the claims is underlain by green volcanic rock, probably\nan andesitic tuff. This greenstone has been intruded by granitic stocks of the Coast Range\nIntrusives. The granite outcrops as small hills and knolls. Both the greenstone and the\ngranite are cut by younger feldspar porphyry dykes.\nThe greenstone shows some carbonate and chlorite alteration but is too fine grained\nto be further identified in the field. At the top of the mountain, the greenstone has been\neroded until only a thin layer remains overlying the granite. At lower elevations the\nlayer of greenstone becomes progressively thicker.\nQuartz stringers, mineralized with chalcopyrite, cut the greenstone and altered\ngranite over a large area. The quartz is vuggy, with calcite, limonite, and chalcopyrite\nfilling the vugs. The iron oxide (limonite) gives the outcrop a distinctive rusty colour\nso that the surface boundaries of mineralized areas are readily observed. The outcrop,\na rusty zone, is about 1,500 feet long and ranges in width from about 70 to 350 feet. The\nzone is shaped like a boot, with the toe pointing uphill on a general strike of north 50\ndegrees west.\nGeorge Bacon and Ralph Wolverton discovered the large, rusty-coloured outcrop\nand located the claims while prospecting for The Consolidated Mining and Smelting\nCompany in 1947. Some trenching and sampling were done that summer, but the ground\nwas allowed to lapse. In 1949 the showing was relocated by Bacon and Wolverton. In\nJune, 1950, Hudson Bay Exploration and Development Company optioned the property.\nSupplies and a diamond drill were flown to King Salmon Lake from the company's headquarters at Teslin, Y.T. Pack-horses were brought overland from Telegraph Creek, and\ncamps were established at the lake and at the claims. Some surface prospecting was done\nand two holes were drilled. Nine hundred and forty-three feet of drilling had been completed when a forest fire burned over the area, destroying the base camp and interrupting\nthe work. The core recovered from the diamond-drill holes showed fewer quartz stringers\nand less copper mineralization than had been expected. After the fire had burned out,\nthe company removed the equipment and dropped the option. A 76 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTwo series of trenches have been dug to crosscut the surface of the outcrop. The\nA series comprises three cuts: A-l is 90 feet long, A-2 is 10 feet, and A-3 is 30 feet.\nThese cuts were started from the west side at the upper end of the outcrop. From the\neast end of A-3, similar mineralization, which was not trenched, continues for 150 feet\nto the eastern extremity of the outcrop. At the time of the examination, parts of the\ntrenches were caved, but chip and grab samples were taken to determine the nature of the\nmineralization. The samples were small and should not be considered representative\nof the average for the orebody.\nA sample from the 90-foot width exposed in trench A-l, which shows greenstone cut\nby quartz stringers carrying chalcopyrite and limonite, assayed: Gold, nil; silver, 0.4 oz.\nper ton; copper, 0.9 per cent. A sample from the 40-foot width exposed by trenches\nA-2 and A-3 assayed: Gold, nil; silver, 0.4 oz. per ton; copper, 0.4 per cent.\nThe B series of trenches extends from the west side, across the lower part of the outcrop, near the narrowest part of the showing, about 500 feet from the A series. A sample\nalong the trench, across a width of 30 feet, assayed: Gold, nil; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton;\ncopper, 0.6 per cent. From the end of the section sampled to the other wall of the\nmineralized zone measured 100 feet, making a total width of 130 feet at this point.\nTwo diamond-drill holes were drilled from the east edge of the outcrop, on a bearing\nof south 70 degrees west, to crosscut the mineralized zone. No. 1 hole, 425 feet long,\nwas about halfway along the outcrop, just north of the B trenches, and was inclined downward to the west at an angle of 50 degrees. No. 2 hole, higher up the hill, just below the\nA trenches, was drilled to a depth of 518 feet, inclined 45 degrees downward on a bearing\nof south 70 degrees west.\nPORTLAND CANAL*\n\u201e ,, 0., Tide Lake (56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E.)\nGold-silver\nThe property is owned by Julia K. Phillips and was worked by\nEast A. A. Phillips and associates of Stewart. The claims are 1 mile\nnorth of Tide Lake. Access from Stewart is by motor-road for\n19 miles to the Big Missouri camp-site, thence by the Forty Nine Trail for about 15 miles\nto the property.\nA complete description of the geology and the mine workings may be found in the\nAnnual Report of the British Columbia Minister of Mines for 1946, pages 68 to 72.\nIn 1950 new work consisted of 100 feet of drifting and 35 feet of stoping. Some\nadditional discoveries of rich pockets of high-grade ore were made. Ore was trammed to\nthe portal, where it was washed and sorted. Large pieces of electrum were pounded off\nwith a hammer and placed in 5-gallon cans. The remainder of the ore was sacked and\npacked by horses to the Big Missouri camp; from there it was trucked to the dock at\nStewart. The 5-gallon cans were packed to Summit Lake and flown to Stewart.\nOwing to the steepness of the hillside adjacent to the portal, there was no storage\nspace for broken ore, and most of the fines have been lost in the dump. It is planned to\nattempt to provide ore storage space next summer.\nProduction: Ore mined, 18 tons. Gross content: Gold, 791 oz.; silver, 1,677 oz.;\nlead, 651 lb.; zinc, 3341b.\nSalmon River (56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E.)\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc * '\u25a0\nCompany office, 911 Birks Building, Vancouver; mine office,\nSilbak Premier Premier. D. L. Pitt, managing director; J. C. McCutcheon,\nMines Limited manager; S. F. MacDonald, mill superintendent; A. Kirby, Jr.,\nmine superintendent. J. C. McCutcheon resigned in October,\n1950, and S. F. MacDonald acted as manager for the remainder of the year.\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. .-'U. .11..,\nMETAL-MINING (LODE) A 77\nThe mine was worked 305 days in 1950. The main development consisted of\nexploration adjacent to existing workings, and some drifting easterly and northerly from\nthe present workings. Development footage totalled 6,083 feet, consisting of 2,060\nfeet of drifts, 1,296 feet of crosscuts, and 2,727 feet of raises. Drifting and raising from\nthe various stopes was classified as ore-breaking, and is not included in the foregoing\ndevelopment footages.\nDiamond drilling was the most important means of prospecting for new orebodies.\nDuring the latter part of the year two machines were worked on two shifts, and additional\nshort holes were drilled with an X-ray machine. The total diamond-drill footage was\n28,388 feet. Several small orebodies were found.\nAn average of 250 tons per day throughout the year was milled in the Premier mill.\nProduction: Ore milled, 79,167 tons.* Gross content of concentrates shipped:\nGold, 16,246 oz.; silver, 133,754 oz.; lead, 3,164,172 lb.; zinc, 3,266,623 lb.; cadmium,\n34,647 lb.\nCompany office, 709 Credit Foncier Building, Vancouver. T. E.\nIndian Mines Blossom, secretary. The Indian mine is on the west side of\n(1946) Ltd. Cascade Creek, across the valley from the Premier mine. An\nagreement was reached whereby Silbak Premier will mine and\nmill ore from the Indian property. The Silbak Premier company is to receive a management fee and a percentage of the profits.\nThe construction of a 2-mile aerial tram-line, between the two mines, was almost\ncompleted in 1950. The lower terminal and all the towers on the line were erected.\nIt is planned to complete the tram-line in the spring of 1951. Ore from the Indian\nmine is to be transported over the tram-line and treated at the Premier mill.\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 211 Pemberton Building, Victoria; mine address,\nSilver Tip Stewart. George Winkler, managing director. The Silver Tip\n(Silver Tip Gold group consists of eight mineral claims, six Crown-granted and two\nMines Limited) held by location. The claims adjoin Silver Creek and Williams\nCreek, on the south slope of Mount Dilsworth, 21 miles north of\nStewart. From the Big Missouri camp-site on Joker Flats, the trail, IVi miles long,\nleads to the Silver Tip cabin at an elevation of 3,450 feet.\nDevelopment work has been done intermittently at this property for over thirty\nyears. Most of the early work was done on a shear zone (the Butte Zone) on the Bella\nCoola claim. Here a series of quartz porphyry dykes intrudes sheared tuffs with erratic\nmineralization along slip planes adjacent to the dykes.\nIn recent years work has been concentrated on a series of narrow quartz-carbonate\nveins that outcrop adjacent to Silver Creek. The veins, striking easterly and dipping\ntoward the south at 30 to 40 degrees, are in fractures in silicified tuffs and locally contain\nshort concentrations of sulphide mineralization. Open-cuts have been made on the\nSilver Creek vein, on the west side of Silver Creek, and on the May P.J. vein on Porphyry\nCreek, a tributary entering Silver Creek from the east.\nIn 1949 ore from the surface open-cut on the May P.J. vein was sorted and sacked\nand was shipped to the Trail smelter. The shipment amounted to 9.3 tons and contained: Gold, 4 oz.; silver, \"693 oz.; lead, 3,070 lb.; zinc, 4,328 lb.\nUnderground workings on the May P.J. vein consist of a 240-foot crosscut to the\nvein and a drift on the vein to the east. The crosscut portal is at an elevation of 3,500\nfeet and is 95 feet lower than the surface outcrop.\nIn 1950 the drift to the east on the May P.J. vein was continued and 190 feet of\ndrifting and crosscutting were completed. Near the close of the season a cross-vein was\nintersected and was followed a short distance in a drift. This cross-vein, which strikes\n* This includes 7,629 tons of ore mined in Premier Border mine. A 78 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nnorth 60 degrees east, is probably an extension of the Blind vein which was cut in the\ncrosscut tunnel 60 feet from the portal.\nThe development was contracted by three hand-steel miners under the direction of\nW. R. Tooth.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1947, p. 82.]\nGold-Silver-Lead\nCompany office, 475 Howe Street, Vancouver. John Hovland,\nUnicorn Mines managing director. The Unicorn workings are 19 miles by road\nLimited and half a mile by trail north of Stewart. In 1950 No. 3 tunnel\nwas advanced 30 feet to a point 600 feet from the portal. This\ntunnel is being driven parallel to and a short distance east of the Unity shear zone.\nThree short crosscuts to the west from the tunnel have cut the Unity zone. The zone\nhas an indicated width of 20 feet and is irregularly mineralized with pyrite and a small\namount of galena. These sulphides are reported to carry a little gold and silver. The\ncompany plans to extend No. 3 tunnel to cut the \"A\" zone and to explore the intersection\nof the two shear zones.\nBear River (56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W.)\nGold-Silver\nYale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited diamond drilled the Red Cliff\nRed Cliff group during the summer of 1950. The claims are on the west\nside of the Bear River, near the mouth of American Creek. The\ntrail, 2 miles long, joins the Bear River road 12 miles from Stewart. The showings\nconsist of shear zones containing silicified volcanic rock mineralized with pyrite. In\n1940 a shipment of 34 tons of ore contained 82 ounces of gold and 36 ounces of silver.\nIn 1950 about 2,000 feet of diamond drilling was done. A number of short holes were\ndrilled on the upper showing on the north bank of Lydden Creek. A crew of eight men\nwas employed under the supervision of Jack McBeth.\nSilver-Lead-Zinc-Copper\nCompany office, Pemberton Building, Victoria. W. B. George,\nHeather and manager. The property consists of two groups of claims, the\nEnterprise (George Heather group on the south side of the Bear River and the Enter-\nEnterprise prise group on the north. The property is 8 miles by trail and\nMining Company) 12 miles by road from Stewart. In 1950 Mr. and Mrs. W. B.\nGeorge and two men continued development work. On the\nHeather group, trails were cut and the tunnel was extended 17 feet to a total length of\n50 feet from the portal. Above the tunnel three open-cuts were excavated. On the\nEnterprise group two open-cuts were dug.\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nAngelo Bugnelli, John Lehto, and Dave Menechello sorted and\nBig Four Silver shipped ore from the Prosperity mine dumps. The ore was packed\nMines Ltd. by horses down the Marmot River trail to the wharf at Marmot\nBay. Production: Ore shipped, 28 tons. Gross content: Silver,\n7,418 oz.; lead, 11,558 lb.; zinc, 10,425 lb.\nMarmot River (55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W.)*\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nGold Drop (Gold Drop Mines Limited).\u2014J. O. LeFrancois, manager. The Gold\nDrop group is south of the Marmot River, about IVi miles by tractor-road from the\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 79\nMarmot wharf. In 1950 a tunnel was driven 17 feet on the Key vein on the Telluride\nNo. 1 claim. Six men were employed for part of the season.\nALICE ARM*\nSilver-Lead\nTorbrit Silver\nMines Limited\n(55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W.) Registered office, 309 Royal Bank Building,\nVancouver; executive office, 350 Bay Street, Toronto; mine office,\nAlice Arm. G. B. Tribble, manager; A. M. Cormie, mine superintendent; R. W. Burton, mill superintendent. Capital: 3,000,000\nshares, $1 par value. The Torbrit camp and mill are on the west bank of the Kitsault\nRiver, 17 miles by road from the town of Alice Arm. The 1000 level or main haulage\nlevel of the mine is connected to the mill by a narrow-gauge railway 3,200 feet long.\nSilver, lead, and zinc are recovered in a flotation concentrate, and additional silver\nrecovered in the cyanide section of the mill is refined and shipped to the market as\nbullion.\nIn the mine, ore broken totalled 142,226 tons. Most of this ore was mined from\nshrinkage stopes on the 1000 and 1150 levels, but some was recovered from pillars\nabove the 1300 level. For pillar recovery 40-foot holes were drilled with leyner machines\nand tungsten-carbide bits attached to sectional steel.\"\nThe following is a summary of the work done during 1950:\u2014\nLevel\nAdvance\nOre\nWaste\nmnri\nDrifting\nFeet\n641\n8\n35\nTons\n4,102\n118\n257\nTons\n2,819\n1150 \t\nlinn\n684\n4,477\n2,819\nRaising\nmno \t\n217\n96\n220\n221\n2,986\n1,457\n1150 . \t\n608\n1300 . \t\n533\n829\n4,443\nStope Drifting\n1000 \t\n335\n12\n1,667\n40\n40\n1150 - - - -\t\n1300 \t\n347\n1,707\nSlope Raising\n1000 \t\n1,502\n127\n3,823\n436\n246\n1150 - .\u25a0-\t\n1300 \t\n1,629\n4,259\nStoping\n1000\t\n85,894\n40,773\n4,287\n1150 \t\n1300 \t\nTotal ore stoped\t\n130,954\n3,193\nTotal ore broken \t\n142,226\n7,548\nTotal diamond drilling for the year was 3,970 feet, all drilled from the 1000 level.\nA new shaft was raised from the 1000 level to the surface. The shaft was enlarged\nand timbered for three compartments. A headframe and a hoist-room were erected,\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. A 80 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nand a 53- by 36-inch double-drum electric hoist was installed. At the end of the year,\npreparations were complete for sinking, with the object of developing two new levels\nbelow the main-haulage tunnel.\nOther new work included an addition to the dam on Clearwater Lake designed to\ndouble the water-storage capacity, at the source, of water for power-plant operation;\nfurther snowshedding between mine and mill; and the installation of a new 45-horse-\npower heating boiler.\nDuring 1950 the quantity of ore milled averaged 357 tons per day. Change in the\nreagent used resulted in improvement in the recovery of silver and lead and in the grade\nof silver-lead concentrate produced. Experimental work is being continued, and there\nare indications of a further improvement in recovery. In March, 1950, four scavenger\ncells were added to the flotation circuit to enable it to handle peak loads of 400 tons\nper day.\nProduction: Ore milled, 130,290 tons. Flotation concentrates amounting to 4,032\ntons were shipped to the Trail smelter, and additional silver amounting to 350,076 ounces\nwas sold as bullion. Gross content of concentrates and bullion shipped: Silver, 2,293,238\noz.; lead, 1,004,194 1b.; zinc, 190,852 1b.\n(55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W.) The claims lie on the east side of the Kitsault\nGalena valley, 1 mile from the Kitsault River tractor-trail. The trail to the\nproperty branches off the main trail at a point 3 miles north of the\nTorbrit shaft. In the fall of 1950 an option was taken on the Galena and Galena No. 1\nclaims by W. E. McArthur, Jr., and T. McArthur. Some surface stripping, trenching,\nand sampling were done.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1948, p. 75.]\nOBSERVATORY INLET (55\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W.)*\nCopper\nAnyox (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited).\n\u2014During the summer of 1950 five men were employed for two months doing detailed\ngeological mapping of the surface and studying the old workings on the Hidden Creek\nproperty at Anyox.\nMAYO MOUNTAIN (54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.W.)t\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nThe Beaver group of seven claims, owned by S. R. Ling and L. W.\nBeaver Jorgensen and in 1950 optioned to Lake Expanse Gold Mines\nLimited through D. M. Cannon, is on Mayo Mountain northwest\nof Terrace. Exploration work was in progress on these claims in July, 1950, under the\ndirection of H. M. Mather.\nAccess to the property is from the north end of Kitsumgallum Lake by a logging-\nroad running northerly for about 2 miles to a small pole camp and thence by trail across\nthe Little Beaver River and up its valley for about 4 miles from the camp. The trail then\nclimbs very steeply to the top of the ridge and follows the top of the ridge westerly to the\nclaims. The total distance from the pole camp is about 9 miles.\nThe claims are on the ridge of Mayo Mountain, and the workings are in a saddle just\neast of the highest point on the mountain. In July, 1950, a vein had been traced by open-\ncuts for about 1,000 feet. It is in sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton group; the strike of\nthese rocks is about north 35 degrees east and the dip is about 40 degrees to the south.\nTuff, argillite, and quartzite were observed. Within a mile southwesterly from the western\n* By F. J. Hemsworth.\nt By J. H. Bennett. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 81\nend of the workings, numerous grey dykes can be seen, and what appear to be masses of\ngranitic rock.\nThe average strike of the vein is north 80 degrees east, and the dip about 75 degrees\nnortherly. The vein filling is quartz, well mineralized with arsenopyrite, galena, and, in\nplaces, sphalerite. Spectrochemical analysis of the sphalerite showed an appreciable\ncontent of cadmium. The wallrock is not mineralized and shows little alteration.\nThe vein, in the open-cuts, varies in width from 18 to 24 inches; the average width\nis close to 24 inches. One shaft has been sunk 22 feet, about midway along the workings.\nLadders had been removed, and the shaft could not be entered, but it could be seen that\nthe vein is narrower in the bottom of the shaft than on surface. All the way down to the\nbottom the vein is well mineralized with arsenopyrite and galena.\nThree samples were taken along the vein in the open-cuts. Results are tabulated\nbelow:\u2014\nSample No.\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\nLead\nZinc\nInches\n24\n24\n19\nOz. per Ton\n0.22\n0.49\n0.22\nOz. per Ton\n0.3\n16.6\n3.4\nPer Cent\n0.51\n3.9\n2.3\nPer Cent\n3 \t\nNil\nSpectrochemical results.\nFiddler (Dorreen\nGold Mines\nLimited)\nDORREEN (54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E.)*\nGold-Copper-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 553 Granville Street, Vancouver; mine office,\nDorreen. Alex Mackenzie, president; P. E. Peterson, manager.\nIn 1949 this company started construction of a 5-mile road to the\nproperty from Dorreen, a small town on the Canadian National\nRailway 125 miles east of Prince Rupert. In 1950 the road was\ncompleted and a flotation mill was constructed on Knauss Creek, a tributary of Fiddler\nCreek. The mill is about half a mile from the mine portal and will be connected to it by\nan aerial tramway and a truck-road.\nThe main vein is bedded and dips 30 degrees in argillaceous limestone. A description of the geology and underground workings may be found in the Annual Reports of\nthe British Columbia Minister of Mines for 1916 and 1925 under the name \"Fiddler\ngroup.\" No mining has been done since 1926.\nDuring 1950, in preparation for mining, an air-line was laid from the 500-cubic-foot\ncompressor, at the mill, to the mine portal. In addition to the usual mining equipment,\na slusher hoist and scraper were purchased and will be used to move ore and waste in the\n30-degree raises.\nThe mill is designed to treat 30 tons of ore a day. From the coarse-ore bin the ore\nwill be fed through an 8- by 24-inch crusher to the fine-ore bin and from it to a 5- by\n4-foot ball mill. The ball-mill discharge will flow through an hydraulic gold-trap to the\nclassifier. The classifier overflow will pass over blanket tables to conditioner cells then to\nan 8-cell mechanical flotation unit and to a 10-foot Forrester-type flotation cell. There\nare four settling-tanks and a furnace for drying the concentrates. The mill has been completed except for concentrate storage bins and the concrete floor.\nPower for mill machinery and air compression is supplied through individual Pelton-\ntype water-wheels. The water-main, constructed of 12-inch diameter wood-stave pipe,\nis 2,500 feet long. The difference in elevation between the intake at the dam on Knauss\nCreek and the water-wheels is 220 feet.\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. A 82 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nBecause of heavy snow and cold weather, construction was stopped at the end of\nNovember, 1950. The management decided to wait for more favourable weather to\ncomplete the aerial tram and mill. Production is planned for early in 1951. The average\nnumber employed was eight.\nHAZELTON (55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E. AND S.W.)*\nGlen and Nine Mile Mountains Area\nSilver-Lead-Zinc-Gold\nLocation and Access.\u2014This report describes the geology and some of the mineral\ndeposits of an area that includes the Silver Standard mine and numerous prospects.\nDuring two months of 1950 the writer mapped the area and investigated the orebodies\nat the Silver Standard mine. The area is in Omineca Mining Division, north of New\nHazelton, and extends northeastward from the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley\nRivers to Shegunia River and the ridge that trends southward from the summit of Nine\nMile Mountain.\nNew Hazelton is on the Canadian National Railway and on the highway between\nPrince George and Prince Rupert. Most of the area is fairly accessible by road (see\nFig. 1). A narrow winding road extends from a highway near New Hazelton to the Silver\nStandard mine and a branch road goes up the valley of Two Mile Creek for several miles\nand passes within half a mile of the workings on the American Standard property. From\nthe upper end of the branch road a trail leads to the prospects at the north end of Nine\nMile Mountain. This trail follows the route of a former wagon-road, most of which\nwould have to be rebuilt before it could be used for wheeled vehicles. A road extends\nacross the southern part of the area and another road goes up the Skeena valley to\nShegunia River.\nHistory.\u2014In this area, near what was to become the route of the Grand Trunk\nPacific Railway, later the Canadian National Railway, prospectors started to search for\nnew mines about the beginning of the century. Overburden effectively covers most of the\narea, and it was not until 1908 that veins were first found. These were near the top of\nNine Mile Mountain above timberline, where rocks were well exposed. In 1909 veins\nwere found on Four Mile Mountain. In 1910 a forest fire burned over a large part of the\narea, and veins were found on the southwest slope of Nine Mile Mountain and on Glen\nMountain. It is from the veins found at that time on Glen Mountain that ore is now\nobtained. Exploration and development were started in 1910, and after the railway\nbetween New Hazelton and Prince Rupert was completed in 1913 ore was shipped from\nseveral properties.\nOre was shipped from the Silver Standard between 1913 and 1917, when a gravity\nmill was built on Two Mile Creek. The mill was operated during part of 1918, 1919,\n1920, and three months of 1922. Some work was done at the mine in 1938 and 1947.\nThe present company, Silver Standard Mines Limited, started exploration and development in 1947. A flotation mill was built in 1948 and has been operated continuously\nsince September, 1948, except for a few weeks during the first winter when the water-\nlines froze.\nFrom 1910 to 1918 the American Boy property was explored and developed, and\nfrom 1913 to 1916 ore was shipped to a smelter. From 1917 to 1918 ore was concentrated at the Silver Standard mill. Exploratory work was done in the years 1927 and\n1937. In 1950 a new company, American Standard Mines Limited, started to explore\nthe same veins.\nOre, was shipped from the Silver Cup property on Nine Mile Mountain in the periods\n1914 to 1916 and 1925 to 1927. In 1927 an aerial tramway was built, and a flotation\n* By J. M. Black, except as noted. Fig.i. Surface geo[_ogy,Glen and Nine Mile Mountains area.Hazelton\nPOST EARLY CRETACEOUS - GRANODIORITIC\nAND PORPHYRITIC BODIES\nLATE JURASSIC-TUFFACEOUS SANDSTON E,GREY-\nWACKE,ARGILLITE,COAL,ABUNDANT PLANT REMAINS\nJURASSIC-CHIEFLY TUFFACEOUS SANDSTONE,GREY-\nWACKE,SOME ARGILLITE AND CONGLOMERATE\nNOTE: 500 FOOT CONTOURS ONLY SHOWN ON EAST HALF\nAND 100 FOOT CONTOURS ON WEST HALF METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 83\nmill completed in 1929 was operated for seven months of that year. The mine and mill\nwere then closed. The mill was designed to recover a lead concentrate and a zinc concentrate, but low recoveries led to the use of a circuit that produced only a combined\nconcentrate containing most of the lead and silver and much of the zinc. Some ore has\nbeen shipped since the mine was closed.\nThe veins on the Sunrise property, which adjoins the Silver Cup on the east, were\nexplored after 1909, and some ore was shipped in 1915. Additional work was done on\nthe surface and underground in 1920. In 1923 and 1927 a crosscut adit was driven to\nexplore ground below some of the showings. In 1937 additional veins were found by\nstripping.\nFrom the Lead King property, which is east of the Sunrise, 5 tons of ore was shipped\nin 1909. Since that time some of the veins have been stripped and some underground\nwork has been done.\nOn Four Mile Mountain, exploration of veins on the Erie or Mohawk property was\nstarted in 1909 and continued until 1914. Further exploratory work and development\nwere done in 1920, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, and ore was shipped in the years 1913,\n1925, 1928, and 1929.\nThe Surprise claims, which adjoin the Silver Standard on the north, have been\nexplored by trenches and a crosscut adit. This work was completed in 1917, and little\nhas been done since.\nOther veins on Nine Mile Mountain and Four Mile Mountain have been explored,\nand a few tons of ore shipped from them but none of them were being developed in 1950.\nThe gross contents of the ore and concentrates shipped from the properties of the\narea, up to the end of 1950, are set forth in the following table. The tonnage includes\nore shipped crude and ore milled. The metal contents are the contents of crude ore and\nconcentrates shipped. The table includes all production, except for a few shipments\namounting to a few tons only.\nTons\nGold\nSilver\nLead\nZinc\nRemarks\nAmerican Boy .\nErie \t\nMohawk\t\nSilver Cup \t\nSilver Pick\t\nSilver Standard.\nSunrise \t\nTotals.\nOz.\nO'.\nLb.\nLb.\n363\n16\n14,351\n76,419\n15,740\n45\n5.175\n11,763\n141\n2\n16.041\n35,826\n38,396\n5,144\n20\n112,941\n501,062\n270,183\n26\n15\n6,727\n925\n1,843\n56,501\n4,538\n1,917,603\n3,614,210\n7,036,736\n74\n8,268\n66,115\n62,274\n4,591\n2,081,106\n4,306,320\n7,362,898\nZinc from 254 tons.\nZinc from 123 tons.\nZinc from 4,910 tons.\nZinc from 16 tons.\nZinc from 55,329 tons.\nZinc from 60,632 tons.\nThe totals do not include the metal content and tonnage of waste discarded before\nore was shipped and the metal content of tailings from ore milled. These omissions tend\nto balance one another. The average grade calculated from the totals is about: Gold,\n0.07 oz. per ton; silver, 33.4 oz. per ton; lead, 3.5 per cent; zinc, 6.0 per cent.\nThe properties have been described in the Annual Reports of the British Columbia\nMinister of Mines for the years during which they were developed. The geology of the\narea is described in publications of the Geological Survey of Canada. Of these, Memoir\n110, by O'Neill, published in 1919, summarizes much of the information then available.\nMemoir 223, by Kindle, published in 1940, describes the mineral occurrences, and Preliminary Map 44-24, with explanatory notes by Armstrong, published in 1944, outlines\nthe geology.\nA topographic map of the area made in 1949 at a scale of 2 inches to the mile with\n100-foot contours was enlarged to 4 inches to the mile to form a base for the writer's\ngeological mapping in 1950. Near the Silver Standard mine some of the area was mapped\nwith a plane-table on a scale of 1 inch to 100 feet. A 84 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nGeneral Description.\u2014The western part of the area slopes gently upward from the\nSkeena River, at about 750 feet altitude, to about 1,500 feet. Glen Mountain, altitude\n2,000 feet, and a few lesser hills rise above the general level. Most of the eastern part of\nthe area has a fairly uniform slope from about 1,500 feet altitude to the top of Nine Mile\nMountain, a curved ridge in the Babine Range with its crest at 4,500 to 5,000 feet\naltitude. Shegunia River has entrenched itself in these slopes and has cut bedrock canyons\nover 200 feet deep. In the extreme northeastern part of the area, cirques have been cut\ninto the north slope of Nine Mile Mountain. At the southern boundary the Bulkley River\nis deeply entrenched and has cut canyons as much as 200 feet into bedrock.\nShegunia River is a fast mountain stream with many rapids and falls. Water power\ncould be developed at a canyon at the end of the road from Hazelton. The Bulkley River\nis a large potential power source.\nMost of the area is covered by a few feet of overburden, and rock exposures are few,\nexcept along the Bulkley and Shegunia Rivers, the top of Nine Mile Mountain, and a few\nroad cuts. Several fair stands of timber had been logged off and some of the remaining\nones are being logged now. Timberline is between 4,000 and 5,000 feet altitude.\nGeneral Geology.\u2014Most of the area is underlain by members of a thick series of\nsedimentary and volcanic rocks called the Hazelton group. The remainder of the area\nis underlain by numerous bodies of granitic rock (see Fig. 1).\nMost of the exposed beds of the Hazelton group are some shade of grey, and a minor\nproportion are very dark grey to black. Generally the grey beds are several feet thick.\nThey are sandstones but as a rule are tuffaceous, containing some ash, glass fragments,\nand crystals. Some beds contain angular fragments of dark rocks and much tuffaceous\nmaterial and resemble greywacke. The darker beds as a rule are not more than a few\ninches thick, though some are several feet thick; some are shaly and some are carbonaceous. There has been widespread addition of carbonates, and many beds have had\npyrite introduced and weather to a rusty colour.\nSubdivision of the Hazelton group is made difficult because of lack of contrast\nbetween members and because of the scarcity of outcrops. However, a tentative subdivision into three parts has been made.\nThe first part, Subdivision A, includes mainly tuffaceous sandstone and greywacke,\nsome pebble conglomerate, and comparatively few dark argillaceous laminae. No fossils\nhave been found in it. This subdivision is exposed on Glen Mountain and in the workings\nof the Silver Standard mine.\nSubdivision B includes a greater proportion of dark shaly beds interbedded with\ntuffaceous sandstone and greywacke and numerous coal beds. Many of the dark beds\ncontain abundant plant remains. The members of this subdivision are exposed south\nand southwest of Glen Mountain and along the lower part of the Shegunia River, where\nseveral coal seams crop out. Much of the low ground of the area is probably underlain\nby members of Subdivision B, which erode more readily than the massive sandstones\nwhich predominate in Subdivisions A and C.\nSubdivision C includes mostly sandy beds, less tuffaceous than those of Subdivision A, and a small proportion of shaly beds. Ripple-marked sandstone is common.\nFossil shells have been found at several points, but only a few fragments of plant fossils\nwere seen. The members of this subdivision are exposed in the eastern part of the area,\non Nine Mile Mountain, and the upper part of the Shegunia River.\nThe transition from Subdivision A, predominantly of tuffaceous sandstone beds, to\nSubdivision B, containing many shaly beds with plant fossils, appears to be gradational\nand likewise no break is known between Subdivisions B and C. The contacts between\nthe three subdivisions identified are drawn arbitrarily on the map as far as the incomplete\nexposures permit. The contact between Subdivisions B and C is not shown on the --'-I... .-..,\u25a0->' :,,!,\nMETAL-MINING (LODE) A 85\nsouthern part of Figure 1 because, except for a very few outcrops of altered sedimentary\nrocks, the outcrops are mainly of granitic rock.\nSpecimens of fossil flora and fauna were collected in this area by the writer in 1948\nand were examined by B. F. Howell and E. Dorf of Princeton University.\nRegarding the flora, Dorf comments that the presence of specimens of Czekanowska\nindicates equivalence to Kootenay flora elsewhere and that the remaining species in the\ncollection are common to both Kootenay and Blairmore flora. He concludes that the\nspecimens came from beds that probably are of Late Jurassic age. All these specimens\nof flora are from beds now included as part of Subdivision B.\nIn the fauna, Howell identified specimens of Amelia cf. gigas Crickmay, and Aucella\ncf. catamorpha Crickmay. From the presence of these forms he concluded that the beds\nthey came from are probably of Early Cretaceous age but may possibly be Late Jurassic\nin age. The specimens of fauna came from beds now included as part of Subdivision C.\nNo erosion interval is known, and sedimentation may have continued from Jurassic\ninto Early Cretaceous times.\nThe granitic rocks are as a rule light grey or green. They are mostly quartz and\nfeldspar porphyries and include what is probably altered granodiorite and some hornblende porphyry. Most of these rocks are altered, with carbonate and sericite replacing\nfeldspar. Pyrite is common in these rocks.\nThe granitic rocks are more resistant to erosion than the sedimentary rocks and in\nplaces outcrop, although the surrounding sedimentary rocks do not. Some of the outcrops of granitic rock near contacts with sedimentary rocks form bluffs, and it is likely\nthat other lines of bluffs are close to a contact with unexposed sediments. The bluffs\ncan be observed on aerial photographs, and the outlines of some of the bodies shown on\nFigure 1 are based partly on such observation. As shown on Figure 1, some of the\nbodies are elongate.\nNear the bridge in the lower canyon of Shegunia River, a body of granitic rock is\nexposed. A distinctive pattern, caused by a slight difference in the vegetation growing\non this intrusive, is seen on aerial photographs continuing southward from Shegunia\nRiver. This difference in growth may indicate that the intrusive body also continues\nsouthward.\nThe contacts between granitic and sedimentary rocks are generally not exposed,\nso the relationship between the two rocks is not seen. A contact crossed by the south\ndrift on 6 vein, 1300 level, underground at the Silver Standard mine, is faulted. In a few\nplaces where members of the Hazelton group are exposed near a contact the attitude of\nthe beds is much the same as that of beds farther from the contact, and apparently there\nis a little disruption or contortion at these contacts.\nSome dykes are exposed near the contact of the Silver Cup granitic body, but elsewhere very few dykes were seen. None were seen in the workings of the Silver Standard\nmine, but cores from two holes drilled southeastward near a granitic body exposed underground (see Fig. 2) include some granitic rock that probably comes from dyke-like\nbodies.\nMost of the granitic bodies are exposed in the western and southern parts of the\narea, which are the lower parts.\nAll the granitic bodies presumably are of the same age and younger than Subdivision C of the Hazelton group.\nStructural Geology.\u2014The members of the Hazelton group have been gently folded\nand the fold axes are indicated on Figure 1. Generally the dips are moderate to low,\nbut on the ridge of Nine Mile Mountain dips steeper than 45 degrees are common. Along\nthe lower part of the Shegunia River some of the beds are crumpled and in a. few places\nare overturned. * '*\"- '\" A 86 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nIn the northern two-thirds of the area, the folds trend slightly east of north except\nat Glen Mountain, where the axes trend slightly west of north. As a rule the folds in the\nwestern part plunge gently southward and those in the eastern part plunge gently northward. The anticline and syncline southwest of the Silver Standard mine (see Fig. 1)\nseem to die out toward the south, and possibly all the folds are short. Between the folds\nof the east and of the west of this part of the area, the beds in the north dip northwards\nand those in the south dip southwards.\nIn the southern third of the area, the fold axes trend northeasterly, parallel to the\nelongation of the granitic bodies. This suggests that similar forces controlled the shape\nof the folds and of the intrusives.\nThe tuffaceous sandstones and greywackes of Subdivision A appear to be encircled\nby the beds- of the overlying more argillaceous Subdivision B which dip under the beds\nof Subdivision C on upper Shegunia River and Nine Mile Mountain. This distribution\nsuggests that the group has been domed, the dome being elongate with the long axis\ntrending northward and the apex near Glen Mountain. The presence of intrusive bodies\nnear by suggests that one of these could have caused the uplift and that the small exposures\nof granitic rock of Glen Mountain may be offshoots from a larger mass not yet uncovered.\nThe lack of recognizable contacts between the three subdivisions of the Hazelton\ngroup makes it difficult to determine the relationship of the dome to the folds. The\napparent lack of folds north and south of the apex of the dome may indicate that the\ndistribution of the members of the Hazelton group is a result largely of the doming and\nnot of the folding.\nNo major faults were seen. Numerous faults are exposed in the Silver Standard\nmine, but the displacement on most is only a few inches or a few feet. Others are\nexposed in the lower part of the Shegunia River; some of these are normal and others\nreverse, but the movement on each seems to be only a few feet.\nFracture cleavage is fairly well developed in the rocks of the southern part of Glen\nMountain. The cleavage planes are from a fraction of an inch to a few inches apart\nand are most common in the thinner shaly members of the series. The cleavage planes\n(see Fig. 1) as a rule strike southeasterly and dip steeply, nearly vertical.\nVeins.\u2014Many quartz and carbonate veins cut the sedimentary and granitic rocks.\nMost of those known are on Glen and Nine Mile Mountains, and most of these strike\nnortherly to northeasterly and dip eastward with little variation. Possibly the forces\nresponsible for the vein fractures acted nearly uniformly over the whole area. The\nveins cut all types of country rock, but most of those seen are in the massive members of\nthe Hazelton group or in granitic rocks, or follow contacts between these two types.\nVeins may be common in the more argillaceous parts of the group, but since those\nmembers do not outcrop extensively, few veins were seen in the area underlain by this\npart of the group.\nSome of the veins consist of quartz and carbonate with only minor amounts of\nmetallic materials. Other veins contain a considerable proportion of metallic minerals,\nchiefly sulphides and sulpho-salts, and all the ore has come from such veins. The sulphides are sphalerite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and the\nsulpho-salts are tetrahedrite, jamesonite, and minor amounts of a few others. The same\nminerals are found in most of the mineralized veins, except that tetrahedrite and jamesonite as a rule are not found in the same veins. In veins on Glen Mountain tetrahedrite\nis common and jamesonite uncommon, whereas in veins on Nine Mile and Four Mile\nMountains, jamesonite is common and tetrahedrite much less common. This change\nindicates a proportionate decrease in copper and an increase in lead in the eastern veins.\nA similar decrease in zinc relative to the amount of lead is noticeable in the veins of the\nAmerican Standard property as compared with the veins of the Silver Standard. These r l v \\\nFIG.2.PLAN OFSlLVER STANDARD MINE AND SURPRISE ADIT METAL-MINING (LODE) A 87\nchanges, based on information which is far from complete, indicate that the proportion\nof lead in veins increases, relative to copper and zinc, toward the east.\n[References: Geol. Surv., Canada, Prelim, Map 44-24.]\nDescriptions of Properties\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.) Company office, Suite 213, 602 Hastings Street\nSilver Standard West, Vancouver. R. W. Wilson, managing director; H. B. Gille-\n(Silver Standard land, general superintendent. Capital: 3,500,000 shares, 50 cents\nMines Limited) par value. The company owns the Crown-granted claims Almo\n(L. 2259), Leadville (L. 2260), Standard (L. 2261), Silver\nStandard (L. 2262), Skagway (L. 2263), Glen Mountain (L. 2264), Canadian King\n(L. 2409), Canadian Queen (L. 2410), Black Prince (L. 2411), Speculator (L. 2412),\nSwiftwater (L. 2413), Clearwater (L. 2414), Canadian Queen Fraction (L. 2415), King\nFraction (L. 2417), and holds by location thirty-two claims. The mine is north of the\ncommunities of Hazelton and New Hazelton and is reached from them by about 1 Vi miles\nalong the highway and about AVt. miles along a narrow winding road (see Fig. 1).\nThese claims cover much of Glen Mountain and some of the low ground around it.\nThe main workings are at the north end of the mountain and the main adit level is near\nthe foot of the northwest slope.\nThe camp, including office, dry, store-house, power-house, bunk-house, residence,\nand flotation mill, is slightly lower than the portal of the main haulage level. The mill\ntreats about 60 tons of ore daily. Power is developed by a diesel plant. Water is pumped\nfrom a small creek that flows out of Standard Lake toward Skeena River. About eighty\nmen are employed at the property.\nDuring 1950 the mine was worked 281 days and 8,799 shifts were worked underground, and 1,715 cases of powder, 38,900 blasting-caps, 345,000 feet of fuse, and 871\nelectric delay caps were used. Ore drawn: Vein 1, 1,381 tons; vein 4, 12,606 tons;\nvein 6, 12,938 tons; vein 7, 1,002 tons. In addition, 902 tons came from development\nheadings and 875 tons was drawn from the surface stockpile and the old tailings pile at\nTwo Mile Creek, making a total of 29,722 tons, of which 8,618 tons was sorted out as\nwaste and the remainder was milled. The mill was operated 97 per cent of the time.\nDevelopment work consisted of 2,019 feet of drift, 154 feet of crosscut, 428 feet of\nraise, and 143 feet of winze. Of the drifts, 40 per cent has been classified by the management as being in ore. Diamond drilling underground totalled 2,888 feet and on the\nsurface totalled 2,602 feet.\nProduction, 1950: Ore milled, 21,104 tons. Concentrates: Lead, 1,687 tons; zinc,\n2,973 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 1,958 oz.; silver, 897,420 oz.; lead,\n1,741,800 lb.; zinc, 3,439,000 lb.; cadmium, 44,470 lb.\nFrom 1913 to 1917 crude ore was shipped and from 1918 to 1922 ore was concentrated. Ore shipped or milled to the time operations ceased in 1922 amounted to 14,338\ntons, and the products shipped contained: Gold, 1,118 oz.; silver, 595,668 oz.; lead,\n1,208,792 lb.; zinc, 1,640,768 lb. Since 1947, when the mine was reopened, the production has been: Ore milled, 42,163 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 3,420\noz.; silver, 1,321,935 oz.; lead, 2,405,418 lb.; zinc, 5,395,968 lb.; cadmium, 64,945 lb.\nMost of the production has come from four veins, numbered 7, 4, 1, and 6.\nThe property was first developed by an inclined shaft on vein 7 (see Fig. 2) from\nthe surface at 1,735 feet altitude down to the 1400 level at about 1,420 feet altitude.\nIntermediate levels 1600 and 1500 were developed, and ore was stoped above 1500 level\nmostly from a footwall split of vein 7. A winze was sunk 90 feet to a sublevel below\nthe 1400 level.\nN.B.\u2014Data re samples, indicated on Figure 2, are tabulated on page 93. A 88 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nIn the next stage of development, a crosscut adit was driven to connect with the\n1500 level. This crosscut exposed vein 4, from which some ore was stoped above the\nlevel. The next major development was driving the 1300 crosscut adit which, when work\nwas stopped in 1922, had been driven beyond vein 1 but not as far as vein 4. In 1947\nthis crosscut was advanced to vein 4 and since then has been driven past vein 6 and both\nfootwall and hangingwall veins of vein 7. In 1950 a winze was sunk in the footwall of\nvein 1 for 125 feet and drifting was started on the 1200 level.\nIn the early period of exploration, veins 1, 4, 7, and 8 were well exposed by numerous\ntrenches and rock cuts and the 9, 10, and Black Prince veins were exposed by a few\ntrenches and rock cuts. In the recent period some of the trenches have been cleaned out\nand veins 0 and 00 have been exposed by new trenches.\nThe rocks exposed in the workings are part of Subdivision A of the Hazelton group\n(see p. 84), except for the granitic intrusive penetrated by the southwest end of the\n1300 level drift on vein 6. Other intrusive rocks are exposed at the surface, southwest\nof the workings.\nFigure 2 shows the veins and the workings as of September 15th, 1950. This plan\nis drawn from company data with some information added by the writer. Each of the\ntwo granitic bodies whose outline is cut off at the edge of the plan have an areal extent\noutside the map-area about equal to that within the map-area. Not shown on the map\nare: Vein 00, about 500 feet west of vein 0; vein 9, about 500 feet east of vein 8; vein\n10, about 600 feet east of vein 8; and Black Prince vein, about 1,500 feet east of vein 8.\nVein 4 extends southwestward about 75 feet beyond the edge of the map-area.\nMost of the Hazelton group rocks are tuffaceous and argillaceous sandstones and\ngreywackes. They are in beds a few feet thick and are massive, grey, and fine grained,\nand have a smooth, blocky fracture. Interbedded with these are very thin beds of about\nthe same composition but of a variety of colours, ranging from light grey to nearly black\nand some of a slight greenish tinge; some are graphitic. Many of these thin beds are\nlenticular and pinch out in a few feet. They are common only in the western part of the\nworkings.\nMany of the beds have been altered by the introduction of carbonate and pyrite.\nIntense alteration within a few feet of the veins, the result of the replacement of\nsome of the minerals by carbonates, has changed the colour of many of the beds from the\nprevailing grey to light grey or cream or ivory. Different beds after alteration appear so\nmuch alike that bedding is obscure, particularly near veins, and since most of the workings\nare drifts along veins it is difficult to recognize or trace the beds.\nIn addition to the granitic rocks indicated on Figure 2, there are granitic rocks southeast of the drift on 6 vein, 1300 level. These rocks, cored by holes drilled from the\ndrift, are probably in dyke-like bodies. The granitic rocks are sericitized and carbona-\ntized, and the rocks of the Hazelton group near them are also altered.\nThe beds are on the west limb of an anticline (see Fig. 2), the axis of which is east\nof the Silver Standard workings, and are near the apex of the dome mentioned on page\n86. Most of the beds dip westward and southward at angles less than 20 degrees. Steeper\ndips are uncommon, except in the west near vein 1 where the beds dip as much as 50\ndegrees. Beds dipping eastward were seen in a few places, but some of these are in local\nfolds (drag) near fractures and others probably are in gentle rolls on the gently dipping\nlimb of the anticline. These attitudes are chiefly those measured in isolated exposures\nand are not based on the position of any bed or group of beds. However, it was possible\nto trace a distinctive group of dark beds for 200 feet to where it dipped below the workings, and its attitude was seen to conform with the attitude of individual beds near by.\nAnother group of beds includes many with a slight green tinge and others that are\npale grey. This group grades into grey beds both above it and below it and could not be\ntraced with certainty. However, similar beds are found between veins 6 and 4 on 1500 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 89\nlevel and between veins 4 and 1 on 1300 level, and the indicated westward dip also\ncorresponds to the dip of individual beds.\nMany fractures cut the beds of the Hazelton group, including some that contain the\nveins being explored and mined. The fractures and the veins they contain extend southward into the granitic rocks.\nThe principal vein fractures are subparallel, strike northeastward, and dip southeastward. Most of them are straight, but some are curved and tend to strike more to the\neast in the northeastern part of their length. Their dips range from 80 degrees to 35\ndegrees but are mostly about 60 to 70 degrees; the only principal fracture known that\ndips less than 40 degrees is the one that contains vein 6. Several of the fractures have\nbeen explored for lengths of several hundred feet, and vein 4 fracture continues for more\nthan 2,000 feet.\nThese fractures contain up to an inch or two of gouge. Grooves and striations on\nthe walls pitch at all angles. Some of the fractures are single, but some form multiple\nzones of fracturing. The fractures offset the beds with a net displacement of a few inches\nto several feet. The grooves and strias and the number of fractures within some zones\nsuggest that there have been several movements in the same zone but not all in the same\ndirection. In some cases the movement appears to be normal and in others reverse.\nMinor slips in the walls have about the same strike but dip less steeply than the\nfractures.\nFrom the principal fractures many lesser ones diverge into the walls, most commonly\ninto the footwall, but some into the hangingwall. These fractures strike northerly, most\nof them dip steeply, and as a rule they contain veins, which decrease in width away from\nthe principal fracture. Few of them have been followed more than a few feet from the\nmain fractures.\nThe third type of fracture most common in the eastern workings also strikes northward but offsets the principal vein fractures to the left. Most of these fractures dip\neastward, and some contain a small amount of vein matter.\nA fourth type includes fractures that dip very gently and in part follow bedding\nplanes. As a rule the movement on them is a few inches and is not consistently in one\ndirection. These fractures are common only in the eastern workings; most of them were\nformed at about the same time as the introduction of vein matter, but some are younger\nthan the veins.\nA fault zone that appears to strike east-northeastward offsets vein 1 a few feet, about\n160 feet northeast of the main crosscut, where it is also cut by several northerly striking\nfaults. Although the vein is apparently offset only a few feet northeast of the fault zone,\nthe vein is markedly different, and the vertical movement in the fault zone may be\nconsiderably greater than the apparent horizontal offset.\nNumerous minor slips, many of them filled with chlorite, cut the Hazelton group\nrocks.\nThe principal fractures, and the splits from them, contain the veins that are being\nmined. The principal veins consist mainly of milky white quartz that is generally massive\nand fractured. Some younger veinlets, as much as 2 inches wide, cut the main veins, and\nin them quartz crystals have grown from both walls toward the unfilled interiors. The\nother principal gangue minerals are massive white calcite and buff siderite, which occur\nin most veins. Calcite crystals occur in the open veinlets with the quartz crystals. A few\nparticles of orange scheelite were noted in vein 1 on 1200 level, and near it some grey\npotash feldspar. Some chlorite occurs in fractures about up to an eighth of an inch wide,\ncutting the veins and wallrock.\nThe veins vary in width from a fraction of an inch to as much as 12 feet, but widths\nof 1 to 3 feet are most common. Some parts of the vein fractures contain no vein\nmaterial, only gouge. A 90 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nMetallic minerals commonly present in the veins include sphalerite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, pyrrhotite, tetrahedrite, and chalcopyrite in approximate order of abundance. A minor amount of a lead bismuth mineral, probably cosalite, occurs in vein 8\non 1500 level, and a small particle of ruby silver was seen in vein 7 on 1300 level.\nMetallic minerals are as a rule in pockets and irregular veinlets which tend to be parallel\nto the vein walls, and to be either near one wall of the vein or where the quartz is\nfractured. The sulphides as a rule are massive, but crystals of pyrite and arsenopyrite\nare fairly common, and crystals of sphalerite have been found.\nSplits in the veins are common, and the veins contain many inclusions, some of\nwhich are irregular and angular and others thin slabs oriented parallel to the vein walls.\nAs a rule the wallrock in inclusions and within 2 feet of the veins is partly replaced by\npyrite and arsenopyrite.\nThe proportion of vein minerals present varies widely. Quartz is generally by far\nthe most abundant constituent and in some parts of some veins is the only mineral\napparent. Elsewhere the metallic minerals form a considerable proportion of the vein\nmaterial. In some sections iron sulphides predominate. In other sections, sphalerite\nand galena are the abundant metallic minerals, and in some parts of vein 6 galena and\nsphalerite with some tetrahedrite make up most of the vein.\nThe veins are called 00, 0, 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and Black Prince. Veins\n2, 3, and 5, where exposed underground, are only a few inches wide. The only ore mined\nfrom them was a pocket in vein 5 above 1500 level. Veins 00, 0, 9, 10, and Black Prince\nare exposed only at the surface. Some of them are being explored by diamond drilling.\nStopes on veins 1, 4, 6, and 7 have provided most of the ore. Some ore has been mined\nfrom vein 8 at the surface. A more detailed description of the productive veins follows.\nVein 1, 1300 Level.\u2014-South of the main crosscut the vein is slightly less than a foot\nwide and contains some sphalerite and galena. North of the crosscut to the fault zone,\nthe vein is generally 2 to 3 feet wide and well mineralized and has been stoped up to the\nsurface. North of the fault it is generally 8 to 9 inches wide and toward the northeast\nface splits into several stringers.\nVein 1, 1200 Level.\u2014The vein southwest of the winze is about a foot wide and is\nfairly well mineralized, particularly with sphalerite. Northeast of the winze a vein zone\nwith many stringers curving off into the footwall is exposed. In one of these stringers\nsome orange scheelite and some grey potash feldspar were seen.\nVein 4, 1300 Level.\u2014Near the crosscut the vein is as much as 12 feet wide, including a horse of wallrock, and has been stoped up to 1500 level for a length of 400 feet.\nMost of the vein matter in the stope was 3 to 4 feet wide and moderately well mineralized.\nNortheast of this main stope the vein is less than a foot wide, and only a section 80 feet\nlong has been stoped for 20 feet above the level. Near the northeast face the vein swings\neasterly and splits into several stringers, each only about an inch wide. At the north\nface of the drift the displacement on each of the vein fractures is only an inch or so, and\nthe hangingwall has moved relatively upwards. The vein southwest of the central stope\ncurves westward and splits into several stringers in which arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite\nare common.\nVein 4, 1500 Level.\u2014The vein near the crosscut has an average width of about\n2 feet and is moderately well mineralized. Much of it has been stoped below the level\nand above to the surface. For 120 feet northeast of the northeast section of the stope\nbelow the level the vein is about a foot wide and is abundantly mineralized; some of it\nhas been stoped above the level. At the northeast face the vein is 6 inches wide.\nSouthwest of the southwest end of the stope below the level the vein is about a foot wide,\nand some of it has been stoped above the level. At the southwest face the vein is 6 inches\nwide, and the principal sulphides present are iron-bearing. Some of the ore mined in the\nearlier period of operations came from the stope on vein 4 above this level. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 91\nVein 5, 1300 Level.\u2014This vein is less than 6 inches wide, and on 1500 level most\nof it is a few inches wide. Some ore has been mined above the level from a pocket that\ncontains much sphalerite and tetrahedrite, some parts of which probably were several\nfeet wide.\nVein 6, 1300 Level.\u2014For about 255 feet northeast and 130 feet southwest of the\ncrosscut the vein is fairly straight and dips gently, in places only 35 degrees. It is\nabundantly mineralized with sphalerite, galena, and tetrahedrite, and averages about\n30 inches wide.\nAt and near the crosscut the walls include a group of thin dark- and light-coloured\nbeds; the individual beds were not correlated in both walls of the fracture but the group\nwas, and it appears that the hangingwall has moved downward about 5 feet relative to the\nfootwall and that the net horizontal movement has been slight. This displacement is the\nresult of a series of movements, some of which may have been greater than the net\nmovement.\nIn this section many slips divide the gently dipping hangingwall into large blocks\nthat are apt to fall into the stopes. Because of this condition the system of mining in this\npart of the vein has been changed from shrinkage to cut and fill.\nSouthwest of this section for 100 feet the vein is narrow, and in places only gouge\nis seen between the fracture walls. In the next 25 feet to the southwest, the vein is as\nmuch as 6 feet wide and is sparsely mineralized at a fault contact with a granitic body.\nThe vein fracture continues into the granitic rock but curves westward and splits. At the\nsouthwest end of the drift the main vein is 18 inches wide and contains iron sulphides\nbut little galena and sphalerite.\nNortheast of the straight central section, for about 75 feet, the vein curves easterly,\nnarrows, and splits. The normal dip of the beds is westward, but along this curving\nsection the beds in the walls dip 25 to 70 degrees eastward, and the numerous veins that\ndiverge into the footwall tend to follow the bedding. The stringers in the footwall are\nnarrow and have not been mined.\nVein 6, 1500 Level.\u2014For 30 feet northeast and southwest of the crosscut the vein\nis from a few inches to several feet wide and contains a little sphalerite and galena.\nNear the southwest face it swings more westerly and splits. From about 30 to 260\nfeet northeast of the crosscut the vein, about 18 inches wide, is straight and well\nmineralized and has been prepared for stoping. For 75 feet farther northeast the\naverage width of the vein decreases and some parts of the fracture contain no vein\nmatter. Beyond, to the northeast face, the vein is continuous, but numerous veins split\noff into the footwall. The quartz in the veins is more watery looking than elsewhere\nin the mine. At the face of the drift the vein fracture contains some gouge but no vein\nmatter.\nVein 7, Main Vein of Old Reports.\u2014This vein (main vein of old reports) includes\na single vein that, followed northeasterly, splits into a footwall stringer zone and a hangingwall vein. Much of the ore mined in the early period of production came from the\nfootwall branch and some from the hangingwall branch of this vein, all from above the\n1500 level. The old stopes are near the inclined shaft and northeast of the junction of\nthe hangingwall and footwall branches. The two branches extend from the 1300 level\nto the surface, but were not examined above the 1500 level as the old ladders have not\nbeen replaced. As the outlines of the old stopes are not known accurately, they are\nnot shown on Figure 2.\nVein 7, 1300 Level.\u2014At the crosscut and continuing northward the footwall branch\nis a vein zone about 10 feet wide and consists of numerous quartz stringers, most of\nwhich are about an inch wide separated by several inches of wallrock. South of the\ncrosscut the stringers converge to form a vein that joins the hangingwall vein and, there,\nis 2 feet wide. Near the junction the vein contains abundant sphalerite. A 92 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nAt the crosscut the hangingwall zone is a few inches wide and contains little vein\nmaterial.\nThe footwall vein zone is exposed in the winze between the 1300 and 1400 levels\nand, as on 1300 level, comprises many stringers. The beds in the walls appear to be\nundisplaced, so probably movement on the fractures, other than the separation of the\nwalls, has been slight.\nVein 7, 1400 Level.\u2014The hangingwall vein is straight, and has a sharply defined\nhangingwall with gouge on it. The vein is a few inches wide and is sparsely mineralized,\nmostly with iron sulphides. The footwall vein zone consists of many stringers, mostly\nof sparsely mineralized white quartz, although pockets containing sphalerite and galena\noccur. Some of the stringers in the footwall zone can be traced for 100 feet.\nVein 7, 1500 Level.\u2014The hangingwall branch on this level is, as a rule, a few\ninches wide and sparsely mineralized. For a length of 80 feet it was stoped above the\nlevel. From this branch many veins split off into the footwall, and the most important\nof these is the footwall branch.\nFrom the footwall branch, which leaves the hangingwall branch about 40 feet south\nof the shaft, came much of the ore mined in the early period of mining, and it has been\nstoped above the level for a length of 150 feet. This vein, which has been followed\nnortheastward for 250 feet, is, as a rule, abundantly mineralized. It is as much as\n7 feet wide, but northeast of the stoped section is less than a foot wide. At the southwest end of the old stope, preparations are being made to mine ore above the level.\nMany veins split from the footwall branch, but as a rule are only a few inches wide.\nThe single vein, south of the junction of the two main branches, has been followed\nfor nearly 500 feet; it is as much as 6 feet wide and dips about 70 degrees eastward,\nexcept near the southwest end of the drift, where it dips about 40 degrees. For most\nof the explored length the vein consists only of white quartz. Such mineralization as\nis to be seen is sparse and usually consists only of iron sulphide.\nVein 8,1500 Level.\u2014The southern part of this vein is filled with quartz which, near\nthe crosscut, encloses many angular inclusions of wallrock. Mineralization is sparse\nand usually consists of iron sulphides alone. Toward the northeast other sulphides are\nseen, and at the fault shown on Figure 2 the vein is abundantly mineralized. The fault\ncontains some quartz and galena. Northeast of it the vein is less than a foot wide and\ncontains some ore sulphides. At the north face it appears as if the hangingwall had\nmoved upwards slightly along the vein fracture.\nOre was mined from vein 8 at the surface, altitude 1,875 feet, and ore has been\nfound on vein 1 on the present lowest level, the 1200 level, altitude 1,175 feet, a total\nvertical range of 700 feet. On vein 4, ore is continuous for a vertical range of 340\nfeet, from the surface down to the 1300 level, below which the vein has not been\nexplored except by two diamond-drill holes. The vertical range in which ore is now\nknown to occur in other veins is less than 340 feet.\nThe economic minerals, galena, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite, generally form a minor\npart of the vein matter. They are brittle and tend to crumble and fall from the face\nor back of the workings, and the management has found that the recovery is greater\nthan is indicated by the assays of samples taken from the face or back.\nBecause of the irregular distribution of the ore minerals in the veins, the results\nobtained from assaying vein cores from diamond-drill holes are not reliable in estimating\nthe grade of the veins unless several such intersections are available. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 93\nThe positions of samples taken by the writer from veins 1,4,6, and 8 are indicated\non Figure 2, and the assay data are tabulated below.\nSample No.\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\nLead\nZinc\n1\nVein 1,1300 Level\n2\n3 .\n4\nVein 1,1200 Level\n8\nVein 4,1300 Level\n9 \t\n10 \t\n12 \t\n11 \t\n13 \t\n14 \t\n15\t\n16 \t\n17\t\n18 \t\n19 \t\n20 \t\n21\t\n22\t\n23\t\n24\t\n25 .....\n5 ...\nVein 4, 1500 Level\n6 ..... \t\n7\t\n34\t\nVein 6,1300 Level\n35 \t\n36 \t\n37 \t\n38\t\n39... \t\n40 \t\n41\t\n42 \t\n26\nVein 6, 1500 Level\n27 ... \t\n28 \t\n29 \t\n30 .... \t\n31 ..\t\n32 .. ....\t\n33 \t\n43\t\nVein 8,1500 Level\nInches\n27\n21\n19\n12\n361\n26\n402\n48 2\n42*\n361\n54\n36\n361\n332\n20\n101\n46\n192\n57\n24\n24\n12\n11\n16\n38\n16\n12\n30\n48\n20\n25\n6\n15\n44\n22\n12\n13\n14\n36\n9\n24\n12\nOz. per Ton\n0.36\n0.07\n0.61\n0.42\n0.06\n0.09\nTrace\n0.04\n0.01\n0.03\n0.08\n0.01\n0.06\n0.01\n0.05\n0.02\n0.21\n0.14\n0.04\n0.06\n0.15\n0.17\n0.07\n0.12\n0.33\n0.06\n0.13\n0.27\n0.20\n0.09\n0.28\n0.18\n0.07\n0.12\n0.05\n0.03\n0.02\n0.41\n0.16\n0.13\n0.14\n0.03\nOz. per Ton\n24.0\n3.1\n9.6\n16.7\n0.08\n6.5\n31.5\n0.4\n6.6\nNil\n0.5\n21.2\n1.4\n1.1\n9.8\n7.4\n18.2\n106.7\n13.3\n1.1\n12.9\n52.6\n9.2\n0.8\n41.2\n20.6\n1.6\n25.8\n204.8\n238.8\n47.8\n122.7\n120.2\n60.1\n132.9\n1.7\n1.3\n21.3\n96.1\n89.3\n73.0\n56.3\n15.0\n32.6\nPer Cent\n0.6\n0.3\n0.3\n2.0\n5.2\n(3)\n1.0\n(8)\n(3)\n0.58\n(3)\n(3)\n2.8\n0.9\n4.2\n3.2\n1.1\n(3)\n0.3\n1.5\n0.3\n0.2\n8.9\n3.1\n(3)\n2.7\n3.0\n23.9\n3.2\n25.9\n19.5\n11.3\n24.8\n(3)\n(3)\n1.6\n6.9\n5.2\n5.5\n12.3\n(3)\n5.0\nPer Cent\n20.9\n9.4\n7.5\n19.0\n5.5\n3.0\n(3)\n1.8\n(3)\n0.32\n1.8\n0.9\n1.6\n(3)\n(3)\n4.0\n11.0\n11.9\n(3)\n4.7\n9.7\n2.0\n2.3\n4.5\n8.6\n5.8\n14.2\n30.4\n24.4\n21.8\n20.0\n19.1\n0.6\n9.5\n(3)\n(3)\n(3)\n33.3\n12.9\n21.3\n20.0\n(3)\n17.2\n1 Footwall section of vein.\n2 Hangingwall section of vein.\n3 Less than 0.3 per cent.\n* Mineralized country rock.\nSome of the sphalerite and galena are in a very fine-grained mixture which is a dull\ngreyish brown and has a brown streak. The mixture generally contains much more\nsphalerite than galena. A 94 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nSome of the silver may be in the galena, either in solid solution or in small amounts\nof ruby silver, but nearly all the high silver assays are associated with tetrahedrite, which\ntends to be associated with sphalerite and to occur as veins or pockets in sphalerite. The\nsphalerite concentrate contains an appreciable amount of cadmium but little silver.\nThe gold present may be associated with arsenopyrite, inasmuch as some samples\nhigh in arsenic also have a higher than average gold content. The ratio of gold to silver\ndecreases eastward from vein 1 to vein 6. The average gold-silver ratios in the samples\ntaken by the writer are as follows:\u2014\nLocation Gold Silver\nVein 1 1 to 42\nVein 4 (1500 level) 1 to 120\nVein 4 (1300 level) 1 to 244\nVein 6 (1500 level) 1 to 365\nVein 6 (1300 level) 1 to 685\nThis change in ratio is an expression of a decrease in the proportion of gold present\nin the more easterly veins, even where they contain a much greater proportion of metallic\nminerals. The presence of scheelite and feldspar in vein 1 indicates that it may have\nformed at a temperature higher than that of the veins east of it.\nAn examination of the company assay plans indicates that within some stopes\noreshoots of higher than average grade were separated by parts of the vein of lower than\naverage grade. The higher-grade oreshoots rake gently southwestward at an angle slightly\nsteeper than the trace of the beds of the Hazelton group on the walls of the vein fracture.\nIt is possible that the shape of the oreshoots was partly controlled by the distribution of the\nbeds of the wallrock. It was not found possible to correlate the richer oreshoots with\nthe presence or absence of any groups of beds.\nAs a rule the oreshoots are in the straight sections of the veins. Where the veins curve\naway from this direction, either to the east or west, the veins become narrow or split and\nare below ore grade. At minor rolls or changes in attitude the grade of the ore may be\nhigher or the vein may be wider than in straight sections.\nThe oreshoots on veins 1, 4, 6, and 7 are all in a belt that trends eastward. This\nbelt is not recognizable as a geological feature and its significance is unknown, but it is\nnearly parallel to the alignment of granitic bodies and may be related to the contact of\nthe granitic body or bodies south of the mine.\nThe productive veins are near the centre of a domed area on the west limb of an\nanticline and are nearly normal to the attitude of the beds. No major veins have been\nfound on the east limb of the anticline.\nIn most of the veins the ore is mined in shrinkage stopes, but in vein 6, which has\na weak blocky hangingwall that needs support, the ore is being mined by cut and fill\nmethods. Ore is mined above 1500 level and above 1300 level and is dropped through\nore-passes and chutes to the 1300 level. On this level it is trammed to the coarse-ore\nbin near the portal.\nAbout 100 tons is mined per working-day. On being withdrawn from the coarse-\nore bin, the run-of-mine ore is washed and passes over picking-belts where about a quarter\nof the total is discarded as waste. The picked ore is crushed and goes to the fine-ore bin.\nThe mill, with a capacity of about 60 tons of ore per day, includes a ball mill, classifier,\na flotation unit cell which recovers 50 to 70 per cent of the lead, and two banks of\nflotation cells which produce the remainder of the lead and the zinc concentrates. The\nconcentrates are trucked to New Hazelton for shipment by rail to the Trail smelter.\nThe mill feed has been assaying about: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton; silver, 45.0 oz. per\nton; lead, 4.5 per cent; zinc, 8.0 per cent. About 95 per cent of the gold, 98 per cent\nof the silver, 99 per cent of the lead, and 96 per cent of the zinc are recovered in the mill\nin lead and zinc concentrates. The lead concentrate assays about: Gold, 1.0 oz. per METAL-MINING (LODE) A 95\nton; silver, 500 oz. per ton; lead 50 per cent; zinc, 10 per cent. The zinc concentrate\nassays about: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton; silver, 30 oz. per ton; lead, 1.0 per cent; zinc,\n50 per cent and contains most of the cadmium from the ore.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1914, pp. 194-197; 1948,\npp. 77-80. Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 223, pp. 28-35 (1940).]\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.) The three claims of this group, Wonderful\nSurprise (L. 3710), Surprise (L. 3711), and Shamrock (L. 3712), are\nowned by Glen Mountain Mines Limited, with office at 202 Pacific\nBuilding, Vancouver. The claims adjoin the Silver Standard property on the north and\nare reached by an old wagon-road, now in poor condition, which extends from near the\nportal of the 1500 level of the Silver Standard mine to the portal of the main adit on the\nSurprise group (see Fig. 2). The adit is a crosscut, at about 1,500 feet altitude, driven\nin 1912 to explore for the northeast extensions of the Silver Standard mine veins. Since\nthat time little work has been done. One other adit, 20 feet long, was found about 350\nfeet east of the main adit portal at an altitude of about 1,625 feet.\nThe rocks in the adits and in the few exposures at the surface are mostly massive\ngrey tuffaceous sandstone and greywacke interbedded with dark thin argillaceous beds.\nMost of the beds dip gently southward and eastward, though in a few minor rolls in the\nmain crosscut, beds dipping westward are seen. The beds are on the eastern limb of\na northerly trending anticline.\nThree northeasterly striking veins exposed in the main crosscut consist largely of\nwhite quartz, some carbonate and pyrite. The widest vein is about 6 inches wide and\ndips steeply near the crosscut. It has been followed in drifts from the main crosscut;\ntoward the north the vein flattens and follows a bedding-plane slip. The width decreases\nto about an inch where the vein flattens out. Southwest of the crosscut the vein contains\nsome sphalerite, but 20 feet from the crosscut it is cut off by a northerly striking fault.\nIn the other adit a vein 4 inches wide has about the same strike but a steeper dip\nthan the bedding. The vein contains sphalerite and galena, and a sample (No. 44) from\nit assayed: Gold, 0.01 oz. per ton; silver, 2.88 oz. per ton; lead, 1.5 per cent; zinc,\n1.8 per cent.\nThe fractures, occupied by veins, strike nearly parallel to the beds of the Hazelton\ngroup and not as on the Silver Standard property, nearly normal to the beds. The stresses\nthat caused fractures to form on the Silver Standard property may have been relieved\nto a large extent by'movements along numerous bedding planes on the Surprise property.\nFor this reason only a few discontinuous fractures may have formed crossing the bedding\nplanes.\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.) Company office, 714 Hall Building, 789 Pender\nNational Explora- Street West, Vancouver. T. Oates, in charge of exploration.\ntion Ltd. Capital: 3,000,000 shares, no par value. This company holds by\nrecord sixty claims, some southwest and the others northeast of the\nSilver Standard mine. The claims are below 1,500 feet altitude in an area with few\noutcrops. Geophysical exploration was started in 1950, using an electrical method.\nOates reported that two anomalies were found on the southwest claims and one on the\nnortheast claims.\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.) Registered office, 1009 Credit Foncier Building,\nAmerican Boy* Vancouver. L. B. Gatenby, manager. Capital: 3,000,000 shares,\n(American Standard $1 par value. This company holds by record forty claims on the\nMines Limited) lower part of the west slope of Nine Mile Mountain. From 1910\nto 1918 veins on this property were explored and developed. From\n1913 to 1916, 109 tons of crude ore was shipped, and in 1918, 254 tons of ore, mined\nin 1917, was concentrated at the Silver Standard mill. The production is shown on\n* By J. M. Black and F. J. Hemsworth. A 96 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\npage 83. Exploration continued in 1927 and 1937. A new company, American Standard Mines Limited, was formed in 1950 and optioned from J. H. Sargent sixteen claims,\nincluding the American Boy group, and acquired an additional twenty-four claims.\nThe workings are between 2,500 and 2,900 feet altitude on a fairly uniform slope\nwith few rock outcrops. The road up Two Mile Creek valley passes within half*a mile\nof an old camp that was used in the earlier periods of exploration of this property.\nWork was started by the new company in September, 1950, and a pack-trail between\nthe road and camp was widened to permit tractor and jeep travel. An office, bunk-house,\ncook-house, powder-magazine, dry, and compressor-house were built, and a log cabin\nwas renovated for additional accommodation. A diesel engine and a 260-cubic-foot\ncompressor were installed. Mapping and sampling of the old workings were completed.\nA drift adit (altitude 2,850 feet) on vein 3 was extended 76 feet, and at approximately\nthe same altitude an adit was started on vein 1. Veins 1 and 4 were traced along their\nstrike by surface stripping.\nThe rocks near the workings are part of Subdivision C of the Hazelton group and\ninclude gently dipping tuffaceous and limy sandstones, and some argillites. Five veins,\nstriking northward and dipping eastward at moderate to steep angles, have been explored.\nVein 1 was explored by several rock cuts and was developed from two inclined\nshafts. Vein 4, from which most of the ore was mined, was also explored by rock cuts\nand was developed from an inclined shaft. Veins 2, 3, and 5 were explored and\ndeveloped by trenches, rock cuts, and adits, and vein 5 also by a shaft. In August, 1950,\nat the time of examination by the writer, the shafts were partly flooded and the portals\nof the adits were caved or in poor condition, so the underground workings were not\nentered. Most of the trenches and open-cuts also were caved or overgrown, and the only\nveins well exposed were 1 and 4. The surface and underground workings and the veins\nexposed in them are described by Kindle* in a report that also gives the assays of his\nsamples.\nVein 1 is as much as 4 feet wide at the surface and consists of white quartz, rusty\ncarbonate, some galena, and lesser amounts of sphalerite and tetrahedrite.\nVein 4, which was developed by an inclined shaft and by drifts 100 feet and 160 feet\ndown the dip, provided most of the ore from stopes near the shaft. In trenches north of\nthe shaft the vein is about a foot wide and consists mostly of milky white quartz and buff\ncarbonate, and as a rule it contains pyrite and arsenopyrite near the walls arid galena,\nsphalerite, and tetrahedrite in the central part. It also contains numerous inclusions of\nwallrock.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1917, pp. 104-106. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mem. 223, pp. 23-27 (1940).]\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.) This property includes one Crown-granted\nSilver Cup claim (L. 366) owned by L. W. Patmore and four claims (L. 364,\nL. 365, L. 367, and L. 3469) leased from the Crown by K. A.\nWilson. Encircling these claims are eleven claims held by location, nine by V. J. Schwerdt\nand two by L. Jestly.\nThe claims are in and near the most westerly cirque on the north slope of Nine Mile\nMountain, and are reached by the trail from the end of the road up Two Mile Creek\nvalley. The claims are about 13 miles by this route from New Hazelton.\nFrom 1909 to 1916 the main vein zone was explored and developed by four adit\nlevels and crude ore was shipped. Additional development was carried on about ten\nyears later, and an aerial tramway and mill were built. The mill was operated for part of\n1929. For production see page 83.\nThe rocks are sandy and shaly beds of Subdivision C of the Hazelton group cut by\nnumerous dykes and offshoots of a granitic body exposed to the east. The beds dip\n* Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 223, pp. 23-27 (1940). METAL-MINING (LODE) A 97\ngently northward and eastward and are near the axis of an anticline plunging northeastward. The main vein zone that has been developed strikes northeasterly and dips\nmoderately to steeply southeastward, and is about parallel to the anticlinal axis and about\n250 feet west of it.\nThe main vein zone has been developed by four adits, at about 4,575, 4,700, 4,770,\nand 4,800 feet altitude, all interconnected by raises. Farther up the slope, to the southwest, at about 4,900 feet altitude, near the upper edge of the cirque, an open-cut exposes\nthe vein zone. Farther southwest at about 5,000 feet altitude, on the broad ridge, behind\nthe cirque, other cuts nearly on the projected extension of the vein zone expose vein\nmaterial. The zone has not been traced down the slope northeast of the 4575 level,\nwhere the sloping floor of the cirque is covered with talus.\nThe portals of all the levels are filled with rubble and ice, although in the summer\nmonths the ice at the portal of 4700 level melts so that this level can be entered. It is the\nonly one that was examined by the writer.\nOn the 4,700-foot level the vein zone has been followed by drifting for about 500\nfeet. The zone, which is as much as 2 feet wide, comprises several closely spaced quartz\nveins, separated by sheared wallrock. The individual veins are as much as several inches\nwide and contain jamesonite, galena, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite. Toward the\nsouthwest the zone follows a contact between sediments and granitic rock and near the\nface of the drift swings into the granitic rock. In the southern part of the drift the zone\nis a few inches wide and is sparsely mineralized. Most of the ore that was mined came\nfrom stopes above this level near the portal.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1928,pp. 152-155. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mem. 223, pp. 8-11 (1940).]\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E.) These are the old names for several properties\nSunrise, Lead King, located just east of the east margin of Figure 1. The Sunrise\nSilver Pick property of six Crown-granted claims (L. 593, L. 594, L. 595,\nL. 596, L. 597, L. 599) is owned by T. E. Wilson. Extending\nwest to the Silver Cup property, south and east to the old Lead King property are thirty-\nseven claims held by location. The owners of these claims, with the number owned by\neach, are P. Stewart (seven), V. J. Schwerdt (six), C. A. Schwerdt (eight), G. A. Jestly\n(eight), and J. G. Brown (eight). The ground covered by the claims for about 2Vi miles\neastward includes the upper part of the north slope of Nine Mile Mountain, including\nthree cirques. The claims in the western cirque are reached from the trail to the Silver\nCup property, and the claims in and near the two eastern cirques are reached by trails\nthat extend eastward from the Silver Cup trail near the entrance to the western cirque.\nBy this route the eastern claims are 14 to 16 miles from New Hazelton.\nSunrise.\u2014This property is underlain by part of the granitic body that extends westward to near the Silver Cup property. Several vein zones and veins are exposed between\n4,800 and 5,200 feet altitude on the steep face of a cirque.\nAfter veins were discovered here in 1909, they were explored by trenches and four\nadits at intervals until 1937. The adits, driven southward under the principal showings,\nare 125, 30, 750, and 110 feet long respectively. Some ore was mined and shipped, and\nthe production is shown on page 83.\nThe veins are simple and lenticular or are stringer veins, as a rule lenticular, in zones\ncomprising several stringers separated by wallrock. The simple veins have a maximum\nwidth of 4 feet. The vein zones are as much as 12 feet wide, but of this width as a rule\nonly about 2 feet is vein matter. The veins and zones strike northeasterly and dip southeastward or strike easterly and dip gently southward.\nThe veins consist of quartz, altered wallrock, galena, jamesonite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, pyrite, and tetrahedrite. In parts of the veins the metallic minerals form the\ngreater part of the vein matter. Some of the veins have been traced for about 300 feet.\n4 A 98 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1920, pp. 85, 86. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mem. 223, pp. 11-16 (1940).!.\nLead King, Silver Pick.\u2014The showings on these claims are between 4,500 and 5,500\nfeet altitude in the second cirque, east of the Silver Cup cirque, and on the ridge to the\neast. Veins were found here in 1909 and during the following years were explored, but\nin recent years have not been explored. For production see page 83.\nThe claims are underlain by the eastern part of the granitic stock, which extends\neastward from the Silver Cup property, and by sandy beds of the Hazelton group. They\nare cut by fractures which strike northerly and dip eastward and by others which strike\neasterly and dip southward. Veins in these fractures consist largely of quartz and\na considerable proportion of jamesonite, galena, sphalerite, and cosalite, and some stibnite\nand arsenopyrite.\nNumerous veins, much like those exposed farther west, are naturally exposed and\nsome have been traced by open-cuts and trenches. Two shafts, about 50 feet deep, have\nbeen sunk on two of the veins. The veins which have a maximum width of 3 feet strike\nnortherly and dip eastward or strike easterly and dip southward. The veins consist of\nquartz and of a considerable proportion of jamesonite, galena, sphalerite, and cosalite,\nand some tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, and stibnite.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1923, pp. 106,107. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mem. 223, pp. 16-21 (1940).]\n(55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.) The principal showings on this mountain are\nFour Mile Mountain on what were known as the Erie or Mohawk and Comet properties.\nThe workings are on seven Crown-granted claims of which two\n(L. 4836 and L. 4837) are owned by W. Giebe, one (L. 5048) is owned by J. B. Curtin,\ntwo (L. 1538 and L. 4453) are leased by J. B. Curtin, and two (L. 1542 and L. 3578)\nare leased by A. D. Beirnes. South and west of these, six claims have been located by\nC. J. Curtin and two by R. Allen.\nErie (Mohawk).\u2014The showings on this property are near the top of Four Mile\nMountain between 2,000 and 2,200 feet altitude, about 5 miles east of Hazelton. A road\nalong the north bank of the Bulkley River passes within half a mile of the workings.\nA branch road leaves the road east of Four Mile Creek, and a car can be driven on it to\nwithin about 200 yards of the main workings.\nThis property was explored and developed, starting in 1909, by trenches and open-\ncuts and then by underground work, including two shafts and an adit level. This work\nwas completed about 1929, and little has been done in recent years. Production figures\nfor crude ore shipped are given on page 83.\nMuch altered sandy and tuffaceous rocks are intruded by numerous dark-grey and\ngreen tongues and offshoots of a granitic body that forms the core of the mountain. The\ncontacts between the sediments and the granitic rocks are irregular in attitude, and\nfracturing is common along them. The fractures commonly continue from the contact\nzone into the altered sediments, but most fractures that extend into the granitic rocks die\nout within a few feet of the contact. The fractures, which contain the veins of economic\nimportance, strike northeasterly. In the fractures are veins of quartz, carbonate, jamesonite, sphalerite, galena, tetrahedrite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and argentite, with the first\nfour.mentioned predominant.\nFour veins, strike northeasterly and dip southeasterly, have been explored by surface\nand underground workings. Three of these, exposed in the main adit level, were\nexamined by the writer. The main adit level comprised a crosscut for 450 feet eastward\nto vein 1, a drift northeastward on vein 1 for 275 feet, a crosscut southeastward for 100\nfeet to vein 2 and a drift, parallel to the drift on vein 1, on veins 2 and 3 for 640 feet.\nThe fourth vein, reported to be about 1,200 feet northeast of the portal of the level, was\nnot seen. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 99\nVein 1 has been followed on the surface and underground for 300 feet. It ranges\nin width from a few inches to 4 feet and in places consists of two or more subparallel\nbranching veins, most sections of which are sparsely mineralized. In a few narrow places,\nhowever, the metallic minerals constitute as much as 50 per cent of the vein matter.\nToward the north end of the drift the vein branches near a tongue of intrusive rock.\nThe branch followed enters the intrusive rock and pinches out in a few feet.\nA crosscut was driven to the southeast from the end of the drift on vein 1. At 100\nfeet it crossed the No. 2 vein zone. Vein 2, exposed underground only, has been followed\nfor 440 feet and for much of this distance is along the contact between intrusive and\naltered sediments. The average width of vein matter is less than a foot, and in places\nvein matter is absent. The vein, as it approaches a tongue of intrusive 430 feet from the\nsoutheast end of the drift along it, splits, and the branch followed into the intrusive\npinches out.\nEighty feet northeast of the end of vein 2 beyond the intrusive, vein 3 appears and\nhas been followed by the drift for 120 feet, to where it is cut off by a cross fault at an\nintrusive contact. Vein 3 has an average width of 6 inches and is sparsely mineralized.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1923, pp. 106,107. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mem. 223, pp. 35-38 (1940).]\nComet.\u2014Showings on these claims are about 5 miles east of Hazelton on the south\nslope of Four Mile Mountain between 1,200 and 1,300 feet altitude. The workings are\na few hundred feet north of the road that extends up Bulkley River valley north of\nthe river.\nThe property was explored between 1920 and 1930 by two pits and three adits.\nThe main adit level, which includes a crosscut and three drifts, was not entered because\nthe portal is caved. The other two adits, 52 and 10 feet long respectively, can be entered\nand were examined.\nThe area is underlain by feldspar porphyry, probably a phase of the main intrusive\nbody of Four Mile Mountain, and by quartzitic sediments. In the intrusive and in the\nsedimentary rocks, six veins and some lenticular stringers have been explored. The veins\nexposed strike northerly to northeasterly and dip moderately to steeply eastward. The\nveins, in addition to quartz, contain carbonate, jamesonite, sphalerite, pyrite, and galena,\nand are less than a foot wide.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1928, p. 158. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mem. 223, pp. 39-41 (1940).]\nGold-Silver-Cobalt-Uranium\nCompany office, 604 Hall Building, Vancouver. James Mackee,\nVictoria* (Western president; W. F. McGowan, manager. The Victoria group is on\nUranium Cobalt the northwest slope of Rocher Deboule Mountain and is reached\nMines Limited) by 5 miles of trail from Denis Comeau's ranch. The ranch is 6Vi\nmiles by road south of South Hazelton. A detailed description of\nthe Victoria property is contained in the Annual Report of the British Columbia Minister\nof Mines for 1949.\nIn 1950 a 125-cubic-foot LeRoi compressor was installed. No. 00 adit, on No. 1\nvein, was advanced 50 feet. No. 0 adit was cleaned out to permit sampling. The crosscut, at elevation 5,150 feet, begun in 1949, was advanced 225 feet to intersect the downward extension of the No. 1 vein, and the vein was drifted on for 22 feet to the east.\nSurface stripping, sampling, and detailed mapping completed the work for the season.\nBecause no permanent camp has been built, the property was closed down for the winter.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 82-93.]\nBy F. J. Hemsworth. A 100 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nGold-Silver-Copper-Cobalt\nThe company bought the old Rocher Deboule mine in 1950 and\nRocher Deboule* is reopening it. The mine is on Rocher Deboule Mountain, 10\n(Western Uranium miles by road from Skeena Crossing, a station on the Canadian\nCobalt Mines National Railway, 15 miles south of Hazelton. The mine was last\nLimited) worked between 1915 and 1918, when shipments of ore containing\ncopper and some gold and silver were made to the smelter at\nAnyox. A series of veins occupies fissures in granodiorite. Four veins have been opened\nup and are named as follows: The Calcite (No. 1) vein, the No. 2 vein, the Tramway\n(No. 3) vein, and the No. 4 vein. The veins are parallel, striking north 70 degrees east\nand dipping at about 60 degrees to the north. From 4,167 feet elevation to 5,302 feet\nelevation the veins are developed by extensive underground workings on five levels.\nWestern Uranium Cobalt Mines has removed slide rock that covered the portal of the\nlowest level (now called No. 1) and has retimbered and cleaned out the level for its\nentire length. The company has also cleaned out and retimbered the No. 2 and No. 3\ncrosscut adits.\nThe mine camp is on Juniper Creek at an elevation of 4,100 feet. In 1950\na compressor-house, dry, blacksmith-shop, and four other buildings were constructed.\nA surface incline railway, 1,800 feet long, was built from No. 1 level at elevation 4,167\nfeet to No. 4 level at elevation 5,150 feet.\nSMITHERS (54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.)*\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, Room 213, 602 Hastings Street West, Vancouver.\nDuthie, Mamie, etc. R. R. Wilson, president; R. W. Wilson, managing director; H. B.\n(Sil-Van Consoli- Gilleland, general superintendent. Capital, 3,500,000 shares, no\ndated Mining and par value. It is reported that the company has acquired seventy-\nMilling Company) one claims on the southern slope of Hudson Bay Mountain, 15\nmiles by road from Smithers. The property includes the Duthie\nmine on the Canary and Hummingbird groups, and the Mamie, Victory, Coronado,\nHomestake, Silver Lake, and Silver Creek groups. The Duthie camp is used as a base\nof operations.\nIn 1950 a compressor was installed at the upper Duthie camp and the 4100 Hummingbird adit was started. A portable compressor was hauled by tractor and set up at\nthe Mamie camp. The adit drift, elevation 4,427 feet, on the Mamie vein was extended.\nA crew of about ten men was employed for the latter part of the year.\nCompany office, 2671 Broadway West, Vancouver. L. W. Bodie,\nGlacier Gulch, president; C. A. Munro, manager. This company owns the Glacier\nCoronation, and Gulch Nos. 3 and 4, Coronation, and Biff Nos. 1, 2, and 3 mineral\nBiff (Glacier Gulch claims on Hudson Bay Mountain, 6 miles by road from Smithers.