{"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.14288\/1.0308243":{"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms#identifierAIP":[{"value":"cc28e034-09e1-47e2-90c4-c01518aa738d","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/dataProvider":[{"value":"CONTENTdm","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/alternative":[{"value":"EASTERN DISTRICT (No. 5).","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/isReferencedBy":[{"value":"http:\/\/resolve.library.ubc.ca\/cgi-bin\/catsearch?bid=1198198","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/isPartOf":[{"value":"Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/creator":[{"value":"British Columbia. Legislative Assembly","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/issued":[{"value":"2016","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"[1936]","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/aggregatedCHO":[{"value":"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/bcsessional\/items\/1.0308243\/source.json","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/format":[{"value":"application\/pdf","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note":[{"value":" EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5). El\nPART E.\nEASTERN MINERAL SURVEY DISTRICT (No. 5).\nBY\nH. Sargent.\nINTRODUCTION.\nThe year 1935 witnessed a material increase over 1934 in tonnage of ore mined in the\nEastern Mineral Survey District. An increase in the Fort Steele Mining Division and a\nsubstantial increase in the Slocan camp more than made up for the reduced production of\nsilver-lead-zinc ores in the Golden area. The tonnage of lode-gold ore mined showed a marked\nincrease over the 1934 output, large increases in the Nelson Mining Division and in the Lardeau\nMining Division more than making up for some reduction in the Rossland camp. Crude ore\nshipped to custom smelters decreased to about one-fourth the quantity shipped in 1934, while\ngold concentrates shipped increased about four to one. There was also a material increase in\ndirect recovery of bullion from milling of gold ores.\nThe Slocan camp, embracing the active areas of three mining divisions, experienced a\ngreat revival, much of which was due to a larger number of properties being worked by lessees.\nIncreased output was due also to three mining companies and the operation of their mills.\nThe improvement in the prices of silver, lead, and zinc, which obtained until autumn, renewed\noptimism. Unfortunately the year closed with silver in a precarious position, and although\nthe prices for lead and zinc were better than a year earlier the outlook for 1936 was quite\nuncertain.\nA feature of the year was the appearance of buyers seeking ore and concentrates for\nexport to foreign smelters. During the autumn, when prices for lead and zinc were at their\npeaks for the year* buyers were active particularly in the Slocan district. As a result,\nconsiderable shipments of concentrates and crude oil were made to European smelters. The\noutput of the Monarch mine was exported to Europe as in the previous year. Shipments were\nalso made to the smelter at Tacoma.\nPlacer-mining, although it did not contribute greatly to the output of the district, is a\nmatter of widespread interest. The production of 1,101 oz. is largely the recovery made by\nindividual miners or partnerships and in most cases represents hard-earned wages. The notes\non placer-mining are, in all cases, based on information kindly supplied by Gold Commissioners\nand Mining Recorders.\nThe Geological Survey of Canada published Memoir 173, \" Slocan Mining Camp, B.C.,\"\nin 1934, and Memoir 184, \" Description of Properties, Slocan Mining Camp, B.C.,\" in 1935,\nboth written by C. E. Cairnes. In addition to geological maps of the area, the publications\ncontain invaluable information on the geology and mining history of the area and of the mines\nand prospects there.\nGeological information concerning various areas in the No. 5 Mineral Survey District\nand, in many cases, descriptions and historical data concerning mining properties in the area\nare available in publications of the Geological Survey of Canada. The Annual Reports of\nthe Minister of Mines for past years contain information on nearly every property in the\ndistrict.\nThe writer gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness to prospectors, mine officials, and\nGovernment officials throughout for uniform courtesy and assistance both in connection with\nfield-work and in supplying information used in this report.\nLODE-GOLD DEPOSITS.\nHall Creek, Nelson Mining Division.\nFour claims, Allan, Allan No. 1, Allan No. 2, and Contact No. 1, were staked\nAllan. in 1934 by H. Erickson and C. Peterson, of Hall.    The three Allan claims,\nextending across the valley of Hall creek, while the Contact adjoins them\nsouth of the creek and up-stream from the rest, are situated about 5% miles by trail from\nHall Siding.    The ground is moderately steep and south of Hall creek is still fairly well E 2\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\ntimbered.    There is a good road as far as the Fern mine, then 2% miles of pack-trail obstructed\nby fallen timber.    A substantial cabin has been built on the north side of the creek.\nThe rock formations consist of more or less schistose greenstone intruded by andesitic\nand some porphyritic dykes. Widely spaced workings have exposed shearing with variable\namounts of quartz and pyrite mineralization paralleling or close to narrow andesitic dykes,\nstrike about north 10 degrees east, extending from a point approximately 1,500 feet north of\nHall creek and 300 feet above it to half a mile south of the creek and 800 feet above it. At a\npoint 1,400 feet north of the creek and 230 feet above it an adit has been driven for 28 feet, the\nfirst 24 feet of which is timbered. The face shows 3 feet of rusty, sheared greenstone; the\nshearing strikes north 70 degrees west and dips 70 degrees to the east. Included in this on the\nhanging-wall side is 6 inches of vuggy quartz, which assayed: Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton; silver,\ntrace. The remaining 2V2 feet of rusty, sheared greenstone assayed a trace in gold and silver.\nThere are several trenches to the north of the adit; one, 125 feet distant, exposes 15 inches of\nshearing with 6 inches of quartz. In this vicinity there is a good deal of porphyritic granite\nfloat. On the north bank of Hall creek there are two cuts about 70 feet apart. The one\nup-stream, under an andesitic sill, exposes some narrow fissures in greenstone, filled with\nbluish quartz frozen to the walls. A sample across 15 inches of greenstone and quartz\ncontaining some pyrite assayed: Crold, trace; silver, trace. The down-stream cut exposes\na 15-inch andesitic dyke dipping steeply to the east; both dyke and walls are somewhat limy.\nHalf a mile south of the creek and 800 feet above it a 12-foot-wide cut exposes a 3-foot andesitic\ndyke, strike south 10 degrees east, dip 70 degrees east, cutting a fine-grained greenstone. To\nthe east of the dyke the greenstone is silicified and rusty, and for 6 feet to the west the greenstone is sheared and a good deal of quartz has been deposited. The quartz appears to be\ncompletely barren, but the 15 inches of sheared greenstone next to the dyke contains a little\nquartz and is mineralized with some: pyrite and a little fine-grained galena. A sample of this\nmaterial assayed:   Gold, nil;   silver, nil.\nErie Creek, Nelson Mining Division.\nThis property, owned by Andrew Sostad, of Vancouver, consists of the\nMjolner Crown-granted claims Houlton and Princess and six claims held by location.\nGold Mines.      It is situated on Keystone mountain, 1 mile easterly from the Northern Cedar\ncamp at the end of the Rest Creek road. The country immediately surrounding the property is rather flat, with low hills and ridges. A good cabin has been built some\n1,400 feet westerly from the workings, which are located on a ridge trending northerly. There\nare two open-cuts on the ridge about 200 feet apart, the more southerly cut exposing aplite\ntraceable on the surface for about 120 feet. This dyke or sill appears to follow the bedding\nof the enclosing impure tuffs, strike about north 15 degrees east, dip 45 degrees easterly.\nThere is a width of about 10 feet of aplite which is fractured and healed with quartz, some\npyrite and galena being developed in the aplite near quartz veinlets. On the hanging-wall is\n1 foot of sheared tuff and east of that a mica dyke is exposed.\nThe northern cut, about 200 feet at north 10 degrees west from the other, opens about\n24 feet of blocky argillaceous tuff, cut by aplite dykes, which in turn are cut by irregular\nquartz veinlets. The eastern end of the cut exposes brecciated aplite cemented with quartz.\nThree feet of this material on the south side was sampled, as was also 1 % feet on the northern\nside of the cut. These samples yielded no values in gold or silver. The portal of the adit at\n70 feet lower elevation is 120 feet at north 60 degrees west from the cut. It is a crosscut being\ndriven south 85 degrees east to intersect the material exposed in the cut and was in 125 feet\nin August.    There would probably be 70 feet to drive in order to get through the aplite.\nThis group, consisting of six claims staked in October, 1934, held in the name\nCopper King,    of O. A. Haglund, of Erie, is located about 11 miles from Erie, east of the\nErie Creek road on a moderately sloping hillside recently burned over.\nLate in 1934 a discovery was made at a point about three-quarters of a mile from the road at\nan elevation of 4,650 feet above sea-level. Some stripping was done partly exposing irregular\nquartz mineralization over a length of 35 feet, striking along the contour about north 15 degrees\nwest and dip 35 degrees to the east. The prevailing rock is greenstone intruded by aplite dykes.\nThere appears to be up to 3 feet of vuggy quartz containing some greenstone inclusions, a little\npyrite and arsenopyrite, and some dark manganese-stain.    A sample of selected pieces of EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5). E 3\nquartz better mineralized than the average assayed: Gold, nil; silver, nil; copper, nil.\nA sample across a 10-inch quartz offshoot assayed: Gold, nil. A crosscut adit driven 40 feet\ninto the hill 35 feet below the outcrop would have to be advanced 40 to 50 feet to cut the downward extension of the quartz if it maintains the dip observed at the surface. A little free\ngold was noted on a manganese-stained fragment from an aplite dyke which outcrops 100 feet\nsouth-east from the cut. A cabin has been built about 600 feet north-westerly from the adit\nat an elevation of about 4,300 feet.\nApproximately half a mile southerly from the adit on the southerly side of a small creek,\nat 3,825 feet elevation, a cut exposes an aplite dyke 2 to 2% feet wide which has been fractured\nand filled with quartz, some pyrite, galena, and arsenopyrite. The dyke strikes south 35\ndegrees west and dips 35 degrees to the south-east. The hanging-wall is argillite or argillaceous tuff. Twenty feet to the west is a dyke of aplitic granite about 12 feet wide. In the\ncut a sample across 3 inches at the hanging-wall, consisting of quartz, argillite, and a little\nsulphide, assayed: Gold, nil; silver, nil. A 15-inch width on the foot-wall, consisting of aplite\ncontaining quartz stringers with some sulphides, assayed:   Gold, nil;   silver, nil.\nAbout 450 feet south-easterly of this cut on the north side of a small creek an outcrop of\ngranite lies in contact with greenstone. A shear cutting the granite is seen on the southerly\nside of the creek. At elevation 3,700 feet an old adit has been driven for 225 feet in a general\nnortherly direction. For the first 90 feet from the portal this adit follows the shear to its\ncontact with the granite on the east and greenstone on the west, and then along the contact\nfor 65 feet and narrow joints in the greenstone for 70 feet to the face. At the portal there\nis a little quartz, but farther in there is practically no quartz nor other vein-mineralization.\nSome mineralized greenstone and quartz was seen on the dump, though none could be found\nunderground.\nSlocan Area.\nThe Little Daisy group consists of four Crown-granted claims\u2014namely,\nLittle Daisy.* Little Daisy, Golden, Golden Fraction, and Idler\u2014owned by Mrs. McNaught,\nof Silverton, but under lease to R. A. Grimes, of Nelson, and under sub-lease\nto A. Erickson, of Silverton. The workings and cabin are on the north-east side of Aylwin\ncreek at elevations between 3,900 and 4,000 feet. The property may be reached from Silverton\nvia automobile-road for 5% miles and then via 1 mile of pack-horse trail up the north-east\nside of Aylwin creek. It is situated on a steep side-hill rising from the valley of the creek\nand the workings are between 300 and 420 feet above the creek. In the narrow valley-bottom\nthere is considerable red cedar that is suitable for shakes, but farther up the hillside in the\nvicinity of the adits and above, where the slopes are steep and rock bluffs numerous, the timber\nis chiefly small fir and spruce.\nThe rock in the immediate vicinity of the workings is fine-grained granite. It occurs in\nthe form of a \" Y \"-shaped mass 2 miles long and about a quarter of a mile wide (see Geological\nSurvey of Canada Slocan Sheet). This granite is much finer in grain than the typical granite\nof the Nelson batholith and Cairnes believes it is younger. In places the granite is finely\nporphyritic and in other places where fractured and slightly oxidized it has a brownish colour.\nThe main feature of the property is a tight fissure-vein of quartz in the granite. By means\nof three adits this vein has been explored for an aggregate length of 230 feet along its strike.\nThe width of the vein varies from 2 to 6 inches, but it frequently splits into two or three\nbranches, which individually vary in width from 1 to 2 inches. The vein-filling is quartz\ncontaining minor amounts of pyrite, with occasional grains of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite.\nThere are several small faults. These are chiefly cross-faults, most of which displace the\nvein only slightly; the maximum measured displacement is 18 inches. However, a major fault\nin No. 2 adit displaces the vein an unknown amount greater than this. The evidence indicates\nthat the movement has been at least 12 feet in the plane of the fault. Gouge and crushed rock\nare present in varying amounts adjacent to the fault-planes.\nThe mine-workings comprise three adits on the Little Daisy claim. The upper (or No. 1)\nadit is 100 feet long and has been driven at north 60 degrees east on the vein for the full length.\nThe vein is tight and varies in width from 2 to 6 inches, the average being 3 inches. A sample\ntaken across 6 inches of quartz in the face assayed:  Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton;  silver, trace.