\nMining Co., Ltd.) The claims lie on both sides of Glacier Creek, below the Lake\nKathlyn Glacier. The mine camp is at an elevation of 2,540 feet.\nWork was started in July, 1950. A bunk-house, office, dry, powder-magazine, and\ncompressor-house were built, and repairs were made to the old camp buildings.\nDevelopment was concentrated on the No. 3 vein which outcrops on the steep south\nslope of the gulch. A shipment amounting to 29 tons of silver-lead-zinc ore was made\nfrom this vein in 1937. The vein is exposed by several open-cuts and by short tunnels\nat elevations of 3,100 and 2,900 feet. In September, 1950, three diamond-drill holes\nwere drilled to explore for the downward extension of the No. 3 vein at the camp level.\nTwo holes indicated the vein, and a crosscut was started at elevation 2,600 feet. This\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. J\nMETAL-MINING (LODE) A 101\ncrosscut exposed a new vein, called the No. 1 vein, which strikes north 40 degrees west.\nThe No. 1 vein was followed by the new level, and junction with the No. 3 vein was\nexpected at 240 feet. A crew of twelve men was employed.\nCompany office, 744 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nCronin Babine Smithers. R. L. Clothier, managing director; Haddon Agnew,\nMines Limited manager. A detailed report on the Cronin mine may be found in\nthe Annual Report of the British Columbia Minister of Mines for\n1949, pages 94 to 98. Work done in 1950 was confined to road construction. The road\nbuilt leaves the Chapman Lake road at a point 3 miles west of Chapman Lake and follows\nthe route of the old sleigh-road. When the road is completed, the company plans to\ninstall a mill on the property.\nTAHTSA LAKE (53\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 675 Hastings Street West, Vancouver. G. H.\nEmerald (Emerald Rainville, president; Jack Scott, manager. The Emerald group\nGlacier Mines is on Sweeney Mountain, about 10 miles northeast of Tahtsa Lake.\nLimited) Considerable underground work was done on this property by The\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited,\nfrom 1927 to 1931. At that time access to the mine was by a trail from the Tahtsa River.\nIn the fall of 1950 the Emerald Glacier company started a road from the west end of\nFrancois Lake to follow the Nadina River to Nadina Lake, thence southwest past Twinkle\nLake, across Sibola Creek and the Whiting River, and to the mine. The last 5 miles will\nrequire several switchbacks, as the mine is at 6,000 feet elevation. At the end of the year\nabout 15 miles of road remained to be completed.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1945, p. 68.]\nOMINECA (56\u00b0 125\u00b0 S.E.)*\nLead\nBeveley (The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited).\n\u2014The Beveley is a lead prospect owned by The Consolidated Mining and Smelting\nCompany. It is about 1 mile north of the Osilinka River, in the Tenakini Range, at an\nelevation of 5,000 feet. A geological study of a bedded replacement deposit in limestone was made by five men who mapped the deposit on a scale of 200 feet to the inch\nduring a two-month period.\nCARIBOO f\nGold\nWells-Barkerville Area (53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W.)\nCompany office, 1007 Royal Bank Building, Vancouver. W. B.\nCariboo Gold Burnett, president; G. A. Gordon, general manager; L. T. Vear,\nQuartz Mining mine superintendent; J. Boulding, mill superintendent. Capital:\nCompany, Limited 2,000,000 shares, $1 par value. The Cariboo Gold Quartz mine\nis half a mile south of the town of Wells, which is 51 miles by\nroad from Quesnel on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.\nNew development work comprised 1,789 feet of drifting, 2,308 feet of crosscutting,\n233 feet of raising, 88 feet of shaft sinking, and 15,528 feet of diamond drilling.\nThe Tailings zone, west of No. 1 shaft, supplied most of the ore mined. Lesser\namounts were obtained from the No. 1, Rainbow, and Goldfinch zones. In the Goldfinch zone, which is near the B.C. shaft, mining was confined to above the 1500 level\n* By F. J. Hemsworth.\nt By J. E. Merrett, except as noted.\n176644\nPROVINCIAL LWRAJtit,\nVICTORIA, B. a A 102 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\non both the 52 and 53 veins. Work on the 52 vein is almost completed, while on the\n53 vein mining continues to above 1400 level subdrift.\nOre from the quartz veins is mined by cut-and-fill and shrinkage stoping methods.\nThe replacement ore is mined in a rill stope followed by filling.\nDrifting and diamond drilling from the 2000-188 crosscut under Jack of Clubs\nLake toward Island Mountain mine has disclosed a strong fault zone parallel and close\nto the west shore of the lake. This fault, which has been named Jack of Clubs fault,\nwas also intersected on two horizons in Island Mountain mine. The attitude of the\nfault varies considerably at its different intersections but, in general, the strike is to the\nnortheast and the dip moderate to the northwest.\nDiamond-drill holes from the 2000-188 crosscut into the Baker or limestone formations have encountered minor quantities of methane gas. Adequate ventilation has been\nmaintained to prevent dangerous accumulations of this gas.\nApproximately 400 feet of drifting was done on 1800 level toward the Tailings zone.\nIt is intended to connect the workings in this section to the workings on 2000 level.\nIn order to maintain adequate ventilation and prevent icing in the headframe and\nmain adit, a Sheldon 36-inch 86 V 20, belt-driven fan was installed on 1600 level. The\nfan blows 16,000 cubic feet of air per minute under 2% inches water-gauge pressure.\nThe circulation is now controlled to produce upcast air in the shaft and outcast air in\nthe main adit.\nIn an effort to conserve fuel, the cooling water from the power-house diesel engines\nis circulated through the mill. During January, when the outside temperature dropped\nto \u201450 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit was maintained in\nthe mill.\nThe average number of men employed during 1950 was 186, and the average\nnumber employed underground was 97.\nProduction: Ore milled, 60,689 tons. Content of bullion: Gold, 22,070 oz.;\nsilver, 2,153 oz.\nCompany office, 744 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nIsland Mountain Wells. F. W. Guernsey, president; J. A. Pike, mine manager;\nMines Company G. G. Sullivan, general superintendent; T. Bethune, mine superin-\nLimited* tendent; J. Stone, mill superintendent. Capital: 1,100,000 shares,\n50 cents par value. This company, a subsidiary of the Newmont\nMining Corporation of New York, owns claims on the south and southeast slopes of\nIsland Mountain and operates the Island Mountain mine lying immediately west of the\ntown of Wells. The claims adjoin holdings of Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company\nLimited to the south, east, and north.\nGold-bearing quartz veins were found on Island Mountain in the early 1870's, and\nin 1878 the Enterprise Company, a group of Barkerville miners, began exploration work\non them. This company intended to haul ore to a 10-stamp mill installed in the Kurtz\nand Lane shaft-house at the Meadows. The Island Mountain Quartz Mining and\nMilling Co. took over the ground in 1887, moved the mill from the Meadows to Jack\nof Clubs Lake (near the present mill location), and, assisted by a loan of $20,000 from\nthe British Columbia Government, built a new mill. Several hundred tons of ore, mainly\nfrom the Johns adit, was milled in 1890, and 15 to 20 tons of pyrite concentrates was\nshipped to the Government Reduction Works at Barkerville for treatment.\nA satisfactory recovery of gold could not be made, and the property was forfeited\nto the Government for non-repayment of the loan. No further work was done until\n1897, when the same company leased the property from the Government, installed four\nvanners, and ran the mill for about a month, again unprofitably. In 1903 the late C. J.\nSeymour Baker tested ore from Island Mountain and cleaned out some old adits, but\n* By Stuart S. Holland. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 103\ninterest in the property again lapsed. In 1925 Baker acquired the five original Crown-\ngranted mineral claims, later known as the Aurum group, from the Government and\neach year until 1932 employed a small crew clearing out the old workings. In 1932\nhe optioned the Aurum group of five claims to Reward Mining Company Limited, who\nlocated eight adjoining claims to the west. This company bonded the whole property\nto Cariboo Consolidated Gold Mines Limited, who in turn optioned their holdings to\nNewmont Mining Corporation of New York. Island Mountain Mines Company Limited\nwas incorporated by that corporation to operate the property.\nAbout 1,000 feet of underground work was done during early exploration. Although\nseveral hundred tons of ore was milled, there is no record of the amount of gold produced.\nProduction by Island Mountain Mines Company began in November, 1934, with a 50-ton\nmill. The mill capacity was increased to 100 tons per day in 1935, and production has\nbeen continuous to the present. Up to and including 1950 ore mined is 607,661 tons,\nfrom which 276,923 ounces of gold and 38,645 ounces of silver were recovered.\nSurface workings for the most part are on the Aurum and Aurum West mineral\nclaims. Attention was first drawn to these outcrops by early prospectors who were\nable to recover gold by rocker from the broken and weathered quartz outcrops.\nAccess to the underground workings is by a main level, the 4000 level, about 80\nfeet above Jack of Clubs Lake. Two older levels, the Mid Lake and Upper Lake, are\n280 and 350 feet above the main level. Two very old levels, the Upper Johns and\nLower Johns adits, are about 500 and 470 feet above the main level. A vertical two-\ncompartment shaft is sunk below the main level to the 11 or 2550 level. From the\nmain level to the 8 or 3000 level, eight levels have been driven from the shaft at 125-\nfoot intervals, and the three lowest levels are at 150-foot intervals.\nThe mine lies 5 miles west of the eastern contact of a large area of schistose Pre-\ncambrian sedimentary rocks which forms a belt about 18 miles wide and at least 40\nmiles long. These Precambrian Cariboo series schists are overlain to the northeast by\nsedimentary rock, the Slide Mountain series, of Mississippian age. In the Wells-Barker-\nville area the Cariboo series has been divided* into the Richfield, Barkerville, and\nPleasant Valley formations. The upper part of the Richfield formation has been further\nsubdivided into the Basal, Lowhee, B.C., Rainbow, and Baker members.f Since the\npublication of Memoir 181, more detailed work at the Island Mountain and Cariboo\nGold Quartz mines suggests that Hanson's stratigraphy should be modified, that the\nBaker member is older than the Rainbow member, and that the Rainbow and Lowhee\nmembers and the B.C. and Basal members are the same, being repeated on opposite\nsides of a tight isoclinal fold. Recent work by the writer in the vicinity of Cariboo\nHudson mine indicates that a complete revision of the stratigraphy of the Cariboo\nseries, both in general and in detail, is necessary.\nThe general strike of the rocks is northwest, and the prevailing dip is at moderate\nangles to the northeast. The rocks on a small scale are seen to be intricately drag-\nfolded, most dragfolds plunging northwestward at 20 to 25 degrees. On a regional\nscale it has been considered:!: that the major structure is a simple open anticline whose\naxis trends northwest through Mounts Pinkerton and Amador to Mount Nelson, and\nthat the rocks near Wells consequently are lying on the northeast limb of this structure.\nIn view of the recent work by the writer between Yanks Peak and Roundtop Mountain\nit is believed that the regional structure is far from simple, that the rocks are isoclinally\nfolded on both a small and large scale, and it is suspected that there is a far greater\nrepetition of beds than formerly has been considered.\nThe Island Mountain mine workings are on the Aurum, Aurum N.E., and Aurum\nWest claims. These claims are underlain by rocks that are mapped by Hanson and the\n* Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 149, p. 11 (1926).\nt Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 181, p. 4 (1935).\n% Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 149, p. 31 (1926). A 104 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nmine geologists as belonging to the Rainbow and Baker members of the Richfield formation. The Rainbow-Baker contact strikes northwestward across the claims and dips\nat about 50 degrees to the northeast. There is about 3,500 feet of strike length of\nRainbow-Baker contact on these claims.\nThe Rainbow member, between the black argillite and quartzite of the B.C. member\nand the light-coloured rocks of the Baker member, has a width of about 700 feet. The\nsuccession away from the B.C. contact consists of light-coloured quartzite, black argillite,\nlimestone 25 to 50 feet thick called the 309 limestone, medium- to light-grey smoky\nquartzite, limy argillite called the 301 limestone, black argillite, and dark smoky quartzite\nin contact with the Baker member. The horizontal width between the 309 limestone\nand the Baker contact is 400 to 500 feet.\nRocks of the Baker member are typically light coloured and calcareous, in contrast\nto dark ones of the Rainbow. The succession from the Rainbow contact consists of\nthin limestone beds, sericite schist, \" diorite \"* (an ankeritized quartzite), \" dolomite \"*\n(almost pure ankerite rock), sericite schist, white and light-coloured quartzite, and\nJohns limestone. No underground working or diamond-drill holes reach beyond the\nJohns limestone.\nCleavage in varying degrees is present in all the rocks. It is believed to have been\ndeveloped parallel to the axial planes of the primary folds. In the majority of instances\nthe cleavage is parallel to the bedding and dips northeast. Consequently most of the\nfolds, both small and large, are interpreted as being isoclinal and overturned with their\naxial planes dipping northeast.\nThe dominating fold structure in Island Mountain mine is a large dragfold which,\nin vertical section looking northwest, has the form of an \" N \" sloping to the right.\nThe upper limb of the fold has many smaller dragfolds on it and dips about 50 degrees\nto the northeast. The lower limb is also dragfolded and dips about 35 degrees northeast.\nThe distance between the two limbs is about 450 feet, and the effective dip of the connecting member between the two is 15 degrees southwest. The plunge of the axes of\nthe major dragfold and of most of the small ones is 22 degrees northwest. This drag-\nfold has been traced downward through the mine workings on levels below the 3625\nlevel. It migrates to the northwest on its 22-degree plunge and at greater depth will pass\nout of Island Mountain property.\nThis fold was recognized and mapped by Benedict. As interpreted by himf on\ntheoretical structural grounds, it indicates that the Baker member lies stratigraphically\nbelow the Rainbow member rather than above as was previously considered by Hanson,\nand that the mine is on the overturned limb of an anticline whose axial plane lies to the\nnortheast. This was the first serious defect to be found in the older structural\ninterpretation.\nThe rocks throughout the mine area are crossed by a succession of northerly striking,\neasterly dipping faults having a right-handed displacement. The most important of these\nis the Aurum fault, which strikes north 20 degrees west, dips about 40 degrees to the\nnortheast, and whose hangingwall side moved about 530 feet in a direction south 59\ndegrees east. The horizontal component of movement is 475 feet and the vertical 240\nfeet. About 700 feet to the east of the Aurum fault and parallel to it is the Lake fault.\nFarther to the east are the Jack of Clubs No. 1 and No. 2 faults. These last two faults\nstrike north 25 degrees east and dip to the northwest. The No. 1 has a horizontal\ndisplacement to the left of about 160 feet, and the No. 2 a displacement to the right of\nabout 300 feet. These two faults are believed to intersect and to offset the Aurum fault.\nIn addition, there are also numerous small, normal faults striking about north 55 degrees\neast and having horizontal displacements of 30 feet or less.\n* These are the descriptive terms used at the mine.\nt Can. Inst. Min. Met. Trans., Vol. XLVIII, p. 761 (1945). METAL-MINING (LODE) A 105\nMineable gold-bearing ore occurs in pyrite-bearing quartz veins and in pyritic\nreplacement bodies in limestone. Ore is mined in the quartz vein stopes by cut-and-fill\nand shrinkage-and-fill methods. All waste fill and ore is moved with scrapers.\nVein quartz of commercial grade is mineralized mainly with pyrite and smaller\namounts of galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, scheelite, and cosalite. Visible gold is\ncommonly associated with cosalite. Ankerite is fairly common, particularly along the\nwalls and in the leaner veins.\nQuartz veins occupy fractures which have two general directions. Transverse or\nhorsetail veins strike about north 40 degrees east and dip 50 degrees to the southeast.\nDiagonal veins strike north 60 to 80 degrees east and dip steeply south. Most of the\nquartz ore in Island Mountain mine is mined from diagonal veins and comparatively\nlittle from transverse veins alone, whereas at Cariboo Gold Quartz mine most of the\nquartz ore comes from transverse veins.\nThe two directions of fracturing are well developed throughout the mine, and\nindividual veins frequently show quartz along both sets of fractures. It is generally\nconsidered that the transverse veins occupy tensional fractures and the diagonal veins\noccupy shear fractures, both of which are genetically associated with major northerly\nstriking faults such as the Aurum and other similar ones. The northerly striking faults\nevidently were active during a long period, so that the fractures were reopened and made\naccessible to mineralizing solutions.\nIndividual quartz veins have but little persistence along strike and down dip; the\nvein fractures usually die out on passing from hard brittle quartzite into softer or more\nschistose rock. Few, if any, veins cross from the Rainbow quartzite into rocks of the\nBaker member.\nThe abundance of quartz-filled fractures in a particular type of dark quartzite in the\nRainbow member has restricted exploration by the company to that part of the Rainbow\nmember lying between the 309 limestone and the Rainbow-Baker contact, a horizontal\nwidth on the footwall side of the Baker member of 500 feet or less.\nReplacement ore has contributed and is continuing to contribute an exceedingly\nlarge part of the gold produced in this mine. The importance of replacement ore was\nearly recognized, and it was the discovery of the first replacement orebody in 1933 that\njustified the installation of the cyanide mill in 1934. This orebody, about 1,250 feet\nfrom the portal on the 4000 level, yielded about 33,000 tons of ore which averaged\nslightly more than 0.8 ounce of gold per ton. The profitable operation of the mine is\ndependent upon the mining of replacement ore. For this reason, much of the exploratory\nwork is directed toward the finding of such ore. As a consequence, the underground\nexploration by drifting and by drilling is concentrated largely upon a thorough exploration\nof the Rainbow-Baker contact.\nReplacement orebodies consist almost entirely of pyrite, with a minor amount of\narsenopyrite, that has replaced limestone beds in the Baker member at or within a very\nfew feet of the Rainbow contact. The orebodies are cigar-shaped and may have a cross-\nsectional area of 100 square feet or less. Orebodies of this kind appear to be localized\nalong the axes of dragfolds, both small and large, and plunge northwestward at an angle\nof 22 degrees, which is also the plunge of the regional dragfolding. These orebodies\noccupy folds in the southwestward-dipping element of the major dragfold, as well as other\nfolds which lie on the limbs above and below it.\nThe persistence of some replacement orebodies along their plunge is quite remarkable. On a longitudinal projection parallel to the plunge direction\u2014i.e., north 45 degrees\nwest\u2014it is apparent that a single continuous orebody extends for about 1,000 feet above\nand 1,000 feet below its plane of intersection with the Aurum fault. The terminations,\nhowever, are about 400 to 450 feet in a direct line from the fault with which the axis of\nthe orebody makes an angle of about 25 degrees. Company projections indicate that\nreplacement ore is no more abundant nor richer close to the Aurum fault. It would A 106 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nappear that one must assume, therefore, that the Aurum fault has had little or no effect\nupon the localization of replacement orebodies. In several instances where a transverse\nvein crosses limestone, it has been discovered that replacement ore extends from the\nquartz vein along and into the limestone bed. The localization of replacement orebodies\nin general does not appear to be related to the spacing or position of transverse veins.\nNormally the pyrite grains are about an eighth of an inch across, but at the margins\nof the replacement orebodies the pyrite is very coarse grained, cubic crystal faces as much\nas an inch across are commonly observed, and a larger percentage of a grey carbonate\nis present. The grey carbonate, locally called dolomite, is ankerite of the following\ncomposition: Calcium carbonate (CaC03), 49.7 per cent; magnesium carbonate\n(MgC03), 24.6 per cent; manganese carbonate (MnC03), 3.8 per cent; and ferrous\ncarbonate (FeC03), 19.4 per cent.\nThe gold values in part vary with the grain size of the pyrite. Exceedingly finegrained pyrite may occur as streaks and lenses in material of normal granularity. The\nfiner-grained pyrite assays higher in gold. A selected sample containing about 50 per\ncent fine-grained pyrite and the balance normal grain-sized material assayed 3.66 ounces\nof gold per ton. Comparable specimens of fine-grained ore may assay as high as 10\nounces of gold per ton, yet no visible gold is to be seen nor is any cosalite present.\nDevelopment work during 1950 comprised 3,767 feet of drifting and crosscutting,\n582 feet of raising, and 8,250 feet of diamond drilling. This work was distributed\namongst all levels from 4000 down to 2550. In February, work on 2550 level was\nstopped pending the installation of a larger hoist.\nIn July an addition to the power-house provided room for a 450-horsepower General\nMotors diesel engine with a 440-volt attached General Electric alternator. In late October\nand November, mining operations were suspended while a larger hoist was installed. The\nhoist, a 54- by 60-inch Nordberg hoist with hydraulic controls on the clutch and brake,\nwas formerly in use at the Berens River mine in Ontario.\nThe average number of men employed was 122, and the average number employed\nunderground was 84.\nProduction: Ore milled, 40,580 tons. Content of bullion: Gold, 16,809 oz.;\nsilver, 2,378 oz.\n[References: Can. Inst. Min. Met., Trans., Vol. XLVIII, pp. 755-770 (1945).\nGeol. Surv., Canada, Prelim. Paper 37-15 (1937); Mem. 149 (1926); Mem. 181\n(1935). Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept, 1934, pp. C 22, C23. B.C. Dept. of\nMines, Bull. 1, p. 62 (1932); Bull. 3, pp. 13, 14 (1932).]\nMarguerite (52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W.)\nCopper\nThis property, comprising ten claims, located in 1949 and owned\nCopper King by C. E. Johnson and R. R. Moffat, both of Quesnel, is approximately \\\u00a5x miles east of Lot 9497 in the Cariboo Land District.\nIt is reached from Marguerite Station on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway by travelling\neasterly on \\Wi miles of wagon-road and trail. The claims cover the former Pollyanna,\nManderfield, and Conway claims.\nThe present workings are a continuation of former work on the Pollyanna claim.\nThey are at an elevation of 4,000 feet on the west side of the summit of a broad, rounded,\njack-pine covered range of hills east of Cuisson Lake.\nCopper mineralization occurs in irregularly placed quartz lenses which are between\nshear planes (strike north 30 degrees west and dip 45 degrees east) and on the noses of\nfolds in a wide zone of sheared granodiorite. Work done in 1949 and 1950 has shown\nthis zone to be more than 170 feet wide. The quartz lenses near the surface have been\ncrushed and weathered and are weakly to well mineralized with chalcopyrite, azurite, METAL-MINING (LODE) A 107\nmalachite, and chrysocolla. Surface waters carrying copper carbonates in solution have\nstained the sheared granodiorite to a depth of at least 28 feet, as shown in the shaft sunk\nin 1950.\nThe main original workings on the Pollyanna claim comprised three shafts at 25-foot\nintervals along a north-south line. When examined in September, 1950, these shafts\nwere filled with water. It was reported that the most northerly shaft was sunk to a depth\nof 10 feet and that little or no copper mineralization had been found. The middle shaft\nwas sunk to a depth of 30 feet. In 1949 this shaft was drained, and half a ton of ore\nwas mined and snipped to Tacoma, Wash. It was reported that this shipment assayed\n10.5 per cent copper. A grab sample of the quartz and sheared granodiorite on the dump\nof this shaft gave the following assay: Gold, nil; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton; copper, 3.3 per\ncent. The third shaft was not drained by the present owners but was reported to be\n27 feet deep. It was noted that the dump material was stained with malachite.\nIn 1949 considerable trenching was done to crosscut the shear zone approximately\n50 feet north of the north shaft. This work was abandoned when it was found that the\noverburden was much deeper than anticipated. Work was then directed to sinking\na shaft 120 feet south of the third shaft. This shaft was sunk to a depth of 28 feet in\n1950 and penetrated sheared and weathered granodiorite lightly stained with malachite.\nOne small lens of crushed quartz was exposed on the east wall of the shaft but did not\nextend across to the west wall. No copper mineralization was visible in the quartz.\nA grab sample of the sheared diorite on the dump gave the following assay: Gold, trace;\nsilver nil; copper, 0.3 per cent.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1925, pp. 155, 156; 1928,\np. 197; 1929, p. 192.]\nGold\nKeithley Creek (52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E.)\nF. H. M. Codville, of Duncan, V.I., and J. Pickering, of Keithley\nMidas Creek, completed approximately 50 feet of crosscut on the Jim\ngroup near Yanks Peak, about 11 miles by road from Keithley\nCreek P. O. Four men were employed.\nSpanish Creek (52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E.)\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThe Rae, Bear, and Cariboo groups, near the head of Black Bear\nRae, Bear, Cariboo Creek, are held by H. C. Millar, D. A. Millar, and W. Eop, of\nLikely. A shipment of 8 tons was made to Trail smelter. Gross\ncontent: Silver, 746 oz.; lead, 6,907 lb.; zinc, 32 lb.\nBLUE CREEK (51\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E.)*\nGold\nThis property, comprising fifty-three claims owned by Bralorne\nElizabeth, Yalakom Mines Limited, is on Blue Creek, a tributary of Yalakom River.\n(Bralorne Mines It is reached by 48 miles of road from Lillooet by way of Moha.\nLimited) Development work continued on No. 9 vein on Yalakom No. 2\nmineral claim. A portable compressor was installed during August\nand September, and 25 feet of timbered drift was driven by five men. This adit is at an\nelevation of more than 7,000 feet.\n* By J. E. Merrett. A 108 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nBRIDGE RIVER (50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W.)*\nGold\nCompany office, 555 Burrard Street, Vancouver; mine office, Bra-\nBralorne Mines lorne P.O. A. C. Taylor, president; M. M. O'Brien, vice-president\nLimited and managing director; D. N. Matheson, general manager; C. M.\nManning, mine superintendent; D. Cameron, assistant mine superintendent; A. Almstrom, mill superintendent. Capital: 1,250,000 shares, no par value.\nBralorne mine is on Cadwallader Creek and is 51 miles by road from Shalalth Station\non the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.\nDevelopment work comprised 7,395 feet of drifting, 1,419 feet of crosscutting and\nraising, 607 feet of shaft sinking, and 4,065 feet of diamond drilling. With the exception\nof the 85 drift and crosscut on 2600 level, all drifting and crosscutting were done between\n1500 level and 2000 level. This work developed the 51 vein on 1500 and 1800 levels;\nthe 53 vein on 1700, 1800, and 1900 levels; the 75 vein on 1900 and 2000 levels; and\nthe 77 vein on 1700 level.\nIn the stopes, ore was mined principally by cut-and-fill methods, but some ore\nwas obtained by square-set and vertical slot longwall stoping. In all stopes, scrapers\nwere used to move ore and waste fill. Broken ore reserves were estimated to be 41,800\ntons on December 31st.\nThe Empire shaft-sinking programme, which commenced below 2000 level in February, 1949, was completed in April, 1950. During this period the shaft was extended\n970 feet, 93 feet of which was completed in 1950. Sinking of the Crown shaft, which\nalso extends below 2000 level, commenced in July. At the end of December 518 feet\nwas completed.\nA new ventilating fan with a capacity of 80,000 cubic feet per minute was installed\non 2000 level. Surface air is supplied directly to the fan through a series of raises\nextending up to the ventilating fan on the surface.\nOn the surface, construction of thirteen four- and five-room houses was started, and\nat the end of the year most of these were completed and occupied.\nThe average number of men employed was 468, of whom 344 were employed\nunderground.\nProduction: Ore milled, 185,074 tons. Content of bullion and concentrates: Gold,\n77,238 oz.; silver, 20,535 oz.\nCompany office, 711 Yorkshire Building, Vancouver; mine office,\nPioneer Gold Mines Pioneer Mine P.O. Victor Spencer, president; H. T. James,\nof B.C. Limited managing director; J. A. Graham, mine manager; H. A. Rose,\ngeneral superintendent; W. B. Montgomery, mine superintendent;\nT. Bevister, mill superintendent. Capital: 2,500,000 shares, $1 par value. Pioneer\nmine is on Cadwallader Creek and about 54 miles by road from Shalalth Station on the\nPacific Great Eastern Railway.\nIn 1950, 1,002 feet of drifting and 1,074 feet of crosscutting were completed. The\nmajor part of the drifting was done on the 29 vein, which is a footwall branch of the\n27 vein. A total of 513 feet of crosscutting was done on various levels in crosscuts to the\nmain ventilation-raise system. A further 728 feet was done in crosscuts to the stations\nof the proposed internal inclined shaft. This work was completed preparatory to sinking\na shaft in the footwall of the 27 vein in order to develop it below 2500 level. In addition\nto the crosscuts to the shaft, 4,230 cubic feet of waste was obtained from the slashing of\nshaft stations. Because of adverse economic conditions, work on the shaft-sinking\nprogramme was suspended early in November.\nThe pilot ventilation raises serving the 27 vein from 2500 level to the surface have\nbeen completed, except between 800 and 900 levels. Ring drilling and slashing have\n\u2022By J. E. Merrett. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 109\ncommenced from the surface downward to make a raise of 10 by 10 feet finished\ndimensions. The raise driving accounted for 1,956 feet of the total 2,468 feet done in\n1950. Slashing in the raise produced 19,271 cubic feet of waste.\nA total of 3,242 feet of diamond drilling was done in 1950.\nAll stope ore was mined by rill-shrinkage methods, with scrapers being used to move\nboth waste fill and ore.\nOn the surface one five-room dwelling and twenty garages were built. The former\nhospital building was renovated to provide two apartments.\nThe average number of men employed was 248, of whom 146 were employed\nunderground.\nProduction: Ore milled, 73,551 tons. Content of bullion: Gold, 35,543 oz.;\nsilver, 7,616 oz.\nCompany office, 616 Stock Exchange Building, Vancouver; mine\nB.R.X. (B.R.X. office, Shalalth P.O. A. E. Jukes, president; E. R. Shepherd,\n(1935) Consolidated managing director. Capital: 7,000,000 shares, 50 cents par value.\nMines Limited) This property, comprising forty-two claims, lies east of the Hurley\nRiver and on the Bridge River road, 3V2. miles north of Bralorne.\nIn 1950 the development work was confined to the California workings and comprised\n110 feet of crosscutting, 226 feet of drifting, 948 feet of diamond drilling, 204 feet of\nwinze sinking and raising, and the cutting of two shaft stations on the winze.\nNo. 1 crosscut, commenced in 1949 from the main northwest crosscut at a point\n45 feet from 9c shaft station, was continued northeasterly 110 feet to a total length of\n180 feet. Three exploratory diamond-drill holes were drilled at the face of this crosscut.\nAt a point approximately 100 feet from the beginning of the No. 1 crosscut, 9c north\ndrift was started and was driven northerly for a distance of 170 feet. At a point 130 feet\nfrom the beginning of this drift a winze station, rope raise, and hoist-room were cut, and\na winze inclined 65 degrees to the northeast was sunk a slope distance of 137 feet.\nA station was cut on the winze at the 10c level, and 55 feet of drifting to the north was\ndone. At the face of the drift, steeply dipping diamond-drill holes were drilled to the\nwest. This development work was successful in extending the known boundaries of the\nlow-grade chalcopyrite-pyrite mineralization.\nThe number of men employed averaged ten.\nCompany office, 626 Pender Street West, Vancouver. L. A. Prosser,\nWayside (L.A.P. manager; M. Retan, superintendent. Capital: 3,000,000 shares,\nMining Company $1 par value. This private company owns seventeen claims and\nLimited) seven fractions which lie astride the Bridge River road, midway\nbetween Gold Bridge and Minto. This property was formerly\nowned by the Wayside Consolidated Gold Mines Limited.\nExcept for 72 feet of shaft sinking and the retimbering of some old stopes, all work\nwas done on the surface.\nA wooden water tank of 35,000 gallons capacity, for camp and mill use, has been\nerected above the camp. A new transformer station was erected near the main road.\nIn the mill an ore storage bin, a mill-feed bin, and a conveyor-belt ramp to the latter have\nbeen constructed.\nThe Hadsel mill, used by the former owners, was replaced with a Hardinge mill.\nSeveral other smaller pieces of mill equipment have been either overhauled or renewed.\nThe average number of men employed was sixteen.\nGold-Antimony\nCompany office, 640 Pender Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nCongress Gold\" Minto P.O. A. E. Jukes, president; Miss J. Whitehouse, secretary-\nMines Limited treasurer. Capital: 3,000,000 shares, no par value. In 1950,\n388 feet of drifting and 491 feet of crosscutting were done. In A 110 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nJanuary and February 300 feet of crosscutting and drifting were done in a northwesterly\ndirection from a point on the No. 3 or main level, approximately 800 feet from the portal.\nA quartz vein, 2 feet wide, that contained stibnite and reportedly gold, was intersected.\nThe internal inclined shaft was drained to below 5 level, and drifts were started on both\nthe north and south drift faces of 4 and 5 levels. A further crosscut was driven from the\nnorth heading on 5 level to intersect the same vein that was intersected with the new work\non 3 level.\nIn August, Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited, which company was financing this\noperation, suspended work until such time as economic conditions for gold-mining\nimprove.\nThe average number of men employed was twelve.\nAntimony\nCompany office, 207 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nGray Rock Minto P.O. G. H. Clark, president; C. E. Little, secretary.\n(Gray Rock Mining Incorporated in 1950 under British Columbia charter. Capital:\nCompany Limited) 3,000,000 shares, $1 par value. This company purchased the\nholdings of Bellore Mines Limited on June 1st, 1950. This property comprises sixteen claims which are located near the headwaters of Truax Creek,\na tributary of the Bridge River. In June the Olympic bridge over the Bridge River on\nthe road to this property was washed away by floods. The Department of Public Works\nhas since constructed a road along the south side of the Bridge River from Gold Bridge\nto the lower end of the road to the mine.\nBetween August 1st and October 31st five men under the supervision of L. Belliveau\ndrove 400 feet of crosscut, the portal of which is at an elevation of 6,800 feet. This work\nwas done with the aid of a portable compressor, a Swedish jack-leg air-drill, and Coro-\nmant tungsten-carbide-tipped drill steel. The vein that was the objective of the crosscut\nwas not reached, but it is believed that a small advance of the face will reach the vein.\nANDERSON LAKE (50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E.)*\nGold\nCompany office, 850 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; executive\nGolden Contact office, 318 Vancouver Block, Vancouver; mine office, McGillivray\n(Golden Contact Falls P.O. M. McGregor, president and managing director.\nMines Limited) Capital: 3,000,000 shares, 50 cents par value. This company\ncomprises seventeen claims and three options on the north slope of\nMcGillivray Creek, 4 miles by pack-trail from McGillivray Falls Station on the Pacific\nGreat Eastern Railway.\nWork commenced on the surface on April 4th and underground on June 3rd, and\nwas suspended on November 18th. Between April and June a tractor or jeep road was\nconstructed from Marne Station to the mine. The road follows the British Columbia\nElectric Railway Company's transmission-line from Marne to the point where the pack-\nhorse trail crosses the transmission-line clearing and then follows the trail to the mine.\nBetween June 3rd and November 28th eleven men drove 1,170 feet of crosscut and\n85 feet of drift on the Pep level. This work comprised 200 feet of crosscut to the north\nto cross the No. 1 fault zone, and 970 feet of crosscut westerly, paralleling the No. 1\nfault zone. The south extension of the East Segment vein zone was intersected 30 feet\nfrom the west face of the crosscut. This zone contained small scattered lenses of quartz,\nsome of which carried spectacular showings of free gold. Drifting was directed in\na northerly direction in this zone, and 85 feet was done by the end of November.\n* By J. E. Merrett. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 111\nBARRIERE RIVER (51\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThis Crown-granted mineral claim (L. 4023), owned by W. W.\nWhite Rock Elder, of Slocan City, is half a mile east of North Barriere River\nin the Kamloops Mining Division. It is reached by 17 miles of\nroad and 3 miles of good pack-trail from the Canadian National Railway at Barriere.\nEarlier reports made on this property may be found in the Annual Reports of the\nBritish Columbia Minister of Mines for 1928 and 1929. In the Annual Report for\n1928, page 212, H. G. Nichols states:\u2014\n\" The mineral occurrences, in the form of quartz veins and stringers carrying silver-\nlead minerals, are found in a series of fractures, sympathetic to the main fault-zone that\nis identified with the valley of the Barriere river.\n\" The formation is composed of a series of bands of limestone and schist, and the\nmain series of fractures, which have a north-east, south-west strike, is developed principally in the limestone, cutting the formation almost at right angles.\"\nA multitude of closely spaced parallel quartz veins of irregular length and width fill\ntension fractures in the limestone and schist. It was noted that one vein increased in\nwidth from a few inches to 3 feet in a length of 20 feet. It was also noted that some wide\nsections maintained their width for as much as 50 feet. Sufficient surface stripping has\nnot been done, however, to determine if the wide sections of the veins occur in any regular\npattern, if the veins are continuous, or if the veins occur in two or more parallel zones\nstriking generally east.\nTwo main areas have been stripped and small crosscuts have been driven to intersect\nthe formations in these areas.\nIn the discovery outcrop a rock cut, 25 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 12 feet deep at\nthe face, was driven to intersect a quartz vein nearly 2 feet wide. This vein strikes north\n7 degrees west and dips 68 degrees to the east. It contains, particularly on the hanging-\nwall side, scattered patches of galena and tetrahedrite. Thin layers of azurite and malachite are scattered throughout the quartz. It is believed that these minerals were formed\nfrom weathering of the tetrahedrite. A sample taken across 22 inches at the bottom of\nthis cut assayed: Gold, 0.01 oz. per ton; silver, 2.7 oz. per ton; lead, 2.2 per cent; and\nzinc, 0.8 per cent.\nApproximately 250 feet below this outcrop a crosscut 5 by 7 feet was driven 60 feet,\nat south 80 degrees east, in limestone. The face of the crosscut would have to be\nadvanced about 500 feet to intersect the downward projection of the vein exposed in\nthe open-cut. Several narrow quartz veins and a few masses of quartz can be seen in\nthe crosscut, but no sulphides are visible in the veins or quartz. Four feet from the\nportal there is a fault that strikes north 40 degrees east and dips 72 degrees easterly.\nA short distance farther from the portal there is a fault dipping 16 degrees southerly.\nIt extends along the crosscut to within 20 feet of the face and then passes into the back.\nIt displaces all veins intersected an unknown distance.\nConsiderable work has been done on a second large outcrop that is 600 feet southwest of the discovery outcrop. A rock cut, 23 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 12 feet deep at\nthe face, cuts into the footwall side of a quartz vein at a point where the vein is 4 feet wide.\nThe vein is exposed for about 50 feet on a bluff above the cut. Galena, tetrahedrite, and\nsecondary copper minerals are scattered in patches through the quartz. A grab sample\nacross the face of this cut assayed: Gold, trace; silver, 0.5 oz. per ton; lead, 1.3 per cent.\nAbout 150 feet below this outcrop a crosscut 5 by 7 feet was driven in limestone\nbanded with schist. This crosscut is 237 feet long and was driven south 70 degrees\neast to cut the projected extension of the vein exposed in the open-cut above. Several\nsmall quartz veins and faults were intersected. A succession of narrow faults was\n* By J. E. Merrett. A 112 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nfound between 102 and 164 feet from the portal. These faults strike about north and\ndip steeply east. Between 190 and 196 feet from the portal there is a strong fault zone\nstriking north 17 degrees east and dipping 83 degrees easterly. This zone is filled with\ncalcite and mud seams, and large fragments of quartz. It appears from the survey\nmade that this zone is the extension of the vein in the open-cut. No sulphides were\nseen. Another fault, striking north 7 degrees west and dipping 73 degrees easterly,\nwas intersected between 206 and 218 feet from the portal. This fault was also filled\nwith calcite and large fragments of quartz. No sulphides were observed. From 218\nto 235 feet from the portal several small quartz stringers were found. The only sulphides\nseen in the crosscut were in a quartz vein, 8 inches wide, a short distance from the portal.\nA little galena was seen in this vein.\nA large number of quartz veins have been exposed by surface stripping. They\nare irregular in width, undetermined in length, and contain some silver-rich sulphides.\nUnderground development has shown that these veins have been interrupted by post-\nmineral faults both along the plane of the veins and across them. Local concentrations\nof galena, tetrahedrite, and secondary copper minerals occur in the quartz. Nothing\nwas seen, however, to indicate that the amount of silver-rich sulphide might increase\nat any point.\nNICOLA (50\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)*\nCopper\nCompany office, 125 Pacific Building, Vancouver. J. D. Ferguson,\nGuichon Mine mine manager, Merritt. This company continued exploratory and\nLimited development work at the Copperado mine, 5 miles by road north\neast of Nicola P.O. The shaft was deepened to 270 feet, and 250\nfeet of drifting and crosscutting were done on the 200-foot level. A geophysical survey\nwas conducted at the property during the summer by Geophysical Exploration Limited,\nToronto, using the self-potential method. A crew of from five to eight men was employed\nat the mine.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 115-120.]\nGold\nTULAMEEN RIVER (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 N.W.)*\nR. C. Cragg, managing director; R. J. Charles, engineer in charge.\nEl Alamein This company continued development and exploration work at the\n(El Alamein Mines El Alamein mine on the Tulameen River, AVz miles upstream from\n(1950) Limited) Tulameen P.O. The main face in the upper tunnel was extended\n210 feet southwesterly and is now 284 feet from the portal. The\nhangingwall drift in the upper tunnel was advanced 57 feet. The main face in the lower\ntunnel was extended 84 feet southwesterly and is now 157 feet from the portal. Test-\nholes were drilled at regular intervals along the drift, and the cuttings were panned in an\neffort to locate the continuation of the gold-bearing stringers found near the portal. Five\nhundred and twenty pounds of ore was treated by amalgamation, and 65 ounces of gold\nwas recovered. Operations were suspended on December 1st. Four men were employed.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 124-129.]\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nE. Borup, president; E. H. Kinder, manager. Five men were\nSilver King and employed to improve the road from Tulameen to the camp, pre-\nJensen (Silver Hill paratory to reopening the old Silver King and Jensen properties at\nMines Ltd.) Tulameen Summit, 21 miles by road southwesterly from Tulameen\nP.O. This work involved reconditioning bridges and blasting rock\nto make the road passable for trucks. The old camp was rehabilitated to accommodate\n* By E. R. Hughes. \"\nMETAL-MINING (LODE) A 113\nfifteen men. A dry-house, bunk-house, dining-room, garage, office, and workshop were\nbuilt or reconditioned.\nUnderground work included cleaning out and retimbering the old Jensen tunnel, and\npreparations were made for reopening the Dornberg No. 2 tunnel.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1929, p. 278; 1930, p. 214;\n1931, pp. 129, 130; 1932, p. 139.]\nCOPPER MOUNTAIN (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)*\nCopper\nA. S. Baillie, president, Copper Mountain; W. I. Nelson, general\nCopper Mountain manager, Allenby; R. S. Douglas, mine superintendent, Copper\n(The Granby Con- Mountain; J. A. C. Ross, assistant mine superintendent, Copper\nsolidated Mining Mountain; L. H. McKay, mill superintendent, Allenby. This\nSmelting and Power company operates the Copper Mountain mine at Copper Mountain,\nCompany Limited) 12 miles south of Princeton. The company's steam-electric power\nplant in Princeton supplies power to the concentrator at Allenby,\n3Vi miles south of Princeton, and to the mine. A branch line of the Kettle Valley Railway\nfrom Princeton serves the power plant, mine, and concentrator.\nSurface elevation at the mine is about 4,000 feet. The main development of the\nmine is from an adit level, No. 6, and two vertical shafts. No. 2 adit level is not used as\na mine entrance but still serves as a ventilation outlet. The No. 1 shaft is the service\nshaft and extends from the surface to the No. 6 or main haulage level. No. 2 shaft is\nused to service No. 7 and No. 8 levels and is an internal shaft, with the hoist on No. 5\nlevel. All ore is passed to No. 6 level and taken from the mine in Granby-type cars,\nhauled by electric-trolley locomotives. After it is crushed in the coarse-crushing plant\non the surface near the portal of No. 6 level, the ore is hauled 8 miles by rail to the concentrator at Allenby.\nCompressed air for the mine is supplied by three Ingersoll-Rand compressors and\none Sullivan compressor, the four units having a total capacity of 8,600 cubic feet of air\nper minute.\nMining is extensively mechanized. All ore is mined from diamond-drill shrinkage\nstopes and is then transferred from slusher-drift draw-points to grizzlies by electric\nslusher-hoists. Most slusher-drifts are now reinforced with a concrete lining, and at the\nend of the year a crew of about sixty men was regularly employed on underground concrete construction work. Ventilation raises, equipped with auxiliary fans, ensure that\neach slusher unit is provided with fresh air, so that the dust and smoke from scraping and\nblasting are carried away quickly. Diamond drilling done during the year comprised\n33,847 feet of exploratory and 255,892 feet of blast-hole drilling.\nThe mining of the 122 East ore-block has caused surface subsidence of an area north\nof the No. 1 shaft. The subsidence spread to the steel-sharpening shop and made it\nnecessary to remove this building. The possibility of the subsidence engulfing the No. 1\nshaft caused the company to drive a new service raise that could be used in place of the\nshaft if necessary. The driving of the new raise was completed in 1948, and the work\nof equipping the raise with a manway and skipway, together with electric cables and compressed-air pipes, was completed in 1950. The new raise connects the No. 6 level with\nthe surface at a point 350 feet southwest of the collar of No. 1 shaft.\nFourteen Copco drilling-machines and fourteen Holman Silver Bullet stoping-\nmachines were used in development work. These machines are used in conjunction with\ntungsten-carbide steel, and this method of mining had, at the end of the year, entirely\ndisplaced the standard types of leyner drilling-machines formerly used in development\nwork. The tungsten-carbide bits are sharpened on a silicon carbide wheel in the grinding-\n* By E. R. Hughes. A 114 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nroom on No. 6 level. Other additions to equipment include an Eimco model 40 and two\nmodel 12 mucking-machines, two Goodman 10-ton electric locomotives, and ten 130-\ncubic-foot capacity Granby-type ore cars. The bunk-house was enlarged to accommodate\nsixty-two men.\nSafety committees make regular tours of inspection of all surface and underground\nworkings, and their recommendations are discussed at subsequent meetings. The company employs a safety engineer. An emergency hospital with the customary equipment\nand supplies, including a supply of blood plasma, is maintained at the mine. A trained\nnurse and industrial first-aid attendants are on hand at all times. Aluminium-dust\ntherapy is available for employees. A doctor visits the Copper Mountain camp twice\na week and is available in emergencies. An ambulance is maintained for transporting\nsick or injured persons to the Princeton General Hospital, 12 miles from the mine. Two\ntrained mine-rescue teams competed in the Similkameen Valley Mine Safety Association's\nannual competition, held in Princeton on June 10th. The Regional Ryan Trophy for\nthe lowest accident frequency in 1949 among the metalliferous mines in British Columbia\nand Yukon was awarded to this mine.\nThe mine was worked continuously throughout the year. The crew at Copper\nMountain averaged 547, with 418 employed underground. The total payroll for the\nCopper Mountain, Allenby, and Princeton operations was 866 at the end of the year.\nProduction: Ore mined, 1,799,852 tons; ore milled, 1,749,964 tons. Net content\nof concentrates: Gold, 8,475 oz.; silver, 173,424 oz.; copper, 25,486,468 lb.\nHEDLEY (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E.)*\nGold\nCompany office, 75 West Street, New York, N.Y.; mine office,\nNickel Plate and Hedley. George L. Mill, manager; E. W. Johnson, mill superin-\nFrench (Kelowna tendent; J. Biggs, mechanical superintendent. This is a private\nExploration company operating the Nickel Plate mine and the French mine at\nCompany Limited) Hedley.\nNickel Plate Mine. \u2014 C. T. Williams, mine superintendent.\nFull descriptions of the operation have appeared in previous Annual Reports. Additional\ndry-house facilities to accommodate twenty-five men were built at the mine. Five Copco\ncompressed-air drilling-machines were purchased for testing. No other major additions\nto plant or equipment were made during the year, and only routine development work\nwas done underground. The mine was worked throughout the year. At the end of the\nyear 216 men were employed, 99 of whom were employed underground.\nOf the four main parts of the mine, the percentage of production was: Nickel Plate,\n78.1 per cent; Morning, 11.4 per cent; Sunnyside, 9.6 per cent; Bull Dog, 0.9 per cent.\nProduction: Ore milled, 123,689 tons. Gross content of precipitates and concentrates:\nGold, 44,617 oz.; silver, 3,901 oz.; copper, 104,163 lb.\nFrench Mine Division.\u2014F. Garbutt, mine superintendent. This mine is on the Oregon mineral claim. The company took an option on the claim, owned by F. H. French\nand associates, and in 1949 did some exploratory diamond drilling. The mine is between\nSixteen Mile and Eighteen Mile Creeks, about 8 miles by road from the company's mill\nat Hedley, and 1 Vi miles east of the Hedley-Nickel Plate road. A truck-road was built\nto the mine during the early part of the year, and underground work was started on July\n12th. A small crushing and sampling plant was built at the mine, and dry-house accommodation suitable for the small crew was erected. A 500-cubic-foot Holman belt-driven\nair compressor powered by a 100-horsepower General Electric motor was installed.\nElectrical power is obtained from the West Kootenay Power and Light Company Limited.\nAs far as is known, the ore occurs in a shallow deposit. The workings consist of an adit\n* By E. R. Hughes. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 115\nlevel, at an elevation of 3,910 feet, with two small open stopes, one on each side of the\nlevel. The broken ore is scraped from the underground workings along the adit level to\na storage bin outside the portal. Output at the rate of 32 tons per day was trucked to the\ncompany's mill at Hedley for treatment. Six men were employed. Operations were\nsuspended on November 15th for the winter.\nProduction: Ore milled, 2,740 tons.\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThis group on Stemwinder Mountain* about 3 miles northwest of\nlota (Islay B) Hedley, was formerly known as the Islay B. The present owner is\nJ. W. Gallagher, from whom a lease and option have been obtained\nby K. G. Ewers and William Hegan. From the end of the truck-road at the camp a new\nroad, 1 mile long, has been' built to the workings at an elevation of about 4,800 feet.\nAn 8-foot shaft was deepened to 30 feet in a weathered fracture zone. Thirty-five and\na quarter tons of ore from the shaft was shipped to the Trail smelter.\nProduction: Gold, 2 oz.; silver, 576 oz.; lead, 3,648 lb.; zinc, 586 lb.\nThis is the first property in the Hedley camp to ship silver-lead ore. In addition to\nEwers and Hegan, two men were employed.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1947, pp. 146, 147.]\nFAIRVIEW CAMP (49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W.)*\nSilica-Gold\nG. E. Clayton, mine superintendent. This mine is about 5 miles\nFairview (The Con- west of Oliver. The property was formerly operated by the Fair-\nsolidated Mining view Amalgamated Gold Mines Limited but was idle for several\nand Smelting years until reopened by the present operators in 1946. The No. 6\nCompany of adit is the haulage level. Shrinkage stoping is being done between\nCanada, Limited) this level and the No. 5 level, 135 feet above. A new ventilation\nraise, 531-L, was advanced 360 feet on the vein and will later\nconnect with an old adit higher up the hill. Electrical power is obtained from the West\nKootenay Power and Light Company Limited. The mined quartz is shipped to Trail for\nuse as a flux in the smelter. The quartz contains a small amount of gold. Eleven\nmen were employed underground and six on the surface. Operations were continuous\nthroughout the year. Output averaged 70 tons per working-day.\nNORTH OKANAGAN (50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W. AND S.E.)*\nGold\nThe workings are on the White Elephant mineral claim 5 miles by\nWhite Elephant road westerly from Ewings Landing on the west side of Okanagan\n(Pre-Cambrian) Lake and 34 miles from Vernon. Work ceased in July, 1935, and\nthe property lay idle until the summer of 1950, when a start was\nmade to unwater the old workings so that an examination of the mine could be made.\nAn automatic injector was used, and with it the water in the shaft was lowered about 60\nfeet in two months. It was intended to install a compressed-air operated pump to hasten\nunwatering, but it was found necessary to postpone the examination of the workings and\nunwatering was discontinued. A fence was built around the glory-hole adjacent to the\nshaft. No other work was done. Two men were employed under H. H. Armstrong.\n[Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept., 1931, pp. 86a-90a.]\nMount Vernon.\u2014From this property near Vernon, C. J. Christian and V. Proctor\nshipped 11 tons of ore to the Trail smelter. Gross content: Gold, 3 oz.; silver, 219 oz.;\nlead, 2,7791b.; zinc, 1381b.\n* By E. R. Hughes. A 116 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nSilver Star.\u2014R. Wilkie, of Kamloops, shipped 1.5 tons of lead ore. Gross content: Silver, 77 oz.; lead, 802 lb.; zinc, 68 lb.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1926, p. 200; 1949, pp. 137,\n138.]\nCAMP McKINNEY (49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E.)*\nGold\nIgnatius B. Healey, Salt Lake City, Utah, owner. This mine is on\nWaterloo the Waterloo Consolidated Fraction mineral claim, and is half a\nmile east of the Cariboo-Amelia mine. The mine has been closed\nsince 1903, except for attempts at unwatering and rehabilitation. In June, 1950, Leo\nMorris and Raymond Galloway were unwatering and retimbering the mine shaft, using\na gasoline pump. On June 29th the water had been lowered to about 50 feet below the\nshaft collar when Morris descended the shaft to attend to the pump and was overcome by\ncarbon monoxide. Galloway went to his assistance and he was also overcome. Both men\ndied in the shaft from carbon-monoxide poisoning. No other persons were employed, and\nno other work has been done since.\n[Reference: B.C. Dept. of Mines, Bull. 6 (1940).]\nWESTBRIDGE (49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W.)\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nMaybe.\u2014Ore shipped to Trail, 55 tons. Gross content: Silver, 193 oz.; lead,\n5,737 lb.; zinc, 4,303 lb.\nBEAVERDELL (49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 844 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nHighland Bell Beaverdell. K. J. Springer, president; P. L. Clark, mine manager;\nLimited Fred Tinsley, mine foreman; P. R. Clarke, mill superintendent.\nThe Highland Bell mine, on Wallace Mountain, is served by 4\nmiles of road from the main camp at Beaverdell. No. 4 level is the main haulage adit.\nThe compressor, power plant, and steel-shop are at the portal of No. 4 level. The\n34-degree main winze connects 4 level with 7 and 8 levels and another winze continues\nto 9 level. In 1950 the winze was extended from 9 level to a new No. 10 level, a vertical\ndistance of 50 feet. The major part of production came from the 7 level workings.\nThe most outstanding development during the year was the erection of the 50-ton\nmill adjacent to a spur of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Beaverdell. The mill was\nofficially opened on September 20th. Although Beaverdell has been a centre of silver-\nmining for about fifty years and has produced some 18,000,000 ounces of silver, this is\nthe first mill to be built there.\nProduction: Ore mined, 8,383 tons; ore milled, 4,107 tons. Gross content of\nore and concentrates: Gold, 237 oz.; silver, 696,561 oz.; lead, 377,113 lb.; zinc,\n495,990 lb.; cadmium, 1,325 lb.\nFifty-seven men were employed, including twenty underground and ten at the mill.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 138-148.]\nG. S. Eldridge, president; John Broatch, manager. This company\nWellington (Silver continued development work on the Wellington mineral claim on\nBounty Mines Wallace Mountain. The 7 and 8 levels were unwatered and the\nLimited) old shaft was retimbered from 5 to 7 levels. The old shaft was\nthen extended 67 feet below 7 level, and a crosscut was driven 25\n* By E. R. Hughes. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 117\nfeet from the bottom of the shaft in the direction of a vein reported to have been located\nby diamond drilling earlier in the year. This vein had not been reached at the end of\nthe year. Three men were employed.\nThe Highland Bell mill.\nA. E. Home, manager. This company did some development\nwork on the Highland Silver property on Wallace Mountain.\nDiamond drilling in the No. 2 adit of the Rambler workings\nindicated a vein which was further investigated by a shaft. The\nshaft had been sunk 25 feet when operations were suspended in\nSeptember. Three men were employed. Production: Ore shipped\nto Trail smelter, 46 tons. Gross content: Silver, 1,138 oz.; lead, 1,333 lb.; zinc,\n2,514 lb.\nThis claim is about three-quarters of a mile south of the Rambler\nmineral claim on Wallace Mountain. The workings on the claim\nconsist of an adit level, approximately 300 feet long, and two\nNo active development has been done on the property for many\nyears. In October Mrs. A. E. Home arranged to purchase the claim from R. F. Sandner,\nof Christina Lake. A road about 1,000 feet long was built from the Gold Drop adit\nto connect with an existing road from the Rambler ore-bin. Two workmen, under the\ndirection of A. E. Home, were employed in sorting ore from old surface dumps. In\nOctober 8 tons of the sorted ore was trucked to the Trail smelter. Gross content: Silver,\n250 oz.; lead, 449 lb.; zinc, 761 lb.\nHighland Silver\n(Cranberry Creek\nGold Mining Co.\nLimited)\nGold Drop\npartly caved shafts. A 118 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nLIGHTNING PEAK (49\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 804 Silica Street, Nelson. H. A. McKen, man-\nWaterloo, Dictator aging director. This company controls a group of eight Crown-\n(Paycheck Mining granted and forty-two located claims on Lightning Peak. The\nand Development property is reached by about 20 miles of road from a point on\nCompany Limited) the Monashee Highway 28 miles from Edgewood. The main\ndevelopment in 1950 was the exposure by bulldozer stripping of a\nmineralized fissure above the Waterloo No. 1 adit. An open-cut was made on this\nshowing and about 15 tons of ore was sorted from it. No shipments were made in 1950.\nUp to ten men were employed. Work was discontinued in the fall when the Monashee\nHighway was closed.\nGREENWOOD f\nGold-Silver\n(49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W.) W. Madden, owner. This mine is Wi miles\nProvidence north of Greenwood and has been worked intermittently for over\nfifty years. During 1950 work was done by four lessees. J. S.\nKleman and J. Trombley, who obtained a lease to do mining and exploratory work on\nthe 600-foot level, made one shipment of 6 tons of ore on December 15th. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 422 oz.; lead, 183 lb.; zinc, 269 lb.\nE. Wanke and O. Johnson obtained a lease to do mining and exploratory work in\nthe area from the 200-foot level upward. Commencing work in June, they made four\nshipments totalling 20 tons of ore from the remnants near the old 200-foot level workings. Gross content: Gold, 15 oz.; silver, 5,362 oz.; lead, 2,344 lb.; zinc, 2,858 lb.\nApart from these four lessees, no other men worked the mine.\nDynamo.\u2014From this property just south of Greenwood, a syndicate represented by\nJ. McDonell and M. M. Butorac shipped 43 tons of ore to Trail. Gross content: Gold,\n1 oz.; silver, 307 oz.; lead, 16,507 lb.; zinc, 8,297 lb.\nLead King.\u2014From the Lead King, south of Greenwood, W. E. McArthur shipped\n8 tons of lead ore to Trail. Gross content: Silver, 22 oz.; lead, 1,143 lb.; zinc, 1,250 lb.\nPAULSON (49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.E.)f\nGold-Silver\nMichael Hretchka, manager; W. Schwartzenhauer, foreman. This\nAlbion (Granville company optioned the Albion group from Joe Klomen. The mine\nMines Corporation, is about 6 miles by road southeasterly from Paulson. In July an\nLimited) adit level was advanced 80 feet into the hillside and a connection\nwas made with an old shaft 35 feet below the shaft collar. The\nold shaft is said to be 60 feet deep. The vein at the face of the adit is 2 feet 10 inches\nwide. A 25-ton shipment of ore was trucked to Paulson in September, and from there\nit was shipped to the Trail smelter. At the time of inspection on October 18th no\nmining was being done and there were two employees at the camp.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 25 tons. Gross content: Gold, 8 oz.; silver, 48 oz.\nROSSLAND (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W.)*\nGold\nHead office, Room 2, 815 Victoria Street, Nelson. J. A. Cooper,\nMidnight and I.X.L. manager. Capital: 500 shares, $100 par value. This company\n(Kootenay Central owns the Midnight and I.X.L. mines, 1 mile south of Rossland.\nMines Limited) Work was done intermittently in the Midnight mine, but the I.X.L.\nmine remained idle. J. Gillis and T. Radich, working on the\n* By J. W. Peck.\nf By E. R. Hughes. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 119\nMidnight under a lease arrangement with the owners, removed ore by underhand stoping\nthe vein north and south of the winze on the sublevel 75 feet below the main adit.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 132 tons. Gross content: Gold, 66 oz.; silver, 206 oz.\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 675 Hastings Street West, Vancouver. Capital:\nBluebird (Rossland 3,000,000 shares, no par value. This company owns a group of\nMines Limited) claims in what is known as the South Belt, adjacent to Rossland.\nIn the latter part of 1950 the LBB mining partnership started work\non the Bluebird claim 1,000 feet west of the Mayflower workings which were worked by\nE. H. Lovitt during 1949. A 5- by 8-foot shaft was collared above and a short distance\nwest of the Bluebird workings. Sinking was started on a vein striking easterly and dipping\n55 degrees to the north. By December the shaft had reached a depth of 30 feet, exposing\na quartz vein about 4 feet wide sparsely mineralized with galena and sphalerite.\nEquipment for mining consisted of a 220-cubic-feet-per-minute Gardner-Denver\ncompressor driven by electric power supplied by the West Kootenay Power and Light\nCompany. Ore removed while the shaft was being sunk was hand-sorted; a few tons\nwas trucked to the Whitewater mill at Retallack and the rest was sent to the Trail smelter.\nTwo men were employed.\nProduction: Ore shipped to Trail, 96 tons. Gross content: Gold, AVi oz.; silver,\n2,613 oz.; lead, 6,053 lb.; zinc, 7,456 lb.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, p. 158.]\nThis is a Crown-granted claim located on the Cascade Highway\nDouglas near the Velvet mine. It is owned by the Godfrey brothers, of\nNorthport, who made one shipment in 1949 and one in 1950.\nProduction: Ore shipped in 1950, 8 tons. Gross content: Silver, 16 oz.; lead, 1,051\nlb.; zinc, 905 lb.\nNELSON*\nEagle Creek (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)\nGold\nBritish Columbia office, Royal Bank Building, 675 Hastings Street\nGranite-Poorman West, Vancouver; mine office, Box 390, Nelson. G. H. Rainville,\n(Kenville Gold president. Capital: 3,500,000 shares, $1 par value. This prop-\nMines Limited) erty, 7 miles by road from Nelson, is controlled by the Quebec Gold\nMining Corporation. Leasing and custom milling operations continued under the jurisdiction of the company until May 31st, 1950, after which date F. C.\nBuckland, of Vancouver, obtained a lease on the mine and plant. In 1949 the mine was\ndivided among six groups of lessees, but by May 31st, 1950, only the following were\noperating:\u2014\n(1) C. Johnson, A. Johnson, and W. Johnson: 219 and 220 Yule vein, 2750\nlevel.\n(2) H. Cooper and A. Jmaeff: Midway vein above 2750 level.\nLocal ores were milled on a custom basis. Van Roi ore was milled until February\n22nd, Arlington ore until May 31st, and Venango ore until the end of February. In\naddition to the Kenville lessees' ore, an attempt was also made to mill some of the old\nbackfill, but this project was soon abandoned. Silver Hill and Silver King ores brought\nto the mill in 1949 were not milled and were still on the site at the end of 1950.\nF. C. Buckland continued operating the mill on a custom basis. He also opened up\nthe old Eureka mine and started a raise about 1,200 feet in from the portal on the lower\nlevel to connect with a winze sunk from the upper level. Information on the location of\n* By J. W. Peck. A 120 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nthis winze was, however, unreliable, and the raise was abandoned after being driven 100\nfeet. Ore from the Eureka dump was trucked 3 miles to the Kenville mill. The mill also\ntreated some of the old Ymir Yankee Girl tailings from Ymir. The mine and mill reverted\nto the company on October 1st. On October 22nd the Johnson brothers ceased operating\ntheir lease, leaving only one group of lessees active at the end of the year.\nProduction:\u2014\nFrom the Granite-Poorman:\u2014\nMilled for the lessees by the company, 1,718 tons.\nMilled for the lessees by F. C. Buckland, 550 tons.\nShipped to Trail, 879 tons of ore.\nGross content: Gold, 476 oz.; silver, 704 oz.; lead, 7,902 lb.; zinc,\n6,451 lb.\nFrom the Arlington, 2,100 tons milled.\nFrom the Venango, 176 tons milled.\nFrom the Van Roi, 1,466 tons milled.\nFrom the Eureka, 200 tons milled.\nFrom the Ymir Yankee Girl, 1,368 tons milled.\nKokanee Creek (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThis mine is at the head of Kokanee Creek and is owned by The\nMolly Gibson Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited.\nR. J. Johnston, of Trail, working under a lease arrangement with\nthe company, shipped two truckloads of ore to the Trail smelter.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 29 tons. Gross content: Silver, 1,301 oz.; lead, 6,829\nlb.; zinc, 5,701 lb.\nYMIR (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)*\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nThis mine, on the north slope of Ymir Creek, 5Vi miles by road\nGoodenough from Ymir, was operated under a purchase agreement by J. Turk,\n(Protection) A. Fata, and F. Patula. Ore was obtained from above the No. 2\nlevel and also from the sublevel between No. 2 and No. 3 levels.\nFor a while the ore was removed via No. 3 level, a distance of 1,700 feet, by wheelbarrow;\ntrack was installed later. On the surface the vein exposed in 1949 to the south of the\nNo. 3 portal was stripped farther. Ore was mined from the stripped part of the vein by\nhand-steel methods and trucked to the smelter at Trail.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 183 tons. Gross content: Gold, 164 oz.; silver, 1,355\noz.; lead, 21,464 lb.; zinc, 28,403 lb.\nA. Burgess and three associates continued to work the Dundee\nDundee mine throughout 1950. The 1235 level, which also serves the\nYmir Yankee Girl mine, was used as the main haulage level, and\na portable compressor was set up at the portal. Most of the ore mined in 1950 came from\npillar remnants of the main vein on the 1000 level, but about 200 tons came from the\n900 level.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 1,032 tons. Gross content: Gold, 320 oz.; silver, 5,459\noz.; lead, 161,0241b.; zinc, 178,4251b.\nO. W. Gowing obtained a lease on the Ymir Yankee Girl mill\nYmir Yankee Girl tailings at Ymir. These were dug up and at first trucked to the\nKenville mill but were later trucked directly to the smelter at Trail.\n1 By J. W. Peck, except as noted. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 121\nA sublease was given to A. Kraft and A. MacDonald, of Ymir, who used a tumble\nscreen to wash the sludge off the wooden chips that had passed through the old mill.\nGross content of 13 tons shipped by them to Trail smelter: Gold, 14 oz.; silver, 48 oz.;\nlead, 4841b.; zinc, 5801b.\nO. W. Gowing and D. S. MacDonald also operated a lease for the first four months\nof 1950 in the Ymir Yankee Girl mine. The 1235 level, which also serves the Dundee\nmine, was used. At approximately 1,500 feet from the branch into Dundee ground (or\n2,700 feet from the portal) a raise near the Yukon oreshoot extends to the 1100 level\nabove. About 30 feet east of this raise on 1100 level the partners, assisted by two other\nmen, did underhand mining to a depth of 12 feet over a distance of 15 feet. The vein\nhere dips about 40 degrees, is about 12 inches wide, and has been stoped out above the\nlevel. The ore was lowered to the 1235 level and was taken from the mine by a horse-\ndrawn rubber-tired cart. Drilling was done by hand-steel.\nProduction: Ore shipped to Trail from mine, 964 tons. Gross content: Gold, 179\noz.; silver, 3,974 oz.; lead, 133,459 lb.; zinc, 298,202 lb. Mill tailings shipped to Kenville mill, 1,368 tons; to Trail, 143 tons. Gross content of the latter: Gold, 61 oz.;\nsilver, 1,039 oz.; lead, 29,770 lb.; zinc, 90,840 lb.\nA. Kraft and A. MacDonald, of Ymir, operated a lease at the old\nCentre Star (Wesko) mill-site of this mine. The wooden scraps that had passed through\nthe mill were put through a tumble screen, and 1.7 tons of sludge\nwas collected and shipped to Trail. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 4 oz.; lead, 66\nlb.; zinc, 17 lb.\nCompany office, 503 Westlake Avenue, North Seattle, Wash.;\nX-Ray (Ymir Good British Columbia office, 101 Medical Arts Building, Nelson. John\nHope Mining Meduna, president. Capital: 250,000 Class A shares, $1 par\nCompany) value; 1,500,000 Class B shares, 10 cents par value. This prop\nerty, 5Y2 miles by road from Ymir, is on the east side of Huckleberry Creek, a southerly flowing tributary of Ymir Creek. In the latter part of 1950 a\nsmall development programme was started on this property, which had been idle for about\nthree years. A contract was let to extend the Noble adit, which was 126 feet long, a\nfurther 300 feet. When the property was visited on October 18th, the face was 256 feet\nfrom the portal, and the adit was following a quartz vein averaging about 1 foot in width.\nSmall amounts of sphalerite were visible. A portable compressor and a mucking-machine\nwere in use. D. S. MacDonald was in charge, with a total of three men employed. All\nwork ceased December 6th, when the face was reported to be 325 feet from the portal.\nThis group of sixteen claims, located recently by E. P. Haukedahl,\nLast Chance* Ed. Emilson, and associates, of Ymir, is under option to New Jersey\nZinc Explorations Limited. It is about 3V2 miles east of Ymir on\nthe north side of Oscar (Bear) Creek and is reached by a trail Wa miles long from the\nend of the Oscar Creek logging-road.\nThe property is in a nearly level pass which trends north 30 degrees east and lines\nup with the pass to Porcupine Creek, in which the Oxide group is located. It is presumed\nthat the two passes are localized on the same structural break, but positive evidence is\nlacking.\nThe ground is heavily mantled with drift, and the geology is not known, except that\ndips are predominantly to the east in argillites, quartzites, and schists. At the southern\nof three ponds six short adits have been driven eastward in the valley bottom to investigate\nwhat appears to be a strong zone of faulting which dips eastward and trends with the\nvalley at north 30 degrees\" east. The adits, from a few feet to 160 feet long, were driven\nto test the possible existence of a fault zone, and the information gained so far is that a\n* By M. S. Hedley. A 122 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nfault exists and that some mineralized dolomite occurs in black argillites. One adit\ncrossed about 15 feet of dolomite in the floor, beneath glacial drift. The dolomite contains\na small amount of zinc mineralization. Another adit crossed for 20 feet dolomite dipping\nat a low angle to the east, beneath argillites. This dolomite contained heavily oxidized\nzinc mineralization and a small amount of lead.\nPlans were under way in September, 1950, to advance a newly started adit to investigate the possibility of finding more dolomite to the east of the fault zone.\nThis property, located in 1948 by E. P. Haukedahl, E. H. Barclay,\nJack Pot* and S. W. Barclay, of Ymir, is under option to New Jersey Zinc\nExplorations Limited. It is on the ridge between Porcupine and\nHidden Creeks and is reached from the Porcupine Creek road by a switchback road built\nin 1949. The showings are on the summit and the northern slopes, half a mile to a mile\neast of the Hunter V glory-hole.\nThe property is an old one, located and partly explored in forgotten times when\nthe predominantly zinc showings were not attractive. Recent exploration has consisted\nof a minor amount of hand-stripping and a large amount of bulldozer stripping and\ndiamond drilling. This work was started in 1949 and continued until the winter of 1950\nunder the supervision of R. C. Macdonald.\nThe geology is complex and, in spite of much careful and detailed mapping, is not\nwell understood. The rocks in the valley of Porcupine Creek strike northward and dip\nsteeply to the east, although flattening at lower elevations. There is a hint of recumbent\nfolding on the south slope. The valley of Hidden Creek is occupied by granite which\nextends to the south edge of the property. The crest of the ridge and the upper northern\nslope are underlain by rocks which dip, on the average, flatly to the south, but are acutely\ncrumpled locally. The relationship of these to the east-dipping rocks farther down the\nnorth slope has not been determined. A sharp flexure of major size is indicated, whether\nor not there has been much faulting. The possibility of overturning should not be overlooked, although its existence is difficult to prove.\nThe section on the ridge summit includes two bands of crystalline limestone separated by quartzites. Detailed relationships are obscured by local granitization of the\nquartzites and by granitic zones that possibly were localized along faults. The limestones\ncontain dolomite zones which locally are smeared with yellowish-green to very dark-\ngreen serpentine. Sulphides consist principally of sphalerite in discrete dark-brown\ngrains. Galena is in disseminated grains and is not abundant. Pyrite in many instances\nis in the form of pyritohedra. Pyrrhotite occurs in a few places, particularly the Lerwick\nzone, and may contribute to rapid disintegration by the formation of iron sulphate.\nFour zones of mineralization are recognized, the Main, West, East, and Lerwick.\nThe total area over which mineral occurs is impressive, but details of its localization are\nnot well understood. The ore is apparently bedded for the most part and occupies more\nthan one horizon. The West showing, 4 to 8 feet thick and about 500 feet long at the\nsurface, is not all in one band. The maximum intersection obtained in the Main showing\nwas 42 feet. The Lerwick zone, on which bulldozer stripping has been done, contains\nlenticular masses of ore.\nFollowing close drilling of the Main zone, more widely spaced holes, one of which\nwas 800 feet long, were put down to test the southerly continuation, without marked\nsuccess. Drilling of the East zone was in progress late in 1950, with a view to determining the possible extent of mineralization.\nZinc-bearing mineralization is known to occur in limestone at scattered points from\nthe Jack Pot down into the basin of Porcupine Creek. The Oxide group lies to the north,\nacross the creek. There is abundant indication of zinc mineralization and abundant\nlimestone in this area, but structural complexity and heavy overburden have made explor-\n* By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 123\nation difficult. The diamond-drilling campaign started with close delineation of the\nMain zone, but in 1950 it was aimed at determining over-all extent of the ore zones\nrather than blocking out tonnage.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1948, pp. 132, 133; 1949,\npp. 165, 166.]\nThis group is owned by E. P. Haukedahl and associates, of Ymir,\nOxide* and is under option to New Jersey Zinc Explorations Limited.\nIt is on the ridge between Oscar (Bear) and Porcupine Creeks,\nabout 3V-2 miles east of Ymir. The property extends south into the valley of Porcupine\nCreek. A road from Porcupine Creek leads to a camp-site on the south slope and continues steeply to a pass leading to Oscar Creek valley.\nHeavily oxidized mineralization over impressive widths has been found at the surface\nin a roughly north-south zone which may represent a major fault zone. All attempts in\npast years to reach and explore the unoxidized parts of the zone by diamond drilling,\nstripping, and tunneling have failed, particularly because a heavy cover of drift makes\nexploration on the south slope difficult. In September, 1950, a diamond-drill hole was\nbeing drilled at 78 degrees downward from a point apparently in the hangingwall of the\nzone a short distance below the camp-site in order to strike the zone at considerable depth\nbelow the surface showings. Projection of the zone is uncertain, because it is semi-bedded\nand may flatten with depth in response to the general decrease in dip of the easterly dipping\nrocks. Later in the year an adit was being driven northerly at a point, elevation 4,085\nfeet, about 1,000 feet south of the International adit.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1948, p. 131.]\nSALMO (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)t\nErie Creek\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nThis mine, 7 miles by road from Salmo, was operated by Kenville\nArlington Gold Mines Limited until May 31st, 1950, under an agreement\nwith F. C. Buckland, who optioned the property in 1948. The\ncompany, however, did not continue the intensive exploratory programme of 1949.\nInstead, a contract was given to R. Golac to remove the backfill from the flat-lying stopes\nand truck it to the Kenville mill at Nelson. This operation ceased in April. After May\n31st, F. C. Buckland installed a small sorting plant and started sorting ore out of the\nlarge dumps at this mine. Only a few shipments were made to Trail before operations\nceased in July. It is reported the property has now reverted to its original owners.\nProduction: Ore shipped to Trail, 15V4 tons. Gross content: Gold, HVz oz.\u00ab\nsilver, 48 oz.; lead, 889 lb.; zinc, 866 lb.\nOre shipped to Kenville mill, 2,100 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 309\noz.; silver, 976 oz.; lead, 10,580 lb.; zinc, 18,538 lb.\nSheep Creek\nGold\nCompany office, c\/o Robertson, Douglas & Symes, Bank of Mon-\nSheep Creek Gold treal Building, 640 Pender Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nMines Limited Sheep Creek. A. E. Jukes, president; H. E. Doelle, managing\ndirector; F. R. Thompson, mine superintendent. Capital: 2,000,-\n000 shares, 50 cents par value. The mill, reopened October 5th, 1949, was operated\nuntil May 12th, 1950, at which time all broken ore had been milled. The bulk of the ore\n* By M. S. Hedley.\nt By J. W. Peck, except as noted. A 124 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\ncame from stopes on the 700 and 900 levels. Most of the development work was done\non the 900 and 1000 levels. On the 900 level, drifting was done on the 64 and 68 veins,\nwhile a winze was sunk on the 81 vein. In this winze a sublevel was established at 50\nfeet, and about 120 feet of drifting was done before the project was abandoned. On the\n1000 level a crosscut was driven to the 92 vein, and some drifting was done on this vein.\nMost of the development proved disappointing, and toward the end of the year equipment\nwas being removed from all levels below No. 7 level. After the mill was closed, any ore\nobtained from development, stopes, general clean-up, surface assay dump, etc., was\ntrucked directly to the smelter at Trail. From a high of ninety-five men in January, the\nnumber of employees dropped to only seven at the end of 1950. Development footages\nare as follows: Drifting and crosscutting, 1,935 feet; raising, 35 feet; sinking, 64 feet.\n. Production: Ore milled, 15,021 tons. Ore shipped crude, 802 tons. Gross content\nof bullion and of ore shipped crude: Gold, 5,004 oz.; silver, 2,095 oz.; lead, 8,481 lb.;\nzinc, 4,728 lb.\nBell (Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited).\u2014Operating from the Sheep Creek camp,\nSheep Creek Gold Mines Limited conducted an exploratory and diamond-drilling programme on the Bell claims which are north of the H.B. and south of the Salmo Malartic\nmines on Aspen Creek.\nA. Kraft and A. MacDonald, of Ymir, leased the old mill-sites\nReno and Gold Belt of the Reno and Gold Belt mines at Sheep Creek. The piles of\nwooden scraps that had passed through the mills were put through\na tumble screen. The washed sludge was collected and shipped to Trail.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 8.49 tons. Gross content: Gold, 6.3 oz.; silver, 9 oz.;\nlead, 91 lb.; zinc, 62 lb.\nGold Belt.\u2014Leasing operations yielded 82 tons of dry ore that was shipped to the\nTrail smelter. Gross content: Gold, 24 oz.; silver, 42 oz.\nA partnership of J. R. Thompson, R. Lefevre, A. Rollick, and F.\nKootenay Belle Latoria operated this mine on a lease during the first part of the\nyear. Ore was obtained from pillar extraction on an intermediate\nlevel between No. 2 and No. 3 levels. The aerial tram was used from No. 3 level to\nbring the ore down for trucking to the smelter at Trail. Air was supplied by a 300-cubic-\nfeet-per-minute compressor.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 468 tons. Gross content: Gold, 261 oz.; silver, 204 oz.\nA. Endersby, Fruitvale, owner and operator, and his son did inter-\nNugget mittent work at this property. Fifteen tons of ore was mined from\nthe upper Nugget level and the remainder came from the 4900 level.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 102 tons. Gross content: Gold, 91 oz.; silver, 158 oz.\nAspen Creek\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThe H.B. mine is on the west side of Aspen Creek, a southerly\nH.B. (The Consoli- flowing tributary of Sheep Creek, 8Vi miles from Salmo. Current\ndated Mining and development culminates an intensive re-examination of the property\nSmelting Company during the past few years. The H.B. property was located some\nof Canada, forty years ago by P. F. Horton and H. M. Billings (hence the\nLimited)* name) and was under lease and bond to The Consolidated Mining\nand Smelting Company in 1911, when work was done on heavily\noxidized showings of zinc and lead ore. Shipments were started in 1912, when 742 tons\nof lead carbonate ore was shipped to Trail. The bond was relinquished, and the property\nwas leased by W. R. Salisbury in 1913, who continued to make shipments of lead ore.\n* By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 125\nThe Salisbury lease expired in 1915, and a lease and bond was taken by Spokane\ninterests on the H.B. and Zincton groups. Work continued under the direction of R. K.\nNeill, and shipments of predominantly zinc-bearing ore were made to smelters in the\nUnited States. The zinc carbonate and silicate ore could not be treated at Trail and was\nshipped to plants which made zinc oxide, chiefly for use in the manufacture of paint.\nShipments made in 1917 were in the name of W. G. Harris, of Silverton.\nThe property was under option to the Victoria Syndicate in 1925, when that company\ndrove No. 4 level crosscut and continued exploration work in 1926. The property was\noperated by P. F. Horton, still one of the owners, in 1927, when ore containing chiefly lead\nwas shipped. The property was bought in 1927 by The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company and lay idle for many years. Production from 1912 to 1927 amounted to\n17,200 tons, containing 6 ounces of gold, 14,696 ounces of silver, 2,587,298 pounds of\nlead, and 6,956,184 pounds of zinc.\nAll the upper workings were in heavily oxidized ore, and only a small amount of\nunoxidized material was encountered on No. 4 level, 300 feet vertically below No. 2 level,\nwhich was the main working from which most ore had been mined. No ore had been\nfound on the lowest or No. 7 level.\nStarting about 1946 the company began geological investigations that led in 1948-\n49 to a considerable amount of surface diamond drilling. Underground work was started\nin June, 1949, with the rehabilitation of No. 4 level, and a drive was started due south\nfrom the existing face. A raise was put up to No. 3 level to be used as an ore-pass to\nhandle oxidized ore from that level and above.\nThe exploratory drive was carried south for nearly 1,500 feet and was slashed at\n100-foot intervals for diamond-drill stations. A parallel drive was subsequently made\nabout 230 feet to the west, 300 to 750 feet south of the old face of No. 4, and connected\nto the main drive by three crosscuts at 200-foot intervals. A large amount of drilling\nwas then done to delimit partially an impressive low-grade ore zone, which is unoxidized.\nTwo orebodies are indicated, of which the eastern is the larger.\nMore detailed drilling was continued in 1950 from two 45-degree raises put up to\nthe north in the central part of the east body. The raises were started 150 feet apart, and\nfrom them ring drilling was carried out at 50-foot intervals in an effort to delimit and\nsample a section of the orebody 350 feet long.\nOxidized ore was shipped from the dumps and from underground in 1949 and 1950.\nThis has the appearance of ochre and contains about 10 per cent zinc. The quantity\nshipped by truck to Trail depends upon the rate at which it can be handled by the smelter.\nAs much as 70 tons per day was shipped in 1949, and the rate in 1950 was about 40 tons\nper day. The ore from underground was mined by square-set stoping across widths as\ngreat as 18 feet.\nThe ore is a replacement in limestone, part of a band normally about 100 to 200\nfeet thick, but with a thickness increased by folding to about 500 to 600 feet. The form\nof the folding is one of sharp rolls and steep limbs that gives to the limestone a low\ncumulative dip to the east. The plunge of the fold axes is about 20 to 25 degrees to the\nsouth in the mine area, roughly parallel to the ground surface. The oxidized ore zone\nstrikes northwestward, and the newly discovered unoxidized zone strikes north. The\nmeaning of the change in strike is not known, nor the relationship between the two ore\nzones.\nThe limestone was originally a banded rock, but it has undergone much deformation,\ninvolving both comminution and flowage. Some, apparently the product of extreme\ndeformation, has a speckled or \" tweedy \" appearance, a term coined by A. E. Buller at\nReeves MacDonald and applicable in many parts of the Salmo area. The limestone has\nbeen dolomitized, presumably a secondary alteration in the ore zone, but the process has\nnot been closely studied. A 126 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThe east orebody is skirted on the east side by the main south drift. It is about\n350 feet high and plunges beneath No. 4 level to the south. As explored by diamond\ndrilling it is roughly vertical, in spite of the fact that the dip of the limestone, or at least\nthe dip of the rude banding in the limestone, is steeply east. The bottom or lower part\nof the orebody is not fully outlined. There is nothing to indicate what the controlling\nfactors may be, except abundant evidence of fine brecciation, but the ore margins at\npresent recognized do not appear to be related to any particular degree of brecciation.\nThe west orebody is smaller and has not been as thoroughly drilled yet. The west\ndrift lies in the orebody.\nThe width of the east orebody is being determined for mining by close drilling within\nthe 350-foot-long block. It is too early to estimate this width, but a figure in the neighbourhood of 50 feet is not unlikely.\nA large tonnage is undoubtedly indicated, in one or both orebodies as at present outlined. The ratio of zinc to lead is about 5 to 1, and the grade will depend on the mining\nlimits chosen. Selective mining of higher-grade parts is probably feasible, but mining of\nentire low-grade blocks is more attractive because much lower costs are to be expected.\nMuch work remains to be done before the ore zone can be fully assessed and the ore\nlimits outlined. At present a very satisfactory, large tonnage of low-grade ore has been\nbrought to light by rapid and efficient development.\nAn average of thirty-six men was employed under the direction of J. E. McMynn,\nsuperintendent.\nProduction, oxidized ore: Ore shipped, 2,877 tons. Gross content: Silver, 13,019\noz.; lead, 771,654 lb.; zinc, 1,492,105 lb.\nIron Mountain\nLead-Zinc-Tungsten\nHead office, Royal Bank Building, Vancouver; mine office, Salmo.\nEmerald, Jersey Harold Lakes, manager; J. B. Magee, mine superintendent; G. H.\n(Canadian Explora- Grimwood, mill superintendent. The mine camp is on the summit\nrion Limited)* between Sheep Creek and Lost Creek, 8 miles by road from Salmo,\nand the mill, served by tram-line and by a recently constructed road,\nis on the Nelson\u2014Nelway Highway, 5 miles south of Salmo.\nThe mine has had a varied history and is now in a new and important phase of\ndevelopment. The ground was prospected many years ago for gold as well as for lead ore.\nThe Emerald was a small but steady producer of lead ore from 1907 to 1925. A small\nmill was constructed in 1919 but has since burned down. Production was from the\nEmerald zone, but early exploration was done also on the Jersey and Dodger zones.\nAfter many years of inactivity, the owners, The Iron Mountain Limited, increased\ntheir holdings from seventeen to forty-one Crown-granted claims and carried out exploration and a small amount of development work for three years, under the direction of\nHarold Lakes, of Nelson. On May 20th, 1942, following recognition of scheelite in skarn\non the property, Harold Lakes discovered scheelite in quartz and in iron-bearing skarn\nin a series of long-forgotten workings driven in search of gold. This was west of the\nprincipal lead-zinc showings, along a granite contact. Later in the same year, scheelite\nore of similar type was found near the Dodger lead-zinc zone.\nExploration of the tungsten-bearing zone was immediately successful, and on August\n17th, 1942, the property was purchased by the Dominion Government. Work thenceforth was accelerated by Wartime Metals Corporation, of Montreal, with E. E. Mason as\nmanager of the Emerald Tungsten Project. The Emerald ore zone was developed, a tramline constructed, and a 300-ton concentrating plant was built. The mill, completed in\n* By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 127\nJune, 1943, was put into production on August 1st, at a rate of about 200 tons per day,\nbut on September 10th an order was received to close down.\nEarly in 1947 the property was bought by Canadian Exploration Limited. Rehabilitation proceeded rapidly, and milling commenced on June 12th; the tonnage treated was\nincreased to approximately 260 tons a day by the end of that year. Exploration for\nadditional tungsten ore was carried out at the same time, under the direction of Harold\nLakes, consulting geologist. This work was extended to a study of the Jersey showings,\nwhich were dominantly zinc-bearing, and by the end of 1948 an impressive tonnage of\nlead-zinc ore had been proved by diamond drilling.\nThe mining of tungsten ore was stopped at the end of 1948, and the last tungsten\nore was milled on January 12th, 1949. The decision had been made to mine the zinc-lead\nore rather than tungsten ore, and immediate steps were made to convert the mill. By\nMarch, 1949, the mill was handling over 300 tons per day. In the interval the road to\nthe Jersey showings was improved, the power-line was extended, and compressors were\nmoved from the Emerald workings. The surface was stripped and an open pit started.\nThe ore was hauled by truck to the head of the tram.\nSince that time two adit levels have been driven into the ore zone, and shop and\nother facilities have been provided. A new road was built in 1950 to haul ore from No.\n5 level directly to the mill, in order to obviate difficulties with the tram-line. The milling\nrate has been raised to 500 tons per day, and exploration and development have been\npushed.\nNo. 5 portal is 1.4 miles by road south of the camp and about a mile south of the\nEmerald surface plant. The engineering and geological offices have recently been moved\nfrom the camp to the mine, and the surface plant is now to a large extent independent of\nthat at the Emerald workings. Water is obtained in small quantity from a spring and\nfrom diamond-drill holes.\nThe ore, with a zinc-lead ratio between 2Vz and 3 to 1, is a replacement in limestone\nwhich is estimated to be several hundred feet thick, folded, and partly altered to skarn.\nThe limestone overlies a quartzitic series and is overlain by black argillite along a faulted\ncontact. It is irregularly folded into a series of crumples and locally pinched folds with\na low plunge to the south.\nTwo and perhaps three or four main ore runs are at present recognized in the closely\ndrilled area about 900 feet wide by 1,500 feet long at the Jersey. The general ore zone\nhas been proved by exploratory drilling to extend from the Jersey to the Dodger zone, a\nstrike distance of about 7,000 feet, although the details of occurrence in the central and\nnorthern parts are not yet known.\nThe ore occurs in bodies of lenticular cross-section, as much as 40 feet thick, that as\noften as not occupy a synclinal position in the structure. The ore consists of brown\nsphalerite, galena, and a variable though rarely large amount of pyrite. Each body of\nore tends to be surrounded by an envelope of dolomite. An excellent series of vertical\nsections, mounted on glass, has been prepared at the mine office to illustrate the geology\nand is invaluable in planning development, but the determination of exact stoping limits\nwill depend on additional drilling and may require a flexible system of mining.\nThe lowest adit, No. 5, is the main haulage level, at an elevation of 4,010 feet, and\nthe other adit, No. 6, is 80 feet higher. No. 5 is driven northerly, starting at the base of\nthe ore zone at the surface, and will remain below the ore because of the low southerly\nplunge. A little of the initial stoping was done under too light a cover and had to be\nabandoned. Scraper stopes with convenient draw-points are laid out along the two or\npossibly three main ore runs. All ore is passed to No. 5 level, crushed, and elevated to a\nhaulage bin for transport to the mill.\nTungsten-bearing residues, accumulated before February, 1949, were shipped to\nLondon, England. A 128 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nProduction: Ore milled, 128,485 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Silver,\n4,865 oz.; lead, 5,148,781 lb.; zinc, 16,367,166 lb.; cadmium, 132,848 lb. Content\nof tungsten residues: Tungstic oxide (WO,3), 281,160 lb.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1947, pp. 163, 164; 1948,\np. 135; 1949, pp. 168,169. B.C.Dept. of Mines, Bull. 10 (Revised), 1943,pp. 135-146.\nGeol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 172 (1934). Mason, E. E., \"Emerald Tungsten Project,\"\nThe Miner, pp. 38-42, June, 1944.]\nLOST CREEK (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)*\nLead-Zinc\nThe Tungsten King group of eighteen claims, including twelve\nTungsten King, Crown-granted claims, lies astride Lost Creek and adjoins the\nTruman, Canadian Exploration ground to the south. The main workings\nBlack Rock are about 2 miles by road from the Nelson-Nelway Highway.\nThese consist of several open-cuts put in by The Consolidated\nMining and Smelting Company when the claims were explored for tungsten in 1942 and\n1943. The group is owned by E. and R. Oscarson, of Spokane, and L. R. Clubine, of\nSalmo, but was optioned in 1950 by D. I. Hayes for American Zinc Company. Bulldozer\nstripping exposed a sphalerite-limestone replacement on the northwest corner of the\nMastadon claim. Ten diamond-drill holes, the longest being about 500 feet, were\ndrilled.\nThe Truman group of twenty claims, which adjoins the Tungsten King group to the\nwest and south, was also optioned by D. I. Hayes from the owner, L. R. Clubine. Late\nin 1950 two diamond drills were used on exploratory work, one on the south side of Lost\nCreek and one on Lime Creek.\nD. I. Hayes also has an option from L. R. Clubine on the Black Rock group of\ntwenty-one claims which lies astride Sheep Creek, adjoining the Canadian Exploration\nground on the north and the H.B. ground on the west.\nNELWAY (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)f\nIron\nThis property is reached by a quarter of a mile of road from a\nLomond point 2 miles west of Nelway on the Nelway-Waneta road. It is\n(International) owned by G. Shallenberger, of Nelson. Shallow deposits of\nearthy iron oxide are exposed on the banks of Lomond Creek. In\n1950 limonite ore was mined under contract by D. G. White and G. Gimple, who trucked\nthe material to the Lehigh Cement Works at Metaline Falls, Wash. Also, a shipment of\n100 tons was sent to C. K. Williams & Co. of California for experimental use as a paint\npigment. Total production was between 3,000 and 4,000 tons. The ore was mined\nfrom a surface pit and loaded into trucks by means of a bulldozer and ramp.\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 609 Baker Street, Nelson. Capital: 100,000\nDiem Mines Limited shares, $1 par value. This company is a subsidiary of Day Mines\nIncorporated, of Wallace, Idaho, and was formed to develop\nseveral groups of claims in the Nelway and Sheep Creek areas. Along the International\nBoundary a group of thirty-five claims was located, two to three claims wide, west of the\nPend d'Oreille River. Fourteen claims or fractions were located astride the Salmo\nRiver, north of its confluence with Rosebud Creek. Three claims or fractions were also\nlocated on Bennett Creek, south of its confluence with Sheep Creek, covering the open\nground remaining on that creek. No work was done on the company's holdings other\nthan general prospecting and geological work.\n* By J. W. Peck.\nt By J. W. Peck, except as noted. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 129\nCompany office, 413 Granville Street, Vancouver; mine office,\nReeves MacDonald Remac. L. P. Larsen, Spokane, Wash., president; W. L. Zeigler,\nMines Limited* Metaline Falls, Wash., general manager; F. R. Jones, superintendent. The company is capitalized for 3,000,000 shares at $1 par\nvalue, of which 2,338,000 are outstanding. Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Company\nowns 1,389,000 shares.\nThe Reeves MacDonald mine is on the Pend d'Oreille River about 4 miles west of\nNelway. The property is extensive, including sixty-four Crown-granted mineral claims\nbetween the Pend d'Oreille and Salmo Rivers.\nThe mill, producing at a capacity of 500 tons per day in 1949, was increased to\n1,000 tons capacity in 1950 by the addition of a second ball mill. In September about\n800 tons of ore was treated daily. Concentrates were trucked to the Trail smelter via\nSalmo. All work was restricted to the Reeves orebody, which was mined from internal\nlevels and from the glory-hole.\nOffices, conveyor-shed, and mill partly hidden by trees, at the Reeves MacDonald.\nThe orebody is a replacement in limestone and dips at 55 degrees to the south.\nIt was developed by twin raises driven in the footwall from the 1900 adit level to the\n2650 adit level, and it was originally intended to mine slots at 50-foot level intervals and\nblast the remaining horizontal pillars. At present, although several of the upper levels\nhave been completely slashed out in horizontal slots, the mining method of the lower part\nof the block is being modified. The 1950 level, above the 1900 main haulage, is a\nslusher drift, and the 2000 level is coned out to box holes. On levels above the 2000,\nore will be slashed by down holes as well as by horizontal holes. One of the twin raises\nwas being timbered, and a hoist was being installed to service the main body of the mine.\nThe apex of the orebody, at about the 2800 level, was being glory-holed, all ore from the\nupper part of the mine passing down the single transfer raise.\n* By M. S. Hedley.\n5 A 130\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThe orebody is now sufficiently developed to show that it is remarkably uniform\nthrough the known vertical range of nearly 1,000 feet. In fact, there is very little\ndetectable difference in outline or character of the ore between several of the uppermost\n50-foot levels. The main orebody averages about 350 feet in length by 40 feet in thickness, although widths as great as 70 feet are attained. The body terminates in a wedge\nto the east, in dolomite, and in two tails on the west. These tails, as much as 20 feet\nthick, are separated by limestone and are somewhat lower in grade than the main body.\nThe full extent of the tails is not known, but the stronger, hangingwall tail has been traced\nfor a length of 250 feet.\nDrilling with jack-legs in the glory-hole at the Reeves MacDonald.\nThe orebody is probably localized by dragfolding, but there is no positive evidence\nthat this is so. Minor crumples within or adjacent to the ore show no systematic pattern,\nand some of what was once thin-bedded limestone has been finely comminuted and has\nflowed. The fact that the pitch of the orebody is parallel to the plunge of known drag-\nfolds in the mine area suggests that it is a replaced dragfold. Minor gash veinlets, some\nof which are well mineralized, occur at right angles to the pitch, indicating that stretching\ntook place along the line of pitch, possibly due to a process of dragging along the course\nof the limestone band.\nA programme of test prospecting was carried out in the area of the known orebodies,\ninvolving analysis of soil samples by the dithizone method. This work was not completed\nat the time the mine was visited in September.\nImprovements were made to the camp, and seven houses were built, with ten under\nconstruction. An average of 153 men was employed.\nProduction: Ore milled, 213,376 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Silver,\n16,616 oz.; lead, 3,820,884 lb.; zinc, 17,303,286 lb.; cadmium, 106,188 lb.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 169-174.] METAL-MINING (LODE) A 131\nSOUTH KOOTENAY LAKE (49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W.)*\nSummit Creek\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nMessrs. MacDonald and Moore, of Ymir, hold a lease on this mine\nBayonne on Bayonne Creek, 24 miles by road from Tye. During 1950 an\naverage of four men worked on a percentage basis removing remnants of ore from the 5-3 and 8-3 stopes.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 248 tons. Gross content: Gold, 177 oz.; silver, 996 oz.;\nlead, 12,143 1b.; zinc, 8,913 lb.\nThis mine is on Wall Mountain, 18 miles by rough road from Tye.\nSpokane A steeply dipping quartz vein in granodiorite has been developed\nby adits, the main one being known as No. 4. Kootenay Central\nMines Limited, which operated the mine in 1949 until the heavy snowfall forced a shutdown, did not resume operations in 1950. The bunk-house and cook-house building was\nfound collapsed in the spring, when the company returned to remove the machinery. The\nproperty reverted to the former owners, and during the summer A. Johnson, H. Hawkins,\nand K. Laib worked with hand-steel. They shipped two carloads of ore, chiefly from the\nold workings between No. 4 and No. 3 levels. The new No. 5 level was not worked, and\nthus the face remains about 120 feet from the portal with no vein yet intersected.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 80 tons. Gross content: Gold, 34 oz.; silver, 616 oz.;\nlead, 21,358 lb.; zinc, 1,929 lb.\nSanca\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThis mine, near Sanca and midway on the highway between\nLakeview Kootenay Bay and Creston, was inactive during the first half of\n1950. The property was purchased in 1948 by J. Powelson and\nW. R. Bullock, the latter now deceased. In August a lease was given to C. Carpenter\nwho, with two men, worked in the north drift on the lower or adit level. This drift was\ncleaned up, and at the face, or 180 feet from the junction of the drift with the crosscut\nadit, a raise was started. The drift and raise follow a shear in calcareous sediments.\nLenses of galena and sphalerite found in the shear are quite high grade. The raise was\nup over 30 feet by the end of September, but little ore had been located.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 56 tons. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 330 oz.;\nlead, 13,725 lb.; zinc, 22,395 lb.\nPilot Bay\nThe old plant site on Pilot Point, 3 miles by road from Kootenay\nPilot Bay Concen- Bay, is owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Stearns, of Hope, Idaho.\ntrator and Smelter The old smelter has not operated since 1896, but in 1948 and\n1949 shipments of clean-ups around the plant were made to the\nTrail smelter. In 1950 a lease was given to J. Asher and G. L. Green who, during 1948\nand 1949, operated a small mill at the Highland property at Ainsworth on old mill\ntailings retrieved from below the surface of Kootenay Lake. During the latter half of\n1950 the mill was dismantled, moved and set up on the shore of the lake near the old\nsmelter. Operations were expected to be under way early in 1951.\nIn September two shipments of further clean-ups from around the plant were made.\nProduction: Tailings shipped, 123 tons. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 557\noz.; lead, 18,536 lb.; zinc, 11,869 lb.\n1 By J. W. Peck. A 132 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nCrawford Creek\nJ. J. Gray, of Toronto, holds a lease on this property from R. F.\nSilver Hill Miller, of Toronto, a trustee for B.C. Lead & Zinc Mines Ltd., a\nformer operator. In 1949 a road was built to the lower adit, making the mine 14 miles by road from Kootenay Bay. Numerous adits and open-cuts develop\nflat-lying veins that can be traced along the hillside for over 2,000 feet. The vein filling is\nquartz containing galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and tetrahedrite. The mineralization is 1 to 2\nfeet wide and lies conformable to the argillite bedding. The largest dump is at the lowest\nadit, and it was here an ore-chute was built and a hoist and scraper were installed.\nQuartz ore among argillite waste made sorting quite simple. Most of the ore was trucked\ndirectly to the Trail smelter. The remainder was trucked to Sirdar and loaded on railway\ncars for delivery to Trail. Because of snow, work did not get under way until July and\nceased in October. Three men were employed under the direction of W. S. Hamilton,\nof Nelson.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 750 tons. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 9,951 oz.;\nlead, 45,349 lb.; zinc, 34,801 lb.\nColorado (Colorado Mining and Milling Co. Ltd.).\u2014In 1949 the Colorado Mining\nand Milling Co. Ltd. was formed to develop the Colorado group in Rose Pass at the headwaters of Crawford Creek. No work was done on the claims in 1950, and the company\nrelinquished its option to the owner, J. W. Mulholland, of Nelson.\nNORTH KOOTENAY LAKE (49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W.)*\nRlONDEL\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThis property is at Riondel, on the east shore of Kootenay Lake,\nBluebell (The Con- about 6 miles north of Kootenay Bay. It is reached by a road that\nsolidated Mining leaves the highway a short distance from the ferry landing. Almost\nand Smelting Com- all the work was confined to developing the Kootenay Chief ore\npany of Canada, zone, about 1,600 feet south of the Bluebell ore zone. This zone\nLimited)t was reached late in 1949 on the 225 level, about 200 feet below\nlake-level, driven from the Bluebell shaft. A raise was driven at\n45 degrees to connect with the bottom of the Kootenay Chief winze sunk from 75 level.\nSome drifting was done on the 75 level, and a large amount of diamond drilling was done\non the 75 and 225 levels. The work done indicates an ore zone roughly equivalent in\nsize and grade to the Bluebell zone.\nWork was temporarily halted on the Comfort ore zone to the north. Poor ground\nnorth of the Bluebell ore zone made driving slow and difficult. In August bad air prevented access to this section.\nPlans were well under way in 1950 toward putting the Kootenay Chief and ultimately\nother parts of the property into production. A new camp was partly erected east of the\nold camp, and a new mill-site was prepared not far north of Galena Bay, where new docking facilities were planned. A 7- by 20-foot 3-compartment shaft was raised at 35 degrees\nfrom 225 level, elevation 1,558 feet, to a short service adit at the new mill-site, elevation\n1,809 feet, and to the surface, a short distance above.\nThe lowest or 375 level was to be driven from the Bluebell zone south under the\nKootenay Chief ore zone and ultimately connected with the new shaft. When development is completed, the old Bluebell shaft will be used chiefly for pumping, and hoisting\nand servicing will be through the Kootenay Chief shaft at the mill-site.\n* By J. W. Peck, except as noted.\nt By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 133\nThe original development on the 375 level, on the Bluebell ore zone was not extensive, and only about half the ore developed on it was mined out by former operators,\nchiefly because of difficulty with water. Oxidation exists on this level, approximately\n350 feet below the surface of the lake and near the lake bottom, which is about 400 feet\ndeep.\nIt is not known whether oxidation of ore to this known depth may give trouble in\nmining in some parts of the property, although the Kootenay Chief ore zone is not\noxidized, except superficially. Kootenay Lake is a drowned river valley with a low,\nuniform gradient and flat bottom, and the limestone horizon in which the ore zones are\nlocalized dips with the valley wall. It is not to be expected that oxidation will persist to\nmuch greater depth that that known, unless the ancient valley fill is deep.\nThe date of production at the mine will be dependent on power to be brought from\nthe West Kootenay power plants.\nAn average of about fifty-five men was employed under the direction of D. S. Campbell, superintendent, and W. R. Selby, assistant superintendent.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 176-178.]\nHowser\nThe Surprise property on Glacier Creek east of Howser was\nSurprise worked by J. Gallo and L. Disereau, of Lardeau. They did 150\nfeet of raising and shipped ore to the Trail smelter. Production:\nOre shipped, 200 tons. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 2,933 oz.; lead, 2,296 lb.;\nzinc, 3,097 lb.\nAinsworth\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 112 Yonge Street, Toronto; mine office, Ains-\nKootenay Florence worth. A. E. Silverwood, president; W. J. Bull, manager.\n(Ainsmore Capital: 100,000 shares, no par value. The Kootenay Florence\nConsolidated Mines mine and mill are 2 miles north of Ainsworth on the Nelson-Kaslo\nLimited) Highway. The mine is developed by two main adits; the lower,\nNo. 9, is the main haulage level and is connected to the upper,\nNo. 5, by a 400-foot raise system. As in 1949 all production came from No. 9 level\nand its No. 8 sublevel above. The vein section from 806 to 912 was worked, with as\nmany as five stopes being mined. This section is about 2,500 feet from the portal.\nThe vein is of the fissure type and is mined in open stopes averaging 8 feet in width.\nProduction continued at a steady rate throughout 1950. The only custom milling\nwas 92 tons received from the Daisy Bell property at Ainsworth and 157.5 tons from the\nNameless Fraction at Woodbury Creek. The number of men employed averaged\ntwenty-five.\nProduction: Ore milled, 13,339 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 1 oz.;\nsilver, 22,295 oz.; lead, 1,290,099 lb.; zinc, 725,184 lb.; cadmium, 3,331 lb.\nCompany office, 525 Seymour Street, Vancouver; mine office,\nHighlander, etc. Ainsworth. H. W. Knight, president; H. D. Forman, manager.\n(Yale Lead & Zinc Capital: 3,500,000 shares, $1 par value. This company, which\nMines Limited) was formed in 1949, controls most of the claims lying between\nCoffee and Cedar Creeks in the Ainsworth Camp. The programme\nof geological examination, diamond drilling, surveying, and mapping begun in the\nautumn of 1949 continued through most of 1950. The Mile Point adit (elevation,\n1,846 feet) was opened up and a few feet taken out with hand-steel. The Little Phil was\nopened up as an entrance to the Maestro. Approximately 100 feet of drifting was done\nby hand-steel work in the Black Diamond. Diamond-drill holes were put down from\nthe surface south of the Banker to test the Albion and Banker lode. The Albion was A 134 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nalso drilled from underground. Diamond drilling was also done on the United and on\nthe Jackpot, which is a claim located to the north of the Banker. The main underground\ndevelopment was in the Highlander adit (elevation, 2,145 feet), where the north drift\nwas extended 400 feet and a raise was started from this drift toward the Albion adit\n(elevation, 2,578 feet). This raise follows the dip of the Highlander vein, which is\napproximately 45 degrees, and was up about 250 feet by the end of 1950. A 100-foot\ncrosscut was also driven off the north drift into the hangingwall for use as a diamond-\ndrill station.\nIn November construction of a sink-float plant and flotation mill of 250 tons daily\ncapacity was begun. The site chosen was just below the Nelson-Kaslo Highway, about\na mile south of Ainsworth and 600 feet on the slope below the Highlander adit. Construction of the buildings was well advanced by the end of December. Forty-five men\nwere employed at the year's end.\nProduction: 20 tons sent to Whitewater mill for sink-float test. Gross content:\nSilver, 113 oz.; lead, 1,145 lb.; zinc, 1,717 lb.\nT. and S. Hawes continued to operate their lease on this mine\nBlack Diamond from the Yale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited. Of the shipments to\nthe Trail smelter, three truckloads were obtained from the removal\nof pillars in the top level and the remainder was obtained by ground sluicing the dump.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 59 tons. Gross content: Silver, 1,277 oz.; lead, 21,011\nlb.; zinc, 6,789 lb.\nThese claims are part of the Yale Lead & Zinc holdings in the\nSpokane Trinket Ainsworth camp. Shipments of crude lead ore were made to the\nTrail smelter by W. R. Glasspoole and T. Lane, lessees. The\nreturns credit 61 tons to the Spokane and 20 tons to the Spokane Trinket. Total ore\nshipped, 81 tons. Gross content: Silver, 891 oz.; lead, 62,923 lb.; zinc, 7,414 lb.\nSilver Hoard.\u2014W. E. Lane continued to operate this property under lease from the\nGiegerich estate and Wood Vallance Co. Ltd. Production: Ore shipped, 3 tons. Gross\ncontent: Silver, 67 oz.; lead, 1,098 lb.; zinc, 584 lb.\nThis Crown-granted claim is owned by S. Hallgren. It is located\nNeosho XVi miles by road from the old No. 1 mine road, or approximately\n5Vz miles from Ainsworth. Toward the end of 1949 a lease was\ngiven to Bruno Sterno and E. Meyer, who worked for several months opening up the old\nworkings, which have been caved and inaccessible since 1928. This work was done\nunder considerable difficulty and required much timber. When the writer visited the\nproperty on April 26th, what seemed to be the main adit had been reopened for a distance\nof 162 feet. Shallow shafts or stopes appeared to have connected with the surface 10 to\n20 feet above. The lessees worked the first part of the adit through to surface. Work\nwas all done by hand, and several truckloads of ore, obtained in the reopening process,\nwere trucked to Trail. Native silver was observed in addition to sphalerite and galena.\nNo work was done in the latter half of 1950.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 83 tons. Gross content: Silver, 1,217 oz.; lead, 3,633\nlb.; zinc, 8,318 lb.\nThese two Crown-granted claims are reached by a road 2 miles\nStar, Sunlight long that leaves the No. 1 mine road near the United mine at a\npoint 4 miles from Ainsworth. The portals of the workings are on\nthe Sunlight claim, but the underground workings extend into the Star claim. The claims\nare owned by D. H. Norcross, of Nelson, who, during 1950, operated a lease-partnership\narrangement with Bert Wilson and George Beatty. The mine is developed by two adits\n185 feet apart vertically. There is also a 50-foot sublevel connected by a 50-foot raise to\nthe upper adit and also to surface by an old shaft. The upper adit is 250 feet long, and\nthe lower, though inaccessible in 1950, was reported to be in about 800 feet. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 135\nIn 1950 the partners mined about 50 tons of oxidized ore from a stope on the sub-\nlevel. Forty tons of lower-grade ore was obtained from a 30-foot raise driven at the end\nof the upper adit. In addition, a few tons of ore was obtained from surface stripping on\na vein exposed in 1949. Air for mining was supplied by a small portable 110-cubic-feet-\nper-minute compressor.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 135 tons. Gross content: Gold, 3 oz.; silver, 1,422 oz.;\nlead, 37,530 lb.; zinc, 36,965 lb.\nW. R. Glasspoole and Thomas Lane shipped a small tonnage of ore\nNicolet and Snelling from these adjoining claims, VA miles north of Ainsworth, which\nthey are working under lease from Ainsmore Consolidated Mines\nLimited. Ore was removed from underground on the Nicolet and from the surface cuts\non the Snelling.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 5 tons. Gross content: Silver, 24 oz.; lead, 2,999 lb.;\nzinc, 1,2401b.\nW. Robinson obtained a lease on this claim from Ainsmore\nLakeshore Consolidated Mines Limited. Ore removed from open-cuts was\ntrucked to the Trail smelter. Production: Ore shipped, 13 tons.\nGross content: Silver, 73 oz.; lead, 7,954 lb.; zinc, 2,047 lb.\nThis claim is part of the Ainsmore Consolidated holdings in the\nLaura M Ainsworth Camp. It was leased by Hans Hansen, who made five\nshipments of dump ore by truck to the Trail smelter. Production:\nOre shipped, 29 tons. Gross content: Silver, 290 oz.; lead, 21,191 lb.; zinc, 4,139 lb.\nThis claim is part of the Ainsmore Consolidated holdings. It was\nCarey Fraction operated under lease by J. G. Isaacs. Two truckloads of broken\nore salvaged from the old workings were sent to the Trail smelter.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 13 tons. Gross content: Silver, 44 oz.; lead, 4,555 lb.; zinc,\n2,345 lb.\nThe Early Bird claim lies astride the Nelson-Kaslo Highway, about\nEarly Bird \\Yi miles north of Ainsworth. It is being purchased from Mr.\nPringle, of London, England, by F. W. Robinson, of Ainsworth.\nLittle work was done in 1950 other than shipping one truckload of ore in October.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 6 tons. Gross content: Silver, 22 oz.; lead, 3,313 lb.;\nzinc, 1,2371b.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, p. 181.]\nH. Hansen continued to operate his lease from Ainsmore Consoli-\nTwin dated Mines Limited. Ore shipped to the smelter came in about\nequal amounts from underground and from a surface dump. Production: Ore shipped, 7 tons. Gross content: Silver, 53 oz.; lead, 4,472 lb.; zinc, 875 lb.\nThese Crown-granted claims are on Cedar Creek, northwest of\nLibby and Highland Ainsworth. They are owned by The Consolidated Mining and\nSmelting Company of Canada, Limited, but were operated under\nlease in 1950 by Bruno Sterno and Edward Meyer, who made a shipment to the Trail\nsmelter in August.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 42 tons. Gross content: Silver, 272 oz.; lead, 20,170\nlb.; zinc, 10,928 lb.\nCompany office, Room 1519, Marine Building, Vancouver; local\nAyesha (Northern office, 425 Baker Street, Nelson. J. V. M. Miller, president. Capi-\nExploration tal: 20,000 shares, no par value. The property is on Cedar Creek,\nLimited) about 2 miles by road from Ainsworth. The company has a work\ning agreement with W. S. Hamilton, of Nelson, to develop the\nAyesha claim, which was operated in 1949 by Silver Hill Mines Ltd. An option was A 136 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nobtained on the property by W. S. Hamilton when the latter company abandoned its\noption. In the latter part of 1950 the old camp was rehabilitated, and work was started\non a surface showing above the Ayesha adit. A 12-foot wide zinc-lead replacement zone\nin limestone was exposed and was traced for 30 feet. The central section of the zone,\n3 feet wide and more heavily mineralized than the sides, was mined, and two truckloads\nwere sent to the Trail smelter. Three men were employed.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 13 tons. Gross content: Silver, 95 oz.; lead, 3,465 lb.;\nzinc, 4,460 lb.\nThis is a mineral claim located astride Coffee Creek, adjacent to\nBelle Aire the Coffee Creek bridge on the Nelson-Kaslo Highway. It is\nowned by S. Hallgren, who lives near by. In 1950 Mr. Hallgren\nextended an old adit that is collared on the north side of Coffee Creek at about high-water\nmark. This adit follows a narrow fissure vein mineralized with small lenses of galena and\nsphalerite. A small bridge was built across Coffee Creek, and ore was removed from near\nthe face, about 80 feet from the portal. One shipment was trucked to the Trail smelter.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 4 tons. Gross content: Silver, 8 oz.; lead, 722 lb.;\nzinc, 61 lb.\nWoodbury Creek\nDr. L. D. Besecker, of Ainsworth, owns the Woodbury group of\nWoodbury claims at the mouth of Woodbury Creek. The Nelson-Kaslo\nHighway crosses the property; the Vigilant and Dixie Fraction\nclaims lie north of it and the Nameless and August Fractions lie south. Privateer Mine\nLimited held an option on the group in 1949 but relinquished it in April, 1950. Dr.\nBesecker and lessees carried on after that date.\nJ. A. Cooper, of Walla Walla, Wash., obtained a lease-purchase arrangement on the\nVigilant and the adjoining Zoa claims. In the Vigilant adit, which was driven by Privateer\non a fissure vein on the east bank of Woodbury Creek, stoping was done almost to surface\nover an adit length of 150 feet. Previous to this Dr. Besecker had traced the nearly\nvertical vein on the surface and had collared another adit approximately 100 feet above.\nMr. Cooper extended this adit to a total distance of about 100 feet. The vein then\nnarrowed, but the ore near the portal was satisfactory for stoping through to surface.\nDuring the latter part of the year, work was concentrated in the lower adit, and by the\nend of December the drive on the vein had been extended to a point 180 feet from the\nportal. Ore removed via the lower adit was hoisted over a surface incline to an ore-bin\n100 feet higher on the hillside. From there a truck-road was built in 1950 to the main\nhighway to allow direct haulage to the Trail smelter. Air was supplied by a portable\nJaeger 250-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor. The number of men employed averaged six.\nOn the Nameless Fraction, which lies adjacent to the shore of Kootenay Lake, a lease\nwas obtained by C. A. McLeish and W. McCulloch, both of Kaslo. Portals were collared\nabove high-water mark on two fissure veins known as \" B \" and \" C \" and situated about\n45 feet apart. These adits were driven 65 feet and 35 feet respectively. Some ore was\nobtained from near the portal of \" C \" adit, but the best showing was in \" B \" adit, 30\nfeet from the portal. Here stoping was done on an oreshoot 20 feet long and averaging\n18 inches in width. The vein contained galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite, and\nthese minerals had replaced the wallrock at intervals. Ore removed had to be taken by\nboat around a rock bluff for a few hundred feet south and then transhipped by truck to\nthe Trail smelter or to the Kootenay Florence mill.\nOn the August Fraction, Dr. Besecker and two men worked on a fissure vein known\nas the \"A\" vein, which is a few hundred feet south of the \" B \" and \" C \" veins of the\nNameless Fraction. An adit is collared on this vein just above the high-water mark of\nKootenay Lake. Dr. Besecker and Privateer made shipments from here in 1948 and METAL-MINING (LODE) A 137\n1949 respectively. In 1950, 30 feet of drifting was done to make the face 90 feet from\nthe portal. The best section of the vein appeared to be in the floor, and thus underhand\nmining was done in the last 30 feet to a depth of 10 feet. Air for mining at the August\nand Nameless Fractions was supplied by a 160-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor driven\nby a gasoline engine. A small change-house was also built.\nOn the Dixie Fraction, H. Currie traced a vein which is exposed on the adjoining\nBudweiser No. 2 claim. An open-cut was made just above the Vigilant road, and 2 tons\nof sorted galena ore was sent to the Trail smelter.\nProduction: To Kootenay Florence mill from Nameless Fraction, 157.5 tons. Gross\ncontent: Silver, 141 oz.; lead, 14,3401b.; zinc, 13,110 lb. To Trail smelter from Nameless Fraction, 13.7 tons. Gross content: Silver, 22 oz.; lead, 1,888 lb.; zinc, 1,492 lb.\nTo Trail smelter from Vigilant, 526 tons. Gross content: Silver, 3,226 oz.; lead, 196,-\n405 lb.; zinc, 71,907 lb. To Trail smelter from August Fraction, 62 tons. Gross content: Silver, 1,098 oz.; lead, 74,565 lb.; zinc, 5,993 lb. The 62 tons includes 2 tons of\nsorted lead ore from the Dixie Fraction.\nCompany office, Room 919, 850 Hastings Street West, Vancouver.\nDaisy Bell (Wood- R. Wilkinson, president; H. Hill, consultant. Capital: 3,000,000\nbury Mines Limited) shares, 50 cents par value. This company operated the Daisy Bell\ngroup of claims, on which the company holds an option. The property consists of six claims lying to the south of the south fork of Woodbury Creek. The\nmain workings are on the Florence M claim, about 2 miles by road from the Kootenay\nFlorence camp.\nDuring the greater part of 1950 the property was worked by W. J. Turner, the former\nowner. The adit on the fissure vein was extended to make the face 120 feet from the\nportal. Stoping of available ore had been done above this adit in 1949. In 1950 a bench\nwas taken on the floor of the adit to a depth of 10 feet. The new company continued the\nwork, and by the end of 1950 the bench had been extended nearly the full length of the\nadit.\nMost of the ore was trucked to the Kootenay Florence mill, but one truckload was\nsent to the Trail smelter. Two men were employed in December.\nProduction: Ore shipped to Kootenay Florence mill, 92 tons. Gross content:\nSilver, 152 oz.; lead, 8,760 lb.; zinc, 5,424 lb. Ore shipped to the Trail smelter, 7.6\ntons. Gross content: Silver, 73 oz.; lead, 3,236 lb.; zinc, 1,145 lb.\nGold-Silver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 444 Pacific Building, Portland 4, Ore.; British\nScranton (Scranton Columbia office, Ainsworth. R. B. Mahan, manager. Capital:\nConsolidated 650,000 shares, $1 par value. This company owns the Scranton\nMining Company) mine, which is inside Kokanee Glacier Park on Pontiac Creek,\na northerly flowing tributary of Woodbury Creek. It is connected\nby a private road, 11 miles long, to the Nelson-Kaslo Highway. Operations were closed\ndown from November, 1949, until April, 1950, and because of time lost removing snow,\nmining was not started until June.\nIn 1949 development began on a quartz vein that was exposed in the Scranton\ncamp-site approximately 150 feet south of the main No. 1 portal. Two adits were\nstarted, one 30 feet below the No. 1 adit, and one across Pontiac Creek a few hundred\nfeet to the west on the Grandview Fractional claim. In 1950 the first above-mentioned\nnew adit was advanced 50 feet to a point about 180 feet from the portal. Efforts were\nthen concentrated in the other adit, which was advanced as a drift on the vein to make the\nface 325 feet from the portal by the end of September. This drift, called \" Sunset,\"\nfollowed a 3-foot wide quartz vein in granite for 50 feet before the vein pinched out. A 138 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThis section, well-mineralized with galena and sphalerite, was stoped through to surface.\nThe ore was trucked to the Trail smelter.\nThe Sunset adit, being about at creek level, had practically no dump room. This\nnecessitated building ore- and waste-bins above track level, arranged so that cars can\nbe pulled up a ramp to the top of the bins. Other buildings include a compressor-house\nand a long building containing office, bunk-house, and cook-house. The number of men\nemployed averaged five.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 349 tons. Gross content: Gold, 80 oz.; silver, 2,774 oz.;\nlead, 65,950 lb.; zinc, 50,728 lb.\nKEEN CREEK (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 614-15 Central Building, 620 View Street,\nB.N.A. (B.N.A. Victoria. Capital: 1,000,000 shares, $1 par value. This corn-\nMines Limited pany owns the B.N.A. group of five Crown-granted mineral claims\nLiability) located on Keen Creek about 4 miles from the Cork Province mine.\nTwo men were employed from July 17th to October 20th under the\ndirection of W. E. Newton. Stripping was done above the No. 6 adit, and 7 tons of ore\nwas removed and trucked to Trail. No equipment was installed, all work being done by\nhand.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 7 tons. Gross content: Silver, 883 oz.; lead, 1,432 lb.;\nzinc, 2,520 lb.\nThe Montezuma mine lies in the basin of Montezuma Creek,\nMontezuma a southerly flowing tributary of Keen Creek. It is reached by\ntrail from the Keen Creek road. It is owned by H. C. Giegerich\nbut was leased by B. W. Price and J. H. Lassen, c\/o B. W. Price, Box 512, Rossland,\nwho made a shipment of jig tailings to the Whitewater mill.\nCompany office, 800 Hall Building, 789 Pender Street West, Van-\nGold Cure (Red couver. Capital: 2,000,000 shares, 50 cents par value. This\nHawk Gold Mines company holds an option on the Gold Cure group of four Crown-\nLimited) granted claims on Briggs Creek. The property is reached by\na trail, 2 miles long, which leaves the Keen Creek road at a point\nhalf a mile beyond the Cork Province mine. Two men were employed under the direction of W. Silta to open up the old adits. A contract was given late in the year to\nFoundation Test Boring Ltd. to do 2,000 feet of diamond drilling.\nHead office, 62 Richmond Street West, Toronto. A. P. Earle,\nCork Province (Base Montreal, president; Chamberlain Management Corporation, man-\nMetals Mining Cor- ager; C. Rutherford, consulting engineer; Donald McLean, super-\nporation Limited)!' intendent. The property is on Keen Creek about 10 miles by\nroad from Kaslo. The Cork and Province mines were developed\nseparately from 1900 and, up to 1913, 15,875 tons of silver-lead ore was mined, most of\nwhich was treated at the Cork mill. The two properties were amalgamated in 1914, and\noperations were continued by Cork Province Mines Limited. A flotation plant was added\nto the mill in 1918, but operations ceased in 1920. Activity was renewed in 1923 and\ncontinued until 1926 and was renewed again in 1929; thereafter the property remained\nidle for nearly twenty years.\nTotal production from 1900 to 1940, when a clean-up around the mill was made,\namounted to 65,018 tons mined. Content of ore and concentrates: Gold, 10 oz.; silver,\n230,292 oz.; lead, 6,134,056 lb.; zinc, 1,605,287 lb. Since installation of flotation cells,\n34,317 tons was mined, with an average recovered grade at the mill of about 4 ounces of\nsilver per ton, 4.6 per cent lead, and 2.3 per cent zinc.\n* By J. W. Peck, except as noted.\nt By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 139\nIn 1948 Charles Lind, of Kaslo, acquired a lease and bond on the property, shipped\n385 tons of dump ore, and commenced rehabilitating No. 3, the main adit level. The\nproperty was bought by Base Metals Mining Corporation Limited early in 1949, and Lind\nremained as superintendent. Mining of stope remnants began as soon as the workings\nwere made accessible, and a programme of diamond drilling was carried out. Ore was\nmilled at the Whitewater mill at Retallack, and the concentrates were shipped to Trail.\nMining and development continued through 1950, and construction of a 75-ton mill was\nbegun late in the year.\nThe orebodies occur in schistose sediments, dominantly argillaceous but including\nbands of limestone and limy strata. The strata dip steeply to the southeast and south.\nThere is some dragfolding, but the local structure is not well known. One main and\nseveral subsidiary fissures or shears strike northeastward, and dip steeply southeastward\nas a rule. The fissures swing in and out of the bedding, and may form a sort of braided\nsystem, the details of which are not apparent. The ore is a sideritic replacement associated with the Assuring. It occurs in limestone and limy strata, and locally in schist.\nThe orebodies are lenticular and are as much as 20 feet wide. The finding of a new\norebody on No. 5 level, of which there was no indication on No. 3 level crosscut, was the\ndeciding factor in building a mill. A detailed geological examination followed by more\ndiamond drilling would probably lead to a better understanding of the distribution of ore.\nThe winze below No. 3 level was deepened from No. 5 to No. 6, and drifting was\ndone on the latter level.\nOre from dumps amounting to 8,890 tons was milled at the Whitewater mill on a\ncustoms basis and yielded 86 tons of lead concentrates and 211 tons of zinc concentrates.\nNewly mined ore amounting to 3,776 tons was also milled at the Whitewater mill and\nyielded 160 tons of lead concentrates and 442 tons of zinc concentrates.\nThe concentrates reported include 49 tons of lead concentrates and 137 tons of zinc\nconcentrates for which smelter settlements had not been made at the end of the year. The\ngross metal content reported under \" Production \" similarly exceeds the quantities of\nmetal accounted for in smelter settlements to the end of the year.\nProduction: Ore milled, 12,666 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Silver,\n10,382 oz.; lead, 298,487 lb.; zinc, 722,221 lb.\nPADDY PEAK (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 640 Pender Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nUtica (Utica Mines Kaslo. D. N. Armstead, president; D. Williams, mine manager.\n(1937) Limited) Capital: 3,000,000 shares, 50 cents par value. The Utica mine\nis at the head of Twelve Mile Creek, about 15 miles by road from\nKaslo. The main level is the No. 7 adit, which is connected by a raise to the No. 4 adit.\nA sublevel, No. 5, has been developed off this raise. There are two main veins, known\nas \" East\" and \" West,\" which are parallel and about 80 feet apart where the present\nwork is being done.\nThe mine operated continuously until October, when operations ceased and most of\nthe heavy equipment was removed and stored at Kaslo. On the East vein on No. 5\nlevel a stoping section, from 115 to 225 feet from the main raise, was carried up 70 feet.\nThe vein over this section contained from 1 to 6 inches of galena with some barren\nsections. A raise to be used as an ore-pass was driven up from No. 7 level on this vein.\nNo. 5 level drift on this vein was further extended to make the face 405 feet from the\nmain raise. On the West vein on No. 5 level, drifting was done to make the south and\nnorth faces 155 feet and 215 feet respectively from the crosscut connection with the East\nvein. A raise was completed on this vein through to No. 4 level, and at 50 feet above\n* By J. W. Peck. A 140\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNo. 5 level a sublevel was started. This sublevel was driven to the north 50 feet and\nexposed a well-mineralized vein, V\/i feet wide, with sphalerite the dominant mineral.\nAll ore obtained from the mine workings was shipped by truck and rail to the Trail\nsmelter. The removal and shipping to the Whitewater mill of a part of No. 7 dump was\nstarted. About 230 tons was stockpiled at the mill, but none of this had been treated\nby the end of the year. On No. 7 level, horses were used to haul broken rock. The\nnumber of men employed averaged fifteen.\nProduction: Ore shipped to Trail, 220 tons. Gross content: Gold, 3 oz.; silver,\n24,552 oz.; lead, 48,940 lb.; zinc, 63,748 lb.\nRETALLACK-THREE FORKS (50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nWhitewater (Kootenay Belle Gold\nMines Limited)\nCompany office, 475 Howe Street, Vancouver; mine office, Retallack. J. L. Trumbull, president; V. McDowall, mine manager.\nCapital: 750,000 shares, 50 cents par value. Kootenay Belle Gold\nMines Limited owns 60 per cent of the stock of Retallack Mines\nLimited, which owns the Whitewater mine and mill at Retallack.\nAs in 1949, dumps and custom ore produced the bulk of the milling ore. Underground,\nthe 14 level adit, the 9 level adit, and the connecting raise were retimbered where necessary. This permitted mining on a small scale in the 1472 area, last mined in 1945 when\na fire destroyed the power plant and forced a shut-down. Rehabilitation of No. 10 level\nwas also begun.\n* By J. W. Peck.\nWhitewater mill at Retallack. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 141\nThe mill was closed from December, 1949, until February 15th, 1950. Thereafter\nstockpiles and the 14 level dump kept the mill supplied until May, when a sink-float plant\nwas installed in conjunction with the mill. This sink-float plant uses ferro-silicon as\na medium to float the waste and has a capacity of 30 to 50 tons per hour. The installation\nof this plant permitted the treating of larger tonnages of low-grade dump material; the\nmaximum tonnage treated in one day was 800 tons. Leases were obtained on mine\ndumps in the area, and over 34,000 tons was obtained in this way. A second sink-float\nplant was purchased, with the intention of establishing it at Sandon to handle dumps in\nthat vicinity. This second plant would eliminate hauling the waste from Sandon to the\nmill at Retallack, a distance of 13 miles.\nThe total ore milled, including ore from the Whitewater mine and dumps, ore purchased, and custom ore is broken down as follows:\u2014\nSources of Ore Milled \u25a0 Tons\nRetallack Mines Limited\u2014Whitewater mine and dumps 61,276\nKootenay Belle leases\u2014\nCork Province dump 8,890\nMonitor dump 5,488\nRichmond Eureka dump 8,391\nSeaton Creek (Rambler tailings) 11,400\n 34,169\nCustom ore\u2014\nCork Province 3,258\nSilversmith (Carnegie Mines Ltd.) 2,380\nVan Roi (Transcontinental Resources Limited) 807\nYale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited 49\nJackson (Selkirk Mining Company Limited)__ 1,517\nOre purchased\u2014\nBosun (Santiago Mines Limited) 7\nBluebird (Rossland Mines Limited) 17\nRuth Hope lessees 231\nMontezuma lessees 81\n8,011\n336\nTotal 103,792\nOn stockpile, December 31st, 1950\u2014\nWhitewater mine and dumps 4,136\nKootenay Belle leases, etc 6,971\n11,107\nThe crew was increased steadily, with fifty men employed by December.\nWhitewater production: Ore milled, 60,110 tons, includes 1,680 tons of old tailings.\nGross content of concentrates: Gold, 28 oz.; silver, 23,508 oz.; lead, 269,969 lb.; zinc,\n2,113,679 lb.; cadmium, 12,509 lb.\nCompany office, 609 Baker Street, Nelson. Capital: 1,000,000\nKeystone shares, $1 par value. This company owns the Keystone and\nCharleston (Slocan Charleston group of Crown-granted claims which adjoin the White-\nCharleston Mining water property on the north. The mine has been inactive since\nCompany Limited) 1947. In 1950 a small crew was employed from July 7th to\nNovember 15th under the supervision of Charles Lind. Work was\nconcentrated in the upper levels, where a raise connection was made between No. 2 and A 142 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNo. 1 levels, 130 feet apart vertically. In driving the raise, ore was exposed 50 feet\nbelow No. 1 level and a stoping area was developed here. A stope was also silled out on\nNo. 1 level. Ore from this operation, totalling 650 tons, was trucked to the Whitewater\nmill but was not milled in 1950.\nCompany office, 800 Hall Building, 789 Pender Street West, Van-\nJackson (Selkirk couver. E. Brown, president. Capital: 100,000 shares, no par\nMining Company value. This company owns the Jackson mine on Stenson (Jack-\nLimited) son) Creek, 5.7 miles by road from Retallack. The workings\nconsist of five adit levels and an inclined shaft. The Jackson lode\ndips from 30 to 45 degrees, and the heavy ground has in places made the workings inaccessible. In 1950 the No. 3 adit was rehabilitated, and a stope was developed on\na parallel fissure 8 feet below a mined-out stope.\nAir for mining was supplied by a portable compressor. Buildings consist of an old\nbunk-house and a newly erected change-house. An ore-bin was also built. Ore was\ntrucked to the Whitewater mill at Retallack. Arrangements were made later for milling\nto be done at the Kenville mill at Nelson, starting January 2nd, 1951. Six men were\nemployed.\nProduction: Ore milled, 1,517 tons. Gross content of concentrates and of 20 tons\nof crude lead ore: Silver, 1,661 oz.; lead, 21,656 lb.; zinc, 431,052 lb.\n[Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 184, 1935, p. 224.]\nCompany office, Room 414, 850 Hastings Street West, Vancouver.\nWellington (Wad- R. Crowe-Swords, president. Capital: 5,000,000 shares, no par\ndington Mining value. In March this company obtained an option on the Welling-\nCorporation, ton group owned by Wellington Mines Ltd. (company office, Nel-\nLimited) son). This group consists of the following Crown-granted claims:\nWellington, Ottawa, Ivanhoe, Tiger No. 2, A.Y., I.C., Hazel,\nMetis, Horse Shoe, Blutcher, Blue, Red Fraction. The claims adjoin and lie west of the\nWhitewater and Slocan Charleston properties. The main workings are reached by road\nfrom Retallack.\nA little work was done in 1950 following the recommendations of C. C. Starr, consulting engineer. Three men, under the supervision of S. Ross, were employed to open up\nthe old workings. Most of this work was in the Wellington adit, where considerable\nretimbering was necessary.\nThe option was dropped in the autumn. After that S. Ross obtained a lease on the\ndumps, with the intention of shipping to the Whitewater mill. It is reported that the\nWellington adit is again closed due to sloughs caused by road work in the vicinity.\nH. Hill, of New Westminster, obtained from C. Lind, of Kaslo,\nLucky Boy a lease and bond on this property, which consists of three claims\non Kaslo Creek, 4 miles below Retallack. Three holes, totalling\n300 feet, were drilled. Results of the drilling were inconclusive, and the project was\nabandoned.\nCompany office, Room 209, 413 Granville Street, Vancouver;\nLucky Jim mine office, Zincton. J. S. Mcintosh, general superintendent;\n(Zincton Unit, G. Avison, mill superintendent. Zincton Mines Limited was dis-\nSheep Creek Gold solved in October, 1950, and Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited\nMines Limited) assumed direct operation of the Lucky Jim mine at Zincton. The\nmine is serviced through two main adits; No. 9 is the lower and\nmain haulage level to the mill, and No. 3 is the upper. No. 3 is reached by an outside\nroad and tram-line and is also connected underground by a series of raises to No. 9 level.\nContinuous production at full mill capacity was maintained throughout 1950, with the\nbulk of the ore coming, as in 1949, from the 1000 and 1001 stopes (below No. 9 level).\nOre was also obtained from stopes on No. 2, No. 7, and No. 8 levels. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 143\nThe main development was the sinking of a new incline from No. 9 to No. 11 level.\nDrifting was in progress on the new No. 11 level at the end of the year. A raise was\ndriven from No. 1 level to check information obtained by diamond drilling from the\nsurface. On the surface a scraper loading ramp was established at an old sorting dump\nthat accumulated when ore was sent by rail to the Rosebery mill. It is estimated 5,000\ntons is available here. The number of men employed averaged ninety.\nDevelopment: Drifting, 289 feet; sinking, 240 feet; raising, 441 feet; diamond\ndrilling, 7,934 feet.\nProduction: Ore milled, 96,640 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Silver,\n56,471 oz.; lead, 935,299 lb.; zinc, 8,405,795 lb.; cadmium, 50,050 lb.\nCompany office, 850 Hastings Street West, Vancouver. C. F.\nSilver Glance, MacKenzie, managing director. Capital: 350,000 shares, $1 par\nPanama, and value. This company was formed to consolidate three groups of\nLondon (London Crown-granted claims on London Ridge, 3 miles by trail from\nHill Mines Ltd.) Zincton. The Silver Glance group consists of the Silver Glance,\nSummit Queen, and Silver Glance Fraction; the Panama group\nconsists of the Panama, Booster, and Bourbon Fraction; and the London group consists\nof the London, King, Queen, and Baldwin. The properties have been idle since 1926.\nNo work was done in 1950.\nThe Rambler mill tailings lie in the bed of Seaton Creek, about\nRambler half-way between Zincton and Three Forks. They are owned by\nSheep Creek Gold Mines Limited. A lease was obtained by\nKootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited, and the tailings were dug up and trucked to the\nWhitewater mill at Retallack.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 11,400 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Silver,\n10,810 oz.; lead, 31,526 lb.; zinc, 269,710 lb.; cadmium, 2,372 lb.\nThe McAllister mine was optioned in 1949 by Noonday Mines\nMcAllister (Noon- Limited, a subsidiary of Alpine Gold Limited. The property\nday Mines Limited) is on London Ridge, 5>Vi miles by road up Kane Creek from\nThree Forks. Because of snow the mine remained closed from\nDecember, 1949, to March, 1950. Work was then concentrated in the lowest or No. 6\nadit, where a small vein had been intersected by the adit crosscut at about 1,250 feet\nfrom the portal. This vein strikes north 35 degrees west. When drifting was done to the\nnorthwest, the vein widened, and after 50 feet of drifting it was 3Vi feet wide. The vein\nis chiefly of quartz containing grey copper. A raise was put up from the end of the drift,\nand stoping was done in this area until the vein narrowed to a knife-edge. Diamond\ndrilling was then done from the main crosscut but, though the vein was located, the results\nof the drilling were not encouraging.\nAir for mining was supplied by a portable compressor. Ore obtained was trucked\nto the railway at Three Forks for transhipping to Trail. Later, however, it was trucked\ndirectly to the smelter. Seven men were employed under the supervision of F. H. Crosby.\nAll work ceased in the fall.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 34 tons. Gross content: Silver, 7,431 oz.; lead, 2,196\nlb.; zinc, 1,921 lb.\nThis old property is at Three Forks, on the south side of Carpenter\nMonitor Creek. The mine is developed by five adits, No. 4 being above\nand No. 5 below the New Denver-Sandon Highway. A lease was\nobtained on the dumps at this mine by Kootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited. During the\nearly summer a crew was employed removing and trucking material, chiefly from the\nNo. 4 and No. 5 dumps, to the Whitewater mill at Retallack.\nProduction: Ore milled, 5,488 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 15 oz.-\nsilver, 2,022 oz.; lead, 26,984 lb.; zinc, 60,041 lb.; cadmium, 497 lb. A 144 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nIn the fall of 1950, for a short period, Arthur Lakes had a crew driving an adit on\nthe Min and Cork claims, which are part of the Monitor group and lie south of the\nMonitor claim.\nSANDON (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nC. Higgins and H. Richmond continued to operate the former's\nRuth Hope lease on this mine. Ore trucked to the Whitewater mill at Retallack,\n231 tons. Production: Ore shipped to Trail, 43 tons. Gross\ncontent of the latter: Silver, 4,740 oz.; lead, 58,191 lb.; zinc, 3,997 lb.\nIn 1949 Carnegie Mines Ltd., of Montreal, optioned this old\nSilversmith (Car- producer at Sandon. In 1950 the road up Sandon Creek was\nnegie Mines Ltd.) repaired and over 2,200 tons was shipped from No. 3 dump to the\nWhitewater mill at Retallack. Underground, the No. 10 level was\nrehabilitated and mining commenced on a small scale in the Rabbit Paw section, about\n3,300 feet in from the portal. About 250 tons was produced from this section and\ntrucked to the Western Exploration mill at Silverton, but this ore was not milled in 1950.\nIn the old mill about 160 tons was cleaned up from the old thickeners. Six and\na half tons was also cleaned up from the jigs. This clean-up was trucked to the\nWhitewater mill.\nOperations were under the supervision of R. Crowe-Swords. Seven men were\nemployed.\nProduction: Gross content of 65 tons of crude ore, 37 tons of lead concentrates, and\n186 tons of zinc concentrates: Gold, 5 oz.; silver, 11,013 oz.; lead, 71,752 lb.; zinc,\n214,615 lb.; cadmium, 1,348 lb.\nKootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited obtained a lease from Carnegie\nRichmond Eureka Mines Ltd. on the dumps at this old property. Dump material\nwas trucked to the Whitewater mill at Retallack. Production: Ore\nshipped, 8,391 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 11 oz.; silver, 20,080 oz.;\nlead, 112,191 lb.; zinc, 325,580 lb.; cadmium, 2,203 lb.\nIn 1949 and 1950 C. F. Johnston of 721 Eastern Avenue, Toronto,\nNoble Five and obtained control of the Noble Five and Deadman groups above\nDeadman Cody. In 1950 a road was built to the Noble Five camp, 2Vi\nmiles from Sandon, use being made of the old Slocan Sovereign\nroad. This camp is at the 18 or lowest level adit of the Noble Five mine. A 4-compart-\nment vertical raise extends from the 18 level to the 8 level, 1,000 feet above, with stations\nor sublevels cut at 200-foot intervals. In addition to 8 level, there are several other adits\nabove 18 level. Below 18 level there are a winze and one sublevel. Starting in June\na crew was employed to open up the portals, which were all caved. The levels, manways,\netc., were retimbered where necessary. Diamond drilling totalling 2,200 feet was done,\n1,400 feet on 18 level and 800 feet on 8 level.\nOn the surface the buildings were rehabilitated and a portable compressor was\ninstalled. At the Deadman, which lies north of the Noble Five, the No. 4 adit was\nopened up. All work ceased December 2nd because of winter. W. Hall was in charge,\nwith up to ten men employed.\n[Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 184, 1935, p. 91.]\nCompany office, 507 Stock Exchange Building, 475 Howe Street,\nBluebird (Bluebird Vancouver. C.Rutherford, consulting engineer. Capital: 2,000,000\nMines Limited) shares, 25 cents par value. The Bluebird property is northeast of\nCody on the divide between Carpenter and Stenson (Jackson)\nCreeks, at an elevation of over 7,000 feet. Between July and October three men were\nemployed under the supervision of H. Hewat opening up the workings.\n* By J. W. Peck, except as noted. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 145\nThis property is owned by E. Doney but was optioned in 1950 to\nAltoona the Kootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited. It lies astride the old\nK. and S. right-of-way, YYi miles northwest of Sandon. The old\nrailway road-bed was made into a truck-road, and a compressor-house and an ore-bin\nwere erected near the portal of No. 2 adit. A stope was started about 150 feet in from\nthe portal on No. 2 level and mining commenced in November at the rate of about\n25 tons per day. About 400 tons of ore was mined and trucked to the Whitewater mill\nat Retallack, but was not milled in 1950.\nThis claim was located in 1950 on Carpenter Creek east of Cody\nShady Fraction and adjoins the Wellington and Chambers Crown-granted claims\non the south. It is owned by W. Suran, who made a small\nshipment of float in October.\nProduction: Ore shipped, IVi tons. Gross content: Silver, 114 oz.; lead, 1,943\nlb.; zinc, 91 lb.\nCompany office, 75 West Street, New York; mine office, Hedley;\nCarnation (Kelowna operational office, Sandon. R. McLean Stewart, president; Paul\nExploration Bflingsley, consulting engineer; G. L. Mill, manager; J. C. Black,\nCompany Limited)* superintendent. The former Carnation group is part of the company's extensive holdings south of Sandon. The 5480 level on the\nCarnation lode, started in 1949, was continued through 1950.\nDriven 230 feet southwestward into the hill, the adit was then turned and driven\n1,380 feet in a crosscutting direction of south 7 degrees west. A mineralized lode zone,\nprobably related to the Minniehaha lode, was encountered 680 feet from the turn and\na second, larger zone at 1,080 feet. On the latter a drift was driven to the west about\n1,350 feet, where a crosscut was driven to the south, into the hangingwall of the lode.\nThe drift was driven in the footwall, and six short crosscuts were driven from the drift\ninto or across the lode. Small amounts of zinc mineralization were observed locally.\nThe innermost crosscut was 200 feet long in mid-September and had not been completed.\nAn attempt was made by bulldozer stripping to locate the first or Minniehaha lode\nat the point of its emergence at the surface, at the level of the adit. Several surface holes\nwere drilled to obtain intersections on it. Where struck in the adit, this lode zone was\nmineralized with sphalerite and galena across a width as great as 15 inches.\nLate in the summer, stripping was done in search of the Carnation lode just above\nthe old road, at about the 6,000-foot level. A quantity of breccia of ore type was disclosed; it did not contain sulphides; plans were made to explore it further. Diamond\ndrilling was planned to explore the Carnation vein below the 5480 level, from the crosscut\nin the hangingwall.\nThe Minniehaha lode was followed for 80 feet to the east in the 5480 adit, and a new\nadit was started 200 feet from the 5480 portal. The road was extended to the 6300 adit,\nin which a crosscut was driven to the south.\nAn average of eighteen men was employed.\nCompany office, c\/o R. A. Grimes, Sandon. John R. Kenney,\nWonderful, managing director. Capital: 2,000,000 shares, 50 cents par value.\nCorinth (Silver This company owns a group of claims at Sandon. Work ceased\nRidge Mining in November, 1949, and the property lay idle until the summer of\nCompany Limited) 1950, when the company continued its exploratory programme,\nalthough on a reduced scale. The adit on the Corinth claim was\nextended to 600 feet in an unsuccessful effort to locate the downward extension of a vein\nexposed by lessees in 1948. The crew was then returned to work in the main Pearson\nadit, where drifting was commenced on a shear exposed in the Wonderful crosscut 1,500\nfeet from its junction with the main adit. Work ceased at the end of November but\n* By M. S. Hedley. A 146 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\ncommenced again at the end of December. A small shipment of ore was made to Trail.\nSix men were employed.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 3 tons. Gross content: Silver, 113 oz.; lead 3,295 lb.;\nzinc, 410 lb.\nCompany office, 904 Hall Building, 789 Pender Street West, Van-\nSylverite couver. James S. Don, managing director. Capital: 3,000,000\n(Slocan Base Metals shares, no par value. This company was formed as a reorganiza-\nLimited) tion of the Sylverite Mines Ltd. and the Excelda Mines Limited.\nThe ground held is the Sylverite property of six claims located 2Vi\nmiles northwest of Sandon. No work was done in 1950.\nPalmita.\u2014This claim is adjacent and north of the Victor claim of the Violamac\nproperty. In the fall of 1950 C. Higgins obtained a lease and worked in the vicinity of\na narrow vein exposed by bulldozer stripping in 1949.\nThis Crown-granted claim lies northwest of Sandon, about half-\nElkhorn way along the Sandon\u2014Victor road. It is owned by N. Tattrie but\nwas optioned by Kootenay Belle Gold Mines Limited. Late in\nthe year a bin was built above the road and preparations were made to handle the dumps.\nHead office, 67 Yonge Street, Toronto; mine office, New Denver.\nVictor (Violamac Mrs. Viola R. MacMillan, president; George A. MacMillan, vice-\nMines (B.C.) president; J. W. Ambrose, consulting engineer. This property is\nLimited)* southwest of Carpenter Creek, 2Vi miles northwest of Sandon,\nand is reached by a road from the Silversmith mill-site, half a mile\nbelow Sandon. The first showing on the Victor ground was found by the late George\nPetty, by ground-sluicing, in 1921. Production started in 1923 and has since been\ncontinuous, with the exception of 1930 and 1931. The mine was leased by E. Doney, of\nNew Denver, from 1931 until its purchase by the present owners in 1948, who at the\nsame time purchased Mr. Doney's lease. A short time thereafter it was demonstrated\nthat No. 4 level had not been driven on the ore-bearing fissure and that a short crosscut\nhad stopped only 3 feet short of an important orebody.\nDevelopment on Nos. 4 and 5 levels was highly satisfactory, and ore was sorted\nunderground and shipped to Trail by truck. A small mill was built and was brought\ninto production in 1950. High-grade lead ore will continue to be sorted, but zinc-bearing\nand low-grade material, much of which was formerly wasted, will be milled.\nThe vein is small and is in somewhat broken ground. The orebody averages a little\nmore than 1 foot wide, but almost massive galena has been encountered in widths as\ngreat as 5 feet. The distribution and control of oreshoots are not yet fully understood.\nThe vein strikes northeastward and is steep. It is developed by six adits. No. 7\nlevel, at present being driven, is about 200 feet below No. 5. No. 7 level for the first\nfew hundred feet showed no change in structural conditions. It is not on the vein, but\nminor mineral-bearing fractures were encountered by it.\nThe new mill was designed and built by Henry Sexton of the Tri State mining district.\nIt is on the steep hillside immediately below No. 7 level. From the ore-bin a belt feeder\nconveys the ore to a Vi-inch trommel screen in closed circuit with a jaw crusher; the\ncrushed ore goes to lead and zinc jigs which produce concentrates; the overflow from the\njigs goes through a drag classifier and 5-ton ball mill to lead and zinc flotation cells,\nwhere a further recovery is made. The mill was running by December 5th. The number\nof men employed averaged thirty-five.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 2,418 tons. Gross content: Gold, 88 oz.; silver, 175,553\noz.; lead, 2,194,685 lb.; zinc, 887,578 lb.\n* By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 147\nHead office, 555 Burrard Street, Vancouver. A. C. Taylor, presi-\nQueen Bess (Bess dent. Bess Mines Limited was formed by Bralorne Mines Limited\nMines Limited)* and Kelowna Exploration Company Limited to explore the ground\nof the former Queen Bess, Idaho, and Alamo groups, which are\nheld under option. The work is carried out by Kelowna Exploration. The property\ncomprises thirty-four Crown-granted claims on Howson Creek.\nA road for truck and bulldozer was slashed over the ridge from the Corinth road to\nthe Queen Bess workings, and a considerable amount of stripping was done, partly in the\nold dumps. No. 7 adit, \" B \" vein adit, and a lower adit on the road below were reopened, and some driving was done in \" B \" vein adit with hand-steel. Some diamond\ndrilling was done, chiefly from the surface. An intensive geological examination of the\nsurface, started in 1949, was continued.\nChief result of the work was that \" B \" vein was proved to be a faulted section of the\nmain Queen Bess lode. The structural environment is complex, with overturned and\ncrumpled argillites and quartzites disrupted by strike faults. The lode normally crosscuts\nthe formation, but locally swings and follows the strike faults. This condition is found\nin other properties and is sometimes associated with ore occurrence. Predominantly\nzinc-bearing mineralization was being followed by a drift to the southeast in \" B \" vein\nadit in midsummer of 1950.\nWork was done under the direction of J. C. Black, superintendent, and W. M. Sharp,\ngeologist.\nSLOCAN LAKE (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)f\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 423 Hamilton Street, Vancouver; mine office,\nBosun (Santiago New Denver. R. Crowe-Swords, president; T. R. Buckham, mine\nMines Limited) manager. Capital: 6,000,000 snares, 50 cents par value. The\nBosun mine is on the east shore of Slocan Lake, Wi miles south\nof New Denver on the Nelson-Nakusp Highway. The main haulage level, No. 6 adit, is\ndriven beneath the highway from a site 40 feet above Slocan Lake.\nOperations were on a small scale in 1950. During the first half of the year, production came from the eastern section of the mine, where a winze, 2,730 feet from the\nportal, had been sunk on the vein to No. 7 level. In 1949 drifting was done in an\neasterly direction from the bottom of the winze 30 feet below No. 7 level, and another\nwinze sunk on this sublevel 35 feet from the main winze. The area near the winze was\nstoped out, but in 1950 it was sunk further and a new sublevel called \"No. 8\"\nestablished. On this new No. 8 level about 100 feet of drifting was done. Some of the\nback was taken down, and it was the intention to raise from this No. 8 level to connect with\nthe bottom of the main winze. The vein, however, was not as high grade as it was where\nmined out in the small winze, and therefore the project was abandoned. No. 8 level was\nflooded at the end of the year.\nIn the latter half of 1950 ore was produced from No. 5 level and from the western\nblock on No. 6 level. No. 5 level was opened up by the rehabilitation of a raise on No. 6\nlevel about 3,100 feet in from the portal. Sphalerite was more noticeable in this area\nthan in other sections of the mine. In the western block on No. 6 level a stope about\n1,000 feet in from the portal was worked on a small scale.\nThe small jig mill was not operated, but ore was crushed to 1 Vz -inch size before\nshipment. About 230 tons of ore was trucked to the Western Exploration mill at Silver-\nton, and crude lead ore amounting to 152 tons was trucked to the Trail smelter. In\nDecember eight men were employed.\n* By M. S. Hedley.\nf By J. W. Peck, except as noted. A 148 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTwo lessees, J. Zambon and W. D. Pengelly, worked in the western part of the mine\nduring the first half of 1950. They shipped 51 tons of crude lead ore to the Trail smelter\nand 7 tons to the Whitewater mill.\nProduction: Total crude ore shipped to Trail, 198 tons. Gross content of crude ore\nshipped to Trail, and of concentrates from 237 tons of ore milled: Gold, 4 oz.; silver,\n19,170 oz.; lead, 138,371 lb.; zinc, 104,161 lb.\nMammoth*\u2014The Mammoth mine is owned by Western Explora-\nWestern Explora- tion Company Limited and is worked jointly with the Standard.\ntion Company It is reached from the Standard camp by a steep one-way road.\nLimited Ore is delivered to the mill at Silverton by a 16,000-foot aerial\ntram. The first serious development on the Mammoth was in\n1923. A total of 1,425 tons of crude ore was shipped between 1925 and 1935. The\nmine was fully equipped in 1929, but it was 1935 before major production commenced.\nFollowing one long period of inactivity and several minor shut-downs, the known ore\nabove No. 7 level was exhausted in 1944. The mine is producing again, from a recently\ndeveloped block of ground below No. 7 level.\nNo. 9 level, a crosscut to the vein, 1,050 feet long, was started in 1948, from an\nexposed position which is inaccessible in winter months. The crosscut was finished the\nfollowing year, and a raise was put up in the footwall of the lode to No. 7 level, a vertical\ndistance of 340 feet. In 1950 a hoist was installed and No. 8 level was driven from the\nraise into the orebody. The tram-line was repaired, a task which involved a large amount\nof reconstruction of towers. Production started in November.\nAll hoisting and servicing will be done from No. 7 level, at the head of the tram, and\nNo. 9 will be used for drainage and waste disposal and will provide ventilation. Mining\nis by square-set stoping.\nThe ore is a downward continuation of the ore mined through a vertical distance of\nabout 700 feet above No. 7 level. It is a vein-like body above No. 4 level and pipe-like\nbelow. The known vertical range of this ore is about 1,000 feet.\nProduction: Ore milled, 12,222 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 27 oz.;\nsilver, 122,568 oz.; lead, 767,469 lb.; zinc, 1,775,246 lb.; cadmium, 7,955 lb.\nStandard.\u2014The Standard mine operated on a reduced scale, with most of the\ntonnage coming from the 640 stope. A crew was also employed extending the old\nNo. 7 level. The camp was not operated, the men being transported from Silverton.\nEnterprise.\u2014A small production of about 10 tons per day was maintained at the\nEnterprise. No. 8 and No. 6 levels produced most of the ore.\nStandard Mill.\u2014The mill at Silverton was operated intermittently treating ore from\nthe Standard and Enterprise mines as it was mined. Ore from the Bosun and the Galena\nFarm was also milled on a custom basis.\nCompany office, 1519 Marine Building, 355 Burrard Street, Van-\nVan Roi, Hewitt couver; mine office, Silverton. W. B. Milner, president; D. R.\n(Van Roi Consoli- Wilson, manager. Capital: 3,000,000 shares, no par value. This\ndated Mines Ltd.) company, controlled by Transcontinental Resources Limited was\nformed to consolidate under one owner the Van Roi and Hewitt\nmines at Silverton. Options were also obtained on the adjoining Galena Farm and\nMetallic properties. The Van Roi camp is 6V6 miles by road from Silverton.\nVan Roi Mines (1947) Ltd. continued operations in the Van Roi mine until\nFebruary. A stope, developed on No. 3 level in the southeast section of the mine in 1949,\nwas mined out to its upper limits. The ore was trucked to the Kenville mill at Nelson\nand to the Western Exploration mill at Silverton. The property then remained idle until\nOctober, when Transcontinental Resources Limited obtained control. This company\nrehabilitated the levels of the adjoining Hewitt mine and by the end of 1950 had com-\n* By M. S. Hedley. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 149\nmenced mining in a stope on the lowest or No. 10 level, approximately 2,400 feet in from\nthe portal. From the No. 3 dump, west side, 807 tons was removed and trucked to the\nWhitewater mill at Retallack for a sink-float test.\nMachinery for mining consisted of a Schramm UD-18 International diesel 315-cubic-\nfeet-per-minute compressor set up at No. 10 portal of the Hewitt, and an Ingersoll-Rand\nG.M. diesel 365-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor set up at No. 3 portal of the Van Roi.\nTwelve men were employed in December.\nProduction: Ore milled, 1,466 tons; ore shipped, 5.7 tons. Gross content of ore\nand concentrates: Gold, 23 oz.; silver, 9,490 oz.; lead, 75,699 lb.; zinc, 103,464 lb.\nFrank S. Mills, of Silverton, continued to operate his lease on this\nGalena Farm old property \\Vz miles by road south of Silverton. Up to June\none man was employed, but after that date a partnership of three\nmen was formed. The bulk of the ore mined came from the lower adit level in the\nextreme west end of the Main lode. Some ore was also mined from the surface where\nthe vein outcrops near the old compressor building. Ore obtained was crushed in a small\njaw-crusher and then trucked to the Western Exploration Company's mill at Silverton.\nIn November, Transcontinental Resources Limited obtained an option on the property,\nbut Mr. Mills and his partners continued to work under lease. One shipment of 8 tons\nwas trucked to Trail. Gross content: Silver, 516 oz.; lead, 7,472 lb.; zinc, 1,767 lb.\nProduction: Ore milled, for Mills, 180 tons; for Mills, Pengelly, and Cooper, 825\ntons; total, 1,005 tons. Content: Silver, 2,960 oz.; lead, 15,332 lb.; zinc, 190,398 lb.\nThis Crown-granted claim, about 2 miles by road from Silverton,\nNoonday adjoins the Galena Farm mine to the east. It was subleased from\nA. Erickson by G. W. Lyon, A. Lyon, and H. Cleaver, who worked\nfrom August until November. A short road was built to the portal of the upper level,\nand about 50 tons of backfill was drawn from an old stope near the portal. A section of\nthe adit, extending 30 feet from the portal, caved through to surface, and further operations were suspended for the winter. The 50 tons was stored in a bin and was not\nshipped in 1950.\nThis property is alongside the Silverton-Hewitt road, about\nMetallic 2 miles from Silverton. It was inactive most of the year but was\nunder lease in the early part to J. Tamowski, G. Tarnowski, and\nJ. Heichert. These partners started two raises on the lower level approximately 45 feet\neach way from the main raise that connects with the upper level. From the raise nearest\nthe portal, IQV2 tons of ore was obtained, 65 tons being trucked to the Western Exploration mill at Silverton and 14 tons to the Trail smelter. The other raise was carried up\n67 feet, but no ore was found.\nLate in 1950 Van Roi Consolidated Mines Ltd. obtained an option on the property,\nbut no further work was done.\nProduction: Lead ore shipped to Trail, 14 tons. Gross content: Silver, 719 oz.;\nlead, 2,993 1b.; zinc, 3,792 lb.\nThe A.U. mine of five claims and fractions, owned by John O.\nA.U. (Lucky Nesbitt and James J. McNow, of Silverton, covers ground formerly\nThought) owned by The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company and\nknown at that time as the Lucky Thought group. The mine is on\nSilverton Creek, 4 miles by road from Silverton. It has not been worked since 1937.\nShipments of surface material were made in November and December to the Trail smelter.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 26 tons. Gross content: Silver, 794 oz.; lead, 4,347 lb.;\nzinc, 13,458 lb. A 150 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThe White Hope, White Hope No. 1, Homestake, and Senator are\nWhite Hope four Crown-granted claims lying astride the Nelson-Nakusp Highway, about 5 miles north of Slocan City. They are owned by\nSpokane Slocan Company. J. J. McDonell, of Slocan City, obtained a lease in 1950\nand made a few shipments from the surface of the White Hope claim.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 27 tons. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 207 oz.;\nlead, 9,923 lb.; zinc, 9,234 lb.\nSPRINGER CREEK (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver\nThis mine, 6 miles by road from Slocan City, was operated by three\nOttawa lessees, A. Olson, E. Grove, and P. Grove. The property is owned\nby the Ottawa Silver Mining & Milling Company. On December\n22nd an option was given to the Violamac Mines (B.C.) Limited, who employed the\nlessees to continue the work. The lessees worked on the lower or No. 6 level using\nhand-steel.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 136 tons. Gross content: Silver, 20,036 oz.\nThis group, owned by H. L. Harbour, of Slocan City, consists of\nHoward Fraction the Howard Fractional Crown-granted claim and two recorded\nclaims, Gloria and Teddy, which replace the cancelled Crown\ngrants, Tiger No. 7 and Bland No. 2. The property is on the southern slope of the\ndivide between Lemon and Springer Creeks, at elevation 6,500 feet. It is reached by\na 6Vi-mile road up Springer Creek, thence by a 3-mile newly constructed road up Tobin\nCreek.\nToward the end of the summer a few loads of dump ore were trucked to Slocan City\nfor transhipping to the Trail smelter. The workings were inaccessible but, from the\nappearance of the dump, development in the past was on a quartz vein in granite. The\ndip of the vein at the outcrop is about 15 degrees into the hill.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 35 tons. Gross content: Gold, 2 oz.; silver, 225 oz.\nNORTH LARDEAU (50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 942 Pender Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nSpider (Sunshine Beaton. H. E. Holcombe, president; David Burns, superintendent.\nLardeau Mines Capital: 3,000,000 shares, no par value. This company has an\nLimited) option on the Spider group on Poole Creek, 7 miles by road from\nBeaton. A base camp was established at Camborne, site of the\nMeridian mill, the building of which is still in good condition. The 4-foot-wide trail to\nthe mine was repaired and improved so that supplies could be transported to the mine\ncamp, 2 miles distant. The mine camp is near the portal of No. 4 adit and 1,600 feet\nhigher than Camborne.\nThe mine is developed by five adits, Nos. 1 to 5 at elevations 3,709 feet, 3,658 feet,\n3,667 feet, 3,585 feet, and 3,458 feet respectively. An exploratory diamond-drill programme was carried out chiefly on No. 4 and No. 5 levels. On No. 4 level the ore fissures\nappear to strike across a carbonate zone, and thus drilling was done in a southerly\ndirection to crosscut this zone and to locate parallel fissures. On No. 5 level, which is\ndriven southwest for 110 feet and then southeast for 360 feet, five holes were drilled from\na location where the adit swings from southwest to southeast. These holes located a new\nvein called No. 4 about 45 feet west of the adit turn. Crosscutting to investigate this vein\nwas in progress at the end of the year. Additional diamond drilling was done near the\n* By J. W. Peck. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 151\nface of No. 5 adit. A total of 2,000 feet of drilling was done underground and 1,000 feet\nwas done from the surface.\nOn the surface the buildings at Camborne and at the mine were rehabilitated.\nA warehouse and tractor shed were erected. New machinery consisted of a 90-horse-\npower Vivian diesel engine. Operations commenced May 15th and continued until the\nend of the year. The number of men employed averaged nine.\n[Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 161, 1930, p. 85.]\nCompany office, 120a McKenzie Avenue, Revelstoke. R. M.\nNettie L., G.Y.P. Patriquin, president; A. E. Peterson, mine superintendent.\nFraction, and Ajax Capital: 200,000 shares, $ 1 par value. This company was formed\n(Trout Lake Mining to develop several claims on Nettie L. Mountain overlooking the\nCompany Limited) town of Ferguson. A new road 1.7 miles long was built from\n5-Mile on the Lardeau Creek road to the Nettie L. camp 1,100\nfeet above. It was also extended half a mile to the G.Y.P. adit, and a further few hundred\nyards to the lower Nettie L. dump. The old portals of the Nettie L., G.Y.P. Fraction, and\nAjax were retimbered and some clean-up was made of the workings. A bunk-house,\ngarage, and compressor-house were erected. Four men were employed.\nSOUTH LARDEAU (50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 902 Rogers Building, 470 Granville Street, Van-\nSt. Patrick (Hamil couver. Capital: 3,000,000 shares, 50 cents par value. This\nSilver-Lead company controls a group of claims including the old St. Patrick\nMines, Limited) on the north side of Hamill Creek. The property has been idle for\nmany years, being last worked by lessees in 1937 and 1938. In\n1950 a road 3 miles long was built to the mine from a point 6 miles from Argenta on the\nArgenta-Howser road. When this work was completed late in 1950, rehabilitation was\nstarted on the mine buildings, which consisted of two dilapidated log buildings at the\nmain adit portal and two log buildings in good shape at a camp-site 500 feet lower.\n[Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 161, 1930, p. 50.]\nThis property is on Glacier Creek, 5 miles by road from Howser.\nSurprise It is owned by W. Clark, of Howser, but J. Gallo and his partner,\nF. Pellizari, hold an option on it. The mine is,developed by two\nmain adits 110 feet apart vertically. In the past all ore has come from the upper or\nNo. 1 adit which follows a quartz-tetrahedrite vein.\nIn 1950 a raise 30 feet long was put up at the face of No. 1 adit and stoping\ncommenced in this section. At the top of the raise the vein was 16 inches wide. On the\nsurface, open-cut work was also done on a parallel vein 200 feet north and 50 feet higher\nthan the portal of No. 1 adit.\nAir for mining was supplied by a portable compressor. Water, however, is a problem\nand at times has to be transported to the mine from Glacier Creek, 1,300 feet below.\nSome repairs had to be made to the road before ore could be trucked the 17 miles to\nLardeau for transhipping to the Trail smelter. Three men were employed.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 195 tons. Gross content: Gold, 1 oz.; silver, 2,933 oz.;\nlead, 2,2961b.; zinc, 3,095 lb.\nUPPER ARROW LAKE (50\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E.)*\nZinc\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada,\nBig Ledge Limited, continued its diamond-drilling programme on this prop\nerty on Pingston Creek. Work was restricted to the summer\nmonths. About ten men were employed. A total of 7,239 feet was drilled.\n* By J. W. Peck. A 152 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nCRESTON (49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W.)*\nSilver-Lead\nThe Alice mine, owned by K. C. Constable and R. B. Staples, is on\nAlice the west slope of Arrow Mountain, 2 miles north of Creston.\nA new road of improved grade was built to the lower adit site in\n1949. In 1950 the mine remained inactive until August, when a lease was given to\nR. Welloff and J. S. Maines. Three loads of ore obtained by sorting the dumps were\ntrucked to the Trail smelter. The mine remained caved and inaccessible.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 19 tons. Gross content: Silver, 260 oz.; lead, 14,826\nlb.; zinc, 195 lb.\nThis property is at 4,500 feet elevation on Rolf Mountain, to the\nDelaware north of Creston. It is reached by about 7 miles of road from\na point 5 miles from Creston on the Creston-Cranbrook Highway.\nIt is owned by J. W. Hill, of Delaware, U.S.A., but has been under a five-year lease to\nR. W. and F. E. Crawford, of Creston. The mine has been developed by two main adits,\n50 feet apart vertically, driven on a quartz vein which dips about 53 degrees and varies\nin width from a few inches to several feet. A third adit, lower down the hill, is not\non the vein.\nOperations in 1950 were restricted to the first half of the year, when three men\nworked on a sharing arrangement. In 1949 the vein was found past a fault in No. 2\nadit, but it was not drifted upon here until 1950. Lenses of galena were dispersed in this\nvein, and ore was obtained by taking down the back and hand-sorting the vein. The face\nwas reported to have been advanced to over 300 feet from the portal when operations\nceased.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 65 tons. Gross content: Silver, 265 oz.; lead, 14,149\nlb.; zinc, 2601b.\nKIMBERLEY (49\u00b0 115c N.W.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 215 St. James Street West, Montreal; mine and\nSullivan (The Con- smelter office, Trail. R. E. Stavert, Montreal, president; R. W.\nsolidated Mining Diamond, Trail, vice-president and general manager. Sullivan\nand Smelting mine office, Kimberley. J. R. Giegerich, mine superintendent;\nCompany of Can- H. R. Banks, mill superintendent. Capital: 4,000,000 shares,\nada, Limited) $5 par value. The company owns and operates the Sullivan mine\non Mark Creek, near Kimberley, and the Sullivan concentrator at\nChapman Camp. The following report is based on an outline of the 1950 operations\nsupplied by the management.\nSafety.\u2014Accident-prevention work, both underground and on surface operations,\nhas been earnestly and sincerely carried out by all employees, safety committees, and\nsupervisors during the year. The interest shown by everyone is reflected in the results\nobtained. The surface employees worked 227 days before having a lost-time accident.\nThe 227 accident-free days represent a total of 61,460 man-shifts of exposure.\nThe underground school of instruction played an important part in the accident-\nprevention work. A total of 215 employees attended the school during 1950, and sixteen\nsupervisors attended the school as assistant instructors.\nRegular first-aid classes were held for all employees during the year, and 160\nemployees were examined for first-aid certificates. The East Kootenay Mine-rescue\nand First-aid Competitions were held in Kimberley during 1950, and the Kimberley\nfirst-aid teams won the Department of Mines Cup and the Rotary Shield. The mine\nfirst-aid team also won the Blaylock Bowl in the Cominco Competition which was held\nin Kimberley during the year.\n* By J. W. Peck. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 153\nMine-rescue training was actively carried out during the year. Six mine employees\nsuccessfully completed the Department of Mines mine-rescue course during the year.\nThe Sullivan mine entered three teams in the East Kootenay Mine-rescue Competitions,\nin which one of the teams came third. Shortly after the mine-rescue meet, all mine-\nrescue personnel were called to duty to assist in combating the sulphur-dioxide fumes,\nwhich came from the oxidation of the iron sulphide in the material which is being used\nas stope fill in parts of the mine.\nAH mine-rescue men responded for this work, and they all deserve great credit for\nthe efficient manner in which they carried out the work according to the methods prescribed in mine-rescue practice. The work consisted of erecting gunite and concrete\nseals, installing ventilation pipe and fans, and removing equipment from contaminated\nzones. Much of this work was done in high concentrations of sulphur dioxide and also\nhigh temperatures. The protective apparatus found most useful for this type of work is\nthe All-service gas masks, where sufficient oxygen is present. The Chemox apparatus is\nused in low-oxygen areas or where the concentrations of sulphur dioxide are high. Patrol\nwork by mine-rescue men is carried out every day on three shifts in the areas affected\nby the sulphur-dioxide fumes. Credit is due to the British Columbia Department of\nMines instructors and to the instructors at the mine who trained the men in mine-rescue\nwork.\nMany new problems had to be overcome in working in sulphur-dioxide contaminated\nareas which are not as yet described in text-books, and various methods were developed to\nhandle sulphur-dioxide gas emitted by float-sulphide fill from three locations. This work\nhas continued daily for the past five months without accident. The mine-rescue men\nare provided with special woollen suits, as the fumes destroy any other fabric. The\nMcCaa apparatus, although available, was not used in this work because of the effect\nof the acid fumes on metal parts of that apparatus.\nRegular tests were made underground and at surface outcasts for carbon monoxide\nand sulphur dioxide, and analyses of mine-air samples were made by Orsat apparatus.\nAlso, temperatures were recorded when required.\nTwo fires occurred on main exhaust fans. Little damage was done, and no smoke\nhindrance was encountered underground.\nVentilation.\u2014The main ventilation system continued as a south to north flow, with\nvarious splits to all levels. Return air in the primary mechanical exhaust system measured 409,000 cubic feet per minute, and in a separate contaminated circuit measured\n104,000 cubic feet per minute, a total mechanical exhaust of 513,000 cubic feet per\nminute from underground. The main intake shaft operated on forced draught for eight\nmonths of the year at 125,000 cubic feet per minute, below 3900 level. Preliminary\nproposals are being drawn up to extend the main ventilation of the mine.\nDust Control.\u2014Routine dust testing was carried out monthly, giving the following\nresults by the Konimeter method of sampling:\u2014 Average Particles\nper Cubic Centimetre\nof Air\nStopes 372\nVentilation (airways) 288\nDevelopment r 516\nSlushers 521\nMiscellaneous 381\nGeneral mine-air average (December 1st, 1950) 403\nPreliminary plans were made for the disposal of dust from the conveyor raise,\n39128 dumps, and 2850 crushing plant.\nPreliminary tests on dust produced from drilling at subheadings with air-leg equipment and tungsten-carbide bits ranged from 380 to 404 particles per cubic centimetre\nof air. A 154 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nAluminium-powder treatments in the main dry building were carried on daily except\nduring hot weather, when the treatments were discontinued in the interest of employee\ncomfort.\nSink-float Project (Crushing and Transportation).\u2014The new underground crushing\nchamber on the 3800 level was completed, and transportation of ore to the mill along\nthe 3700 haulageway commenced November 23rd, 1949. The new system was in full\noperation by December 7th, 1949, and haulage by the Canadian Pacific Railway was\nterminated after twenty-six years of service.\nThe ore drawn from the stopes above the 3900 level is trammed to a 6,000-ton\nore-pocket, where it is delivered without previous crushing. A chute below the ore-\npocket is equipped with a Ross chain feeder which feeds a Ross roll grizzly. Grizzly\noversize goes to a 36- by 48-inch Dominion jaw crusher, where it is crushed to 6-inch\nsize. The undersize drops on to a conveyor, where it joins the discharge from the crusher\nand is delivered to a distributing chute.\nOre from below the 3,900-foot level has already passed through a primary crusher\nand is delivered to the 3800 crushing station by the mine conveyor-belt system. It joins\nthe upper-level ore at the distributing chute.