\n* Report by J. S. Stevenson. The middle (or No. 2) adit is 70 feet below No. 1 and is distant 100 feet horizontally in a\ndirection of south 50 degrees west. The adit follows the vein for 75 feet from the portal to a\npoint where cross-faulting has developed considerable gouge and crushed rock, so that the back\nof the adit isjjadly caved and examination impossible. Thirty-five feet from the portal a winze\nhas been sunk at 72 degrees from the horizontal on the vein for 31 feet. There is some 20 feet\nof lateral stoping on the vein from the winze for 15 feet from the floor of the adit. A sample\ntaken along the vein from 37 feet to the caved part, a distance of 46 feet, assayed: Gold,\n0.50 oz. per ton; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton; the width of the vein varying from 3 to 6 inches.\nThree samples were taken at the bottom of the winze (as of July 8th, 1935). Here the vein\nis 4 inches wide and contains a small amount of pyrite; the wall-rock, however, carries considerable pyrite, disseminated and in small seams. A 4-inch sample across the quartz vein\nassayed: Gold, trace; silver, trace. A 3-inch sample of the foot-wall rock, immediately\nadjacent to the veins, assayed: Gold, 0.54 oz. per ton; silver, 0.1 oz. per ton; this material\ncontaining much disseminated pyrite. A sample along a %-inch pyrite-streak contained in a\n1-inch quartz veinlet assayed: Gold, 1.20 oz. per ton; silver, 0.10 oz. per ton. Fifteen feet\ndown the winze in the bottom of a small, underhand stope a sample across the quartz vein,\nwhich was here 2 inches wide and contained a small amount of pyrite, assayed: Gold, 0.04 oz.\nper ton;   silver, trace.\nNo. 3 adit is 50 feet below No. 2 adit and 90 feet horizontally in a direction of south\n60 degrees west from it. It has been driven east for 55 feet and then at north 60 degrees east\nfor 60 feet, after which a short crosscut was driven at south 45 degrees east for 20 feet to the\nface. The face is about 20 feet in the direction of the strike of the vein beyond the portal of\nNo. 2 adit. The drift is along the vein from 55 to 115 feet from the portal. In this section\nit consists of one and sometimes three tight stringers of quartz which vary from 1 to 3 inches\nin width.\nThe wall-rocks in all the adits are variations of the fine-grained granite as described\npreviously.\nAt the time of examination A. Erickson and his son were hand-mining in the lower adits.\nRossland Camp.*\nO.K. Mountain Area.\nThe properties on O.K. mountain are about 2% miles south-west from Rossland on the\neasterly slope of the mountain, and they extend up the hillside from the valley of Little Sheep\ncreek at an altitude of 3,040 feet to the highest adit at an altitude of 3,610 feet. A good motor-\nroad branches south-westward from the Cascade highway about 1 mile west of the city of\nRossland and leads directly to the properties. - In the vicinity of the various adits the slopes\nare covered by a heavy growth of underbrush and a scattering of evergreens, the densest growth\nbeing in the valley-bottom.\nThe writer examined only those properties on which most work has been done and which\nwere being operated by lessees at the time. These included the I.X.L., O.K., and Midnight\nproperties. Lessees had just commenced work on the Golden Drip at the time and were busy\ndewatering the workings;   only a brief examination of this property was made.\nFrom the time the claims were located in the early nineties most of the work on these\nproperties has been done by lessees, who have followed the faulted sections of the veins and\nstoped the high-grade lenses of gold-quartz ore.\nMilling on the properties has been attempted twice. In 1894 a 5-stamp mill was erected\non the O.K., but it did not operate for long; recently, in 1932, a mill to treat 8 tons in twenty-\nfour hours was installed on the Midnight property; however, tests were not satisfactory and\nthe mill is at present temporarily in disuse.\nWork on these properties has been fairly active since 1920, and recent descriptions of the\noperations may be found in most of the Annual Reports since then, the more recent description\nbeing in the Annual Report for 1932. Memoir No. 77, \" Geology and Ore Deposits of Rossland,\"\n1915, by C. W. Drysdale, of the Geological Survey of Canada, includes a short description of\nthe I.X.L. and O.K. properties.\n* Report on this area by J. S. Stevenson. EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5). E 5\nIn the workings of the properties examined the rocks are all of igneous origin. They\ninclude highly altered andesite that is perhaps more safely termed greenstone, serpentine,\nmonzonite, and basic dykes, the greater number of which are mica lamprophyres.\nThe andesite is a very fine-grained to dense, massive rock of dark-green to brownish hue.\nThe original texture and composition have been largely destroyed, both by the development in\nvarying amounts of chlorite and of fibrous amphibole and by local silicification and serpentini-\nzation. The andesite varies from a uniformly dark-green phase that is highly altered, but\ncontains only small amounts of serpentine and magnetite, to a similar dense, dark-green phase\nthat is mottled by small brown 1-inch areas containing abundant serpentine and magnetite,\nand finally to a dense, uniform brownish phase that, in addition to other alteration products,\ncarries a uniform abundance of serpentine and magnetite.\nThe present investigation did not disclose any systematic distribution of these variations\nin the altered andesite. It is thought that the development of varying amounts of serpentine\nand magnetite is related to the main area of black serpentine that occurs south of the andesite\nin the lower O.K. adits and extends both across and down the valley of Little Sheep creek.\nThe typical massive serpentine is a very dense black rock. Cross-fibre asbestos has\nfilled in many of the joints as %6- to 14-inch veinlets and light-green talc has developed in the\nimmediate vicinity of faults. A contact-zone intervenes between the black serpentine and\nthe andesite; it is best seen in the second and third crosscuts to the north from the main\nfault-drift in the lower O.K. adit. The zone strikes roughly east and varies from 20 to 30 feet\nin width. Over this width irregular areas of hard, chocolate-coloured andesite are interspersed\nwith irregular areas of serpentine. It is reported that the quartz veins on the O.K. occur only\nin the andesite to the north; the Baker lead, where examined by the writer, is in andesite.\nIt is suggested that, although there are faults in the serpentine, those faults which tapped\nquartz and precious-metal-bearing solutions did not continue from the andesite into the\nserpentine.\nA small intrusion of biotite monzonite is intersected by the lower O.K. adit and by Nos.\n350 and 4 I.X.L. adits. This rock varies considerably, but the most characteristic features are\nits hard, fresh appearance and medium-grained granitic texture. Biotite is so abundant in\nthe marginal facies of the monzonite that the rock is very dark and lamprophyric in appearance.\nHowever, in areas at a short distance from the contact, the feldspars are more abundant and\nthe rock becomes dioritic in appearance. The relative amounts of orthoclase and plagioclase\nfeldspar vary; in some phases of the rock they are equal, and in others orthoclase is by far the\nmost abundant. Other than the fact that in the lower O.K. adit the monzonite is traversed\nby fault-seams, no data relating to the age relationships between the monzonite and the lamprophyre dykes or the veins were obtained.    It is, however, definitely later than the andesite.\nLamprophyre dykes are numerous and widely distributed; they occur in most of the\nworkings. These dykes contain abundant biotite, are medium to coarse-grained, and usually\ndecompose to crumbly masses very shortly after being exposed to the air. In addition to the\nmica lamprophyres, there are a few narrow, very fine-grained dark dykes in which the former\npresence of either biotite, amphibole, or pyroxene is indicated by a ground-mass of chlorite;\northoclase and plagioclase feldspar occur as phenocrysts and as part of the ground-mass.\nThe lamprophyre dykes occupy faults which cut, and in some places have slightly displaced,\nthe quartz veins.\nThe veins in the properties on O.K. mountain are quartz-filled fissures in the highly altered\nbut brittle volcanics. In sections undisturbed by faulting, the average strike of the veins\nis north 80 degrees east, but the dips vary from 35 to 75 degrees south. However, one vein\non the Midnight strikes north and dips westward.\nAlthough occasional concentrations do occur, sulphides are not common in the quartz\nveins. These sulphides include pyrite, chalcopyrite, and galena. Pyrite is also quite widely\ndisseminated in small amounts throughout the wall-rock. The only other gangue-mineral\nin addition to quartz is ankeritic carbonate, which occurs in irregular areas in the vein and\noccasionally as veinlets in the surrounding rocks. The veins contain free gold, often in\nparticles visible to the naked eye. Minable amounts of gold occur in pockets that are very\nerratically distributed in the veins. These pockets, however, contain very high-grade gold\nquartz, so that work along barren sections of the vein is amply rewarded by the discovery of\na high-grade lens of ore.    A conception of the occasional very high concentration of gold may be formed from the statement made by Drysdale in Memoir No. 77 of the Geological Survey\nof Canada, page 151:  \" Mr. W. F. Ferrier found 2% oz. of gold in 6 square inches of ore.\"\nThe many faults on O.K. mountain are very diverse both as to time of formation and as\nto attitude of fault-planes. An early period of faulting has produced fissures, some of which\nwere filled by the gold-quartz veins, others remaining barren. An intermediate period produced fissures, some of which were filled by lamprophyre dykes. A later period has produced\nfissures that at present contain only gouge and crushed country-rock. The intersection of\nfissures of the first period of faulting are of economic importance.\nA high-grade shoot of ore was stoped between No. Ia and No. 2 adits of the I.X.L. from the\nintersection of the \" A \" vein-fissure and a cross-fissure. It is evident that the increased\ndeposition of gold at this intersection indicates that the cross-fissure antedated the mineralizing\nsolutions. Post-mineral faults that have displaced the veins are common; in most cases,\nhowever, it has been possible to find the faulted portion of the vein beyond the fault. Although\ndiscontinuous fissures do exist in the serpentine, present knowledge indicates that the vein-\nbearing fissures do not continue from the andesite into the black serpentine. The fissures in\nthe serpentine probably represent those of the later period as indicated by the presence of\ncrushed lamprophyre dykes in the immediate vicinity of faults in the serpentine.\nThe I.X.L. claim was located in 1891 and Crown-granted in 1895.    There are\nI.X.L. seven adits on the property\u2014namely, Nos. 1, lA, 2, 3, 3a, 350, and 4.    These\nadits have, with the exception of No. 3a, encountered quartz veins, three in\nnumber, which are locally known as the \" A,\" \" B,\" and \" C \" veins.    The rock enclosing the\nveins is dense, highly altered andesite which has been cut by biotite monzonite and lamprophyre\ndykes.    Black serpentine such as in the O.K. does not occur in the I.X.L. adits.\nNo. 1 adit is at an elevation of 3,570 feet. The vein-section in the adit is only 20 feet long;\nit pinches out both along the strike and up the dip, but maintains such widths and values down\nthat an underhand stope was driven on the vein. Closely spaced cross-faulting has fractured\nthe dense andesite badly at the west end. At 55 feet from the portal a dyke, locally known as\nNo. 1 dyke, strikes east across the adit and dips 50 degrees north. It is a dense and massive\nlamprophyre that consists of orthoclase and plagioclase phenocrysts set in a ground-mass of\nfelted feldspar laths and abundant vermicular chlorite.\nNo. Ia adit is at an elevation of 3,560 feet. It has been driven on a lenticular section of\nthe \" A \" vein 40 feet long which varies in width from 6 to 4 inches and, where widest, contains\nclosely fractured quartz. There is very little gouge along the walls. At its eastern end,\n25 feet from the portal, the vein has been cut by a major fault. This fault contains 2 to 6\ninches of gouge between smooth walls. A very high-grade shoot of ore is reported to have\nbeen mined along the intersection of the fault and the vein from this level towards the second\nlevel. This very obvious localization of an ore-shoot by the intersection of the vein with a\nfault suggests that other ore-shoots or pockets are related to intersections of the veins with\nfaults of a similar age.    The adit is in fine-grained andesite.\nNo. 2 adit is at an elevation of 3,510 feet. The workings of this adit have explored the\nvarious ramifications of both \" A \" and \" B \" veins. The \" A \" vein is quite lenticular, has\nbeen badly faulted, and varies considerably in strike. The first section of the vein is 110 feet\nfrom the portal; this section averages 8 inches in width and contains quartz between firm\nwalls. Towards the west the vein is cut by many small normal faults. It dies out towards\nthe west. A crosscut driven to the south-west and a drift to the west picked up faulted\nsegments of the \" 'A \" vein. This drift follows differently striking sections of the vein southward and westward. In these sections the vein varies considerably in width from mere\nseams in the faulted andesite to quartz-filled fissures 4 inches thick that are usually bordered\nbv a thin selvage of gouge. Towards the westerly end of the drift the vein is cut by a narrow,\ndense, basic dyke.\nThe southernmost drifting in No. 2 adit has explored the \" B \" vein over a length of 130\nfeet. The \" B \" vein varies considerably in width. In the east face it is only a small seam\nin the andesite; whereas 25 feet west from this place it is 18 inches wide, elsewhere along the\ndrift the vein is approximately 4 inches thick. The strike of the vein varies from a few degrees\nsouth to a few degrees north of east;  the dip averages 60 degrees south.\nNo. 2 adit intersects four different basic dykes. These dykes vary in width from 8 inches\nto 6 feet.    In composition they vary from lamprophyres containing abundant biotite, and are EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5).\nE 7\nID\n^Q      o\n_J\n<0OC  10  m\nE S J 4J\n\u00b0l\u2122\u00b0\n\u25a0E   w .\u201e\nW     -^    .\nM   0)   If)\nr- an\nh u o -*\n* ro *J >,\n> u_ in o\n5\ncci\nd usually decomposed, to those that contain feldspar accompanied by a little biotite and shreddy\namphibole, and are usually dense and quite firm. These dykes are locally designated by\nnumbers from 1 to 4. No. 1 dyke has been encountered in No. 1 adit. The adit is driven in\nmassive, dense andesite; most of it is a uniform dark green, but some is mottled with small\n1-inch patches of chocolate-coloured areas of serpentinous material.