\nThe 6-inch ore from both upper and lower levels then passes over a 6- by 12-foot\nTyrock screen and a 6- by 12-foot Dillon screen in parallel. The oversize goes to two\nSymons 7-foot standard cone crushers, where it is crushed to \u2014\\Yi inches. The undersize and crushed product are then conveyed to a 15,000-ton ore-pocket, from which it\nis later drawn into cars for transportation to the concentrator along the 3700 level.\nThe first 2 miles of the 36-inch gauge electric haulageway from the underground bin\nis a rock tunnel 10 feet high by 12 feet wide. The second 2 miles passes through a 1,200-\nfoot open-cut 80 feet deep, then over a 650,000-cubic-yard fill 1,100 feet long with a\nmaximum height of 115 feet, and finally along a side-hill cut and fill to a 6,000-ton\nore-bin at the concentrator. In addition to 21,000 feet of main line, there are 8,000 feet\nof passing and float-disposal tracks.\nTransportation equipment consists of two 48-car trains, each hauled by a General\nElectric 40-ton double-truck mine locomotive, powered by four 120-horsepower motors,\nwith draw-bar pull rated at 20,000 pounds at 10 miles per hour.\nThe ore-cars were made by the Differential Steel Car Company and are of the axle-\nless type with eight wheels, 10 inches in diameter with tapered roller bearings. They\nhold 250 cubic feet, equivalent to 15 tons of ore or 10 tons of float (waste).\nOre haulage is accomplished in two shifts, five days per week. An average of 50,000\ntons per week has been maintained throughout the year.\nThe trains are dumped, five cars at a time, by a rotary dumper over the 6,000-ton\nore-bin. After dumping, part of the train is loaded with float from the sink-float plant,\nmixed with a small percentage of iron sulphides, and returned to the mine for backfill.\nThe fill is dumped by another rotary dumper into a storage bin, from which it is drawn\noff and distributed to various stopes as required.\nUp to the end of November, 1950, in just over a year of operation, 2,694,000 tons\nof ore was hauled to the concentrator over this new transportation system and 300,000\ntons of backfill was returned to the mine.\nOpen-pit Operation.\u2014On the Sullivan hill, close to the site of the original discovery\nof the Sullivan mine, the company is preparing to mine 2,000,000 tons of ore by open-pit\noperation. The ore is from 20 to 100 feet thick and is overlain by rock up to 150 feet\nthick and surface gravel up to 30 feet thick.\nIt is estimated that removal of gravel and waste will take about a year. A raise\n500 feet long is to be driven from the 3900 level to one corner of the open pit. It is\nexpected that production of ore from the pit may reach 3,000 tons per operating-day.\nThe broken ore is to be transferred to the 3900 level in the raise, and to be transported\nand crushed in the regular mine equipment. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 155\nWork toward stripping the gravel and waste rock overlying the ore was started by\nNorthern Construction on October 16th.\nMain Underground Developments.\u2014Drifting between No. 1 shaft and 33503 winze\non the 3050 level was completed. During the year the 2850 level was extended south of\nNo. 1 shaft, and the 2850, 3050, and 3200 level drifts were extended to the north.\nThe 3902 conveyor extension from the 3350 level to the 2850 level was completed,\nand installation of equipment was commenced.\nExcavation for the 2850 level crushing unit was completed, and installation of\nequipment has started. This unit should be ready for operation early in 1951.\nThe excavation of the 2850 level pumping station was completed, and installation\nof equipment is under way.\nThe driving of No. 2 service shaft, which will replace 3901 shaft, was near completion\nat the end of the year. The shaft timbering and hoist installation should be completed\nby the middle of 1951.\nThree stopes below the 3900 level were partly filled with float-sulphide fill, which\nwas transported from the concentrator via the 3700 haulageway.\nConsiderable development was done in the south part of the mine, above the 3650\nlevel, in order to prepare stoping blocks there for mining.\nProduction from pillars was approximately 36 per cent of the total mine production\nfor the year.\nPersonnel.\u2014The total number of men employed at mine and mill averaged 2,100.\nDevelopment: Drifting and crosscutting, 8,764 feet; sublevels, 19,278 feet; raising,\n27,138 feet; diamond drilling, 3,766 feet.\nProduction: Ore milled, 2,680,962 tons.\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nST. MARY RIVER (49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E.)*\nBoy Scout\n(Thomas Consolidated Mines,\nIncorporated)\nDavid E. Watson, secretary-treasurer. Late in 1950 this company\nobtained an option on a group of claims on Hell Roaring Creek.\nThis group was formerly called the Boy Scout group and contains\nthe Crown-granted claims Warhorse, Hope, Granite, and Faith.\nThe property was diamond drilled by the Lake Expanse Gold\nMines Ltd. late in 1949. Work by the present company was\nrestricted to road building and by December 5 miles of road had been constructed from\nSt. Mary Lake. Approximately 800 feet remain to reach a point 250 feet vertically\nbelow the lower adit. The company intends to start a stripping programme in this area.\nWork was under the direction of W. N. Campbell.\nThe Leader group of fourteen mineral claims is located on the east\nLeader side of Angus Creek, 7 miles by trail from St. Mary Lake. It is\nowned by Gordon Blaney and associates but was optioned in 1950\nto Estella Mines Ltd. The claims were at one time known as the Mascot group, then the\nWellington, and in recent years were held by Harold Bennett, of Cranbrook, under the\nname of Old Glory. In 1950 construction of a road was commenced. This work ceased\nin October, as the company required the machinery for the Estella road.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1932, p. 162. Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Sum. Rept., 1932, p. 92.]\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nEstella (Estella\nMines Ltd.)\nWASA (49\u00b0115\u00b0N.W.)*\nCompany office, 208 Yorkshire Building, 525 Seymour Street,\nVancouver; mine office, Kimberley. A. R. Allen, manager;\nR. Sostad, mine superintendent. Capital: 3,500,000 shares, $1\npar value. This company, formed in May, 1950, acquired the\n* By J. W. Peck. A 156 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nEstella property, situated at the head of Tracy Creek, 18 miles by road east of Wasa.\nMost of the development was done in the early part of the century. Since then the property has lain idle, except for surface diamond drilling done from 1927 to 1929 by The\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Company.\nThe mine is developed by a small shaft and two adits, Rover and Estella. The\nRover adit, at elevation 6,240 feet, has been drifted southeasterly for 886 feet, and from\nthere a crosscut has been driven to the northeast and southwest 70 feet and 20 feet\nrespectively. At 170 feet from the portal a winze has been sunk and is reported to be\n50 feet deep. At 225 feet there is a 65-foot raise. Short crosscuts into the footwall and\nhangingwall of the adit drift indicate a mineralized zone for at least 600 feet. Zinc is\nmore abundant than lead. The Estella adit, at elevation 6,100 feet, has been driven as\na crosscut in a southerly direction for 975 feet. At 945 feet from the portal a fault has\nbeen intersected, and 85 feet of drifting has been done on it. This drift is nearly vertically\nbelow the Rover adit, 700 feet in from its portal. In 1950 a diamond drill was set up at\nthe face of the Estella adit and eight holes were drilled. The management reports there is\na vein 5 feet wide indicated 54 feet ahead of the face. By the end of 1950 this adit had\nbeen slashed its entire length to allow a mechanized drive to commence at the face for\ninvestigation of the drill results.\nAt the portal of the Estella adit, a mine plant was established. Machinery and engine\nshops were erected and also a 200-ton ore-bin. Machinery consisted of two Holman\n500-cubic-feet-per-minute compressors, two General Motors diesel engines, one 15-kw.\ndiesel lighting plant, one portable Schramm 420-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor, one\nBuda diesel engine, two Mancha P\/i-ton trammers, one Cleveland Jumbo, two Eimco\nmucking-machines, eighteen mine cars, and other miscellaneous equipment. The old\nmine camp 100 feet below the Estella adit was rehabilitated. New buildings erected were\ncook-house, bunk-house, and change-house.\nThe steep 3^-mile road from Tracytown to the mine was relocated, and by\nDecember a good road had been built with a maximum grade of 8 per cent. This is to\nallow easy truck haulage of ore to a mill-site 16 miles away near Wasa. Here at the\nmill-site six residences were under construction at the end of 1950. Drilling for water\nwas also under way. An office was established at Wasa. The number of men employed\naveraged twenty-four but had increased to fifty-five in December.\nWINDERMERE (50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E.)\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nThis property was bought by Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited in\nParadise (Sheep 1942 and brought into production in 1949. The mill-site is at\nCreek Gold Mines Jackpine Flat on Toby Creek, 12 miles from Lake Windermere\nLimited)* Station. The mine camp, reached by IVz miles of mountain road\nfrom the mill, is in the basin at the head of Spring Creek, at an\nelevation of about 7,800 feet. The mine is on the north side of the basin, on the slope\nof a high ridge extending eastward from Mount Nelson. The ore is hauled to the mill\nby track.\nThe newly constructed 50-ton mill was brought into production late in 1949, but at\nthe end of the year operations ceased because of the severity of the winter. Extraction\nhad been unsatisfactory because of the partly oxidized nature of the ore, so about three\nmonths were devoted to test work in the mill. Milling was resumed in April, and\nalthough the extraction was greatly improved in midsummer, about 25 per cent of the\nlead was still unrecoverable.\nMining by square-set stoping was carried out on the main orebody on the 7800 or\nmain adit level, and also on the 7900 level. The ground is much shattered and there are\nmany clay slips in the ore zone, so that work must proceed carefully. The ore is\n* By M. S. Hedley. in!\nMETAL-MINING (LODE) A 157\na relatively massive replacement in limestone near overlying slates, and the slate hanging-\nwall may give trouble, particularly if broken into. The boundaries of the ore are\nirregular, and the stope outlines vary from floor to floor. Pyrite is abundant and is\nnearly massive locally.\nThe 7700 adit level, 335 feet east and 40 feet south of the 7800 portal, was advanced\nfrom 52 to 330 feet from the portal in July, and some diamond drilling was later done\nfrom it. This adit is driven in limestone near contacts with slate and quartzite and\nencounters dragfolds of slate in the limestone. The relationship between limestone, slate,\nand quartzite is very important to the future of the mine and has not yet been determined.\nThe average number employed was thirty-five; J. J. A. Crowhurst, superintendent.\nProduction: Ore milled, 12,002 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Gold, 12 oz.;\nsilver, 35,099 oz.; lead, 819,129 lb.; zinc, 1,764,703 lb.; cadmium, 5,415 lb.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 196-199.]\nThis property, on the Toby slope of the ridge between Toby and\nMineral King* Jumbo Creeks, is reached by 3 miles of trail from the Toby Creek\nroad. Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited obtained a working agreement and during October drilled four short diamond-drill holes totalling 270 feet. This\ndrilling was done from the surface, along and down the main showing.\n[Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 148, 1926, p. 49.]\nSPILLIMACHEEN (50\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E.)*\nLead-Zinc\nCompany office, 706 Holden Building, 16 Hastings Street East,\nSilver Giant Vancouver; mine office, Spillimacheen. W. R. Wheeler, president;\n(Silver Giant Mines T. G. McLelan, secretary. Capital: 3,000,000 shares, 50 cents\nLimited) par value. This company owns the Silver Giant mine, located in\nthe Spillimacheen River valley, 8 miles by road from Spillimacheen.\nThe property was idle from March, 1949, until the summer of 1950, when Hedley Mascot\nGold Mines Limited assumed operating control. Efforts were then concentrated on building a mill and surface buildings, and by the end of 1950 this programme was well\nadvanced. At the mill-site the jaw and gyratory crushers, the ball mill, the classifier, and\nthe flotation cells had been installed in two buildings. Capacity is rated at about 200\ntons per day. Milling is expected to commence by February, 1951. Other new surface\nbuildings erected were compressor-shop, machine-shop, bunk-house, and cook-house.\nUnderground, the No. 5 and No. 6 levels were cleaned out and retimbered where\nnecessary. In December a raise connection was made between No. 6 and No. 5 levels.\nP. W. MacMillan was in charge in December, with sixty-two men employed.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, p. 200.]\nA and B (Lead Hill Mining Company Limited).\u2014Company office, 507 Stock Exchange Building, 475 Howe Street, Vancouver. Capital: 3,500,000 shares, 50 cents par\nvalue. This company controls the A and B groups of claims in the valley of the Spillimacheen River. In 1950 a tractor-road was built from the Silver Giant mine to the property, a distance of 6 miles. A diamond-drill programme was commenced, but this work\nceased in August.\nFIELD (51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nHead office, Room 413, 62 Richmond Street West, Toronto. E. J.\nMonarch and Gleason, manager; C. Ney, geologist and mine superintendent;\nKicking Horse V. C. Segur, mill superintendent. Capital: 3,000,000 shares, no\n(Base Metals Min- par value. This company operates the Monarch mine on Mount\ning Corporation Stephen and the Kicking Horse mine on Mount Field, both 2Vi\nLimited) miles east of Field. The diesel power plant, the mill, and the camp\nare on the Monarch or railway side of the valley, the Kicking Horse\n* By J. W. Peck. A 158 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nbeing directly across. Milling was continued throughout 1950, except for a brief shutdown due to the railway strike in August. As in recent years, the Kicking Horse produced\nabout two-thirds of the tonnage, this being chiefly zinc ore. In the upper zone, ore was\nobtained from remnants in the No. 3 and No. 4 stopes, while new stopes, called \" No. 5 \"\nand \" No. 6,\" were started along the strike of the zone. Development of the flat-lying ore\nzone has now extended approximately 2,000 feet into the mountain. Ore was also\nobtained from the No. 1 or lower ore zone, where the workings have been extended to\n1,200 feet into the mountain. A new exit was made on No. 1 level to allow for drainage\nand handling of waste. In the Monarch the 200c stope continued to produce the bulk of\nthe lead ore, but the ore pinched down twice during 1950, making steady production\ndifficult to maintain. A new exit to surface was made, the drive breaking through 1,000\nfeet southeast of the tram portal. This improved the ventilation and allowed the 500a\nand 500b stopes to be worked. A crosscut was then driven ahead of the 200c stope to\nallow further prospecting in that area. Two compressed-air motors were obtained, which\neliminated hand tramming on the main haulage level.\nDevelopment: Drifting, 1,102 feet; crosscutting, 385 feet; raising, 309 feet; diamond drilling, 10,489 feet. The number of men employed averaged eighty-eight.\nProduction: Ore milled, 45,330 tons. Gross content of concentrates: Silver, 21,092\noz.; lead, 3,867,308 lb.; zinc, 5,158,641 lb.; cadmium, 12,332 lb.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, p. 205.]\nKINBASKET LAKE (51\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E.)*\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\nCompany office, 560 Baker Street, Nelson. W. S. Hamilton, presi-\nMogul and Tim- dent. Capital: 200,000 shares, 50 cents par value. This company\nbasket (Kootenay owns a group of claims on the southwest end of Kinbasket Lake,\nExploration including the Crown-granted Mogul and Timbasket claims. Sur-\nLimited) face trenching in 1949 exposed mineralized replacement of the\ncountry limestone. In September, 1950, the property was optioned\nto The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. This company carried out a brief\nexploratory programme and built trails to probable drilling-sites for 1951.\nREVELSTOKE\nSilver-Lead-Zinc\n(51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W.) Company office, 208 Pacific Building, 744\nRegal Silver, Snow- Hastings Street West, Vancouver; mine office, Albert Canyon.\nflake (Stannite A. S. MacCulloch, vice-president and manager. Capital: 3,000,-\nMines Limited)* 000 shares, no par value. This company owns the Regal Silver\nand Snowflake properties, which are on Clabon Creek, IV2 miles\nby road from Silver Creek Siding, a freight stop on the Canadian Pacific Railway 19 miles\neast of Revelstoke. The Snowflake mine is above the Regal Silver on the same vein\nsystem. Work in 1949 and 1950 has been restricted to the Regal Silver.\nIn January one of the two bunk-houses burned down, necessitating a reduction in\nthe crew. The main development was the driving of a raise from No. 8 to No. 5 level.\nThis raise, however, broke through to surface at 460 feet in a location about 150 feet\nnorth of No. 5 portal. A sublevel, called No. 7 level, was established off this raise and\nconsists of a 45-foot crosscut to reach the vein and 100 feet of drifting on the vein. A new\nadit was collared 80 feet vertically below No. 5 level, and drifting commenced on the vein\nwith the intention of crosscutting to break into the raise from No. 8 level. On No. 5\nlevel a stope was started on the vein 290 feet in from the portal. The back was taken\ndown to a height of 25 feet over a length of 60 feet. This ore had to be sacked and then\n* By J. W. Peck. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 159\nlowered down a surface slide to the road 500 feet below. About ten men were employed.\nA shipment of 38 tons of ore made to the smelter in December, 1949, is included in the\nfollowing data on production.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 366 tons. Grosscontent: Silver, 5,724 oz.; lead, 115,631\nlb.; zinc, 43,200 lb.\nThis property, about 25 miles north of Revelstoke, owned by D. F.\nMastodon* Kidd, of Vancouver, and associates, contains forty-six claims and\nfractions, some of which have been surveyed. The property is\nreached by a good pack-trail which begins at Mile 17 on the Big Bend Highway at elevation 2,000 feet, and extends 4Vi miles eastward up the south side of the valley of La\nForme Creek to a crossing at elevation 3,250 feet. Thence the trail ascends the steep\nnorth side of the valley by a series of switchbacks, rising some 1,200 feet in altitude in\na distance of little more than 1 mile. The trail continues northward about 2 miles to the\ncamp, elevation about 5,000 feet. The camp and the near-by main workings are in a\nbroad northerly trending upland valley which forms a saddle between the deep valley of\nLa Forme Creek and the equally deep and more precipitous valley of Carnes Creek\napproximately 5 miles to the north. During 1950 work was done on the conversion of\nthe lower section of the pack-trail to a road, the terminus of which will be the crossing on\nLa Forme Creek, a proposed mill-site. By the end of the year 3 miles of this road had\nbeen completed.\nThe area is heavily timbered. Hemlock, spruce, and balsam are plentiful on the\nproperty, and red cedar grows at lower elevations. The saddle valley has an almost continuous mantle of glacial drift which, near the workings, ranges in thickness from 6 to 40\nfeet. Outcrops are plentiful only on the precipitous south side of the Carnes Creek valley.\nThe camp, with accommodation for twelve persons, has a comfortable log bunk-\nhouse and cook-house, and a frame dry. The mining plant, located near No. 2 adit level,\nincludes an Ingersoll-Rand semi-diesel engine of 145 horsepower, a 500-cubic-feet-per-\nminute Ingersoll-Rand compressor, and an Eimco loader. During the summer the crew\naveraged ten men.\nThe Mastodon showings were discovered in 1898, and the first development work\nwas done in 1916 and 1917 by The Mastodon Mining Company Limited. A shaft was\nsunk 110 feet, inclined at 34 degrees, and near the bottom a level (now known as No. 1\nlevel) was established. One ton presumably of sorted ore from this working, which was\nshipped to the Trail smelter, assayed: Silver, 23.3 oz. per ton; lead, 46.7 per cent; zinc,\n15.7 per cent. Two hundred feet south of this shaft a crosscut about 200 feet long\nwas driven to test what appeared to be the continuation of the ore zone. A subparallel\nmineralized zone was tested by an inclined shaft 60 feet deep, started about 450 feet\nsoutheasterly from No. 1 shaft at an elevation of about 5,740 feet. Altogether this\ncompany drove about 450 feet of underground workings.!\nThe property was relocated in 1932 by E. Larsen and E. Earlandson, two of the\npresent owners, and was optioned to Fawn Mining Company Limited. After making a\nfew open-cuts, this company relinquished its option. In 1942 several drill holes, totalling\n2,000 feet, were drilled by D. F. Kidd, but little core or sludge was recovered because of\nthe cavernous character of the rocks. In 1946 New Jersey Zinc Explorations Limited\nmade a large open-cut a short distance northwesterly from the shaft. The overburden\nwas 25 feet deep and the cut is caved now, but the report is that a considerable width of\nzinc mineralization was discovered. However, that company did no further work and the\nproperty reverted to the owners, who continued surface and underground development\nwork in 1949 and 1950. The underground work done in 1950 amounted to 1,535 feet\nof drifting and crosscutting, 350 feet of winzing and raising, and 726 feet of diamond\ndrilling.\n* By W. H. White.\nt Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1916, p. 192; 1917, p. 150. A 160\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNO 3 ADIT LEVEL\nEL. 5130'\nLEGEND\nI LIMESTONE\nSSJ SCHIST\n\u25a0! J OOLOMITIC LIMESTONE\n^ MINERALIZATION\n' ) OPEN-CUT\nCUT\n\/\n203 DRIFT\nV.52\u00b0'\\\\ 'V'-'P201 WINZE\n'^^J^ \/:'\/^;'-r-204\/x-CUT.\nNO.I SHAFT\nEL.5500\nNO 5 SBf43\n\/ > I V'^-NO I LEVEL\n,.-.' UNDERGROUND WORKING\nFig. 3. Mastodon group\u2014surface and underground workings. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 161\nThe writer examined the workings and made a study of the metal content of twigs\nfrom trees near the workings between July 10th and July 31st, 1950. The principal\nsurface and underground workings which existed at that time are shown on Figures 3 and\n4. Workings consisting of fifteen open-cuts and strippings on the \"north showings,\"\nsome 3,500 feet northerly from the \" main showings,\" are not shown on the figures. No.\n2 adit, elevation 5,320 feet, includes 1,640 feet of crosscuts and drifts; 201 winze, water-\nfilled but reported to be 100 feet deep; 201 raise extending to No. 1 level; and 202 raise\nextending 46 feet above the level. No. 3 adit level, elevation 5,130 feet, had been driven\nas a crosscut 100 feet southeasterly from its portal by the end of July, 1950. By the end\nof the year this crosscut was 820 feet long, and from the face a drift extended 180 feet\nsoutherly. Several short diamond-drill holes, totalling 726 feet, were drilled in No. 3\nadit level.\nThe Mastodon showings are near the southwestern edge of a broad, northwesterly\ntrending belt of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks, correlated by Gunning with the upper\npart of the Windermere group of the Lardeau area to the southeast.* Granite gneiss, well\nexposed on the trail up La Forme Creek, lies to the southwest of the belt of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. The rock in the Mastodon open-cuts and underground\nworkings includes in beds of varying thickness: massive grey crystalline limestone, which\nin places becomes dark coloured and apparently somewhat siliceous and argillaceous;\nthin-bedded crystalline limestone; limy sericite schist; and thinly foliated silvery quartz-\nsericite schist. Massive buff-coloured dolomite occurs near the face of 205 crosscut, and\nnear the ore zones grains and thin, crooked lamellae of dolomite occur along the bedding\nof the limestone.\nThe strike of the strata varies little from north 25 degrees west and the dip ranges\nfrom 10 degrees to 65 degrees northeastward, averaging about 50 degrees. However, the\nstructure is far more complex than would be suggested by the regularity of attitude. The\ndifficulty experienced in correlating strata even in fairly closely spaced exposures, together\nwith the presence of small, tightly compressed folds with axes plunging gently to the\nnorthwest, suggests isoclinal folding in which individual beds, particularly the limestone\nbeds, are markedly lenticular and probably discontinuous. Slickensides observed in a\nfew places underground suggest bedding faults on which the amount of movement is\nunknown.\nIn 201 crosscut a sequence of strata begins with quartz-sericite schist and grades\neastward successively to limy sericite schist, next to schistose thin-bedded limestone and\nfinally to massive grey crystalline limestone. This sequence is repeated four times in the\nsame order in the 500-foot length of the crosscut. The strata strike northwesterly and\ndip northeastward and are thought to be right side up, that is, they face northeastward.\nThe recurrence of the sequence may be due to rhythmic sedimentation.\nThe orebodies are lenticular, bedded zinc-lead replacements in limestone and are\nlocalized along or near contacts with limy sericite schist or quartz-sericite schist. The\npredominant ore mineral is honey-yellow sphalerite. On the whole, galena is only sparingly present and is in isolated grains, but locally it may occur in greater amounts. Grey\ncopper is of sporadic occurrence. Pyrite is notably absent. The gangue is mainly\ncrystalline limestone and dolomite. Fluorite and barite occur in the \"north showings\"\nbut were not observed in the main deposits. Some details concerning the ore occurrences\nare given in the following paragraphs. References will be made to Figures 3 and 4, on\nwhich numbers have been assigned to the main open-cuts and underground workings.\nA zone about 7 feet wide, exposed in the east end of No. 1 open-cut, is slightly\ncopper-stained and sparsely mineralized with sphalerite and a little galena. This zone is\n\u2666 Gunning, H. C. (1928): Geology and mineral deposits of the Big Bend Area, British Columbia\u2014Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Sum. Rept., 1928, Pt. A, pp. 140-153; and Okulitch, V. J. (1949): Geology of part of the Selkirk Mountains\nin the vicinity of the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia\u2014Geol. Surv., Canada, Bull. No. 14,\npp. 5-10. A 162\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nsw-o\nE^jsy^ oolomitic limestone and dolomite:\nI | SCHIST-MAINLY SERICITE.BUT IN PLACES\nI- .1 GRADATIONAL INTO LIMEY SCHIST\nORE BOOY-OXIDIZEO\n| ^ | ORE BODY-NOT OXIDIZED\n fj\u00a3) SAMPLE NUMBER AND LOCATION\nNOTE; geological contacts mapped at breast\nHEIGHT.INCLINED WORKINGS SHOWN IN DASHED\nOUTLINE.\nFig. 4. Mastodon workings\u2014geology and sample locations. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 163\non a contact, with thin-bedded crystalline limestone to the east and massive dolomitic\nlimestone to the west. Stringers of unusually dark-coloured sphalerite occur along the\nfolia of a bed of limy sericite schist exposed about 65 feet farther west in this cut. Several\nopen-cuts north of No. 1 cut and also No. 2 open-cut, about 150 feet to the south, contain\nonly unmineralized dolomitic limestone and schist. No. 3 open-cut contains an oxidized\nzone about 2 feet wide in which some galena is visible. No. 4 is the deep open-cut, now\ncaved, reported to contain a considerable width of zinc mineralization of commercial\ngrade. A zone 26 feet wide in No. 5 open-cut is moderately well mineralized with small\nirregular stringers and masses of sphalerite and galena, together with a little grey copper.\nThe apparent continuation of this zone to the southeast appears in No. 6 open-cut, where\nit is only 3 feet wide. The hangingwall (east) side is limy sericite schist and the footwall\nis thin-bedded, somewhat dolomitic, crystalline limestone. Sphalerite is very sparsely\ndisseminated in the footwall rock across a width of 50 feet. In No. 7 open-cut an oxide\nzone about 8 feet wide occurs in a bed of limy sericite schist, but similar gossan in near-by\nNo. 8 open-cut is only 2 feet wide. Other cuts to the south are unmineralized.\nCHANNEL SAMPLES\nSample\nNo.\nLocation\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\nLead\nZinc\n1\nFt. In.\n4 2\n6 4\n4 ....\n4 _\n5 _\n4 6\n2 6\n6 _.\n6 _\n3 9\n6 ....\n6 _\n6 ....\n2 ....\n5 3\n5 9\n4 ....\n5 ....\n5 4\n4 10\n4 ....\n3 4\n2 6\nOz. per Ton\nNil\n0.01\nNil\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nNil\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nTrace\nNil\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nNil\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nTrace\nNil\nNil\nNil\nOz. per Ton\nNil\n2.2\nNil\nNil\n5.9\n0.2\nTrace\n0.1\n0.1\n\u2022 6.3\n0.6\n0.2\n0.7\nNil\n0.9\n0.2\nNil\nNil\n0.1\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nNil\nPer Cent\n7Vi7\n3.3\nTrace\nTrace\n14.2\n0.7\nTrace\n1.0\nTrace\n12.4\n1.4\n0.5\n0.7\nTrace\n0.5\n0.3\nTrace\nTrace\nTrace\nTrace\nTrace\nNil\nNil\nPer Cent\n0.3\n2\n27 0\n3\n4\nCentre._ -\t\n25.4\n46 9\n5\n6\nWest side \t\n27.4\n42 4\n7\n8\nEast side\t\n45.6\n25 7\n9\n34 9\n10\n17 9\n11\n34 6\n12\n13\nCentre \t\n34.6\n23.6\n14\n9.2\n15\n28.2\n16\n29 8\n17\n31.0\n18\n24.3\n19\n22.5\n20\n9.6\n21\n22\n8.0\n13.2\n23\n15.1\nThe old water-filled shaft southeasterly from No. 1 shaft was sunk on a bedding fault\nin schistose, thin-bedded crystalline limestone, striking north 15 degrees west and dipping\n40 degrees eastward. Small amounts of sphalerite, galena, and grey copper are visible\nalong the footwall side of the fault.\nThe old adit 200 feet south of No. 1 shaft is a crosscut accessible to a point 142 feet\neasterly from the portal, where it is caved. The first 53 feet of the working cuts thin-\nbedded crystalline limestone and some schist, and at this point a drift extends 32 feet\nsoutherly, along a thoroughly oxidized zone about 2 feet wide, in very thinly foliated\nschist. Beyond this drift the crosscut penetrates, successively, 12 feet of thin-bedded\ncrystalline limestone and 67 feet of limestone breccia. The latter consists of angular\nblocks, up to 10 inches across, of the thin-bedded limestone in a calcareous matrix. Occasional grains of sphalerite are visible in the matrix. This is the only place on the property\nthat this peculiar rock was observed.\nNo. 1 shaft, inclined 37 degrees eastward, was sunk on a mineralized zone approximately parallel to the bedding. The zone is about 6 feet wide at the surface and tapers A 164 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nirregularly downward, terminating about 50 feet down from the collar of the shaft. The\nfootwall rock is a thin bed of limy sericite schist and the hangingwall is black siliceous\nlimestone. The hangingwall of the mineralized zone is an undulating slickensided fault\nsurface in the black siliceous limestone and dips a little more steeply than the bedding.\nThe ore consists of irregular small masses and discontinuous stringers of sphalerite and\ngalena, with a little grey copper in a gangue of calcite, dolomite, and a little quartz. At\nNo. 1 level, 75 feet down from the shaft collar, another ore zone appears in thin-bedded\ncrystalline limestone which lies beneath the bed of limy schist forming the footwall of the\nshaft. Large masses and bedded veins of solid honey-yellow sphalerite with no galena\nand no grey copper characterize this orebody. At the shaft it is 6 feet wide, dipping 35\ndegrees northeastward. The width decreases gradually and the dip flattens as the orebody\nis followed northwestward along the level, and at the face ore about 2 feet thick lies almost\nhorizontally. Southeastward from the shaft this orebody diverges gradually from the\nhangingwall schist and is entirely in the thin-bedded limestone. Five feet of ore is exposed\nin 101 crosscut, where the bedding dips only 15 degrees to the northeast. The orebody\ncontinues to the southeast, increasing in width to 7 feet, then decreasing to about 4 feet\nat the face. The dip at the face is about 30 degrees northeastward. The orebody on No.\n1 level is at least 180 feet long and ranges in width from 2 to 7 feet.\nThree orebodies occur in the workings on No. 2 adit level. The largest orebody is\nexplored by 206 drift, several short crosscuts, and by 202 raise. In plan this orebody has\nthe shape of a gently curved lens 355 feet long, which reaches a maximum width of 18\nfeet at 202 raise, and tapers irregularly to zero at its extremities. The strike changes\ngradually from northwest to north 25 degrees west, and the dip is fairly uniform at about\n60 degrees to the northeast. This orebody is a bedded replacement along a contact.\nLimy sericite schist forms its footwall, and the hangingwall is banded black and buff\ndolomitic limestone grading outwards into light-grey crystalline limestone. Honey-\nyellow sphalerite occurs as solid vein-like masses as much as 2 feet wide, as thinner\ndiscontinuous stringers along the bedding, and as disseminated grains. Small lenticular\nmasses and stringers of galena occur locally. A small amount of sphalerite is disseminated in the hangingwall rocks. Southeastward the orebody frays into many separate\nstringers of sphalerite which taper and almost disappear at the face. Near this face the\nstrata are cut by numerous westerly striking quartz veinlets which contain a few grains\nof sphalerite and galena. Northwestward the orebody pinches more abruptly to a few\ncrooked stringers of sphalerite at a point about 15 feet from the face. The drift continues to this face, following a slightly oxidized bedding fracture in limy sericite schist.\nIn 202 raise, which is driven up the footwall of the orebody, the mineralized width\ndecreases from 18 feet at the level to about 2 feet at a point 36 feet above the level, and\nfinally, at the face, 46 feet above the level, only a 2-inch stringer of sphalerite remains.\nAbout 20 feet above the level the attitude of the strata begins to change, and at the face\nof the raise the dip is 20 degrees flatter and the strike about 20 degrees more westerly\nthan on the level below. Moreover, near the face of the raise the hangingwall is very\nhard dense black siliceous material, in marked contrast to the hangingwall rocks on the\nlevel.\nThe second orebody is exposed in 203 drift, and 201 winze, now flooded, inclined\nat 40 degrees, was sunk on the ore. This orebody is in thin-bedded crystalline limestone\nand black dolomitic limestone some 30 feet east of the schist contact in 204 drift. The\nlength of ore exposed is 100 feet, and the width varies from about 2Va feet at either end\nto a maximum of 10 feet at the collar of 201 winze. At this place some mineralization\nappears to diverge into the footwall. The ore resembles that in 206 drift, except that\ngalena is absent.\nThe third orebody in No. 2 adit level follows a limestone-schist contact in 204 drift,\nextending 140 feet southeasterly from 203 crosscut. The mineralized width ranges METAL-MINING (LODE) A 165\nfrom 1 to 3 feet. Near the face of 204 drift this oreshoot appears to fray into separate\nstringers.\nThe 201 raise, driven in the footwall schist from 204 drift to connect with No. 1\nlevel, has three short branches, Sphalerite in veinlets and as disseminated grains occurs\nacross widths as great as 12 inches in the upper two prospect raises, but neither occurrence correlates satisfactorily with the orebodies on either level. The lower prospect\nraise, extending 50 feet into the hangingwall of the main raise at an inclination of 45\ndegrees, might be expected to intersect the continuation either of the orebody in 204 drift\nor the orebody on No. 1 level. However, no mineralization is present, and the rock is\nthin-bedded black argillite, unlike any other rock in the workings. These raise workings\nindicate discontinuity of the ore zones between levels.\nA feature of all the orebodies is that they have been partly or completely oxidized\nto reddish-brown earthy material by the action of ground-water circulating freely and to\nconsiderable depth through numerous solution channels and caverns in the calcareous\nstrata. The oxidized ore contains residual lumps of sphalerite and in places galena,\nand much of it is rich in finely divided secondary zinc and lead carbonates. The distribution of fresh and oxidized material is indicated on Figure 4.\nThe locations of twenty-three channel samples taken in 206 drift and 203 drift are\nshown on Figure 4 and the assay results and other data for the samples are given in\na table facing the figure. Both fresh and oxidized material was sampled at places where\nthe full widths of the oreshoots were accessible.\nTwo groups of open-cuts and strippings have been made recently by the owners on\nthe \" north showings.\" The first group of five open-cuts is on a small knoll, elevation\n5,250 feet, about 150 feet southwesterly from the northeast corner of BK No. 1 claim.\nThese cuts are 3,000 feet northerly from the main workings, and the intervening area\nis continuously drift-cOvered. The rock in the cuts is limy sericite schist and thin beds of\ngrey, somewhat dolomitic, crystalline limestone. Locally the bedding is severely contorted, but the general strike is northwesterly, and the dip varies from 30 to 60 degrees\nnortheastward. Very sparse mineralization occurs in three adjoining open-cuts, representing a possible strike length of 130 feet. The mineralized width ranges from 3 to 7 feet.\nDark-brown sphalerite, a little galena, and few grains of grey copper are disseminated\nin the limestone and occur also in irregular veinlets accompanied by white and mauve\ncrystals of fluorite, white crystalline barite and quartz.\nThe second group of workings includes ten shallow strippings on the precipitous\nsouthern side of the Carnes Creek valley. The uppermost exposure is 350 feet northerly\nfrom the northeast corner of BK No. 1 claim, at elevation 5,000 feet, and the lowest\nexposure is 600 feet farther north and about 600 feet lower in elevation. This series\nof strippings exposes at intervals a zone of interbedded limy sericite schist and thin-\nbedded crystalline limestone, of which the attitude differs from those observed elsewhere\non the property. The strike ranges from north 10 degrees west to north 25 degrees\neast, and the dip varies irregularly between 62 and 78 degrees eastward. Very sparse\nmineralization, similar in character to that described in the last paragraph, is visible in\nevery stripping across widths which at several places are as great as 60 feet. Although\ncorrelation of the individual exposures is difficult on this steep slope, it appears likely\nthat several subparallel mineralized zones are present, rather than one continuous zone.\nZinc Contained in Tree Samples.\u2014In conjunction with the examination of the\nmineral deposits on the Mastodon property, a survey was made of the zinc content of\ntrees, using the dithizone method of analysis. Twig samples were taken along lines\nbearing north 70 degrees west at intervals ranging from 50 to 100 feet. The lines were\nspaced 100 feet apart near the main workings and 200 feet apart elsewhere. The total\nnumber of samples taken and analysed was 330. The samples were not air-dried prior\nto analysis. A 166\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nAs it was impossible to maintain the desired spacing of samples using only one\nspecies, which is the ideal condition, any one of three species was sampled. These were\nmountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), Engelmann spruce (Picea Engelmannii), and\nalpine fir, locally called balsam (Abies lasiocarpa). Hemlock and spruce were most\nsuitable. Their zinc contents are comparable, and results can be checked with a small\nmargin of error. However, the zinc content of balsam was found to be erratic, possibly\ndue to the high content of water and pitch in the twigs. As the work proceeded, balsam\nwas used as seldom as possible. Some of the variation might be eliminated by air-drying\nbalsam samples to constant weight prior to analysis.\nThe results of the survey are illustrated by Figure 5. Areas enclosed by heavy\ndotted lines in which all samples of spruce and hemlock and most samples of balsam\ncontained over 100 parts per million zinc are considered to be anomalous. The average\nzinc content of spruce and hemlock in four general areas is given in the following table.\nArea A is the large anomaly over the main workings. Area B is the remainder of the\narea sampled in the vicinity of the main workings, excluding the small anomalies. The\nnorthern limit of Area B is taken arbitrarily at the line of samples 800 feet north of the\nshaft. Area C extends northerly from Area B and straddles the first group of open-cuts\non the \" north showings,\" where sparse zinc mineralization is exposed. Area D is near\nthe camp, exclusive of possible anomalous areas.\nArea A\nAreaB\nAreaC\nAreaD\nNumber\nAv.\nZinc\nRange\nP.P.M.\nNumber\nAv.\nZinc\nRange\nP.P.M.\nNumber\nAV.\nZinc\nRange\nP.P.M.\nNumber\nAv.\nZinc\nRange\nP.P.M.\nSpruce\t\nHemlock\t\n12\n21\n135\n135\n105-200\n106-188\n36\n53\n78\n64\n54-96\n27-98\n7\n101\n67\n54\n57-91\n29-76\n20\n8\n70\n58\n54-92\n41-90\nThere is a distinct and abrupt increase in zinc content of nearly 100 per cent at the\nboundary of the main anomalous Area A. The average normal values for both species\nin Area B are about 11 per cent higher than in Area D and about 18 per cent higher\nthan in Area C. Hence there appears to be a slight increase in zirtc content as the main\nanomalous area is approached, but this can be detected only by taking a large number of\nsamples. In Areas B, C, and D the average zinc content of spruce is higher than that\nof hemlock and the range of zinc content in the spruce is somewhat less.\nThe main anomaly appears to be related in position to underlying zinc mineralization. Its peculiar shape is ascribed to overlapping due to lateral diffusion of zinc from\nclosely spaced, subparallel mineralized zones. The open-cuts to the south and north of\nthe limits of the anomaly are either unmineralized or only sparsely mineralized. Three\nsmaller anomalies near the main anomaly may have some significance, but they should\nbe checked by more closely spaced samples.\nThe area between the main workings and the \" north showings \" contains no zinc\nanomalies. The two isolated high values are of little significance.\nThe anomalous values found near the camp may have some significance. The time\navailable was not sufficient to delimit anomalous areas. However, as there appear to be\nno lithological nor structural reasons for the restriction of mineral deposits to any particular part of this general area, the anomalous values found near the camp might well\nbear further investigation. Fig.5. Zinc content of trees-Mastodon Group METAL-MINING (LODE) A 167\nSKAGIT RIVER (49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E.)*\nCopper\nCompany office, 571 Howe Street, Vancouver. J. W. Heffernan,\nA.M. (Canam president. This group, consisting of eight Crown-granted mineral\nMining Corpora- claims, is about 7 miles by truck-road southerly from Mile 30 on\ntion Limited) the Hope-Princeton Highway. From No. 6 level, the lowest level,\nat about 5,500 feet elevation, a diamond-drill hole about 250 feet\nlong was drilled to trace the downward extension of the main showing below the level.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 210-213.]\nThis group of claims is on the north side of Shawatum Creek and\nGold Coin about 3 miles from Mile 23 on the Decca-Walton logging-road.\nDon McPherson, of Yerington, Nev., optioned this group from\nCharles J. Howlett. The old pack-trail was rehabilitated and several hundred feet of\ndiamond drilling was done to explore the downward extension of a series of narrow veins\nthat outcrop in bluffs just north and above an old cabin on Shawatum Creek.\n[References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1929, pp. 241, 242; 1938, pp.\nF19,F20.]\nCHEAM RANGE (49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W.)*\nCopper\nHead office, 511 Credit Foncier Building, Vancouver; mine office,\nLucky Four (Rico Laidlaw. W. J. Asselstine, president. This company has agree-\nCopper Mines ments under which it may acquire title to the Lucky Four group\nLimited) of six Crown-granted mineral claims. The company also owns five\nCrown-granted mineral claims and fractions adjoining or close to\nthe Lucky Four group and holds sixty-six claims in the surrounding area. A. Teed was\nin charge of work on the property.\nDuring 1950 surface exploration, diamond drilling, and a small amount of underground development were done to explore the main surface showing and to prospect for\nits downward extension. Diamond drilling amounted to 1,905 feet in twenty-four holes.\nMost of the holes were drilled from the base of the bluff on which the main showing is\nexposed. Three holes were drilled at another showing a little to the south, and some\nexploratory holes were drilled northwest of the main showing. Underground development\nconsisted of 93 feet of tunnelling and 18 feet of crosscutting. This tunnel was driven\nfrom a point near the northwest corner of the Lucky Four No. 4, nearly 300 feet below\nthe main showing.\nA permanent camp, suitable for housing five men, was built on the crest of the ridge\nnear the main showing at an elevation of 6,220 feet. Equipment and supplies for camp,\nbuilding, diamond drilling, and mining, making a total weight of 42.5 tons, were flown to\nthe camp in 309 helicopter trips.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, pp. 214-216.]\nPITT LAKE (49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W.)*\nGold-Silver\nThe Standard group of claims is held by E. A. Richardson and Don\nStandard McDonald, of Pitt Meadows, and W. A. Thompson, of Vancouver.\nThis group of claims is on the west shore of Pitt Lake, nearly 15\nmiles above the mouth of Pitt River. In June, 1950, an adit 204 feet long was driven\nwesterly to explore the downward extension of two narrow veins in quartz diorite on\nwhich a shallow shaft had previously been sunk. This adit is nearly 500 feet above Pitt\nLake and 100 feet below the shaft. A low angle thrust fault was cut in the adit where the\nprojected trace of the veins should occur. At 130 feet from the portal a raise was driven\n* By R. B. King. A 168\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nabove the fault in the same direction as the adit. It is reported that veins which appeared\nto be the same as those in the outcrop were located in this raise.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann Rept., 1947, p. 179.]\nCopper-Zinc\nHOWE SOUND (49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.E.):\nHead office, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.; mine office, Britannia Beach. H. H. Sharpe, president; E. C. Roper, manager;\nT. M. Waterland, mine superintendent. This company owns and\noperates Britannia mine and mill at Britannia Beach. The following data, supplied by the management, give details of the operation\nin 1950. The development work totalled 11,019 feet for all sections of the mine and was\nmade up as follows:\u2014\nBritannia Mining\nand Smelting Co.\nLimited\nNo. 8\nMine\nBluff\nMine\nJane\nMine\nFairview\nMine\nNo. 5\nMine\nVictoria\nMine\nTotal\nDrifts\nFeet\n1,706\n277\n1,003\nFeet\n813\n220\n1,819\n48\n126\nFeet\n10\nFeet\n1,321\n326\n2,609\n38\n247\nFeet\n\"~26\n151\nFeet\n279\nFeet\n3,840\n849\n5,871\n86\n373\nTntflls\n2,986\n3,026\n10\n4,541\n177\n279\n11,019\nDiamond drilling for core and for blast-hole mining totalled 45,801 feet and was\nmade up as follows:\u2014\nNo. 8\nMine\nBluff\nMine\nJane\nMine\nFairview\nMine\nNo. 5\nMine\nVictoria\nMine\nMiscellaneous\nTotal\nFeet\n8,667\nFeet\n1,691\n2,529\nFeet\nFeet\n4,108\n26,686\nFeet\n1,070\nFeet\nFeet\n874\n176\nFeet\n15,340\nBlast-hole drilling\t\n30,461\nTotals\t\n8,667\n4,220\n\t\n30,794\n1,070\n\t\n1,050\n45,801\nOre was broken in the various sections of the mine by different mining methods, as\nfollows:\u2014\nShrinkage\nCut and\nFill\nPowder-\nblast and\nCave\nBlast-hole\nand\nDiamond\nDrilling\nOpen\nSq. Set\nSq. Set\nand Fill\nTotal\nTons\n60,478\n136,699\n62,440\n17,508\n8,794\nTons\n36,741\nTons\n103,142\n1,873\nTons\nTons\n1,161\nTons\n28,534\nTons\n126,914\n479,320\nBluff mine .\t\n239,079\n147,099\n5,113\nFairview mine . ..\n\"37953\n1,038\n211,412\nNo. 5 mine .\t\n18,194\n26,574\n9,094\n37,120\nTotals \t\n285,919\n54,935\n105,015\n391,691\n10,255\n33,525\n881,340\n11,636\nDevelopment \t\nTntiil\n\t\n\t\n892,976\nExplosives and blasting accessories used are as follows: Powder, 18,131 cases;\nelectric blasting-caps, 8,439; No. 6 blasting-caps, 277,775; safety fuse, 2,200,570 feet;\nprimacord, 16,100 feet.\n* By R. B. King. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 169\nVentilation and dust-control work has been carried on throughout the year under\na full-time ventilation engineer. Aluminium dust has been dispersed regularly in all\nchange-rooms.\nThe undercutting of stopes by the application of long-hole drilling methods has been\ndone more extensively than ever during the past year.\nThe safety department has carried on with its job-safety training programme. An\ninnovation to this came when the principles of this programme were introduced in\nunderground-safety meetings.\nThe Management-Labour Accident-prevention Committee functioned regularly\nthroughout the year.\nThe annual competition for the Department of Mines cup was held at the Townsite\non April 28th. The winner of this event competed for the Howe Sound Trophy, which\nwas sponsored by the British Columbia St. John Ambulance Association. This competition was held at Woodfibre.\nThe Britannia 1950 safety records show that compensable injuries occurred at the\nrate of 0.859 per 1,000 shifts worked, as compared with 0.75 per 1,000 shifts worked in\n1949. The severity rate was 39.7 per 1,000 shifts worked, as compared with 18.1 for\n1949. No fatalities occurred during the year.\nThe total number of men on the mine payroll at the year-end was 567, as compared\nwith 543 at the beginning of the year. The total number of shifts worked in the mining\ndepartment during 1950 was 144,225.\nThe total production of all mines during 1950 was 892,976 tons, as compared to\n910,994 tons in 1949.\nProduction: Ore milled, 858,698 tons. Gross content of copper concentrates and\nprecipitates, and of zinc concentrates: Gold, 13,422 oz.; silver, 95,407 oz.; copper,\n14,858,347 lb.; lead, 1,259,167 lb.; zinc, 21,997,209 lb.; cadmium, 108,286 lb.\nCopper concentrates and precipitates amounting to 28,976 tons were shipped to the\nTacoma smelter. Zinc concentrates amounting to 22,025 tons were shipped to the Trail\nsmelter. Pyrite concentrates amounting to 22,238 tons were produced. Sales in British\nColumbia amounted to almost 10,000 tons, exports to Mexico amounted to about 3,000\ntons, and the remainder was stockpiled at Britannia Beach.\nHead office, Room 72, 615 Hastings Street West, Vancouver; mine\nMcVicar (Surf Inlet office, Squamish. Angus McLeod, superintendent. This company\nConsolidated Gold controls forty-three claims on Raffuse Creek. The property,\nMines Limited) reached from Squamish by 5 miles of truck-road and nearly 4 miles\nof pack-trail, lies at elevations ranging from 2,800 to 4,750 feet.\nClaims on Upper Raffuse Creek were recorded in 1923. In the Annual Report of the\nBritish Columbia Minister of Mines for 1937 B. T. O'Grady described sulphide mineralization in sheared greenstone that had been explored by trenching and by diamond drilling.\nThe mineralization described and the assays of samples taken by O'Grady indicate the\npresence of copper and zinc with low silver and gold content and, locally, the presence\nof lead.\nIn 1950 surface prospecting and rock trenching were carried out on the Mamquam,\nRose, and Rainstorm claims.\nDiamond drilling, totalling 2,498 feet in seventeen holes, was done on the Rainstorm\nclaim.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1937, pp. F 20-F 25.] A 170 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nPENDER HARBOUR*\nCopper\n(49 \u00b0 123 \u00b0 N.W.) The Cambrian Chieftain group, in the Vancou-\nCambrian ver Mining Division, consists of eight full claims and one fractional\nChieftain claim; they are the Cambrian Chieftain, Silurian Chieftain, Little\nChieftain, Canyon Chieftain, Mountain View, Gold No. 1, Gold\nNo. 2, Tyee, and the Pine Cone Fraction. The property is 3lA miles in a direction north\n24 degrees east from the head of Pender Harbour, which latter point is 46 miles northwesterly from Vancouver.\nThe present owners are John Cline and associates who, in the spring of 1949, formed\nthe Caron Mining Co. Ltd. with the intention of thoroughly exploring the possibilities of\nthe Cambrian Chieftain group. Largely due to the energy and enterprise of Mr. Cline, a\ngood road now leads up the steep, rocky western slope of the Caren Range to the property.\nBranching eastward from the Gibsons-Pender Harbour road at the settlement of Klein-\ndale, this road winds its way upward for 5.6 miles to the camp on the property. Grades\nreach 25 per cent in three or four places, but the road is not difficult for four-wheel-drive\nvehicles.\nThe Caron Mining Co. Ltd. is capitalized at 100,000 shares, $1 par value. At the\ntime of writing, only four shares had been issued.\nThe examination of the Cambrian Chieftain group occupied two weeks.\nCopper ore was discovered in 1934, on what later became the Cambrian Chieftain\nclaim, by Fred Klein, brother of John Cline. Subsequently, a limited amount of surface\nwork was done, and in November, 1935, three diamond-drill holes, aggregating 140 feet\nin length, were put down to test the best showing. These holes were located by N. E.\nNelson, a former geologist of The Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power\nCompany Limited. The location of these holes is shown on Figure 6.\nIn the summer of 1937 the property was optioned to Sheep Creek Gold Mines\nLimited. This company drove two tunnels, the upper of which, 45 feet long, partially\nexplored the main showing. The lower tunnel is 225 feet to the north and was driven 46\nfeet to test a separate showing.\nIn 1940 the Cambrian Chieftain group was optioned to the Alaska-Pacific Mining\nCo. Ltd. of Seattle. This company drove a tunnel 210 feet long and did a total of 1,204\nfeet of diamond drilling in four holes. Neither the tunnel nor the drilling was sufficiently\nclose to the main showing to indicate the extent of the ore at that point.\nThe tunnel and No. 1 diamond-drill hole run easterly in the section 100 to 200 feet\nsouth of the southern boundary of Figure 6. The tunnel was started about 275 feet\nsouthwesterly from the southwest corner of Figure 6. None of the core from any of the\ndrill holes is available to-day.\nWork was resumed on the property in the spring of 1949 with the formation of the\nCaron Mining Co. Ltd. Attention was confined to the main showing, and in November,\n1949, a shipment of ore was made to the smelter in Tacoma, Wash. An additional shipment was made in the latter part of 1950. The data for these shipments are: 1949, ore\nshipped, 266 tons. Gross content: Gold, 15 oz.; silver, 2,032 oz.; copper, 74,284 lb.\n1950, ore shipped, 244 tons. Gross content: Gold, 9 oz.; silver, 1,334 oz.; copper,\n55,303 lb.\nThe claims are near the top of the steep western slope of the Caren Range at a\ngeneral elevation of 3,200 feet. In the vicinity of the main showings much of the timber\nhas been burned off and the bedrock geology is reasonably well exposed. On the flatter,\nmore easterly claims, however, there are still good stands of hemlock with minor red\ncedar, yellow cedar, fir, pine, and larch, and outcrops are scarce.\n* By W. R. Bacon. )\nLEGEND\nE\nI , I\nOVERBURDEN\nMETADIORITE (RECRYSTALLIZED BASIC VOLCANICS)\nTHIN-BEDDED LIMESTONE\nDOLOMITIC LIMESTONE\nJ GARNET-EPIDOTE ROCK\nCHERTY SEDIMENTS\nCOPPER MINERALIZATION\nN\nAP\nANDESITE DYKE\nOUTCROP BOUNDARY\nDIAMOND-DRILL HOLE BY NELSON\nDIAMOND-DRILL HOLE BY ALASKA PACIFIC\n;;.?$ SPARSE COPPER MINERALIZATION\nDEFINED\n assumed\"geological BOUNDARY\n\u2014Q SAMPLE NUMBERAND LOCATION\nFIG.6- CAMBRIAN C H IEF TA I N - SU R FACE GEOLOGY, D IA M ON D-\nDRILL HOLES, AND WORKINGS ON MAIN SHOWINGS- METAL-MINING (LODE) A 171\nAt present a year-round water supply is not readily available. If the necessity arises,\nhowever, it should be possible to obtain water from one of several small lakes above and\nabout a mile to the east and southeast of the main showing.\nThe Cambrian Chieftain is in the northwestern portion of a shallow pendant surrounded by the granitic rocks of the Coast Range. Although the pendant area has not\nbeen completely outlined, a reasonable estimate of its size would not be in excess of 12\nsquare miles.\nRocks of volcanic origin comprise at least 95 per cent of the pendant area. They\nconsist mainly of intermediate and basic flows, with minor amounts of pyroclastic material.\nWith the exception of tuffs, these rocks are generally massive. Regional metamorphism\nhas been responsible for induration, some chloritization and epidotization, and, in places,\nrecrystallization of basic volcanics to metadiorite. The latter rock varies greatly in texture\nand composition and could hardly be confused with a normal igneous rock.\nThin-bedded limestone, impure chert, and dolomitic limestone are found in lenticular\nmasses along certain horizons in the volcanic assemblage.\nThe prevailing strike of the rocks forming the pendant is due north, and steep to\nvertical dips are most common. Some rather close folding is indicated in a number of\nthe sedimentary exposures, but nowhere has schistosity been developed to any extent.\nIn spite of the steep dips found in the older rocks, it is doubtful if these rocks attain\ndepths greater than 1,000 feet. The outline of the contact between the pendant rock and\nthe enclosing granitic rocks is highly irregular, and islands of the latter rocks are found\nmore than a quarter of a mile within the boundaries of the pendant.\nThe rocks in the vicinity of the main showings (Fig. 6) are metadiorite, basalt, limestone, dolomitic limestone, and cherty sediments. Intersecting all these types are narrow,\nfine-grained andesitic dykes and wider diorite porphyry dykes. Several of the porphyry\ndykes are just south of the area represented in Figure 6, but none are within the boundaries\nof the figure.\nThe metadiorite occurs in the western part of the area represented in Figure 6.\nAlthough most of this rock is recrystallized, some relict tuffaceous banding was noted near\nits eastern boundary. The texture of this rock varies considerably, as does the amount of\nhornblende present. The metadiorite is epidotized and, to a lesser extent, chloritized;\nlocally, silicification is prominent. Pyrite is fairly common in patches and stringers, but\nchalcopyrite was seen only as a few specks at one or two places.\nBasalt is well exposed on a knoll to the southeast of the showings. It is dark, finegrained, massive, and unaltered, except along its western border. Here the rock is well\nsilicified over a distance of 25 feet, and fine pyrite is common in small patches.\nThin-bedded limestone is exposed in several outcrops adjacent to the main copper\nshowings. Although recrystallization is general throughout most of the rock, indications\nof bedding have not been completely obliterated.\nTo the east and south of the copper showings lies a body of dolomitic limestone.\nBedding is rather obscure throughout most of the body. Its minimum indicated length\nis 1,020 feet, and its average width is approximately 100 feet. The magnesia (MgO)\ncontent of nine grab samples taken from this body of dolomitic limestone averaged 19.8\nper cent. Pure dolomite contains 21.86 per cent magnesia. The assays of the samples\nranged from 18.8 per cent to 21.1 per cent magnesia.\nSmall outcrops of impure chert occur, mainly along the eastern border of the\nmetadiorite.\nThe trend of the stratified rocks is due north, and the dip is vertical to steeply\neastward. Both the andesite dykes and the diorite porphyry dykes that cut these rocks\nstrike south 40 degrees east to due east and dip vertically or nearly so.\nThe locus of the best ore found to date is a minor dragfold in the thin-bedded limestone exposed on the south wall of the upper Sheep Creek tunnel. The plunge of this\ndragfold is southerly, but more work is required to establish the angle of plunge. A 172\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nParts of the thin-bedded limestone have been converted to rock rich in garnet and\nepidote. Subsequent to this alteration, fracturing has occurred, and in these fractures\nvarying amounts of magnetite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and blackish marmatitic sphalerite\nhave been deposited.\nNon-metallic gangue minerals other than garnet and epidote are rare. Small patches\nof coarse calcite and a very little actinolite were noted in a few places.\nMinerals of secondary origin are fairly common. A little malachite was found in\nmost of the mineralized outcrops, and films of chalcocite and covellite were noted along\nsome of the stronger fractures in the Upper Sheep Creek tunnel.\nLeaching has been controlled by the fractures and is highly irregular. All the\nmineralized outcrops show some effects of leaching, but nowhere has the process been\ncomplete. Limonite derived from pyrite and chalcopyrite is common.\nIn and near the main workings twenty-five channel samples were taken of the sulphide\nmineralization. Because of the irregular occurrence of the sulphides and the fact that\nmost of the samples were taken across partially leached material, the assay results must\nbe considered as only a rough guide to the tenor of the ore.\nSAMPLES OF SULPHIDE MINERALIZATION\nSample No.\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\nCopper\nZinc.\n1_\n2\u201e\n3.\n4..\n5..\n6\n7_\n8..\n9.\n10\n111\n12_\n13..\n14.\n15.\n16.\n17...\n18_\n19-\n20.\n21-\n22-\n23...\n24...\n25...\nFeet\n3.0\n1.0\n1.0\n3.0\n3.3\n5.0\n3.4\n5.0\n5.0\n(2)\n3.0\n1.0\n5.0\n5.0\n2.0\n5.0\n3.0\n1.3\n1.0\n1.1\n2.0\n2.3\n1.0\n0.5\n1.3\nOz. per Ton\nOz. per Ton\nTrace\n0.3\nNil\nNil\nNil\nNil\n0.01\n6.1\nTrace\n5.4\n0.02\n4.7\n0.01\n2.5\nTrace\n1.3\nNil\n1.8\n0.04\n6.6\nTrace\n5.3\nTrace\n2.1\nTrace\n3.1\nTrace\n3.1\nTrace\n3.7\n0.01\n5.9\n0.01\n3.9\n0.01\n5.6\n0.02\n6.7\n0.01\n10.3\n0.01\n14.2\n0.02\n13.0\nTrace\n8.2\n0.01\n14.0\nNil\nNil\nPer Cent\n0.5\nTrace\nTrace\n5.4\n2.4\n13.6\n6.9\n4.0\n5.0\n16.8\n12.2\n13.7\n9.4\n6.2\n8.0\n17'. 1\n12.5\n8.5\n7.7\n26.4\n34.1\n30.6\n16.9\n27.7\n(1)\nPer Cent\nTrace\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nNil\n0.7\nC1)\nC1)\nC1)\n0.8\nNil\nC1)\n0.5\nNil\nNil\n(*\u2022)\n(*)\n0.7\n0.3\n0.5\n0.4\nC1)\n1.2\nNil\nNil\n1 Indicates greater than a trace but less than 0.3 per cent.\n2 Muck (grab).\n(50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E.) Britain River flows southeasterly into Jervis\nBritain River Inlet at the junction of Prince of Wales Reach and Princess Royal\nReach. In the rugged country around Mount Diadem, 3V4 miles\nwest of the mouth of Britain River, prospecting has been carried on intermittently for\nmany years. First official reference to this area appeared in the Annual Report of the\nBritish Columbia Minister of Mines, 1927, pages 365 and 366, wherein is given a short\ndescription of the Red Mountain group. Brief reports on the holdings of Mount Diadem\nMines Limited and Britain River Mining Company Limited were included in the Annual\nReports of the British Columbia Minister of Mines for 1928 and 1929.\nIn the summer of 1947 forty-four mineral claims were staked immediately northwest\nof Mount Diadem by the International Nickel Mining Company of Canada Limited.\nSubsequently, in June, 1949, four additional claims were staked by the same company, -^\u2014^\u2014\nMETAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 173\nmaking a total of forty-eight claims in one block. At the present time these claims are\nunder option to Bralorne Mines Limited. Some prospecting has been carried on by the\nlatter company.\nBralorne Mines Limited has built a cabin near the head of No Man's Creek at an\napproximate elevation of 2,250 feet. This cabin is reached from the mouth of Britain\nRiver by 22\/4 miles of logging road up the western bank of the river, thence by 3V4 miles\nof trail up the north slope of No Man's Creek. This creek empties into Britain River\nfrom the west. The precipitous nature of the trail precludes the use of animals, and all\nsupplies must be taken in by back-packing.\nThe claims lie in typical rugged Coast Range terrain straddling the divide between\nwaters flowing south into Khartoum Lake and those flowing east into Britain River. The\ntopography has been considerably modified by glaciation, and small permanent snowfields\noccur at higher altitudes.\nMount Diadem viewed from the Bralorne cabin, Britain River area.\nOutcrops are plentiful. Cliffs are a common feature. The northern and western\nsides of Mount Diadem (elevation 6,050 feet) fall away in exceedingly steep drops for\n2,500 feet. Rock slides occur almost daily. On both slopes of the divide small streams\ncascade down precipitous rock slopes. Small stands of yellow cedar, larch, fir, and pine\nare present on the lower claims.\nAll the mineralized showings lie in or adjacent to a belt of older stratified rocks\nengulfed in the granitic rocks of the Coast Range. In the vicinity of the claims this belt\nhas a true width of just over 1 mile (Fig. 7).\nThe rock types comprising this belt are predominantly of sedimentary origin. Thin-\nbedded argillites make up about 85 per cent and impure sandy beds about 15 per cent A 174\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nALES\n7\n\u2022t\nN > N \" >\n60\nO\nPi\na\n'3\nPQ\nE METAL-MINING (LODE) A 175\nof these sediments. A 4-inch band of conglomerate was noted near the western border\nof the belt.\nAt the head of No Man's Creek is a small area of basic flows and interbedded tuffs.\nThe flows show evidence of partial recrystallization.\nThe attitude of the sediments is clearly exhibited in innumerable exposures. The\nbeds strike north 15 degrees west, parallel to the borders of the belt, and dip vertically\nto steeply eastward, except at their western contact with the granitic rocks, where dips as\nlow as 40 to 50 degrees eastward were noted. Attitudes in the volcanics, where obtainable, are conformable with those found in the sediments.\nIn a few sedimentary exposures, close dragfolding on a minor scale was noted, and\nit is possible that the sediments are tightly folded isoclinally. The present examination,\nhowever, yielded nothing of a positive nature to substantiate such a conclusion.\nThe degree of metamorphism in the sediments is remarkably low. Only locally has\nanything approaching a slate been developed, and nowhere were schists observed.\nFine-grained to medium-grained sills of intermediate composition are common\nthroughout the stratified rocks.\nWithout doubt, prospectors were first attracted to the Britain River area by the reddish appearance of the mountains, some of which can be seen from Prince of Wales Reach.\nSubsequently, it is probable that the base-metal float in No Man's Creek and across the\ndivide in the upper reaches of the Lois River led to the discovery of the known lodes. The\nonly known base-metal showings are those which were found years ago. Although the\narea holds some promise, no lode of economic proportions has, as yet, been uncovered.\nImmediately above the head of No Man's Creek, at an approximate elevation of\n2,950 feet, there is an old working which will be called the Mount Diadem adit (Fig. 7)\nfor purposes of identification. Here a crosscut is collared at the contact of the volcanics\nwith granitic rock. The crosscut penetrates the silicified, recrystallized volcanics for a\ndistance of 65 feet on a bearing of south 18 degrees west. At a distance of 40 feet from\nthe collar a 2-foot shear was intersected which strikes south 70 degrees east and dips 65\ndegrees to the north. This shear was followed to the west by a drift 25 feet long in which\npods of mineralization were encountered. The mineralization consists of galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and a very little chalcopyrite. This is the only known base-metal showing\nin the volcanics.\nIn the sediments, base-metal mineralization similar to that found in the Mount\nDiadem adit has been disclosed at four points. The mineralization has replaced certain\nbeds locally.\nOn claim X 5, at an elevation of approximately 2,750 feet, a 30-foot adit has been\ndriven in a north 3 degrees west direction along the east wall of a sparsely mineralized\nzone. Although limonite is splashed over a width of 15 feet, the zone is essentially unmineralized, except in the drift where pods of sphalerite, some galena, and minor amounts\nof pyrite and chalcopyrite occur.\nWhat is probably the same zone is exposed in a small open-cut 250 feet to the north\nand 200 feet above the adit. Here mineralization occurs across a width of 2 feet.\nOn claim X 25, at an approximate elevation of 3,950 feet, a 12-foot adit has been\ndriven in a south 30 degrees west direction and exposes 2Vi feet of high-grade zinc\nmineralization and minor amounts of galena and chalcopyrite. The beds are contorted\nlocally, and some shearing has developed.\nA large open-cut, 200 feet south of this adit at an approximate elevation of 3,820\nfeet, exposes another zone of mineralization 19 feet wide. In the eastern 14 feet of this\nzone the mineralization is mainly pyritic, but in the western 5 feet some patches of chalcopyrite occur, and for 4 to 5 inches along the western border sphalerite is found. Galena\nis present in very minor amounts. Along the eastern border of this zone some minor drag-\nfolding was observed. Continuity of this zone to the south is obscured first by the dump A 176\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nOPEN CUT\nMINERAL ABSENT\nSCALE\n100\n200\n3 FEET\n\u00a9\u25a0\n4\nrr\nO\nz\nr-*\n<\n>-__T_--*TO CAMP\nLEGEND\nVEIN\nVOLCANICS\nn GRANODIORITE\nSTREAM\n\u20220-- TRAVERSE ROUTE\nAAWV SHEAR\n\u2014 TRAIL\n'10) SAMPLE NUMBER\nFig. 8. Britain River\u2014plan of upper quartz vein. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 177\nand then by overburden. To the north, however, there is much outcrop along strike and\nvery little sign of mineralization.\nThe view of the writer is that the best locus for prospecting in the predominantly\nargillaceous sediments is between the upper and lower open-cuts. A line joining these\ntwo workings closely approximates in bearing the strike of the sediments, and some useful\nprospecting could be done along this line.\nA report, made available to the writer, mentions a massive pyrrhotite exposure, 18\nfeet wide, southeast of the adit on claim X 5. Although this showing undoubtedly exists,\na one-day search by the writer failed to reveal its location.\nTwo narrow quartz veins were examined near the head of No Man's Creek (Fig. 7).\nThe lower showing is at an approximate elevation of 2,900 feet. Here a creek has exposed\nthe volcanic bedrock, revealing a quartz vein 3 inches wide for a length of 32 feet. This\nvein strikes north 30 degrees east and has a northward dip of 50 degrees. Continuity to\nthe northeast and southwest is obscured by overburden. The vein material is mainly\nquartz, slightly rusty, and contains minute amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrite. A composite sample of the vein material assayed: Gold, nil; silver, 1.5 oz. per ton.\nThe narrow shear containing the upper quartz vein is at a general elevation of 3,600\nfeet (Fig. 8). It has a vertical dip and can be traced along strike, north 40 degrees east,\nfor over 800 feet. For the greater part of this distance the shear traverses various members\nof the volcanic assemblage, but at its northeastern end it persists in granitic rock for over\n100 feet. The northwestern wall of the shear is slickensided at a number of points, and\na minor amount of gouge has developed.\nThis shear is well exposed in six small stream beds and in the granitic cliffs at its\nnortheastern extremity. It does not exceed 9 inches in width and averages AVz inches.\nIt is generally quartz-filled, although in one stream-bed exposure quartz is absent.\nMetallic mineralization is sparse and irregular, consisting of pyrite, arsenopyrite, and\nchalcopyrite. A few specks of free gold were noted.\nIt should be emphasized that none of the mineralization described above exhibits\nanything of a contact metamorphic nature. Whereas the belt of older rocks is only\nslightly over a mile wide where examined, it is the writer's opinion that these rocks occupy\na deep trough in the granitic rocks of the Coast Range and probably persist downward\nfor several thousands of feet.\nAssays of samples taken in the workings are given in the tables below.\nSAMPLES OF BASE-METAL SHOWINGS\nSample\nNo.\nLocation\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\nCopper\nLead\nZinc\nRemarks\nLower adit-\nLower open-cut.\nMount Diadem adit.\nMount Diadem adit.\nUpper adit\t\nUpper open-cut._\t\nUpper open-cut\t\nUpper open-cut\t\nUpper open-cut\t\nFt. In.\n2 ..\n2 ..\n2 ..\n2 6\n5 ..\n5 _\n4 _\n5 _\nOz. per\nTon\n0.01\nTrace\nNil\n0.01\n0.01\nNil\n0.01\n0.01\n0.01\nOz. per\nTon\n1.8\n5.5\n3.2\n3.6\n8.9\nTrace\n0.1\n6.5\n11.6\nPer Cent\n(l)\n3.5\nTrace\nO)\n2.0\nTrace\nC1)\n1.6\nPer Cent\n2.7\nC1)\n4.9\n1.8\n0.6\nTrace\nTrace\nC1)\n1.1\nPer Cent\n18.6\n6.9\n2.9\n5.0\n27.5\n0.2\n1.6\n0.3\n6.0\nDump grab.\nChannel sample.\nChannel sample.\nChannel sample.\nChannel sample.\nChannel\u2014east wall.\nChannel\u2014east wall.\nChannel\u2014east wall.\nChannel\u2014west wall.\nindicates less than 0.3 per cent.\nSAMPLES FROM UPPER QUARTZ VEIN\nSample No.\nWidth\nGold\nSample No.\nWidth\nGold\n10 \t\nInches\n7\n2\n1\n2\n5\nOz. per Ton\nNil\n0.42\n5.77\n1.62\n1.68\n15 ..\n16 \t\n17 ... . . \t\nInches\n8\n8\n8\n9\nOz. per Ton\n0.20\n11\n0.02\n1?\n0.01\n13 - -\n18\n0.01\n14..\t A 178\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nGold-Copper\nTEXADA ISLAND (49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W.)*\nLittle Billie\n(Vananda Mines\n(1948) Limited)\nCompany office, 640 Pender Street West, Vancouver; mine office,\nVananda. A. E. Jukes, president; W. B. Tobey, manager. The\nLittle Billie mine is almost half a mile southeast of Vananda on\nthe east shore of Texada Island. In April, 1950, W. B. Tobey\nwas appointed manager. The workings consist of a shaft 620 feet\ndeep serving six levels spaced at irregular intervals. The levels are driven southerly to\nexplore an irregular limestone-diorite contact. Orebodies are mined by shrinkage\nstoping.\nThe following data, supplied by the management, give details of the operation during\n1950:\u2014\nDevelopment Advance\nNo. 5 Sublevel\nNo. 5 Level\nNo. 6 Level\nDrifting and crosscutting .\nRaising \u201e \t\nFeet\n292\nFeet\n13\nFeet\n182\n1751\nNo. 20 Orebody\nNo. 30 Orebody\nNo. 50 Orebody\nTotal\nStoping \t\nDevelopment ore. \t\nTons\n3,823\nTons\n3,960\nTons\n6,337\nTons\n14,120\n841\nTotal ore broken\t\n\t\n14,961\nGross content:\nJIn No. 20 orebody.\nProduction: Ore shipped, 10,010 tons; ore stockpiled, 300 tons.\nGold, 1,719 oz.; silver, 5,285 oz.; copper, 285,535 lb.\nTwo claims, Gordon and William, on the east shore of Texada\nGordon and William Island, about 10 miles northwesterly of Anderson Bay, were\nlocated in June, 1950, by David William Cochran, of Pender\nHarbour. Access to these claims is easiest by boat, but they may also be reached by\nroad and foot-trail from Vananda.\nThe geology of Texada Island is discussed by R. G. McConnell in Memoir 58 of the\nGeological Survey of Canada.\nThe consolidated rocks in the area are chiefly the Texada formation and quartz\ndiorite. No exposure of the contact between these two types of rock was found.\nThe Texada formation is represented by fine-grained grey-green andesite that\nappears porphyritic on the weathered surface. Although definite flow structures were\nnot found in the rocks on the claims, pillow structures and flow tops were located nearly\na mile southeast. The \" pillows \" did not appear to be overturned. The flow tops strike\nnorth 80 degrees east and dip 76 degrees southward.\nThe andesite flows are generally massive with strong straight joints. Neither\nschistosity nor shearing was seen on the claims, but to the southeast, fault zones and\nshearing were found. The strike of the faults is nearly northeast, and the dip vertical to\n80 degrees southeast. Two sets of shear planes occurred, one dipping 30 degrees northwest and the other 60 degrees northwest. These zones were about 20 to 30 feet wide.\nThe main intrusive rock, quartz diorite, appears to have at least two phases, one\nwhite and the other pink. Several acidic dykes, a few inches wide, were seen, and to the\nsoutheast along the logging-road a narrow pink dyke with pegmatitic characteristics was\nfound.\n* By R. B. King. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 179\nGEOR,\nC*H LOGGING CO\n-_CAMp 4000'\nL\u00a30C_INC_ROAD\nN0.3\nSHOWING\n^Q'4\n\/s.e.showing',\nDIORITE\nAppBOX.__\nANDESITE\n7\\<2)\nGORDON\nCLAIM\n500\nSCALE\n500\nSH FEET\nPlan of part ofGordon and William claims\nSample\nNo.\nLocation\nWidth\nGold\nSilver\nCopper\n1\n2\nNo. 3 Vein\nChip sample taken in pit \u2014\t\nSoutheast Showing\nInches\n12\n8\n6\n14\n14\nOz. per Ton\n0.56\n0.39\n0.03\n0.07\n0.22\nOz. per Ton\nNil\nNil\n0.5\n2.8\n1.0\nPer Cent\n3\n4\n5\nMain Showing\nPit 110 feet south from No. 1 post of Gordon claim\n20 feet east from No. 1 post of Gordon claim ....\nPit 30 feet north from No. 1 post of Gordon claim\n1.8\n5.1\n2.6 A 180 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThe three showings on the claims are: No. 3 on the west boundary of the William\nclaim; the main, lying in the centre; and the southeast, lying in the northeast corner of\nthe William. The positions of the showings are indicated in the plan on page 179, on\nwhich sample numbers are also indicated. Sample data and analyses are set forth in the\naccompanying table.\nThe No. 3 and the southeast showings are honeycombed quartz veins in quartz\ndiorite. Hand specimens picked from the surface contain no trace of mineralization\nother than quartz or limonite and some magnetite. No. 3 vein strikes north 50 degrees\neast and dips 85 to 89 degrees south.\nThe main vein, on which most of the work has been done, is in a creek near the\ncentre of the group and has been traced nearly 210 feet by rock trenches and stripping.\nThe vein is in a straight definite fracture that strikes north 22 degrees east and dips 66\ndegrees northwest between walls of andesite slightly mineralized with pyrite. The vein\nfilling is of quartz mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and secondary bornite.\nThe vein is mineralized irregularly. Some parts are well mineralized, such as that\nrepresented by Sample No. 4. Others, such as that represented by Sample No. 3, are\nonly slightly mineralized.\nVANCOUVER ISLAND*\nElk River (50\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E.)\nIron\nA diamond-drilling and prospecting programme was started in Sep-\nQuatsino Copper- tember, 1950. H. L. Hill, consulting engineer for this company,\nGold Mines Limited reports that nine diamond-drill holes totalling 1,070 feet were\ndrilled to explore a magnetite deposit and to prospect for copper\nmineralization along a limestone-greenstone contact.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1929, p. 379.]\nZeballos (50\u00b0 126\u00b0 N.W.)\nGold\nPrivateer Mine Limited.\u2014William Bowen and partners leased the surface dumps\nand mill of this company. Careful clean-up of the mill and pertinent buildings yielded\nsome concentrates which were shipped to the Royal Mint. Gross content: Gold, approximately 22 oz.\nDuncan (48\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W.)\nCopper-Zinc\nCompany office, Credit Foncier Building, Vancouver. C. Ruther-\nTwin J (Vancouver ford, manager; C. H. Hewat, mine superintendent. In October,\nIsland Base Metals 1950, the Twin J property on Mount Sicker, near Duncan, was\nLimited) reopened. General retimbering and cleaning up was done on the\n265- and 300-foot levels. On the 300-foot level 50 feet of drift\nwas driven toward the Richard III section and 60 feet of raise was driven to the 265-foot\nlevel. The average number of men employed was twenty.\nCopper\nJordan River (48\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E.)\nThese two adjacent properties are near the settlement of River\nSunloch and Jordan on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, 45 miles by\nGabbrof good highway from Victoria. Both were optioned in 1949 from\ntheir respective owners, The Consolidated Mining and Smelting\n* By R. B. King, except as noted.\nt By J. S. Stevenson. METAL-MINING (LODE) A 181\nCompany of Canada, Limited, and Gabbro Copper Mines Limited, by Hedley Mascot\nGold Mines Limited and are being developed as a single operation. The Sunloch property consists of thirty Crown-granted claims and the Gabbro, adjoining the Sunloch on\nthe west, consists of twenty-three Crown-granted claims. All these claims were located\nbetween 1915 and 1920. In 1949 Hedley Mascot located ten claims and a fraction\nadjoining the Gabbro claims on the west.\nAccess\nThe workings are reached by a branch road, 1 mile long, that leaves the Victoria\nhighway about half a mile east of River Jordan post office and extends to within a mile\nof the workings. From that point the grade for a railway track (24-inch gauge) leads\npast the Gabbro showings to the Sunloch showings and adits. The railway is now in\ndisrepair, but the grade makes a good trail and with a moderate amount of work could\nbe restored.\nDevelopment work on these properties includes numerous open-cuts and strippings,\nabout 3,800 feet of adits, and 14,000 feet of diamond-drilling. The River adit, elevation 609 feet, and the Cave adit, elevation 608 feet, on the east side of the river, and the\nCentre, elevation 549 feet across the river from them, are on the Sunloch Nos. 5 and 6\nclaims. There are on the Gabbro two short adits\u2014one, the Winkler, 83 feet long, at\nelevation 570 feet, on the Vulcan No. 2 claim adjacent to the old railway grade, and the\nother, the Hornet, 12 feet long, on the east bank of Sinn Fein Creek, about 100 feet\nnorthwesterly from the northwest corner of the Black Hornet claim.\nThe B.C. Electric Railway Company forebay at the end of the flume-line, at an\nelevation of 1,100 feet, about 550 feet above the principal Sunloch workings, covers\nabout 9 acres and is used to control the flow of water through the penstocks into the\npower-house at sea-level at the mouth of Jordan River. This power-house generates\nelectricity for the city of Victoria. A branch power-line from the power-house leads up\nthe hillside and, at its closest point, is half a mile east of the Sunloch adits.\nHistory\nThe discovery of copper on southern Vancouver Island dates back to 1863, when it\nwas found at East Sooke by Capt. Jeremiah Nagle. Little work was done on the discoveries until World War I, when, between 1915 and 1918, 1,940 tons of ore, yielding\n177,613 pounds of copper, is recorded as having been shipped from the two principal\nproperties, the Willow Grouse and Copper King at East Sooke. In 1915, at the beginning of this general period of copper activity at Sooke, George Winkler, now of Victoria,\nmade the first discovery of copper on the Sunloch at Jordan River. He was led to the\ndiscovery by finding chalcopyrite float on the beach near the mouth of the Jordan River.\nHe succeeded in tracing the float up the difficult canyon to its source in inconspicuous\noutcrops of the Cave and River zones, on the steep east wall of the canyon. Further\nprospecting by Mr. Winkler in subsequent years resulted in finding the several other\nmineralized zones both on the Sunloch and Gabbro properties.\nIn 1917 Winkler bonded the property to the Sunloch Mining Company, which built\nthe narrow-gauge railway, drilled the first diamond-drill holes, and did the first underground work.\nIn 1919 The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company acquired control of the\nSunloch Company and continued diamond drilling and underground work. Operations\nwere suspended in 1920. By that time the River, Centre, and Cave adits totalling\n3,776 feet had been driven, and holes amounting to 3,470 feet had been drilled on the\nSunloch property.* On the Gabbro property the Winkler adit and the Hornet adit had\nbeen driven by 1920, and surface exploration was done in the next few years.\n* Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1920, pp. 220, 221. A 182\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nHltiON\n10\no\nz\n<\no\n-J\no\n>\no\ni\no\ncd\n\u2022o\na\na\nO\n3\n00\n60\no\no\ng\na\nQ\n\u2022a\nd\n3\ns\no\no\nB \u00a7\ns &\n\u2022\u00b0 s\ns a\no a\n\"o\nO\n3\na\n\u25a0a\no\no\noo\n>>\n60\no\no\n60\n^\nHh\n\u2022\n\t METAL-MINING (LODE) A 183\nNo further work was done on these properties until 1949, when Hedley Mascot Gold\nMines Limited optioned the Sunloch property from The Consolidated Mining and Smelting\nCompany and the Gabbro property from Gabbro Copper Mines Limited. Work done by\nHedley Mascot on the two properties has consisted principally of diamond drilling, of\nwhich 9,354 feet was reported for 1949 and 4,082 feet for 1950. Twenty-eight holes,\nNos. 15 to 36 and X-l to X-6, aggregating 9,354 feet, were drilled before exceptionally\nhigh water in Jordan River in November, 1949, flooded desirable drilling-sites and forced\nsuspension of drilling. Drilling was resumed in the spring of 1950, and Holes No. 37,\nlength 1,196 feet, and No. 38, length 1,257 feet, had been drilled when the property was\nlast examined. Subsequently, Hole No. 39 was completed; Hole No. 40 was begun and\nhas been completed since the end of 1950. No underground work has been done by\nHedley Mascot on either property.\nProduction\nNo production has yet been made from the Sunloch and Gabbro properties. However, The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company stored several hundred tons of\ndevelopment ore behind a cribbing at the portal of the Cave adit on the Sunloch.\nGeneral Statement\nThe writer, with one assistant, spent two weeks in the autumn of 1949 and two weeks\nin the summer of 1950 on the Sunloch and Gabbro properties and, in the preparation\nof this report, studied 115 thin sections and twenty-four polished sections under the\nmicroscope.\nThe kindness of the officials of Hedley Mascot Gold Mines Limited in providing full\naccess to their maps, plans, and other information is gratefully acknowledged. In particular, the writer would like to thank J. W. Young, company geologist in charge of\ndevelopment work on the properties, for his many helpful suggestions concerning the\ngeology of the properties. The writer also wishes to thank George Winkler for directing\nhis attention to many interesting features on the Sunloch and Gabbro properties and for\nmuch information concerning their history and development.\nTopography\nThe Sunloch and Gabbro properties are in an area of rugged topography. The\nJordan River flows through the important, central part of the properties in a rocky canyon\nabout 500 feet deep and a mile and a half long. The showings outcrop in this canyon,\nand the adits have been driven from one or the other of its walls at heights ranging from\n15 feet to 90 feet above the normal level of the river. The river level is apt to rise 5 feet\nor thereabouts in a few hours during heavy rains, particularly in the autumn. Upstream\nfrom the canyon, on either side, the ground, although not precipitous, is steep.\nAt one time the area was heavily forested, but much of the timber has been cut from\nit. However, some Douglas fir and considerable hemlock still remain in and adjacent to\nthe canyon. Outcrops are numerous and extensive in the bed of the river and on the\ncanyon walls, but away from the canyon the surface is completely covered by a mantle\nof black muck and drift, and bedrock does not outcrop except in parts of creek beds.\nBecause of this, little prospecting has been done away from the canyon.\nGeneral Geology\nThe general geological setting of the area of the Sunloch and Gabbro properties may\nbest be considered in its relation to that of the larger Sooke-Jordan River area (Fig 9),\nof which it is a part.\nThe oldest rocks in the area include the Leech River formation, a series of argillites\nand sandstones that have been metamorphosed into slaty and quartzose schists. These A 184 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nrocks strike easterly and have been closely folded so that most of the strata have very\nsteep dips. They are in contact on the south, along the Leech River fault, with the next\nyoungest formation, the Tertiary Metchosin volcanics.\nThe Metchosin volcanics underlie a belt 5 to 10 miles wide which extends west-\nnorthwest across the southern end of the Island. The volcanics consist principally of\nbasalt with some diabase. Near the Sunloch and Gabbro workings they include porphy-\nritic and non-porphyritic, amygdaloidal varieties; beyond these properties, well-developed\npillow lavas, flow breccias, and fragmental types are found. They strike from north 60 to\n70 degrees west and dip 15 to 30 degrees northeastward, although in several places they\nmay be vertical or dip steeply southward. Based on fossils found in interbedded tuffs,\nthese volcanics are considered to be of upper Eocene age (Clapp and Cooke, 1917,\np. 290); they are not to be correlated with other Tertiary volcanics on the mainland of\nthe Province, which are Oligocene and Miocene. The Sooke-Jordan River area is the\ntype locality for the Metchosin volcanics. Extensive areas of these volcanics have been\ndescribed from the Olympic Peninsula southerly across Juan de Fuca Strait.\nTertiary marine sandstones and conglomerates fringe the western and southern coasts\nof Vancouver Island, and in this area they have been named the Sooke formation. These\nsediments tend to lie in coastal basins, most of which are drained by small streams flowing\ninto the ocean. The Sooke sediments strike westerly (parallel with the coast) and dip\nfrom 2 to 5 degrees southerly (offshore). The age of the Sooke formation has been\ndetermined as middle Tertiary, probably belonging to the upper portion of the lower\nMiocene (Clapp and Cooke, 1917, p. 339).\nThe most unique feature of the geology of the Jordan River-Sooke area is the\nTertiary Sooke gabbro, to which the copper mineralization of Jordan River and East Sooke\nappears to be genetically related. This gabbro occurs as several stock-like masses that\ntrend northwesterly across the southern tip of the Island. The largest of these masses is\nat East Sooke. This mass is elliptical, with a major axis about 5 miles long and a minor\naxis about 2Vi miles; other masses range down to those about a mile in diameter.\nAlthough most of the gabbro areas are circular to elliptical and are probably stocks, those\non the Sunloch and Gabbro properties are definitely elongated, striking with the enclosing\nrocks, and may be sills. The gabbro intrudes the Metchosin basalts of upper Eocene age\nand is overlain by the Sooke sedimentary formation of early Miocene age, or possibly\nmiddle or upper Oligocene. Its age is therefore probably lower Oligocene (Clapp and\nCooke, 1917, p. 304).\nA second feature in the area of some significance is the Leech River fault. This is\na reverse or thrust fault, strike easterly and dip 45 to 75 degrees northward, that extends\nacross the full width of the Jordan River-Sooke area. Clapp (1917, p. 279) summarizes\nhis account of this fault as follows:\u2014\n\" The Leech River fault is a reverse or overthrust, nearly a strike and nearly a dip\nslip fault, it is of great length, at least 40 miles and possibly 140 miles long; throughout\nits known and assumed length it separates the comparatively unmetamorphosed Tertiary\nrocks from the pre-Tertiary metamorphic and plutonic rocks which lie to the north and\nhave been pushed up over the Tertiary rocks.\"\nThe Leech River fault is accompanied by zones of slaty schists and sheared and\nschistose volcanics as much as 300 feet or more in width. Southerly from the fault, within\nthe area underlain by Metchosin volcanics, other westerly trending zones of shearing and\nschistose rocks have been found. These include northwesterly trending zones, 300 and\n200 feet wide, of schistose rock that may be seen along the B.C. Electric flume-line 4,000\nand 5,000 feet respectively from the forebay. Because of the similarity of the rocks on\neither side of these shear zones, the nature of the displacement cannot be discovered.\nThese shear zones, and those in which the copper deposits are found, strike northwesterly,\nand may be genetically related to the Leech River fault. LEGEND\nTREE SAMPLE DESCRIBED IN TEXT\nMINERALIZED (CHALCOPYR ITE) ZONES\n:j.::j:::jj SOOKE FORMATION (CHIEFLY SANDSTONE)\nSOOKE GABBRO\nMETCHOSIN VOLCANICS (HORNBLENDIZED BASALT)\nCONTACT\n BOUNDARY BETWEEN SUNLOCH CLAIMS ON THE\n. NORTHEAST, AND GABBRO CLAIMS ON THE SOUTHEAST\n*^-\u00b0 DIAMOND-DRILL HOLE,NUMBER AND INCLINATION\nFig.io.Sunloch-Gabbro.Plan showing geology, mineralized zones and workings,locations of tree samples,and some diamond-drill holes.\nFOOT-TRAIL\nV*' OLD NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY GRADE\nGeology adapted from company plans. METAL-MINING (LODE)\nA 185\nDetailed Geology\nThe copper deposits on the Sunloch and Gabbro properties occur in shear zones in\nthe Metchosin volcanics close to a sill-like mass of Sooke gabbro (Fig. 10). Diabase\ndykes cut the gabbro and may also cut the Metchosin volcanics, but do not appear to be\nrelated to the copper mineralization.\nMetchosin Volcanics.\u2014Near the copper deposits, the Metchosin volcanics are predominantly basalt. As the canyon provides an abundance of well-washed outcrops and\nmuch diamond drilling has been done in the volcanics, a good opportunity is afforded to\nstudy the basalt and particularly the textural variations that occur. The basalt is finegrained, dark greenish grey, and under the microscope is seen to consist of plagioclase\nand dark green hornblende; no augite was seen.\nAlthough all the basalt in the canyon workings and drill core is partly altered to a\nhornblende rock, and much of it completely altered, several textural types may be recognized. An amygdaloidal type consists of basalt in which white amygdules occur either\nsparingly or very close together. The amygdules are so close in places that the rock must\nhave been pumiceous when deposited. The zones in which the amygdules are closely\npacked together are rarely more than a few inches thick, whereas the zones of the more\nSAMPLING DATA ON BALSAM AND HEMLOCK ON THE SUNLOCH AND GABBRO PROPERTIES\nSample\nNo.