\nNo. 3 adit is at an elevation of 3,460 feet. This adit explores the downward continuation\nfrom No. 2 of both \" A \" and \" B \" veins and also a third vein that has been designated the\n\" C \" vein. This is thought to be the eastward extension of the Baker vein from the O.K. to\nthe I.X.L. At a place 130 feet from the portal a crosscut has been driven north that intersects\nthe \" A \" vein. This vein has been stoped both up and down for a considerable distance to\nthe west and drifted on to the east for approximately 40 feet. On the walls of the stoped area\nthe vein is fairly uniform in width, both along the strike and the dip, but in the drift to the east\nit is discontinuous and consists of disconnected lenses of quartz. At a place 240 feet from the\nportal a short crosscut 30 feet long intersects the \" B \" vein. This vein has been followed\nby a drift for some 170 feet.    The vein has been developed upwards by stopes and raises.\nOpposite the short diagonal crosscut and for several feet on either side, the main vein has\nsplit into three veins a few inches wide. The hanging-wall vein is constant in width, whereas the\nothers pinch and swell. These three veins all have a smaller dip than ordinarily; they average\n30 to 35 degrees south. In the east face the vein narrows to 3 inches of quartz which has\nfrozen walls. At a place 50 feet from the west face the \" B \" vein goes into the wall as a 6-inch\nstringer of quartz. The westward continuation of this drift is offset about 10 feet to the north.\nThis portion of the drift contains small discontinuous lenses of quartz that are thought to\nconstitute a new vein, rather than to be a continuation of the \" B \" vein. At a place 130 feet\nfrom the portal a crosscut to the south intersects the third vein (or \" C \" vein) at 25 feet.\nThis has been followed by a drift to the south-west for about 120 feet. This vein strikes from\nsouth-west to west. A short crosscut and drift 110 feet from the portal shows some lenticular\nquartz that is probably an eastward continuation of this vein.\nThe \" C \" vein is from % to 6 inches wide. In some places it forms the foot-wall of a\ncrushed zone and in others it has frozen walls. Towards the west end of the \" C \" vein-drift,\nthe vein dies out on entering the diorite. The diorite is medium-grained and consists of light-\ngreen chloritic hornblende and white feldspars. However, \" C \" vein is present again in a\ndrift at the extreme south-west end of No. 3 adit as a strong quartz-filled fissure. This part\nis continuous with the Baker lead in a stope beneath the lowermost O.K. adit.\nOf the four numbered dykes occurring in No. 2.adit, only No. 2 dyke is present in this adit;\nit occurs in the floor of the stope driven from the first crosscut to the north. Here it is a badly\ndecomposed mica lamprophyre 2 feet wide that occupies a normal fault which has displaced\nthe vein 4 feet down the dip of the fault. A narrow mica-lamprophyre dyke that cannot be\ncorrelated with any of the others is found in the face of the extreme west end of the drift from\nthe last-mentioned stope. With the exception of the diorite mentioned above, the adit is driven\nin typical fine-grained andesite that in a few places shows brown patches indicating incipient\nserpentinization.\nThe 350 adit is at an elevation of 3,385 feet. In this adit the vein has been drifted on\nfor 50 feet and stoped extensively. The vein is a well-defined quartz fissure-filling from 4 to\n12 inches wide; however, in the west face this changes to quartz-lenses with frozen walls.\nThese contain numerous rock fragments and show evidence of replacement having been more\nimportant than fissure-filling.\nA badly decomposed mica-lamprophyre dyke extends from the north wall of the adit at\n50 feet from the portal to the south wall at 120 feet. A 10-foot section of green andesite\nmottled by brown serpentinous areas intervenes between the dyke and the next rock-type,\na biotite monzonite. This extends to a place about 210 feet from the portal. The monzonite\nis characterized by a coarse granitic texture and by two mineralogical phases, a biotite-rich\nphase at the borders where in contact with the andesite and a feldspar-rich phase within the\nmain mass. From 210 feet to the face the rock is typical andesite. However, in the vicinity\nof a fault at 300 feet, abundant serpentine ha's developed in the andesite over a zone 4 feet wide.\nNo. 4 adit is at an elevation of 3,350 feet. The first 145 feet of this is on Midnight ground\nand that part on I.X.L. ground was filled by dammed-up water at the time of the writer's visit.\nThe timbering in this adit extends to within 10 feet of the crosscut to the Midnight stopes, EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5). E 9\nand the dam is only 10 feet beyond this.    The rock exposed in this section is a hard, dark,\nmicaceous phase of the monzonite such as occurs in the 350 adit.\nAn adit at an elevation of 3,400 feet near the Midnight workings has been called No. 3A\nfor reference. It has been driven at north 20 degrees west for 153 feet, but throughout this\ndistance it did not encounter any vein. The predominant rock is a fine-grained andesite, but\nthere are two areas of a dense, highly siliceous phase\u2014one, a zone 4 feet wide that is 40 feet\nfrom the portal, and the other an indefinite zone in the face.\nAt present the property is leased to a syndicate, with Ole Osing in charge of the mining\noperations, which were confined during the summer to stoping on the vein from the 350 adit.\nCompressed air supplied by a small compressor is used.\nThe O.K. property includes but one claim, the O.K., located in 1892 and\nO.K. Crown-granted in 1895.    The workings are immediately west from those\nof the I.X.L.    Three adits on the property give access to rather extensive\nworkings, but at the time of the writer's visit the upper two were badly caved and only the\nlower could be fully examined.\nThe uppermost O.K. adit is at an elevation of 3,610 feet. Old plans and reports indicate\nthat the workings on this level are quite extensive and that at least one vein was discovered\nand worked.\nThe middle O.K. adit is at an elevation of 3,560 feet. Most of this adit was badly caved\nat the time of the writer's visit and only a short section of the vein that had been intersected\nby a crosscut 70 feet from the portal could be examined. The vein is the usual quartz-filled-\nfissure type, strike south 65 degrees west, dip 50 degrees south-east, cutting serpentinized\nandesite.    Old maps and reports indicate that no other vein was encountered on this level.\nThe lower O.K. adit is at an elevation of 3,490 feet. From this level a vein, called the\nBaker lead, has been developed. Near the end of a crosscut that has been driven 90 feet south\nfrom a place 240 feet from the portal an underhand stope follows this vein to the floor of the\nNo. 3 I.X.L. adit. An intermediate level 30 feet below the bottom O.K. adit and leading from\nthis stope has been driven westward along the vein for 40 feet. A normal strike-fault along\nthe vein on this level has faulted it so that the portion above the sub-level has been displaced\nto the north-east. Between this level and the No. 3 I.X.L. the vein dips quite steeply and varies\nin width from a few inches to 2 feet. It is quite tabular and definitely represents a quartz-filled\nfissure. The main portion of the lower O.K. adit follows a well-defined fault. This is first\nencountered at 170 feet from the portal and continues for about 260 feet to the face with only\nmoderate changes in strike. The amount of gouge and crushed country-rock in the fault\nvaries along the strike. The predominant rock in the lower working is serpentine, which\noccurs in the main drift, but the two crosscuts to the north encounter andesite and serpentinized\nandesite approximately 40 feet north of the main drift and the serpentine. The contact is\nnot shavo, but grades from serpentine that is almost soapstone into serpentinized andesite and\nthen into andesite. Biotite monzonite occurs between 45 and 55 feet from the portal. The\nboundaries are, however, very irregular and much complicated by the presence of lamprophyre\ndykes. A 4-foot lamprophyre dyke also crosses the main drift where the first crosscut to the\nsouth has been driven.\nIn June John Hendrickson and associates, lessees, were stoping ore from the Baker lead\nbeneath the lower adit.    Air from a small compressor was being used.\nThe Midnight consists of one claim, the Midnight, Crown-granted in 1897.\nMidnight.        It adjoins the I.X.L. claim on the east and most of the workings are adjacent\non the north-east to the I.X.L. workings.    The general geology is very similar\nto that of the I.X.L., but, owing to more abundant faulting and a definite lenticular habit, the\nveins are perhaps more difficult to follow and have not been developed to such a great extent.\nThe writer was able to discover four adits on the property, referred to as the upper,\nmiddle, and lower Midnight adits. Three of these are immediately north-east from the I.X.L.\nworkings and a fourth is some 800 feet north-east from the I.X.L. No. 4 adit.\nThe upper Midnight adit is at an altitude of 3,420 feet and is distant 240 feet horizontally\nin a direction of north 30 degrees west from the I.X.L. No. 4 adit. The adit has been driven\nin a direction north 40 degrees west for 80 feet, thence north 20 degrees east for 80 feet to a\npoint of reference \" A.\" From here two workings lead westward; the first, a short drift which\nfollows a narrow pinching quartz-seam, in a direction of south 85 degrees west for 25 feet to a normal fault that drops the vein 4 feet into the foot-wall, and the second an exploratory\ncrosscut in a direction of north 30 degrees west for 90 feet, thence north 75 degrees east for\n40 feet; this working encountered three well-defined faults but no vein material. From \" A \"\nthe adit is a drift on the vein in a direction of north 55 degrees east for 85 feet. In the\nimmediate vicinity of \" A \" a stope ranging from 10 to 25 feet wide goes down on the vein\nand connects with the lowermost adit. Twenty-five feet eastward from \" A,\" a winze was sunk\non the vein which, as now seen, consists of 4 inches of crushed quartz in a fissure that strikes\nnorth 75 degrees east and dips 45 degrees southerly.\nTwo small stopes go up on the vein, one opposite the winze and another on a section of the\nvein 60 to 80 feet east from \" A.\" A short working leads northward between these stopes.\nThe vein as seen in the floor opposite the easterly stope is lenticular, ranging from a thin seam\nto 3 inches of quartz; it is cut by two mica-lamprophyre dykes and at the east end it has been\nlost where cut by a steeply dipping north-south fault. At 100 feet from the portal a winze\nwas sunk on a small pocket of quartz about 10 feet long that occurred in a narrow seam\nin the rock. This adit is driven in fine-grained andesite that has been cut by black mica-\nlamprophyre dykes.\nThe middle adit, a short distance below the upper, is distant 175 feet horizontally in a\ndirection of north 40 degrees east. The adit begins in a direction of north 30 degrees west\nfor 40 feet, but here bad caving prevented further examination. In the floor of this first part\nthere is a strong quartz vein, from 6 inches to 3 feet wide, strike north 30 degrees west, dip\n70 degrees south-west, in andesite.    This vein is reported to be stoped to the lower adit.\nThe lower Midnight adit, altitude 3,350 feet, corresponds to No. 4 of the I.X.L., the first\n140 feet of which is in Midnight gr-ound. Just beyond this the adit branches, the I.X.L. part\nwestward and the Midnight part northward. From here the Midnight adit goes north 30\ndegrees west for 45 feet, then north 5 degrees east along a slightly curving course for 150 feet\nto a reference point \" A.\" Here a short section of a quartz vein was encountered and stoped\nbv an irregularly shaped stope between this and the reference point \u2022\" A \" in the upper level.\nWhere examined in the west side of the stope near the I.X.L.-Midnight boundary, and about\n20 feet from the floor of the lower adit, the vein was quite sinuous, tight, and varied from 6 to 8\ninches in width; the vein-filling was predominantly quartz. The strike is east and the dip\n45 degrees south. From \" A \" the adit leads north 60 degrees east for 65 feet to a reference\npoint \" B.\" The last 30 feet of this section is through a badly decomposed mica-lamprophyre\ndyke that strikes north 30 degrees east and is approximately vertical. From \" B \" a crosscut\ngoes eastward for 30 feet to a drift that goes north for 30 feet and south for 60 feet on a strong\nquartz vein that strikes north and dips 45 degrees west. The vein ranges from 2 inches to\n6 feet in width between tight walls and pinches out at either end of the drift. For approximately 45 feet from the north end of the drift the vein has been stoped to the surface. The south\nend of the drift is in very dense and highly silicified rock; at the north end a 2-foot mica-\nlamprophyre dyke, strike north 30 degrees east, with a steep dip, cuts the vein; elsewhere\nthe drift is in dense andesite. From \" B \" the adit goes north for 30 feet, mostly through\na lamprophyre dyke, then north 45 degrees west for 30 feet to reference point \" C.\" From\n\" C \" a crosscut goes north 75 degrees east for 25 feet to a drift which has been driven south\nfor 25 feet on a section of a vein that averages 12 inches in width, strike north, dip 60 degrees\nwest. Near the middle of this drift a steep fault, strike north 20 degrees east, has moved the\nsouth portion of the vein from the east wall of the drift to the west. The vein in this drift\nis reported to have been stoped to the middle adit. From \" C \" the adit goes north 75 degrees\neast for 70 feet, thence north 10 degrees east for 30 feet to a wide drift that turns southeastward for 25 feet. This drift is on a curving section of the vein which strikes 70 degrees\nwest and is as wide as 2 feet, but towards the north-west end narrows to 2 inches and towards\nthe south-east end it is represented only by two slips in the andesite.    The vein-filling is quartz.\nIn the lower adit the predominant rock is typical fine-grained andesite which is cut by\nmica-lamprophyre dykes. However, a zone about 6 feet wide of light-green silicified rock\nstrikes north along the east wall of the adit between 120 and 180 feet from where the adit\nbranches from the I.X.L. No. 4 level. The walls of this zone are ill-defined and are bounded\nby numerous and curving slips with varying attitudes.\nAn adit was driven on the Midnight claim from a place 100 feet north from the intersection\nof the upper road to the I.X.L. new ore-bins with the lower road to the portals of I.X.L. adits -   * ., .\n^i'0&\u00a5:\nAUco Silver Mines, Ltd., Western Side of Basin.     No. 4 Adit is in Small Draw to the Right.\nLooking East from Thuiiderbird Property, Windermere Area. i\nA     f'\ny\n-JW\nFolding in Sedimentary Rocks on Highway, East Side of Kootcnay Lake, South of Gray Creek.\nm-w\nfTXW\nPack-train returning from Teddy Glacier Property. EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5).\nE 11\nNos. 4 and 350, etc. The portal of this adit is only a few feet lower than No. 4 of the I.X.L.,\nand is distant from it 480 feet west and 600 feet north. It has been driven south 15 degrees\nwest for 110 feet, then south 60 degrees west for 120 feet and south 85 degrees west for 70 feet;\nat 100 feet a working goes off at 15 degrees for 14 feet.\nThe adit intersects several well-defined faults but no veins; faults occur at 100, 115, 175,\nand 290 feet from the portal. Most of these contain abundant gouge and sometimes narrow\nveinlets of calcite.    The adit is driven in dense andesite.\nAt the time of the examination in June the property was leased by the Midnight Syndicate,\nof Rossland; Nick Leface and partner, of this syndicate, were hand-mining in the west side\nof the stope between the lower and upper adits.\nSILVER-LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS.\nDoctor Fork op Findlay Creek, Windermere Mining Division.\nThis group consists of four claims staked in the summer of 1934 and two\nKey. staked later, held in the names of the three Blake Bros., of Skookumchuck,\nand their associates.    Leaving the highway 3 miles northerly from Canal\nFlats, an old logging-road is followed for 12 miles, thence 13 miles of pack-trail leads to the\nproperty, at elevations between 8,000 and 9,000 feet above sea-level, which is situated at the\nhead of the East fork of Doctor creek, a tributary of Findlay creek.\nNear the property two tributaries of the East fork of Doctor creek rise separately in a\nlarge basin. The west tributary rises in a small lake, flows through a short canyon, and is\ndivided from the East branch, which rises in a meadow, by a flat-topped rock ridge. A cabin\nhas been built on the meadow. To the east and south the rim of the basin is about 3,000 feet\nabove the meadow and is formed of porphyritic granodiorite with large feldspar phenocrysts,\nwhile to the west the rim is quartzite, apparently overlain by greenstone for some distance.\nThe ridge between the creeks consists of greenstone on the east, and to the west it is a\nsuccession of quartzite-beds varying from thin argillaceous to thick cherty beds all more or less\nmicaceous. The strata strike in general from north to north 30 degrees east and dip generally\nat about 60 degrees to the north-west.\nThe canyon previously mentioned apparently marks a fault and along it the beds vary\ngreatly in dip and strike and at places are quite contorted. West of the canyon the quartzite\nis overlain by greenstone for some distance. Some of this greenstone may be a fine-grained\ndiorite.    Beyond this, quartzite outcrops again and is intruded by greenstone sills.\nThe claims are located to cover the western half of the ground between the tributaries and\nextend partly up the western rim of the basin. Much of the ground is covered with slide-rock.\nWhen the property was visited in mid-September a light snow had fallen.\nOn both sides of the short canyon mentioned, lenses and wedges of sulphide mineralization\noccurring along bedding-planes of the more or less metamorphosed, sericitized, and contorted\nquartzite consist of galena, pyrite, and minor amounts of sphalerite. A grab sample of this\nmaterial taken by the Resident Mining Engineer in 1934 assayed: Gold, 0.02 oz. per ton; silver,\n9.2 oz. per ton;  lead, 17 per cent.;  zinc, 1.5 per cent.\nOn the western side of the basin, well up the steep slope, at an elevation of about 9,000 feet,\nsome 1,700 feet from the outlet of the lake, a vein is exposed for about 50 feet in fine-grained\ngreenstone. The vein, strike about north 30 degrees east, dip 60 degrees north-west, is imperfectly exposed, but appears to be about 4 feet wide, containing quartz, siderite, and lenses of\nsulphides, including pyrite, galena, fine-grained sphalerite, and some arsenopyrite.\nSouth-westerly about 150 feet along the strike a small cut exposes 6 feet of vein-matter\nmineralized principally with pyrite.    The following samples were obtained from this vein:\u2014\nGold.\nSilver.\nLead.\nZinc.\nIron.\nRemarks.\nOz. per Ton.\nOz. per Ton.\nPer Cent.\nPer Cent.\nPer Cent.\n0.05\n6.2\n0.8\n6.0\n31.3\nHeavy mixed sulphides of lead, zinc, and\niron; 10 inches on hanging-wall of\nvein in greenstone.\n0.10\n0.8\nTrace\n14.0\n\t\nSelected pyrite from vein in greenstone.\n0.01\n80.4\n36.0\n8.0\nSelected cubic galena, first cut, vein in\ngreenstone.\n10 About 6 feet west of this cut a sample from a 2-inch fracture in the greenstone containing\nserpentine and a little fine-grained sulphide assayed:   Gold, trace;  silver, 4 oz. per ton.\nJust west of this the greenstone is in contact with quartzite, the contact apparently following the bedding of the latter. In the quartzite, not far from the contact, is another cut about\n100 feet south-west of the first, exposing a fairly solid band of sulphides irregular in width\nand 9 inches at the widest point. The mineralization follows the bedding, which strikes north\n10 degrees east and dips 60 degrees to the west. The following samples were selected from this\nmaterial:\u2014\nGold.\nSilver.\nLead.\nZinc.\nRemarks.\nOz. per Ton.\n0.06\n0.04\n0.02\nOz. per Ton.\n4.4\n21.0\n15.0\nPer Cent.\n3.6\n24.0\n13.9\nPer Cent.\n28.0\n10.0\n14.9\nSelected coarse crystalline zinc and some pyrite.\nSelected fine mixed sulphide from top cut.\nSelected fine sulphide with fine yellow mineral; reported\ngold-bearing.\nAbout 50 feet north-west of this cut is a lens of quartz 2 feet wide heavily mineralized\nwith pyrite. A sample across this width assayed: Gold, trace; silver, trace; lead, nil;\nzinc, nil.\nToby Creek, Windermere Mining Division.\nThis private company, of which J. P. Farnham, of New York, is president,\nThunderbird     owns seven claims and has an option on three claims, all located on the steep\nMines, Ltd.      sides of the basin at the head of Mickleson creek, a tributary entering\nDelphine creek from the north.    There is a packers' camp on Delphine creek\n2 miles by road from the junction with Toby creek and 21 miles from the town of Invermere.\nFrom the packers' camp a rather steep \" go-devil \" trail 4 miles long leads to the mine camp\nat an elevation of 7,500 feet.\nThe workings, which consist of pits, trenches, and short adits, are at elevations ranging\nfrom 8,700 to 10,100 feet. In addition to this work, mineralization has been exposed near the\npower-house and on the trail between the power-house and No. 3 adit. The country is extremely\nrugged and above camp-level there is practically no vegetation. The steep slopes rise to the\nmain ridge, a spur of Mount Nelson. Small peaks on the crest of the ridge are at elevations\nexceeding 10,000 feet.\nThe rocks exposed are mapped on the Windermere sheet, Geological Survey of Canada\nMemoir 148, as Mount Nelson Series. They consist of dolomitic limestones, some quartzites,\nand slates, which in part have been much contorted. The rocks strike north-westerly and dip\nto the north-east. They have been cut by several faults of considerable displacement which\nare marked by extensive widths of shattered rock, and at some points by greenstone intrusives.\nGreenstone dykes found at other points are generally much altered. Some are schistose and\nsome have been altered to brown ankeritic carbonate. Much of the limestone is cut by innumerable closely spaced fractures which are filled with veinlets of quartz. Mineralization occurs\nin this limestone along fractures occasionally marked by polished surfaces which follow the\nbedding, also along some cross-fractures.\nIntense oxidation of the outcrops is generally marked by gossan, dark with manganese.\nOccasionally specks and small pieces of sulphide occur in it, while at two or three of the higher\npoints constant freezing and rapid erosion have evidently preserved the sulphides from\noxidation by ground-waters. Three of the lowest exposures are in tight fractures with but\nlittle sign of oxidation and in them galena and light-coloured sphalerite are to be seen. At the\nhigher points galena containing grains of pyrite varies from quite fine-grained steel galena to\nmoderately coarse-grained cubic galena, stained with copper carbonate probably derived from\ngrey copper. Copper carbonate is to be seen at points in the limestone adjacent to the fractures.\nDisseminated galena was also noted in the centre of a piece of limestone impregnated with\nsiderite, the outer surface of which was dark with manganese and iron oxides.\nRecent work includes driving No. 3 adit a distance of 130 feet (as at September 15th)\nat an elevation of 8,700 feet, which exposed evidence of shearing along the bedding of limestone\nstained with iron oxide, but no commercial mineralization has yet been discovered.    There is EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5).\nE 13\nalso a 20-foot crosscut and a 40-foot drift following a narrow seam of gouge, along which some\nquartz and a little pyrite have been developed.\nAbout 250 feet south-west of No. 3 adit a cross-fracture, strike north 25 degrees east,\ndip 45 degrees north-west, has been traced 60 feet on the surface and 40 feet by rock-cut and\nadit. Sulphides occur in lenses along this fracture, the largest lens having a length of 15 feet\nand maximum width of 14 inches, which appeared to pinch out in a pit about 3 feet below\ndrift-level.\nMineralization, usually consisting of very dark gossan, has been traced in cuts to No. 1\nadit about 2,000 feet north-west of No. 3 adit and in the same segment. Occasionally there\nis evidence of movement along the bedding represented by polished planes. At some points\nthere is a little sulphide to be seen. No. 1 adit is caved, but about 40 feet above it in cut \" D \"\nat elevation 9,550 feet the writer obtained the following section' across a total width of\n38 inches:\u2014\nWidth.\nGold.\nSilver.\nLead.\nZinc.\nCopper.\nRemarks.\nInches.\nOz. per Ton.\nOz. per Ton.\nPer Cent.\nPer Cent.\nPer Cent.\n2\n2.94\n75.0\n22.7\n1.9\nLO\nHanging-wall streak, selected lumps\nof sulphide.\n7\n0.02\n27.0\n13.5\n0.4\nManganiferous gossan showing some\ngalena.\n15\n\t\nLimestone \" horse.\"\n14\nNil\nNil\nTrace\nBlack gossan.\nAbout 2,000 feet west of this point under the peak are two cuts in a third segment at an\nelevation of about 10,000 feet which were filled by snow. Some steel galena containing fine\ngrains of pyrite and showing stains of copper carbonate had been dug from these cuts. Lower\ndown are some exposures of gossan.\nNo. 2 adit, 12 feet long, at an elevation of 8,875 feet and about 2,000 feet westerly from\nNo. 3, was being driven by hand. The face showed 2 inches of manganese-stained, silicified\nlimestone along a fracture following the bedding. A little galena was developed in narrow\nfractures branching from the larger fracture into the limestone.\nPermanent buildings include a mess-house, one camp building, the power-house, blacksmith-\nshop, and powder-magazine. A 235-cubic-foot Gardner Denver compressor and a 16-k.v.a.\ngenerator driven by a g'asoline-engine are installed in the power-house.\nField, Golden Mining Division.\nIn view of the many inquiries and complaints made to this Department, in\nMonarch.* the light of reeent developments at the Monarch mine, regarding statements\nissued from time to time by Base Metals Mining Corporation, the writer has\nprepared a review of these statements and also of operations at the Monarch mine from information on file in his office. From the time of incorporation to September 4th, 1935, Goldfield\nConsolidated Mines, Limited, of Nevada, had directorial control, and Frank Eichelberger,\ngeneral manager, was in charge of operations. Mining Corporation of Canada did not obtain\ndirectorial control of Base Metals Mining Corporation until September 4th, 1935. Since that\ntime an effort has been made and is continuing to discover other ore-bodies. The property was\nlast examined by H. Sargent, Resident Engineer for No. 5 District, in September, 1935.\nThe workings of the Monarch mine are situated in the precipitous face of Mount Stephen,\nabout 3 miles east of Field. They are about 1,000 feet above the railway-tracks of the main\nline of the Canadian Pacific Railway.\nMineralization consists of a replacement in limestone by galena and sphalerite.\nThree ore-bodies have been developed\u2014the East Monarch and West Monarch on the south\nor Mount Stephen side of the Kicking Horse valley, and the Kicking Horse on the north side.\nThe property now known as the Monarch mine was staked in 1884 and has been developed\nand worked intermittently since that time. From 1884 to 1910 approximately 2,420 tons of\nore was mined.\n* By the Provincial Mineralogist. E 14\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\n200\nScale\nEOO 400\n\u2014I        1  Feet\nsjfa*\nMonarch Mine.    Plan of Workings. EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5). E 15\nA 70-ton concentrating-mill was erected in 1912 and production from 1912 to 1924,\ninclusive, amounted to 40,015 tons. Most of the ore mined during this period came from the\nEast Monarch ore-body. The areas mined during this period are shown without pattern on\nthe plan and are numbered 1.\nIn 1925 the property was acquired by the A. B. Trites interests (Pacific Mines Development\nand Petroleum Company). The West Monarch was explored to a point 500 feet from the\noutcrop.\nOn December 6th, 1927, an option on the property was taken by Frank Eichelberger for\n$236,000 and 25 per cent, of net profits; the latter could be converted for $125,000 within two\nyears.\nOn March 15th, 1928, an agreement was made between Eichelberger and Goldfield Consolidated Mines, Limited, of Nevada.    Eichelberger had paid $20,000 on his option.\nBy the end of 1928 the West Monarch ore-body had been explored to a point 600 feet from\nthe outcrop. This point is shown on the plan by the date 1928. At this stage, development\n(estimated from the plans and figures given this Department by the company, Annual Report,\n1929) should have partially developed 160,000 tons of ore. The Minister of Mines' Annual\nReport for 1928 gives 50,000 tons in the Kicking Horse and 150,000 tons for East and West\nMonarch combined. Therefore, the estimated figures is perhaps too high. However, it will\nbe used.\nOn February 25th, 1929, Base Metals Mining Corporation was formed to take over the\nproperty. By this deal Goldfield Consolidated received 1,300,000 fully paid shares in the new\ncompany. Mining Corporation of Canada, agreement of February 25th, 1929, took 355,000\nshares in the new company for $345,000 and a further 345,000 shares in consideration of the\ncovenant of Mining Corporation to assume the balance of the purchase price to A. B. Trites,\nbut not to exceed the sum of $341,000. The first $345,000 provided for mill-construction and\ndevelopment.\nIn 1929 the present 300-ton mill was erected and put into operation. Production to the\nend of the year was 1,730 tons.\nBy the end of 1929 the West Monarch ore-body had been explored a further 110 feet from\nthe outcrop. This point is shown by the date 1929 on the plan. The additional ore partially\ndeveloped would be about 30,000 tons based on figures for drifting, crosscutting, and raising\ngiven by the management.\nIt is stated in the Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for 1929 that \" The principal\ndevelopment has been done in the West Monarch, which has been explored by drifting, cross-\ncutting, and raising for a length of about 850 feet, with continuous ore throughout. The width\nof the deposit is about 130 feet, with a tendency to taper slightly as exploration proceeds to\nthe south.