\n(Parts\nA and\nB)\nNotes\nP.P.M. in Green Twigs\nCopper\nA1\nB2\nZinc\nCopper: Zinc\nRatio\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\nRiver zone~\n{ Hornblendized basalt .\n1 Centre zone_\n) Hornblendized basalt_\nL Cave zone .\nHornblendized basalt..\nGabbro..\nWinkler zone _\n\\ Tiger zone\t\nGabbro talus..\nLarger trees, 8-inch base, at gravel pit,\nVi mile southwest from Sample No. 27_\n2.4\n4.0\n3.2\n1.4\n\\ 3.2\nf 6.4\n1 2.4\nf 2.0\n1 4.8\nr 6.2\n5.6\n15.6\n11.7\n3.1\n4.4\n4.9\n35.2\n11.0\n6.6\n6.15\n1.2\n3.2\n1.6\n3.4\n6.8\n3.8\n5.6\n4.6\n8.4\n7.6\n5.15\n5.0\n3.8\n21.4\n4.0\n8.2\n7.5\n4.9\n4.4\n4.8\n4.9\n3.6\n6.2\n10.6\n44.0\n15.0\n7.05\n9.7\n11.2\n10.6\n15.3\n13.4\n11.5\n11.2\n15.6\n16.2\n12.3\n11.7\n2.7\n11.2\n18.5\n15.9\n14.5\n17.0\n23.7\n27.0\n25.0\n22.0\n30.8\n16.5\n15.3\n11.8\n15.3\n30.3\n45.0\n8.4\n10.6\n11.7\n16.7\n17.9\n12.3\n10.0\n12.8\n14.2\n11.2\n14.6\n10.6\n21.3\n16.0\n11.8\n24.8\n18.9\n15.4\n13.0\n28.4\n32.0\n0.21\n0.38\n0.21\n0.10\n0.28\n0.57\n0.15\n0.12\n0.39\n0.53\n2.10\n1.40\n0.63\n0.31\n0.26\n0.24\n0.36\n0.18\n0.19\n0.14\n0.14\n0.29\n0.57\n2.98\n0.72\n0.22\n0.14\n0.14\n0.30\n0.14\n0.20\n0.38\n0.31\n0.56\n0.36\n0.59\n0.68\n6.35\n2.10\n0.22\n0.30\n0.31\n0.25\n0.55\n2.88\n1.15\n0.25\n0.30\n1 Balsam.\n2 Hemlock. A 186 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nwidely spaced amygdules may be as much as 3 feet thick. The amygdules are commonly\nof plagioclase, but hornblende, chlorite, and clinozoisite may also occur. A porphyritic\ntype of basalt is moderately widespread. In this type the phenocrysts are widely scattered\nplagioclase crystals about one-sixteenth of an inch long; however, zones several feet wide,\nin which the phenocrysts are small hornblende crystals, are occasionally seen. Perhaps\nthe most widespread variety of basalt is a diabasic type that consists of distinguishable\nfeldspar laths, one thirty-second of an inch long, intergrown closely enough to give a\ndiabasic texture to the rock. Although the basalt has been intruded by the gabbro, the\ntexture at or near the contacts appears to have been little affected by heat from the gabbro.\nMost of the basalt on the property is massive and possesses few features that may be\nused in determining the structure of the lava. Pillow lavas and flow breccias useful in\nsuch studies are absent, and only a few flow contacts were seen. A flow contact between\na medium-grained diabasic phase and a fine-grained phase is indicated at a depth of 266\nfeet in the core from Drill-hole No. 21, and in Drill-hole No. 23 a flow contact between\na fine-grained diabasic phase and a phase characterized by indistinct hornblende phenocrysts is indicated at a depth of 291 feet. At a point on the east bank of the river, about\n500 feet downstream from the River adit, a contact between porphyritic basalt and fine\neven-grained basalt was seen to strike north 10 degrees east and to dip 70 degrees northwestward. This indicates local northerly deviations of the strike and reversals in dip\nfrom the general northwesterly trend and northeasterly dips seen elsewhere in the area.\nGabbro.\u2014Three northwesterly trending bands of gabbro occur on the property.\nThese bands range in width from 500 to 3,000 feet, are separated by about 3,000 feet of\nbasalt, and are known to extend along their strike for about 4 miles. The centre band,\nfrom 2,000 to 3,000 feet wide, is the widest of the three. As the copper ore on the property occurs in mineralized shear zones in the basalt along both contacts of this band of\ngabbro, it appears to be the most important of the three economically, and has therefore\nbeen more carefully studied than the other two bands. Further discussions of gabbro in\nthis report will refer only to this centre band. The rock cuts along the old railway grade\nand the numerous outcrops in the canyon, both of which cut across the centre band, afford\na good opportunity to study the gabbro from one contact to the other. As no diamond\ndrilling has been done in the gabbro, no core from this rock is available for study.\nThe gabbro is a dark greenish-grey coarse-grained rock with conspicuous plagioclase\ncrystals one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch long. The ferromagnesian mineral in the\nnormal gabbro elsewhere in the Jordan River-Sooke area is principally augite, but on the\nSunloch and Gabbro properties it is principally hornblende. However, some relicts of\nthe primary augite remain in this gabbro as cores within crystals of secondary hornblende.\nThe gabbro is massive and, lacking linear or parallel alignment of either inclusions\nor constituent minerals, shows no evidence of flowage. In detail the mass is not homogeneous; it includes both medium- and coarse-grained phases and in places includes\npatches, 6 inches to several feet across, of white altered gabbro. These patches stand out\nin marked contrast to the predominant dark-green unaltered gabbro. Under the microscope, rock from the patches of white gabbro is seen to consist largely of scapolite and\nsome hornblende. The scapolite has formed by hydrothermal alteration of plagioclase.\nAlteration of the augite to hornblende and the local alteration in the white patches of\nplagioclase to scapolite appear to be the only effect that hydrothermal solutions have had\non the gabbro.\nThe northeastern contact of the gabbro with the basalt is not exposed either in the\ncanyon or on the railway grade, but the rock within 50 feet of the probable contact is\nnormal, relatively unaltered gabbro. The southwestern contact may be seen in the\ncanyon. This contact is not sharply defined, but is a zone, about 50 feet wide, that consists of mixed gabbro and basalt. The basalt in the contact zone possesses a definite\nhornfels texture, characteristic of recrystallization by heat, a consequence of the intrusion\nof the gabbro into the basalt. I \\ 700 0 ^ |\nFig. ii.Sunloch-Gabbro. Details of mineralization in adits and diamond-drill holes on River,Centre and Cave zones\nN.E.\nFiG.12.Sunloch-Gabbro.Vertical section along a line bearing N 6o\u00b0e (a-a fig.ii) METAL-MINING (LODE) A 187\nDiabase Dykes.\u2014Many dark-green fine- to medium-grained diabase dykes are well\nexposed, cutting the gabbro in the canyon. The dykes generally trend northwesterly with\nthe strike of the gabbro, but they vary, and some are almost at right angles to this general\nnorthwest trend. They range in width from a fraction of an inch to about 10 feet, but\nwidths about 3 feet are the most common. Finely crystalline to.glassy selvages, up to\na quarter of an inch thick, may be seen along the walls of most of these dykes. Such\nselvages are characteristic of the walls of quickly chilled dykes. Under the microscope\nthe rock away from the selvages is seen to possess a typically diabasic texture and to\nconsist principally of plagioclase laths and stout hornblende crystals. No dykes have\nbeen definitely recognized in the basalt, but, because of their megascopic similarity to the\nbasalt, they might easily be missed, and as some thin sections of diabasic basalt seen in\nthe drill core are very similar in texture and composition to thin sections of known dykes,\nit is probable that diabase dykes also occur in the basalt.\nFaults.\u2014With the exception of the shear zones themselves, which are in all likelihood faults, there are no outstanding faults near the workings. The sharply incised\ncanyon of the river suggests that it may be along a fault, but no evidence of such a fault\nhas yet been found. Numerous slips and shears up to several inches wide may be seen\nin the adits, where some appear to offset the ore a few feet. None of these faults contain\nsulphides.\nOre Deposits\nThe ore deposits are copper-bearing shear zones in basalt, and are principally along\nthe northeast and southwest contacts of the centre band of gabbro. The basalt for\nseveral hundreds of feet from the shear zones has been largely replaced by hornblende,\nand in the shear zones this hornblendized basalt has been mineralized with chalcopyrite,\npyrrhotite, and pyrite. The amount of copper in the zones is variable, and not all the\nzones carry sufficient copper to be of economic interest. The combined gold and silver\nin the ore have a value amounting to about 50 cents per ton at prices prevailing in 1950,\nand small amounts of nickel have been reported in pyrrhotite from some of the zones.\nRock Alteration in and Adjacent to the Ore Zones.\u2014The normal gabbro and basalt\nin the Jordan River-Sooke area contain only minor amounts of hornblende, and the\nferromagnesian mineral is relatively unaltered augite. However, in the gabbro and in the\nbasalt, in and near the mineralized zones, the augite has been largely altered to hornblende, and although one may find occasional relicts of augite in the gabbro, it is rare\nto find any in the basalt. In the same gabbro the plagioclase is largely unaltered, but\nin the basalt near the workings, much of the plagioclase has been replaced by hornblende.\nUnder the microscope the rock from the mineralized zones and near by is seen to\nconsist principally of dark-green to light brownish-green hornblende, the augite and\nplagioclase having been completely replaced. The degree of alteration is spatially\nrelated to the ore zones and reaches its culmination in the completely hornblendized\nrock of the ore zones. The alteration of plagioclase to hornblende appears to be directly\nproportional to the intensity of hydrothermal alteration and varies not only across the\nline of strike of the shear zone but, because of lenticularity in width of shearing, also\nvaries along the strike.\nMineralogy.\u2014The sulphides in the ore zones include chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, pyrite,\nand small amounts of molybdenite. Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite are much more abundant than pyrite. Microscopic laths of cubanite have been noted in some specimens\nof chalcopyrite, and minute blebs or wisps of pentlandite have been seen in pyrrhotite.\nMuch of the pyrite has a striking colloform texture. This texture is present in specimens\ntaken from the adits and also from deeper parts of the drill-holes; therefore, it is not\na result of deposition by surface waters. Consequently, such pyrite may be expected\nin much of the ore, both near the surface and at depth. A small amount of native A 188 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\ncopper, as disseminated grains and as a leaf-like coating along short slips, has been seen\nin core from holes beyond the mineralized zones. Magnetite, in scattered grains, is\ncommon not only in the ore zones but also beyond them, and appears to have formed\nas a rock mineral rather than as a hydrothermal mineral.\nThe ore-sulphides form a pattern of gash-like veinlets and irregular lenticular masses\nin the hornblende rock of the shear zones. To the veinlets, which are short and sharp-\nwalled, Young has applied the very appropriate term \" crackles.\"*\nSome chalcopyrite veinlets also contain quartz, and from their walls, replacement\nhas proceeded outward so that adjacent stringers coalesce and give rise to irregular masses\nof replacement sulphide. Where the sulphides are abundant, the associated hornblende\nrock is likely to be coarser-grained than average. In such places the veinlets of chalcopyrite are often accompanied by a selvage of coarse hornblende crystals about a quarter\nof an inch long that contrast with the much finer grain of the enclosing hornblende rock.\nIn addition to its occurrence in veinlets and lenses, a small amount of chalcopyrite occurs\nas disseminated grains. Such chalcopyrite is found throughout a much greater width\nof shear-zone hornblende-rock than that in which the stringers and lenses of sulphide\noccur. The amount of copper in the disseminated grains of chalcopyrite is small, and\nin this particular habit the chalcopyrite is only of mineralogical interest.\nThe gangue includes, in addition to hornblende, several minerals that occur in small\namounts with the sulphides and also form well-defined white stringers, usually only\na fraction of an inch wide, both within and beyond the ore zones. Plagioclase is the\nmost abundant mineral in these stringers. The other minerals, listed in decreasing order\nof abundance, include clinozoisite, chlorite, apatite, calcite, scapolite, and quartz. Small\namounts of chalcopyrite are found in some stringers, even beyond the ore zones.\nOre Zones. \u2014 Prospecting has disclosed twelve (Fig. 10) zones of chalcopyrite-\npyrrhotite mineralization, and although not all contain copper in economic amounts, they\nwill be described under the heading of \" Ore Zones.\" They are within bodies of completely hornblendized rock. The basalt was sheared, perhaps only slightly, but sufficiently to render it susceptible to alteration to hornblende rock and subsequently was\nfurther fractured to permit more localized deposition of sulphides. The ore zones grade\noutward from highly mineralized hornblende to only slightly mineralized rock. The\nextent to which a shear zone may be ore depends on the number and width of the\nchalcopyrite-filled fractures and on the amount of massive lenticular chalcopyrite present.\nWidths of mineralized shear zone, that may be considered ore, range from 3 feet to as\nmuch as 100 feet but are usually less than 50 feet. The longer sections of the ore zones,\nsuch as along the 400-foot main drift in the River adit, usually range from 1 to 4 feet\n(Fig. 11).\nFour of the twelve ore zones are in basalt close to the northeastern contact of the\ncentre band of gabbro; five are in basalt, close to the southwestern contact of the gabbro;\nand three are in areas mapped as gabbro. Most of the zones have a general northwesterly\ntrend parallel to the strike of the basalt and the gabbro, but because the ore is cut and\ndisplaced by fractures of several different strikes and because the zones have not been\nfully explored, the trends of the several zones are not all known with certainty.\nThe ore zones appear to have steep to vertical dips. Deep drilling on the River zone\nindicates fairly definitely a dip from 70 to 80 degrees southwest, whereas drilling on the\nCentre and Cave zones suggests more nearly vertical dips for them. Outcrops and drilling\non the other zones suggest that they also have steep to vertical dips.\nThe ore zones from northeast to southwest are those along the northeast contact of\nthe gabbro\u2014River, Centre (Archibald), Cave, and Turnbull; those within the gabbro\u2014\nBend, Stewart, and Hornet; those along the southwest contact of the gabbro\u2014Winkler,\n* Webster defines \" crackles\" as \" a peculiar cracked surface common in much oriental pottery and porcelain and\nin some glassware; a condition of the surface of an oil painting, characterized by numerous fine cracks.\" METAL-MINING (LODE) A 189\nTiger, Yellow Cliff, Robertson, and Caulfield. Three of the zones along the northeast\ncontact\u2014namely, the River, Centre, and Cave\u2014have so far proved to be the most\npromising. Some drilling has been done on other zones, but most of it has been done and\nis being continued on the River, Cave, artd Centre zones.\nRiver Zone: This zone, at present the most promising of the ore zones, is toward\nthe centre of the Sunloch No. 6 claim. It is in basalt and trends north 30 degrees west,\nroughly parallel to the northeastern contact of the central band of gabbro and about\n1,200 feet from it. As deduced from diamond-drill hole data, this zone appears to dip\nfrom 70 to 80 degrees southwest. The zone (Figs. 11 and 12) has been explored by the\nRiver adit and by twenty diamond-drill holes\u2014namely, Nos. 2, 3, 7, 8, and 9\u2014drilled\nprior to 1920, most of them by The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, and\nNos. 15 to 20, inclusive, Nos. 23 to 25, inclusive, and Nos. 30, 34, 37, and 38 drilled in\n1949-50 by Hedley Mascot. Drill-hole No. 39, drilled during the winter of 1950-51,\nis also directed to intersect the River zone. The zone ranges in width from a foot to\nabout 100 feet and is traceable along its strike for about 1,100 feet. This length includes\n520 feet of shear zone followed by the River adit and an additional 570 feet indicated by\ndiamond drilling. An open-cut and diamond drilling indicate that chalcopyrite mineralization extends for at least 200 feet above the River adit. Chalcopyrite mineralization\nhas also been traced to a depth of about 910 feet below the level of the adit by drill-hole\nintersections that are 150 feet northwesterly from the portal of the adit. This gives\na total traced depth of 1,110 feet for chalcopyrite mineralization in the River zone.\nCave Zone: This zone (Figs. 11 and 12) is toward the southwestern corner of the\nSunloch No. 6 claim, about 700 feet southwesterly from the River zone. It trends north\n40 degrees west and contains widely spaced stringers and lenses of chalcopyrite over\na width of about 130 feet. This widely scattered type of mineralization has been traced\nby the Cave adit for about 500 feet and further extended by drilling for about 120 feet\nnorthwesterly from the portal of the adit. Little is known of its vertical extent, but\nDrill-hole No. 33 intersected chalcopyrite mineralization 200 feet below the level of the\nadit and Drill-hole No. 37 intersected mineralization under the river 250 feet below the\nadit. The length now indicated, including the exposures in the Cave adit and intersections\nin drill-holes under the river, is about 600 feet. However, a northwesterly trending line\nof old open-cuts and trenches that extends for 500 feet northwesterly from the southeastern corner of the Vulcan No. 6 claim exposes chalcopyrite mineralization that is\npossibly on the projected northwest extension of the Cave zone and would therefore\nextend the zone another 900 feet to give a traceable length of 1,500 feet. These workings\nwere dug prior to 1920 and are now badly overgrown and sloughed, and the mineralization only difficultly recognizable. However, some cuts do expose rather abundant\nchalcopyrite mineralization. Hedley Mascot drilled Holes No. 21 and Nos. 26 to 28,\ninclusive, to intersect the downward extension of mineralization in the cuts but did not\nintersect encouraging copper mineralization.\nCentre (Archibald) Zone: This zone (Figs. 11 and 12) is on the Sunloch No. 6\nclaim, 300 feet southeasterly from the River zone. It strikes north 70 degrees west,\ndiagonally to the adjacent River and Cave zones; like the Cave zone, it appears to be\nvertical. The Centre zone may include a band of mineralization, referred to as the\nGordon, that is 50 feet northeasterly from the main locus of mineralization. The Centre\nzone has been crosscut by the Centre adit, and has been followed by a drift, 100 feet\nlong, in the River adit. It has also been intersected by diamond-drill holes Nos. 31, 33,\n37, and 38. As seen in the Centre adit, the zone consists of a 120-foot width of widely\nspaced stringers of chalcopyrite. As seen in the crosscut and drift in the River adit,\nthe zone has been mineralized by abundant chalcopyrite over a maximum width of 4 feet\nfor a length of about 50 feet. The traced length of chalcopyrite mineralization in this\nzone, as measured from the Centre adit to the crosscut and drift in the River adit, is A 190 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\n660 feet, and the depth as measured from the Centre adit to the intersection in Drill-hole\nNo. 38 is 320 feet.\nTurnbull Zone: This zone is on the Vulcan Nos. 5 and 6 claims. It is reported to\nhave been exposed for about 700 feet in a northwesterly trending line of open-cuts and\ntrenches, about 150 feet southwesterly from the line of old trenches at the northwest\nend of the Cave zone. The cuts on the Turnbull zone were also dug prior to 1920 and\nare now completely overgrown and sloughed in and quite unrecognizable. A plan dated\n1921 shows assay widths and values in these cuts that range from 0.36 per cent copper\nover 16.5 feet to 0.75 per cent copper over 6.3 feet. Hedley Mascot drilled four holes\u2014\nNos. 21, 22, 26, and 27\u2014to intersect the downward extension of this zone, but failed to\nfind encouraging mineralization.\nBend Zone: This zone is exposed on the north bank of the river about 200 feet\ndownstream from the mouth of Robertson Creek. Unlike most of the other zones, it is\nwithin an area mapped as gabbro and appears to strike north 65 degrees east. This zone\nwas found in 1949 by Hedley Mascot, who drilled Hole No. X-6 (Fig. 10) to intersect\nits downward extension at the river's edge. It is reported that the hole had intersected\nencouraging chalcopyrite mineralization before the ground became too difficult to drill\nwith the light machine that was being used. The mineralization in this zone is traceable\nfor 200 feet on the surface and to a depth of 40 feet.\nStewart Zone: This zone is on the Vulcan No. 3 claim on the southeast side of the\nriver and canyon; it is about 2,000 feet southerly from the Cave zone. The work on this\nzone consists of several open-cuts and strippings dug about 1922. These workings are\nless overgrown than those on the northwestern side of the river, and the mineralization is\nmore readily seen. No drilling has been done on this zone. The mineralization consists\nof moderate amounts of pyrrhotite and lesser amounts of chalcopyrite, over a width of\n30 feet, and is traceable northerly in cuts for about 250 feet. The length as at present\ntraceable in the cuts is about 250 feet in a northerly direction. Although these workings\nare in an area mapped as underlain by gabbro, they are in hornblende rock that is similar\nto that accompanying the shear zones in basalt beyond the gabbro, and it may be that the\nStewart zone, like most of the other zones, is in an area of basalt.\nHornet Zone: This zone is near the northwest corner of the Black Hornet claim and\nhas been prospected by some old strippings and a 12-foot adit dug about 1920 in the\nbanks of Sinn Fein Creek about 1,700 feet upstream from the mouth of the creek. No\ndiamond drilling has been done on the zone. It is close to the southwestern contact of\nthe gabbro band but appears to be well within the general area of gabbro. However, the\nmineralization is in hornblende rock similar to that derived from basalt, and it may\ntherefore be part of an inclusion or embayment of altered basalt within the gabbro.\nA moderate amount of chalcopyrite was seen in stringers in one open-cut and in the adit.\nSouthwest Contact of the Gabbro: The Winkler, Tiger, Yellow Cliff, Robertson,\nand Caulfield zones are in basalt. They are close to and trend along the southwest contact\nof the central band of gabbro. These zones were originally prospected by surface workings, but some of them have been recently diamond drilled by Hedley Mascot. The\ncopper mineralization disclosed so far has not proved economic, and work on the showings\nhas been suspended for the present.\nWinkler Zone: This zone, about 10 feet wide, is on the Vulcan No. 2 claim, about\n2,500 feet southwesterly from the Cave zone. It has been prospected by an adit 83 feet\nlong on the east or upper side of the old railway grade and by two strippings about 50 feet\nbelow the grade; this work was done about 1920. In 1929 British Metals Corporation\ndrilled a hole below the railway grade that intersected chalcopyrite mineralization in a\nshort section about 100 feet below the level of the adit. In 1949 Hole No. X-5 (Fig. 10),\ndrilled from the southeast bank of the river, intersected chalcopyrite mineralization at 40 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 191\nfeet. Although the position of this mineralization, 175 feet below and 320 feet northwesterly from the adit, is not quite along the strike as projected from the adit and strippings, nevertheless it may be along the downward extension of the Winkler zone.\nTiger Zone: This zone is on the Tiger claim, about 400 feet southwesterly from the\nWinkler zone. It has been prospected by strippings that extend intermittently from the\nrailway grade northwesterly down to the river. Chalcopyrite mineralization belonging to\nthis zone has been intersected in Holes Nos. 35 and 36 (Fig. 10) drilled by Hedley\nMascot. The mineralized zone ranges in width from a few feet to 20 feet. Its traceable\nlength is about 300 feet and its traced vertical extent, as measured from the railway grade\nto the intersections in Holes Nos. 35 and 36, is about 360 feet.\nYellow Cliff Zone: This zone, trend northwesterly, crosses the boundary between\nthe Black Hornet and Tiger claims near the south bank of the river. It has been traced\nfor 120 feet by pits dug by Hedley Mascot in 1949. The pits expose mineralization over\na width of 8 feet. Although no drilling has been done on this zone, it appears to be one\nof the most promising of those along the southwestern contact of the gabbro.\nRobertson Zone: This zone, not seen by the writer, is reported to trend northerly\nclose to the line between the Black Hornet and Hornet Fraction claims. The only\nworking reported to be on it is an open-cut, now completely overgrown, on the north\nbank of the river. The zone is reported to be about 12 feet wide in this cut.\nCaulfield Zone: This zone is in the southeastern corner of the Black Hornet claim,\ndirectly across the river from the Yellow Cliff zone. It was prospected about 1920 by a\nsmall amount of stripping that is now badly overgrown. In 1949 Hedley Mascot drilled\nfour short X-ray holes, Nos. X-l to X-4, inclusive (Fig. 10), but the difficulty of finding\nsuitable set-ups for the drill militated against obtaining conclusive results. It has been\nsuggested that exposures of copper mineralization in the bed of Sinn Fein Creek, about\nhalf-way along the west boundary of the Black Hornet claim, may be the northwesterly\ncontinuation of the Caulfield zone. The Sinn Fein exposures are about 1,200 feet from\nthose on the river.\nOre Tonnages\nDevelopment up to the present time, particularly the 1949-50 diamond drilling done\nby Hedley Mascot, has indicated ore of commercial widths and grades in the River zone\nbelow the river. By that drilling the company has outlined a composite block, consisting\nof three smaller blocks, measuring from 150 to 300 feet in length, from 75 to 100 feet in\nwidth, and extending to a depth of about 850 feet below the river. They estimate that\nthese blocks may contain about 600,000 tons of ore of milling grade, containing copper\nand a little gold.\nDeep drilling done by the company across the Centre and Cave zones suggests that\nbelow the river these zones may also contain considerable additional tonnage, but of\nsomewhat lower grade than the ore in the River zone.\nBiogeochemical Studies\nBecause of the widespread interest in the application of biogeochemistry in prospecting for base metals, the writer made limited biogeochemical studies on the Sunloch-\nGabbro properties in the summer of 1950. The general technique of biogeochemical\nprospecting is based on the quantitative determination of minor or trace elements in plant\nor tree growth. The method used is a colorimetric, dithizone neutral mixed-colour-end-\npoint method, as described by Warren and Delavault (1949, p. 538) and by White (1950,\npp. 368, 369). For the work at Jordan River, equipment and procedures used were\nsimilar to those described by White (1950, p. 369).\nThe writer and one assistant spent about one week in August, 1950, collecting tree\nsamples on the Sunloch and Gabbro properties. The work was entirely exploratory, and A 192 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nno attempt was made to make a comprehensive coverage of the properties. However,\nthe results obtained did demonstrate the value of the method, in that the trees sampled\nindicated the presence or absence of copper mineralization in the underlying bedrock.\nThe tree cover on the ground near the Sunloch and Gabbro workings is extremely\nvariable. On the canyon slopes above the railway grade, the trees are principally large\nhemlocks, 1 to 2Vz feet in diameter at the base and several tens of feet tall. These trees\nlack branches that can be reached from the ground. Smaller trees are practically absent.\nIt was therefore impossible to collect samples in such areas. However, because suitable\ntrees are abundant along the two old railway grades, one connecting the River adit with\nthe Cave adit and the other extending about a mile downstream from the Cave adit, this\nbelt was selected for sampling. Although this belt is narrow, it has the advantage of\ncrossing the local structure, and it includes the principal mineralized shear zones and the\nintervening unmineralized rock.\nThe soil along this \" traverse line \" is thin and consists principally of black muck\na few inches deep. Glacial drift is found only as a few scattered pockets in protected\ndepressions.\nAs the soil cover is thin, many of the tree roots extend completely through it into\ncrevices in the underlying rocks. Therefore, one would expect the source of the metals\nin the tree growth, drawn from the soil and surface water in the soil or crevices in the\nunderlying bedrock, to be extremely local. This appears to be so because high results\nwere obtained from trees found only a few feet from trees giving low results.\nAs trees measuring from 2 to 4 inches at the base are abundant along the railway\ngrades, this size-range was selected for sampling. For purposes of comparison and also\nas a check on the sampling, it was decided wherever possible to collect samples from a\nbalsam and from a hemlock adjacent to it. Such a sample-pair included two trees no more\nthan 5 feet apart; the results obtained indicate that this was a safe distance. The pair\nwas given a number, the balsam being designated by \"A\" and the hemlock by \" B \" (e.g.,\n3a and 3b). The same number of twigs was taken from each tree and from about the\nsame relative positions on each tree. The branches from which the twigs were broken\nwere spaced completely around the tree and from 4 to 6 feet above the ground. Only the\ngrowth of the previous two years, as shown by nodes on the twigs, was taken.\nEach sample consisted of about thirty twigs stripped of their needles and weighed\nabout 5 grams before ashing. The analyses were made the same day the twigs were collected, and the results calculated to parts per million (p.p.m.) of fresh undried samples.\nThe reagents used and the procedure followed are as detailed by White (1950, p. 369).\nForty-nine sample-pairs were taken, and the amounts of copper and zinc, in parts\nper million (p.p.m.) of fresh twigs, were determined, and copper:zinc ratios calculated\nfor each sample. This information is summarized in the table on page 185, and the\napproximate position of each sample-pair is indicated in Figure 10. In the table the\nsamples are grouped according to the mineralized zone, or unmineralized rock, over which\nthey were taken.\nA study of the table indicates that the metal values and the copper:zinc ratios are\nhigher in groups of samples taken over the mineralized shear zones than in groups of\nsamples taken over the intervening unmineralized rock.\nThe tree samples from the River zone contained less copper and zinc than those\nfrom the other zones. The writer ascribes this condition to the many bare rock bluffs\nand the thinness of the soil in which the only trees available for sampling on the zone\nwere found to be growing. Samples taken from the Centre, Cave, Winkler, and Tiger\nzones showed higher than average metal values and copper:zinc ratios. Samples from\nthe intervening greenstone and gabbro showed on the whole lower values and ratios than\nthose in the mineralized zones. '\u25a0>\u25a0 METAL-MINING (LODE) A 193\nWithin any one group, individual samples may differ widely from the average for\nthe group. Sample No. 18, in a group of samples taken from a section of unmineralized\ngreenstone, is higher than the average for its group; at this sample point, it is possible\nthat the trees may have been growing above a minor shear carrying disseminated chalcopyrite. V\nThe high values in Sample No. 28 are difficult to explain. The trees sampled were\nlarger than average, 8 inches at their base, and grew at the edge of a gravel pit, about\n15 feet deep, half a mile from any known ore zone. Rock outcrops are entirely absent\nin this area, and underlying geology is unknown. It is possible that these higher than\naverage metal values reflect an underlying orebody, but it is also possible that the higher\nvalues may be due to either the larger size of the trees as compared to those sampled along\nthe old railway grade, or to the considerable depth of glacial material in which they were\ngrowing. Because of these differences in tree size and overburden, the values in Sample\nNo. 28 should not be compared with those in the other samples in the table. The sampling\nof trees of similar size and growing in similar overburden should be extended in several\ndirections from the gravel pit to determine whether the values of Sample No. 28 are\nanomalous or quite general for the area.\nAn interesting feature of the results is the close correspondence between the variation in metal content of adjacent balsam and hemlock.\nAlthough it was not possible to grid-sample a large area on the Sunloch and Gabbro\nproperties, sampling along a traverse, which crosses the principal mineralized shear zones\nand intervening on mineralized rock, has shown that the metal content of the trees reflects\nthe presence or absence of important mineralization in the underlying bedrock. For the\nbiogeochemical method to be of value in prospecting for extensions of ore zones on these\nproperties, a type of plant growth that is uniformly distributed over the whole area to be\nprospected should be selected. The writer would suggest that the following tree or plant\ngrowth might be used: The bark of large hemlock-trees, a core obtained by boring into\nthe trunks of large hemlock, or the leaves of the shrub salal (Gaultheria shallon). Unfortunately, wood and dead bark of trees have not proved too suitable elsewhere (Warren\nand Delavault, 1949, p. 541). Although the variation in metal content of salal leaves is\nat present unknown, the writer would suggest that, because it is so common in the coastal\nregions of the Province, some exploratory geochemical studies should be made using this\nshrub.\nReferences\nAreal and property descriptions:\u2014\nClapp, C. H. (1912): Southern Vancouver Island\u2014Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 13,\npp.176-180.\n and Cooke, H. C. (1917): Sooke and Duncan map-areas, Vancouver\nIsland\u2014Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 96.\nCooke, H. C. (1919): Gabbros of East Sooke and Rocky Point\u2014Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Mus. Bull. No. 30.\nDolmage, Victor (1919): Sunloch copper district of British Columbia\u2014Geol. Surv.,\nCanada, Sum. Rept., Part B.\nMinister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1917, p. 264; 1918, p. 300; 1919, p. 235;\n1920,p.221; 1921,p.232; 1922,p. 254; 1923,p.271; 1928,p.363; 1929,\np. 368.\nGeochemical studies:\u2014\nLovering, T. S.; Sokoloff, V. P.; and Morris, H. T. (1948): Heavy metals in\naltered rock over blind orebodies, East Tintic District, Utah\u2014Econ. Geol.,\nVol. XLIII, pp. 384-399. A 194 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nRiddell, John E. (1950): A technique for the determination of traces of epigenetic\nbase metals in rocks\u2014Department of Mines, Quebec, Prelim. Rept., No. 239,\np. 23.\nWarren, H. V., and Delavault, R. E. (1949): Further studies in biogeochemistry\u2014\nGeol. Soc, America, pp. 531-559.\n (1950): A history of biogeochemical investigations in B.C.\u2014\nCan. Inst. Min. Met., Trans., Vol. XLIII, pp. 236-242.\nWhite, W. H. (1950): Plant anomalies related to British Columbia ore deposits\u2014\nCan. Inst. Min. Met., Trans., Vol. XLIII, pp. 243-246. Placer-mining\nIntroduction\t\nCONTENTS\nPage\n195\nAtlin\u2014\nSpruce Creek\t\n196\nBoulder Creek\t\n196\nOtter Creek\t\n197\nMcKee Creek\t\n 197\nStikine\u2014\nMcDame Creek\t\n 197\nSkeena River\u2014\nKleanza Creeks \t\n197\nLome Creek .. _ \t\n 197\nCariboo\u2014\nHixon Creek\t\n 198\nAhbau Lake\t\n- 198\nWillow River__ -\n- 198\nAntler Creek\t\n 199\nCunningham Creek\t\n 200\nLightning Creek\t\n 200\nCottonwood River \t\n 200\nQuesnel River Area\t\n 200\nKeithley Creek\n . 201\nLillooet\u2014\nFraser River \t\n 202\nBridge River\n 202\nLytton\t\n 202\nPrinceton\t\n 202\nTULAMEEN-- _ __ \u25a0 \t\n 203\nRevelstoke .\t\n 203\nSiwash Creek___ \t\n 203\nVancouver Island \t\n 204\nINTRODUCTION\nThe 1950 season was extremely dry throughout the various placer-mining areas.\nBecause of the early, rapid run-off, all hydraulic operations had a very short working\nseason and no fall run. Only two dragline dredges were operating, in contrast to seven in\n1949. Because of these two factors the placer-gold production would have been very\ngreatly reduced were it not for the extremely successful year's operation by Noland Mines\nLimited in Atlin. This mine contributed largely in raising the annual placer-gold production to approximately the same amount as was recovered in 1949.\n195 A 196 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nATLIN*\nSpruce Creek (59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W.)\nCompany office, Royal Bank Building, Vancouver; mine office,\nNoland Mines Atlin. W. B. Milner, president; L. G. White, manager. The\nLimited Noland camp is at the junction of Dominion and Spruce Creeks,\n12 miles by motor-road east of Atlin. The company has acquired\nseventeen ordinary placer leases and two special placer leases on Spruce Creek. The\nNoland mine is an underground drift placer. From the shafts, two nearly parallel drifts\nare driven upstream in the pay channel. Crosscuts divide the area between the drifts into\nmineable blocks. In 1950 the drifts were advanced beyond the old workings to a point\nabout 3,000 feet from the Eastman shaft. The channel was developed for 850 feet of\nlength by an average width of about 150 feet. The gold-bearing gravel is trammed to the\nshaft, hoisted by skip, and run through a trommel and sluice-boxes.\nSummary of Mine Production\nCubic Yards Per Cent\nExcavated of Total\nSafety drives, ventilation, and haulage 2,923 20.5\nPillar development 6,218 43.7\nPillar extraction \u25a0 5,077 35.6\nMine clean-up 23 0.2\nTotals 14,241 100.0\nGravel mined and hoisted: 14,241 cubic yards. Contents: Gold, 8,252 fine oz.;\nsilver, 1,334 fine oz. Gross value, $313,674. Average recovered grade, $22.02 per\ncubic yard washed. In addition, 14,744 cubic yards of stockpiled tailings were washed.\nContents: Gold, 810 fine oz.; silver, 129 fine oz. Gross value, $31,168.\nThe hydro-electric plant, capacity 600 kilowatts, on Pine Creek, was purchased by\nthe company, and a transmission-line 3Vi miles long was strung to the mine. The changeover from diesel-electric to hydro-electric power was made in September, 1950. About\nsixty men were employed.\nThese leases were worked by V. A. Brister and his son Jack on a\nJoker, Poker, and lay from the Isaac Mathews estate. The property is on Spruce\nCroker Leases Creek, about 8 miles by road from Atlin. Entry to the workings\nis by a short incline shaft to bedrock. Gravel is won by drift\nmining and is hoisted to the surface and sluiced. In 1950 water for the sluice-boxes was\nobtained from a new pipe-line which was run from the outlet of the Noland drain to the\nshaft collar.\nBoulder Creek (59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E.)\nNorman Fisher and associates operated the Boulder Creek Placers\nBoulder Creek under lease from The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company\nPlacers of Canada, Limited. The workings are about 3 miles by road\nabove Surprise Lake and about half a mile below the dam on\nBoulder Creek. Each year as the monitors are moved upstream nearer the dam, the\nhydraulic head is lowered. At the present rate, in which two pits are cleaned-up each\nseason, the limit of efficient operation will be reached in another two years.\nThe partners report that the recovery of gold for the 1950 season was \" about\naverage.\" In addition to the gold, the sluice-boxes yielded 2 tons of black sand. The\nblack sand from Boulder Creek contains tungsten and tin, probably as wolframite and\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. PLACER-MINING A 197\ncassiterite. Next season the partners intend to install an undercurrent sluice to recover\nmore black-sand concentrate.\nOtter Creek (59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E.)\nAnnual assessment work was done on Otter Creek by a crew of four men under the\ndirection of Neil Forbes. The work was financed by the Walter Johnson Company, of\nSan Francisco, agents for Compagnie Francaise des Mines d'Or du Canada. Three test-\nholes were drilled with a 6-inch Keystone drill. The drill was set up on the east bank of\nOtter Creek, about 1 mile above Surprise Lake. At this point, bedrock was found to be\n140 feet deep.\nMcKee Creek.(59\u00b0 133\u00b0 S.W.)\nOscar Swanson and George Watt, with three employees, worked\nLucky Strike this ground on a lay from Mrs. J. M. Adams. This is an hydraulic\nLease operation and consequently is dependent on a sufficient supply of\nwater. Due to a late, dry spring, there was a shortage of water,\nand during the 1950 season the monitors were operated only a few hours each day. Considerable dead work was done in preparation for next season.\nRuth and Leftover Leases.\u2014Louis and Joe Piccola continued drift mining on the\nsouth side of McKee Creek. A new adit was driven to explore under ground previously\nhydraulicked by George Adams.\nMcKee Creek.\u2014Bruce Morton worked a lay on the north side of McKee Creek.\nOne 3-inch monitor was used to wash gravel into sluice-boxes. A hand-winch derrick\nwas rigged to move the larger boulders.\nSTIKINE*\nMcDame Creek (59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.E.)\nCompany office, 5261 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, Calif.\nMoccasin Mines R. C. Henrici, manager. Because of the poor recovery of gold in\nLtd. 1949, the company officials decided to close the operation. No\ndredging was done on McDame Creek during 1950, and the dragline and washing plant were dismantled preparatory to hauling them to the Alaska Highway during the winter freeze-up.\nSKEENA RIVER*\nKleanza Creek (54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E.)\nL. H. Elder, with one helper, worked on Placer-mining Lease No. 1359 on Kleanza\n(Gold) Creek, about 4 miles above its junction with the Skeena River. A trail from the\nmain highway follows the north bank of the creek for 3 miles and a branch trail leads\ndown to the creek workings. Water from a side creek is carried through 1,800 feet of\n2Vi-inch fabric fire-hose to operate a 1-inch monitor and a home-made hydraulic lift.\nGravel is washed through sluice-boxes floored with pole riffles.\nLorne Creek (54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E.)\nMessrs. Warren and Jones worked on Placer-mining Lease No. 371 near the mouth\nof Lorne Creek. A dragline was used to excavate gravel lying on hardpan bedrock.\nJohn Sikora and Oscar Nelson worked Placer-mining Lease No. 1319 on Lorne\nCreek, about 3 miles upstream from the road. A small monitor was used to wash gravel\ninto sluice-boxes.\n* By F. J. Hemsworth. A 198 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nCARIBOO*\nHixon Creek\n(53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W.) Company office, 1905 Second Avenue, Seattle 1,\nHixon Placers Wash. H. W. Hargood, president; C. J. Norris, superintendent.\nInc. This property, 3 miles east of the Cariboo Highway at Hixon, is\nheld under option from B. Briscoe, of Vancouver. In 1950,\n250,000 cubic yards of overburden (clay and gravel) was ground-sluiced and hydrau-\nlicked from the south bank of Hixon Creek in an attempt to uncover what is believed to\nbe an ancient channel of the creek. In order to provide an adequate water-supply for\nthis operation, a Vz -cubic-yard Speeder-Crawler diesel shovel has been purchased to\ndig three-quarters of a mile of ditch which, when completed, will be 10 feet wide and\n4 feet deep.\nThe number of men employed between May 1st and November 21st averaged eight.\nT. Sumpner.\u2014T. Sumpner, of Hixon, is reported to have operated a suction dredge\nfor a short period on the west side of the Fraser River, 3 miles below Canyon Creek.\nAhbau Lake (53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E.)\nAbout \\2Vz square miles of placer leases on Ahbau and Lodi Lakes\nZenda Gold Mining was transferred from Twentieth Exploration Limited to Taylor\n(Canada) Limited Mining Company and then purchased later by Zenda Gold Mining\n(Canada) Limited, of Las Vegas, Nevada. Six men were\nemployed for a short period to test these leases. Further purchases by the company\ninclude 4 miles of leases on Sovereign Creek; six claims at Longbar on the Fraser River,\n8 miles north of Quesnel; and 4 miles of leases at Darkwater on the Parsnip River. In\naddition, the draglines and washing plants formerly owned and operated by American\nGold Fields and Beavermouth Dredging Company Limited were purchased.\nWillow River (53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W.)\nMink Gulch.\u2014T. Richards hydraulicked 500 cubic yards of gravel on Mink Gulch,\na tributary of upper Williams Creek.\nConklin Gulch.\u2014J. J. Gunn and one helper hydraulicked 4,000 cubic yards of\ngravel on Williams Creek above the mouth of Conklin Gulch.\nSummit Mines Ltd.\u2014A crew of five men under the supervision of R. H. Wallace\ncompleted nineteen Keystone-drill test-holes on Williams Creek near the Bear Lake road.\nQueen of Clubs Creek.\u2014R. Taylor sluiced 400 cubic yards of gravel on Queen of\nClubs Creek.\nJack of Clubs Lake.\u2014J. V. Englund sluiced 200 cubic yards of gravel on the south\nshore of Jack of Clubs Lake.\nLowhee Gulch.\u2014O. K. Nason and four partners hydraulicked 40,000 cubic yards\nof gravel. An inadequate water-supply hampered operations all season.\nDragon Creek.\u2014W. Niemi and three partners hydraulicked 20,000 cubic yards of\ngravel on Dragon Creek, on property leased from R. H. McDougall.\nKetch Placers.\u2014R. H. McDougall and a crew of two men hydraulicked 25,000\ncubic yards of gravel at the north end of the Devil's Canyon channel which cuts across\nthe Burns Creek pit.\nDevil's Canyon.\u2014E. Rask hydraulicked 3,000 cubic yards of gravel on the east\nbank and at the headwaters of Devil's Lake Creek.\nL. Bedford and one man hydraulicked 2,500 cubic yards of gravel on the Barton\nlease on the west rim of Devil's Canyon.\n* By J. E. Merrett. PLACER-MINING A 199\nCoulter Creek.\u2014J. M. Chouse and partner mined 190 cubic yards of gravel from\nan exploration drift on Coulter Creek.\nI. Andracki drove a total of 60 feet of exploratory drift on two leases on Coulter\nCreek.\nSlough Creek.\u2014W. M. Hong and three partners, working on a percentage basis,\nhydraulicked 40,000 cubic yards of gravel from the Slough Creek benches near Nelson\nCreek.\nBurt-St. Louis Placers.\u2014A crew of three men supervised by A. St. Louis hydraulicked 5,000 cubic yards of gravel on New Creek.\nSlade Creek.\u2014Five hundred cubic yards of gravel was hydraulicked and sluiced on\nSlade Creek, a tributary of Tregillus Creek, on ground owned by Fook Chung and W. E.\nNorth.\nHyde Creek.\u2014P. McColm hydraulicked 750 cubic yards of gravel near Hyde Creek\non the bench lease owned by Dr. O. R. Hougen, of Vancouver.\nBeaver Channels Limited.\u2014Three men under the supervision of K. K. Langford\nhydraulicked 85,000 cubic yards of gravel on ground held by Beaver Channels Limited\nin the Aura Fina and Phantom pits, approximately a quarter of a mile south of Aura Fina\nCreek. This work removed overburden in order to expose gold-bearing channels.\nAura Fina Creek.\u2014J. H. Freyer hydraulicked 500 cubic yards of gravel on Aura\nFina Creek.\nPundata Creek.\u2014T. S. Pierce sluiced 250 cubic yards of gravel on Pundata Creek.\nThe gold recovered included a well-rounded and flattened nugget weighing 1 ounce.\nEight Mile Lake.\u2014Maurice Anderson hydraulicked 420 cubic yards of gravel near\nEight Mile Lake.\nCoffee Creek.\u2014N. Scott sank 50 feet of shaft on a lease on Coffee Creek.\nTwo-bit Creek.\u2014T. Dunlop hydraulicked 200 cubic yards of gravel on Two-bit\nCreek.\nCooper Creek.\u2014A. W. Frankish, of Calgary, hydraulicked 5,000 cubic yards of\ngravel on Cooper Creek.\nAntler Creek (53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E.)\nUpper Antler Creek.\u2014A. Holm and T. Peterson hydraulicked 1,400 cubic yards\nof gravel on Upper Antler Creek.\nAntler Creek.\u2014George Milbourne hydraulicked 1,000 cubic yards of gravel at the\njunction of Empire and Antler Creeks.\nWolfe Creek.\u2014E. S. Dowsett hydraulicked 300 cubic yards of gravel on Wolfe\nCreek.\nFrench Creek Hydraulic Placers Limited.\u2014Company office, Room 70, 718 Granville Street, Vancouver. A crew of two men under the supervision of R. N. Van Bibber\nhydraulicked 5,500 cubic yards of gravel on French Creek. In addition, a drill crew\noperated by Yuba Consolidated Goldfields of California drill-tested ground on French\nCreek owned by the French Creek company.\nCanadian Creek.\u2014A. McGuire completed 70 feet of timbered drift and sluiced 130\ncubic yards of gravel on Canadian Creek.\nJ. Holland and D. S. Ross hydraulicked 3,000 cubic yards of gravel on Canadian\nCreek.\nGrouse Creek.\u2014N. P. Gaines sank 40 feet of shaft on his lease on Grouse Creek.\nAntler Mountain Gold Limited.\u2014A. W. Ludditt and a crew of two men hydraulicked 2,500 cubic yards of gravel on Grouse Creek.\nMurray Creek.\u2014J. Keiler sluiced 1,000 cubic yards of gravel on Murray Creek.\nShepherd Creek.\u2014R. D. Rees hydraulicked 1,000 cubic yards of gravel on Shepherd Creek, a tributary of Summit Creek. A 200 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nCunningham Creek (52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E.)\nCunningham Creek.\u2014W. Beamish and partner hydraulicked 7,000 cubic yards of\ngravel on Cunningham Creek approximately 6 miles below Cariboo Hudson mine.\nPeter Gulch Creek.\u2014K. Martinson and P. Edberge hydraulicked 5,000 cubic yards\nof gravel on Peter Gulch Creek just above its junction with Cunningham Creek.\nLightning Creek (53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W.)\nLightning Creek.\u2014L. Biggs completed 70 feet of prospect drifting on Lightning\nCreek near Houseman Creek.\nH. D. Hadlund hydraulicked 12,000 cubic yards of gravel on two leases on Lightning\nCreek upstream from Amador Creek.\nInterior Development Co. Ltd.\u2014H. D. Hadlund hydraulicked 20,000 cubic yards\nof gravel on Amador Creek on property leased from Bowman Mines Limited.\nPerkins Creek.\u2014C. A. Ritchie, in partnership with W. L. Sebolt, of Wells, scraped\nand sluiced 10,000 cubic yards of gravel at the head of Perkins Creek.\nGrub Gulch.\u2014Ennerdale Placers, operated by F. W. Freeman and J. Hind,\nhydraulicked 5,000 cubic yards of gravel.\nLast Chance Creek.\u2014A. Brown, of Stanley, continued prospect drifting on the\n75-foot level of his underground placer workings between Last Chance and Lightning\nCreeks. One hundred and eighty cubic yards of gravel was washed.\nAnderson Creek.\u2014E. M. Falck hydraulicked 400 cubic yards of gravel.\nDonovan Creek.\u2014Rottacker Placers, operated by H. Rottacker and a crew of two\nmen, hydraulicked 25,000 cubic yards of gravel.\nCampbell Creek.\u2014E. M. Johnson hydraulicked 1,000 cubic yards of gravel.\nWingdam Creek.\u2014E. Ernst sluiced 250 cubic yards of gravel.\nAngus Creek.\u2014S. Papp and S. Radencik installed hydraulic equipment on Angus\nCreek.\nTrebor Placer Exploration Ltd.\u2014Company office, 103 Royal Trust Building, Vancouver. R. D. Mueller, president and manager. The dragline dredge continued working\ndownstream on Lightning Creek from a point a quarter of a mile east of Gagen Creek\nroad, off the Quesnel-Barkerville road. During 1950, 80,000 cubic yards of gravel\nwas washed. A crew of eleven men was employed. This operation closed in August,\nand the equipment was dismantled and stored.\nCottonwood River (52\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E. and 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E.)\nSwift River.\u2014H. Luff sluiced 316 cubic yards of gravel.\nA. P. and S. Company.\u2014Company office, 375 Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Calif.;\nmine office, Quesnel. H. W. Purkerson, manager. This company optioned ground in\nthe vicinity of Umity Creek on the Cottonwood River from W. Jones, of Quesnel, and\nR. A. Nienaber, of Seattle, Wash. A small washing plant and a 3-cubic-yard dragline\nwere installed. In 1950 a crew of ten men washed 9,500 cubic yards of gravel.\nQuesnel River Area\nQuesnel River.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) Leo LaHaye, of Quesnel Forks, sluiced 1,000\ncubic yards of gravel at the Horseshoe Bend on the Quesnel River.\nMorehead Creek.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) F. Jacobie, of Quesnel Forks, and H. C.\nWebber, of 475 Howe Street, Vancouver, employed a crew of three men who drifted\nand sluiced 10,000 cubic yards of gravel on Morehead Creek.\nLawless Creek Mining Company.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) Clifford V. Landon, of\nSeattle, Wash., and a crew of seven men hydraulicked 40,000 cubic yards of gravel on PLACER-MINING A 201\nLawless Creek. Work completed in 1950 disclosed an ancient channel of the Quesnel\nRiver approximately 200 feet north of the present channel.\nA new road was constructed from the Quesnel Forks road to a dam at the outlet\nof Rosette Lake.\nSpring Creek.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) F. Fredericks, of Likely, sluiced 300 cubic\nyards of gravel on Spring Creek.\nLikely.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) A. Carbillet, of Likely, sluiced 1,000 cubic yards of\ngravel on a bench lease near Likely.\nCedar Creek.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) S. G. McLean, of the McLean Construction\nCompany, of Ashcroft, in partnership with N. Evans-Atkinson, of Likely, working the\nlatter's leases on lower Cedar Creek, constructed 1 Vz miles of road and installed sluice-\nboxes in Cedar Creek canyon. A further 1 Vz miles of cuts were made with a bulldozer\nin order to test the ground. A crew of four men was employed.\n(52\u00b0 121 \u00b0 N.E.) Company office, 379 Coleman Building, Seattle,\nCariboo Metals Wash.; mine office, Likely P.O. This private company, managed\nLimited by Alvo von Alvensleben, employed a crew of seven men from\nMay 29th to October 30th on a group of eight leases on a bench\nsouth of Cedar Creek. The dry-land washing plant, installed in 1949, was abandoned,\nand the gold-bearing gravels were trucked to a sluice installed on the side of the bench.\nWater was elevated 125 feet to the sluice-box by pump from Cedar Creek.\nDuring 1950, 72,000 cubic yards of gravel was removed with a 1V2 -cubic-yard\nMarion dragline. Of this total, 40,000 cubic yards was barren gravel, which was side-\npiled. The remaining 32,000 cubic yards was transported half a mile by three trucks to\nthe sluice-box.\nBig Canyon.\u2014(52\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E.) T. W. Corless and two partners sluiced 1,000\ncubic yards of gravel on two leases near Big Canyon on the Quesnel River. A bulldozer was used to remove 5 feet of overburden from the gold-bearing gravel, which in\nturn was pushed to the sluice.\nNorth American Goldfields Limited.\u2014(52\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E.) Company office, 513\nRoyal Bank Building, Vancouver. G. A. Collins, president. Capital: 2,000,000\nshares, 50 cents par value. Yuba Consolidated Goldfields of California drill-tested,\nwith option to purchase, ground owned by this company upstream from French Flat on\nthe Quesnel River. The option was not exercised.\nQuesnel Forks Placers Incorporated.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) J. R. Foster, manager;\nH. Neilsen, superintendent. This company, financed by American capital, has optioned\nH. Neilsen's lease on Kangaroo Creek. In 1950 a concrete storage dam, 60 feet wide\nand 20 feet high, was erected on Kangaroo Creek approximately 1 mile upstream from\nCariboo River. In addition, 3,400 feet of pipe, varying in diameter from 40 to 18 inches,\nwas installed. From six to eleven men were employed.\nCariboo River.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) A. Anderson sluiced 2,500 cubic yards of\ngravel on the west bank of Cariboo River, 3 miles below its junction with Spanish Creek.\nKeithley Creek (52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E.)\nFour Mile Creek.\u2014-Five thousand cubic yards of gravel was sluiced on leases\nowned by J. Chester on Four Mile Creek, a tributary of Keithley Creek.\nWeaver Creek.\u2014H. Asserlind and V. E. Johnson extended the west incline an\nadditional 11 feet on their property just below the junction of Weaver and Keithley Creeks.\nThe inclined slope now extends 47 feet from the main drift.\nBarr Creek.\u2014(52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) W. M. Cudworth, of Penticton, hydraulicked\n3,000 cubic yards of gravel on Barr Creek at the divide between Snowshoe Creek and\nSwift River.\nPROVINCIAL LlBRim,\nVKTOMA, b. a A 202 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nUpper Keithley Creek.\u2014A. E. McGregor and G. A. Goldsmith, working on their\nleases between Honest John and Donaldson Creeks, retimbered the collapsed drift which\nthey had completed in 1949. This drift was extended a further 36 feet. In 1950,\n2,000 cubic yards of gravel was hydraulicked.\nCariboo Keithley Gold Placers Limited.\u2014Company office, c\/o M. Anderson,\n3850 Parker Street, Vancouver. K. C. F. Monckton, superintendent. A %-cubic-yard\nslack-line dragline was installed on the bank of French Snowshoe Creek, three-quarters\nof a mile above the Yanks Peak road bridge over French Snowshoe Creek. The purpose\nof the dragline is Jo draw gravel to the grizzly on the sluice-hopper. Fifteen hundred\ncubic yards of gravel was washed by a crew of three men.\nLILLOOET (50\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.)*\nFraser River\nHorsebeef Placers.\u2014(50\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E.) A. C. Hutton and associates installed\na high fine and scraper on the Fraser River at Horsebeef Bar, 3 miles downstream from\nLillooet. A grizzly screen, feed hopper, and sluices were installed below high-water\nlevel on Horsebeef Bar. Late in November unseasonal high water washed away this\nconstruction. During operations 100 cubic yards of gravel was washed by a crew of\ntwo men.\nBridge River\nYalakom Placers Limited.\u2014(50\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.) G. Haycock, of Lillooet, sluiced\n2,000 cubic yards of gravel on the Bridge River near Moha. A dragline was used to\nscrape the gravel from the river bottom.\nHurley River.\u2014(50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W.) Three men completed 200 feet of drift and\nsluiced 260 cubic yards of gravel on Hurley River near Gold Bridge on leases held by\nW. Haylmore.\nMcGillivray Creek.\u2014(50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E.) Mrs. L. Weeden sluiced 95 cubic yards of\ngravel on a lease on McGillivray Creek.\nLYTTON (50\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W.)*\nE. Fox, H. Haywood, and S. Speer, of Vancouver, optioned the\nKanaka Bar suction dredge owned by International Gold Master Mining Ltd. at\nKanaka Bar on the Fraser River, 2 miles south of Siska. The\ndredge has a 4-inch intake and operates at 25 pounds vacuum for suction. In December\na crew of two men and E. Fox were redesigning the plant layout.\nPRINCETON (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)f\nRegistered office, 902 Rogers Building, Vancouver. James W.\nAtkinson Dredging Boothe, president. After overhauling the equipment, this company\nCompany Limited resumed gold-dredging operations early in May on the Similkameen\nRiver at the point where operations were suspended at the end of\nthe 1949 season. Dredging proceeded upstream to a point about 1,000 feet west of the\nconfluence of the Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers. Work was discontinued late in\nNovember, when there was some dispute with the Indian Department as to whether or\nnot dredging had trespassed on the Vermilion Forks No. 1 Indian Reserve.\nThe dredge consists of a diesel-driven Bodinson-type washing plant having a rated\ncapacity of 5,000 cubic yards per day and equipped with Pan American jigs for gold\n* By J. E. Merrett.\nt By E. R. Hughes. PLACER-MINING A 203\nrecovery. The dragline shovel is a Lima 1201 with an adjustable 70- to 90-foot boom\nand a 3-cubic-yard Esco bucket.\nDredging was continuous during the five months of active operation. Thirteen men\nwere employed. Production recorded: Gravel washed, approximately 150,000 cubic\nyards. Metal recovered: Gold (crude), 727 oz.; platinum, 111 oz.\nThomas M. Gerety, president and general manager. This company\nTulameen Dredging rebuilt its suction-type dredge on the Tulameen River approxi-\nCompany Limited mately 1,000 feet east of the highway bridge at Princeton. An\nunexpected flash flood caused by unusually heavy rains on November 26th, 1949, had carried the dredge downstream, where it was broken up on the rocks\nand wrecked. After the dredge had been rebuilt, preliminary dredging operations were\nbegun on September 18th, 1950. However, due to low water, the operators decided\nagainst continuing work, and the dredge was pulled ashore on Allison Flats after only\na few days of active dredging. Three men were employed.\nTULAMEEN (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 N.W.)*\nE. M. Morgan, secretary-treasurer and manager. This company\nSlate Creek continued exploratory work during part of the summer on Placer-\nPlacers, Limited mining Lease No. 1250 about 2>Vz miles west of the village of\nTulameen. A drift was advanced through clay, gravel, boulders,\nand sand in an effort to locate an old channel of Olivine (Slate) Creek. Sixty feet from\nthe portal of the adit started in 1949 a branch drift was advanced 30 feet westerly. Ten\nfeet west of the junction of these two drifts another branch was advanced 12 feet southerly.\nWork was suspended on August 11th. Three men were employed.\nREVELSTOKE (51\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E.)f\nThis organization intends to recondition and operate the old placer\nFrench Creek properties on French Creek, approximately 70 miles north of\nPlacer Revelstoke. The properties are reached by trail from the Big Bend\nHighway. Work in 1950 was hampered by high water which\nremained until September. Examination then showed that the three shafts leading to\nthe underground workings are filled. A hole was also found on a bar above the top end\nof the drainage underground which indicated a cave had occurred, allowing the creek\nto penetrate the underground workings. Work ceased September 30th. Edward H.\nOrser, consultant, was in charge, and six men were employed.\nThis syndicate holds six placer leases along the Columbia River\nSelkirk Gold near Camp Creek. Four leases, Nos. 385 to 388, are on the west\nPlacers Syndicate bank of the river and extend for 2 miles south of Kirbyville Creek.\nThey are reached by a road which leads down to the east bank of\nthe river from a point on the Big Bend Highway 56 miles north of Revelstoke. The other\ntwo leases are on Camp Creek, east of the Columbia River. A small crew was employed\nduring the summer under the direction of G. S. M. Larder, but because of prolonged\nhigh water little other than trail and road work was done.\nSIWASH CREEK (49\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E.)|\nCompany office, 626 Pender Street West, Vancouver. C. A.\nCanadian American Voight, manager. Eight placer-mining leases are held by this\nMines Incorporated company on Siwash Creek and tributaries. Siwash Creek crosses\nthe Canadian National Railway nearly 2 miles north of Yale.\n* By E. R. Hughes.\nt By J. W. Peck.\nt By R. B. King. A 204 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nA road nearly 2 miles long was built from the railroad up the creek to the leases. A small\namount of surface exploration was carried on to test the gravel.\nVANCOUVER ISLAND\n(48\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.E.) In May and June of 1950 James Stanley Ford,\nMeade Creek* Ronald Andrew Nilson, Howard Barker, and Ronald Theodore\nNosworth staked two placer leases on Meade Creek, a southwesterly flowing stream that enters Cowichan Lake about 2Vz miles west of the village\nof Lake Cowichan. The leases extend upstream from a point on the creek about 500 feet\nabove the Canadian National Railway bridge and cover more than a mile of the creek\nbed. Most work has been done along a stretch of the creek, 2,200 feet long, between\nhalf a mile and a mile above the railway bridge. Along this section the creek flows\nthrough a shallow box canyon containing stream debris ranging from fine sand to boulders\n4 feet in diameter. The work has consisted of testing the sand, by panning and sluicing,\nto determine its gold content. Within the canyon, fine colours are found in most pans of\nmaterial from bedrock, as well as in sand among roots of trees near high-water mark,\nseveral feet above bedrock. Outside the canyon, gold is reported to have been panned\nfrom overburden on bedrock near the creek as much as 20 feet above high-water level.\nThe colours are fine, but as many as forty are reported to have been taken from one pan.\n* By J. T. Fyles. Structural Materials and Industrial Minerals\nCONTENTS\nPaob\nIntroduction . 207\nAsbestos\u2014\nMcDame Creek 207\nAsbestos, I.X.L., and Acme 214\nBarite\u2014\nMountain Minerals Limited : 217\nBuilding-stone\u2014\nAndesite\u2014\nHaddington Island 217\nGranite\u2014\nVancouver Granite Co. Limited 217\nCoast Quarries Limited 218\nGilpin-Nash Limited 218\nGilley Bros. Limited 218\nValley Granite Products Ltd 219\nClay and Shale\u2014\nBear Creek Brick Company 219\nClayburn Company Limited 219\nPacific Clay Products Limited 219\nPort Haney Brick Company Limited 220\nRichmix Clays Limited \u201e : 220\nBaker Brick and Tile Co 220\nBazan Bay Brick & Tile Co. Limited 220\nEvans, Coleman & Evans 220\nGypsum\u2014\nGypsum, Lime and Alabastine, Canada, Limited :_ 220\nCanada Cement Company 220\nColumbia Gypsum Products, Inc 221\nLittle Joan (Western Gypsum Products Limited) 223\nLimestone and Cement\u2014\nSmith Island 223\nKoeye Limestone Company 224\nBeale Quarries Limited 224\nMarble Bay Quarry 224\nPacific Lime Company Limited , , 224\nBritish Columbia Cement Company Limited 224\nAgassiz Lime Quarry 225\nFraser Valley Lime Company Limited 225\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited 225\nMarl\u2014\nCheam Marl Products Limited 225\nPopkum Marl Products Limited 226\n205 A 206\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nMlCA-\nBrett and Bird.__\nSand and Gravel\u2014\nColebrook Sand & Gravel Company Limited.\nGreater Vancouver Sand and Gravel Company Limited\nHighland Sand and Gravel Company Limited\t\nMaryhill Sand and Gravel Company Limited\t\nRoad Materials Ltd\t\nMclntyre and Harding Gravel Company Limited\t\nProducers Sand & Gravel Company (1929) Limited.\nVermiculite\u2014\nVerity\t\nPagb\n226\n227\n228\n228\n228\n228\n228\n228\n229\nSerpentine outcrops in the McDame area. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS A 207\nINTRODUCTION\nThis section contains progress notes on properties and operations producing structural materials and industrial minerals in British Columbia. Reports on a few deposits\nthat are not in production are also included.\nFor a detailed list of occurrences of the various structural materials and industrial\nminerals, as well as a selected group of references on these same materials, the reader\nis referred to Minister of Mines, British Columbia, Annual Report, 1947, pages 203\nto 224.\nStatistics regarding production of structural materials and industrial minerals are\ngiven in the following tables:\u2014\nTable I, page 15, sub-headings \"Non-metallics \" and \"Clay Products and\nOther Structural Materials.\"\nTable X, page 26, \" Production in Detail of Structural Materials.\"\nTable XI, page 27, \" Production in Detail of Miscellaneous Metals, Minerals,\nand Materials.\"\nDuring the year the Clayburn Company reopened their sewer-pipe and building-\ntile plant at Kilgard after rebuilding following the fire which destroyed the workings in\n1949. The same company also opened a new firebrick plant in Abbotsford. Westroc\nWool Company produced insulating slag wool steadily all year, using slag from Tacoma\nas the chief ingredient. Slag from the smelter slag pile at Greenwood was shipped to the\nGypsum Lime and Alabastine Company plant at Calgary for use in making slag wool.\nThe Columbia Cellulose Company began production of limestone from a new quarry on\nSmith Island for use in their cellulose plant at Port Edward. Columbia Gypsum Company\nopened up their gypsum quarry and were producing steadily by the end of the year.\nMountain Minerals Limited made test shipments amounting to 90 tons of pyrophyl-\nlite from a deposit at Semlin Siding and 43 tons of talc from a deposit at Armstrong.\nBoth shipments were sent to the company's plant at Lethbridge, Alta.\nA deposit of chrysotile asbestos was discovered north of McDame Creek. The\ndeposit contains long fibre of spinning quality and may be large. An occurrence of\nvermiculite was discovered on the North Thompson River, 169 miles from Kamloops,\nby Canadian National Railway.\nASBESTOS\n(59\u00b0 20' 129\u00b0 50'.) In June, 1950, occurrences of chrysotile fibre\nMcDame Creek* of good length and quality were discovered in northern British\nColumbia. These deposits are north of McDame Creek and about\n65 miles southwesterly from Lower Post, but Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, is the\nnearest point where postal and other necessary services are available. Distances from\nDawson Creek (Mile 0) along the Alaska Highway are 620 miles to Lower Post and\n635 miles to Watson Lake. A branch road from Watson Lake serves the R.C.A.F. and\ncommercial airport of the same name.\nThe asbestos deposits, described later under \"Rugged Group,\" are reached by\na branch road 70 miles long which leaves the Alaska Highway at Mile 648 and runs\nsoutherly to the Moccasin placer camp on McDame Creek. At this point the road forks,\none fork going downstream about 10 miles to McDame Post at the junction of McDame\nCreek with Dease River, and the other going upstream about 18 miles to McDame Lake.\nAfter leaving the Alaska Highway, these roads are generally rough but passable for\n4-wheel-drive vehicles and for dual-wheel tracks in the summer and autumn. From\nSnowy Creek, 13 miles westerly from the Moccasin camp, a road, about 12 miles long,\nto a camp-site below the Rugged group was constructed late in the fall by Conwest\nExploration Company Limited.\n\u00bb By B. T. O'Grady. A 208\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nGOAT NOS IS. 2\nADJOIN TO SOUTH\nNOTE: BOUNDARIES OF ASBESTOS SHOWINGS INDICATED THUS\nSCALE\n400\n400\n800\nB FEET\nCLAIMS NOT SURVEYED\nFig. 13. Sketch showing approximate outline of Rugged Nos. 1 to 6 and vicinity. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS A 209\nThe area has been accessible from the coast for a long time, the route being by river\nboat 150 miles up the Stikine River from Wrangell, Alaska, to Telegraph Creek, thence\nby road 73 miles to Dease Lake, and thence about 75 miles by shallow-draught boat\ndown Dease Lake and Dease River to McDame Post, where connection may be made\nwith the recently built road up McDame Creek. Dease River is also navigable for\nshallow-draught boats at certain periods between McDame Post and Lower Post, where\nthe Dease and Liard Rivers meet.\nThe writer investigated the asbestos deposits during the period from July 12th to\n18th. After examining the Rugged group a trip was made with horses along the serpentine belt northerly from the north fork of Troutline Creek for about 8 miles. Camp was\nmade at the headwaters separating the drainage to Blue River and Quartzrock Creek.\nThe return trip was made southeasterly along Quartzrock Creek and Snowy Creek to\nthe McDame Creek road.\nClaims covering the original discovery of asbestos on the Rugged group had been\nlocated by Victor A. Sittler on June 30th, 1950. Other claims were being located\nwhile the writer was in the area, and some were located subsequently. Only the original\ndiscovery had been prospected, and the Rugged group was the only property-examined\nby the writer. Other claims located for asbestos in the area include the Blanchard\nNos. 1 to 4 (John F. Blanchard), adjoining the Rugged group to the north; the Goat\nNos. 1 and 2 (S. G. Bridcut), adjoining to the south; the Asbestos Nos. 1 to 4\n(John Bartle), adjoining on the east; and several groups of claims on high ground\n4 to 6 miles northerly from the Rugged group. These groups are the Chrysotile\nNos. 1 to 4 (William G. Mossop), in a line running northerly; Olivine Nos. 1 to 4\n(George Edzerza), in a line adjoining the Chrysotile on the east; Snowflake Nos. 1\nand 2 (William G. Mossop), adjoining the Chrysotile on the east; Blizzard Nos. 1 and\n2 (William G. Mossop) and Helen Nos. 1 and 2 (John F. Blanchard), south of the\nChrysotile and Olivine claims; and Caribou Nos. 1 and 2 (Peter Hamlin), Polly Nos. 1\nand 2 (John F. Blanchard), Cormier Nos. 1 to 6 (Leo Cormier), and Horseback Nos.T\nand 2 (Vic O'Brian), north of the Chrysotile and Olivine.\nThree specimens from the Chrysotile and Olivine groups, said to be float and not in\nplace, were shown to the writer. The specimens were found to consist of:\u2014\n(1) Dark serpentine, altered in part to picrolite, containing asbestos veins\nIVs inches wide at widest but which split and surround \"horses\" of\nserpentine. The fibre is good. Fibre lengths vary from 1 Vs inches down\nto one-eighth of an inch.\n(2) Serpentine with many small veinlets of asbestos running in all directions.\nFibres vary in length from one-eighth to three-eighths of an inch.\n(3) Piece of cross-fibre asbestos vein with inclusions of serpentine in vein.\nFibres vary in length from three-sixteenths to five-sixteenths of an inch.\nTwo specimens from a showing in a creek bank on unstaked ground at the headwaters of Blue River and Quartzrock Creek were determined as follows:\u2014\n(1) Grey to dark-green serpentine with small patch of asbestos on one end.\n(2) Light grey-green serpentine with small bit of asbestos on one end; the\nasbestos in both cases is brittle and rubs to a powder. Specimens of\nrock in the adjacent area consisted of serpentine (picrolite), limy serpentine, and dark-green glossy massive serpentine.\nIn the 4 to 6 miles then unstaked and unprospected between the Rugged and\nChrysotile-Olivine groups five specimens of float consisted of serpentine with cross-fibre\nveins of asbestos varying in fibre length from one-sixteenth to five-sixteenths of an inch,\nwith an average length of one-quarter of an inch. The largely unprospected serpentine\nbelt, containing asbestos in places, therefore extends for 8 miles and may extend farther,\nin a northerly direction at least. A 210 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nLaboratory determinations of rock and asbestos specimens from the above areas\nand from the Rugged group, hereinafter described, were made by J. W. McCammon, of\nthe British Columbia Department of Mines.\nRugged Group.\u2014This property, in the Stikine Mining Division, is on ground between\n5,500 and 7,000 feet above sea-level, about 2 miles northwest of McDame Mountain,\nwhich is shown on Map 381A accompanying Geological Survey Memoir 194. The claims,\nas located in June, 1950, by V. A. Sittler, of Fort Nelson, consisted of the Rugged Nos. 1\nto 7, to which have been added the Rugged Nos. 8 to 14 and the Rugged Fraction. These\nlatter claims were located later in the year by W. V. Smitheringale, consulting engineer,\nfor Conwest Exploration Company Limited, of Toronto, which company acquired the\nRugged Nos. 1 to 7 claims and built the previously mentioned 12-mile branch road from\nSnowy Creek on the upper McDame Creek road to the temporary camp below the claims.\nSittler's three associates, the Kirk brothers and H. Nelson, of Lower Post and Fort Nelson,\nparticipated in the deal with Conwest Exploration Company.\nApproximate elevations above sea-level of the principal points of interest are as\nfollows: McDame Creek road at Snowy Creek, 3,500 feet; temporary camp below\nclaims, 4,300 feet; asbestos showings, 6,000 to 6,400 feet. Timberline elevation is\naround 4,500 feet. The Rugged Nos. 1 to 7 claims are entirely above timberline. They\nare aptly named, as their topography includes rock slides, bluffs, and talus slopes, with\nsome small glacial cirques. The Rugged Nos. 8 to 14 claims cover the lower brushy\nslopes and valley of the north fork of Troutline Creek, which affords safe camp-sites on\nflat to gently sloping ground covered with stunted balsam-trees and brush. The only\nwater available on the property in the summer and fall months is afforded by the north\nfork of Troutline Creek, about 2,000 feet below and 1 mile from the asbestos showings.\nThis creek had a roughly estimated flow of 8 to 10 second-feet when the property was\nexamined in July. The climate in this district is said to be transitional between the\nnorthern plateau and Coast Range types. Winters are severe, and snow probably covers\nthe ground from November to May.\nThe Rugged group area is close enough to the northwesterly mapped limits of\nGeological Survey Map 381A to permit correlating the local geology with some assurance.\nExtensive exposures of granitic rocks to the west and across the creek from the property\nevidently represent the northern extension of the Cassiar batholith, a Jura-Cretaceous\nintrusive mass of great width which trends northwesterly. Specimens of these rocks from\nlocal exposures were determined as granodiorite and granite pegmatite. The bordering\nrocks on the eastern flank of the batholith consist essentially of sediments of the Dease\nseries, tentatively assigned to the Permian and Pre-Permian, overlain by volcanics and\nminor sediments of the McLeod series of Jurassic age. Intrusive into the sediments of\nthe Dease series are basic rocks consisting of serpentine and related rocks, including\nperidotite and augite porphyrite which, according to Hanson and McNaughton (1936,\np. 9), are members of the McLeod Volcanics. It is mentioned by the same authority\nthat their characteristic manner of occurrence in the Dease series is as elongated bodies\nof irregular shape resembling sills.\nThe Rugged group is underlain by the upper beds of the Dease series, and it would\nappear that the base of the McLeod series lies close to the eastern boundary of the\nproperty. The general trend of the sedimentary rocks of the Dease series is northerly\nand the dip is easterly, averaging around 50 degrees. There is evidence locally of folding\nand crumpling.\nTwo discontinuous sill-like bodies of basic rocks intrude slates, argillites, and\nquartzites of the Dease series on this property. The two intrusive bodies consist predominantly of serpentine but include some indefinite areas of peridotite and augite\nporphyrite showing little or no serpentinization. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS\nA 211\nThe main serpentine body is at least 1,300 feet long, and is as much as 450 feet\nwide, assuming an average easterly dip of 60 degrees. It contains the only known\nasbestos deposit of importance on this property or in the adjacent district.\nThe other serpentine \"sill\" lies about 1,500 feet farther east; it is as much as\n60 feet wide and at least 500 feet long. It contains a little slip-fibre asbestos with some\namphibole asbestos along its margins, but going southerly it appears to be altered to talc.\nIts northern end apparently terminates in bluffs across a cirque from the main asbestos\nshowings.\nAugite porphyrite is exposed in appreciable areas on two 7,000-foot peaks, shown\nin the southeastern part of Figure 13, and between the two serpentine sills.\nThe main serpentine sill seems to grade into augite porphyrite or peridotite at its\nsouthern end. Its possible northern limit is uncertain, being obscured by talus and\nmorainal deposits, among which are boulders containing asbestos (on the adjoining\nBlanchard property). Chrysotile asbestos occurs throughout this serpentine body in\nvarying degrees, and amphibole types are abundant along its margins where it is exposed.\nMagnetite occurs generally throughout the serpentine and is conspicuous where asbestos\nveins are abundant.\nAsbestos stringers in serpentine in the McDame area.\nVeinlets of asbestos as much as 1 Vz inches wide are exposed in outcrops of serpentine. The area is rugged and between outcrops is overlain by talus. Several of the\noutcrops are bluffs, and these afforded opportunities to measure the fibre content in six\nsections. The main asbestos-bearing area has an indicated width of 400 to 450 feet.\nThe length indicated is 900 feet, and the actual length may be greater. Exposures of\nasbestos-bearing serpentine are shown in Figure 14, and samples from these exposures\nare described on pages 212 and 214. The percentages of fibre in exposures that permitted measurement (see Fig. 14) are:\u2014 A 212 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nZone Fibre Percentage Section in Feet\n,5.0 . 8.2\n14.4 28.0\nB ' 4.1 8.2\nC 4.0 11.0\nD 1.6 9.0\nE 1.8 15.0\nF 2.2 10.0\nTalus overlying parts of the main showing and extending down the slope from the\nshowing is covered by a thick mantle of \" fluff,\"* that is of fluffed-up asbestos derived\nfrom asbestos fibre of local origin by frost action, weathering, and exfoliation. According\nto W. V. Smitheringale, this fluff fills interstices among the serpentine fragments and\ndepressions in the talus, to a depth of 4 feet or possibly more, as it was not penetrated by\nall test-pits sunk. Abundant fluff is apparent in the talus in an area that, from north to\nsouth, measures 900 feet, the indicated length of the main showing. From the southern\n700 feet of this length, talus with abundant fluff extends southwesterly for 1,300 feet\ndown the 32-degree slope. This extensive area is estimated by Smitheringale to contain\nfrom 14,000 to 15,000 tons of loose material with a fibre content between 10 to 20\nper cent.\nThe following report on specimens submitted by the writer is based on studies made\nin the laboratories of the British Columbia Department of Mines by J. W. McCammon:\u2014\nThe asbestos fibres in the samples are chrysotile and appear to be of a high-grade\ncross-fibre variety. In the vein the colour is yellow to dark glossy green, but when\nfluffed into fibres the asbestos is a good white colour. The fibres can be divided again\nand again almost indefinitely. They are very strong and flexible and can be twisted into\nthreads that are almost impossible to pull apart by hand. Fibre length in the specimens\nvaries from one-sixteenth of an inch to \\Vz inches, with a fair percentage averaging\n1 inch or over.\nSample No. 1.\u2014Two specimens of cross-fibre asbestos in green serpentine.\nSpecimen A: Contains two main veinlets of asbestos\u2014one varies in width from\nthree-eighths to one-eighth of an inch and is irregular and branching; the other vein varies\nin width from 1 Vz inches down to nothing, is irregular, contains small \" horses \" of\nserpentine, and in two or three places it is divided by a parting parallel to the vein walls.\nThe average length of fibre in the second vein is about three-eighths of an inch.\nThere is much magnetite in the surrounding serpentine. This serpentine is mottled\ndark to light green and weathers to a pale greenish white shade.\nSpecimen B: The main vein in this specimen varies in width from 1% to Wa inches\nwith a maximum fibre length of 1 Vz inches. This vein is sheared and contains \" horses \"\nof serpentine. The specimen also contains- two small veinlets one-sixteenth of an inch\nwide. The serpentine wallrock is mottled dark green and contains irregular concentrations of magnetite.\nThe asbestos fibres are very tough and twist into threads that are hard to pull apart.\nWhen fluffed up, the fibres are a good white colour.\nSample No. 2.\u2014Two bags of loose fibre and three specimens.\nBag A: Cross-fibre chrysotile with fibres averaging 1 to \\Vz inches in length.\nThese fibres fluff up white and twist into strong threads.\nBag B: Pieces of cross-fibre chrysotile vein matter varying in width from one-quarter\nto three-eighths of an inch.\nLargest Specimen: Contains one vein of cross-fibre asbestos three-quarters of an\ninch wide. This vein is sliced in the centre and splits into two veins with serpentine\n* Sample described on page 214. 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The capacity of the plant is 2,000 tons in\neight hours.\nThe raw coal is transported from the rotary dump by belt-conveyor to the picking-\ntable, then carried directly by a 42-inch belt-conveyor to the screens whereby the coal\nis sized and the \u2014V4-inch slack removed. When necessary the coal from the picking-\ntable may be switched to the 300-ton storage bin. The bin is used extensively in handling\na portion of the afternoon-shift coal because the preparation plant is idle on that shift.\nThe slack is by-passed directly to railway cars, but the coarser sizes are passed through\nthe Vissac jigs for the removal of rock and other non-combustible material, then over\nthe dewatering screens to the driers, whereby most of the surface moisture is removed.\nThe plant is equipped so that the different sizes, after being dried, may be segregated or\nblended to suit the market demands.\nMichel Colliery.\u2014The preparation plant, erected in 1938, is capable of treating a\nmaximum of 380 tons of coal per hour of operation. The coal is sized by shaking and\nvibrating screens prior to being transported to the rock-removing jigs. All sizes above\n^-inch are treated on three Vissac jigs, and those below ^-inch are diverted to an\nAmerican Coal Cleaning pneumatic table. The moisture adhering to the washed coal\nunder 1%-inch size is removed by a stream of air delivered to four Vissac driers at a\ntemperature of approximately 700 degrees Fahrenheit. To keep the liberation of dust\nto a minimum in subsequent handlings, the coal, as it is loaded into railway cars, is\nsprayed with hot oil.\nComox Colliery.\u2014This preparation plant at Union Bay is of the wet type throughout and handles the output from the Comox No. 8 and Tsable River mines.\nA reciprocating feeder delivers the coal from the track bin on to a 30-inch belt-\nconveyor, which in turn transports the coal to a two-deck 6- by 14-foot Ty-Rock screen\nthat has P\/i-inch and %6-inch perforations whereby the coal is sized to -j-6-inch, \\Va-\nto %6-mch, and \u2014%6-inch. All sizes above %6-inch are treated by two Vissac jigs for\nthe removal of rock, and the \u2014 %6-inch is diverted to four Masco wet-type cleaning-\ntables.\nThe coarser sizes in the refuse are crushed and recirculated through the cleaning\nplant for recovery of the coal that formerly adhered to the rock. The washed coal is\nagain screened to size before loading for market. Because of the difference in densities\nin the raw material coming from the two mines, each coal is, of necessity, treated\nseparately.\nNanaimo Preparation Plant.\u2014This plant, situated near the site of the Old No. 1\nmine tipple, is of the wet type and handles the coal from the No. 10 South Wellington\nmine.\nThe coal is brought to the plant in railway cars from the respective mines and is\ndumped on to a feeder conveyor of the plate type that transports the coal to a Hummer\nscreen, wherein the \u2014 V^-inch slack is removed and diverted to Deister tables for rock\nremoval. From these tables the slack is loaded into railway cars. All sizes above Va-\ninch are treated in two Howe cones, and after cleaning, the coal is again sized by a shaker\nscreen before it is loaded into railway cars. COAL-MINING\nA 247\nLABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT\nDuring 1950, 2,261 persons were employed in and about the coal mines of the\nProvince, a decrease of 45 from 1949.\nOn account of the 5-day week being in force throughout the Province at the largest\nmines, and the legal holidays, the maximum number of working-days is rated at 254.\nIn the Vancouver Island District approximately 8.6 per cent of the possible working-\ndays was lost because of the lack of demand for coal. In the East Kootenay District the\nloss of working-days averaged 15.3 per cent, due mainly to the severe weather conditions\nexperienced in the early part of the year and to shortage of railway cars at certain periods.\nCOMPETITION FROM COAL PRODUCED OUTSIDE OF\nBRITISH COLUMBIA\nDuring 1950 the shipment of Alberta coal to British Columbia totalled 873,558\ntons, coke shipped was 13,951 tons, and briquettes 40,036 tons. The following table\nshows the amount of Alberta coal brought into British Columbia during the past ten\nyears:\u2014\nYear Short Tons Year Short Tons\n1941 304,928 1946 982,413\n1942 652,222 1947 899,403\n1943 963,000 1948 945,700\n1944 678,960 1949 891,132\n1945 868,396 1950 873,558\nOf the 1,341,201 tons of British Columbia coal marketed, 345,635 tons was sold\nfor industrial uses in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Yukon Territory;\n359,574 tons was sold for railroad use in Canada; 19,793 tons was sold for railroad\nuse in United States; 93,619 tons was exported to the United States; and 9,623 tons\nwas sold for ships' bunkers. The amount sold for domestic and industrial uses in the\nProvince was 512,957 tons.\nACCIDENTS IN AND AROUND COAL MINES\nDuring 1950, 2,261 persons were employed in and around coal mines, including\nstrip-mining operations. Five fatal accidents occurred during the year, as compared\nwith one during 1949. The number of fatal accidents per 1,000 persons employed was\n2.21, compared with 0.43 in 1949, 2.04 in 1948, 0.82 in 1947, 1.73 in 1946, 2.05 in\n1945, 1.06 in 1944, 2.80 in 1943, 4.23 in 1942, and 1.47 in 1941. The average for the\nten-year period was 1.87.\nThe number of fatal accidents per 1,000,000 tons of coal produced during 1950\nwas 2.8, compared with 0.52 in 1949.\nThe following table shows the collieries at which fatal accidents occurred during\n1950, with comparative figures for 1949:\u2014\nName of Company\nName of Colliery\n1950\n1949\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd\t\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd.\t\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd...\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd...\nTotals \t\nNo. 8 mine, Comox Colliery-\nWhite Rapids. \t\nMichel Colliery\t\nElk River Colliery\t A 248\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThe following three tables classify the fatal accidents in coal mines in 1950 as to\ncause, as to quantity of coal mined per accident, and as to inspection districts.\nFatal Accidents Classified as to Cause\n1950\n1949\nNumber\nPer Cent\nNumber\nPer Cent\n20.00\n20.00\n20.00\n20.00\n20.00\n1\n100.00\nBy coal-cutter haulage pin pulling out and striking man \t\n\t\nTotals - \t\n5 100.00\n1\n100.00\nFatal Accidents Classified as to Quantity of Coal Mined\nCause\n1950\nNumber\nof Fatal\nAccidents\nCoal Mined\nper Fatal\nAccident*\n1949\nNumber\nof Fatal\nAccidents\nCoal Mined\nper Fatal\nAccident*\nBy falls of roof and coal \t\nBy mine cars and haulage (underground)\t\nBy falling while carrying rail .. \u2014\nBy coal-cutter haulage pin pulling out and striking man\nBy falling off icy railway car \t\nAverage \t\nTons\n1,481,435\n1,481,435\n1,481,435\n1,481,435\n1,481,435\nTons\n1,589,131\n296,287\n1,589,131\n* Excludes coal from strip mines.\nNote.\u2014There were no fatal accidents in strip-mining operations in the years 1950 and 1949.\nFatal Accidents Classified as to Inspection Districts\nNumber of Deaths from Accidents\nTotals\nDistrict\nFalls of\nRoof and\nCoal\nMine\nCars and\nHaulage\nFalling\nwhile\nCarrying\nRail\nCoal-cutter\nHaulage Pin\nStriking\nMan\nFalling\nOff Railway Car\n1950\n1949\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n2\n3\n1\nProvince, 1950\t\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n1\n5\nProvince, 1949 _\t\n1\nRatio of Accidents\nAccident Death Rate\nDistrict\n' Per 1,000 Persons\nEmployed\nPer 1,000,000 Tons\nof Coal Mined\n1950\n1949\n1950\n1949\n2.15\n2.55\n0.88\n3.47\n2.63\n0 81\nProvince, 1950 \u2014\t\nProvince, 1949. \t\n2.21\n0.43\n2.84\n0.52 COAL-MINING A 249\nDuring 1950 there were five fatal accidents\u2014four connected with actual operations\nin underground coal mines and one in the railway yard connected with a colliery.\nOn February 27th, 1950, Giovanni Ferrarelli, tracklayer's helper at Elk River\nColliery, was helping to carry a rail when he slipped and apparently suffered internal\ninjuries. He resumed work after the accident but suffered a relapse and died on July\n5th, 1950.\nOn February 28th, 1950, William Dutka, miner, was fatally injured at Michel\nColliery. Dutka, on being warned by partner that some roof was about to fall, jumped\nacross the conveyor, but was struck by a post which was dislodged by the falling rock.\nHe died on March 5th, 1950.\nOn July 4th, 1950, Thomas Easterbrook, while operating a coal-cutter at White\nRapids mine, was struck on the back by the haulage pin that pulled out. He died on\nJuly 6th, 1950.\nOn August 2nd, 1950, Frederick Simister, pipe-fitter at the Comox No. 8 mine, was\nstruck and fatally injured by a trip of cars while walking along a level. He died after\nadmission to the hospital the same day.\nOn November 19th, 1950, Andrew Nestuk, labourer at Michel Colliery by-product\nplant, was found dead alongside a railway coke car. He had been wetting the coke in the\ncar, which had been on fire, when he apparently fell from the top of the car and was\nfatally injured.\nIncluding the above-noted fatal accidents, 510 accidents involving loss of more than\nseven days were reported to the Department by the management of the various mines.\nAll these accidents were investigated and reported by the Mine Inspectors.\nThe following three tables classify the accidents in coal mines in 1950 as to occupations of the men involved, as to cause, and as to injury. The fatal accidents are included\nin the total.\nAccidents Classified as to Occupation\nOccupation\nUnderground\u2014\nMiners _\u2014 \t\nNumber of\nAccidents\n 227\nPercentage of\nAccidents\n44.5\nDrillers and facemen\t\n 9\n1.8\nConveyormen and muckers\n_\u201e 22\n4.3\nHaulagemen __\n 72\n14.1\nTrackmen and mechanics-\n 25\n4.9\nSupervisors \t\nTimbermen -\n\u2022 28\n 27\n5.5\n5.3\nCoal-cutters \t\n 14\n2.7\nMiscellaneous\t\nSurface\u2014\nShops _ -\n 8\n 15\n1.6\n3.0\nSurface _. \t\n 30\n5.9\nPreparation and coke-ovens\t\nMiscellaneous\t\n 23\n 10\n 510\n4.5\n1.9\nTotals\t\n100.0 A 250\nCause\nreport of the minister of mines, 1950\nAccidents Classified as to Cause\nNumber of\nAccidents\n\u201e 145\nFall of ground\t\nFall of material and flying material 57\nLifting and handling equipment and material 120\nMachinery and tools 70\nSlipped and tripped 75\nFalling off staging and platforms 15\nMiscellaneous 28\nPercentage of\nAccidents\n28.4\n11.2\n23.5\n13.8\n14.7\n2.9\n5.5\nTotals 510\nAccidents Classified as to Injury\nInjury\nHead and neck\nEyes \t\nTrunk \t\nBack\t\nArms \t\nHands and fingers.