\n\" The whole ore-body will, it is understood, average around 26 per cent., combined metals\nin the proportion of, roughly, 14 per cent, lead and 12 per cent, zinc.\"\nIt is to be noted that as early as the end of 1929 the ore-body was showing a tendency to\ntaper slightly to the south.\nBy the end of 1930 exploration had reached a point 1,525 feet from the outcrop. This point\nis shown by the date 1930 on the plan. It is apparent from an examination of the plan that\nthe main drift passed out of ore about 1,260 feet from the outcrop. It is also apparent from\nthe crosscuts shown on the plan that the width had narrowed to half or less than half of the\nwidth of the area developed to the end of 1929. This work would indicate about 35,000 tons\nof additional ore.\nLet us now review the statements issued by Base Metals Mining Corporation up to and\nincluding the period ended 1930.\nThe first report bears the date March 20th, 1930, and is signed bv Frank Eichelberger by\norder of the Board of Directors.    The following quotations are from this report:\u2014\n(1.) \" Development-work has been previously carried on and, at the time of the formation\nof the companv, 300,000 tons of ore were developed in the three ore-bodies.\"\n(Ia.) \" The mill has been brought up to its rated capacity. The ore mined and milled to\ndate has come from the West Monarch, in a portion of the mine which is below the average\ngrade. The mill extraction has averaged 97 per cent, of the lead, 90 per cent, of the zinc, and\n85 per cent, of the silver.    The economic recovery of the metals has averaged 96 per cent, of the lead, 75 per cent, of the zinc, and 75 per cent, of the silver from an average head assay of\n14 per cent, lead, 8 per cent, zinc, and 1.6 oz. silver. The average grade of the lead concentrate\nhas been 6 oz. silver, 75 per cent, lead, and 5.4 per cent, zinc, while the zinc concentrate has\naveraged 58 per cent, zinc, 2 per cent, lead, and 2 oz. silver.\"\n(2.) \" During the construction period only a limited amount of development was accomplished, chiefly in the West Monarch ore-body. This advance exposed 75,000 tons additional,\naveraging 3 oz. silver, 22 per cent.-lead, and 19 per cent, zinc, bringing the total for this ore-body\nto approximately 300,000 tons averaging 2.1 oz. silver, 16 per cent, lead, and 14 per cent. zinc.\nThe ore in the face is of excellent grade.\"\n(3.) \" Similarly, the East Monarch ore-body has now developed approximately 50,000 tons\nof ore averaging 2 oz. silver, 18 per cent, lead, and 12 per cent, zinc, with the same character\nand grade of ore continuing in the face.\"\n(4.) \" The Kicking Horse ore-body remains at approximately 50,000 tons developed, of\nan average grade of 3 oz. silver, 5 per cent, lead, and 15 per cent. zinc. No work was done on\nthis ore-body during the construction period.\"\n(5.) \" The fact that the West Monarch ore-body has been proven for a distance of over\n900 feet, with the grade of ore improving, and the face of the south drift in the best ore so far\nencountered in the mine, gives great encouragement for future development. The total\ndeveloped tonnage of ore as of March 1st, 1930, is approximately 400,000 tons.\"\nRemarks.\u2014 (1.) Annual Report, Minister of Mines, for 1929:\u2014East Monarch: \" Only a\nfew hundred feet of exploratory work has been done on the East Monarch deposit beyond the\nold stope, 350 feet long, from which past production was made.' In the new workings a\nsubstantial body of ore has been partially explored by drifting, crosscutting, and raising, but\nthis work is not sufficiently far advanced to indicate the possible dimensions of this deposit,\nwhich, however, occurs under conditions similar to the West Monarch.\"\nFifty thousand tons is estimated for the Kicking Horse deposit.\nWest Monarch: According to the Department's estimate for the end of 1928, 160,000 tons\nof ore was indicated in this part of the mine, or approximately 210,000 tons for the whole\nproperty.\n(2.) The limited amount of development done during the construction period in 1929 is\nstated to have developed 75,000 tons of ore in the West Monarch, bringing the total for this\nore-body to 300,000 tons. The Department's estimate is that 190,000 tons was indicated at the\nend of 1929.\n(3.) In the Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for 1929 it is stated that no estimate\ncould be made of ore in the East Monarch.\n(5.) The Department's estimate of indicated ore at the end of 1929 would be 240,000 tons\nexclusive of an uncertain tonnage in the East Monarch.\nNo report appears for the year 1930, but a statement was made to this Department from\nthe management containing:\u2014\n\" The ore developed by the year's work is slightly thicker and narrower than that in the\nolder northern part of the ore-body. A somewhat greater tonnage of ore has been developed\nduring the year than has been mined, and it is of a somewhat higher grade, averaging about\n40 per cent, combined metals.\n\" In the East Monarch mine, drifting and stoping has been carried southward 290 feet\nduring the year.\n\" Approximately 1,300 feet of diamond-drilling has been done on and near the two ore-\nbodies.\n\" The mill was shut down on October 15th, but development continued until the end of\nthe year.\"\nThe Department's estimate is that approximately 35,000 tons of additional ore was\nindicated in the West Monarch and an unknown amount in the East Monarch.\nProduction amounted to 75,000 tons for 1930. According to the Department's estimate,\n225,000 tons of ore had been partially developed in the West Monarch to this date, and subtracting 75,000 tons mined it would leave 150,000 tons in this body. It is possible that sufficient\nore had been partially developed in the East and West Monarch ore-bodies to warrant a\nstatement that indicated ore resulting from the year's development-work equalled that mined. EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5).\nE  17\nThe point to bear in mind is that by the end of 1930 it should have been evident to the\nmanagement that the West Monarch ore-body had pinched out, that it had decreased rapidly\nin width during the year's development, and that indicated ore reserves in this body had been\nreduced.\nThe mine was closed during 1931, 1932, and the first six months of 1933.\nOn June 4th, 1933, Frank Eichelberger and associates, of Toronto and New York, and\nMining Corporation acquired Goldfields Consolidated's remaining 51 per cent, interest in Base\nMetals Mining Corporation.\nIn 1933, Mining Corporation and Goldfields Consolidated, who had advanced moneys during\nthe shut-down, received 289,975 shares for these advances at apparently $1 per share.\nA report to shareholders dated October 15th, 1933, states: \" Developed tonnage represents\na four-year supply of ore at the present rate of milling.\" The rate of milling was approximately 300 tons per day; therefore, four years' supply of ore would be approximately 400,000\ntons. The Department's estimate would be 200,000 tons plus an unknown amount, not over\n47,000 tons, in the East Monarch.\nThe annual report of Base Metals Mining Corporation, dated April 21st, 1934, contains\na report by Frank Eichelberger, general manager, dated April 17th, 1934, containing the\nfollowing statements:\u2014\n\"Development: A complete geological survey of the Monarch Mines was made and 286\nfeet of crosscuts, 70 feet of drifting, and 72 feet of raising was done.\n\" The result of this work was to extend the lateral limits of the ore-bodies and to prove\nthe continuation of ore in the south end of the West Monarch. The total development footage\nwas 428 feet.\n\" The total cost of development-work, including work preliminary to starting operations,\nwas $10,334.60.\n\" Ore reserves:   When the mine was reopened in August, 1933, ore reserves were:\u2014\nOre.\nSilver.\nLead.\nZinc.\nTons.\n318,100\n41,500\n75,000\nOz. per Ton.\n2.4\n1.1\n3.0\nPer Cent.\n18.0\n6.2\n5.0\nPer Cent.\n434,600\n2.4\n14.6\n\" Since operations were resumed development-work has put more ore in sight than has\nbeen extracted.\"\nThe development-work mentioned would reasonably prove 22,000 tons of ore if all carried\nout in the ore-body.\nIn 1933, 35,612 tons of ore was mined; therefore, reserves as at the end of 1930 would be\nreduced 13,000 tons according to the Department's estimates. Allowing 150,000 tons in the\nWest Monarch, 50,000 in the Kicking Horse, and 47,000 in the East Monarch at the end of\n1930, the total would at the end of 1933 be 234,000 tons.\nA company quarterly report dated July 15th, 1934, states: \" Stoping during this period\nhas proven the West Monarch ore-body to have greater widths and thicknesses and to date no\ndefinite western limit has been reached in ahy of the present working stopes.\"\nA company quarterly statement dated October 15th, 1934, states: \" In the West Monarch,\nconsiderable additions have been made to known widths and thicknesses of the ore-body, with\nthe result that ore reserves have been more than maintained.\"\nIn the company's annual report dated April 12th, 1935, the report of Frank Eichelberger,\ngeneral manager, dated March 15th, does not give any definite figures on ore reserves or\ntonnage developed during the year.    The following statements are from this report:\u2014\n\" Mining: During the year, 96,830.7 wet tons were trammed to the mill, 5,043 tons coming\nfrom the East Monarch  and the balance from the West Monarch  ore-body.    Broken  ore E 18 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nreserves at the end of the year were estimated at 5,000 tons. All mining and aerial tramming\ncosts, including office, overhead, insurance, and contingencies, amounted to $100,288.80,\nequivalent to $1,035 per ton of ore trammed. Stoping showed the stope limits, as adduced\nby the early development-work, were conservative, and also that ore proved to be continuous\nin the south section of the West Monarch ore-body where previously there had seemed to be\na break in its continuity.\n\"Development: During the year 933 feet of drifting, 1,286 feet of crosscutting, and\n1,020 feet of raising was done, a total of 3,239 feet of work. There was also 5,164 feet of\ndiamond-drilling. Of this work, 229 feet of raising and 132 feet of drifting was for ore\nproduction and waste-disposal purposes, the remainder being development looking to extending\nthe present ore-bodies and searching for others.\n\" High-grade zinc mineralization was encountered in the south end of the West Monarch\nand the ore-body developed for 120 feet. Drill-holes from 207 show this is probably the\ncontinuation of the main ore-body. The East Monarch ore-body stope limits were extended\n45 feet and drilling showed mineralization for a width of 85 feet at the end of the production\ndrift. This mineralization is parallel to the strike of the known ore-body, and the production\ndrift will have to be extended and, after raising to the ore, crosscutting- and drifting will be\ndone to prove its extent.    This ore was drilled just at the close of the year.\"\nIt is worthy of note that 3,239 feet of development-work was done during 1934. During\n1930 and 1933 only 1,523 feet of development was done. Definite statements regarding maintenance of ore reserves were made on the basis of the 1930 and 1933 work, but not on the greater\namount of work done in 1934, except the quarterly statement on October 15th, 1934, previously\nquoted.\nIn 1934, 94,880 tons of ore was mined, of which 5,043 tons came from the East Monarch.\nAn examination of the enclosed plan indicates that no appreciable tonnage of ore was developed\nin 1934. Therefore, the West Monarch ore-body at the end of 1934 definitely appears to have\nbeen reduced to approximately 60,000 tons.\nThe mill was closed February 16th, 1935, and if run at full capacity, approximately\n13,000 tons was mined in the first six weeks of the year. According to the estimates given, it\nwould leave 47,000 tons of ore in the West Monarch.\nThe mill was started on June 25th, 1935, and continued in operation until approximately\nDecember 5th, 1935.\nOn September 4th, 1935, the direction of Base Metals Mining Corporation was taken over\nby Mining Corporation of Canada.\nIn September, 1935, when Mr. Sargent examined the property, the rate of milling was\napproximately 210 tons per day. On the basis of 200 tons per day production to October 23rd,\nwhen a statement was issued by the Board of Base Metals Mining Corporation that milling\nwould be suspended because of lack of ore, production would be approximately 24,000 tons.\nOn the basis of the Department's estimates, 23,000 tons of ore would still be left in the mine.\nIt is apparent that the Department's estimates have been too high.\nMr. Sargent found in September, 1935, that production was coming from \" sniping \" in the\nold stopes, including the removal of pillars, and from stoping the southerly extension of the\nWest Monarch ore-body.    He estimated that a section remained which might yield 30,000 tons.\nGrade of Ore.\u2014Production from 1910 to 1924, inclusive, amounted to 40,015 tons. The\nrecovery made was 48,319 oz. silver, 6,899,967 lb. lead, and 228,000 lb. zinc; the latter was\nrecovered only during two years' operation. On an average basis of recovery of 80 per cent.\nfor the lead and 70 per cent, for the silver, the grade would be 10 per cent, lead and 1.77 oz.\nsilver.\nProduction from 1929 to 1934, inclusive, amounted to 207,272 tons, and the recovery was\n286,721 oz. silver, 40,486,193 lb. lead, and 43,268,283 lb. zinc.\nIn the Base Metals Mining Corporation report of March 20th, 1930, Frank Eichelberger\nstated that economic recovery averaged 96 per cent, lead, 75 per cent, zinc, and 75 per cent,\nof the silver. On this basis, the grade of ore for this period would be 10 per cent, lead, 13.9\nper cent, zinc, and 1.84 oz. silver. EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5).\nE 19\nActual mill-feed, according to:-\nLead.\nZinc.\nSilver.\nPer Cent.\n9.1\n15.0\n11.8\n12.5\n10.9\nPer Cent.\n10.9\n11.0\n16.5\n13.3\n14.7\nOz. per Ton.\n1.30\n1.80\n2.66\n1.85\n2.08\nOnly in one instance, for six weeks' operations, did the lead content of the ore milled\napproximate the content stated in reserves. The average is considerably below and the\ncomputed average is far below the figures given in ore reserves.\nWoolsey Creek, North op Main Line of C.P.R., Revelstoke Mining Division.\nThis company, with head office at 708 Yorkshire Building, Vancouver, owns\nAIlco Silver twenty-six mineral claims situated at the head of the Middle fork of Silver\nMines, Ltd.      creek, about 12 miles by trail northerly from Silver Creek Siding on the\n(N.P.L.). main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 2 miles west of Albert Canyon\nStation. Known as Nos. 1 to 26 respectively, the claims are held by annual\nrecording of assessment-work. Claims 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 were formerly known\nas the Iron Cap group, staked in 1930 and described in the 1931 Annual Report under \" Limestone Dyke and Iron Cap.