\nLegs \t\nFeet\t\nToes \t\nNumber of\nAccidents\n_, 30\n_ 17\n_ 82\n__ 76\n_ 28\n.. 97\n_ 109\n_ 35\n_ 31\n100.0\nPercentage of\nAccidents\n6.0\n3.4 -\n16.3\n15.0\n5.5\n19.2\n21.5\n7.0\n6.1\nTotals 505\nFatal 5\n100.0\nTotal\n510 COAL-MINING\nEXPLOSIVES\nA 251\nThe following table shows the quantity of explosives used in coal mines during\n1950, together with the number of shots fired, tons of coal produced per pound of explosive used, and the average number of pounds of explosive per shot fired (these\nquantities include all the explosives used for breaking coal and for rock work in coal\nmines):\u2014\nVancouver Island District\nColliery\nQuantity\nof\nExplosives\nUsed\n(Pounds)\nCoal\nMined\n(Tons)\nTotal\nNumber\nof Shots\nFired\nAverage\nTons of\nCoal per\nPound of\nExplosive\nUsed\nAverage\nPounds of\nExplosive\nper Shot\nFired\nComox Colliery (No. 8 mine)..\nTsable River Colliery-\nSouth Wellington No. 10 mine-\nWhite Rapids mine\t\nBright mine\t\nChambers mine '.\t\nLoudon mine \t\nLewis mine (Timberlands)..\nDeer Home mine \t\nWellington mine (Carruthers).\nStronach mine __ \t\nFurnace Portal mine..\nCassidy mine\t\nTotals for district .\n52,150\n54,100\n62,900\n9,150\n400\n1,600\n1,200\n150\n600\n1,600\n700\n1,100\n185,650\n216,385\n99,256\n214,858\n33,078\n1,978\n2,239\n989\n672\n474\n623\n1,640\n1,195\n1,841\n86,000\n64,000\n60,950\n20,000\n700\n1,628\n1,500\n275\n840\n1,600\n900\n2,250\n575,228\n240,643\n4.15\n1.83\n3.41\n3.61\n5.59\n0.62\n0.56\n3.16\n1.04\n1.02\n1.70\n1.67\n3.10\n0.66\n0.84\n1.03\n0.45\n0^57\n0.98\n0.80\n0.54\n0.71\n1.00\n0.78\n0.50\n0.77\nNicola-Princeton District\nTulameen Collieries Ltd \t\nTaylor Burson mine\t\n400\n150\n1,550\n300\n11,048\n4,400\n1,145\n25\n1,311\n926\n150\n1,550\n27.62\n29.33\n0.74\n4.37\n0.43\n1.00\n1.00\n300\n1.00\n2,400\n17,929\n2,926\n7.47\n0.82\nNorthern District\n3,660\n1,600\n1,100\n1,240\n12,563\n4,941\n5,632\n1,985\n2,928\n1,100\n1,600\n2,000\n3.43\n3.08\n5.12\n1.60\n1.25\nReschke mine - .\t\nPeace River mine \u2014\t\n1.45\n0.70\n0.62\n7,600\n25,121\n7,628\n3.30\n1.00\nEast Kootenay District\nElk River Colliery. . _ . .\n23,800\n71,420\n304,943\n808,696\n24,750\n25,150\n65,941\n12.81\n11.32\n0.95\n1.08\n95,220\n1,138,389\n91,091\n11.95\n1.04\n290,870\n1,756,667\n342,288\n6.03\n0.84\nQuantity of Different Explosives Used\nMonobel of different grades-\nPermissible rock powder\t\nLb.\n283,417\n7,603\nTotaL\n291,020 A 252\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nMACHINE-MINED COAL\nDuring the year 1950 mining-machines produced approximately 871,367 tons or 50\nper cent of the total output from underground mining. All strip-mine coal is removed by\nmechanical means.\nNumber Driven by\nType of Machine Used\nDistrict\nElectricity\nCompressed\nAir\nChain\nUndercutting\nPuncher\nType\n1\n30\n7\n5\n48\n27\n2\n17\n3\n7\nNorthern District\n4\nFast Kootenay\n31\nTotals\n1\n90\n46\n45\nIn addition to the above, 211 air-picks were used in the mines of The Crow's Nest\nPass Coal Company.\nSAFETY LAMPS\nThere were 2,298 safety lamps in use in the mines of the Province. Of this number,\n195 were flame safety lamps and 2,103 were approved electric lamps, mostly the Edison\nmodel.\nApproved Safety Lamps\u2014Electric and Flame\nThe following is a list of approved safety lamps, electric and flame:\u2014\nThe Wolf lamp, flame type.\nThe Koehler lamp, flame type.\nThe Edison electric lamp (cap) as Approval No. 18 of the United States\nBureau of Mines, and all Edison cap lamps up to and including Model P,\ncarrying the Approval Certificate No. 26 of the United States Bureau of\nMines; Model R-4, Approval No. 29.\nThe Wheat electric lamp and having Approval No. 20, as issued by the United\nStates Bureau of Mines.\nThe Wolf electric lamp, No. 830c\nThe electric lamp manufactured by the Portable Lamp and Equipment Company, under Approval No. 27 of the United States Bureau of Mines.\nM.S.A. single-cell trip lamp, carrying United States Bureau of Mines Approval\nNo. 1009, approved for use on haulage trips in mines.\nELECTRICITY\nElectricity is used for various purposes on the surface at nine coal mines and\nunderground at six. A total of 19,222 horsepower was used in and about these mines.\nDetailed information as to how and where this power is used is given in the report of the\nElectrical Inspector of Mines.\nVENTILATION\nInformation regarding the quantity of air passing in the main airways and working-\nplaces in the various mines is given in the reports of the District Inspectors. Blasting\noperations are not allowed in working-places where methane can be detected on the flame\nof a safety lamp.\nIn a few instances it has been necessary for the District Inspector to issue orders\nprohibiting blasting, but where a gas-cap was detected on the flame of a safety lamp the COAL-MINING\nfireboss usually stopped blasting operations immediately. It has been found\ntion visits that generally the quantity of air passing through the airways is\nmeet requirements.\nMETHANE DETECTION\nA 253\non inspec-\nadequate to\nThe principal instruments used to detect small percentages of methane gas in the\nmines are the Burrell gas detector and the M.S.A. detector.\nRegular tests are made on every shift in the working-places and roadways by the\nfirebosses and other mine officials, principally by means of the flame safety lamp. Every\ncandidate for a miner's certificate must show a thorough knowledge of the flame safety\nlamp, of handling it safely, and the method of testing for methane gas before he is given\na certificate.\nMINE-AIR SAMPLES\nIn addition to regular tests made by use of the flame safety lamp and methane\ndetector, the Inspector of Mines in each district takes mine-air samples regularly in main\nreturn airways and the return airways of the various splits, so that a complete record\nmay be kept of the condition of the air passing through the mine. During 1950 twenty-\nnine samples were taken.\nINSPECTION COMMITTEES\nThe provisions of the \"Coal-mines Regulation Act,\" section 65, General Rule 14,\nrequire that an inspection committee of workmen shall inspect the mines regularly on\nbehalf of the workmen and make a true report of the conditions found. In all the larger\nmines of the Province this rule is fully observed and copies of the reports are sent to the\nInspector for the district. The work of these committees is valuable and assists in furthering the interests of safety at the various mines.\nCOAL DUST\nThe danger of accumulations of coal dust on the roadways and in the working-places\nis fully realized, and as a rule the regulations regarding the control of coal dust are fully\ncarried out. Large quantities of limestone dust are used continually in the larger mines\nto combat this hazard, and the roadways are periodically cleaned of dust.\nDust samples are taken regularly from roof, side, and floor of mine roadways and\nanalysed for combustible content. The reports of the analyses are forwarded to the\nInspector. In 1950, 1,795 dust samples from the various mines were analysed, and in\nall these samples the incombustible content was well over 50 per cent.\nDIESEL LOCOMOTIVES\nEarly in August, 1950, the first diesel underground locomotive to be used in any\nmine in British Columbia made its trial runs in No. 9 mine, Elk River Colliery, The\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Company Limited.\nThe locomotive is a 15-ton 100-horsepower North British type, and is fully permissible for use in coal mines. To date its performance has been satisfactory.\nDANGEROUS OCCURRENCES\nOn March 7th, 1950, in No. 9 mine, Elk River Colliery, William Waller, fireboss,\nheard a dull thud on firing a shot in No. 5 split off No. 7 room, No. 5 Slope district. On\nreturning to the face for examination, he saw a heavy yellow smoke issuing from the coal\nbroken by the shot. Further examination revealed the charred remains of a cartridge\npaper wrapper. Four cartridges of powder had been placed in the shot-hole, but apparently a portion of these burned instead of detonating. A 254 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nOn April 8th, 1950, a runaway trip consisting of four cars of supplies travelled a\ndistance of 300 feet down the main slope, \"B\" South (Slope district), Michel Colliery.\nA ventilation door was smashed, temporarily disrupting the ventilation, and four sets of\ntimber were dislodged. One of the cars was damaged. The runaway was apparently due\nto negligence on the part of the rope-rider.\nOn April 20th, 1950, a small ignition of methane gas occurred at the back of the\nbroken coal immediately after the firing of a top breaking-in shot in the coal on No. 1\nLeft level, off No. 3 Right level, No. 8 mine, Comox Colliery. The hole was loaded with\n10 ounces of Polar Monobel explosive, and the flame extinguished itself after a few\nseconds.\nOn June 12th, 1950, ignition of methane gas was observed at the back of the cut\nfollowing the firing of a top breaking-in shot in the coal on No. 1 Left wall off No. 3 Right\nlevel, No. 8 mine, Comox Colliery. The shot-hole had been loaded with 10 ounces of\nPolar Monobel explosive. The flame extinguished itself within a few seconds.\nFollowing the above two occurrences, recommendations were put into effect which\nincluded improved blocking of the cut coal to prevent fractures at the back of the cut, and\nmore careful attention to the drilling of shot-holes, to plugging the back of holes with rock\ndust, and to general safety precautions by shot-firers.\nAt 8 p.m. on November 25th, 1950, a watchman at the Michel Colliery discovered\nsmoke in the coal-preparation plant, but could not see any visible signs of flame. Investigation disclosed that under the No. 5 drier a loose plank and coal dust around it were\nsmouldering. Prompt action extinguished the fire and no damage was done.\nBUMPS\nIndications of a \" bump \" or \" bumps \" having occurred around the Nos. 4 and 6\nWest roadways, No. 1 East mine, Elk River Colliery, were found on March 12th, 1950,\nfollowing a week-end stoppage of work. Track was damaged on the No. 4 West parting,\nseveral sets of timber were broken, two ventilation doors were damaged, and sufficient\nforce was developed to derail a number of cars standing on the parting. The track at the\nentrance to No. 6 West roadway, as on the slope between Nos. 4 and 6 West roadways,\nwas heaved about 12 inches, and several timbers were damaged.\nThere were no men in the mine at the time of the occurrences, but it was reported\nby some residents of the village of Coal Creek, which is near by, that two distinct earth\ntremors were felt about 5 p.m. on March 12th, the probable time of the bumps.\nIn No. 1 East mine, Elk River Colliery, at 11.40 a.m. on November 23rd, 1950, a\nheavy bump occurred, centring around the approach to the No. 6 West parting. No one\nwas injured, but the damage was quite extensive, with a general heaving of the floor within\n150 feet, and in some parts practically to the roof. Sixteen men, who were inby at the\ntime of this occurrence, were able to work their way out through old workings an hour\nlater. The ventilation was not disrupted, neither was there any quantity of gas liberated\nby the bump. Considerable discomfort was experienced by the trapped men, however,\nfrom the shock of the bump and the quantity of fine coal dust suspended in the ventilating\ncurrent for about fifteen minutes following the occurrence.\nIt was thought that a contributory cause to the bump was the presence of a comparatively large pillar of coal in the vicinity of the occurrence, and steps were taken to\nsplit the pillar. Mining in that area consists entirely of pillar drawing.\nTwo other bumps, both of a minor nature, were also reported and investigated during\nthe year. One at the No. 1 East mine on April 18th and one in the No. 9 mine on\nOctober 23rd, both at Elk River Colliery. Two miners were involved in the former, one\nsustaining a slight injury. No material damage was caused in either case. COAL-MINING\nPROSECUTIONS\nA 255\nDate\nColliery\nOccupation\nof Defendant\nOffence Charged\nJudgment\nMar. 23....\nMichel (Crow's Nest Pass Coal\nCo. Ltd.)\nWhite Rapids (Canadian Collieries (D.) Ltd.)\nMichel (Crow's Nest Pass Coal\nCo. Ltd.)\nMichel (Crow's Nest Pass Coal\nCo. Ltd.)\nJumped off man-trip while in motion\t\nLoaded and fired more than one shot\nsimultaneously\nTook flame safety lamp into mine before it was examined\nCreating a disturbance in the mine\t\nFined $27 and costs.\nAug. 8\nAug. 18 ....\nAug. 18....\nFireboss\nBratticeman\nMiner ,.\nFined $75 and costs.\nFined $10 and costs.\nFined $10 and costs.\nSUPERVISION OF COAL MINES\nDuring 1950 seventeen companies operated twenty-six mines, employing 1,745 men\nunderground. In the supervision of underground employees there were 7 managers, 14\novermen, and 98 firebosses, or approximately 1 official for every 14 men underground.\n\" COAL SALES ACT \"\nList of Registered Names of British Columbia Coals, Approved by the Chief\nInspector of Mines, in Accordance with the Provisions of the \" Coal Sales\nAct.\"\nRegistered Names\nof Coal\nColliery and District\nProducing Company\nComox \t\nLadysmith-Wellington\nHi-Carbon \t\nOld Wellington\t\nChambers-Extension...\nCassidy-Wellington \u2014\nTaylor Burson\t\nHat Creek\t\nBulkley Valley\u2014\t\nCrow's Nest, Elk River\nCrow's Nest, Michel\t\nColdwater _\t\nBlack Prince \t\nNo. 8 mine and Tsable River mine, Comox Colliery (Cumberland)\nNo. 10 mine (South Wellington) \t\nMixture of Canadian Collieries' coal and B.C. Electric coke\t\nNo. 9 mine (Wellington) ._\t\nChambers (Extension) \t\nCassidy mine (Cassidy) _ \u201e - \t\nJackson No. 1 mine (Princeton) \t\nHat Creek (Lillooet) \t\nBulkley Valley (Telkwa) \t\nElk River (Coal Creek) \u2014 \t\nMichel (Michel) \t\nColdwater No. 3 mine (Merritt) \t\nBlack mine (Princeton) \t\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd.\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd.\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd.\nCanadian Collieries (D.) Ltd.\nR. H. Chambers.\nA. H. Carroll.\nTaylor Burson Coal Co. Ltd.\nCanada Coal and Development\nCo. Ltd.\nBulkley Valley Collieries.\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd.\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd.\nS. Gerrard.\nR. B. Savage.\nBOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR COAL-MINE OFFICIALS\nFirst-, Second-, and Third-class Certificates and Mine Surveyors' Certificates\nThe Board of Examiners was formed on July 10th, 1919. At present it consists of\nH. C. Hughes, Chief Inspector of Mines, chairman; E. R. Hughes, Inspector of Mines,\nmember; and Robert B. Bonar, Senior Inspector of Coal Mines, secretary and member.\nThe meetings of the Board are held in the office of the Department of Mines in\nVictoria. The examinations are held in accordance with the amended rules of the Board\nof Examiners and approved by the Minister. The examinations are held at least once\na year, and oftener if necessary. One examination was held on May 17th, 18th, and\n19th, 1950.\nThe total number of candidates at these examinations is as follows: For first-class\ncertificates, 1 (failed); for second-class certificates, 4 (3 passed); for third-class certificates, 6 (5 passed); for mine surveyors' certificates, 4 (4 passed).\nThe following is a list of the candidates who were successful in the various classes:\u2014\nSecond class: William H. Davey, James E. Morris, and James Fairley.\nThird class: Robert O. Doratty, Alfred James Garraway, Paul Kusnir, Cirino\nL. Salvador, and Arnold Webster. A 256 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nMine surveyor: Rene J. Diamond, Richard Justin Gregory, and Samuel A.\nScott.\nIn addition to the above, interchange certificates were granted without full examination to the following candidates who held coal-mine official certificates of equal rating\nfrom other Provinces or from Great Britain:\u2014\nFirst class: Anthony R. C. James.\nThird class: Edward J. Thomas.\nMine surveyor: L. Dwarkin.\nExaminations for Certificates of Competency as Coal-miners\nIn addition to the examinations and certificates already specified as coming under\nthe Board of Examiners, the Act further provides that every coal-miner shall be the\nholder of a certificate of competency as such. Examinations are held regularly in the\ncoal-mining districts, and no certificate is granted where the candidate has failed to\nsatisfy the Board as to his fitness, experience in a coal mine, and a general working\nknowledge of the English language.\nDuring 1950 there were 146 candidates for coal-miners' certificates; of these, 138\npassed and 8 failed to qualify.\nIn addition to the certificates granted above, substitute certificates were issued to\nthose who had lost their original certificates.\nPermits to act as coal-miners, as provided by the Act, have been granted to younger\nmen by Inspectors in their respective districts. This method allows promising men with\nless than one year's experience underground to work at the coal face as miners under\nthe guidance of an experienced miner.\nThe Board of Examiners desires to thank the different coal-mining companies for\nthe use of their premises for holding examinations where necessary.\nThe Inspector of Mines in each district has authority, under the \" Coal-mines Regulation Act,\" to grant to an applicant, after satisfactory examination, a provisional\ncertificate as a coal-miner, which entitles the holder to follow the occupation of a coal-\nminer for a period not exceeding sixty days or until the date of the next examination. COAL-MINING A 257\nNOTES ON COAL MINES\nVANCOUVER ISLAND INSPECTION DISTRICT\nBy A. R. C. James\nThe output of coal during the year from the Vancouver Island inspection district\nwas 570,613 short tons. This is a decrease of 5 per cent from the output for 1949 but\nis well above the average for the past five years. Production from the mines in the\nNanaimo area shows a decrease of 18 per cent in the 1949 tonnage and may be expected\nto continue to decline fairly rapidly, as this coalfield is almost exhausted so far as workable deposits of any size are concerned. The labour force employed in the Nanaimo\nmines is also declining rapidly and at the end of the year amounted to only about 250\nmen, as compared with 432 men five years ago.\nThe output of the Cumberland mines reached 310,756 tons, an increase of 8 per cent\nover the 1949 tonnage, and the highest output since 1944. This was achieved in spite\nof a considerably reduced labour force in the mines. At the end of the year only 558\nmen were employed, as compared with 721 in 1944. The labour force declined rapidly\nfrom 1940-47 but has remained fairly constant over the past three years. A shortage\nof trained and qualified junior mine officials in the Cumberland mines became evident\ntoward the end of 1950. The present staff of officials is of relatively high average age,\nand few young men have come forward in recent years to qualify for these duties.\nSo far as fatal and serious accidents are concerned, the figures for 1950 are far from\nencouraging. Two fatal and eight serious accidents occurred, this being the highest rate\nfor some years. Four of these accidents were due to falls of ground, three involved\nmechanical haulage (including one fatal), one was caused by shot-firing and resulted\nfrom a direct contravention of the \" Coal-mines Regulation Act,\" and two were due to\nother causes. Four of these accidents could probably have been avoided had reasonable\ncare and forethought been exercised.\nIn addition to the above serious and fatal accidents, 360 minor accidents were\nreported and investigated, representing a 13-per-cent decrease from the figure for 1949.\nTwo dangerous occurrences were reported, and brief details of these are given in the\nprogress notes on No. 8 mine, Comox.\nThe annual mine-rescue and first-aid meet organized by the Vancouver Island Mine\nSafety Association was held at Nanaimo on June 3rd. Four teams competed in the\nrescue competition, and a high standard of performance was maintained. The winning\nteam was the No. 10 mine team captained by J. Gilmour, and the No. 8 mine team\ncaptained by L. Cooper came second. In the first-aid competition, the Department of\nMines Cup was won by the No. 8 mine senior first-aid team captained by T. Robertson.\nAt this meet the Ryan Cup Trophy was awarded to No. 10 mine for its safety record\nin 1949.\nF. Ronald Graham, chairman of the board, Vancouver; Norman R.\nCanadian Collieries Whittal, president, Vancouver; Harry R. Plommer, managing\n(Dunsmuir) Limited director, Nanaimo; E. O. T. Simpson, general superintendent,\nCumberland; J. A. Quinn, district superintendent, Cumberland.\nDuring 1950 this company operated No. 10 mine at South Wellington, White Rapids\nmine at Extension (which was closed on July 28th), and Bright mine at Cassidy, the\nlatter being at present in the prospecting and development stage. In the Cumberland\ndistrict the company operated No. 8 mine and Tsable River mine. Descriptions of these\noperations and progress notes on them are given in the following pages according to\ndistrict. A 258 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nNanaimo (49\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.W.)\nNo. 10 Mine, South Wellington.\u2014W. Frew, manager; J. Wilson, overman; A. Hannah, H. Kirkpatrick, T. Jordan, F. Johnston, J. McArthur, and W. Roper, firebosses.\nThe Douglas seam is worked at this mine, which is now nearing the end of its\nproductive life. The 1950 output came entirely from pillar extraction, which is now\nconverging rapidly on the main haulage roads, and no further development work has\nbeen done. Notwithstanding this, the mine maintained its position as the chief producing\nmine on Vancouver Island for the first half of the year. In 1950 total production\namounted to 214,858 short tons over a working period of 250 days. The average\nnumber of employees was 160 underground and 35 on the surface.\nDespite the fact that extensive pillar extraction has resulted in heavy crushing on\nmany roadways, working conditions in general were found fairly satisfactory in the course\nof inspections. Ventilation was found generally satisfactory and the mine normally free\nof accumulations of methane. Air measurements taken at the last inspection in December\nshowed a total quantity of 103,500 cubic feet per minute passing in the main returns\nfor the use of 160 men during the three-shift period of twenty-four hours.\nNinety-four samples of dust were gathered from the various roadways, and all these\nsamples indicated a much higher incombustible content than the minimum standard\nset by the Coal-dust Regulations. Sixty tons of limestone dust was used to combat the\ncoal-dust hazard on the roadways, and approximately 20 tons was used for tamping shots.\nFirst-aid requirements have been maintained at a satisfactory standard. In addition\nto the main first-aid room adjacent to the lamp-room, emergency stations are located\nat strategic points both underground and on the surface. Two mine-rescue teams of\nsix men each have kept up regular practices at the mine-rescue station at Nanaimo.\nEighty-one accidents were reported and investigated. None of these were fatal,\ntwo were serious, and the remainder were classed as minor. No blowouts or dangerous\noccurrences were reported.\nWhite Rapids Mine, Extension.\u2014A. Newbury, manager; J. T. Brown, overman;\nA. Bennett, J. Marrs, T. McCourt, A. Kirkham, M. Brodrick, and A. Dunn, firebosses.\nThis mine is in Sections 3 and 4, Range 1, in the Cranberry District, approximately\n9 miles by road from Nanaimo. Due to the difficulty of economic working consequent\non the thinness of the seam and other factors, the mine was closed down permanently\non July 28th and all materials and machinery were withdrawn from the underground\nworkings.\nThe Wellington seam was worked, and at the time of abandonment there were four\nlongwalls, each 300 feet long. The coal, which was from 24 to 30 inches thick, was\nundercut by machine and was conveyed along the faces by Meco shaker-conveyors and\nloaded into cars at the road-heads. Production in 1950 amounted to 33,078 short tons\nover a working period of 135 days with a crew averaging 114 men underground and\n11 on the surface.\nThirty-one accidents were reported and investigated, one of which was fatal, one\nserious, and the remainder minor.\nBright Mine, Cassidy.\u2014W. Frew, manager; A. Dunn, H. Brodrick, and J. Unsworth,\nfirebosses. This mine is in Sections 1 and 2, Range 7, in the Cranberry District near\nCassidy, and approximately 9 miles south of Nanaimo. The operation has been undertaken with the intention of prospecting and, if possible, working a virgin area of the\nDouglas seam which lies immediately to the south of the old Granby No. 2 mine workings.\nOperations were commenced in April, 1950, when a two-stage electrical turbine\npump of 600 gallons per minute capacity was installed at the old Granby No. 2 slope\nto unwater the old workings and open up the old slope, which runs due south at an\naverage pitch of 18 degrees to the boundary of Granby No. 2 workings. Unwatering\nwas completed by the end of July, a number of caves having been cleared from the COAL-MINING A 259\nold slope. The coal face is at the lower end of the slope, some 400 feet from the portal.\nThe indications were at first extremely disappointing, and as the slope was driven forward\ninto solid ground, it appeared that the seam had been entirely displaced by rock.\nA diagonal heading was then set off from the bottom of the old slope in a southeasterly\ndirection. As this heading was driven forward, it passed out of the barren area within\nthe first 20 feet and has since continued in coal for 180 feet, the seam section being up\nto 14 feet thick and fairly typical of the Douglas seam. In November a start was made\nto drive the main slope forward again, and by the year-end it had been driven 130 feet.\nThe indications are now that it is passing out of the barren ground. A crosscut from\nthe diagonal has been driven to a point on the line of the main slope 50 feet in front of\nthe present head end and has proved 6 feet of coal. A total of 440 feet of drivage was\ndone during the year.\nThe roof, floor, and general conditions are typical of the Douglas seam, and the\nseam pitches at about 9 degrees in a southerly direction. At the present stage of development, it is not possible to say what the prospects for this mine are likely to be.\nA compressor and a hoist have been installed at the mine, both being driven by\n100-horsepower gasoline engines.\nProduction in 1950 amounted to 1,978 short tons over a working period of 105 days\nwith a crew averaging nine men. Working conditions were found generally satisfactory\nin the course of inspections. Ventilation is at present obtained by natural flow through\nthe old workings and to the end of the year proved quite satisfactory. No methane was\ndetected. Two minor accidents were reported and investigated.\nEight minor accidents were reported and investigated from the various surface\ndepartments of the company in the Nanaimo area during the year.\nR. H. Chambers and associates, operators; R. H. Chambers, fire-\nChambers No. 4 boss. This mine is in the Extension district, and the Wellington\nMine, Extension seam is worked. The workings are confined to a small barrier\npillar between the old Extension No. 1 and No. 3 mines. Operations throughout the year were entirely pillar extraction, and the workings are now within\n200 feet of the bottom of the main slope. Production in 1950 amounted to 2,252 short\ntons over a working period of 180 days with a crew averaging four men. Working conditions were found fairly satisfactory during the course of inspections, and no accidents\nwere reported.\nR. H. Hamilton and associates, operators; R. H. Hamilton, over-\nDeer Home No. 2 man. This mine is near the old Vancouver slope in the Extension\nMine, Extension district and is operating in a small section of outcrop pillars left in\nthis area when the old Extension No. 3 mine was abandoned.\nWork is confined to pillar extraction. Production in 1950 amounted to 433 short tons\nover a working period of ninety-six days with a crew of two men. The mine was closed\ndown for four months during the summer because of lack of orders. General working\nconditions were found fairly satisfactory during the course of inspections. No accidents\nwere reported.\nJ. Biggs, operator and fireboss. This mine is on the Harewood\nFurnace Portal Ridge and is operating in a small area of outcrop pillars left by\nMine, Harewood former operators. Production in 1950 amounted to 1,195 short\ntons over a working period of 153 days with a crew averaging\nfour men. General working conditions were found satisfactory in the course of inspections, and no accidents were reported during the year.\nJ. McKellar and associates, operators; F. Apponen, fireboss. This\nNo. 7 Mine, mine is at Cassidy on Range 7, Section 2, and the eastern 500 feet\nCassidy of Range 6, Section 2, in the Cranberry District. It is a new mine\nand commenced production at the end of 1949. The area being A 260 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nworked consists of virgin coal in a seam which lies from 50 to 60 feet stratigraphically\nabove the Douglas seam. The seam dips at approximately 20 degrees in a southerly\ndirection, and averages 7 feet in thickness, including two rock bands. The upper band\nof rock is 6 inches thick, and the lower one is up to 1 Vz feet thick. The roof of the seam\nis a strong conglomerate.\nThe coal is mined by blasting it off the solid, and a Huwood compressed-air-operated\nrotary drill is used to drill the shot-holes. The coal is hand-loaded into cars which are\nhauled to the surface by a small gasoline-driven hoist. A total of 800 feet of drivage\nwas done during 1950; the mine now comprises a main slope 250 feet long dipping\n16 degrees southwest with three levels driven off on each side of the slope at approximately 50-foot centres, the longest of these now being 150 feet. A counter to the main\nslope connects with an air-shaft, 20 feet deep, from the surface. Natural ventilation is\nsupplemented when necessary by a small fan at the top of the air-shaft, operated by\na 3-horsepower Fairbanks gasoline motor.\nProduction during 1950 amounted to 1,750 short tons over a working period of\n221 days with a crew averaging five men. General working conditions were found satisfactory in the course of inspections, and no accidents were reported during the year.\nJ. R. Wilson and G. Lewis, operators; J. R. Wilson, fireboss. This\nNo. 8 Mine, mine is operating in the Wellington seam in a small area of outcrop\nTimberlands coal that was left when the No. 8 mine was abandoned by\nCanadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited. Production in 1950\namounted to 668 short tons over a working period of 189 days with a crew of two men.\nWorking conditions were found generally satisfactory in the course of inspections. No\naccidents were reported during the year.\nNorth Wellington (49\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E.)\nW. Loudon and associates, operators; W. Loudon, fireboss. This\nLoudon's No. 5 mine is on the opposite side of the ridge from the old No. 9 mine\nMine in the Wellington district and is operating in a small area of coal\nnear the outcrop in the upper Wellington seam. Production in\n1950 amounted to 965 short tons over a working period of 203 days with a crew averaging\nfour men. Working conditions were usually found satisfactory during the course of\ninspections. No accidents were reported during the year.\nR. B. Carruthers and W. Wakelam, operators; R. B. Carruthers,\nCarruthers and fireboss. This mine is in the immediate vicinity of the Loudon\nWakelam No. 3 mine and is also in the upper Wellington seam adjacent to the old\nMine No. 9 mine abandoned workings. Production in 1950 amounted\nto 615 tons over a working period of 191 days with a crew of two\nmen. Working conditions were found satisfactory in the course of inspections. No accidents were reported during the year.\nC. Stronach, operator; H. Gilmour, fireboss. This mine is in\nStronach No. 2 a section of the upper Wellington seam adjacent to the old No. 9\nMine mine. Most of the output during 1950 has come from pillar\nextraction. Production amounted to 2,025 short tons over a\nworking period of 213 days with a crew averaging six men. Working conditions were\nusually found satisfactory in the course of inspections. No accidents were reported\nduring the year.\nComox (49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W.)\nNo. 8 Mine, Comox Colliery, Cumberland.\u2014J. S. Williams, man-\nCanadian Collieries ager; J. Weir, acting overman; L. Cooper and J. W. Smith,\n(Dunsmuir) Limited shiftbosses; T. Robertson, A. Dean, A. Maxwell, D. Waddington,\nT. Shields, A. Jones, J. Vaughan, F. Coates, C. Williams, P. Queen, COAL-MINING A 261\nJ. Queen, J. Clarkson, T. Wynne, J. Knowles, and J. Christie, firebosses. This mine is\nclose to the Lake Trail Road, 2Vz miles from Courtenay and 2 miles east of the mine\ncamp at Bevan. During the latter part of the year No. 8 mine became the leading coal-\nproducing mine on Vancouver Island, with an average daily output of 975 tons. The\nwhole of the output was obtained from the No. 2 seam, whose average thickness is 3 feet\n9 inches, including rock bands,- and which lies at a depth of 700 feet from the surface\nat the shafts. The seam pitches at a gradient of 6 degrees in a northeasterly direction.\nIt is reached by two shafts, each 1,000 feet deep, which penetrate to the lower or No. 1\nseam, where operations are at present suspended due to heavily faulted ground. The\nmine is worked entirely by the longwall system. In December eight longwall faces were\nin operation, four being 300 feet long, two 250 feet long, and two 225 feet long.\nProduction in 1950 amounted to 213,610 tons over a working period of 223 days with\na crew of 320 men employed underground and 27 on the surface.\nDuring 1950 the management has continued the policy initiated in 1949 of installing\nbelt-conveyors for both face and roadway conveying. Four new Huwood 26-inch\nbottom-belt-loading-type face conveyors were installed on Nos. 1 and 2 Left walls off\nNo. 3 Right level, together with two Huwood 30-inch troughed-belt roadway conveyors.\nOn November 20th a Huwood 30-inch troughed-belt conveyor was put into operation\non No. 3 Right level as a trunk conveyor. The two roadway conveyors deliver coal on\nto this trunk conveyor, which in turn delivers the coal into cars at a central loading point\nnear the top of the North incline. These improvements mark a step forward toward\ngreater efficiency in production and greater safety as a result of freedom from noise on\nthe coal face and from haulage accident hazards on the roadways. Additional precautions, however, are called for in dealing with dust, the fire hazard, and the adequate\nfencing of conveyor machinery.\nIn addition to these four new belt-conveyor installations, another Huwood face and\nroadway conveyor has been in use throughout the year on No. 5 Right wall and level on\nthe south side of the mine. On April 4th a Huwood longwall loading-machine was put\ninto operation on this wall but was removed on August 17th, as the results under those\nparticular conditions were not satisfactory as compared with hand-loading on to conveyors. On the remainder of the longwall faces, Meco shaker-conveyors are still in use.\nThe coal is loaded directly into cars at the road-heads and hauled outby to the main\ninclines by small hoists. Throughout the mine the coal is cut to a depth of 5 feet 8 inches\nat a height of 17 inches above floor level by Anderson Boyes longwall coal-cutting\nmachines.\nAn additional Mavor & Coulson Joy loader was acquired during the year, and this,\ntogether with another Joy loader and two Goodman duckbill units, has been employed\non development work. A total length of 1,100 feet of longwall face has been developed\nduring the year.\nWorking conditions were generally fairly satisfactory, except for occasions when\nsmall emissions of gas were encountered. Under the latter conditions, blasting was always\nsuspended pending the removal of all visible gas-caps from the general body of the air.\nThe state of the main airways of the mine was found satisfactory. At the last inspection\nin December, air measurements showed a total of 154,000 cubic feet per minute passing\nin the main returns for the use of 320 men in the full three-shift period of twenty-four\nhours. An air sample taken in December at the upcast shaft bottom indicated 0.72 per\ncent of methane in the general body of the return air. Two hundred and eighteen\nsamples of dust were taken from the various roadways during the year; all the samples\nshowed a higher incombustible content than the minimum set by the Coal-dust Regulations. One hundred and fifty-eight tons of limestone dust was used during the year;\n106 tons was used for treating roadways, and the remainder was used on the faces and\nfor tamping shots. Water sprays are employed on the belt-conveyor systems and at other\npoints for keeping down air-borne dust. A 262 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nFirst-aid arrangements have been maintained at a satisfactory standard, and twenty-\none employees are qualified to render first aid to the injured. A well-equipped first-aid\nroom is available on the surface. One mine-rescue team of six men has kept up regular\nmonthly practices at the Cumberland Mine-rescue Station.\nOne hundred and sixty-two accidents were reported and investigated, a decrease\nof 20 per cent from the total for 1949. One of these was fatal, three were serious, and\nthe remainder were classed as minor. Two dangerous occurrences were reported, both\nof which were investigated fully. The incidents occurred in April and June and took\nplace on No. 1 Left wall off No. 3 Right level on the north side of the mine. Both\ninvolved small ignitions of methane at the back of the cut immediately following the firing\nof a shot in the coal. After full investigation, various remedial measures were put into\nforce.\nTsable River Mine.\u2014S. J. Lawrence, manager; T. Eccleston, A. Somerville, M.\nBrown, A. Cullen, L. Hutchinson, M. Frobisher, and W. Herd, firebosses. The mine is\nin the Tsable River area, approximately 5 miles west of Buckley Bay. It operates in the\nupper or westerly portion of the Tsable River coalfield, being separated from the lower\nor easterly part by a buried ridge of volcanic rocks projecting up into the coal measures.\nBoth these parts of the Tsable River field are separated from the Cumberland coalfield\nby a large \" want,\" the seams having been eroded, and coarser sediments deposited in\ntheir place. The seam section being worked is 8 feet thick and contains several bands\nof shale of varying thickness. Its pitch averages 9 degrees in a northwesterly direction.\nAs developed at present, the mine broadly comprises a main slope and three counter\nslopes driven on the dip of the seam for 2,880 feet from the portals, and a series of pairs\nof levels driven off to the right and left from the main slope at approximately 450-foot\nintervals. The method of working is a modified form of room and pillar.\nEarly in 1950 the main slope was advanced 60 feet and encountered a 20-foot\nupthrow thrust fault. In May the existing workings to the west of the main slope were\ndiscontinued due to an increasing thickness of rock bands in the seam section. Work\nwas then concentrated on the east side of the mine and on prospecting and developing\nthe area beyond the fault at the bottom end of the main slope. In June the driving of the\nleft (west) counter slope through the fault was started, and by December 600 feet had\nbeen driven. The right counter slope was also driven for 300 feet beyond the fault, and\nthe two roadways connected by a crosscut. The seam beyond the fault has proved to be\n10 feet thick, with four shale bands totalling about 2 feet in thickness.\nTotal development work done during the year has amounted to 9,185 feet of drivage,\nwhich includes the main slope and counter slope, levels, counter levels, and crosscuts.\nIn most cases the coal is conveyed from the faces by shaker-conveyors to a convenient\nloading point on one of the levels, where it is loaded into cars. Four Goodman duckbill\nunits are used, and four Anderson-Boyes shortwall coal-cutting machines. Where conditions are- unfavourable for undercutting the coal by machine, it is blasted off the solid.\nTwelve Climax compressed-air-operated rotary drills are used for drilling shot-holes.\nAt the end of April extraction of the coal pillars, between Nos. 1 and 2 Right levels\non the east side of the mine, was commenced. An effort was made to obtain maximum\nrecovery of coal, and a longwall coal-cutting machine was utilized to assist in this work.\nBy the end of the year the operation was completed, and it is estimated that 85 per cent\nof the available coal was extracted.\nTotal production for the mine for 1950 amounted to 97,146 tons over a working\nperiod of 223 days with a crew of 110 men employed underground and 15 on the surface.\nThe ventilation has generally been found satisfactory. It was further improved at\nthe beginning of August by the installation of a larger fan at the mouth of the old prospect\nslope. This fan is a 50-inch-diameter Keith-type fan, and an air measurement taken in\nthe fan drift in December showed that it was circulating 44,000 cubic feet of air per\nminute against a 3-inch water-gauge. The previous fan is being retained as a stand-by. COAL-MINING A 263\nIn contrast to some of the seams of the Cumberland field, this seam appears to give off\nvery little methane at the depths now worked. Frequent tests made with a safety lamp\nduring inspections failed to reveal any appreciable amounts in the general body of the air\neither in the working-places or in the main returns.\nAlthough the workings are mainly naturally damp, 63 tons of limestone dust was\nused during the year for tamping shots and dusting the coal faces.\nFirst-aid arrangements have been maintained at a satisfactory standard. A well-\nequipped first-aid room is provided on the surface, and an ambulance car is kept at the\nmine in constant readiness for an emergency. Three qualified industrial first-aid attendants are employed, one on each shift, and a number of other employees hold first-aid\ncertificates.\nA trained mine-rescue team of six men is maintained, which attends periodic\npractices at the mine-rescue station at Cumberland.\nConditions at the mine were generally satisfactory in the course of inspections.\nFifty-five accidents were reported and investigated, a 15-per-cent increase over the 1949\ntotal. Two of these accidents were classed as serious, and the remainder as minor.\nTwenty-one accidents, all minor, were reported from the various surface departments\nof the company in the Cumberland area, and all were investigated.\nAt all the larger mines in the Nanaimo and Cumberland areas, regular inspections\nwere made each month by the inspection committees appointed by the workmen, and\ncopies of their reports were forwarded to the office of the Inspector through the courtesy\nof these committees.\nNICOLA-PRINCETON INSPECTION DISTRICT\nBy E. R. Hughes\nThe production of coal from this district during 1950 was the lowest recorded for\nany full year since coal-mining operations were commenced in 1907. The greatest loss\nin production during the year came as the result of the closing on April 3rd of the\nPleasant Valley No. 4 mine, Princeton, operated by Tulameen Collieries Limited. The\nonly underground operations being conducted at the end of the year were at the Jackson\nNo. 1 mine, operated by the Taylor Burson Coal Company Limited, and the Coldwater\nNo. 3 mine at Merritt. Joseph P. Wukelick employed four men to hand-strip coal from\na surface excavation at the old Princeton Colliery, and in December four men commenced\nto hand-strip coal from a surface excavation at the Black mine. Surface improvements\nand some underground exploratory work were done by the Collins Gulch Collieries\nLimited, south of Tulameen. The underground workings at the inactive Granby Colliery\nNo. 1 mine were resealed, and the machinery and equipment were removed from the\nproperty.\nNo fatal accidents occurred in the coal mines in this district during the year. Two\ncompensable accidents were reported; one of these was classed as serious.\nThere were no prosecutions under the \" Coal-mines Regulation Act\" during the\nyear, nor were there any dangerous occurrences to report.\nThe Similkameen Valley Mine Safety Association held its annual field-day competitions at the Memorial Park, Princeton, on Saturday, June 10th. Four teams competed\nin the mine-rescue event, which was won by a Nickel Plate team captained by R. E. C.\nRichards.\nPrinceton (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)\nHead office, 716 Hall Building, Vancouver. Thomas M. Wilson,\nTulameen manager; David M. Francis, overman; Arthur Hilton, Thomas\nCollieries Limited Bryden, Frank Bond, William Forsyth, and A. M. Allan, firebosses.\nThe Pleasant Valley No. 4 mine, about 2 miles west of Princeton, A 264 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nwas operated by this company until April 3rd, when mining was discontinued. After\nthis date all material was taken out of the mine. The entrances to the intake and return\nairways were sealed, and the mine was abandoned. The chief reason given for the shutdown was the termination of the contract to supply coal to The Granby Consolidated\nMining Smelting and Power Company Limited's steam-electric power plant near Princeton. The Granby Company was able to purchase cheaper slack coal from Alberta.\nPleasant Valley No. 4 Mine.\u2014Until the mine was closed, development was being\ncontinued in that part of the Main, or No. 1, Princeton seam lying between the abandoned Pleasant Valley No. 2 mine and the old Tulameen Nos. 2 and 3 mines, and 605\nfeet vertically below the seam formerly mined at the abandoned Pleasant Valley No. 1\nmine. The No. 1 North section, where pillar extraction had been completed, was sealed\noff in February.\nThe face of No. 3 slope was advanced to a point 1,150 feet due east from the junction\nof the Nos. 2 and 3 slopes. Nos. 6 to 12 North levels, inclusive, were advanced northeasterly from the No. 3 slope toward the Tulameen River barrier pillar and had reached\npoints varying from 400 to 600 feet from the river. A counter to No. 3 slope was\ncompleted between No. 5 North and No. 7 South levels. The face of No. 3 slope is\nunder a cover of approximately 1,000 feet; this is the greatest depth yet attained in mine\nworkings in the Princeton coalfield.\nIn Nos. 6 to 12 North levels, inclusive, the coal varies in thickness from 5 feet 8 inches\nto 6 feet and includes five bands of impurities totalling from 4 to 7 inches. A section\nof the seam at the face of No. 3 slope, measured on March 29th, is representative of the\nseam in that area, and is as follows: Shale roof; bony coal, 7 inches; coal, 19 inches;\nclay, one-quarter of an inch; coal, 7 inches; clay, half an inch; coal, 6 inches; clay,\nhalf an inch; coal, 4 inches; clay, half an inch; coal, 20 inches; clay, 5 inches; coal,\n6 inches; clay floor. The seam dips southeasterly on a grade of 21 degrees in the workings to the rise of No. 1 North level. The grade gradually diminishes as depth is gained,\nand the dip from No. 1 North level to No. 12 North level is reduced to 18 degrees southeasterly. An analysis made at the Department of Mines laboratory in Victoria of a sample\nof coal taken from the face of No. 11 North level on November 15th, 1949, was: Moisture, 16.6 per cent; volatile combustible matter, 30.6 per cent; fixed carbon, 41.9 per\ncent; ash, 10.9 per cent; sulphur, 0.7 per cent; heat value, 9,825 British thermal units.\nAll coal-cutting in development places was done with post-type punching-machines,\nand in pillar-drawing operations the coal was usually blasted from the solid. The broken\ncoal was hand-loaded into mine cars which were hand-trammed to sidings on the levels,\nand the cars were then hauled to the surface by an electric hoist on the tipple. No\nmechanical loading or conveying was used underground.\nMethane in explosive concentration was given off from the face of No. 4 crosscut,\nNo. 12 North level, during February. The emission continued for several days. Smaller\namounts of explosive gas were found at the faces of two other working-places in the\nlower workings at the time of the same inspection in February. Analysis of the air in\nthe main return airway, taken on February 10th, showed a methane content of 0.2 per\ncent, and the volume of air passing at that time was 35,000 cubic feet per minute.\nAt the time the mine was closed, sixty-six men were employed, and the daily\nproduction of coal was 165 tons.\nJackson No. 1 Mine.\u2014James Fairley, overman; Arthur Hilton,\nTaylor Burson Coal fireboss. This mine is on the south half of Lot 88, AVz miles\nCompany Limited southwest of Princeton and half a mile south of the presently\ninactive Taylor No. 1 mine. A five-year lease dated March 24th,\n1942, was granted to C. H. Jackson, Kelowna, under the provisions of the \"Coal and\nPetroleum Act.\" The lease was renewed for a period of three years from March 24th,\n1947, and has again been renewed for a period of three years from March 24th, 1950. COAL-MINING \u25a0 A 265\nThe property includes the south half of Lot 88 and the southeast half of Lot 86, Yale\nDivision of Yale District, and contains 480 acres. Under agreement with Mr. Jackson\nthe Taylor Burson Coal Company Limited obtained a lease in 1947 to mine coal from\nthe seam where mining operations are now being conducted.\nThe portal of the main adit is at an elevation of 3,047.3 feet and is at the southwest\ncorner of the south half of Lot 88. The seam in which work is presently being done is\nreached through a cross-measure adit driven 170 feet southeasterly from the surface at\nthe tipple. Contact with the seam is made at right angles to the strike at a point 20 feet\nfrom the southern boundary of the property; consequently, all underground development\nis necessarily northward from the adit. Operations were continuous throughout the year,\nand the face of the Main level was advanced to a point 1,220 feet northeasterly from the\ncross-measure adit. A counter level parallels the Main level, with the necessary crosscut\nraises for ventilation. The mine is ventilated by natural means which, so far, has been\nfound to be sufficient for the requirements of this small operation. At a point on the\nMain level 510 feet northeasterly from the cross-measure adit a ventilation raise was\ndriven on the full pitch of the seam and through the surface gravels 225 feet to the outside.\nThe seam dips 50 degrees southeasterly and strikes north 22 degrees east in the\nportion of the coalfield so far developed at this mine. A section of the seam at the face\nof the Main level, measured on September 20th, is representative of the seam in that\narea, and is as follows: Shale roof; bony coal, 8Vi inches; coal, 11 inches; bone,\n1 inch; coal, 7 inches; shale, 3 inches; coal, 16 inches; bone, 1 inch; coal, 10 inches;\nshale, half an inch; coal, 9 inches; clay, half an inch; coal, 16 inches; clay, 1 inch;\ncoal, 3 inches; bentonite, 5 inches; dirty coal, 2 inches; sandstone floor. Total thickness\nof the seam is 94Vi inches.\nNo methane was found during any of the inspections made in 1950. The average\nmonthly output was 325 tons, and a crew ranging from four to thirteen men was employed.\nJoseph P. Wukelick employed four men to hand-strip coal from\nPrinceton Colliery a surface excavation formerly made by Fred Mannix and Company,\nNo. 1 Mine Limited, on the site of the old Princeton Colliery, No. 1 mine, on\nLot 1822, adjoining the town of Princeton to the south. Operations were confined to mining coal by hand during the winter, and 1,320 tons of coal\nwas produced.\nIn December R. B. Savage and three partners commenced to\nBlack Mine hand-strip coal from a surface excavation at the Black mine, on\nLot 87, 6 miles southwest of Princeton and about half a mile south\nof the Jackson No. 1 mine, on the site of the former underground workings known as the\nBlack mine. The underground workings were completely removed by the stripping\noperations of Fred Mannix and Company, Limited, during 1948 and 1949. The present\noperation consists of mining coal by hand from an area previously stripped of overburden.\nTwenty-five tons of coal was produced.\nA. S. Baillie, president, Copper Mountain; W. I. Nelson, general\nThe Granby Con- manager, Allenby.\nsolidated Mining Granby Colliery, No. 1 Mine.\u2014This mine is about 6 miles\nSmelting and Power west of Princeton, near the Hope-Princeton Highway. Because of\nCompany Limited high operating costs and labour troubles this mine was closed on\nDecember 4th, 1943, after producing 464,368 tons of coal during\nthe preceding seven years. The mine was developed from two diagonal slopes, the North\ndiagonal and the South diagonal; this system provided for the development of a large\ntriangular area of unworked coal between the slopes. The entrances were sealed, and\nthe water was allowed to rise in the workings.\nIn June, 1947, the seals were removed and ventilation was restored to the accessible\nparts. A small crew was engaged in repairing and rehabilitating the slopes and in A 266 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\npumping water from the lower workings. The mine was again closed in September of\nthat year before repairs were completed and without any coal having been mined.\nDuring 1950 an attempt was made to recover the electric hoist from the top of the\nslope, but because of heavy caving the cost of recovery would have been prohibitive, so\nthe project was abandoned and the mine entrances were again sealed. The two houses\nnear the mine, one occupied by the manager and the other by the watchman, were sold\nand removed to Princeton. The machinery and equipment were removed from the mine,\nand the property was abandoned.\n' Coalmont (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)\nCoal Licences Nos. 17 and 18, covering the north half of Lot 294,\nCollins Gulch and the north half of Lot 293, both in the Yale Division of Yale\nProspect District, were renewed for one year. The licences were assigned\nfrom Francis Glover and Stuart Ney to the Collins Gulch Collieries,\nLimited. Coal is exposed on both sides of Collins Gulch on Lot 294, 2 miles west of\nCoalmont and 2 miles south of Tulameen, at a point approximately 1 Vz miles from the\nTulameen River and about 800 feet above the river. The gulch cuts through the strike\nof the coal measures, and at the point of exposure the coal seams dip toward the south.\nCoal was discovered on Collins Gulch over fifty years ago. The early work done\nin this area included an adit driven into the hillside on the east side of the gulch. The\nentrance to this adit caved, so that the extent of the workings could not be ascertained.\nDuring 1948 Glover and Ney did some prospecting on an outcrop on the west side of the\ngulch and built a road from near the Hayes and Vittoni prospect into the new showing.\nA large seam of coal is incompletely exposed, but it is believed that this is the principal\nseam that was developed at the now abandoned Coalmont Colliery. In 1949 a truck-road\nwas built from the Blakeburn road to Collins Gulch, a distance of about 3 miles. This\nroad was improved by the Public Works Department in 1950.\nUnderground work was commenced in 1950, and two adits were started from the\nwest side of Collins Gulch near the western boundary of Lot 294 and the eastern\nboundary of Lot 293. The upper adit was driven westerly on the seam for 60 feet and\nthe lower adit was driven westerly on the seam for 40 feet. The work done is not\nsufficient to determine the full thickness of the seam and the extent of the included\nimpurities. The gulch in the vicinity of the adits was cribbed over and filled to form\na mine yard. A 50-ton coal-bunker was built, and a cabin was erected. Francis Glover\nwas in charge of the work, and a crew of four men was employed. Work was suspended\nfor the winter.\nMerritt (50\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)\nRobert Murray, fireboss. This property, formerly operated by the\nColdwater Coal Middlesboro Collieries, Limited, is about 1 mile south of the city\nMines of Merritt. Present activity is confined to the Coldwater No. 3\nmine, about half a mile east of the old Middlesboro Colliery office.\nDuring the first seven months of the year the property was operated by C. E. Thomas.\nThere was no output during August and September, and when production was resumed\nin October the property was operated by S. Gerrard and partners.\nColdwater No. 3 Mine.\u2014This mine is in the No. 3 seam, which underlies the No. 2\nseam. The seam is 28 to 30 inches thick, has a hard sandstone roof, and pitches 22\ndegrees in a southeasterly direction. A sample of the coal, taken in 1948 by the operator\nand analysed by the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Limited, gave a heat\nvalue of 14,337 British thermal units.\nThe new slope, started in 1946, was advanced to a point 350 feet from the portal.\nThe first 120 feet of the slope is on a gradient of 14 degrees, and the lower 230 feet on\na gradient of 12 degrees. Four levels have been started from the south side of the slope COAL-MINING A 267\nand are named respectively Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Right levels. No. 1 Right level was\ndriven 430 feet southeasterly from the slope to a fault and stopped. At the end of the\nyear the face of No. 2 Right level had been advanced to a point 490 feet from the slope\nand had reached the fault encountered in No. 1 Right level. No. 3 Right level face was\nadvanced 340 feet from the slope, and the face of No. 4 Right level had reached a point\n40 feet from the slope. The four levels have been advanced parallel to the original\nMiddlesboro No. 3 mine Main level, and ventilation crosscuts have been driven to connect\nthe levels. Ventilation crosscuts also connect No. 1 Right level to the abandoned\nworkings of the old Middlesboro No. 3 mine.\nCoal is blasted from the solid and is then hand-loaded into 1-ton cars which are\nhand-trammed along the levels to the Main slope. The cars are then hauled up the slope\nby a gasoline-operated hoist on the surface. Ventilation is natural and has, so far, been\nsufficient for such a small operation. No methane has yet been detected in the mine\nworkings. The average monthly production, for the ten months of operation, was 107\ntons. Four men were employed underground and one on the surface.\nEast Kootenay Inspection District\nBy D. R. Morgan\nT. G. Ewart, president, Fernie; Thomas Balmer, vice-president,\nThe Crow's Nest 305 Great Northern Railway Building, Seattle, Wash.; T. H. Wil-\nPass Coal Company son, general manager, Fernie; H. Wilton-Clark, general superin-\nLimited tendent, Fernie; A. L. McPhee, treasurer, Fernie; W. R. Prentice,\nsecretary, Fernie. The above company operates two collieries in\nthis district, the Elk River Colliery at Coal Creek and Michel Colliery at Michel.\nElk River Colliery.\u2014(49\u00b0 114\u00b0 S.W.) James Littler, manager. This colliery\ncomprises four mines, each operating in a different seam. The combined underground\noperations are under the direct supervision of three overmen, one shiftboss, and fifteen\nfirebosses.\nNo. 1 East Mine.\u2014Carmichael McNay, overman; Leonard Brett and John Cairns,\nfirebosses. The major operation at this mine, which is the oldest working mine at the\ncolliery, consists of the extraction of pillars formed during the earliest working of the\nmine. The pillars are of long standing, and as the coal is friable it is worked to advantage with pneumatic picks. No shot-firing operations are carried out.\nAll the coal is loaded directly into cars by hand, and the cars are hauled by horses\nto partings, where they are formed into trips. The entire output of the mine is then\nbrought from these gathering points by a compressed-air hoist to the end of an endless\nrope system, now only 450 feet from the mine portal, which lowers the trips on a surface\nincline to the level of the old Coal Creek tipple. From there it is taken by steam locomotive to the Elk River preparation plant, 4,000 feet away.\nThe mine is ventilated by an electrically driven Sirocco double-inlet fan, with provision made for any necessary reversal. The fan delivers 92,000 cubic feet of air per\nminute into the mine, of which 63,000 cubic feet is supplied to the working-faces for\na total crew of seventy men and twenty horses. The remaining 29,000 cubic feet is\ncirculated throughout the abandoned workings. Very little methane is given off by the\npillars during their extraction, and the ventilation was generally good during the year.\nOn account of the difficulty in erecting stoppings in the numerous old roadways encountered, the ventilating current in some areas was rather sluggish. For this reason, considerable coal dust held in suspension was evident at times in some working-places.\nTo prolong the life of the mine, two exploratory roadways from the No. 1 West\ndistrict were commenced in the latter part of the year. These are being driven in the\nseam in a southerly direction with the view of mining an area of coal left in that locality. A 268 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nAs reported in more detail under \" Dangerous Occurrences,\" a heavy bump occurred,\nfortunately without injury to any of the working crew, at the entrance to the Nos. 4 and 6\nWest districts on November 23rd. Two other minor bumps were also reported during\nthe year but did little material damage.\nNo. 4 Mine.\u2014James Morris, shiftboss. All production from this mine, which is\noperated on the retreating system and single shift, was obtained from a panel of workings\noff an incline, driven inby the old No. 3 incline.\nRooms have been driven on a slight inclination in favour of the load to the right\nand left of this incline, and splits for connecting the rooms have been driven on the pitch.\nThese splits later form longwall faces for the extraction of the pillars that, with the exception of an occasional shot, are worked to advantage by pneumatic picks. The coal is\nconveyed from the rooms and longwall faces by shaker-conveyors to the incline, on which\nit is transported by a series of belt-conveyors to a loading point on the main entry. The\ncoal is then loaded into cars and hauled by horses to the mine portal, a short distance\naway from the tipple rotary dump.\nThe coal is of good quality, but the erratic distribution of the ash content and frequent\nappearance of thin rock bands complicate the preparation of the output for market. Very\nlittle methane is given off by the coal. The shale roof conditions are variable, and\nnecessitate a systematic method of close timbering.\nThe mine is ventilated by a Sirocco double-inlet fan that produces 30,000 cubic feet\nof air against a water-gauge of 1 inch, which has been found adequate throughout the year.\nThis fan is reversed in the winter season to act as a blower, in order to prevent the\nformation of ice on the main entry.\nNo. 9 Mine.\u2014Daniel Chester, overman; Ralph Larner, John Sweeney, William\nWaller, Albert Littler, James Corrigan, Paul Kusnir, and Ralph Baker, firebosses.\nThis mine, operating in the No. 9 seam, is one of the major producers at the colliery,\nand since the coal is of excellent quality, preparations are being made to increase the\nproduction.\nConsiderable geological difficulties are being encountered in the development of\nthe workings. The seam in the main and counter levels, which advanced 1,200 feet\nduring 1950, is still thin and was intersected by an 11-foot downthrow fault approximately 300 feet back from the present face. Progress is being maintained in the levels,\nhowever, and two inclines (Nos. 7 and 8) are being driven, inby the fault, to prove the\nseam to the rise of the level.\nMost of the production during the year was mined from the No. 5 Slope and No. 6\nIncline sections, by the room-and-pillar system. The coal is mined by radial-punching\nmachines and pneumatic picks, blasted, and conveyed to loading points on the level or\nrooms by shaker, chain, and belt-conveyors, where it is loaded into cars. From the\nslope section these cars, after being formed into trips, are hauled to the main level by\na compressed-air hoist, situated at the top of the slope.\nSince August the entire production of the mine was hauled from the gathering points\non the main level to the mine portal by a North British 100-horsepower diesel locomotive.\nThis is the first diesel locomotive to be used underground in coal mines in British\nColumbia. Several tests and samples of the exhaust gases and mine air have been taken\nat different periods in conjunction with the operation of the locomotive, and each one\nhas been satisfactory. When the locomotive is not in use, it is stored in the locomotive\nshed outside the portal of the mine. Due to the severity of the winters in the locality,\nsuitable heating arrangements have been installed in the building.\nPreparations are being made to electrify this mine in the near future, and some of\nthe equipment has already arrived for installation. Because it is thought that, when the\nmine is working at its intended capacity, the present tipple arrangements will not cope\nwith the production, preparations are being made to install a rotary tipple on the main COAL-MINING A 269\nlevel, 400 feet inside the portal. The entire production of the mine will be dumped there\nand will be conveyed by belts to the retarding conveyor outside. The latter will convey\nthe coal down the mountainside to the colliery preparation plant.\nThe mine is ventilated by a Jeffrey centrifugal fan, producing 50,000 cubic feet of\nair per minute against a ventilating pressure of 1.5 inches of water-gauge. This has been\nfound to be adequate under present conditions, although isolated small accumulations of\ngas near the roof were found on a few occasions at some of the working-faces, usually\nbecause of defective bratticing. The maximum number of men employed on any one\nshift at this mine was sixty-five, together with three horses. A rock raise 140 feet long,\npitching 80 degrees, was completed in the latter part of the year to improve the ventilating\nsystem of the inner section.\nNo. 3 Mine.\u2014James Anderson, overman; James Brown, Brindley Morris, William\nVerkerk, David Brown, Roger Girou, and Kenneth Kniert, firebosses.\nThis mine, operating in the No. 3 seam, is also one of the major producers at the\ncolliery. Most of the coal was mined from the No. 4 Incline and No. 1 Slope sections.\nThe former panel was developed despite considerable difficulties encountered in passing\nthrough faulted ground. Splits were driven off the level toward the outcrop to the left\nof the incline, and pillars were formed. When the levels had advanced 1,400 feet from\nthe incline, it was decided to commence extracting the pillars. The coal is generally\nmined by pneumatic picks but, when necessary, radial-punching machines are used.\nBecause the coal is friable, only occasional shots are necessary. Shaker-conveyors are\nused for conveying the coal from the splits and pillars, which is then transferred to\nbelt-conveyors which convey it to a loading point on the main entry.\nIn the slope section the roof conditions are more favourable, although some faulted\nground was found in the lower section. Up to the present, all operations have been\nconcentrated on development work, chiefly to the left of the slope, and no pillars have\nyet been extracted. Rooms are driven on level course, being connected by splits for\nventilation, and will be used later as longwall faces. The rooms and splits are cut where\nnecessary by radial-punching machines, but since the coal is friable, pneumatic picks are\nused to advantage, only occasional shots being required. Up to a few months ago gas\nwas being given off freely by the coal but has diminished considerably. The coal is\ntransported by shaker and belt conveyors to loading points in the rooms, and the loaded\ncars hauled in trips up the slope to a parting on the main entry by a compressed-air hoist.\nFrom the parting on the main entry the trips are hauled to the mine tipple by an Atlas\nbattery locomotive.\nIn the inner section of the mine, four inclines have been started near the faces of\nthe main entry. These inclines, Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8, were to be driven to the outcrop\nof the seam, an approximate distance of 2,500 feet. It was decided, however, to abandon\nthe Nos. 5 and 6 inclines after they had advanced 250 feet because it appeared that the\nNos. 3 and 4 seams converge at this point and any further advancement of the two\ninclines would strike abandoned workings in the No. 4 mine. Bore-holes which were\ndrilled verified that both workings were in the same seam. The Nos. 7 and 8 inclines,\nbeing inby these workings, are proceeding.\nThe mine is ventilated by a Jeffrey Aerodyne fan which produces 90,000 cubic feet\nof air'per minute in the mine against a water-gauge of 1.8 inches. In general the\nventilation was fairly good the latter part of the year.\nTo segregate the coals from the No. 3 and No. 9 mines, the erection of a 500-ton\nsteel bunker was started late in 1950. At the end of the year the excavation was\ncompleted, and part of the concrete foundations were poured.\nDuring the year 1,550 pounds of Polar CXL-ite, 21,250 pounds of Polar Monobel\nNo. 4, 1,000 pounds of Polar Monobel No. 14, and 25,150 electric detonators were used\nat the colliery in coal and rock blasting. Six misfired shots were reported. A 270 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nTo neutralize the coal dust, 209 tons of limestone dust was applied to the underground roadways of the mines. Monthly samples of the mine dust were collected\nthroughout the year and analysed. All the samples were above the minimum requirements of incombustible content as set by the Coal-dust Regulations.\nMonthly inspections were made at all mines by the Miners' Inspection Committees,\nand a copy of each inspection report was forwarded to the office of the District Inspector\nthrough the courtesy of the committee members. All report books kept at the various\nmines, in accordance with the \" Coal-mines Regulation Act,\" were examined regularly\nand were found in order.\nMichel Colliery.\u2014(49\u00b0 114\u00b0 N.W.) William Chapman, manager; Irving\nMorgan, senior overman; John Whittaker, afternoon shiftboss; Stephen Lazaruk, night\nshiftboss.\nThis colliery is the major coal-producer in the East Kootenay District and comprises\nfive mines operating in three seams and a coal-stripping operation on the west flank of\nBaldy Mountain, 2Vz miles northwest of Michel. The underground mines are developed\non each side of a pair of rock tunnels, along one of which the entire production of the\nmines is hauled by compressed-air locomotives to a modern preparation plant. The\ncombined underground operations are under the direct supervision of three overmen, two\nshiftbosses, and twenty-three firebosses.\n\"A \" East Mine.\u2014William Gregory, overman; Harry Saunders, Frank McVeigh,\nThomas Taylor, Richard Hughes, and J. Krall, firebosses.\nThis mine, which operates on the left side of the tunnels, is on Ihe eastern limb of\nthe Michel syncline. The seam is from 10 to 12 feet thick, and the method of working\nis room and pillar on the retreating system. Apart from a small main pillar extraction\nabove the main east level, all the production for the year was obtained from the Nos. 1\nand 5 Slope sections. The extraction of the pillars from the No. 5 Slope section, which\nhas been the major producer of the mine for some time, was completed in September.\nDevelopment of the No. 1 Slope section proceeded fairly rapidly, and in order to maintain\nthe output, extraction of some of the pillars was commenced on the completion of the\nNo. 5 Slope section. The roof in general is weak and several small faults were encountered but, wherever possible, duckbill loaders and shortwall coal-cutters are used to drive\nthe rooms and splits. The coal is friable and gassy, so shot-firing operations are minimized and pneumatic picks are used to advantage. The coal is transported to loading\npoints on the levels by shaker and chain conveyors, loaded into trips of cars, and hauled\nup the slope by a compressed-air hoist.\nCertain difficulties were experienced during the year with the ventilation of this\nmine. On January 30th the No. 3 old Sullivan fan, which ventilated this mine and the\nslope district in the \" B \" South mine, broke down due to mechanical failure. It was\nreplaced by a new Jeffrey Aerodyne fan, the latter being put into operation on February\n22nd. In the intervening period, operations were continued by placing the mine on the\n\"A\" West mine ventilating system. The new fan was run at a capacity of 90,000 cubic\nfeet of air per minute until the end of October, when it was found necessary, due to\nadverse conditions brought about chiefly by seasonal changes, to increase the capacity to\n120,000 cubic feet per minute against a water-gauge of 3.8 inches. This brought about\na marked improvement in the ventilation.\n\"A \" South Mine.\u2014Harry Corrigan, overman; Roger Pasiaud and Harry Batchelor,\nfirebosses. All coal mined during the year was extracted from pillars along the main\nsouth level. Due to the depletion of the coal reserves, all production was suspended at\nthis mine in October, and the men transferred to the other mines. A small party of men\nwas still employed at the end of the year sealing off the old workings.\n\"A\" West Mine.\u2014Harry Corrigan, overman; Reginald Taylor, Robert Taylor,\nFrederick Simister, James Walsh, and Mario Pettoello, firebosses. COAL-MINING A 271\nThis mine, the largest producer of the colliery, is operated on the eastern limb of the\nMichel syncline. It comprises two sections known as Nos. 2 and 4 Belt Road sections.\nThe major operation in the No. 2 Belt Road has been the extraction of pillars on\nthe retreating system and is rapidly nearing completion. The roof in general has been\nweak, requiring the closest attention of all concerned. The coal is mined chiefly by\npneumatic picks, only occasional shots being required. The broken coal is loaded into\nshaker-conveyors at the faces and transferred on to a series of belt-conveyors and to\na loading point on the main west level.\nThe development of the No. 4 Belt Road district is being rushed to completion in\norder that production in this mine may be maintained at the present le.vel when the\nreserves in No. 2 Belt Road are depleted. Rapid progress was made in driving four\ninclines off the No. 4 Belt Road to develop a large district toward the northern outcrop.\nThe inclines and crosscuts are mined by shortwall coal-cutters and blasted, and the coal\nis loaded by duckbill loaders on to chain and shaker conveyors to be transferred to the\nloading point on the main west level by a series of belt-conveyors. The entire production\nof the mine is loaded at this point, and large trips are hauled to a parting in the rock\ntunnel by compressed-air locomotives.\nThe ventilation in general was found to be good, and is maintained by a Sirocco\ndouble-inlet fan, producing 65,000 cubic feet of air per minute against a 1.4-inch water-\ngauge. To further improve the ventilation, operations were commenced in November\nto drive the face of the No. 4 Belt Road through to the outcrop.\nNo. 3 Mine.\u2014Harry Corrigan, overman; Roger Pasiaud and Harry Batchelor,\nfirebosses.\nThis mine, operating in the No. 3 seam, is being developed on the western limb of\nthe Michel syncline. The seam is 5Vz feet thick, hard, of good quality, and has a fairly\nstrong shale roof. The average inclination varies from 35 to 40 degrees but is higher in\nplaces. In the present stage of development, four raises are being driven on the pitch.\nThey will ultimately reach the northern outcrop and provide the necessary airways before\nany large-scale operations can be commenced.\nThe mine is operated on a single-shift basis, and in 1950 the raises were advanced\n900 feet each. The faces of the raises are now 1,200 feet up from the main north level\nand still have an estimated 1,500 feet to go to reach the outcrop. The coal is mined\nby radial-punching machines, blasted, and conveyed by shaker-conveyors and angle\nchutes to a loading point on the main north level. A few small faults were encountered.\nThe influx of water during seasonal changes caused difficulties, in that the coal was wet\nand during the winter months froze in transit to the preparation plant.\nThe mine, at present, is ventilated as a separate split by the same fan as the \"A\"\nWest mine. The ventilation was found satisfactory throughout the year.\n\" B \" South Mine (No. 3 Incline and No. 1 Raise Districts).\u2014Walter McKay, overman; Henry Eberts, Sidney Hughes, Douglas Graham, David Thewlis, Sr., Daniel Bob-\nchuk, Frederick Nash, Thomas Krall, and T. Slee, firebosses.\nThis mine is operated in the \" B \" seam on the western limb of the Michel syncline.\nThe seam averages 5Vz feet in thickness, is of excellent quality, has a strong shale roof,\nand an inclination of 30 degrees.\nIn the No. 3 Incline section all operations consist of the extraction of pillars on the\nretreating system. The pillars in the No. 200 raise were completed, and the extraction of\nthe incline blocks is now in progress. Some pillars that remained off the old No. 6\nroom farther outby are also being extracted and will prolong the life of the section. The\npillar coal is cut by longwall coal-cutting machines and conveyed to a loading point on\nthe main south level by shaker and belt conveyors. Very little gas is given off by the\ncoal, and the natural ventilation was found to be adequate throughout the year. A 272 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nThe development of the No. 1 raise panel was completed during 1950, and the\npillars are being extracted rapidly. Radial-punching machines were operated to mine\nthe raises, splits, and rooms, following which the coal was blasted and loaded, where\npossible by duckbill loaders, on to conveyors. The pillars are cut by longwall coal-\ncutting machines and pneumatic picks, and the coal is transferred to a loading point on\nthe main south level by shaker and chain conveyors. This district is a separate split\nto the No. 3 Incline district and was ventilated naturally at the beginning of the year.\nHowever, considerable difficulties were experienced at that time due to intermittent\nreversal of the ventilation brought about by fluctuations in the surface temperatures, and\nit was decided to install a Sheldon fan. The fan was put into operation in April, resulting\nin a marked improvement in the ventilation. The quantity of air produced was 30,000\ncubic feet per minute against a 1.05-inch water-gauge and was found adequate.\nDue to the rapid depletion of the coal reserves in these two districts, another panel\nof workings is being developed off the No. 3 raise inby the No. 1 raise section. As yet\nit is in the early stages of development.\n\"B\" South Mine (Slope District).\u2014William Gregory, overman; Thomas Owen,\nJohn Mclnnes, and William Davey, firebosses.\nThis district is operated to the dip of the main south level, and the major operations\nare the extraction of pillars. The coal is friable and is worked to advantage by pneumatic\npicks, no shot-firing operations being needed, except an occasional shot in rock work.\nThe coal is loaded and conveyed by conveyors to loading points in the rooms and hauled\nin trips of cars to the main south level by a compressed-air hoist. Two headings were\ndriven from the No. 10 Right room and connected to the main south level, inby the No. 1\nraise. It is intended to utilize these headings as slopes later in the development of\nanother slope district inby.\nVentilation difficulties similar to those described in the \"A\" East mine were also\nexperienced at this district, it being on the same ventilating system. During the period\nof breakdown of the fan, however, a booster fan was used in the airway to enable operations to be continued.\nDuring 1950, 55,959 pounds of Monobel No. 4, 14, 608 pounds of Monobel No. 14,\n853 pounds of Polar CXL-ite, and 65,941 electric detonators were used at the colliery\nin coal and rock blasting. Nine misfired shots were reported.\nFive hundred and four tons of limestone dust was applied to roadways at the various\nmines to minimize the coal-dust hazard and for tamping shots.\nMonthly examinations were made by the Miners' Inspection Committees at all\nmines, and copies of their reports were forwarded to the District Inspector's office through\nthe courtesy of the committee members. All report books kept at the various mines, in\naccordance with the \" Coal-mines Regulation Act,\" were examined and found in order.\nBaldy Mountain Strip Mine.\u2014Daniel Coleman, foreman. The coal deposit in\nthis locality is of considerable magnitude, ranging in thickness from 80 to 100 feet. It is\nof good quality, although some sections have inferior coking properties; a high percentage\nof lump coal is produced. The coal is loaded by a diesel-driven Northwest \\Vz-cubic-\nyard shovel and conveyed in 15-ton trucks for AVz miles along a company road to the\ncolliery tipple. A heavy blasting operation was successfully carried out in this mine on\nMay 1st. Twenty-six holes, 6 inches in diameter and ranging in length from 35 to 100\nfeet, were drilled in the seam to the footwall. The holes were loaded with 16,800 pounds\nof Forcite (40 per cent) and blasted by primacord. Loading operations were continued\nuntil late in the year without further shot-firing in the coal.\nExtensive diamond-drilling operations were carried out during the summer on Baldy\nMountain at the northern extension of the present strip mine with a view to further\nstripping operations. The results of the bore-holes were very satisfactory.\nA series of diamond-drill holes was also bored to determine the position of the\n\"A\" seam at the foot of Erickson Mountain above the colliery preparation plant. COAL-MINING A 273\nTo facilitate handling the strip-mine coal, a new truck dump was constructed at\na sufficient distance from the strip-mine bin to allow the installation of a crusher between\nthe two points. A steel hopper, of 25-ton capacity, was erected at the new dumping\npoint. The hopper is discharged by a reciprocating feeder on to a 36-inch belt that\nconveys the coal to a double-roll crusher. The coal is then conveyed by the existing\nflight-conveyor, which was extended to the crusher, to the strip-mine bin.\nAnother alteration that was completed during the year was the installation of a 6- by\n14-foot Ty-Rock screen to screen the coal as it leaves the bin. This makes it possible to\nsegregate the \" fines\" of the strip and underground coals whenever their different coking\nqualities make separation necessary.\nThis new dumping and crushing arrangement has a capacity of 150 tons of strip-mine\ncoal per hour.\nHenry Miller, general superintendent, Bellevue, Alta. Coal has\nHillcrest Mohawk been obtained at various times during 1950 in this company's\nCollieries, Ltd. stripping operation on the interprovincial boundary at Tent Mountain, near Corbin. The major operation of the mine is in Alberta,\nbut the seam, which is 100 feet thick and dips 65 degrees, crosses the boundary into\nBritish Columbia for a very short distance before outcropping on the mountainside.\nAs the quantity of coal available on the British Columbia side did not warrant building\nextensive roads for its recovery, an arrangement was made with The Crow's Nest Pass\nCoal Company, the property-owners, by the above company to operate this extension.\nNORTHERN INSPECTION DISTRICT\nBy A. R. C. James\nTelkwa (54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.)\nF. M. Dockrill, managing director. This property is on Goat\nBulkley Valley Creek, about 7 miles from Telkwa. The market is confined to the\nCollieries Limited district between Prince George and Prince Rupert, the coal being\ntransported by truck from the mines to the railway at Telkwa.\nNo. 2 Mine.\u2014H. Bankhead and A. Robinson, firebosses. This mine is situated\non the west bank of Goat Creek about 270 feet above the river. It is operated in the\nBetty seam, which dips northwesterly on a pitch of 7 degrees. The seam is 13 feet thick\nand contains two bands of rock, 2Vi and 1 Vz inches thick. The top 2 feet of coal is left\nto form the roof.\nOperations during the year were confined to pillar extraction, and it is expected that\nthis work will be completed and the mine closed down in 1951.\nThe coal in the development plans is cut by two Ingersoll-Rand radial-punching\nmachines, and the coal in the pillars is blasted from the solid. The coal is hand-loaded\ninto mine cars which are hand-trammed from the faces to sidings off the main slope and\nhauled to the surface by a small Canadian Ingersoll-Rand compressed-air hoist.\nThe average monthly production for this mine from January to November was 940\ntons. In December thirty-three men were employed underground and six on the surface.\nConditions at the mine were found satisfactory in the course of inspections, and no\naccidents were reported.\nNo. 3 Mine. A. H. Dockrill and D. M. Francis, firebosses. This is a new mine, in\nthe Betty seam on the east side of Goat Creek, about 7 miles from Telkwa. The seam\noutcrops on a steep hillside on the east side of the creek valley about 300 feet above the\ncreek. The outcrop is synclinal in form, and memorials of the new mine are at the base\nof the syncline. The seam is 11 feet thick with three rock bands totalling about 7 inches\nin thickness. It dips at an angle of approximately 7 degrees in an easterly direction from A 274\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nthe outcrop. The immediate working area was diamond drilled during the summer and,\nfrom the data obtained, the operators estimate that they have an area of about 23 acres\nwhich they have reason to hope may be free of any major faulting or other disturbances.\nDuring the latter half of the year the construction of the surface tipple was completed. The coal is brought down about 250 feet from the mine portal by a gravity chute\nto a small intermediate hopper, and from here by an electrically driven Mavor & Coulson\n15-inch scraper chain-conveyor to the storage bin.\nTimbering the portal of the main slope at the Bulkley Valley Collieries' new No. 3 mine.\nBy the middle of November a start was made in driving the main slopes. It is\nintended to work the mine on a mechanized room-and-pillar system, and a considerable\namount of modern electrical plant and machinery has been acquired. The coal is cut by\na Mavor & Coulson Samson shortwall coal-cutter with a 7-foot jib, and shot-holes are\ndrilled with a Siemens Schukert E 47 rotary electric drill. The coal is conveyed to the\nhead of the tipple by Mavor & Coulson 15-inch scraper chain-conveyors. All electrical\nplant switchgear is of modern design and is Buxton-certified flameproof.\nIn December the mine was producing about 40 tons of coal per day. Ten men were\nemployed underground and one on the surface.\nConditions at the mine were found satisfactory during the last inspection, and no\naccidents have been reported. coal-mining a 275\nCariboo\nBowron River (53\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W.)\nD. Wells, president. This property is on Lot 9596, on the Bowron\nBowron Coal River about 40 miles east of Prince George. Activities during the\nCompany Limited year have been confined to improving the road and to driving\na prospect level. The level, 7 by 9 feet, has been driven 48 feet\nin the upper portion of the Six Foot seam, the roof of this seam forming the side of the\nlevel. Mr. Wells informed the writer that it had been found difficult to continue the\nunderground work due to lack of lamps and mechanical drilling equipment, and that\nsuch work had been discontinued at the end of the summer. Air-compressor equipment\nand a supply of electric cap-lamps have since been obtained, and it was the operator's\nintention to transport them to the site as soon as the road surface was fit for the transportation of this equipment.\n[Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1948, pp. 233-240.]\nPeace River (56\u00b0 122\u00b0)\nLloyd Gething, managing director; Lawrence Gething, fireboss.\nPeace River Coal This property is situated on Larry Creek, on the western slope of\nMines Ltd. Portage Mountain, at the upper end of Peace River canyon, about\n18 miles by road from Hudson Hope. The mine, known as Canyon\nNo. 1, is operating in the so-called Murray seam in the lower portion of the Gething\nformation. The seam dips about \"iVz degrees in a southwesterly direction. It is 7 feet\n2^ inches thick, and contains 6-inch and AVz-inch bands of clay ironstone.\nThe workings are approached through two slopes. The one on the west side of\nthe property is at present the main haulage slope and is driven in a southerly direction\n178 feet. The other slope, known as No. 6 Incline, is situated 800 feet to the east and\nwas driven through to the surface from the workings in 1949; it is 560 feet long and runs\nin a southwesterly direction. It is the intention of the operators to use this latter slope\nas their main haulage. A main haulage level connects the lower ends of the two slopes.\nA panel of seventeen pillars has been worked to the rise of this main level, but after\npartial extraction these were abandoned, and a new area of virgin coal is being opened\nup to the east of No. 6 Incline. The main haulage level has now been driven for 200 feet\nto the east of No. 6 Incline, and the company has started opening a series of rooms at\n45-foot centres, which are to be driven 28 feet wide for a distance of 300 feet to the rise\nby means of the Goodman duckbill and shaker-conveyor equipment acquired by this\ncompany in 1949. The coal is cut by an Ingersoll-Rand radial-punching machine, and\nshot-holes are drilled with a Huwood compressed-air rotary drill. Other mechanical\nequipment includes two Huwood pneumatic picks. Power is supplied by a diesel-driven\nGardner-Denver air compressor of 364 cubic feet capacity.\nThe average monthly production of this mine from January to November amounted\nto 374 tons. In November six men were employed underground and three on the\nsurface.\nConditions at the mine were found satisfactory in the course of inspections. One\naccident was reported and investigated.\nQuentin F. (King) Gething, operator and fireboss. This property\nKing Gething is on the eastern slope of Portage Mountain, about 12 miles by\nMines road from Hudson Hope and 72 miles from Fort St. John. The\npresent mine, known as the King Gething No. 3 mine, was started\nin April, 1949. The seam being worked is 8 feet thick, including clay ironstone that varies\nin thickness from a few inches to a foot. Where thick and near the floor, the clay iron- A 276 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nstone is left down, otherwise it is mined out. The seam pitches 16 degrees in an easterly\ndirection.\nAn adit has been driven for 330 feet due north along the strike of the seam. Four\nraises, set off at approximately 70-foot centres, have been driven for 75 feet to the rise\noff the main adit level. A counter level, parallel to the main level and 75 feet to the\nrise of it, has been driven in from the surface for 110 feet. As it advances, this counter\nlevel connects up with each raise, thus establishing a natural ventilation circuit and\na second means of egress. A total of about 420 feet of drivage has been completed\nduring the year.\nThe coal is mined by blasting it from the solid. Mechanical equipment consists\nof a drill and a Sullivan jackhammer. Power is supplied through a small air compressor\nof 60 cubic feet capacity driven by a 25-horsepower gasoline motor.\nA new mine camp was constructed in the early part of the year near the tipple.\nAverage monthly production from January to November, inclusive, amounted to\n163 tons. In November four men were employed underground and two on the surface.\nConditions at the mine were found to be fairly satisfactory in the course of inspections. No accidents were reported.\nJ. Reschke, operator; A. J. Garraway, fireboss. This property is\nReschke Coal Ltd. situated on a steep hillside on the southern spur of Butler Ridge,\nabout 23 miles by road from Hudson Hope and 83 miles from\nFort St. John. Operations were confined to the No. 2 mine. The seam worked is\n5 feet thick and contains two thin rock bands in the top 6 inches. It pitches at 43 degrees.\nAn adit level has been driven in from the surface 800 feet along the strike of the\nseam, this being the main haulage level. An upper level, 330 feet above the main level,\nhas been driven in from the surface for 270 feet to provide a return airway and alternate\nmeans of egress.\nThe coal is worked from a series of 30-foot-wide rooms set off from the lower level\nat 50-foot centres and driven on the full pitch. Eleven of these rooms have now been\nfinished and sealed off; the No. 12 room is used as a manway raise, and in November\nNos. 13, 14, and 15 rooms were being worked.\nThe coal is cut by two Ingersoll-Rand R 47 radial-punching machines and is transported by gravity chutes into cars on the main level, from which it is brought out of the\nmine by horse haulage. Mechanical equipment includes two Davis compressed-air-\noperated rotary coal drills and a jackhammer. Power is supplied by an air compressor\ndriven by a 100-horsepower diesel engine.\nAverage monthly production from January to November, inclusive, amounted to\n372 tons. In November six men were employed.\nConditions were found fairly satisfactory in the course of inspections, and no\nmethane has been detected. No accidents have been reported. Inspection of Electrical Equipment and Installations\nat Mines and Quarries\nBy L. Wardman, Electrical Inspector of Mines\nCONTENTS\nInspections and Investigations\u2014 page\nDangerous Occurrences 279\nProsecutions 279\nSummary of Reports of Inspection 279\nMaintenance _. 279\nTemporary Electrical Installations 279\nSupply-stations \u2022_ 280\nPower Circuits\u2014\nMechanical Protection 280\nService Entrances 280\nIdentification of Circuits 280\nOvercurrent Protection 281\nWiring between Gutters and Switches 281\nSwitches Used as Storage Cabinets 281\nHorsepower Rating of Switchgear 281\nWiring of Different Systems in the Same Gutter or Conduit 281\nGrounding 281\nGround Detecting Device . 282\nTrailing Cables 282\nMotors 282\nLighting Circuits 282\nHoists . 282\nLocomotives 282\nElectrical Blasting 282\nTest-lamps 283\nHeating 283\nFire Protection 283\nPacific Regional Committee 283\nNova Scotia and Pittsburgh Trip 284\nElectrical Power 285\nMine Electrical Installations\u2014\nPlacer Mines\u2014\nSpruce Creek\u2014\nNoland Mines Limited 287\nCariboo\u2014\nA.P. & S. Placer 287\nLode Mines\u2014\nTaku River\u2014\nPolaris-Taku 288\nTulsequah Chief 288\nPortland Canal\u2014\nSilbak Premier Mines Limited 288\n277 A 278 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nMine Electrical Installations\u2014Continued\nLode Mines\u2014Continued\nAlice Arm\u2014 page\nTorbrit Silver Mines Limited 288\nHazelton\u2014\nSilver Standard Mines Limited 288\nCariboo\u2014\nWells-Barkerville Area\u2014\nIsland Mountain Mines Company Limited 289\nCariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited 289\nBridge River\u2014\nBralorne Mines Limited 289\nWayside 289\nCopper Mountain\u2014\nThe Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power Company\nLimited 290\nHedley\u2014\nNickel Plate 290\nBeaverdell\u2014\nHighland Bell Limited i 291\nRossland\u2014\nBluebird i 291\nNelway\u2014\nReeves MacDonald Mines Limited 291\nSalmo\u2014\nJersey 292\nSandon\u2014\nVictor 292\nRetallack-Three Forks\u2014\nLucky Jim (Zincton Unit, Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited)..: 292\nWhitewater 292\nKeen Creek\u2014\nCork Province 293\nAinsworth\u2014\nYale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited 293\nRiondel\u2014\nBluebell 293\nKimberley\u2014\nSullivan 293\nFort Steele\u2014\nEstella Mines Ltd 295\nSpillimacheen\u2014\nSilver Giant 296\nCoal Mines\u2014\nEast Kootenay\u2014\nMichel Colliery 296\nElk River Colliery 297\nTelkwa\u2014\nBulkley Valley Collieries Ltd 297\nNanaimo\u2014\nNo. 10 Mine, South Wellington 297\nBright Mine, Cassidy 297\nComox\u2014\nTsable River Mine\u2014. 