\"    The other claims staked were recorded in 1934.\nThe country is rugged, being deeply cut by the large stream-valleys. The claims, covering\nan easterly-facing basin, the floor of which is at an elevation of about 5,900 feet, extend for\nabout 2 miles westerly, crossing the divide, which has an elevation of about 7,800 feet, and\ncover some ground on the slope which is drained by Carnes creek.\nFrom Silver Creek Siding the route to the property follows the road to the Snowflake mine\non the east side of Silver creek for about 4 miles. From this point a new road of good grade\nand width has been built to a point about 8 miles from Silver Creek Siding. Thence to the\nmine a pack-trail was being widened and at some points relocated to facilitate hauling with\na caterpillar tractor.    Towards the mine the grade is fairly steep.\nThe property was visited late in August and only the ground in the vicinity of the\nprincipal workings was examined in any detail. The workings consist of open-cuts and short\nadits around the southern and western sides and within an elevation of about 250 feet above\nthe floor of the basin. There are also some cuts in a small knoll rising from the floor of the\nbasin on the north side. The rocks exposed consist of slates, schists, and limestone, which\nstrike from north-west to west and dip from 30 to 60 degrees to the north-east or north.\nNorth-east of the basin the rocks appear to be chiefly schists for some distance, while the south\nand west rims of the basin appear to be limestone. A band of limestone crossing the basin\nfrom the north-western corner is exposed for a width of 150 feet near No. 4 adit. Somewhat\nsouth of No. 3 adit the width appears to be less than 100 feet. The contact with the slates and\nschists to the north is faulted. South-west of this limestone there is a band of slate 150 feet\nwide at the western side of the basin and of undetermined width at the south-eastern corner.\nSouth-east of this, limestone is again exposed and, although its width was not determined, it\nappears to extend for a considerable distance.\nIn the larger mass of limestone south-west of No. 2 adit two parallel fractures have been\nexposed about 100 feet from the portal. The more southerly one, exposed for a length of\n150 feet, is a narrow fracture from 2 to 4 inches wide, containing oxidized material with auite\na lot of galena. A sample of the selected galena assayed: Gold, 0.04 oz. per ton; silver,\n94.4 oz. per ton; lead, 63 per cent. The other fracture, about 75 feet north from the first, is\nexposed by a trench along the outcrop for 60 feet, and by pits for a further 60 feet easterly from\nthe east end of the trench. For a length of 15 feet there is a width apparently related to a\ncross-fracture, of 2 to 5 feet of rusty gossan containing massive pyrite. Selected pyrite\nassayed: Gold, trace; silver, 1.8 oz. per ton; lead, nil. The strike of the fracture is north\n60 degrees west or about the same as the limestone, but the dip is steeply to the south, while\nthe limestone-beds dip at about 35 degrees to the north. E 20\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nFarther west above No. 3 adit (see map), about 80 feet south-west of the portal, two\nlenses, each about 3 feet thick, containing sulphides appear to be partial replacements of\ncertain beds of limestone and are separated by about 8 feet of rusty thin-bedded limestone.\nThe upper lens contains some unaltered pyrite and the lower one pyrite and fairly massive\nsphalerite. The top half of the lower lens consists of a seam about 6 inches thick of fairly\nsolid pyrite, and the bottom half of fairly massive sphalerite with some pyrite. Selected\nsphalerite assayed: Gold, trace; silver, 1 oz. per ton; lead, nil; zinc, 42 per cent. Selected\npyrite assayed:  Gold, trace;  silver, 1.8 oz. per ton.\nA third type of occurrence appears to be related to the contact between the limestone and\nthe schist. Although the contact was not traced with accuracy and it is not well exposed at\nthe south-east corner of the basin south of No. 1 adit, yet it is probable that the narrow band of\nlimestone 150 feet wide near No. 4 adit extends across the basin on a general strike of north\n60 degrees west.    The contact is a faulted one and near No. 1 adit it appears to follow a less\nJ        Quartz vein\n71       Vein with much sulphide\nArgillite and schist\nj|        Limestone\nOpen-cut 0    Strippin\nB C Department of Mine, 1935.\nAllco Silver Mines, Ltd.    Sketch-plan showing Workings.\n' regular course. Two open-cuts above No. 1 adit expose sulphide mineralization, principally\nsolid galena, developed in the limestone close to the contact. The exposures suggest that the\nsolid sulphide mineralization is narrow and insufficient work has been done to indicate its\ncontinuity. From the lake in the basin to a cut on the southerly side of a knoll rising from the\nbasin's floor are irregular outcroppings of a narrow, barren-looking quartz vein, which is\nassumed to mark the southern contact. The cut mentioned and another 200 feet westerly on\nthe western end of the knoll expose the contact of limestone and schist. There is about 3 feet\nof more or less sheared rock with some quartz stringers and a little sulphide. The strike\nvaries somewhat and the dip is steep to the north. Six inches of sheared matter with some\nquartz and a little galena, exposed in the western cut, was sampled and assayed: Gold, 0.06 oz.\nper ton;   silver, 3.6 oz. per ton.\nAbout 900 feet north-west from this cut and immediately north of No. 4 adit the contact\nis exposed in the bed of a small stream.    A quartz vein varying from 8 to 24 inches wide, EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5). E 21\napparently unmineralized, has been followed for 200 feet up the creek in the sheared rock at\nthe contact. Near No. 4 adit a vein of galena, conforming to the strike of the limestone-beds\nand of irregular width up to 1 foot, branches off from the sheared contact. It appears to pinch\nat the top, while its horizontal extent is not shown.\nThere are other mineral occurrences on the property, but so far little work has been done\non them and for the present they would seem to be of minor importance.\nNo. 1 adit, which was apparently headed for the cuts on the hillside above it, was driven\n197 feet in graphitic thin-bedded sediments on a general bearing of south 45 degrees east,\nalthough it is not straight. Due to the local warping of the contact this adit was being driven\nparallel to rather than directly towards it.\nNo. 2 adit was driven by hand for 220 feet on a course of south 25 degrees west, about\nat right angles to the strike of the bedding. At that distance it should have cut the downward\nextension of the more northerly fracture and possibly also of the southerly fracture exposed\non the surface. Two fractures were crossed, but they were tight and not well mineralized\nwhere the adit intersected them.\nNo. 3 adit, driven for 45 feet at south 70 degrees west in thick-bedded limestone, exposed\nslight mineralization on some joint-planes. No work was being done at this point at the time\nof examination, but results to be obtained are quite doubtful, as the mineralization exposed on\nthe hillside above appears to follow the bedding, which dips about parallel to the slope of the\nhill. This adit was slowly crossing the beds and getting farther from the mineralization on\nthe surface.\nNo. 4 adit, in 20 feet at north 50 degrees west, was designed to intersect the mineralization\nexposed in the creek, but had not reached its objective.\nLardeau Camp.\nThis property, consisting of seventeen claims and fractions situated at the\nTeddy Glacier, head of the Middle fork of Sable creek, is owned by Teddy Glacier Mines\n(1933), Limited; registered office, 555 Howe Street, Vancouver. The\nproperty was originally staked by Geo. Ritchie and Geo. Edge, who discovered ore in float\nissuing from the front of the glacier. In 1924 the ice retreated and the ore was found in place.\nDuring the summer of 1927 Detroit capital purchased a 50-per-cent. interest in the property.\nIn 1929 the Bush & McCulloch interests employed thirteen men, and considerable improvements\nwere made to the trail and a crosscut adit continued towards the Dunbar vein after the\ninstallation of a 60-horse-power Diesel engine and a Gardner compressor. Recently an\nEnglish syndicate optioned the property and has done a good deal of development-work.\nThe property was reported upon in the 1924 Annual Report as the Ritchie group and as\nTeddy Glacier in the Reports for 1925 to 1930. It is also described in Geological Survey\nMemoir 161, \" Lardeau Map-area.\"\nThe camp and principal workings are at an elevation of approximately 7,800 feet. There\nis a wide stretch of moderately sloping country covered by the glacier and by glacial debris,\nexcept where ridges project through the cover. The camp is about 13% miles from Camborne\nand at about 5,800 feet higher elevation and access is rather difficult. A wagon-road extends\nsome 4% miles from Camborne. Beyond this point a narrow-gauge cart-road has been built\nfor about 4 miles to the \" Forks,\" at which point there is a packers' camp. Beyond this a steep\npack-trail 5 miles long leads to the mine. The English syndicate, represented by J. Ellis,\nmanager at the mine, began work late in 1934, but lack of supplies made it necessary to suspend\noperations. Fuel and some mine supplies were flown to the property and dropped from the\nair. Operations were resumed late in February. When the writer visited the property late\nin August a twenty-horse pack-train was being used to transport supplies from the \" Forks \"\nto the mine.\nThe English syndicate worked principally on the upper level, on which a total of about\n1,600 feet of crosscutting and drifting has been done.\nAn adit designed to gain a depth of 180 feet below the upper level by driving about 600 feet\nnorth-westerly was in about 60 feet when the property was visited.    As the results on the E 22\nREPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nupper level were not considered to be sufficiently encouraging, it was decided to abandon the\nproject, and the property was shut down in September, 1935.\nLate in August the \" big showing \" mentioned in former reports was still covered by the\nglacier, while the camp building had been built on another showing. Only the \" carbonate\nlead,\" as it was called, which may be the. \" Dunbar lead \" mentioned by A. G. Langley in the\n1927 Annual Report, was exposed.\nAt the head of Eva branch, South fork of Sable creek, about 7,800 feet above sea-level, is\nthe Teddy Glacier group. It was originally staked by George Ritchie and George Edge, who\ndiscovered ore in float issuing from the front of a glacier. In 1924 the ice retreated and the\nore was found in place. The property is now owned by the Teddy Glacier Mines, Limited,\nfinanced in Vancouver, with F. R. Blochberger in charge of development-work. During the\nsummer of 1927 Detroit capital, for which C. G. Bush is engineer, purchased a 50-per-cent.\ninterest in the property and considerable development is planned. An aerial tram and a\npower-line from Menhenick creek to the property have been mentioned as possibilities, and in\n1927 it was understood that an adit was being contemplated to tap the surface showings at\n~~ Fault\n-^-      vein   Quartz\nhi      Heavy sulphide mineralization\n3 C Department of Mines, 1935\nTeddy Glacier.    Plan of Upper Adit.\n400 feet depth. A trail from Incomappleux River wagon-road connects the property with\nCamborne, about 13% miles away. A small but serviceable cabin stands near the surface\nshowings.\nThe rocks on the property are carbonaceous to graphitic schists, grey argillaceous schists\nwith calcareous varieties grading to pure crystalline limestones, and fine-grained to gritty\nquartzites. They strike north 45 degrees west and dip 75 degrees north-east on the average.\nTo the north-east of the workings chlorite-schists and numerous small beds of grey marble\nappear in the sediments, and finally, about half a mile north-east, a large dyke of greenstone\nof dioritic appearance. Microscopic examination of it shows albite, orthoclase, and a small\namount of quartz in a mass of accessory and secondary mineral. It is consequently more\nacidic than a true diorite and is probably allied to quartz monzonite or granodiorite. About\n100 yards south-west of the main surface showing, the sediments are cut by a dyke of green- EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5).\nE 23\nstone which has been more or less completely carbonated to the familiar rusty weathering\ncarbonate rock of the district.\nOn the property, particularly between the ore-showings and the summit almost due west,\nmuch complex, practically isoclinal, folding has taken place. It is accompanied by shearing,\nfaulting, and on the summit the sediments dip flatly to the south-west. The schistosity maintains its normal easterly dip. This belt of folding continues north-west over one divide to the\nhead of Dog creek and essentially the same rocks persist.\nThe most important mineralization on the Teddy Glacier is found along two fracture-zones.\nThe more easterly strikes roughly north 10 degrees west and has been traced on the surface\nfor over 120 feet and is possibly exposed again 80 feet farther north. It is mineralized with\ngalena, pyrite, sphalerite, and some chalcopyrite in a gangue of white quartz and rock inclusions, the width varying from a few inches to 4 feet. The second vein, to the west of the first,\nstrikes north 17 degrees west where exposed and has been traced for about 130 feet, varying in\nwidth after the manner of the first and being similar in all respects. In addition, there are\nnumerous other quartz veins on the property which trend in various directions, but most\nfrequently about at right angles to the strike of the formation. Many of them connect with\nthe main veins and die out a short distance away from them. Mineralization in these veins\nis quite irregular, but some good showings have been uncovered, particularly near their\njunctions with the main veins. Where the first vein intersects the second one, and north\nof the latter, is the big showing; it is a large body of quartz some 30 feet long and carrying\nbodies, up to 5 feet wide, of coarse sulphides. It follows a somewhat more easterly course\nthan the average strike of the eastern vein. Apparently the nature of the country-rock has\nhad no important effect on the ore-deposition, although black carbonaceous schists mineralized\nwith pyrite are most abundant near and west of the big showing. Whether the sulphides have\nreplaced the limestones where these are intersected by the veins is a speculation that should\nbe investigated, as such has been found to be the case in other properties in the Lardeau.\nThe toe of the glacier lies 100 yards east of north from the big showing and in the float at its\nedge are some boulders of ore, indicating that further disclosures may be made as the ice\nrecedes, which it is doing slowly but surely.\nThe sulphides, galena, pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite, occur in bunches in the quartz\nveins or as continuous bands, pinching and swelling along the strike and varying in width\nfrom practically nothing to 4 or 5 feet. They are coarse-grained or very fine-grained and\nthe chalcopyrite is generally present in very minor amount. The finer-grained ore is an\nintimate mixture of the sulphides with grains of quartz and may require rather fine grinding\nfor concentration. Examination under the microscope reveals many minute areas of tetrahedrite in the galena. Some movement has taken place along the veins since their formation,\nas the galena is in many cases sheared.\nThe following assays are quoted from the Annual Report, Minister of Mines, British\nColumbia, 1925:\u2014\nDescription of Sample.\nAn.\nAg.\nPb.\nZn.\nCoarse crystalline galena from a number of places ;\nOz.\nOz.\nPer Cent.\nPer Cent.\na substantial amount of this ore could be sorted out\n0.08\n39.5\n74.6\n1.2\nSteel-grained   galena   containing   pyrite   and   quartz,\nfrom   various   places;    similar   material  occurs   in\n0.04\n23.3\n53.1\n10.3\nAverage sample across 5M; feet of ore and waste at\nthe  north-east  extremity  of  the   southern   fissure,\n78 feet from the big showing  \t\n0.29\n17.6\n31.3\n7.2\nFairly clean pyrite selected from various places ;   this\nmaterial occurs in abundance  \t\n0.28\n16.7\n1.6\nIt is noted that the last assay is unexpectedly high in silver and that similar material\nassayed for the owners gave:  Gold, 0.86 oz.;  silver, 6.4 oz.;  lead, 11.5 per cent.\nThe surface showings on the Teddy Glacier are very promising. The.ore is of a good grade\nand should be easily concentrated.    Underground development will be watched with interest. The relation of the surface showings to the underground workings is not clear from\nprevious descriptions. Apparently the upper level was designed to gain 35 feet of depth on\nthe \" big showing \" and probably the distance to be driven was not great.\nGalena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and grey-copper mineralization have been\ndescribed in earlier reports, which indicated that the pyrite carried fair values in gold and\nthat silver values were somewhat less than % oz. per unit of lead. Well-crystallized mixed\nsulphides of lead, iron, and zinc, selected by the writer, assayed: Gold, 0.26 oz. per ton; silver,\n8.6 oz. per ton; lead, 12.6 per cent.; zinc, 26.8 per cent.; while clean sphalerite assayed: Gold,\n0.01 oz. per ton;  silver, 1.4 oz. per ton;  lead, nil; zinc, 62 per cent.\nThe accompanying plan of the upper level indicates the mineralization found underground\nas well as the general faulting. The workings are in a shear-zone, strike north-westerly.\nAbout 40 feet from the portal there is a width of about 15 feet of heavy mineralization exposed\nin a crosscut and in the pillar between the two drifts. To the east this mineralization appears\nto finger out into a great many narrow stringers largely filled with quartz. In the south\nwall of the above crosscut the mineralization is weak, and to the south and west and in\nthe roof of the workings it dies out on approaching the fault-planes. The fault-plane on\nthe east side of the westerly drift may be the western margin of mineralization (see map).\nFour crosscuts intersected similar mineralization varying from 15 inches to 6 feet in width,\nover an indicated length of about 160 feet, lying between the two drifts. The mineralization\napparently dies out or is cut off at its northern extremity by a slip dipping north-east. A lens\nof similar mineralization is exposed on the east side of the easterly drift at the north of the\nfirst crosscut east from this drift. Its relation to the main mass of mineralization, 40 feet from\nthe portal, is not apparent in the workings.\nNo definite evidence was seen underground regarding post- or pre-mineral faulting. There\nis a suggestion, however, that the sulphide mineralization is, to a considerable degree, a\nreplacement-type along a north-westerly fracture, and is most intense where there is much\ncross-fracturing and dies out on approaching fault-planes along which there may have been\nsome post-mineral faulting.\nBurton, Arrow Lake Mining Division.\nThe Grey Wolf, Grey Wolf Fraction, Red Fox, Black Fox Fraction, and\nSilver Queen. Black Bear Fraction claims are owned, and the Red Fox Fraction is leased,\nby H. E. Stones and his partner, J. Gayford, of Burton. The property is\nlocated near Silver Queen peak on the ridge between Canyon creek and Snow creek, some\n13 miles easterly from Burton by road and trail. The present trail leads to the basin at the\nhead of Goat Canyon creek, from which a footpath about 2Vz miles long following the crest\nof the ridge has been made to the property. There is another route following Snow creek,\nbut this trail has not been completed. The property was described in the Annual Report\nfor 1930.\nThe ridge drops steeply on the southern side to Snow creek, some 3,000 feet below. The\nslope on the northern side of the ridge is precipitous until the basins at the heads of tributaries\nof Canyon creek are reached.\nThe West Kootenay Sheet, Map 792 of the Geological Survey of Canada, published in\n1904, indicates that this area is underlain by rocks of the Slocan series. The rocks observed\nconsist of tuffaceous sediments, crumbly sandstone, limy and more or less schistose argillite,\ngreenstone, and some aplite and granodiorite dykes.\nThe ridge running westerly from Silver Queen peak consists of impure tuffs and sandy\nsediments striking east to north-east and dipping steeply to the south. They are intruded\nby numerous dykes of andesitic greenstones and aplite. The peak consists of a knob of\ngranodiorite. On the ridge some 700 feet westerly from Silver Queen peak there is a band\nof rather coarsely crystallized white calcite about 3 feet wide lying to the west of some impure\ntuff and apparently followng the bedding. About 150 feet down the southerly slope in a\ndirection of south 45 degrees west and at an elevation of about 7,700 feet a 20-foot open-cut\nhas been driven into the hill on a similar band of coarsely crystallized calcite lying between\nbeds of crumbly sandstone, strike north 40 degrees east, dip 55 degrees north-west, and\napparently pinching as it goes down. EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5). E 25\nA little pyrite and some streaks of fine black sulphide were noted in the calcite. Selected\nmaterial containing pyrite and the black streaks assayed: Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton; silver,\n28 oz. per ton. Kidneys of black material, probably manganese oxide containing nodules of\ncalcite, were noted in the crumbly sandstone.\nSome 300 feet south 55 degrees west down the slope is another cut at elevation 7,550 feet,\nexposing 1 % to 2 Yz feet of coarsely crystalline calcite, with up to 8 inches, towards the foot-wall\nside, of rusty material and also some galena. Three samples across the full width assayed:\nGold, 0.06 oz. per ton; silver, 7.5 oz. per ton. This band also lies between beds of crumbly\nsandstone, strike north 45 degrees east, dip 55 degrees north-west. Near the bottom of the\ncut a 2%-foot aplite dyke is exposed cutting the band of calcite. Below the dyke, calcite,\nprobably drag, is exposed following the lower contact to a point 10 feet east of the band above\nthe dyke. At elevation 6,850 feet, some 1,200 feet south 50 degrees west down the side-hill,\na shaft about 30 feet deep has been sunk which was inaccessible. On the dump some calcite\nshowing a little sulphide was noted. Three hundred and fifty feet farther, south 60 degrees\nwest, downhill is an adit. The portal is 10 feet to the north-west of an exposure of calcite in\ndoubtful relationship with crumbly sandstone. The calcite is mineralized with galena and\nthe overburden shows much iron and manganese oxides. An outcrop of aplitic granite about\n50 feet wide occurs 60 feet west of the portal. There are about 350 feet of workings in the\nadit, including a branch to the left near the portal. The calcite-band exposed at the portal is\nnot seen underground, having been cut off by a fault observed at the outcrop. The adit is\nprincipally in limy greenstone. About 25 feet from the portal it crosses a shear running a\nlittle west of north. A drift follows this for about 55 feet, then turns east for 40 feet. The\nfirst shear is intersected by another and near the junction some quartz and fine-grained sulphide\nare developed. The fine sulphide, consisting largely of pyrite, assayed: Gold, 0.04 oz. per ton;\nsilver, 20 oz. per ton. The main adit-working is driven north-easterly for about 115 feet, then\nturns northerly for 115 feet and ends in aplitic granite. The contact has a low dip to the east.\nA sample taken near the portal of the adit, consisting of silicified rock with some red stain,\npossibly ruby silver, assayed:   Gold, 0.10 oz. per ton;   silver, 31 oz. per ton.\nSILVER-LEAD-ZINC MINERALIZATION.\nNorth of Blaeberry River, Golden Mining Division.\nThese claims, as well as several others, were staked in 1934 on the southerly\nSeward. slope of Willow Bank mountain north of Blaeberry river, 10 miles north of\nGolden and about 3 miles east of the railway, in the vicinity of a small stream\nlocally called \" Pole Cabin creek.\" The original locations were made by Roy and J. A. Seward.\nA long ridge runs south-easterly from the mountain and forms the south-easterly side of\nPole Cabin Creek valley. The rock formations exposed consist of blue limestone, more or less\ndolomitic, overlying thin-bedded shales.    Practically no work has been done.\nNumerous intersecting veinlets filled with calcite, quartz, and occasionally with small\nbunches of sulphides occur in the more massive blue limestone. Selected galena from this type\nof mineralization containing very little tetrahedrite (grey copper) assayed: Gold, trace;\nsilver, 28.5 oz. per ton; lead, 80.9 per cent.; copper, nil. There are also some larger veins a\nfew inches in width mineralized with a small amount of tetrahedrite, which does not, however,\nappear to be rich in silver. A sample of quartz showing much copper-stain and some tetrahedrite assayed: Gold, trace; silver, 10 oz. per ton; lead, 1.5 per cent.; copper, 1.5 per cent.\nWork has been done by the Seward Bros, at three points: At the creek-level, about 1%\nmiles by trail north-westerly from the farm buildings, where numerous intersecting veins\n% to 2 inches wide contain small nodules of galena. About 1 % miles north-westerly from the\nfirst point, on the southerly side of the ridge south-west of Pole Cabin creek, for 6 feet along\na fracture of northerly strike intersected by numerous cross-fractures, there is a 2-inch streak\nof fairly solid galena; however, blasting to a depth of 1 foot removed most of the galena.\nOn the north-eastern side of the creek opposite this point and for half a mile down-stream,\nquartz veins 2 to 6 inches wide are seen in the limestone cliffs which form the wall of the\ncanyon. Quartz in the talus shows a good deal of copper-stain and some tetrahedrite. There\nare also two quartz-lenses of some size.    One of them is about 4 feet wide and shows some E 26 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nsmall lenses of galena and a little tetrahedrite.    Another lens of white quartz 6 to 8 feet wide,\nin which no mineralization was seen, occurs 100 feet down-stream.\nQUARTZ-LENSES IN SHALE.\nNorth of Blaeberry River, Golden Mining Division.\nFour claims were staked in 1934 on the east side of Willow creek, about a mile northerly\nfrom Blaeberry river, in the names of J. Moyer, F. Bergenham, O. Bergenham, and H. C.\nBeresford. The valley of Blaeberry river is fairly wide; Willow creek enters it from the\nnorth-west, flowing from the moderately steeply-sloping north side of the main valley. The\ncountry is well wooded, principally with lodgepole pine.    Outcrops are scarce.\nFrom the main road along the Columbia river there is a fair road up Blaeberry river as\nfar as the Deacon ranch, about 4 miles, thence a rather rough trail leads to the claims.\nThe rock formation exposed in the vicinity of the workings is a soft, brown, thin-bedded\nshale, strike from north 45 degrees west to north 75 degrees west, dip steep north-east. There\nare two open-cuts; the southerly one exposes 3 feet of vein-matter apparently following the\nbedding of the shale, strike north 70 degrees west, dip 85 degrees north. There is an outcrop\nof white quartz about 5 feet wide, 65 feet north 70 degrees west from the open-cut. The second\ncut is 70 feet north 35 degrees west from this outcrop. The north-easterly end of this cut\nexposes the foot-wall of a rib of white quartz 5 feet wide traceable 10 feet north-westerly and\n30 feet south-easterly from the cut. In the cut, 3 feet from the foot-wall (south-west) of this\nquartz, are 4 inches of vein-matter, and from 8% to 10 feet south-west of the quartz is another\n2% feet of vein-matter. This 5-foot quartz-band and the two narrower bands also appear to\nfollow the bedding, strike north 45 degrees west and dip steeply to the north.\nWhite quartz is the principal vein material and is practically unmineralized. There is\nalso some calcite and some inclusions of chloritic wall-rock, which show a little iron-stain.\nThree samples were taken: (1) Consisting of 10 lb. of material obtained by taking several\nchip cuts across the 5-foot quartz-band at the second cut; (2) a sample of the 2%-foot vein in\nthe second cut consisting of quartz, calcite, and some included wall-rock; (3) selected material,\nprincipally rust-stained calcite and altered wall-rock, selected from the two cuts. All were\nassayed for gold and silver, the assay being nil in all cases.\nThe country was examined on both sides and to the south-east of the cuts, also for about\nhalf a mile north-west of the second cut. Fairly heavy float was found to 130 feet north-west\nof the second cut, but at 150 feet north-west on the strike there is an outcrop of shale striking\nnorth 70 degrees west and dipping steeply to the north-east. North-west of this point there\nare no vein-outcrops and very little float of vein material were found.\nPROGRESS NOTES.\nSmelter Operations.\nConsolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, Ltd., Trail, B.C.\u2014The improved prices\nfor lead and zinc during the year have encouraged increased production at the smelter.\nTowards the end of the year a daily production of 470 tons of refined lead and 350 tons of\nrefined zinc was reached, which are higher rates of production than have obtained at any time\nformerly. The silver production reached some 20,000 oz. daily. New production records for\nall three metals were established this year. In addition, there were substantial values in\ngold and cadmium.\nThe customs mill was in operation part of the year treating Rossland copper-bearing gold\nore. The concentrates produced with some crude ore were smelted in a lead-furnace as outlined\nin the 1933 Annual Report. Copper contained in these ores is separated from the lead bullion\nby drossing and is sent to Tacoma for final treatment. The copper produced was materially\nless than in 1934.\nThough somewhat less than the output for 1934, production of fertilizers was in good\nvolume despite the fact that there was some curtailment due to the longshoremen's strike at\nCoast ports.