298 INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 279\nINSPECTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS\nThe following is a summary of the inspections of electrical installations made during\n1950 at metalliferous mines, concentrators, coal mines, and quarries.\nThe number of inspections made during 1950 is as follows:\u2014\nNumber Number of\nInspected Inspections Made\nMetalliferous mines 34 35\nConcentrators or mills 20 26\nCoal mines 6 6\nWashing plants .. 1 1\nIndustrial mineral mines 2 2\nQuarries ___r 8 8\nDredges 1 1\nPlacer mines 1 1\nTotals 73 80\nDangerous Occurrences\nThere were no dangerous occurrences or accidents involving electrical equipment\nduring the year.\nProsecutions\nThere were no prosecutions involving infractions of the electrical regulations during\nthe year.\nSUMMARY OF REPORTS OF INSPECTION\nThe following paragraphs summarize the contents of the reports of electrical inspections for the year. The observations, comments, and recommendations made have been\ngrouped and condensed to cover generally the subject under each heading. Rules or\nparts thereof are quoted from the Canadian Electrical Code to show the infraction.\nThe rule number is not given because they are not always identical in both the coal-mines\nand metalliferous-mines electrical regulations.\nMaintenance\nNeglecting to maintain electrical equipment in safe and proper working condition\nis one of the most common malpractices. Often electrical equipment is installed and\nallowed to run until a breakdown occurs. An organized inspection and maintenance\nprogramme will usually avoid considerable loss of time. Machines which give indication\nof becoming defective can be attended to at the first opportunity, and minor repairs can be\nmade on the spot. A maintenance programme at most mines would only be a part-time\njob for one electrician. At several mines such a programme is carried on.\nTemporary Electrical Installations\nThere were six major as well as several minor installations of temporary wiring\nwhich required replacing with permanent wiring. The Canadian Electrical Code rules:\n\" Temporary wiring and equipment, which is not in compliance with these Rules may\nbe used but only when under competent supervision, or protected by suitable barriers or\nwarning signs while it or neighbouring wiring is alive and accessible to unauthorized\npersons, such temporary installation shall be made permanent and in compliance with\nthese Rules within a time designated by the Inspector.\" a 280 report of the minister of mines, 1950\nSupply-stations\nThis section covers transformer-stations and main distribution switchgear centres.\nTwo station enclosures required completing; one required a lock on the gate, and\none required more space in front of the switchgear to allow sufficient room for safe\noperation and maintenance.\nThe following rules of the Canadian Electrical Code were not observed:\u2014\n\"No persons, other than those authorized by the Owner, Manager, or Superintendent,\nshall enter an electrical supply station or interfere with the workings of any machine,\ntransformer, motor, or apparatus connected therewith, and when the authorized persons\nare not present the door of such room shall be kept securely locked.\n\"Adequate working space and means of access clear of all obstruction and free from\nany danger shall be provided and maintained about all electrical equipment. Where\nadjacent to exposed five parts such working spaces shall be so arranged that they will not\nbe used as passageways. All handles intended to be operated shall be conveniently placed\nfor that purpose. The working spaces shall, where practicable, have minimum horizontal\ndimensions when adjacent to exposed live parts within 8 ft. of the floor, as follows:\u2014\nItem\nSpacing\nOn One Side\nof Aisle\n(Feet)\nOn Both Sides\nof Aisle\n(Feet)\n150 volts or less to ground\t\nAbove 150 volts to ground\t\n300 to 750 volts in supply station...\nAbove 750 volts in supply station..\n1.5\n2.5\n2.5\n3\n2.5\n4\n3\n5\"\nIn addition to the above, four supply-stations had wet floors. A wet floor increases\nthe chance of electric shock. It is imperative that such floors be kept dry, or if that is\nnot possible, a suitable platform should be installed from which to operate the switchgear\nor do maintenance work.\nPower Circuits\nUnder this heading will be covered mechanical protection, service entrances, identification of circuits, switches used as storage cabinets, horsepower rating of switchgear,\nwiring of different systems in the same gutter or conduit, grounding, ground detecting\ndevice, trailing cables, and motors.\nMechanical Protection.\u2014Power-circuit conductors should have mechanical protection against mechanical injury. In buildings (excepting supply-stations) and underground, this protection should extend throughout the length of the conductors. However, it has been observed that splice-box covers, terminal boxes, gutter-box covers, and\nswitch-box covers have been omitted, leaving the conductors exposed. Should the insulation on the conductors become damaged, anyone coming in contact with that part of the\nconductor could easily receive an electric shock. Also, if the mechanical protection is\ndepended upon for a grounding medium, the continuity of ground is broken where portions of it are omitted.\nService Entrances.\u2014At one property a new service entrance was installed for each\nmotor supplied. One supply service only of the same potential and characteristics shall\nbe run to any building from the same system. Special dispensation is allowed under\ncertain conditions; for example, where an auxiliary service is required for fire-pumps,\nemergency lighting, or in buildings of very large area.\nIdentification of Circuits.\u2014Circuits were inadequately identified at four properties.\nThe Canadian Electrical Code rules: \"All control and protective devices shall be readily INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 281\nand safely accessible to authorized persons; they shall be so located, labelled, or marked\nas to afford means of identifying circuits or equipment supplied through them.\"\nOvercurrent Protection.\u2014The conductor between the buses and the branch-circuit\nfuses should be as short as possible and should be in accord with the following Canadian\nElectrical Code rule:-\u2014\u2022\n\"Automatic overcurrent devices shall be installed at the supply ends of all feeders,\nsub-feeders and branch-circuits which are reduced in section except when the overcurrent\ndevice in the larger conductor properly protects the smaller conductor.\"\nOne installation was not in accordance with this rule.\nWiring between Gutters and Switches.\u2014Two installations were wired so that the\nwiring from a gutter to a branch-circuit switch passed through another switch not in any\nway connected with the circuit. This is not approved practice; wiring should be run\ndirectly from the nearest point on the bus in the gutter to the branch-circuit switch\ncontrolling that branch circuit.\nSwitches Used as Storage Cabinets.\u2014One very poor practice quite often seen is the\nuse of switch cabinets as storage cabinets for such articles as gloves, tools, spare parts,\noil, and grease.\nSwitch cabinets are designed with a cubic content calculated to be satisfactory for\nthe efficient and safe operation and maintenance of the switch mechanism. Filling what\napparently appears to be surplus space with combustible material or conductive material\nintroduces a fire hazard in the first instance and a possibility of short circuit in the second\ninstance.\nHorsepower Rating of Switchgear.\u2014The horsepower rating of switchgear must be\ntaken into consideration when selecting a fused disconnecting switch for a motor branch\ncircuit; ampere rating alone is not sufficient. The Canadian Electrical Code requirements\nare: \"Each motor shall be provided with starting and\/or control equipment rated in\nhorsepower not less than the motor rating.\"\nSeveral switches having a horsepower rating less than the motor rating have been\nfound in use. These switches gave considerable trouble because of excessive heating and\nburning of contacts and had to be replaced with switches of proper rating.\nWiring of Different Systems in the Same Gutter or Conduit.\u2014Two systems inspected\nwere found to have wiring of different systems and voltages in the same gutter and conduit.\nThis practice can only be permitted in accordance with the following Canadian Electrical\nCode rule:\u2014\n\" Except by special permission as noted below, conductors of different systems shall\nnot occupy the same box, cabinet, or auxiliary gutter unless a barrier of sheet steel of not\nless than No. 16 U.S. Sheet-metal Gauge or its equivalent of suitable insulating material\nbe used to divide this space in order to separate the conductors of different systems, or\nunless the conductors be intended for the supply and control of remotely controlled\ndevices, all conductors are insulated for at least the same voltage as that of the circuit of\nhighest potential involved and none of the lower potential conductors are directly connected to any lighting branch-circuit. If a barrier be used, it shall be rigidly fastened to\nthe gutter unless an approved device assuring positive separation of the conductors be\nused. Special permission to vary from the foregoing shall be obtained in the following\ncases:\u2014\n\"(1) A double-throw switch as used in some emergency lighting systems.\n\"(2) The supply and control conductors of remotely controlled devices when\nnot insulated for the same (maximum) voltage.\n\"(3) In the case of supply and control of remotely controlled devices where\nthe voltage exceeds 4,500 volts between conductors.\"\nGrounding. \u2014 The Canadian Electrical Code requires that \"All metallic parts of\nelectrical apparatus and system equipment which are normally dead and insulated from A 282 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nlive or current-carrying parts of the system unless effectively protected by a grounded\nor insulated covering made of fire-resisting material shall be adequately grounded by\nconnection to a grounding system above ground near the entrance to the mine.\"\nEleven installations were not in accordance with this rule.\nGround Detecting Device.\u2014The Canadian Electrical Code requires that \" On all\nungrounded distribution systems over 300 volts suitable instruments or devices shall be\ninstalled and maintained for indicating the presence of ground faults.\"\nThis rule is observed very well now, and it was necessary to advise the management\nof only one company to comply with the rule.\nTrailing Cables.\u2014With the exception of numerous cable connectors being omitted,\nthe general condition of most trailing cables was found to be good.\nAt one mine 9-conductor individually shielded trailing cables have been put into\nservice. One of these cables replaces three smaller cab-tire cables. It incorporates three\nNo. 4 B. & S. gauge power conductors, three No. 14 B. & S. gauge control conductors, two\nNo. 14 B. & S. gauge lighting conductors, and one No. 8 B. & S. gauge grounding conductor. The outer sheath is a neoprene jacket having an over-all diameter of approximately 1.52 inches.\nThe individual shields act as a double barrier between any two conductors.\nThe transformer supplying the lighting circuit is on the load side of the disconnecting\nswitch, so that all conductors are dead when the disconnecting switch is open.\nMotors.\u2014Generally, motors were found to be in satisfactory condition, except that\nsome required guards over the couplings and others required terminal boxes.\nLighting Circuits\nThe main faults found in lighting were overfusing of circuits and the fusing of neutral\nconductors.\nFour installations required maintenance and improvement, and one installation of\ntemporary wiring required replacing with permanent wiring.\nSeveral switch installations required protection against moisture.\nHoists\nThe power wiring for two hoists had deteriorated and required attention. The over-\nspeed and limit switch controls on three hoist installations required adjusting to operate\neffectively. The limit-switch circuit on one hoist was so arranged that the back-out switch\nby-passed all limit switches when in either back-out position, which allowed the operator\nto run the hoist through the limits in the other direction if he forgot to return the back-out\nswitch to the off position after backing out of a limit. The circuit must be so arranged\nthat only the limits in the direction entered are by-passed by the back-out switch.\nLocomotives\nIneffective controller-handle latches and controller interlocks, and inoperative or\nmissing headlights were the main defects found on locomotives. \"Every locomotive,\nengine, trolley or motor car shall be equipped with a head light or head lights. All made-\nup trains shall be equipped with a suitable tail-light.\"\nElectrical Blasting\nThe defects found in blasting systems were an isolating switch used where a switch\nopened by gravity is required (blasting circuits must be energized through a switch which\nwill open by gravity when the closing force ceases to be applied); blasting leads used both\nfor blasting and lighting purposes (blasting leads must be used for blasting purposes\nonly); blasting leads grounded (stray current may be picked up through the grounding INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 283\nconductor); blasting leads not short-circuited; blasting switches not locked (someone\nmay tamper with the switches when the blasting circuit is being connected).\nTest-lamps\nOccasionally electric lamps are found being used for testing. Electric lamps are not\napproved for testing because, if accidentally used on a higher voltage than for which\ndesigned, the lamps may explode and the flying glass may injure the person using them.\nHeating\nLamps are often used for heating in wooden cabinets installed underground. Such\nlamps shall be guarded to prevent combustible material from coming in contact with them.\nIt is more satisfactory to use a resistance heater which does not reach a temperature that\nwill ignite combustible material.\nElectric heating systems shall not be installed in explosive storages. Such places may\nbe heated indirectly by electricity, but the heat must be transmitted by some medium such\nas water.\nFire Protection\nFire-extinguishing equipment is not always installed where required by the following\nrules:\u2014\n\" Where installed electrical apparatus presents a fire hazard each room or space shall\nbe provided with an adequate approved fire-extinguishing appliance, conveniently located\nand conspicuously marked. No chemical appliance which has not been approved for use\non five parts shall be placed in a room containing electric apparatus or exposed lines unless\na sign is mounted at the appliance warning against its use on electrical fires.\n\" Fire buckets of suitable capacity, filled with clean dry sand, stone dust, or other such\nsatisfactory fire quenching material, shall be kept ready for immediate use at or in every\nplace containing equipment as covered by these Rules where they can be effectively used.\"\nPACIFIC REGIONAL COMMITTEE\nA meeting of the Pacific Regional Committee on the Canadian Electrical Code, Part\nV, was held in Vancouver on April 19th, 20th, and 21st, 1950, to discuss problems in\nconnection with the application and interpretation of the Code. The following members\nwere present: L. Wardman (chairman), Electrical Inspector of Mines; S. jC. Andrews,\nCanadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited; R. Commons, The Crow's Nest Pass Coal\nCompany Limited; G. Ford, Bralorne Mines Limited; W. H. Miller, The Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power Company Limited; C. H. Watson, Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Limited.\nThe local representatives of manufacturing and supply companies and a representative from the British Columbia Mining Association were invited to attend, and the\nfollowing took advantage of the opportunity: R. A. Benson, Canada Wire and Cable;\nL. A. Hunt, Bepco Canada, Ltd.; C. C. Simpson, Northern Electric Co.; R. C. Hardie,\nCanadian General Electric Co. Ltd.; J. Tames and E. Piercy, Westinghouse Electric;\nC. H. Mitchell, Mining Association of British Columbia.\nThe meeting opened with the reading of the minutes from the previous meeting.\nA brief explanation of the application of the Code and the function of the various\ncommittees connected with the Code was made.\nMany short discussions took place, and such things as the colour code for wiring,\ninterpretation of various rules, ground fault equipment, control equipment, motor protection, cables and cable certificates, and bonding were discussed the first day.\nThe morning of the second day was spent discussing whether the regulations requiring vaults, fire-doors, etc., for oil-filled transformers installed underground were necessary. A 284 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nIt was thought by one member that Buckholtz relays could be used in many installations\nand the other forms of protection reduced or eliminated. It was pointed out that relays\noccasionally failed, and therefore the other forms of protection could not be dispensed\nwith.\nThe afternoon of the second day was taken up with the following:\u2014\nThe use of air-break and oil-break switchgear was discussed, with particular reference to the maximum system voltage on which air-break switchgear could be used.\nThe regulation which requires a special room underground in coal mines for battery-\ncharging was questioned. It was thought by some that battery-charging could be done\nalong the roadways if permissible equipment was used.\nAn explanation of the ruling which prohibits the connection of underground telephone systems in coal mines to commercial systems was requested. It was pointed out\nthat the purpose of the ruling was to prevent lightning discharges being carried underground by the telephone conductors.\nDifferent types of trolley-guards were discussed with respect to the most suitable\nmaterial to use.\nAt the third session an opinion was expressed that it might be possible to have flit\nplugs manufactured in Canada. It was pointed out that such plugs would not carry a\nflameproof certificate.\nThe remainder of the third session was taken up with a discussion of different types\nof trailing cables and ground leakage protection.\nFive new members were added to the Committee, and the membership is now as\nfollows:\u2014\nL. Wardman, Electrical Inspector of Mines, Department of Mines, Victoria,\nB.C.\nS. C. Andrews, chief electrician, Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited,\nUnion Bay, B.C.\nR. Commons, chief electrician, The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company Limited,\nFernie, B.C.\nG. Ford, chief electrician, Bralorne Mines Limited, Bralorne, B.C.\nW. H. Miller, foreman electrician, The Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting\nand Power Company Limited, Copper Mountain, B.C.\nM. A. Thomas, branch electrical engineer, Sullivan mine, The Consolidated\nMining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited, Kimberley, B.C.\nC. H. Watson, chief electrician, Britannia Mining and Smelting Co. Limited,\nBritannia Beach, B.C.\nR. A. Benson, Canada Wire and Cable, 1494 Powell Street, Vancouver, B.C.\nR. C. Hardie, industrial engineer, Apparatus Division, Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd., 1095 Pender Street West, Vancouver, B.C.\nL. A. Hunt, general manager, Bepco Canada, Ltd., 1120 Hamilton Street,\nVancouver, B.C.\nC. C. Simpson, manager, Power Apparatus Sales, Northern Electric Co., Ltd.,\n150 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C.\nC. H. Mitchell, secretary, Mining Association of British Columbia, 837 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.\nThe concensus was that the meeting had been a success, and it was moved that other\nmeetings of this nature should be held in the future.\nNOVA SCOTIA AND PITTSBURGH TRIP\nIn order to make a study of permissible coal-mine electrical installations, the writer\nwas sent to Nova Scotia in November. The return journey was made via Pittsburgh in\norder to visit the United States Bureau of Mines testing-station. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 285\nThree mines operated by the Dominion Steel and Coal Co. Ltd. were visited, and\nthe main types of electrical equipment\u2014namely, coal-cutters, drills, conveyors, loaders,\nfans, and pumps\u2014were observed in operation, under conditions which could be attained\nor even bettered here. The system of power distribution and transformer housing was\nalso studied.\nAdequate ventilation, an effective dust-control programme, and good maintenance\nof the electrical equipment are necessary to make its use safe. The electrical staff must\nbe large enough to handle adequately routine inspections, maintenance, repairs, and new\ninstallations.\nIn Nova Scotia a wetting agent is used on the coal-cutters to lay the dust. Formerly\nonly water was used; now, with the wetting agent, approximately a fifth of the amount of\nwater is necessary to lay the dust effectively.\nIn permanent roadways electrical-power cables are suspended from fixed clevis-type\nsingle-groove porcelain insulators. The use of readily breakable material has been allocated to roadways where falls of ground may occur. Permanent roadways are supported\nby steel arches or by steel beams and posts.\nAll armoured power cables are insulated for 6,600 volts, the highest voltage in use,\nso that they may be used on either secondary or primary circuits. This adds to the\nefficiency and safety of the system.\nBoth British and American manufactured equipment is used. The distribution\nswitchgear is of British manufacture, and much of the face equipment and rugger hoists\nare of American manufacture.\nThe Dosco Coal Company casts its own splice boxes for connecting lengths of\narmoured cable. Joy connectors are used extensively for trailing cables.\nWhere splice boxes are so far from the surface that hot compound cannot be carried\nto them, a \" cold pour \" compound is used. It consists of two liquids which, when mixed,\nsolidify.\nElectrification, diesel-power haulage, and multiple shot-firing, have greatly improved\nthe efficiency of coal-mining.\nAt the United States Bureau of Mines the equipment used in testing electrical apparatus for permissibility was examined, and a piece of electrical equipment was observed\nunder test.\nElectrical equipment submitted for test is carefully examined and measured to determine whether it meets specifications, after which it is tested by exploding in it a mixture\nof methane and air while it is surrounded by an explosive atmosphere. During this test\nno flame must be seen to issue past the flanges or past the journals, neither must the\nexplosive atmosphere surrounding the piece be ignited. This test is repeated ten times.\nAt the United States Bureau of Mines a test of roof acceleration by the action of\nexplosives was witnessed. The new method of roof support by roof bolting was seen. It\nleaves a clean unobstructed roadway.\nThe method of testing permissible explosives for permissibility was observed.\nELECTRICAL POWER\nDuring 1950 electrical power was used at twenty-two concentrators, on the surface\nat thirty-seven metalliferous, mines and underground at twenty-five of these mines, at one\nplacer mine, on one dredge, in six quarries, and in two clay mines.\nTwo coal mines were closed in 1950. These were Tulameen Collieries Pleasant\nValley No. 4 mine, at which operations ceased on March 31st, and Canadian Collieries\n(Dunsmuir) Limited White Rapids mine, at which operations ceased on July 28th.\nThe Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited Bright mine was opened for exploration work and the Bulkley Valley Colliery was electrified at the end of the year.\nDuring the year electrical power was used on the surface at nine coal mines and\nunderground at six of these mines. A 286\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nA total of 19,222 horsepower used in combined surface and underground operations\nat coal mines is distributed as follows:\u2014\nAbove Ground\nCompressed air _\nVentilation\t\nHoisting\t\nHaulage\t\nCoal washing\t\nCoal screening\t\nPumping\t\nCoke production\nMiscellaneous .\t\nTotal.\nHaulage\t\nPumping\t\nCoal-cutters \u201e_\nConveyors \t\nMiscellaneous\nUnderground\nAverage\nHorsepower\n_ 8,311\n- 1,320\n.. 2,066\n_ 817\n_. 2,824\n_ 251\n__ 506\n_. 1,137\n_ 532\n17,764\n658\n695\n70\n34\n1\nTotal.\n1,458\nTotal for surface and underground 19,222 INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 287\nMINE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS\nFollowing is a brief general description of new electrical installations and of additions and improvements to existing installations. A complete description of electrical\ninstallations not mentioned here may be found in previous Reports of the Minister of\nMines.\nPLACER MINES\nSpruce Creek (59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W.)\nA complete electrical-power system was installed during 1949 and\nNoland Mines 1950. A power plant consisting of a self-regulating 110\/440-volt\nLimited 3-phase Palmer generator direct-connected to a 150-horsepower\ndiesel engine was installed. However, it was found that this plant\nwas inadequate to handle the full load that was thrown on it at times, so the hydro-electric\nplant belonging to the Discovery Mining and Power Company was acquired. This plant\nconsists of an 800-horsepower horizontal waterwheel, manufactured by William Hamilton Limited, Peterborough, Ont., driving a 600-kva. 4,600-volt 3-phase 60-cycle a.c.\ngenerator.\nThree 50-kva. 4,600\/2,300-575-volt 60-cycle single-phase type F power transformers, which are part of the power-plant.equipment, were moved to the mine. These were\noriginally used as a portable transformer-station by the Discovery Mining Company.\nThe remainder of the equipment received with the power plant was one 15-kva. and\ntwo 5-kva. 4,600\/2,300-220\/115-volt type F lighting transformers.\nThe washing plant consists of a belt-feeder driven by a 2-horsepower motor, a pump\ndriven by a 7Vz -horsepower motor, and a 15-foot by 44-inch trommel screen which was\noriginally driven by a 15-horsepower motor but is now driven by a 10-horsepower motor\nthrough a 3-1 Radicon gear-reducer. The 15-horsepower motor is now used to drive a\nmodel 5L3\/VP4 Paramount centrifugal pump which supplies water for the sluicing plant.\nThe gravel is hoisted with a Wild two-drum hoist driven by a 40-horsepower motor.\nOnly one drum is used.\nFor underground haulage a IVi-ton battery locomotive is used. A 5-horsepower\nlocomotive-battery charging unit is situated at the shaft bottom.\nVentilation of the underground workings was originally taken care of by a 3-horsepower fan situated in the headframe. Later a No. 300 type fan driven by a 5-horsepower\nHiggs motor was installed for better ventilation.\nA 75-horsepower C.G.E. 900-r.p.m. 440-volt 3-phase 60-cycle slip-ring motor\ncomplete with controller, grids, and oil circuit-breaker has been purchased to drive the 75-\nbrake-horsepower type 40 Ingersoll-Rand air compressor when hydro-power is available.\nMiscellaneous electrical equipment consists of a timber saw driven by a 2-horsepower\nmotor, a lathe, a table saw, and a planer, each driven by a 1-horsepower motor.\nCariboo (53\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W.)\nThis company started operations on the Cottonwood River in\nA.P. & S. September. The washing-plant components are driven by electric\nPlacer motors, which are supplied from a Murphy diesel electric gener\nating unit. The generator is a 150-kva. 480-volt 3-phase 60-cycle\nunit made by the Electric Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis, Minn. The washing-\nplant components are as follows: A winch driven by a 3-horsepower motor; a 4-inch\npump driven by a 10-horsepower motor; a 10-inch pump driven by a 50-horsepower\nmotor; a trommel screen driven by a 40-horsepower motor; and a stacker driven by a\n5-horsepower motor.\nCurrent for lighting is supplied at 110 volts through a 5-kw. transformer. A 288 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nLODE MINES\nTaku River (58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W.)\nPolaris-Taku (Taku River Gold Mines Ltd.).\u2014Some reorganization of the roasting\nand cyanide plant was done and the 750 level transformer-station was completed. At the\nend of the year the management was preparing to suspend mining operations.\nThe 15-horsepower d.c. plant, which was installed to provide light-\nTulsequah Chief ing for the camp and power for the shops, has been replaced with\n(The Consolidated a U.D. 18-A International Harvester diesel power unit driving a\nMining and Smelt- 50-kw. 550-volt 3-phase a.c. Palmer generator. A Hertner 7.5\ning Company, kw. motor-generator set with single-circuit panel and Exide MP\nLimited, of Canada) 2 control unit was installed for charging the locomotive battery.\nA Mancha little trammer is used for haulage. A 15-horsepower\nfan was installed for mine ventilation, and a 3-horsepower motor driving a 1 cubic-foot-\nper-minute pump was installed to pump oil.\nPortland Canal (56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E.)\nSilbak Premier Mines Limited.\u2014A tram is being built on the Indian mine property, which will be run by a 50-horsepower 440-volt wound-rotor motor. A No. 2\nB. & S. gauge feeder-line has been installed to supply the motor.\nNo alterations have been made to the electrical installations at the Premier mine.\nAlice Arm (55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W.)\nA double-drum E. Long hoist driven by a 125-horsepower\nTorbrit Silver 440-volt 3-phase 60-cycle wound-rotor English Electric motor was\nMines Limited installed. It is supplied with electrical power from three 50-kva.\n13,200-480\/240-volt single-phase 60-cycle English Electric transformers through a distribution centre consisting of an 800-ampere air circuit-breaker and\ntwo Cemco 200-ampere safety switches. A 5-kva. transformer was installed for lighting.\nHazelton (55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.)\nA new bunk-house and residences were built which necessitated\nSilver Standard an increase in camp lighting capacity. Two 7Vz-kva.. 440-\nMines Limited 220\/110-volt transformers were installed in the carpenter-shop to\nsupply the \" upper \" and \" lower \" camp circuits. These transformers are connected in delta with a 71\/2-kva. transformer which supplies the mill\nlights. This arrangement replaces two 7Vz-kva. transformers which served the mill\nbuilding and camp lighting circuits.\nA lathe driven by a 2-horsepower 440-volt 3-phase Westinghouse motor and a\ndrillpress driven by a Wz-horsepower 440-volt 3-phase Robins & Myres induction\nmotor were installed in the compressor building.\nA Mancha trammer was purchased, and a 3-kw. Hertner charger was installed for\ncharging locomotive batteries.\nThe speed of the ore-feeder in the crushing plant was made variable by replacing\nthe 2-horsepower master gear motor with a 2-horsepower English Electric wound-rotor\nmotor with rheostat control.\nA unit cell driven by a 2-horsepower 440-volt English Electric motor was installed\nin the grinding circuit.\nA filtrate pump driven by a 1-horsepower 440-volt motor and a sump pump driven\nby a 2-horsepower 440-volt motor were added to the mill equipment. inspection of electrical equipment a 289\nCariboo\nWells-Barkerville Area (53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W.)\nTrouble was experienced with drum flanges breaking on the old\nIsland Mountain hoist, so a 54-by-60 Nordberg-Bertram two-drum mine hoist was\nMines Company installed late in the year. This hoist was formerly used by the\nLimited Berens River Mines at Favourable Lake, Ont. A new 200-horse-\npower 2,300-volt 3-phase 60-cycle wound-rotor General Electric\nmotor was purchased to drive the hoist. Included with the motor is a 2,300-volt primary\npanel and a seven-step secondary panel.\nThe addition of the hoist made necessary the following changes to the electrical\nsystem and power plant:\u2014\nA 150-kva. 480-2,300-volt single-phase 60-cycle transformer was added to the\nstep-up transformer bank to make it a full delta and bring it to full capacity.\nThe main transmission-line from the transformer-station to the mine portal was\nchanged to handle 120 amperes at 2,300 volts.\nA 450-horsepower General Motors marine-type diesel direct-connected to a 300-\nkva. 480-volt 3-phase 60-cycle 1,200-r.p.m. General Electric generator was installed in\nthe power plant.\nTo improve ventilation underground, a 36-inch Sheldon Vane\nCariboo Gold axial 20,000-cubic-foot fan driven by a 20-horsepower 1,800-\nQuartz Mining r.p.m. 440-volt motor was installed on the 1600 level. Prepara-\nCompany Limited tions are being made to install underground a 200-imperial-gallons-\nper-minute pump driven by a 75-horsepower 440-volt 3,600-r.p.m.\ntotally enclosed motor. A 3-conductor No. 4\/0 B. & S. gauge 600-volt working-pressure\ngalvanized-wired-armoured cable 650 feet long has been installed in the shaft. The\npump will be installed early in 1951.\nBridge River (50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W.)\nThe following alterations and improvements were made to the\nBralorne Mines electrical system. The 60-horsepower sinking-hoist was moved\nLimited from the Empire shaft to the Crown shaft. Two 150-kva. 4,600\/\n2,300-400-volt single-phase transformers have been moved from\nthe Empire transformer-station to the 2073 transformer-station which was cut midway\nbetween the Empire and Crown shafts on the 2000 level. A third 150-kva. single-phase\ntransformer is on hand to be installed.\nThree 50-kva. 4,600\/2,300-440-volt single-phase transformers have been installed\nat the Empire 2000 level station.\nA 600-kva. 2,300-4,600-volt 3-phase transformer has been installed in the Empire\nhoist-room but is not yet connected. When this transformer is connected, it will supply\nthe 2000 level Empire station and 2073 station at 4,600 volts, thus doubling the primary\ndistribution voltage and increasing system efficiency.\nA 75-horsepower motor was installed on the 2000 level to drive a Jeffrey Aerodyne\nventilating fan which delivers 70,000 cubic feet of air against a water-gauge of 5 inches.\nA new lamp-house for eighty Edison mine lamps was completed at the Empire mine\noffice.\nThe reconstruction of the electrical system has been commenced\nWayside (L.A.P. and a new transformer-station has been built. It is a four-pole\nMining Company structure with a platform 5 feet above the ground for the trans-\nLimited) formers. The new station is well away from the mill and mine\nbuildings and will therefore reduce the fire hazard. The three 50-\nkva. 2,300-440-volt and the one 5-kva. 2,300-110-volt single-phase 60-cycle Canadian\n10 A 290 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nGeneral Electric transformers and the one 30-kva. 2,300-110-volt single-phase 60-cycle\nWestinghouse transformer have been moved from the old transformer-station to the new\none, and new overhead lines have been installed.\nCopper Mountain (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W.)\nThe following alterations and improvements have been made above\nThe Granby Con- and below ground at the Copper Mountain mine. The efficiency\nsolidated Mining of the-haulage system has been increased by the addition of two\nSmelting and Power new 10-ton 250-volt Goodman trolley locomotives, type 188-30-\nCompany Limited 68T. Eleven Ingersoll-Rand model 4MMD slusher hoists powered\nby 50-horsepower 440-volt motors have been moved from exhausted ore blocks to the 9-4 block, 13n block, 40 block, 37a block, and 7-10 block.\nAll equipment has been moved from the surface steel-shop to a new building near the\ncrushing plant. This shop contained equipment for sharpening Vibresist steel. Later in\nthe year a change was made to Copco steel and equipment, and a small sharpening-shop\nwas put underground. Only 5 horsepower in small single-phase 220-volt motors is\nrequired for this work.\nA new primary 3-conductor 300,000-cubic-foot cambric-insulated lead-sheathed\nwire-armoured 2,500-volt cable 1,100 feet long was installed from the surface switch-\nroom to the main substation on 6 level via the new surface raise. This supplies all a.c.\npower underground and was installed to by-pass No. 1 shaft.\nTwo single-conductor 750,000-c.m. 2,500-volt cambric-insulated lead-sheathed wire-\narmoured cables were also installed in the raise to supply a portion of the direct current\nto the haulage locomotives.\nThe steam-heating system at the crushing plant was replaced by thirteen electric hot-\nwater radiators with 1,500-watt 220-volt immersion-type heaters. All oil-circulating\nsystems have been fitted with immersion electric heaters.\nAt the Granby mill, Allenby, the following equipment was installed: A new bank of\nMcKay-Downey cells driven by five 10-horsepower motors; a new filter conveyor and\n3-horsepower motor; and a new car-mover hoist and 10-horsepower motor in the filter\nplant.\nAll circuits in the filter plant were overhauled and new bus bars were installed. The\npole-line to the Granby Colliery was removed and the equipment dismantled. The pole-\nline to the Tulameen Colliery was removed.\nHedley (49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E.)\nThree 20-horsepower 440-volt 3-drum 20 MNM-3G Canadian\nNickel Plate Ingersoll-Rand slusher hoists having a rope speed of 175 feet per\n(Kelowna Explora- minute and using 42-inch scrapers were placed in operation. To\ntion Company sink a 46-degree incline for a distance of 350 feet, a single-drum\nLimited) hoist having a rope speed of 200 feet per minute and powered by\na 20-horsepower Howell 440-volt wound-rotor motor was installed\non the 4150 level. A small property called the French Mine Division, which is near the\nNickel Plate mine, began producing in the spring. The following equipment was installed:\nA Holman 500-cubic-feet-per-minute 800-r.p.m. 2-stage water-cooled vertical compressor\ndriven by a 100-horsepower 440-volt Canadian General Electric motor through a V-belt\ndrive; a 6-by-20 Ingersoll-Rand jaw crusher driven by a 20-horsepower 440-volt Canadian General Electric motor; a 3-drum Canadian Ingersoll-Rand type MNM-2F slusher\nhoist driven by a 15-horsepower 440-volt motor, which is used to scrape ore approximately 100 feet from the working-faces to the crusher; a conveyor driven by a 1V2-horsepower motor; a sample crusher driven by a 1-horsepower motor.\nThe lighting circuits are supplied through a 7V^-kw. 440-220\/110-volt transformer. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 291\nBeaverdell (49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E.)\nA new mill was built and began operating in September. A blue-\nHighland Bell print of the proposed electrical installation was received in July\nLimited and was approved. In August the nearly completed installation\nwas inspected and found satisfactory. The power plant is a Ruston\nHornby diesel driving a 219-kva. 440-volt 3-phase 60-cycle a.c. generator. The crushing\nplant consists of a coarse-ore feeder driven by a 1-horsepower motor; a coarse-ore conveyor driven bv a 2-horsepower motor; a screen driven by a V\/z-horsepower motor;\na picking-belt driven by a 1-horsepower motor; a jaw crusher driven by a 15-horsepower\nmotor; an exhaust-fan driven by a 1-horsepower motor; and a fine-ore conveyor driven\nby a 3-horsepower motor.\nThe mill consist of a fine-ore feeder driven by a 1-horsepower motor; a ball mill\ndriven by a 50-horsepower motor; a duplex jig driven by a %-horsepower motor; a Dorr\nclassifier driven by a 5-horsepower motor; a 1-inch D.V.C.S. pump and a 2-by-2 S.R.L.\npump, each driven by 1 Vz -horsepower motors; six lead cells driven by three 3-horsepower\nmotors; two 1-inch D.V.C.S. pumps and a 4-foot conditioner, each driven by a 2-horsepower motor; six zinc cells driven by three 3-horsepower motors; two dry 12-inch cones\nand three wet 12-inch duplex cones; a No. 12 Simplex A.F. feeder and a No. 2 Cornel\nblower, each driven by a Va-horsepower motor; a 4-foot 4-disk filter driven by a 1-horsepower motor; a vacuum pump driven by a 10-horsepower motor; and a sump pump\ndriven by a 3-horsepower motor.\nMiscellaneous items are four unit-heaters requiring four Va -horsepower motors; a\ndrillpress powered with a 1-horsepower motor; a saw and a lathe, each driven by Vz-\nhorsepower motors; a cooling-water pump driven by a Va -horsepower motor; an oil-\npump driven by a 2-horsepower motor; a 2-by-l1\/^ water-pump driven by a 5-horsepower\nmotor; and a hot-water pump driven by a ^-horsepower motor.\nA washing classifier and a sump pump may be installed in the crushing plant later.\nRossland (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W.)\nA Gardner-Denver compressor (220 cubic feet at 125 pounds\nBluebird (Rossland pressure, 870 r.p.m., 5-inch stroke, L.P. 6-inch cylinder, H.P.\nMines Limited) 4%-inch cylinder) driven by a 50-horsepower 220-volt General\nElectric induction motor was installed to provide air for sinking\nan inclined shaft. The switchgear consists of an isolating switch, metering panel, and\ncompensator.\nPower is purchased from the West Kootenay Power Company. Three 15-kva.\n2,300-220-volt transformers step down the potential for the motor.\nNelway (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)\nTwo hundred and twenty feet of No. 000 B. & S. gauge 3-conductor\nReeves MacDonald 2,300-volt cambric-insulated lead-sheathed wire-armoured self-\nMines Limited supporting cable has been installed through a diamond-drill hole to\na transformer-station near the underground hoist-room. The cable\nwill carry power at 2,300 volts and will be continued down the shaft. Six 25-kva. 2,300-\n440-volt transformers and one 5-kva. 2,300-220\/110-volt transformer have been moved\nfrom a temporary position above ground to the transformer-station. They are connected\ndelta-delta and will supply the hoist motor and the slusher hoists in the upper workings.\nTen houses have been built and wired. A 292 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nSalmo (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)\nPreparations have been made to install a 2,300-volt distribution\nJersey (Canadian system underground. The main underground distribution centre\nExploration, will consist of a main and four subfeeder oil circuit-breakers and\nLimited) disconnect. The subfeeders will supply four 37Vi-kva. 2,300-\n440-volt transformer banks which in turn will each supply two\n20-horsepower slushers. A new outside transformer-station consisting of two 25-kva.\n2,300-440-volt transformers connected in open delta was installed to supply shops and\nbattery-charger.\nA new 30-kva. 2,300-440-volt 3-phase transformer will be installed at the\ncompressor-house.\nSandon (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)\nA mill was built on the property and put into operation in Decem-\nVictor ber. The power plant is a 1,200-r.p.m. Caterpillar diesel electric\n(Violamac Mines set installed in the mill. It generates 56.5 kva. at 110\/200 volts,\n(B.C.) Limited) 3-phase, 60 cycles. The main motor in the mill is a 30-horsepower\n220-volt General Electric which drives, through a line shaft, a\nvacuum pump, a blower, a ball mill, two drag classifiers, a bucket elevator, and a set\nof rolls.\nThe remaining equipment consists of a feeder-belt driven by a 1-horsepower motor;\ntwo elevators, each driven by a 2-horsepower motor; an American filter driven by a 1-\nhorsepower motor; lead flotation cells and zinc flotation cells driven by two 3-horsepower\nmotors; a lead jig and a zinc jig, each driven by a 3-horsepower motor; a lead-concentrate\npump, a zinc-concentrate pump, and a filter pump, each driven by a 1-horsepower motor;\nand a trommel screen driven by a 3-horsepower motor.\nRetallack-Three Forks (50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.)\nAn Ingersoll-Rand 17-by-10*4-by-10 VEH2 360-r.p.m. 100-\nLucky Jim (Zincton pounds-pressure compressor direct-connected to a 150-horsepower\nUnit, Sheep Creek English Electric motor was moved from the Queen mine to Zincton\nGold Mines Limited) and installed in the power-house. The motor, which was a 2,300-\nvolt motor, has been reconnected for the 440-volt system used at\nZincton. The 30-horsepower underground electric hoist has been moved to the top of\nthe new inclined winze.\nA 150-horsepower motor continuous direct-connected through\nWhitewater a Falk No. 14-F coupling to a 125-kw. Electric Machinery Com-\n(Kootenay Belle pany generator was installed in the power plant. In connection\nGold Mines with the above, a synchrostat, automatic voltage regulator, and\nLimited) a switch panel were installed. The switch panel consists of indi\nvidually operated disconnects, air circuit-breaker, current and\npotential transformers and meters, and synchronizing equipment. A sink-float plant was\ninstalled early in the year to increase the milling capacity. The following equipment was\ninstalled: A 4-inch pump driven by a 25-horsepower motor; a magnetic separator\ndriven by a 3-horsepower motor; a IVi-inch pump driven by a 5-horsepower motor; a\ndemagnetizer driven by a 2-horsepower motor; two conveyors, each driven by a 3-\nhorsepower motor; a densifier driven by a 2-horsepower motor; densifier rakes driven\nby a Vz -horsepower motor; a cone driven by a 5-horsepower motor; two screens, each\ndriven by 5-horsepower motors; a screen driven by a 1 Vz -horsepower' motor; a drag\ndriven by a Wz-horsepower motor; an elevator driven by a 5-horsepower motor; and\na compressor driven by a 40-horsepower motor. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 293\nKeen Creek (49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.)\nA Murphy 153-horsepower 6-cylinder diesel driving a 90-kw. 440-\nCork Province volt self-regulating generator, a hoist having a rope speed of 275\n(Base Metals feet per minute and driven by a 40-horsepower 440-volt motor,\nMining Corporation and a pump driven by a 20-horsepower 440-volt motor were\nLimited) installed and put into operation early in the year. Later in the\nyear, construction of a mill was commenced. A second 153-\nhorsepower 6-cylinder Murphy diesel direct-connected to a 90-kw. 440-volt generator\nand a 4-cylinder Murphy diesel direct-connected to a 60-kw. generator will be installed\nto take care of the increased load.\nPower from the power-plant switchboard is distributed through a 400-ampere bus\ngutter to a 30-ampere switch feeding a lighting transformer, a 200-ampere mine service\nswitch, a 30-ampere switch feeding a 7 Vz -horsepower water-pump, and a 400-ampere\nmain switch serving the mill and crushing plant panels.\nThe following electrical equipment will be installed in the mill and crushing plant:\nA 1 Vz -horsepower fine-ore feeder motor; a 75-horsepower ball-mill motor; a 2-horsepower classifier motor; three 5-horsepower lead-flotation cell motors; a 3-horsepower\nzinc-conditioner motor; four 5-horsepower zinc-flotation motors; a lead-concentrate\npump and a zinc-concentrate pump, each driven by a 2-horsepower motor; a 1-horsepower filter motor; a 2-horsepower filtrate-pump motor; a 15-horsepower vacuum-\npump motor; a 1-horsepower sump-pump motor; a 2-horsepower coarse-ore feeder\nmotor; a 3-horsepower Dillon screen motor; a 20-horsepower jaw-crusher motor; and\na 3-horsepower conveyor motor.\nAinsworth (49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W.)\nYale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited.\u2014A new mill and sink-float plant are being\nbuilt. Plans for the electrical installation were not received by the end of the year, so\ndetails of this installation will be given in the 1951 Annual Report.\nRiondel (49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W.)\nThe 30-horsepower 550-volt 900-r.p.m. hoist motor and reduction\nBluebell (The gear was replaced with a 75-horsepower 550-volt motor and reduc-\nConsolidated Min- tion gear. The capacity of the underground distribution system\ning and Smelting was increased by the installation of a second 1\/0 B. & S. gauge\nCompany of 3-conductor wire-armoured cable. It will be paralleled with the\nCanada, Limited) other 1\/0 B. & S. gauge cable when necessary to distribute the\npump load, and for this reason both cables are of the same length\nand of like impedance. Two 1\/0 weatherproof 3-phase overhead lines, strung on the\nsame poles between the power plant and the portal, feed the two cables.\nDuring the year one 40-horsepower, one 20-horsepower, and two 7 Vz -horsepower\npumps have been installed on the 375 level; two 40-horsepower, one 20-horsepower,\nand one 15-horsepower pumps have been installed on the 300 level.\nA new warehouse, bunk-house, and cafeteria are under construction.\nKimberley (49\u00b0 115\u00b0 N.W.)\nThe improvements and additions made to the electrical installa-\nSullivan (The tions at the Sullivan mine and mill are as follows:\u2014\nConsolidated Min- Sullivan Mine.\u2014Underground.\u2014Two 200-horsepower and\ning and Smelting two 25-horsepower 575-volt motors with automatic controls and\nCompany of starting equipment were installed for the centrifugal pumps in the\nCanada, Limited) new 2850 level pumping-station. To supply this station with\n550-volt power, approximately 380 feet of 3-conductor 500,000- A 294 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\ncm. drained-type paper-insulated lead-sheathed steel-wire-armoured cable was installed\nfrom the 2850 substation near No. 1 shaft. Installed in this substation is a 300-kva.\nAskarel-filled 3-phase 6,900\/2,300-575-volt L.N.S. transformer fitted with a G. & W.\ngang-operated fused switch on the primary and a 400-ampere 600-volt \" nofuz \" breaker\non the secondary.\nApproximately 1,900 feet of 3-conductor 4\/0 B. & S. gauge 8,000-volt varnished-\ncambric-insulated lead-sheathed steel-wire-armoured cable was installed from the 3800\ncrushing plant substation down 3902 incline to the 3350 level to feed the 33503\nsubstation.\nThe installation of a 300-kva. 6,900\/2,300-575-volt 3-phase type L.N.S. Askarel-\nfilled transformer to replace two 250-kva. oil-filled single-phase 2,200-550-volt transformers in the 33503 substation is in progress.\nA similar 3-phase transformer is under installation at the 3500 level substation,\nNo. 1 shaft, as a replacement for three 100-kva. oil-filled single-phase 2,300-575-volt\ntransformers which were temporarily installed there.\nOperations at the 33503 winze were discontinued during the first half of the year.\nThe 150-horsepower hoist motor and controls were dismantled and are now being\ntemporarily installed at the collar of the new No. 2 shaft for timbering and construction\nwork in the shaft.\nTemporary alterations have been made in the location of the control board and\nmagnet motor-generator set at the 3350 station of the 3902 conveyors to permit the\nconstruction work to proceed on the extension of this conveyor system to the 2850\nlevel. Two additional 200-horsepower 550-volt induction-motor-driven units will be\ninstalled to complete this extension.\nOperations at the surface coarse-crushing plant were discontinued early in the year,\nand one 150-horsepower jaw-crusher driving motor with controls and the 15-ton electric\ncrane are being moved from this plant to the new 2850 underground crushing plant.\nTwo banks of three 50-kva. transformers were removed from wooden chute platforms in 3956 drift and 3915 drift and reinstalled in approved fireproof enclosures.\nThe shaft signal system for 3927 raise was rewired.\nThe electric blasting procedure was revised to obtain better co-ordination of the\nwork of the various departments concerned. A new type of safety ohmmeter manufactured by Evershed & Vignoles Limited is being tried out for more accurate testing of\nlarge and complex electric blasting hook-ups which are arising from the use of short-\nperiod delay caps.\nA severe corrosion problem was encountered on the main power feeder cable to the\nnew 3800 level crushing plant, where this cable enters the mine through 39-H-l B raise.\nThis raise is used as a return airway for the contaminated air which contains S02 fumes,\ngiven off from the oxidation of the sulphide tailings mixed with the float in the new\nmethod of backfilling. Additional clamps were installed on this cable in the raise as a\ntemporary measure. New cable is on order, and work is proceeding to reroute, as soon\nas possible, this 6,900-volt feeder down No. 1 shaft and along 3904 crosscut to where it\ncan be connected into the existing cable in 3821 drift north.\nRelocation of the 2,300-volt tie-line cable between the South End and North End,\non the 3900 level, is in progress so as to permit a more convenient and efficient interconnection with a new 3-conductor 300,000-c.m. 4,000-volt armoured feeder cable which\nis being installed down No. 1 shaft and along 3904 crosscut to 3900 drift north. The\npurpose of this change is to arrange that the bulk of power, fed at 2,300 volts into the\nmine, may be supplied from the new No. 1 shaft substation, and thereby permit the\nmoving of the Sullivan Hill substation approximately 2,500 feet southward, where it will\nbe clear of the new open-pit mining operations. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 295\nSurface.\u2014Because open-pit operations have been commenced near the site of the\nSullivan Hill substation, it was found necessary to arrange for the moving of this substation, as mentioned previously. It was also necessary to do considerable rerouting of\nsurface 66-kv. and 2.3-kv. fines in this area. Much of this work has been completed,\nwith the exception of moving the substation. Because of the rearrangement of the 2.3-kv.\nfeeder cables, it has been possible to reduce the transformer capacity at the Sullivan Hill\nsubstation from six 300-kva. transformers to three 300-kva., which has permitted setting\nup the new substation without completely dismantling the old, and without interference\nto the power-supply.\nA second 1,500-kva. 66,000-2,300-volt 3-phase unit substation has been installed\nat the No. 1 shaft substation but has not yet been connected into service. This new unit\nwill supply the No. 1 shaft hoist and two 600-horsepower compressors. When this load\nis removed from the bank of three 1,000-kva. 66,000-6,900\/2,300-volt transformers,\nthese transformers will be changed over to 6,900 volts secondary operation.\nA new section of 66,000-volt line was built between the 3700 portal substation and\nthe Sullivan mine substation, and the old 66,000-volt line which passed through a congested residential section of Kimberley was dismantled.\nSullivan Mill.\u2014The installation of electrical equipment for the 115-foot thickener\non the East side of the mill was completed. This equipment consisted of two 15-horsepower, two 40-horsepower, one 20-horsepower, and one 10-horsepower motors with\nstarting and protective equipment.\nA 450-foot 3-conductor 500,000-c.m. paper-insulated lead-sheathed cable was installed to feed the distribution centre for this installation from the main substation.\nThe installation of a new Cemco air circuit-breaker switchboard was completed in\nthe concentrator substation to replace the old oil circuit-breakers which had become\nobsolete and unsafe. The new circuit-breakers have a rated interrupting capacity of\n75,000 kva. Incorporated in each cubicle is a current-limiting reactor which limits the\nshort-circuit current under all conditions to less than this rating. Twenty-one of these\nbreakers have been installed with the following load current ratings: One 1,600-ampere,\none 1,000-ampere, and nineteen 800-ampere.\nThe installation is in progress of 250 feet of 500,000-c.m. feeder cable, starting\nswitch, and 250-horsepower motor for second Symons cone crusher in 3800 underground\ncrushing plant.\nTo feed 550-volt power to the assay-office service, 400 feet of 3-conductor, 4\/0\nB. & S. gauge, paper-insulated lead-sheathed double-steel-tape-armoured cable buried in\nthe ground was installed between the rolls plant and the office.\nA cinder-brick wall with fire-resistant doors was installed between the 3800 crushing\nplant and the transformer-substation chamber.\nA considerable number of obsolete motor safety switches which did not carry horsepower ratings were replaced with approved safety switches.\nFort Steele (49\u00b0 115\u00b0 N.W.)\nEstella Mines Ltd.\u2014A cook-house, combined office and bunk-house, dry, warehouse, and workshops have been built at the mine. Lighting and power are supplied by\na 28-horsepower 3-cylinder Lister engine belt-connected to a 15-kw. 220-volt 3-phase\n60-cycle Higgs Motors alternator.\nA IVi-ton battery locomotive is used for tramming. A 296 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nSpillimacheen (50\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E.)\nA new mill and power plant are under construction. The power\nSilver Giant plant consists of a 500-horsepower General Motors diesel direct-\n(Silver Giant connected to a 375-kva. 440-volt 3-phase Electric Machinery Corn-\nMines Limited) pany generator. Plans to install another generating unit are being\nprepared, as it is thought that more power will be required. The\npresent power-station switch panel will consist of three oil circuit-breakers. The first\nwill supply the crushing-plant motors; the second will supply the mill motors; and the\nthird will supply a pump 3,000 feet from the power plant. A bank of 440-2,200-volt\ntransformers will step up the potential for transmission, while a bank of 2,200-440-volt\ntransformers will step down the potential for the pump motor.\nThe crushing equipment will consist of a 1-horsepower coarse-ore feeder motor; a\n50-horsepower jaw-crusher motor; three 7 Vz -horsepower conveyor motors; a 3-horsepower screen motor; a 50-horsepower gyratory-crusher motor; a 3-horsepower motor\ngenerator set energizing a magnet.\nIn the mill there will be a main distribution panel and two subdistribution panels.\nThe main panel will consist of a 600-ampere main switch and 400-ampere gutter; three\n30-ampere switches and across-the-line starters; one 60-ampere switch and one 100-\nampere switch supplying the two subdistribution panels; and one 600-ampere disconnecting switch and oil circuit-breaker, together with manual controller for starting the 125-\nhorsepower ball-mill motor. The three 30-ampere switches supply the fine-ore feeder\n2-horsepower motor, the unit cell 7 Vz -horsepower motor, and the classifier 5-horsepower\nmotor.\nNo. 1 subdistribution centre will supply the flotation section of the mill and consists\nof a 100-ampere gutter, four 60-ampere switches, and two 30-ampere switches, each with\nan across-the-line starter. The 60-ampere switches control four 10-horsepower flotation-\ncell motors. One 30-ampere switch supplies a 5-horsepower flotation-cell motor, and\nthe other supplies a 3-horsepower concentrate-pump motor.\nNo. 2 subdistribution panel will supply the filter section of the mill and consists of\na 100-ampere bus and seven 30-ampere switches and across-the-line starters. The following equipment will be supplied: A 2-horsepower thickener motor; a 1-horsepower\nfilter motor; a 1-horsepower filter-agitator motor; a 3-horsepower filter-blower motor;\na 7^-horsepower vacuum-pump motor; a 3-horsepower filtrate-pump motor; and a\n5-horsepower sump-pump motor.\nMuch of the above-mentioned equipment will be taken from the Mascot mill at\nHedley.\nCOAL MINES\nEast Kootenay (49\u00b0 114\u00b0 S.W.)\nAt the No. 2 compressor-room of the power-house in which one\nMichel Colliery 600-horsepower and one 450-horsepower compressors are installed,\n(The Crow's Nest the installation of permanent wiring and switchgear has been com-\nPass Coal pleted. A 3,000-volt, 2\/0 B. & S. gauge, armoured cable was used,\nCompany Limited) with each unit fed through an individual circuit-breaker and controller at each motor. Lighting transformers have been moved\nfrom inside to outside of switch-room basement, and all temporary wiring has been\nremoved. The starting equipment for the 100-horsepower motor driving No. 3 fan has\nbeen placed in a separate concrete switch-room.\nA new distribution centre has been installed at No. 1 and No. 2 ovens at the byproduct plant. This installation consists of a 400-ampere 2,200-volt oil circuit-breaker\nmounted in a cubicle connected through a 3-conductor, No. 1 B. & S. gauge, 3,000-volt \u25a0;r>-:- -,\nINSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT A 297\nvarnished-cambric-insulated lead-sheathed double-steel-tape-armoured cable to two 150-\nkva. 2,300-230-volt transformer banks. The secondaries are connected to the 600-\nampere distribution bus gutters with 500 M.C.M. rubber-covered cables in 3-inch conduit\nfrom each bank. The two banks are paralleled in the distribution gallery by removable\nbus links. There is also provision to remove either bank from the line by removable bus\nlinks in an emergency.\nThe above installation was completed December 31st, 1950. All starting equipment\nwill be moved to the new locations as operations permit.\nPreparations are under way for the electrification of No. 9 mine.\nElk River Colliery One hundred and twenty feet of 250 M.C.M. 3,000-volt varnished-\n(The Crow's Nest cambric-insulated lead-sheathed steel-wire-armoured cable was in-\nPass Coal stalled between the main circuit-breaker in the power-house and the\nCompany Limited) substation. Two 500-kva. 3-phase 2,300-6,600-volt Parsons\ntransformers have been installed in the substation. Between the\nsubstation and No. 9 mine 2,000 feet of overhead power-line consisting of three No. 2\nB. & S. gauge copperweld line wires and one overhead No. 2 B. & S. gauge copperweld\nground wire were installed. Two sets of lightning arresters have been installed. The line\nis protected with 7,000-volt 100-ampere expulsion fuses at each end.\nA 3-conductor, No. 2 B. & S. gauge, 7,000-volt paper-insulated lead-sheathed steel-\nwire-armoured cable has been installed between the overhead line and circuit-breaker at\nthe mine portal.\nNo electrical work was done underground, as the switchgear had not arrived by the\nend of the year.\nTelkwa (54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.)\nPermissible electrical equipment was purchased during the summer,\nBulkley Valley installed, and put into operation late in the fall. Power is pur-\nCollieries Ltd. chased from the British Columbia Power Commission, at 440 volts.\nThe electrical equipment consists of the following:\u2014\nUnderground.\u2014One Seimen-Schukert E-47 drill with BTD-9 drill panel; one Mavor\n& Coulson 27 HYT Samson shortwall chain coal-cutter with 7-foot plain jib; three\nMavor & Coulson 15-inch scraper chain-conveyors; one 200-ampere Mavor & Coulson\noil circuit-breaker; three type A.435 Mavor & Coulson room switches; one type A.238\nMavor & Coulson gate end box with blinding cover; three type A.381 Mavor & Coulson\nstart-stop push-button stations; three type A.381 Mavor & Coulson push-pull stop pushbutton stations; and one D-198-C link box.\nSurface.\u2014One Pickrose hoist, size 2, single drum, single speed; 15-horsepower\n440-volt 3-phase 60-cycle motor; one 10-horsepower, type K, 1,800-r.p.m. 3-phase 60-\ncycle Fleck Bros, motor; one 400-ampere switch; one 400-ampere bus gutter; two 200-\nampere switches; and one DIC magnetic switch.\nA new mine has been started to suit mechanized mining methods, and at the end of\nthe year two entries about 60 feet long had been driven.\nNanaimo (49\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.W.)\nNo. 10 Mine, South Wellington (Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited).\u2014\nThe 20-horsepower Westinghouse motor on the scraper conveyor at the tipple was replaced with a 25-horsepower C.G.E. motor.\nIn order to unwater the mine for the purpose of exploration work,\nBright Mine, the following equipment was installed temporarily: Three 20-kva.\nCassidy (Canadian 220-440-volt C.G.E. transformers were installed on the surface;\nCollieries (Duns- a 60-horsepower C.G.E. 3,600-r.p.m. 440-volt induction motor\nmuir) Limited) operating a Canadian Allis-Chalmers 2-stage, type H.Y.C., size 4\nby 3, 3,600-r.p.m. pump delivering 500 gallons per minute against A 298 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\na 300-foot head was installed underground on the main slope. The motor is controlled\nby a K 20 C.G.E. oil circuit-breaker on the surface and a line starter and push button\nunderground.\nA 3-conductor, No. 4 B. & S. gauge, cab-tire cable was installed from the transformers to the pump. A separate conductor is used for grounding non-current-carrying\nparts of motor and line starter.\nComox (49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W.)\nTsable River Mine (Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited).\u2014A 75-horsepower 2,200-volt motor was installed on a new ventilating fan. Use of the 3 5-horsepower\n440-volt motor was discontinued. The two 25-horsepower pump motors temporarily\ninstalled underground were replaced with a 3 5-horsepower motor. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS\nA 299\nBRITISH COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES\nLIST OF PUBLICATIONS\nThe publications listed are available for distribution except as noted. Recent\npublications for which no charge is made may be obtained from the Department's offices\nat Victoria, Vancouver, and Nelson.\nPRICES\nA small reserve stock of each Annual Report or Bulletin is set aside; the greater\npart of each issue is distributed free of charge. When the free stock has been exhausted,\ncopies may be obtained from the reserve stock on payment of the price set. The price\nfor a cloth-bound copy of an Annual Report is $1. The Provincial sales tax of 3 per\ncent must be collected on all sales of publications within the Province. If a charge is\nmade, application for the Annual Report or Bulletin should be made to the Department\nof Mines, Victoria, B.C., and should be accompanied by the proper sum, including the\ntax.\nINDEXES .\nIndex to Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines of British Columbia for the years\n1874 to 1936, inclusive. (By H. T. Nation.) Paper bound, $1; cloth bound, $2.\nIndex to Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, 1937-43, and Bulletins Nos. 1-17.\n(By H. T. Nation.) Paper-bound copies, 50 cents each. Cloth-bound copies,\nout of print.\nCorrigenda, Index to Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, 1874-1936.\nANNUAL REPORTS\nFor each year the entry \" free \" or the price charged appears in the following table\nif the report is available. If neither \" free \" nor a price is entered, the report for that\nyear is not available for distribution.\nYear\nPaper\nBound\nCloth\nBound\nYear\nPaper\nBound\nCloth\nBound\n1874-1896\t\n1897 \t\n1927 .\n1928 \t\n1929\t\nFree\nFree\nFree\n50c.\nFree\nFree\n50c.\n(1)\n(i)\n(!)\nFree\nFree\nFree\nFree\nFree .\nFree\nFree\nFree\nFree\nFr~e\nFree\nFree\n$1.00\n1901 \t\n1902 1906\n1930\t\n1931... \t\n1907 ..\t\n1908 :\t\n\t\n50c. | \t\n50c. \t\n1932 \t\n1933 ...\t\n1934\t\n1935 \t\n1.00\n1909 \t\n1.00\n1910\n50c.\n1.00\n1911\n1936 \t\n1.00\n1912 \t\n1937... \t\n1.00\n1913\n 1 \t\n1938 \t\n1.00\n1914\t\n50c.\nFree\nFree\nFree\n50c.\nFree\nFree\nFree\nFree\n50c.\n\t\n1939... \t\n1940 ...\n1.00\n1915\n1 00\n1916\n1941\t\n1942 \t\n1 00\n1917 \t\n1 00\n1918...\t\n1919 - \t\n1943 ....... ...\t\n1944\t\n1945\t\n1 00\n1920\n1921 \t\n1946\t\n1947 \t\n1 00\n1922 \t\n1 00\n1923 \t\n1948 \t\n1 00\n1924 .\n1949\t\n1 00\n1925\t\n1950\t\n1 00\n1926 \t\ni Parts A to F, bound separately in paper, are available (free) for the years 1936, 1937, and 1938. Part G,\n\" Inspection of Mines,\" is not available for these years. A 300 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nBULLETINS, OLD SERIES\nBulletin No. 2, 1918: Bumps and outbursts of gas. (By George S. Rice.)\nBulletin No. 2, 1919: The commercial feasibility of electric smelting of iron ores in\nBritish Columbia. (By Alfred Stansfield.)\nBulletin No. 2, 1932: Report on McConnell Creek placer area. (By Douglas Lay.)\nMISCELLANEOUS\nSpecial Reports on Coal-mine Explosions. (By George Wilkinson, Thomas Graham, and\nJames Ashworth.) 1918.\nReport on Snowflake and Waverley-Tangier Mineral Properties. (By J. D. Galloway.)\n1928.\nReport on Mineral Properties of the Goldside Mining Company. (By B. T. O'Grady.)\n1935. Out of print.\nElementary Geology applied to Prospecting. (By John F. Walker.) Revised, 1946.\n50 cents.\nPossibilities for Manufacture of Mineral Wool in British Columbia. (By J. M. Cum-\nmings.) 1937.\nLode-gold Deposits of the Zeballos Area. (By J. S. Stevenson.) 1938. Out of print.\nPreliminary Investigations into Possibilities for Producing Silica Sand from British Columbia Sand Deposits. (By J. M. Cummings.) 1941.\nIron Ores of Canada: Vol. I, British Columbia and Yukon. (By G. A. Young and\nW. L. Uglow, Geological Survey, Canada, Department of Mines.) 1926.\nBULLETINS, NEW SERIES, STARTING IN 1940\n(Free, except as noted.)\nBulletin No. 1: Aiken Lake Area, North-Central B.C. (By Douglas Lay.) 50 cents.\nBulletin No. 2: Placer-gold Deposits, Wheaton (Boulder) Creek, Cassiar District. (By\nStuart S. Holland.) 50 cents.\nBulletin No. 3: Fraser River Tertiary Drainage-history in relation to Placer-gold Deposits.\nI. (By Douglas Lay.)\nBulletin No. 4: Saline and Hydromagnesite Deposits of British Columbia. (By J. M.\nCummings.) 50 cents.\nBulletin No. 5: Mercury Deposits of British Columbia. (By John S. Stevenson.) Out\nof print.\nBulletin No. 6: Geology of Camp McKinney and the Cariboo Amelia Mine. (By M. S.\nHedley.) Out of print.\nBulletin No. 7: Lode-gold Deposits of the Upper Lemon Creek Area and Lyle Creek-\nWhitewater Creek Area, Kootenay District. (By R. J. Maconachie.) Out of print.\nBulletin No. 8: Preliminary Report on the Bedwell River Area. (By H. Sargent.) 50\ncents.\nBulletin No. 9: Molybdenite in British Columbia. (By John S. Stevenson.) Out of\nprint.\nBulletin No. 10: Tungsten Deposits of British Columbia. (By John S. Stevenson and\nstaff of the Department of Mines.) Revised.\nBulletin No. 11: Fraser River Tertiary Drainage-history in relation to Placer-gold\nDeposits. II. (By Douglas Lay.)\nBulletin No. 12: Reconnaissance in the Area of Turnagain and Upper Kechika Rivers.\n(By M. S. Hedley and Stuart S. Holland.)\nBulletin No. 13: Supplementary Report on Bedwell River Area. (By H. Sargent.)\nBulletin No. 14: Coal Analyses of British Columbia. (By James Dickson.)\nBulletin No. 15: Hydraulic Mining Methods. (By Stuart S. Holland.) 50 cents. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS A 301\nBulletin No. 16: Dragline Dredging Methods. (By Stuart S. Holland.) 50 cents.\nBulletin No. 17: An introduction to Metal-mining in British Columbia. (By Officers of\nthe Department.) To be reprinted.\nBulletin No. 18: Specimens and Samples\u2014Their Treatment and Use. (By Officers of\nthe Department.)\nBulletin No. 19: The Tuya-Teslin Area, Northern British Columbia. (By K. DeP. Watson and W. H. Mathews.)\nBulletin No. 20: Lode-gold Deposits\u2014\nPart II: South-eastern British Columbia. (By W. H. Mathews.) Revised, 1948.\nPart III: Central Southern British Columbia. (By M. S. Hedley and K. DeP.\nWatson.)\nPart IV: South-western British Columbia\u2014exclusive of Vancouver Island. (By\nJ. S. Stevenson.) Revised, 1946.\nPart V: Vancouver Island. (By J. S. Stevenson.) Revised, 1946.\nPart VI: North-eastern British Columbia and Cariboo and Hobson Creek Areas.\n(By S. S. Holland.) Revised, 1946.\nBulletin No. 21: Notes on Placer-mining in British Columbia. (By Officers of the\nDepartment.)\nBulletin No. 22: Geology of the Whitewater and Lucky Jim Mine Areas. (By M. S.\nHedley.)\nBulletin No. 23: Calcareous Deposits of the Georgia Strait Area. (By W. H. Mathews.)\nBulletin No. 24: Geology and Coal Resources of the Carbon Creek-Mount Bickford\nMap-area. (By W. H. Mathews.)\nBulletin No. 25: The Squaw Creek-Rainy Hollow Area. (By K. DeP. Watson.)\nBulletin No. 26: Report on the Stanley Area, Cariboo Mining Division. (By Stuart S.\nHolland.)\nBulletin No. 27: Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Zeballos Mining Camp, British\nColumbia. (By John S. Stevenson.)\nBulletin No. 28: Placer Gold Production of British Columbia. (By S. S. Holland.)\nSPECIAL REPORTS\nSpecial reports on certain properties were advertised in the Annual Reports 1936 to\n1941, inclusive, as available on application. A list of those still available will be supplied\non request. The text of a report is either in mimeographed or typewritten form, and\nozalid prints can be made of maps or other drawings. Copies of reports still available\nwill be supplied at 10 cents per page of typewritten or mimeographed copy, excepting that\nthe charge for any mimeographed report shall not exceed 25 cents. Additional charges\nwill be made for prints of maps. Requests for these Special Reports, accompanied by\nthe proper sum, should be addressed to the Chief of the Mineralogical Branch.\nNOTICES RE PUBLICATIONS\nApplications are invited from those who wish to receive notices when new publications become available.\nMAPS SHOWING MINERAL CLAIMS AND PLACER LEASES\nMaps showing the approximate locations of placer-mining leases and mineral claims\nheld by record may be seen at the Central Records Offices at Victoria and Vancouver.\nPrints are obtainable on request made to the Chief Gold Commissioner at Victoria, and\naccompanied by the proper sum. The charges are: Full sheet, $1; half-sheet, 50 cents;\nquarter-sheet, 25 cents. The sales tax of 3 per cent is payable on these charges. The\nPROVINCIAL LIBRARh\nVICTORIA, B. a A 302 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nmaps conform to the reference and mineral-reference maps issued by the Lands Department in size and geographical detail and correspond as to numbers.\nPROSPECTORS' SETS\nOn request, collections, each consisting of about fifty specimens, including rocks and\nminerals, are supplied to prospectors and to schools teaching subjects relating to mining\nor prospecting. Because it is difficult to obtain the material for these sets, only requests\nfrom those actively prospecting in the Province and from schools in British Columbia can\nbe considered. A charge of 50 cents plus 2 cents sales tax is made for each set; the price\nshould be remitted with a request addressed to the Chief of the Mineralogical Branch.\nLIST OF LIBRARIES\nDepartment publications are being sent to the following Government departments\nand legislative, university, and public libraries:\u2014\nCANADA\nGovernment departments\u2014\nDepartment of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa.\nDepartment of Resources and Development, Ottawa.\nDepartment of Mines, Halifax, Nova Scotia.\nDepartment of Lands and Mines, Fredericton, New Brunswick.\nDepartment of Mines, Quebec, Quebec.\nDepartment of Mines, Toronto, Ontario.\nDepartment of Mines and Natural Resources, Winnipeg, Manitoba.\nDepartment of Natural Resources and Industrial Development, Regina, Saskatchewan.\nDepartment of Mines and Minerals, Edmonton, Alberta.\nLegislative libraries\u2014\nLibrary of Parliament, Ottawa.\nLegislative Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia.\nLegislative Library, Fredericton, New Brunswick.\nLegislative Library, Quebec, Quebec.\nLegislative Library, Toronto, Ontario.\nLegislative Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba.\nLegislative Library, Regina, Saskatchewan.\nLegislative Library, Edmonton, Alberta.\nProvincial Library, Victoria, British Columbia.\nUniversity libraries and museums\u2014\nDalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.\nAcadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.\nLaval University, Quebec, Quebec.\nMcGill University, Montreal, Quebec.\nQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario.\nRoyal Ontario Museum of Geology and Mineralogy, Toronto, Ontario.\nUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.\nUniversity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.\nUniversity of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.\nUniversity of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.\nUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.\nUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. LIST OF LIBRARIES A 303\nPublic libraries\u2014\nPublic Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia.\nPublic Library,- Montreal, Quebec.\nPublic Library, Toronto, Ontario (Reference Division).\nPublic Library, Edmonton, Alberta.\nPublic Library, Calgary, Alberta.\nPublic Library, New Westminster, British Columbia.\nNelson Municipal Library, Nelson, British Columbia.\nPublic Library, Prince Rupert, British Columbia.\nPublic Library, Prince George, British Columbia.\nPublic Library, Vancouver, British Columbia (Science and Industry Division).\nPublic Library, Victoria, British Columbia.\nENGLAND\nBritish Columbia House, Regent Street, London, England. \u2022\nCanada House, London, England.\nJoint Library, Institution of Mining Engineers, Finsbury Circus, London, England.\nSOUTH AFRICA\nPublic Library, Johannesburg, South Africa.\nAUSTRALIA\nPublic Library, Sydney, Australia.\nUNITED STATES\nGovernment departments and legislative libraries\u2014\nLibrary of Congress, Washington 25, DC.\nThe Interior Department Library, Washington 25, D.C.\nUnited States Geological Survey, Washington 25, D.C.\nCalifornia State Division of Mines, Ferry Building, San Francisco, California.\nOregon State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, 702 Woodlark\nBuilding, Portland, Oregon.\nWashington State Division of Mines and Geology, Olympia, Washington.\nIdaho State Bureau of Mines, Boise, Idaho.\nUniversity and society libraries\u2014\nColumbia University, New York 27, New York (Document Division).\nUniversity of California, Berkeley, California (Document Division).\nEngineering Societies Library, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York, New\nYork.\nState University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.\nMontana School of Mines, Butte, Montana.\nOregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon.\nUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Washington.\nUniversity of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.\nPublic libraries\u2014\nNew York Public Library, New York, New York.\nFree Library, Philadelphia Zone 3, Pennsylvania.\nPublic Library, Boston, Massachusetts.\nPublic Library, Los Angeles, California.\nPublic Library, San Francisco, California.\nLibrary Association of Portland, Portland, Oregon.\nPublic Library, Seattle, Washington.\nPublic Library, Spokane, Washington. SYNOPSES OF MINING LAWS A 305\nSYNOPSES OF MINING LAWS AND LAWS\nRELATING TO MINING\n(The complete Acts may be obtained from the King's Printer, Victoria, B.C.)\n\"DEPARTMENT OF MINES ACT\"\nThe \" Department of Mines Act\" empowers the Minister of Mines to organize the\nDepartment or to reorganize it from time to time to meet changing conditions in the\nmining industry. It provides for examination and certification of assayers and for the\nconducting of short courses of lectures in practical geology and mineralogy. The Act\nalso provides for the expenditure of public moneys for the construction, reconstruction, or\nrepair of trails, roads, and bridges to facilitate the exploration of the mineral resources of\nany mining district, or the operation and development of any mining property.\n\"MINERAL ACT\" AND \"PLACER-MINING ACT\"\nFree Miners' Certificates\nFree miners' certificates must be obtained before any person can prospect for mineral\nand locate and record mineral claims in British Columbia.\nAny person over the age of 18, and any joint-stock company incorporated or registered in British Columbia, may obtain a free miner's certificate on payment of the\nrequired fee.\nThe fee to an individual for a free miner's certificate is $5 for one year. To a\njoint-stock company having a capital of $100,000, or less, the fee for a year is $50; if\ncapitalized beyond this, the fee is $100. If the company has no stated capitalization, the\nfee is $100.\nThe free miners' certificates run from date of issue and expire on the 31st day of\nMay next after its date, or some subsequent 31st day of May (that is to say, a certificate\nmay be taken out a year or more in advance if desired). Certificates may be obtained\nfor any part of a year, terminating on May 31st, for a proportionately less fee. The\npossession of this certificate entitles the holder to enter upon all lands of the Crown, and\nupon any other lands on which the right to so enter is not specially reserved, for the\npurpose of prospecting for minerals, locating claims, and mining.\nIn the event of a free miner allowing his certificate to lapse, his mining property (if\nnot Crown-granted) reverts to the Crown (subject to the conditions set out in the next\nsucceeding paragraph), but where other free miners are interested as partners or co-\nowners the interest of the defaulter becomes vested in the continuing co-owners or partners pro rata, according to their interests.\nSix months' extension of time within which to revive title in mining property which\nhas been forfeited through the lapse of a free miner's certificate is allowed. This privilege\nis given only if the holder of the property obtains a special free miner's certificate within\nsix months after the 31st of May on which his ordinary certificate lapsed. The fee for\nthis special certificate in the case of a person is $15 and in that of a company $300.\nIt is not necessary for a shareholder, as such, in an incorporated mining company to\nbe the holder of a free miner's certificate.\n\" Mineral Act \"\nAll minerals occurring in place are acquired under the \" Mineral Act,\" but limestone,\nmarble, clay, sand, gravel, earth, building or construction stone, coal, petroleum, and\nnatural gas are not considered as mineral.*\n* Limestone, marble, etc., are disposed of by lease under the provisions of the \" Land Act.\" Coal is disposed of\nunder the provisions of the \" Coal Act \" and petroleum and natural gas under the \" Petroleum and Natural Gas Act.\"\nThese Acts are under the administration of the Department of Lands and Forests, Victoria, B.C.\n11 A 306 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nA mineral claim is a piece of land not exceeding 1,500 feet square and fifty-one and\nsixty-five one-hundredths acres in area. The angles must be right angles unless the\nboundaries, or one of them, are the same as those of a previously recorded claim.\nNo special privileges are allowed for the discovery of new mineral claims or districts.\nA mineral claim is located by erecting two \" legal posts,\" which are stakes having a\nheight of not less than 4 feet above ground and squared 4 inches at least on each face for\nnot less than a foot from the top. A tree-stump so cut and squared also constitutes a\nlegal post. A cairn of stones not less than 4 feet in height and not less than 1 foot in\ndiameter 4 feet above the ground may also be used as a legal post. Upon each of these\nposts must be written the name of the claim, the name of the locator, and the date of\nlocation. On No. 1 post, in addition, the following must be written: \"Initial post.\nDirection of Post No. 2 [giving approximate compass-bearing]. feet of this claim\nhe on the right and feet on the left of the line from No. 1 to No. 2 posts.\" If\ncairns are used, these particulars must be legibly written or inscribed on paper or on other\ndurable material and placed in the cairn within a weather-poof can or other suitable container. Numbered metal identification tags must be attached to both posts at the time of\nstaking, or if cairns are used, tags must be placed in the containers within the cairns.\nThe location-line between Nos. 1 and 2 posts must be distinctly marked\u2014in a timbered locality by blazing trees and cutting underbrush, and in bare country by monuments\nof earth or rock not less than 2 feet in diameter at the base, and at least 2 feet high\u2014so\nthat the line can be distinctly seen.\nMineral claims must be recorded in the Mining Recorder's office for the mining\ndivision in which they are situate within fifteen days from the date of location, one day\nextra being allowed for each 10 miles of distance from the recording office after the first\n10 miles. If a location is not recorded within the time prescribed in the Act, it is open\nfor relocation, but if the original locator wishes to relocate, he must obtain the written\npermission of the Gold Commissioner, for which he shall pay a fee of $10. A free miner\nmay at any time abandon a mineral claim by giving notice in writing of his intention to\nabandon to the Mining Recorder and upon payment of a fee of $10. A free miner can\nhold, by location, during any period of twelve months, eight mineral claims within a\nradius of 10 miles, and may acquire others by purchase.\nMineral claims are, until the Crown grant is issued, held practically on a yearly lease,\na condition of which is that during such year assessment work be performed on the same\nto the value of at least $100, or a payment of such sum be made to the Mining Recorder.\nSuch assessments must be recorded before the expiration of the year, or the claim is\ndeemed abandoned. If, however, the required assessment work has been performed\nwithin the year, but not recorded within that time, a free miner may, within thirty days\nthereafter, record such assessment work upon payment of an additional fee of $10. The\nactual cost of the survey of a mineral claim, to an amount not exceeding $ 100, may also\nbe recorded as assessment work. If, during any year, work is done to a greater extent\nthan the required $100, any further sum of $100\u2014but not less\u2014may be recorded and\ncounted as further assessments; such excess work must be recorded during the year in\nwhich it is performed. All work done on a mineral claim between the time of its location\nand recording may be counted as work done during the first period of one year from the\nrecording. As soon as assessment work to the extent of $500 is recorded and a survey\nmade of the claim, the owner of a mineral claim is entitled to a Crown grant on payment\nof a fee of $25, and giving the necessary notices required by the Act. Liberal provisions\nare also made in the Act for obtaining mill-sites and other facilities in the way of workings and drains for the better working of claims. SYNOPSES OF MINING LAWS A 307\n\" Placer-mining Act \"\nIn the \" Placer-mining Act\" \" mineral\" is defined as in the \" Mineral Act,\" but\nincludes only mineral occurring in any natural unconsolidated material, excluding mineral\nin place.\nUnder the \" Placer-mining Act\" a free miner may locate, in any period of twelve\nconsecutive months, one placer claim or leasehold in his own name and one placer claim\nor leasehold for each of three free miners for whom he acts as agent on any separate creek,\nriver-bed, bar or dry diggings. Other placer claims or leaseholds may be acquired by\npurchase.\nPlacer Claims\nPlacer claims are of three classes, as follows:\u2014\n\" Creek diggings \": any mine in the bed of any stream or ravine:\n\"Bar diggings \": any mine between high- and low-water marks on a river,\nlake, or other large body of water:\n\" Dry diggings \": any mine over which water never extends.\nEvery placer claim shall be as nearly as possible rectangular in form, and marked by\nfour legal posts at the corners.\nA placer claim must be recorded in the office of the Mining Recorder for the mining\ndivision within which the same is situate, within fifteen days after the location thereof, if\nlocated within 10 miles of the office of the Mining Recorder by the most direct means of\ntravel. One additional day shall be allowed for every 10 miles additional or fraction\nthereof. The number of days shall be counted inclusive of the days upon which such\nlocation was made, but exclusive of the day of application for record.\nPlacer-mining Leases\nLeases of unoccupied Crown lands approximately 80 acres in extent may be granted\nby the Gold Commissioner of the mining division after location has been made by staking\nalong a \" location line \" not more than one-half a mile (2,640 feet) in length. In this\nline one bend, or change of direction, is permitted. Where a straight line is followed\ntwo legal posts (see under \"Mineral Act\") only are necessary\u2014namely, an \"initial\npost\" and a \" final post.\" Where there is a change of direction a legal post must be\nplaced to mark the point of the said change. The leasehold is allowed a width not in\nexcess of one-quarter mile (1,320 feet), and the locator, both on his \" initial post \" and\nin his notice of intention to apply, which is posted at the office of the Mining Recorder,\nis required to state how many feet are included in the location to the right and how many\nfeet to the left of the location-line.\nThat section of the Act dealing with the-staking of placer-mining leases follows:\u2014\n\" 105. (1) For the purpose of locating a placer leasehold, a fine to be known as\nthe ' location line ' shall be marked on the ground by placing a legal post at each end, one\npost to be known as the ' Initial Post' and the other as the ' Final Post.' The direction\nof the location-line may change at not more than one point throughout its length, and an\nintermediate legal post shall be placed at the point at which the direction changes. The\ntotal length of the location-line, following its change of direction (if any), shall not exceed\ntwo thousand six hundred and forty feet.\n\"(2) Upon the initial post and the final post shall be written the words ' Initial Post'\nand ' Final Post' respectively, together with the name of the locator and the date of the\nlocation. On the initial post shall also be written the approximate compass-bearing of\nthe final post, and a statement of the number of feet of the leasehold lying on the right\nand on the left of the location-line, as viewed from the initial post, not exceeding in the\naggregate a width of thirteen hundred and twenty feet, thus: ' Direction of Final Post,\nfeet of this claim lie on the right and feet on the left of the location- A 308\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nline.' In addition to the foregoing, where there is a change of direction in the location-\nline as marked on the ground, the number ' 1 ' shall be written on the initial post; the\nnumber ' 2 ' shall be written on the intermediate post; and the number ' 3 ' shall be\nwritten on the final post. There also shall be affixed to the initial post a notice to the\nfollowing effect, namely: Application will be made under the \" Placer-mining Act \" for\na lease of the ground within this location.'\n\"(3) The location-line shall at the time of location be marked between the legal\nposts throughout its length so that it can be distinctly seen; in a timbered locality, by\nblazing trees and cutting underbrush, and in a locality where there is neither timber nor\nunderbrush, by placing legal posts or monuments of earth or stones not less than two feet\nhigh and not less than two feet in diameter at the base, so that the location-line can be\ndistinctly seen.\n\" Examples of Various Methods of Laying Out Placer Leaseholds\n\" Showing Areas Secured with Location-lines of Various Lengths\nFinal Posts,,\nFinal Post\n660\n\u2014o\t\n1 660'\n1\n1\n1\ng!\n\"o\nIO\n\u00ab*\nc't\n^0\nolio\nCM\nLocat.\n2\n660\n1\n1\n' 1 660'\n\u2014o '\nInitial Post\nInitial Post\/\nInitial PostNTl\n\"(4) Where, from the nature or shape of the surface of the ground, it is impracticable to mark the location-line of a leasehold as provided by this section, the leasehold\nmay be located by placing legal posts as witness-posts, as near as possible to the location- SYNOPSES OF MINING LAWS A 309\nline, and writing on each witness-post the distance and compass-bearing of some designated point on the location-line from the witness-post; and the distances and compass-\nbearing so written on the witness-posts shall be set out in the application for the lease\nand in any lease granted thereon.\n\"(5) The locator shall, within thirty days after the date of the location, post a\nnotice in Form I in the office of the Mining Recorder, which notice shall set out:\u2014\n\"(a) The name of the intending applicant or each applicant if more than one,\nand the numbers of their free miners' certificates:\n\"(b) The date of the location:\n\"(c) The number of feet lying to the right and left of the location-line, and\nthe approximate area or size of the ground.\nThe words written on the initial post and final post shall be set out in full in the notice;\nand as accurate a description as possible of the ground to be acquired shall be given,\nhaving special reference to any prior locations it may join, and the general locality of\nthe ground to be acquired.\"\nAt the time of location a metal identification tag must be affixed to the \" initial\npost\" and to the \" final post,\" or if cairns are used the tags must be placed in the\ncontainers within the cairns.\nThe annual rental on a placer-mining lease is $30, and the amount to be expended\nannually on development work is $250.\nAuthority also has been given for the granting of special placer-mining leases in\nlocations other than have been defined. Copies of regulations governing the granting\nof special placer-mining leaseholds may be obtained upon application to the office of\nthe Chief Gold Commissioner, Department of Mines, Victoria, B.C.\nFor more detailed information the reader is referred to the complete \" Placer-\nmining Act,\" which may be obtained from the King's Printer, Victoria, B.C.\nTable of Fees, \" Mineral Act \" and \" Placer-mining Act \"\nIndividual free miner's certificate, annual fee \u2014. $5.00\nCompany free miner's certificate (capital $100,000 or less), annual fee _j. 50.00\nCompany free miner's certificate (capital over $100,000), annual fee 100.00\nRecording mineral claim 2.50\nRecording certificate of work, mineral claim 2.50\nRecording abandonment, mineral claim 10.00\nRecording abandonment, placer claim 2.50\nRecording any affidavit 2.50\nRecords in \" Records of Conveyances \" (for each claim or lease) 2.00\nFor each additional claim or lease in the same document .50\nFiling documents, \" Mineral Act \" .25\nFiling documents, \"Placer-mining Act\" 1.00\nRecording certificate of work, placer-mining lease 2.50\nFor Crown grant of mineral rights under \" Mineral Act \" 25.00\nFor Crown grant of surface rights of mineral claim under \" Mineral Act \" _ 10.00\nFor every lease under \" Placer-mining Act \" 5.00\nCOAL, PETROLEUM, AND NATURAL GAS\nLimestone, marble, etc., are disposed of by lease under the provisions of the \" Land\nAct,\" coal is disposed of under the provisions of the \" Coal Act,\" and petroleum and\nnatural gas under the \" Petroleum and Natural Gas Act.\" These Acts are under the\nadministration of the Department of Lands and Forests, Victoria, B.C. A 310 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\n\" METALLIFEROUS MINES REGULATION ACT \"\nThis Act is designed to provide for the safe working of metalliferous mines, metallurgical works, and quarries. It contains practical regulations which govern the main\nphases of mining, such as surface arrangements, fire-protection, use and storage of\nexplosives, hoisting, haulage, ventilation, mine-rescue work, etc.\nIn preparing the present Act, passed in 1948, the former Act was entirely rewritten\nand rearranged to make it conform to modern mining practice.\nIn the new Act, provision regarding explosive gases in metal mines has been made.\nA new rule allows the use of internal-combustion engines of the diesel type underground\nunder conditions which make this form of power unobjectionable.\nProvisions have been made for training and maintaining mine-rescue teams at the\nlarger metal-mining centres. The new Act also provides for the appointment of electrical, mechanical, and metallurgical inspectors; for protection of public and private\nproperty from damage resulting from mining operations; and for appointing workmen's\nsafety committees.\nThe Inspectors of Mines are empowered to enter and inspect any part of any mine,\nmetallurgical works, or quarry, and to inspect any plant or equipment, or anything\nrelating to the safety of persons employed in or about quarries, metalliferous mines, or\nmetallurgical works. They are also empowered to require the remedy of conditions\naffecting the safety of employees, to make provisions safeguarding those employed, and,\nif need be, to order the closing of a mine or part of a mine, or the stopping of all work\nconnected with it.\n\" COAL-MINES REGULATION ACT \"\nThis Act, like the \" Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act,\" is designed to provide\nfor safe working conditions by practical regulations.\nThe Act was completely revised and rewritten in 1948, and several additions and\nchanges were made to bring it into conformity with modern practice. The additions\nand changes include: Rules providing for precautions against coal-dust underground\nand in cleaning plants; a new section governing surface coal-stripping operations;\nrevised rules governing electrical installations; and provisions for the use of internal-\ncombustion engines of the diesel type underground, where the equipment and the\nconditions maintained render this form of power unobjectionable.\nThe powers of Inspectors under this Act are similar to those provided under the\n\" Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act.\"\nEXPLOSIVES\nDominion Order in Council No. 2903, requiring a permit to maintain a magazine or\npurchase explosives on the authority of a Provincial Mines Inspector, has been repealed.\n\" MINES RIGHT-OF-WAY ACT \"\nThis Act provides for access to mining property. It provides for the obtaining\nof a right-of-way for any road, railway, aerial, electric, or other tramway, surface or\nelevated cable, electric or telephone pole-line, chute, flume, pipe-line, drain, or any right\nor easement of a like nature.\n\"IRON AND STEEL BOUNTIES ACT\"\nThe Lieutenant-Governor in Council may enter into an agreement with any person\nwhereby the Crown will pay to that person, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund,\nbounties on pig-iron and steel shapes when manufactured within the Province, as\nfollows:\u2014 SYNOPSES OF MINING LAWS A 311\n(a) In respect of pig-iron manufactured from ore, on the proportion produced\nfrom ore mined in the Province, a bounty not to exceed three dollars per\nton of two thousand pounds:\n(b) In respect of pig-iron manufactured from ore, on the proportion produced\nfrom ore mined outside the Province, a bounty not to exceed one dollar\nand fifty cents per ton of two thousand pounds:\n(c) In respect of steel shapes of commercial utility manufactured in the Province, a bounty not to exceed one dollar per ton of two thousand pounds.\nBounty, as on pig-iron under this Act, may be paid upon the molten iron from ore\nwhich in the electric furnace, Bessemer or other furnace, enters into the manufacture of\nsteel by the process employed in such furnace; the weight of such iron to be ascertained\nfrom the weight of the steel so manufactured.\nBounty on steel shapes under this Act shall be paid only upon such steel shapes as\nare manufactured in a rolling-mill having a rated productive capacity per annum of at\nleast twenty thousand tons of two thousand pounds per ton. The total amount of bounties\npaid under clauses (a) and (b) is limited to $200,000 in any one year or $2,000,000 in\nthe aggregate; and the total amount of bounties paid under clause (c) is limited to\n$20,000 in any one year or $200,000 in the aggregate.\n\" INDIAN RESERVES MINERAL RESOURCES ACT \"\nThis Act validates an agreement between the Dominion and the Province whereby\nmineral rights on Indian reserves, upon surrender by the Indians, shall be administered\nby the Province, subject to the laws of the Province. A free miner wishing to prospect\non Indian reserves must obtain the approval of the Gold Commissioner for the mining\ndivision in which the reserve is situated and also of the Indian Agent for such reserve.\n\" PROSPECTORS' GRUB-STAKE ACT \"\nIn this Act \" grub-stake \" means money, food supplies, clothing, powder, tools, or\nany other thing necessary to the business of prospecting. \" Prospector \" means any person\nwho is a British subject and who is the holder of a valid free miner's certificate; who has\nbeen honourably discharged from any of His Majesty's Services or has been resident in\nthe Province during the year preceding any application for a grub-stake.\nInformation regarding grub-stakes may be obtained from the Department of Mines,\nVictoria, B.C., or from any Mining Recorder, Mining Engineer, or Inspector of Mines of\nthe Department.\nNo grub-stake granted to one applicant shall exceed $300 in value in any one year,\nbut the grub-stake may be increased, if an applicant is required to travel to or from the\narea in which he is to prospect, by an amount sufficient to cover such travelling expenses.\nThe total in no case shall exceed $500 in any year. Applicants are required to identify\nsome of the commoner rocks and minerals.\nProvision has been made for the establishment and operation of one or more mining\ntraining camps at suitable locations within the Province.\n\" TAXATION ACT \"\n(Procedure in applying to lease a Reverted Crown-granted Mineral Claim.)\n\"147. (1) Where property which consists of a mineral claim has been forfeited to\nand vested in the Crown under the provisions of this Part, it shall be lawful for the Gold\nCommissioner for the mining division in which the mineral claim is situate to grant a\nlease* thereof to any person for the term of one year upon payment of the sum of twenty-\n* Application for lease must be made to the Gold Commissioner for the mining division in which the mineral claim\nis situate; a list of the offices of the Gold Commissioners is given on page 314. A 312 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nfive dollars, and, upon payment of a further sum of twenty-five dollars, to grant a renewal\nof the lease for a further term of one year commencing on the expiration of the former\nlease, but for no longer period.\n\"(2) No person shall be entitled to hold as lessee under this section more than eight\nclaims in the same mining division at the same time.\n\"(3) No lease granted under this section shall be transferable.\n\"(4) Subject to the rights of any person to the surface or a portion of the surface of\nthe mineral claim, the lessee shall, during the continuance of his lease, but no longer, have\nthe right to enter, prospect, and mine upon the claim for all minerals, precious and base,\nsave coal and petroleum, and for that purpose shall have all the rights of a free miner\nunder the ' Mineral Act.'\n\"(5) Where the Gold Commissioner has granted a lease to any person under this\nsection, he shall forthwith notify the Surveyor of Taxes, giving the name of the mineral\nclaim, the name of the lessee, and the date of the lease, and the Surveyor of Taxes shall\nenter the particulars furnished him by the Gold Commissioner in a proper book to be kept\nby him for that purpose.\n\"(6) The lessee may at any time before the expiration of his lease apply for and\nobtain a Crown grant of the mineral claim upon payment of all taxes, costs, expenses, and\ninterest which remained due and unpaid on the mineral claim on the date of its forfeiture\nto the Crown, together with a sum equal to all taxes and interest which would have accrued\ndue in respect thereof from the date of the lease to the date of the application for a Crown\ngrant had the claim been regularly assessed in like manner as it appeared upon the assessment roll for the year last preceding the date of the forfeiture, and also with a fee of\ntwenty-five dollars for the Crown grant: Provided that if the lessee establishes to the satisfaction of the Gold Commissioner that he has expended upon the claim in mining-development work a sum of not less than two hundred dollars a year during the continuance of the\nlease, then the payment of the sum in respect of taxes and interest from the date of the\nlease to the date of application for a Crown grant shall not be required: Provided further\nthat if the lessee is the holder of a number of adjoining mineral claims not exceeding eight,\nand establishes to the satisfaction of the Gold Commissioner that a sum equal to two\nhundred dollars a claim of the full number of adjoining mineral claims has been expended\nupon one or more of the adjoining mineral claims in mining-development work for each\nyear during the continuance of the leases, then the payment of the sum in respect of taxes\nand interest from the date of the lease to the date of the application for a Crown grant\nshall not be required.\n\"(7) The lessee shall be entitled to a Crown grant according to the acreage and\ndescription of the claim specified in the original Crown grant thereof under which the\nclaim was held prior to the date of forfeiture, but subject to the prior rights of any other\nperson.\n\"(8) Where the lessees under this section of a number of adjoining mineral claims,\nnot exceeding eight, file with the Gold Commissioner a notice of their intention to perform\non any one or more of the claims all the mining-development work that otherwise might\nbe required in respect of all the claims, and where the lessees thereafter establish to the\nsatisfaction of the Gold Commissioner that a sum equal to two hundred dollars a claim\nof the full number of the adjoining claims has been expended upon one or more of the\nadjoining claims in mining-development work for each year during the continuance of the\nleases, then the payment of the sum in respect of taxes and penalties from the date of each\nof the leases to the date of the application for a Crown grant shall not be required.\"\nTAXATION OF MINES\nCrown-granted mineral claims are subject to a tax of 25 cents per acre. The tax\nbecomes due on July 2nd in each year, and if unpaid on the following October 31st is\ndeemed to be delinquent. pp^\u2014\n-\nSYNOPSES OF MINING LAWS A 313\nMines are subject to a tax at the rate of 4 per cent on income derived from mining\noperations.\nFor further particulars see the \" Mining Tax Act,\" also the \" Public Schools Act,\"\nwhich are obtainable from the King's Printer, Victoria, B.C\nThe Federal Government now collects the income tax for the Provincial Government.\nROYALTIES\nAll minerals mined from lands covered by records of mineral claims and placer\nclaims and by placer-mining leases issued after the 1st day of May, 1948, are subject\nto payment of such royalties as may be fixed by regulation made by the Lieutenant-\nGovernor in Council from time to time. The amounts of royalties to be paid have not\nyet been set. Properties subject to the payment of royalties are exempt from payment\nof the 4-per-cent tax under the \" Mining Tax Act.\"\n\" FOREST ACT \"\nIn 1939 the \"Provincial Parks Act \" was repealed and the administration of Provincial parks brought under the \" Forest Act.\" Under this Act the Lieutenant-Governor\nin Council may constitute any portion of the Province a Provincial park and may also\nextend, reduce, or cancel any park created before or after the amendment to this Act.\nThe Act provides for three classes of parks to be known as \" A,\" \" B,\" and \" C \"\nClass parks.\nLands included in Class \"A\" and Class \" C \" parks are reserved from pre-emption,\nsale, lease, or licence under the \" Land Act \" and with respect to mining are so reserved\nunless the consent of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council is obtained, and then only\nsubject to further provisions of the Act.\nNo holder of any mineral claim in a Class \"A\" or Class \" C \" park may obtain a\nCrown grant of the surface rights of a mineral claim.\nAll mineral claims in any Class \"A\" or Class \" C \" park shall be subject to such\nterms and conditions and restrictions, including cutting and use of timber, as the\nLieutenant-Governor in Council may from time to time prescribe.\nThe restrictions on prospecting and mining in Class \"A\" and Class \" C \" parks do\nnot apply in the case of Class \" B \" parks.\nWhere, in the opinion of the Minister of Lands and Forests, the safety of life and\nproperty is endangered through the hazardous condition of the forest-cover or the\noccurrence or spread of forest fire, the Minister may declare a district closed for travel\nand prospecting so long as the hazard exists. A 314 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1950\nLIST OF PRICES CHARGED FOR ACTS\n(Sales, within the Province, amounting to 15 cents or more, are subject to the\nBritish Columbia sales tax.) Price\nDepartment of Mines Act $0.15\nMineral Act : .25\nPlacer-mining Act .25\nMetalliferous Mines Regulation Act .50\nCoal-mines Regulation Act .70\nMines Right-of-way Act . 15\nIron and Steel Bounties Act .15\nIndian Reserves Mineral Resources Act .15\nProspectors' Grub-stake Act .15\nTaxation Act .75\nForest Act .80\nGreater Vancouver Water District Act .40\nSecurity Frauds Prevention Act .30\nCoal Sales Act .15\nOFFICES OF GOLD COMMISSIONERS\nGold\nMining Commissioner's\nDivision Office\nAinsworth Kaslo.\nAlberni Alberni.\nAtlin Atlin.\nCariboo Barkerville.\nClinton Clinton.\nFort Steele Cranbrook.\nGolden \u25a0 Golden.\nGreenwood Grand Forks.\nKamloops Kamloops.\nLillooet - Lillooet.\nNanaimo Nanaimo.\nNelson Nelson.\nNew Westminster New Westminster.\nNicola Kamloops.\nOmineca Smithers.\nOsoyoos -\u2022- Penticton.\nPeace River Victoria.\nQuesnel Williams Lake.\nRevelstoke Revelstoke.\nSimilkameen Princeton.\nSkeena Prince Rupert.\nSlocan Kaslo.\nStikine Victoria.\nTrail Creek Rossland.\nVancouver Vancouver.\nVernon Vernon.\nVictoria Victoria. INDEX\nPage\nA and B, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 157\nA.M., 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 167\nA.P. & S. Placer 200\nElectrical installations at 287\nA.U., 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 149\nA.Y., 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nAccidents, coal mines 247\nMetal mines 231\nAcme, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.W 214\nAcme Asbestos Cement, Ltd 214\nAdams, George 197\nAdams, Mrs. J. M 197\nAdministrative Branch 43\nAgassiz Lime Quarry 225\nAgnew, Haddon 101\nAhbau Lake, 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E 198\nAinsmore Consolidated Mines Limited 133\nAt Carey Fraction 135\nAt Lakeshore 135\nAt Laura M 135\nAt Twin 135\nAinsworth, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 133\nAir photographs 55\nAir-sampling, coal mines 253\nMetal mines 235\nAitchison, H. W 48\nAjax, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 151\nAlamo, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 147\nAlaska-Pacific Mining Co. Ltd 170\nAlbert Head, 48\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.E . 228\nAlbion, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.E 118\nAlice, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 152\nAlice Arm area, metal mines 79\nAllen, A. M 263\nAllen, A. R 155\nAllen, R. 98\nAlmo, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nAlmstrom, A. 108\nAlpine Gold Limited 143\nAltcona, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 145\nAlvensleben, Alvo von 201\nAmador, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nAmalgamation of mining divisions 43\nAmbrose, J. W 146\nAmerican Boy, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 95\nAmerican Creek, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W......\nAmerican Standard Mines Limited..\nAnalytical and Assay Branch\t\nAnderson, A. \t\nAnderson Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W......\nPage\n 78\n 95\n 47\n 201\n 200\nAnderson, James 269\nAnderson Lake, 50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E 110\nAnderson, Maurice 199\nAndesite, building-stone 217\nAndracki, I. 199\nAndrews, S. C 283, 284\nAngus Creek, Cariboo, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nAngus Creek, St. Mary River, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E. 155\nAnnual Reports, list of available 299\nAntimony, Congress 109\nGray Reck 110\nAntimony, production 15\nAntler Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nAntler Mountain Gold Limited 199\nAnyox, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 80\nApponen, F. 259\nArlington, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E . 123\nArmstead, D. N 139\nArmstrong, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E., mica deposit near 226\nArmstrong, H. H. 115\nArmstrong, J. E., Geological Survey, Canada 57\nArrow Lake, Upper, 50\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 151\nArrow Mountain, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 152\nAsbestos, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.W 214\nAsbestos deposits 207\nAsbestos Nos. 1-4, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nAsher, J. ... 131\nAspen Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 124\nAssay Branch 47\nAsselstine, W. J 167\nAsserlind, H 201\nAtkinson Dredging Company Limited 202\nAtlin area, metal mines 71\nPlacer mines 196\nAyling, A. T _: 219\nAugust Fraction, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 136\nAura Fina Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nAurum, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 103\nAverage prices 16\nAyesha, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W __ 135\nB\nB.C. Lead & Zinc Mines Ltd\t\nB.N.A., 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E\t\nB.N.A. Mines Limited Liability..\n 132\n 138\n 138\nB.R.X. (1935) Consolidated Mines Limited. 109\nB.W.M., 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 75\nBacon, 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 75\nBacon, George 75\nBacon, W. R., Geologist, field work 51\nReport on Britain River 172\nReport on Cambrian Chieftain 170\nBaillie, A. S 113, 265\nBaker Brick and Tile Co 220\nBaker, C. J. Seymour 102\nBaker, Ralph 268\nBaldwin, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 14\nBaldy Mountain Strip Coal Mine 272\nBall, R 219\nBalmer, Thomas 267\nBamberton, 48\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W., cement plant\nenlargement 11\nLimestone quarry at 224\nBankhead, H 273\nBanks, H. R 152\nBarclay, E. H 122\nBarclay, S. W 122\nBarite, deposits 217\nProduction 15\nBarker, Howard . 204\n315 A 316\nINDEX\nBarkerville-Wells area, metal mines..\nBarr Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W. ...\nBarrett-Leonard, W. J.\nPage\n..... 101\n...... 201\n228\nBarriere River, 51\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W. ... 111\nBase Metals Mining Corporation Limited, at\nCork Province 138, 139\nAt Monarch and Kicking Horse 157\nBatchelor, Harry 270, 271\nBaynes, E. G. 220\nBayonne, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 131\nBazan Bay Brick & Tile Co. Limited 220\nBeale, F. J. 224\nBeale Quarries Limited 224\nBeale, Stanley 224\nBeamish, W 200\nBear, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 107\nBear Creek Brick Company 219\n(Bear) Oscar Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 121\nBear River, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W. 78\nBeatty, George 134\nBeaver, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.W 80\nBeaver Channels Limited 199\nBeaverdell, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E. 116\nBedford, L. 198\nBeirnes, A. D 98\nBeley, G. H., Gold Commissioner 45\nBell, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E. 124\nBell, J. W 219\nBelle Aire, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 136\nBelliveau, L. 110\nBellore Mines Limited 110\nBennett, A 258\nBennett, Harold 155\nBennett, J. H., Resident Engineer 48\nReport by 80\nBenson, R. A. 283, 284\nBesecker, Dr. L. D. 136\nBess Mines Limited 146\nBethune, T. 102\nBeveley, 56\u00b0 125\u00b0 S.E 101\nBevister, T. 108\nBickell, W. A 218\nBiff, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E. 100\nBig Bull, 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 74\nBig Canyon, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E 201\nBig Four, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 78\nBig Four Silver Mines Ltd. 78\nBig Ledge, 50\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 151\nBiggs, J., Harewood 259\nBiggs, J., Nickel Plate 114\nBiggs, L. 200\nBillings, H. M. 124\nBillingsley, Paul 145\nBiogeochemical prospecting 130, 185, 187\nBird, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E. 226\nBird, D 226\nBird, L. 226\nBismuth, production 15\nBlack Bear Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 107\nBlack Diamond, Ainsworth, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W. 134\nBlack Diamond, Boulder Creek, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0\nN.E. 72\nBlack, J. C 145, 147\nBlack, J. M., Geologist, field work 1 51\nReport on Golden View 71\nReport on Hazelton area 82\nBlack mine, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W 265\nBlack Prince, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nBlack Rock, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 128\nBlakey, K. B., Gold Commissioner 45\nBlanchard, John F 209\nBlanchard Nos. 1-4, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nPage\nBland No. 2, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nBlaney, Gordon 155\nBlasting, electrical 282\nBlossom, T. E. 77\nBlubber Bay, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W., limestone\nquarry at 224\nBlue, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E. 142\nBlue Creek, 51\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E. 107\nBluebell, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 132\nElectrical installations at 293\nBluebird Mines Limited 144\nBluebird, Rossland, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 119\nElectrical installations at 291\nBluebird, Sandon, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 144\nBlutcher, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nBoard of Examiners for coal-mine officials ...\n 48, 255\nBobchuk, Daniel 271\nBodie, L. W 100\nBonar, Robert B., Senior Inspector of Coal\nMines 48\nReport on coal-mining 241\nBond, Frank 263\nBooster, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nBoothe, James W 202\nBorup, E 112\nBostock, H. S. Geological Survey, Canada ... 57\nBosun, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N. E. : 141, 147\nBoulder Creek, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E., metal mines 72\nPlacer mines 1 196\nBoulder Creek Placers 196\nBoulding, J 101\nBourbon Fraction, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nBowen, William 180\nBowman Mines Limited 200\nBowron Coal Company Limited 275\nBowron River, 53\u00b0\" 121\u00b0 N.W., coal mine at 275\nBoy Scout, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nBralorne, 50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W., accident at 232\nElectrical installations at 289\nBralorne Mines Limited, at Bridge River 108\nAt Britain River '. 173\nAt Elizabeth 107\nAt Queen Bess 147\nBrett, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 226\nBrett, Leonard 267\nBrick, plants 219\nProduction 15\nBridal Falls, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W. 219\nBridcut, S. G. 209\nBridge River area, metal mines 108\nPlacer mines 202\nBriggs Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E. 138\nBright mine, Cassidy 258\nElectrical installations at 297\nBrisco, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E., barite at 217\nBriscoe, B 198\nBrister, V. A. 196\nBritain River, 50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E j 172\nBritannia, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.E 168\nProduces zinc 10\nBritannia Mining and Smelting Co. Limited 168\nBritish Columbia Cement Company Limited 224\nBroatch, John 116\nBrodrick, H. 258\nBrodrick, M. 258\nBroughton, F., Mining Recorder 45\nBrown, A. 200\nBrown, David 269\nBrown, E. .. 142\nBrown, J. G. 97\nBrown, J. T. 258 '\nINDEX\nA 317\nPage\n. 269\n221\nBrown, James \t\nBrown, L. G. \t\nBrown, M 262\nBrown, W. L., Geological Survey, Canada... 57\nBryden, Thomas 263\nBuckham, T. R. 147\nBuckland, F. C 119, 123\nBudweiser No. 2, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 137\nBugnelli, Angelo 78\nBuilding-stone 217\nBuisson, Arthur, Mines Branch 58\nBulkley River, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 98\nBulkley Valley Collieries Limited\nElectrical installations at \t\nBull, W. J. \t\nBulletins, list of\t\nBullock, W. R. \t\nBurgess, A. \t\nBurnett, T. \t\nBurnett, W. B. \t\nBurns, David\t\nBurrows, T. H. \t\nBurt-St. Louis Placers \t\nBurton, R. W\t\nButler Ridge, 56\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E...\nButorac, M. M. \t\nPage\n273\n297\n133\n300\n131\n120\n228\n101\n150\n218\n199\n79\n276\n118\nCadmium, Britannia\n.Jersey\nKootenay Florence\nReeves MacDonald\n169\n128\n133\n130\nWhitewater 141\nCadmium, production 15\nCadwallader Creek, 50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W 108\nCairns, John 267\nCambrian Chieftain, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 170\nCameron, D. 108\nCameron, Milton 232\nCamp Creek, 51\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 203\nCamp McKinney, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 116\nCampbell Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nCampbell, D. S. 133\nCampbell, W. N. 155\nCanada Cement Company 220\nCanadian American Mines Incorporated .\u2014 203\nCanadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited .\n 257, 260\nCanadian Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nCanadian Exploration Limited 126\nCanadian King, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nCanadian Queen, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nCanadian Queen Fraction, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W.... 87\nCsnam Mining Corporation Limited 167\nCanary, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nCannon, D. M 71, 80\nCanyon Chieftain, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 170\nCanyon Creek, 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 198\nCarbillet, A. 201\nCarey Fraction, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nCariboo, Spanish Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 107\nCariboo area, coal mines 275\nMetal mines 101\nPlacer mines 198\nCariboo Consolidated Gold Mines Limited. 103\nCariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited 101\nElectrical installations at 289\nCariboo Keithley Gold Placers Limited 202\nCariboo Metals Limited 201\nCariboo River, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 201\nCaribou Nos. 1 and 2, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nCarling, S. M., Gold Commissioner 44\nCarnation, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 145\nCarnegie Mines Ltd. 141, 144\nCarnes Creek, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 159\nCaron Mining Co. Ltd 170\nCarpenter Creek, Retallack, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E... 143\nCarpenter Creek, Sandon, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E..... 145\nCarruthers, R. B. 260\nCarruthers and Wakelam No. 3 mine 260\nCascade Creek, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E 77\nCassidy, No. 7 mine 259\nCassiterite, occurrence of 197\nCedar Creek, Ainsworth, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 133\nCedar Creek, Cariboo, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 201\nCement, plants 223\nProduction 15\nCentral Records Offices 43\nCentre Star, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 121\nCertificates, coal-miners' ... 255\nMine surveyors' 255\nChambers No. 4 mine, Extension 259\nChambers, R. H. 259\nChapman, William 270\nCharles, R. J. 112\nCharleston, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 141\nCheam Lake, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 225\nCheam Marl Products Limited 225\nCheam Range, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 167\nCheam View, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 219\nChester, Daniel 268\nChester, J. 201\nChouse, J. M. 199\nChristensen, A. A. 224\nChristian, C. J. 115\nChristie, J. 261\nChristie, R. L., Geological Survey, Canada. 57\nChrysotile Nos. 1-4, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nChung, Fook 199\nClabon Creek, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 158\nClark, G. H 110\nClark, P. L 116\nClark, W 151\nClarke, P. R 116\nClarkson, J. 261\nClay plants 219\nClay products, production 15\nClayburn Company Limited 219\nNew plant 10\nClayton, G. E 115, 225\nClays, production 15\nClearwater, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nCleaver, H. 149\nCline, John 170\nClothier, R. L 101\nClubine, L. R 128\n\" Coal Act \" 309\nCoal, competition of foreign 247\nDust 253\nMachine-mined 252\nPreparation plants 246\nProduction 15, 30, 242 244\nRegistered names of 255\nCoal-mine official certificates 255\nCoal-miners' certificates 255 A 318\nINDEX\nCoal mines, diesel locomotives in..\nNotes on\t\nProduction \t\nSupervision of\n: Coal-mines Regulation Act \"..\nPage\n 253\n 257\n.242-244\n_ 255\n310\nCoal-mining, report by R. B. Bonar 241\n\" Coal Sales Act \" 255\nCoalmont, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W., coal mines 266\nCoast Quarries Limited 218\nCoates, F. 260\nCobalt, Victoria 99\nRocher Deboule 100\nCochran, David William 178\nCochrane, W. H., Gold Commissioner 45\nCockfield, W. E., Geological Survey, Canada 57\nCodville, F. H. M 107\nCoffee Creek, Ainsworth, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W\t\n 133, 136\nCoffee Creek, Cariboo, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nCoke, production 30, 31\nColdwater Coal Mines 266\nColdwater No. 3 mine 266\nColeman, Daniel 272\nCollins, G. A 201\nCollins Gulch, prospect coal mine 266\nColorado, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 132\nColorado Mining and Milling Co. Ltd 132\nColumbia Cellulose Company Limited 223\nColumbia Gypsum Products, Inc 221-\nColumbia River, placers on 203\nComet, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 99\nCommittee on Canadian Electrical Code 283\nCommons, R. , 283, 284\nCompagnie Francaise des Mines d'Or du\nCanada . 197\nComox, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W., coal mines 260\nCoal-preparation plant 246\nCompetition of foreign coal 247\nCongress Gold Mines Ltd 109\nConklin Gulch, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Company\nof Canada, Limited, The, at Anyox 80\nAt Beveley 101\nAt Big Bull 74\nAt Big Ledge 151\nAt Bluebell 132\nAt Boulder Creek 196\nAt Fairview 115\nAt Fife 225\nAt H.B. 124\nAt Libby and Highland 135\nAt Mogul and Timbasket 158\nAt Molly Gibson 120\nAt Sullivan 152\nAt Sunloch 180\nAt Tulsequah 74\nConstable, K. C 152\nConway, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 106\nConwest Exploration Company Limited, at\nMcDame 210\nCooper Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nCooper, H 119\nCooper, J. A 118\nCooper, J. A. (Wash.) 136\nCooper, L 260\nCope, W. H., Gold Commissioner 44\nCopper (see also Gold-copper), A.M.\nAnyox \t\nB.W.M. \t\nBritain River\nBritannia \t\nCambrian Chieftain\nCopper King\t\nCopper Mountain\t\nGold Coin\t\nGuichon \t\nLucky Four \t\nSunloch \t\nPage\n.... 167\n__ 80\n_ 75\n.... 172\n.... 168\n.... 170\n... 106\n.... 113\n.... 167\n.... 112\n... 167\n.... 180\nCopper, production 15\nCopper King, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 106\nCopper Mountain, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W 113\nAccident at 232\nElectrical installations at 290\nCopper-zinc, Britannia 168\nTwin J 180\nCopperado, 50\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W 112\nCoquitlam, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 228\nCorinth, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 145\nCork Province, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 138, 141\nElectrical installations at 293\nCork Province Mines Limited 138\nCorless, T. W 201\nCormie, A. M ...... 79\nCormier, Nos. 1-6, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\n..270, 271\n 268\n 100\n 100\n 214\nCorrigan, Harry\nCorrigan, James\nCoronado, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.....\nCoronation, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.\nCossar, L. \t\nCottonwood River, 52\u00b0\n122\u00b0 S.E\t\n122\u00b0 N.E. and 53\u00b0\nCoulter Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W....\nCowichan Lake, 48\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.E..\nCragg, R. C...\n200\n199\n204\n112\nCranberry Creek Gold Mining Co. Limited. 117\nCrawford Creek, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 132\nCrawford, F. E 152\nCrawford, R. W 152\nCreston, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 152\nCroker, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 196\nCronin, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 101\nCronin Babine Mines Limited 101\nCrosby, F. H. 143\nCrowe-Swords, R. 142, 144, 147\nCrowhurst, J. J. A. : 157\nCrown-granted mineral claims, leases of reverted 46, 311\nCrow's Bar, Fraser River 232\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal Company Limited... 267\nCubanite, occurrence of 187\nCudworth, W. M. 201\nCuisson Lake, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 106\nCullen, A. 262\nCumberland, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W., coal mines at. 260\nCunliffe, Thomas H., instructor 48\nCunningham Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E ...... 200\nCurrie, H. 137\nCurtin, C. J. 98\nCurtin, J. B. 98\nCustom mills 119, 140\nCutler, Hiram 225 INDEX\nA 319\nD\nDaisy, 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W..\nDaisy Bell, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W.\nPage\n 75\n 137\nDalgleish, D., Gold Commissioner 44\nDangerous occurrences, coal mines 253\nMetal mines 234\nElectrical equipment 279\nDavey, William 272\nDavey, William H 255\nDavidson, A. M. 225\nDavis, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 73\nDavis, Gerald 73\nDay Mines Incorporated 128\nde Wit, R., Geological Survey, Canada 57\nDeadman, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 144\nDean, A. : 260\nDeer Home No. 2 mine, Extension 259\nDelaware, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 152\nDepartment of Mines and Technical Surveys 57\nDepartmental Work 43\nDerby and Co., Ltd., shipment of tungsten\nconcentrates to 73\nDevils Canyon, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nDiamond, R. W. .....'. 152\nDiamond, Rene J. 256\nDiatomite, production 15\nDictator, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 118\nDiem Mines Limited 128\nDiesel locomotives, coal mines 253\nDisereau, L. 133\nDividends, coal mines 34\nCopper mines 34\nLode-gold mines 32\nSilver-lead-zinc mines 34\nPage\nDividends paid by mining companies, 1897\u2014\n1950 35\n1949-50 35\nDixie Fraction, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 136\nDockrill, A. H 273\nDockrill, F. M. 273\nDoelle, H. E. 123\nDon, James S. 146\nDoney, E. 145, 146\nDonovan Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nDoratty, Robert O 255\nDorf, E 85\nDorreen, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 81\nDorreen Gold Mines Limited 81\nDouglas, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 119\nDouglas, R. S 113\nDouglas, Rod 74\nDowsett, E. S. 199\nDragon Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nDraper, W. L., Gold Commissioner 44\nDuffell, S., Geological Survey, Canada 57\nDuncan, 48\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 180\nDundee, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 120\nDunlop, T. 199\nDunn, A. 258\nDust, coal mines 253\nMetal mines 236\nDuthie, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nDuties, copper 9\nLead 9\nZinc 9\nDutka, William 249\nDwarkin, L. 256\nDvnamo, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W 118\nE\nEagle Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 119\nEarlandson, E. 159\nEarly Bird, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nEast, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E . 76\nEast Kootenay, coal mines 267\nEasterbrook, Thomas 249\nEberts, Henry 271\nEccleston, T. 262\nEdberge, P. : 200\nEdzerza, George 209\nEdgell, J., Gold Commissioner 45\nEight Mile Lake, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nEi Alamein, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 N.W 112\nEI Alamein Mines (1950) Limited 112\nEider, L. H .. 197\nElder, W. W. 111\nEldridge, G. S. 116\nElectrical blasting 282\nElectrical Code, Canadian 283\nElectrical equipment, inspection of 277\nElectrical installations, coal mines 296\nMetal mines 288\nPlacer mines 287\nElectrical power 285\nElectricity 3 6\nCoal mines 252\nElectrum, occurrence of 76\nElizabeth, 51\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E 107\nElk River Colliery, 49\u00b0 114\u00b0 S.W 267\nAccident at 249\nBumps at 249\nCoal preparation at 246\nDangerous occurrences at 253\nElectrical installations at 297\nElk River, Vancouver Island, 50\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E. 180\nElkhorn, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E. 146\nElsay Creek, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 218\nEmerald, Iron Mountain, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E. ... 126\nEmerald, Tahtsa Lake, 53\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 101\nEmerald Glacier Mines Limited 101\nEmerald tungsten project 126\nEmilson, Ed. 121\nEmployment 38, 42, 247\nEndersby, A. 124\nEnglund, J. V 198\nEnnerdale Placers 200\nEnterprise, Bear River, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W. 78\nEnterprise, Slocan Lake, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E. ...... 148\nEnterprise Company 102\nEop, W 107\nErickson, A. 149\nErie, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 98\nErie Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 123\nErnst, E. 200\nEstella, 49\u00b0 115\u00b0 N.W 155\nElectrical installations at 295\nEstella Mines Limited, 49\u00b0 115\u00b0 N.W 155\nEvans, Coleman & Evans 220\nEvans-Atkinson, N. 201\nEves, F. J 220\nEwart, T. G 267\nEwers, K. G 115\nExcelda Mines Limited 146\nExplosives, coal mines 251\nMetal mines\n.235, 310 A 320\nINDEX\nPage\nFairley, James .... 255, 264\nFairview, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W 115\nFairview Amalgamated Gold Mines Ltd. 115\nFairview Camp, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W. 115\nFaith, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nFalck, E. M . 200\nFalkland, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W., gypsum at 220\nFata, A 120\nFawn Mining Company Limited 159\nFees, table of 309\nFehr, John .. 232\nFerguson, J. D. 112\nFerrarelli, Giovanni 249\nFiddler, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 81\nFiddler Creek, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 81\nField, 51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E. 157\nField work 51\nFife, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.E., limestone quarry at ...... 225\nFirst aid, metal mines .... 236\nFisher, N. S. 72\nFleming, W. G., Gold Commissioner 45\nFlorence M., 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W. 137\nForbes, G., Gold Commissioner 45\nForbes, Neil 197\nFord, G 283, 284\nFord, James Stanley 204\n\"Forest Act\" 313\nForman, H. D. 133\nForsyth, William 263\nFossils 85\nFoster, J. R. 201\nFoster, Miss J., Gold Commissioner 45\nFoundation Test Boring Ltd. 138\nPage\nFour Mile Creek, Cariboo, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E. _ 201\nFour Mile Creek, Hazelton, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W. .. 98\nFour Mile Mountain, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 98\nFox, E. 202\nFrancis, David M. 263, 273\nFrankish, A. W. 199\nFraser River, 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W. 198\n50\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 202\nFraser Valley Lime Company Limited 225\nFrebold, Hans, Geological Survey, Canada _. 57\nFredericks, F. 201\nFree miners' certificates 46, 305\n\" Freeing of the dollar \" 9\nFreeland, Philip Broke, obituary 50\nFreeman, F. W. 200\nFrench, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E 114\nFrench Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E. 199\nFrench Creek Placer .... 203\nFrench Creek Hydraulic Placers Limited 199\nFrench, F. H 114\nFrench, O. E. 229\nFrench Snowshoe Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 202\nFrew, W 1 258\nFreyer, J. H 199\nFiobisher, M. 262\nFuel, computing production 14\nProduction . . 15\nUsed in mining industry 36\nFurnace Portal mine, Harewood 259\nFyles, J. G., Geological Survey, Canada 57\nFyles, J. T., Geologist, appointment of 50\nField work 51\nReport by 204\nG\nGabbro Copper Mines Limited 181\nGabrielse, H., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nGabriola Island, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.W 220\nGaines, N. P. 199\nGalena, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W 80\nGalena Farm, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 149\nGallagher, J. W 115\nGallant, Joseph Nelson 232\nGallo, J. 133, 151\nGalloway, Raymond 116, 232\nGarbutt, F. \u2022 114\nGarraway, A. J. * 255, 276\nGatenby, L. B. 95\nGeographic Division 55\nGeological Survey of Canada 57\nGeneral Review 69\n.130, 185, 187\nGeochemical prospecting\t\nGeophysical Exploration Ltd. _ . 112\nGeorge Enterprise Mining Company. 78\nGeorge, W. B 78\nGerety, Thomas M \u2022.... 203\nGething, Lawrence 275\nGething, Lloyd 275\nGething, Quentin F. (King) 275\nGiebe, W. ...: 98\nGiegerich estate . 134\nGiegerich, H. C 138\nGiegerich, J. R. , rt. 152\nReport on SO2 gas from back-filling operations 238\nGilleland, H. B : 87, 100\nGilley Bros. Limited : 218\nGilley, J. H 218, 228\nGillis, J\t\nGilmour, J. \t\nGilmour, H. \t\nGilpin-Nash Limited\nGimple, G.\n 118\n 238\n 260\n 218\n 128\nGirou, Roger 269\nGlacier Creek, Howser, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 133\nGlacier Creek, Lardeau, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W. ..... 151\nGlacier Creek, Smithers, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nGlacier Gulch, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nGlacier Gulch Mining Co. Ltd 100\nGlasspoole, W. R. 134, 135\nGleason, E. J. 157\nGlen and Nine Mile Mountain area, report\nby J. M. Black 82\nGlen Mountain, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nGlen Mountain Mines Ltd 95\nGloria, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nGlover, Francis 1 266\nGodfrey Bros. . 119\nGold, method of computing production 13\n.Placer-gold mining : 195\nPlacer-gold purchasing 44\nPrices 13, 16\nProduction tables 15, 17-31\nGold, B.R.X. . 109\nBralorne 108\nCariboo Gold Quartz 101\n\u2022Davis 73\nElizabeth 107\nGolden Contact 110\nGolden View 71\nEl Alamein 112 INDEX\nA 321\nGold\u2014Continued\nGranite-Poorman\nI.X.L. \t\nIsland Mountain\nPage\n 5 119\n 118\n 102\nMidas : i. 107\nMidnight 118\nMount Vernon 115\nNickel Plate . 114\nPioneer 108\nPolaris-Taku 73\nSheep Creek 123\nSilver Star 116\nWaterloo 116\nWayside 109\nWhite Elephant 115\nGold-antimony, Congress 109\nGold Belt, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 124\nGold Coin, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 167\nGold Commissioners, list of .\u2014. 44\nOffices of : 314\nGold Commissioners' and Mining Recorders'\noffice statistics 46\nGold-copper (see also Gold-silver-copper-\nlead-zinc), Gordon and William 178\nLittle Billie 178\nGold-copper-lead-zinc, Fiddler 81\nGold Cure, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 138\nGold Drop, Beaverdell, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 117\nGold Drop, Marmot River, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W.. 78\nGold Drop Mines Limited 78\n(Gold) Kleanza Creek, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 197\nGold No. 1 and No. 2, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 170\nGold-silica. See Silica-gold.\nGold-silver, Albion 118\nDynamo 118\nEast 76\nLead King 118\nProvidence 118\nRed Cliff 78\nStandard 167\nGold-silver-cobalt-uranium, Victoria 99\nGold-silver-copper-cobalt, Rocher Deboule... 100\nGold-silver-copper-lead-zinc, Big Bull 74\nTulsequah Chief 74\nGold-silver-lead, Unicorn 78\nGold-silver-lead-zinc, Arlington 123\nBayonne . 131\nBeaver 80\nBluebird 119\nCentre Star 121\nCronin Babine 101\nDundee L 120\nDuthie - 100\nGlacier Gulch 100\nGold Drop 78\nGold-silver-lead-zinc\u2014Continued\nGoodenough \t\nIndian \t\nJack Pot ......\nLast Chance\nMamie\t\nOxide\t\nScranton \t\nSilbak Premier\nVictor \t\nX-Ray\nPage\n 120\n 77\n 122\n 121\n 100\n 123\n 137\n 76\n 146\n 121\nYmir Yankee Girl... 120\nGolden Contact Mines Limited 110\nGolden View, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 71\nGoldsmith, G. A 202\nGoodenough, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 120\nGordon, G. A 101\nGordon and William, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W 178\nGowing, O. W 120\nGraham, Douglas 271\nGraham, F. Ronald 257\nGraham, J. A 108\nGranby Colliery, No. 1 mine 265\nGranby Consolidated Mining Smelting and\nPower Company Limited, The, at Copper Mountain 113\nAt Granby Colliery 265\nGranite, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nGranite, building-stone 217\nGranite Falls, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 218\nGranite-Poorman, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 119\nGranules, production 15\nGranville Mines Corporation Ltd 118\nGravel deposits 226\nProduction 15\nGray, J. J 132\nGray Rock Mining Company Limited 110\nGreater Vancouver Sand & Gravel Company\nLimited 228\nGreen, G. L. 131\nGreenwood, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W., metal mines..... 118\nGregory, Richard Justin 256\nGregory, William 270, 272\nGrouse Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nGrove, E. 150\nGrove, P. 150\nGrub Gulch, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nGrub-staking prospectors 52\nGuernsey, F. W . 102\nGuichon Mine Limited 112\nGunn, J. J 198\nG.Y.P. Fraction, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 151\nGypsum, deposits 220\nProduction 15\nGypsum Lime & Alabastine Canada, Limited 220\nH\nH.B., 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E., report by M. S. Hedley 124\nHaddington Island, 50\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 217\nHadgkiss, J. ....... . -- 220\nHadlund, H. D. :.. '- 200\nHaile, Joseph J 48\nHall, E., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nHall, W. 144\nHallgren, S. 134, 136\nHamil Silver-Lead Mines Limited ............. 151\nHamill Creek, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W...., 151\nHamilton, R. H 259\nHamilton, S., Gold Commissioner..... 45\nHamilton, W. S 132, 135, 158\nHamlin, Peter 209\nHaney, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 220\nHaukedahl, E. P 121, 122, 123\nHannah, A . 258\nHansen, Hans 135\nHarbour, H. L .. 150\nHardie, R. C .. 283\/284\nHarding, J. 228\nHarding, T. W., Gold Commissioner . 44\nHargcod, H. W 198\nHarris, W. G 125\nHarvie, F. W . 224\nHaskins, R. E 224 A 322\nINDEX\nPage\n. 134\n134\n131\n202\n128\n202\nHawes, S. \t\nHawes, T.\t\nHawkins, H. \t\nHaycock, G.\t\nHayes, D. I\t\nHaywood, H.\t\nHazel, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nHazelton area, metal mines, report by J. M.\nBlack 82\nHealey, Ignatius B 116\nHeather and Enterprise, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 78\nHedley, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E 114\nHedley, E. L., Gold Commissioner 44\nHedley, M. S., Geologist, field work 51\nReport on Bluebell 132\nReport on Emerald 126\nReport on H.B 124\nReport on Jack Pot 122\nReport on Last Chance 121\nReport on Mammoth 148\nReport on Paradise , 156\nReport on Reeves MacDonald 129\nHedley Mascot Gold Mines Limited, at Silver\nGiant 157\nAt Sunloch 181\nHeffernan, J. W 167\nHegan, William 115\nHeichert, J. 149\nHelen Nos. 1 and 2, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nHelicopter Exploration Co. Ltd. 71\nHell Roaring Creek, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nHemsworth, F. J., Inspector and Resident\nEngineer 48\nReports by 71, 73, 76, 78, 81, 100, 196\nHenderson, G. G. L, Geologist, appointment\nof 50\nField work 51\nHenderson, J. G. 225\nHenrici, R. C 197\nHerd, W 262\nHewat, C. H 180\nHewat, H. 144\nHewitt, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 148\nHidden Creek, Observatory Inlet, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0\nS.W 80\nHidden Creek, Ymir, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 122\nHiggins, C 145, 146\nHiggs, F. A. : 220\nHighland, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nHighland Bell, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 116\nElectrical installations at 291\nHighland Bell Limited 116\nHighland Sand and Gravel Company Limited 228\nHighland Silver, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 117\nHighlander, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W. 133\nHill, H\t\nHill, H. L. ..\t\nHill, J. W\t\nHillcrest Mohawk Collieries, Ltd.\nHills, W. \t\nHilton, Arthur\t\nHind, J. \t\nPage\n.137, 142\n 180\n 152\n 273\n 228\n 263, 264\n 200\nHixon Creek, 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 198\nHixon Placers Inc. 198\nHoadley, J. W., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nHoists 282\nHolcombe, H. E 150\nHolland, J 199\nHolland, S. S., Geologist, field work 51\nReport by 102\nHolm, A 199\nHomestake, Slocan Lake, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nHomestake, Smithers, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E. 100\nHong, W. M 199\nHope, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E. 155\nHome, A. E 117\nHome, Mrs. A. E. 117\nHorse Shoe, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nHorseback Nos. 1 and 2, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W. .... 209\nHorsebeef Placers, 50\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 202\nHorseshoe Bend, Quesnel River 200\nHorton, P. F 124\nHougen, Dr. O. R 199\nHouseman Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nHovland, John 78\nHoward, A. 220\nHoward Fraction, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nHowe Sound, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.E 168\nHowell, B. F. 85\nHowlett, Charles J. 167\nHowser, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W. 133\nHowson Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 147\nHuckleberry Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 121\nHudson Bay Exploration and Development\nCompany at B.W.M. 75\nHudson Bay Mountain, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E. 100\nHughes, E. R., Inspector and Resident Engineer 48\nReports by 112, 113, 118, 203, 263\nHughes, H. C, Chief Inspector 48\nReport by 231\nHughes, Richard 270\nHughes, Sidney 271\nHummingbird, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nHungerford, R. M . 219\nHunt, L. A. 283, 284\nHurley River, 50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.W 202\nHutchinson, L. 262\nHutton, A. C. 202\nHyde Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W. 199\nI.C., 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nI.X.L., Rossland, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W. 118\nI.X.L., Sproat Mountain, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.W. .... 214\nIdaho, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 147\nIllustrations, see page 333.\nIndian, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E 77\nIndian Arm, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 218\nIndian Mines (1946) Ltd 77\n\" Indian Reserves Mineral Resources Act \"... 311\nIndium, production 15\nIndustrial minerals, deposits 205\nProduction 15, 27\nInspection Branch 48\nInspection committees, coal mines 253\nInspection of electrical equipment and installations 277\nInspection of lode mines, placer mines, and\nquarries : 231\nInspectors and Resident Engineers 48\nInstructors, mine-rescue stations 48\nInterior Development Co. Ltd 200\nInternational Gold Master Mining Ltd. 202\n(International) Lomond, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 127\nInternational Nickel Mining Company of\nCanada Limited at Mount. Diadem 172\nIntroduction 7 INDEX\nA 323\nIota, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E...\nIron, Lomond\nQuatsino Copper-Gold\n\" Iron and Steel Bounties Act \".\nIron Mountain, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.Iron Mountain Limited\t\nIron ore, production\t\nIron oxides, production\t\nIsaacs, J. G\t\nPage\n.... 115\n..... 128\n..... 180\n..... 310\n..... 126\n.... 126\n.... 15\n.... 15\n.... 135\nPage\nIsland Mountain, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 102\nDangerous occurrences at 235\nElectrical installations at 289\nIsland Mountain Mines Company Limited\u2014 102\nIsland Mountain Quartz Mining and Milling\nCo ... 102\nIslay B, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E 115\nIvanhoe, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nJack of Clubs Lake, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nJack Pot, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 122\nJackpine Flat, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 156\nJackson, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nJackson, C. H 264\nJackson No. 1 mine 264\nJackson (Stenson) Creek, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nJacobie, F. 200\nJames, A. R. C, Inspector and Resident\nEngineer 48\nReports by 256, 257, 273\nJames, H. T 108\nJeletzky, J. A., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nJensen, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 N.W 112\nJersey, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 126\nElectrical installations at 292\nJervis Inlet, 50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 172\nlessiman, Norman . 220\nJestly, G. A 97\nJestly, L. 96\nJim, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 107\nJmaeff, A. = 119\nJohnson, A. 119, 131\nJohnson, C 119\nJohnson, C. E....\nJohnson, E. M...\nJohnson, E. W.\n 106\n 200\n 114\nJohnson, J. V 220\nJohnson, O. 118\nJohnson, V. E 201\nJohnson, W. 119\nJohnston, C. F 144\nJohnston, E. 228\nJohnston, F. 258\nJohnston, R. J 120\nJoint offices 53\nJoker, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 196\nJones, Mr. 197\nJones, A. 260\nJones, A. G., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nJones, F. R 129\nJones, W. 200\nJordan, T. 258\nJordan River, 48\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 180\nJorgensen, L. W 80\nJukes, A. E 109, 123, 178\nJumbo Creek, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 157\nJuniper Creek, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 100\nK\nKanaka Bar, 50\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 202\nKangaroo Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 201\nKaragut, J. 214\nKeen Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 138\nKeiler, J. 199\nKeithley Creek area, metal mines 107\nPlacer mines .... 201\nKelowna Exploration Company Limited 114\nAt Carnation 145\nAt Queen Bess 147\nKemp, Peter, instructor 48\nKenney, John R. ....... 145\nKenville Gold Mines, Limited, at Arlington . 123\nAt Granite-Poorman 119\nKenville mill 119\nKetch Placers, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nKeystone Charleston, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 141\nKicking Horse, 51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 157\nKidd, D. F. 159\nKilgard, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E. 219\nKimberley, 49\u00b0 115\u00b0 N.W 152\nKimberley, fertilizer plant at 11\nKimberley, G. C, Gold Commissioner 45\nKinbasket Lake, 51\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 158\nKinder, E. H 112\nKing, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nKing, Robert B., Inspector and Resident Engineer 48\nReports by 167, 168, 178, 203, 218, 228\nKing Fraction, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nKing Gething Mines 275\nKing Salmon Lake, 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 75\nKirby (Jr.), A 1__ 76\nKirbyville Creek, 51\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 203\nKirk Bros. 210\nKirkham, A. 258\nKirkpatrick, H. 258\nKitsault River, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W 79\nKitsumgallum Lake, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.W 80\nKleanza Creek, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 197\nKlein, Fred 170\nKleman, J. S. 118\nKlomen, Joe 118\nKnauss Creek, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 81\nKniert, Kenneth : 269\nKnight, H. W. 133\nKoeye Limestone Company 224\nKnowles, J. 261\nKokanee Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 120\nKokanee Glacier Park, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 137\nKootenay Belle, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 124\nKootenay Belle Mines Limited at Altoona... 145\nAt Elkhorn 146\nAt Richmond Eureka 144\nAt Whitewater 140\nKootenay Central Mines Limited 118, 131\nKootenay Chief, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 132\nKootenay Florence, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 133\nKootenay Lake, North 132\nSouth 131\nKraft, A. ,-_ 1 121, 124\nKrall, J. . 270\nKrall, Thomas ....: 271\nKusnir, Paul 255, 268 A 324\nINDEX\nPage\nL.A.P. Mining Company Limited 109\nLabour 38, 42, 247\nLa Forme Creek, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 159\nLa Haye, Leo 200\nLake Expanse Gold Mines Ltd., at Beaver.... 80\nAt Boy Scout 155\nLake Kathlyn Glacier, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nLakes, Harold 126\nLakeshore, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\n\" Land Act \" 309\nLandon, Clifford V. 200\nLane, Thomas 134, 135\nLane, W. E. 134\nLangford, K. K. 199\nLardeau, North 150\nSouth 151\nLarder, G. S. M 203\nLarner, Ralph 268\nLarry Creek, 56\u00b0 122\u00b0 275\nLarsen, E. 159\nLarsen, L. P. 129\nLassen, J. H 138\nLast Chance, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 121\nLast Chance Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 200\nLatoria, F. 124\nLatour, B. A., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nLaura M, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nLawless Creek Mining Company 200\nLawrence, S. J. 262\nL.azaruk, Stephen 270\nLe Francois, J. O 78\nLead, Beveley 101\nLead, production 15\nLead Hill Mining Company Limited 157\nLead King, Greenwood, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W 118\nLead King, Hazelton, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E 97\nLead-silver. See Silver-lead.\nLead-silver-zinc. See Silver-lead-zinc.\nLead-zinc, Black Rock 128\nH.B. 124\nSilver Giant 157\nTruman 128\nTungsten 128\nLead-zinc-tungsten, Emerald (Jersey) 126\nLeader, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nLeadville, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nLee, A. A .. 224\nLeech, G. B., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nLefevre, R. 124\nLeftover, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 S.W 197\nLehigh Cement Works 128\nLehto, John 78\nLewis, G. 260\nLibby, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nPage\nLibraries, list of 302\nLighting circuits : 282\nLightning Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nLightning Peak, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 118\nLikely, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 201\nLillooet, 50\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 202\nLime, production 15\nLimestone, deposits 223\nProduction 15\nLind, Charles 139, 141, 142\nLing, S. R 80\nList of Gold Commissioners, Mining Recorders 44\nLibraries 3 02\nPrices charged for Acts 314\nPublications 299\nLittle, C. E 110\nLittle, H. W., Geological Survey, Canada 58\nLittle Billie, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W 178\nDangerous occurrence at 234\nLittle Chieftain, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 170\nLittle Joan, 50\u00b0 115\u00b0 S.W 223\nLittle Spruce Creek, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 71\nLittler, Albert 238, 268\nLittler, James 267\nLocomotives, diesel 253\nElectrical 282\nLode-metal producers 39\u201441\nLodiLake, 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E 198\nLois River, 50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 175\nLomond (International), 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 128\nLondon, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nLondon Hill Mines Ltd 143\nLondon Ridge, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nLorne Creek, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.E 197\nLost Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 128\nLoudon's No. 5 mine 260\nLoudon, W 260\nLowhee Gulch, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nLucky Boy, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nLucky Four, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 167\nLucky Jim, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nElectrical installations at 292\nLucky Strike, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E 197\n(Lucky Thought) A.U., 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 149\nLudditt, A. W 199\nLuff, H 200\nLydden Creek, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 78\nLynnmour, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.E 228\nLynott, William L, obituary 51\nLyon, A. 149\nLyon, G. W 149\nLytton, 50\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 202\nMc and Mac\nMcAllister, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E...\nMcArthur, J.\t\nMcArthur, T. \t\nMcArthur (Jr.), W. E._\nMcBeth, Jack\n143\n258\n80\n80\n78\n52\nMcCammon, J. W., Mineral Engineer, field\nwork \t\nReport on Columbia Gypsum : 221\nReport on Sproat Mountain._ 214\nReport on vermiculite deposit 229\nMcClelland, W. R., Mines Branch 58\nMcColm, P. 199\nMcCourt, T.\n 258\nMcCrimmon, R. H., Deputy Mining Recorder 45\nMacCulloch, A. S 158\nMcCulloch, W 136\nMcCutcheon, J. C 76\nMcDame Creek area, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W., asbestos 207\nMetal mines 73\nPlacer mines 197\nMacDonald, Mr. 131\nMacDonald, A 121, 124\nMacdonald, C, Gold Commissioner 44 INDEX\nA 325\nMcDonald, C. H...\nMacDonald, D. S...\nPage\n217\n121\nMcDonald, Don 167\nMacDonald, Francis J 218\nMcDonald, J. A 217\nMcDonald, J. F., Gold Commissioner 45\nMacDonald, John, retirement of\u2014.: 49\nMacdonald, R. C 122\nMacDonald, S. F 76\nMcDonell, J 118\nMcDonell, J. J 150\nMcDougall, R. H 198\nMcDowall, V 140\nMcGillivray Creek, 50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E 202\nMcGillivray Falls, 50\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E 110\nMcGowan, W. F 99\nMcGregor, A. E 202\nMcGregor, M. 110\nMcGuire, A. 199\nMclnnes, John 272\nMcintosh, J. S. 142\nMcintosh, Margaret 214\nMclntyre and Harding Gravel Company Ltd. 228\nMcKay, L. H 113\nPage\nMcKay, Walter 271\nMacKee, James 99\nMcKee Creek, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 S.W 197\nMcKellar, J. . 259\nMcKen, H. A 118\nMacKenzie, Alex 81\nMacKenzie, C. F 143\nMcLean, Donald 138\nMacLean, J. C. 74\nMcLean, S. G. 201\nMcLean, W. E., Gold Commissioner 44\nMcLeish, C. A 136\nMcLelan, T. G 157\nMcLeod, Angus 169\nMacMillan, George A. 146\nMacMillan, P. W 73\nMacMillan, Mrs. Viola R. . 146\nMcNow, James J. 149\nMcPhee, A. L. 267\nMacPherson, A. R., Mines Branch 58\nMcPherson, Don 167\nMcPherson, W 217\nMcRae, K. D., Gold Commissioner 45\nMcVicar, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.E 169\nMcVeigh, Frank 270\nM\nMachine-mined coal 252\nMadden, W. 118\nMagee, J. B. 126\nMahan, R. B 137\nMaines, J. S. 152\nMamie, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nMammoth, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 148\nManderfield, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 106\nManning, C. M. 108\nMaps showing mineral claims and placer\nleases .53 301\nMarble Bay Quarry, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.W.\" ! 224\nMarguerite, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 106\nMarl deposits 225\nMarlime Limited 226\nMarmot River, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0 N.W. 78\nMarrs, J. 258\nMartinson, K. 200\nMaryhill Sand and Gravel Company Limited 228\n(Mascot) Leader, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E. 155\nMason, E. E. 126\nMastodon, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 159\nMastodon Mining Company Limited 159\nMather, H. M. 80\nMatheson, D. N. 108\nMathews, W. H., Geologist, field work 52\nMatson, N. 71\nMaxwell, A. 260\nMaybe, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W 116\nMayo Mountain, 54\u00b0 128\u00b0 N.W 80\nMayook, 49\u00b0 115\u00b0 S.W. 220\nMeade Creek, 48\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.E 204\nMeduna, John 121\nMenechello, Dave 78\nMerrett, J. E., Inspector and Resident Engineer 48\nReports by 101, 108, 110, 198\nMerritt, 50\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W., coal mines 266\nMetal mines 71\nMetal prices 13\nMetallic, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E. 149\nMetallics, production . 15\n\"Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act\" 310\nMethane detection 253\nMethod of computing production 13\nMethods of laying out placer leaseholds 308\nMetis, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E. 142\nMeyer, Edward 134, 135\nMica, deposit 226\nProduction 15\nMichel Colliery, 49\u00b0 114\u00b0 N.W 270\nAccident at 249\nCoal-preparation plant 246\nDangerous occurrence at 254\nElectrical installations at 296\nMidas, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E. 107\nMiddlesboro Collieries Limited 266\nMidnight, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W ; 118\nMilbourne, George 199\nMill, George L. 114, 145\nMill, Kenville 119\nWhitewater .'. 140\nMillar, D. A 107\nMillar, H. C 107\nMiller, Cecil J. 220\nMiller, Henry 273\nMiller, J. V. M 135\nMiller, R. F. .'. 132\nMiller, W. H. 283, 284\nMills, Frank S. 149\nMilner, W. B. 73, 148, 196\nMine electrical installations 287\nMine production 15\nBy divisions 22-27\nMine Safety Associations 237\nMine surveyors' certificates 255\nMine-air samples, coal mines 253\nMine-rescue 236\nCertificates of competency 237\nStations . 236\n\" Mineral Act \" 305\nMineral claims, maps showing ..... 301\nNumber recorded 46\nMineral King, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 157\nMineralogical Branch 50\nMines, taxation of 312 A 326\nINDEX\nPage\nMines Branch 58\n\"Mines Right-of-way Act\" 310\nMining divisions, amalgamation of 43\nMining industry, review of the 9\nMining laws, synopses of 305\nMining Recorders, list of . 44\nMink Gulch, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nMiscellaneous metals, production 27\nMitchell, J. A., Resident Engineer 48\nMitchell, C. H. 283, 284\nMoccasin Mines Ltd. 197\nMoffat, R. R. 106\nMogul, 51\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E 158\nMohawk, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W... . 98\nMolly Gibson, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 120\nMonarch, 51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 157\nMonckton, K. C. F 202\nMonitor, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nMontezuma, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 138\nMontezuma Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 138\nMontgomery, W. B. 108\nMorehead Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 200\nMorgan, D. R., Inspector and Resident Engineer 48\nReport by 267\nMorgan, E. M. 203\nMorgan, Irving ..\nMoore, Mr. \t\nMorris, Brindley\nMorris, James\nPage\n270\n131\n269\n268\nMorris, lames E. 255\nMorris, Leo 116, 232\nMorton, George 197\nMossop, William G 209\nMount Diadem, 50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 172\nMount Dilsworth, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E 77\nMount Field, 51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 157\nMount Nelson, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 156\nMount Sicker, 48\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 180\nMount Stephen, 51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 157\nMount Vernon, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 115\nMountain Minerals Limited 217\nMountain View, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 170\nMracek, Albert 238\nMueller, R. D. 200\nMulholland, J. W 132\nMunro, C. A. 100\nMunro, W. A. 226\nMurray Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nMurray, Robert 266\nMuseums 53\nMutter, James 228\nN\nNameless Fraction, 49\nNamu, 51\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.W.\n116\u00b0 N.W 136\n 224\nNanaimo, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.W., coal mines 258\nCoal-preparation plant at 218\nNash, C. W. 218\nNash, Frederick 271\nNasmith, H. W., Geologist, field work 52\nNason, O. K. 198\nNational Exploration Ltd. 95\nNeill, R. K. 125\nNeilsen, H. 201\nNelson area, metal mines 119\nNelson Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nNelson, H. , 210\nNelson Island, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 N.E 217\nNelson, N. E. 170\nNelson, Oscar 197\nNelson, W.'I 113, 265\nNelway, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 128\nNeosho, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 134\nNesbitt, John O. 149\nNestuk, Andrew 249\nNettie L, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 151\nNettie L Mountain, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 151\nNew Hazelton, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nNew Jersey Zinc Explorations Limited, at\nJack Pot 122\nAt Last Chance 121\nAt Mastodon 159\nAt Oxide 123\nNew Westminster, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 228\nNewbury, A. 258\nNewmont Mining Corporation of New York 103\nNewton, W. E 138\nNey, C. 157\nNey, Stewart 266\nNichol, Richard, Instructor, obituary 48, 49\nNichols, Charles, Gold Commissioner 45\nNickel Plate, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E 114\nDangerous occurrence at 234\nElectrical installations at 290\nNicola, 50\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.W., metal mines 112\nNicola-Princeton area, coal mines 263\nNicolet, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nNiemi, W. 198\nNienaber, R. A 200\nNilson, Ronald Andrew 204\nNine Mile Mountain area, report by J. M.\nBlack 82\nNo Man's Creek, 50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 173\nNoble Five, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 144\nNoland Mines Limited 196\nElectrical installations at 287\nNon-metallics (see also Industrial minerals),\nproduction 15\nNon-shipping mines 42\nNoonday, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 149\nNoonday Mines Limited 143\nNorcross, D. H 134\nNorris, C. J 198\nNorth American Goldfields Limited 201\nNorth Kootenay Lake, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 132\nNorth Lardeau, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nNorth Okanagan, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W 115\nNorth, W. E.\u2014 199\nNorth Wellington, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 260\nNorthern District, coal mines 273\nNorthern Exploration Limited 135\nNosworth, Ronald Theodore 204\nNotes on coal mines 257\nNotes on metal mines I 71\nNova Scotia trip 284\nNugget, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 124\nNo. 7 mine, Cassidy 259\nNo. 8 mine, Comox Colliery 260\nAccident at 249\nDangerous occurrence at 254\nNo. 8 mine, Timberlands 260\nNo. 10 mine, South Wellington 258\nElectrical installations at 297 INDEX\nA 327\no\nPage\nO'Brian, Vic 209\nO'Brien, M. M 108\nObservatory Inlet, 55\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 80\nOdynsky, P. G., Water Rights Branch 52\nOffices of Gold Commissioners 314\nOffin, E. B., Gold Commissioner 45\nO'Grady, B. T., report on asbestos at McDame 207\nOkanagan, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W 115\n(Old Glory) Leader, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nOlivine Nos. 1-4, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nOlivine (Slate) Creek, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 N.W 203\nOlsen, O 72\nOlson, A 150\nPage\nOmineca area, metal mines 101\nO'Neill, T. G., Gold Commissioner. 45\nOregon, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E 114\nOrser, Edward H 203\nOscar (Bear) Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 121\nOscarson, E. 128\nOscarson, R. 128\nOsilinka River, 56\u00b0 125\u00b0 S.E 101\nOttawa, Retallack, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nOttawa, Springer Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nOttawa Silver Mining & Milling Company 150\nOtter Creek, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E 197\nOwen, Thomas 272\nOxide, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 123\nPacific Asbestos Corporation, Limited 214\nPacific Clay Products Limited 219\nPacific Lime Company Limited 224\nPacific Regional Committee 283\nPaddy Peak, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 139\nPoker, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 196\nPalmer, B. F., Mining Recorder 44\nPalmita, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 146\nPanama, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nPapp, S 200\nParadise, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 156\nParker, A. 228\nParks, mining in 313\nPerson, 51\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E., barite at 217\nPasiaud, Roger 270, 271\nPatmore, L. W 96\nPatriquin, R. M 151\nPatula, F. 120\nPaulson, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.E 118\nPaycheck Mining and Development Com\npany Limited\nPeace River, 56\u00b0\n118\n122\u00b0, coal mines 275\nPeace River Coal Mines Ltd 275\nPeck, J. W., Inspector and Resident Engineer 48\nReports by....118, 120, 128, 139, 144, 150, 152\nPellizari, F. 151\nPender Harbour area, metal mines 170\nPengelly, W. D. 148\nPerkins Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nPeter Gulch Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 200\nPeterson, A. E. 151\nPeterson, P. E. 81\nPeterson, T. 199\n\" Petroleum and Natural Gas Act \" 309\nPettoello, Mario 270\nPetty, George 146\nPhillips, A. A 76\nPhillips, Julia K 76\nPiccola, Joe 197\n 197\n 107\n 199\n 283\n 102\n 131\nPiccola, Louis\nPickering, J.\nPierce, T. S.\nPiercy, E. \t\nPike, J. A. ...\nPilot Bay, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0\nS.W.\nPilot Bay concentrator and smelter 131\nPine Cone Fraction, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W\t\nPingston Creek, 50\u00b0 118\u00b0 N.E\t\nPioneer Gold Mines of B.C. Limited\t\nPitt, Dale\t\nPitt Lake, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W\t\nPitt River, granite quarries, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W.\n170\n151\n108\n76\n167\n218\nPittsburgh trip 284\nPlacer claims 307\nPlacer-gold production 15\nPlacer leaseholds, methods of laying out 308\nMaps showing : 301\nPlacer mines, electrical installations at .. 287\n195\n307\n15\n264\n219\n257\n73\n288\n209\n106\n137\n225\n226\n122\n223\nPlacer-mining\n\" Placer-mining Act \" _\nPlatinum, production \t\nPleasant Valley No. 4 mine :\t\nPleasantside, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W\t\nPlommer, Harry R. \t\nPolaris-Taku, 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W\t\nElectrical installations at \t\nPclly Nos. 1 and 2, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W..\nPollyanna, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W\t\nPontiac Creek, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W\t\nFopkum, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W. ...\nPopkum Marl Products Limited..\nPorcupine Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.....\nPort Edward \t\nPort Haney Brick Company Limited 220\nPortage Mountain, 56\u00b0 122\u00b0\nPortland Canal area, metal mines\nPottery, production \t\nPowelson, J. \t\nPcwer circuits\t\nPre-Cambrian, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W\t\nPremier Border, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E\t\nPi entice, W. R. \t\nPrice, B. W. \t\nPrices, average \t\n275\n76\n15\n131\n280\n115\n77\n267\n138\n16\nList of prices charged for Acts 314\nMetal 13\nPublications 299\nPriest, J. E. : 228\nPrince of Wales Reach, 50\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 175\n223\n263\n202\n265\n135\n180\n136\n36\n115\nPrince Rupert, 54\u00b0\nPrinceton area, 49\u00b0\nPlacer mines .\t\n130\u00b0 S.E.\n120\u00b0 S.W..\ncoal mines\nPrinceton Colliery No. 1 mine.\nPringle, Mr.\nPrivateer Mine Limited..\nAt Woodbury \t\nProcess supplies ..\nProctor, V.\nProducers Sand & Gravel Company (1929)\nLimited \t\nProduction, coal mines\nCoke\nMetal mines\t\nMethod of computing.\n-15,\n-30,\n228\n242\n31\n15\n13 A 328\nINDEX\nPage\nProduction\u2014Continued\nMine 15\nStructural materials 15, 26\nTables 15, 17-31\nTotal 17\nProsecutions, coal mines 255\nMetal mines 235\n\" Prospectors' Grub-stake Act \" 311\nProspectors, grub-staking of 52\nProspectors' sets 5, 302\nProsperity, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 78\nPage\nProsser, L. A 109\nProtection, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 120\nProvidence, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W 118\n\"Provincial Parks Act\" 313\nPublications 5 3\nGeological Survey 58\nList of 299\nPundata Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nPurchasing of gold 44\nPurkerson, H. W 200\nQuatsino Copper-Gold Mines Limited 180\nQuebec Gold Mining Corporation 119\nQueen, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nQueen, J . 261\nQueen, P. 260\nQueen Bess, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 147\nQueen of Clubs Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 198\nQuesnel Forks Placers Incorporated 201\nQuesnel River area, placer mines 200\nQuinn, Donald Arthur 232\nQuinn, J. A 257\nR\nRabbits, F. T., Mines Branch :. 58\nRadencik, S.\n200\nRadich, T 118\nRae, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E...\nRae, D. H\t\nRaffuse Creek, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0\nRainville, G. H..\nN.E...\n.101,\n107\n52\n169\n119\n117\nRambler, Beaverdell, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E\t\nRambler, Retallack-Three Forks, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0\nS.E. 143\nRask, E. 198\nRed Cliff, 56\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 78\nRed Fraction, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nRed Hawk Gold Mines Limited 138\nRees, R. D 199\nReesor, J. E., Geological Survey, Canada.\u2014 58\nReeves MacDonald, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 129\nDangerous occurrence at 234\nElectrical installations at 291\nRegal Silver, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 158\nRegistered names of coal 255\nReno, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 124\nReschke Coal Ltd 276\nReschke, J. 276\nRetallack Mines Limited 141\nRetallack-Three Forks, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 140\nRetan, M 109\nRevelstoke area, metal mines 158\nPlacer mines 203\nReverted Crown-granted mineral claims 311\nReview of the mining industry 9\nReward Mining Company Limited 103\nRichards, R 238\nRichards, T. 198\nRichardson, E. A 167\nRichmix Clays Limited 220\nRichmond Eureka,\nRichmond, G. W.\nRichmond, H.\t\n49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E.\nRico Copper Mines Limited..\nRiondel, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W....\nRitchie, C. A.\n144\n220\n144\n167\n132\n200\nRoad Materials Limited\u2014 228\nRobertson, T. 260\nRobinson, A. 273\nRobinson, F. W 135\nRobinson, G. W 73\nRobinson, M. C, Geologist, field work 52\nRobinson, W. 135\nRocher Deboule, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 100\nRock granules, production 15\nRoddick, J. A., Geological Survey, Canada... 58\nRoddis, A. E., Gold Commissioner 44\nRolf Mountain, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 152\nRollick, A. ___: 124\nRoper, E. C. 168\nRoper, W. 258\nRose, H. A 108\nRoss, D. R. 218\nRoss, D. S. 199\nRoss, J. A. C. 113\nRoss, S. 142\nRossland, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 118\nRossland Mines Limited 119, 141\nRottacker, H. 200\nRottacker Placers 200\n313\n15\n210\n197\n144\n180\n209,\nRoyalties \t\nRubble, production \t\nRugged, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W\t\nRuth, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 S.W\t\nRuth Hope, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E\t\nRutherford, C. 138, 144,\nRyan Regional Safety Award 239\nSaanich, 48\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.E 228\n-Saanichton, 48\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.E -.... 220\nSafety, award 239\nLamps 252\nMetal mines 236\nSt. Louis, A. , : 199\n116\u00b0 N.E.\nS.W\t\nSt. Mary River, 49\u00b0\nSt. Patrick, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0\nSalaries \t\nSalisbury, W. R\t\nSalmo, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E. \t\nSalmon River, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E.\n155\n151\n36\n124\n123\n76 \u25a0P\nINDEX\nA 329\nPage\nSalvador, Cirino L. 255\nSanca, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 131\nSand and gravel deposits 227\nProduction 15\nSandner, R. F. 117\nSandon, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 144\nSandon, R. 214\nSantiago Mines Limited 141, 147\nSargent, H., Chief, Mineralogical Branch,\nreport by 9\nSargent, J. H. 96\nSaunders, Harry 270\nSavage, R. B. 265\nSchwerdt, C. A. 97\nSchwerdt, V. J. 96, 97\nScott, Jack 101\nScott, N. 199\nScott, Samuel A. . 256\nScranton, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 137\nScranton Consolidated Mining Company 137\nSeaton Creek, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nSebolt, W. L. 200\nSegur, V. C. 157\nSelby, W. R. 133\nSelkirk Gold Placers Syndicate 203\nSelkirk Mining Co. Ltd 141, 142\nSenator, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nSexton, Henry 146\nSeymour Creek, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 S.E 228\nShaak, A. 218\nShady Fraction, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 145\nShale 219\nSiiallenberger, G. 128\nShamrock, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 95\nSharp, W. M. 147\nSharpe, H. H 168\nShawatum Creek, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 167\nSheep Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E : 123\nSheep Creek Gold Mines Limited 123\nAt Bell 124\nAt Cambrian Chieftain 170\nAt Congress . 110\nAt Lucky lim 142\nAt Mineral King 157\nAt Paradise 156\nShepherd Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nShepherd, E. R. 109\nShegunia River, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E 82\nShields, T. 260\nShipping mines 37, 42\nSikora, John 197\nSilbak Premier, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E 76\nElectrical installations at . 288\nProduces lead and zinc 10\nSilbak Premier Mines Limited 76\nSilica-gold, Fairview 115\nSilta, W. 138\nSilurian Chieftain, 49\u00b0 123\u00b0 N.W 170\nSil-Van Consolidated Mining and Milling\nCompany 100\nSilver, production 15\nSilver, Howard Fraction 150\nOttawa 150\nSilver Creek, Salmon River, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E.... 77\nSilver Creek, Smithers, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nSilver Cup, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W. 96\nSilver Giant, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 157\nElectrical installations at 296\nSilver Giant Mines Limited 157\nSilver Glance, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E. 143\nSilver Glance Fraction, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nSilver Hill, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 132\nPage\nSilver Hill Mines Ltd. 112, 135\nSilver Hoard, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 134\nSilver King, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 N.W. 112\nSilver Lake, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E 100\nSilver-lead, Galena 80\nTorbrit 79\nSilver-lead-zinc, A.U. 149\nAlice 152\nAltoona 145\nAmerican Boy 95\nAyesha 135\nB.N.A. 138\nBear 107\nBelle Aire 136\nBlack Diamond 134\nBluebird 144\nBig Four 78\nBosun 147\nBoy Scout 155\nCarey Fraction 135\nCariboo 107\nCarnation 145\nComet 99\nCork Province 138\nDaisy Bell 137\nDelaware 15 2\nDictator 118\nDiem 128\nEarly Bird 135\nEmerald 101\nErie 98\nEstella 155\nGalena Farm _'. 149\nGold Cure 138\nGold Drop 117\nH.B. : 124\nHeather and Enterprise 78\nHighland Bell 116\nHighland Silver . 117\nHighlander 133\nIota and Islay B 115\nJackson 142\nJensen 112\nKeystone Charleston 141\nKicking Horse 157\nKootenay Florence 133\nLakeshore 135\nLakeview 131\nLaura M 135\nLead King 97\nLibby and Highland 135\nLucky Jim 142\nMcAllister 143\nMammoth 148\nMastodon 159\nMaybe 116\nMetallic 149\nMohawk 98\nMolly Gibson ... 120\nMonarch 157\nMonitor 143\nMontezuma 138\nNational 95\nNeosho 134\nNettie L 151\nNicolet and Snelling 135\nNoble Five 144\nParadise 156\nRae 107\nReeves MacDonald 129\nRegal Silver 158\nRichmond Eureka 144 A 330\nINDEX\nSilver-lead-zinc\u2014Continued\nRuth Hope\nPage\n144\nSt. Patrick 151\nShady Fraction 145\nSilver Cup 96\nSilver Hill 132\nSilver Hoard 134\nSilver King 112\nSilver Pick 97\nSilver Standard 87\nSilver Tip 77\nSilversmith 144\nSpider 150\nSpokane Trinket 134\nStar and Sunlight 134\nSullivan 152\nSunrise 97\nSurprise (Glen Mountain) 95\nSurprise (Howser) 133\nSurprise (Lardeau) 151\nUtica 139\nVan Roi 148\nWaterloo 118\nWellington (Beaverdell) 116\nWellington (Retallack) 142\nWhite Hope 150\nWhite Rock 111\nWhitewater 140\nWonderful 145\nSilver Pick, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E 97\nSilver Ridge Mining Company Limited 145\nSilver Standard, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W. 87\nElectrical installations at 288\nSilver Standard Mines Ltd. 87\nSilver Star, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 116\nSilver Tip, 56\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E 77\nSilver Tip Gold Mines Limited 77\nSilversmith, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 144\nSilverwood, A. E. 133\nSimilkameen River, dredging on 202\nSimister, Frederick 249, 270\nSimpson, C. C 283, 284\nSimpson, E. O. T 257\nSittler, Victor A 209\nSiwash Creek, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 203\nSkagit River, 49\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 167\nSkagway, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nSkeena River, placer mines 197\nSlade Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 199\nSlate Creek Placers, Limited 203\nSlee, T. 271\nSlocan Base Metals Limited 146\nSlocan Charleston Mining Company Limited 141\nSlocan Lake, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 147\nSiough Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W \u2014... 199\nSmith, Alex 74\nSmith, D. E 220\nSmith Island, 54\u00b0 130\u00b0 S.E 223\nSmith, J. W 260\nSmitheringale, W. V 210\nSmithers area, metal mines 100\nSneezby Creek, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 226\nSnelling, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 135\nSnowflake, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 158\nSnowflake Nos. 1 and 2, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 209\nSnowshoe Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 201\nSnowy Creek, 59\u00b0 129\u00b0 S.W 210\nSodium carbonate, production 15\nSomerville, A. 262\nSostad, R; 155\nSouth Lardeau, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 151\nSouth Kootenay Lake, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 131\nPage\nSouth Wellington No. 10 mine 258\nSovereign Creek, 53\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E 198\nSpanish Creek, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 107\nSpecial reports 301\nSpeculator, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nSpeer, S. 202\nSpencer, Victor 108\nSpider, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nSpillimacheen, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 157\nSpokane, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W 131\nSpokane Slocan Company 150\nSpokane Trinket, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 134\nSpring Creek, Cariboo, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.W 201\nSpring Creek, Windermere, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E..... 156\nSpringer, Karl J 71, 116\nSpringer Creek, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nSproat Mountain, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.W 214\nSpruce Creek, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W 196\nStandard, Hazelton, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 87\nStandard, Pitt Lake, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W 167\nStandard, Slocan Lake, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 148\nStannite, 51\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.W 158\nDangerous occurrence at 234\nStannite Mines Limited 158\nStaples, R. B 152\nStar, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 134\nStarr, C. C 142\nStatistics 13\nStavert, R. E 152\nStearns, Mr. and Mrs. H. T 131\nStemwinder Mountain, 49\u00b0 120\u00b0 S.E 115\nStenson (Jackson) Creek, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nSterno, Bruno 134, 135\nStevenson, J. S., Geologist, field work 52\nReport on Sunloch and Gabbro 180\nResignation of 50\nStewart, A. M 224\nStewart, P. 97\nStewart, R. McLean '. 145\nStikine area, placer mines 197\nStone, J. 102\nStone, pro'duction 15\nStrang, James, retirement of 49\nStrip coal mines, Baldy Mountain 272\nHillcrest Mohawk 273\nStronach, C. 260\nStronach No. 2 mine 260\nStructural materials, deposits 205\nProduction 15, 26\nStructural tile, production 15\nSullivan, 49\u00b0 115\u00b0 N.W 152\nDangerous occurrences at 234, 235\nElectrical installations at 293\nOpen-pit mining 154\nUnderground transportation 154\nSullivan, G. G 102\nSulphur, production 15\nSummit Creek, Cariboo, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nSummit Creek, South Kootenay, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0\nS.W 131\nSummit Mines Ltd 198\nSummit Queen, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 143\nSumpner, T. 198\nSunlight, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 134\nSunloch and Gabbro, 48\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 180\nSunrise, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.E 97\nSunshine Lardeau Mines Limited 150\nSupervision of coal mines 255\nSupply-stations 280\nSurf Inlet Consolidated Gold Mines Limited 169\nSurnam, W. 145\nSurprise, Glen Mountain, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 95 INDEX\nA 331\nSurprise, Howser, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W.\nSurprise, Lardeau, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.W.\nSurprise Lake, 59\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.E\t\nSurrey, 49\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.W\t\nSurveys and mapping service\t\nSwanson, Oscar \t\nSweeney, John \t\nPage\n133\n151\n72\n219\n55\n197\n268\nSweeney Mountain, 53\u00b0 127\u00b0\nSwift River, 52\u00b0 122\u00b0 N.E. ...\nSwiftwater, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W...\nN.E...\nSvvinnerton, A. A., Mines Branch\nSylverite, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E\t\nSylverite Mines Ltd.\t\nSynopses of mining laws\t\nPage\n101\n200\n. 87\n58\n146\n146\n305\nTable of fees\t\nTahtsa Lake, 53\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E.\nTaku River, 58\u00b0 133\u00b0 N.W....\n309\n101\n73\nTaku River Gold Mines Ltd 73\nTames, J. 283\nTarnowski, G. 149\nTarnowski, J. 149\nTattrie, N. 146\n\" Taxation Act \" 311\nTaxation of mines 312\nTaylor, A. C. 108, 147\nTaylor, R. 198\nTaylor, Reginald 270\nTaylor, Robert 270\nTaylor, Thomas 270\nTaylor Burson Coal Company Limited 264\nTeddy, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 150\nTedesco, Oscar 225\nTeed, A. 167\nTelkwa, 54\u00b0 127\u00b0 N.E., coal mines 273\nTenakini Range, 56\u00b0 125\u00b0 S.E 101\nTent Mountain, Corbin, strip coal mine 273\nTexada Island, limestone quarry 224\n178\n271\n266\n256\n155\n123\nMetal mines\nThewlis (Sr.), David\nThomas, C. E. \t\nThomas, Edward J.\t\nThomas Consolidated Mines Incorporated\nThompson, F. R. \t\nThompson, J. R. 124\nThompson, W. 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D 224\nWeeden, Mrs. L 202\nWeir, J. 260\nWellington, Beaverdell, 49\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.E 116\n(Wellington) Leader, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.E 155\nWellington Mines Limited 142\nWellington, North, 49\u00b0 124\u00b0 S.E 260\nWellington, Retallack, 50\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 142\nWellington, South, No. 10 mine 258\nWelloff, R 152\nWells, D 275\nWells-Barkerville area, metal mines 101\nWesko, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E 121\nWestbridge, 49\u00b0 118\u00b0 S.W 116\nWestern Exploration Company Limited, at\nMammoth 148\nWestern Gypsum Products Limited 223\nWestern Uranium Cobalt Mines Limited, at\nVictoria 99\nAt Rocher Deboule 100\nWheeler, W. R 157\nWhite, Mrs. D., Deputy Mining Recorder.... 45\nWhite, D. G 128\nWhite Elephant, 50\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W 115\nWhite Hope, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N. E ...._\u2022_ 150\nWhite, L. G 71, 196\nWhite, MacLeod 72\nWhite Rapids coal mine, Extension 258\nAccident at 249\nWhite Rock, 51\u00b0 119\u00b0 S.W 111\nWhite, W. 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H 267\nWilson, Thomas M. 263\nWilton-Clark, H 267\nWindermere, 50\u00b0 116\u00b0 S.E 156\nWindermere Creek, 50\u00b0 115\u00b0 S.W 221\nWingdam Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.W 200\nWinkler, George 77, 181\nWit, R. de, Geological Survey, Canada 57\nWolfe Creek, 53\u00b0 121\u00b0 S.E 199\nWolframite, occurrence of 196\nWolverton, Ralph 75\nWonderful, Hazelton, 55\u00b0 127\u00b0 S.W 95\nWonderful, Sandon, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 N.E 145\nWood Vallance Co. Ltd 134\nWoodbury Creek, 49\u00b0 116\u00b0 N.W 136\nWoodbury Mines Limited 137\nWynne, T. 261\nX\nX-Ray, 49\u00b0 117\u00b0 S.E.\n121 INDEX A 333\nPage\nYalakom, 51\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E 107\nYalakom Placers Limited 202\nYalakom River, 51\u00b0 122\u00b0 S.E 103\nYale Lead & Zinc Mines Limited, at Highlander 133, 293\nAt Red Cliff 78\nYanks Peak, 52\u00b0 121\u00b0 N.E 107\nZambon, J. \u00bb 148\nZeballos, 50\u00b0 126\u00b0 N.W 180\nZeigler, W. 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