\nThe principal item of new construction is a plant to recover sulphur dioxide from zinc\nroaster gases.    This plant is expected to be in operation in 1936. EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5). E 27\nLode-gold Deposits.\nCranbrook Area.\nKimberley Goldfields Consolidated, Ltd.\u2014This company, with forty-six claims on Sawmill\ncreek, drove an adit 50 feet and then suspended operations early in the year.\nLittle Sullivan.\u2014This property and adjoining claims, staked 3 miles south of Cranbrook\nby L. P. Sullivan and associates, were prospected by surface work. Two shallow shafts have\nbeen sunk.\nMidway.\u2014This property, at Aldridge, owned by J. Leask and associates, of Cranbrook,\nwas under bond to B.C. Cariboo Goldfields, Limited, until late in the year. The drift has been\nextended to a length of about 1,350 feet.    Work has been stopped since midsummer.\nSouthern Kootenay Lake.\nBayonne Consolidated Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company was incorporated under the laws of\nBritish Columbia in April, 1935, with an authorized capital of 2,000,000 shares of no par value.\nThe existing tractor-road from Tye Siding was improved and made passable for trucks. New\ncamp and mine buildings were constructed at the mine. Underground work was limited to the\nremoval of a car of ore from No. 1 level for bulk-sampling purposes, and to driving a short\ncrosscut by hand on No. 3 level.    Work stopped for the winter in October.\nLate in the year Grull-Wihksne Gold Mines, Limited, acquired an interest and direction\nof the company and made preparations for resuming work.\nWisconsin.\u2014Development at the Wisconsin and Lucky Strike Crown-granted claims located\non Hughes creek, a tributary to Midge creek some 13 miles from the Canadian Pacific Railway\nsiding at the mouth of Midge creek, was financed by A. C. Frost, of Seattle. The same interests\nhave agreements covering near-by claims not yet Crown-granted. A description of this\nproperty appeared in the Annual Report for 1929 and in Bulletin No. 1, 1932, \" Lode-gold\nDeposits of British Columbia.\"\nE. W. McQuade was in charge at the property. Work began in June and ceased for the\nwinter on October 22nd, a crew of sixteen men having been employed. The trail was reopened\nand a small compressor, oil-engine, and hoist were installed. The winze on No. 1 level was\ndeepened from 64 to 151 feet and a station was cut at 150 feet. A heavy flow of water was\nencountered in the winze.\nVicinity of Nelson.\nMany small properties were operated, usually by lessees, including Anderson Creek,\nEvening Mountain, and Toad Mountain areas, and ten properties made small shipments of\nore or concentrates to Trail. Two of these exceeded 50 tons; G. T. Gormley, leasing the Venus-\nJuno group, shipped 93 tons and the Granite-Poorman shipped 233 tons of ore and 11 tons of\nconcentrates. Between Nelson and Ymir the Euphrates shipped 24 tons, the Fern 2 tons, and\nthe Porto Rico 32 tons. Lessees operating at the Porto Rico shipped two car-loads of ore in\n1934 and one in 1935.\nGranite-Poorman.\u2014At this property, west of Nelson, the mill is now reconstructed at a\nsite convenient to an adit designed to be connected with the Hardscrabble-Poorman workings\nat the 300 level.    Work on the adit has been suspended for some time.\nThe Hardscrabble and Poorman workings have been unwatered and connected by completing a crosscut on the 300 level (300 feet on the slope below No. 4 level).\nAt the Granite mine recent work has had as its object the solution of fault problems.\nThe mill was given a test run this autumn. During the year approximately 201 tons of ore\nand 11 tons of concentrates were shipped to Trail.\nFern.\u2014This property consists of five claims located on the south side of Hall creek, about\n3 miles by road from Hall, on the Nelson-Salmo road. The property is described in Geological\nSurvey of Canada Memoir 94, also in the Annual Reports for 1896, 1915, and 1927, and in\nBulletin No. 1, 1932, \" Lode-gold Deposits of British Columbia.\"\nLast year, according to the prospectus of the Gold Fern Mines, Limited, an assignment of\noption for lease and purchase of the property was secured.\nIn 1934 a crosscut was started some 800 feet below No. 4 level and driven about 160 feet\nwhen work was suspended. In 1935 work was resumed under the management of Neil\n11 McKechnie, consisting of surface prospecting and cleaning out old workings, with the result\nthat not far south-east from the portal of No. 1 level the \" B \" vein has been exposed for a\nlength of 110 feet.\nA new adit-crosscut, No. 5, started 150 feet in elevation below, was driven 50 feet of an\nestimated 150 feet required to reach the vein. Two tons of oxidized vein-matter was shipped\nto the smelter at Trail from a vein exposed near an old winze 120 feet east of No. 3 portal and\nfrom a narrow fissure above No. 1 level.    All work was suspended in December.\nVicinity of Ymir.\nGold Cup.\u2014The Gold Cup Mining Company, Limited (private), of which E. R. K. Waite is\npresident, held twenty claims, including three which are Crown-granted, situated about 4 miles\nnorth of Ymir and 1 mile due east from the main road. The workings and camp are at an\nelevation of about 5,000 feet. An old shaft and an adit-level on the Ohio No. 7 claim were\nreported on in Memoir 94, Geological Survey of Canada. The present operators opened and\ndid some work in the old adit.\nAbout 1,750 feet north-west from the old adit a crosscut was started and driven about\n330 feet on a course of south 72 degrees east to test the downward extension of a quartz-lens\noutcropping 160 feet above. A tractor-road was built to the property and new camps and mine\nbuildings have been erected.    Work ceased in the middle of December.\nClubine Comstock Gold Mines, Ltd.\u2014Development at the Boulder City group, 3% miles\nnorth of Salmo, was continued during the early part of the year, but the property was shut\ndown during the summer.    About 29 tons of ore was shipped to Trail.\nHoward.\u2014This property, located on the east side of Active (South fork of Porcupine)\ncreek, about 7 miles by road south-east of Ymir, has been described in various Annual Reports\nand in Memoir 172, Geological Survey of Canada. It has been bonded to Durango Gold Mines,\nLimited, of Vancouver, and development-work has been going on more or less continuously\nsince November, 1934.\nDuring the summer a good trail suitable for caterpillar tractors was built from the end\nof the road on Active creek to the mine. A Sullivan 400-cubic-foot compressor driven by a\n72-horse-power Petters Diesel engine has been installed at the mine.\nWesko Exploration and Development Co., Ltd.\u2014At the Centre Star mine the 300 level at\n3,630 feet elevation and the 560 level at 3,367 feet elevation were started this year and 4,013\nfeet of drifting and crosscutting done on them, also 1,101 feet of diamond-drilling. A 1,400-\ncubic-foot Ingersoll-Rand compressor was installed and the upper terminal for an aerial\ntramway was built near the 560 level portal. Clearing- and grading of the proposed mill-site\nand of the right-of-way for the proposed water-supply line were done in the autumn, though\nno definite plans for mill-construction have been made. The writer is indebted to the manager,\nHarold Lakes, for the above information.\nYmir Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company, operating the Ymir and adjoining\nGoodenough mines near Ymir, shipped 4,260 tons of ore from the Goodenough in 1934. A new\nmill of 100 tons daily capacity began operation on July 18th, 1935, and was shut down on\nNovember 30th.\nThe mill made a flotation concentrate containing lead, zinc, and iron minerals which was\nnot very high grade in gold and silver. Freight and treatment charges were accordingly heavy.\nIt is apparent that the ore from the Ymir mine was below a profitable grade and ore from the\nGoodenough, although better grade, was more limited in quantity.\nYmir Dundee Gold Mining Co., Ltd.\u2014On this property development-work was continued\nuntil summer and the ore obtained in part from development, amounting to 667 tons, was\nshipped to Trail.\nWilcox.\u2014At this mine work was continued by the lessees, D. H. Norcross, J. J. Cullinane,\nand associates, between April 1st and November 4th. The following information was kindly\nsunplied by D. H. Norcross: Tons milled, 1,595; recovered as bullion, 466.6 oz. fine gold and\n471.7 oz. silver. Concentrates produced, 101.66 tons, containing 161.5 oz. fine gold, 584.2 oz.\nsilver, and 11,526 lb. lead.\nNo. 1 ore-shoot produced 500 tons of oxidized ore. No. 2 ore-shoot, which averages about\n16 inches in width, produced the balance. This ore-shoot in the western section of the mine\nlies in contact with the roof-pendant where it has spread in a \" T \" shape. EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5). E 29\nYmir Yankee Girl Gold Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company, at Ymir, after shipping fluxing-ore\nto the Trail smelter for a long period, was equipped with a mill which came into production on\nJanuary 18th, 1935. The general flow-sheet was described in the Annual Report for 1934.\nInformation concerning milling and production was kindly supplied by the manager, H. W.\nSeamon. The mill, with normal capacity of 100 tons daily, produced 1,068.9 tons of lead\nconcentrates, containing 5,349.04 oz. gold, 23,141.9 oz. silver, and 529,116 lb. lead, which was\nshipped to Trail. Cyanidation of the zinc-iron flotation concentrate yielded 2,726.2 oz. gold\nand 5,153 oz. silver. The cyanide plant precipitate was at first shipped to Trail, but the gold\nand silver contained are now recovered as bullion at the property.\nMine-development during the year included drifting from a winze sunk below the 1,235\nlevel.\nErie Creek, Nelson Mining Division.\nRelief-Arlington Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company during the year at the Second Relief mine\nsank a 2-compartment shaft and established a sixth level 150 feet below No. 5 level. Deepening\nthe shaft was commenced late in November. Recovery to November 7th has been principally\nin the form of a flotation concentrate shipped to the smelter at Tacoma. Production for the\nyear was 12,998 dry tons milled, containing 4,209 oz. gold.\nA new mill was completed and operation began on December 20th, treating 75 tons per day\nby cyanidation. Waste discarded by sorting amounts to about 25 tons, making a total of\n100 tons of mine ore handled per day.\nArlington.\u2014The mine and dump were thoroughly sampled by engineers of the Premier\nGold Mining Company; their report is not yet available. Lessees shipped some sorted ore\nfrom the mine to Trail amounting to 341 tons of ore, containing 617 oz. gold and 1,439 oz. silver.\nKeystone.\u2014F. Golightly, of Erie, with two men sorted ore from the dump on this property,\nsome of which had been stoped earlier in the season;   171 tons was trucked to Trail.\nSheep Creek Camp.\nGolden Fawn.\u2014This group, lying on the ridge north of the Nugget mine, is referred to in\nthe Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines and in the Geological Survey of Canada\nMemoir 172.\nThe Fawn Mining Company, of Vancouver, acquired an option covering the property in\n1933. Work was commenced in May, 1935. The old adits were cleaned out and No. 3 was\nadvanced 50 feet.\nA road somewhat more than a mile in length was built connecting with the road to the\nReno mine, also a new camp and a compressor-house and shop.\nA Holman steel-sharpener and a Holman 500-cubic-foot air-compressor driven by a\nRuston Diesel engine were installed. At present No. 5 level, about 290 feet below 3 level, is\nbeing driven from the west side of the ridge at elevation 6,420 feet.\nGold Belt Mining Co., Ltd.\u2014Work on this property in 1935 consisted in extending the\ndrifts on the 200 level, about 85 feet of drifting and crosscutting on the 600 level, and raising\n130 feet on the Bruce vein at a point west of the main crosscut on the 600 level. Three drillholes totalling approximately 2,400 feet were put down from the 600 level. The 1,850, a deep-\nlevel adit 1,250 feet below the 600 level, has been driven 700 feet. The old drift on the Columbia\nvein has been advanced about 80 feet. Preparations have been made to crosscut this vein\nat a depth of 125 feet below the drift.\nA branch road about half a mile long was built to the 1,850 level portal from the main\nroad west of the Reno mill. A shop, compressor-house, and change-house were built on sites\nconvenient to the portal as well as a new camp accommodating forty men.\nKootenay Belle Gold Mines, Ltd.\u2014J. P. McFadden, manager of this mine, kindly provided\nthe following information: This year's No. 3 level adit-crosscut was driven 350 feet in elevation\nbelow No. 2 level. At 1,076 feet from the portal the crosscut intersected the \" A \" vein.\nA supply-tram has been built from the road to No. 3 level and an aerial tramway to transport\nore from No. 3 level to the mill has been completed. The Kootenay Belle mill began operations\nin November, 1934. Recovery is in the form of corduroy-blanket concentrates and flotation\nconcentrates shipped to Trail. E 30 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nThe Hadsel mill treats mine ore and delivers a product about 87 per cent, minus 200 mesh.\nAbout 45 tons of ore daily has been milled averaging about 0.43 oz. gold per ton. Total ore\ntreated was 14,650 tons, from which 5,845 oz. gold and 2,207 oz. silver were recovered.\nReno.\u2014This mine is under the management of W. S. Ellis, who kindly provided the following information: The 521 sub-level drift west was extended and encountered an ore-shoot\n157 feet long and 2.4 feet wide. Development consisted chiefly of drifting on Nos. 7, 8, and 9\nlevels. On the seventh level west and the eighth level east ore was found beyond the recently\nknown limits. Development on the. eighth and ninth levels will be stopped pending shaft-\nsinking to the tenth and eleventh levels. In the meantime, recently developed ore on No. 5\nlevel will be stoped.\nDevelopment was done at the Nugget mine, which, in conjunction with the Motherlode,\nis owned by Reno Gold Mines, Limited. At present the Nugget drift at the No. 5 level is being\nextended to explore the Nugget vein in the eastern Quartzite belt.\nDuring the year 39,862 tons of ore was milled, containing 21,579 oz. gold, 10,092 oz. silver,\nand accompanied by lead and zinc.\nSheep Creek Gold Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company commenced production at the old Queen mine\non May 20th, 1935, in its new cyanide-mill and from 125 to 130 tons has been treated daily.\nThe following notes were kindly supplied by the manager, H. E. Doelle: With the exception\nof a small tonnage from the west ore-shoot above No. 5 level, the ore was mined from the east\nshoot, mostly from above No. 7 level. Development for the year comprised 315 feet of sinking,\n319 feet of raising, and 2,061 feet of drifting and crosscutting. Most of the drifting was done\non No. 8 level and the east ore-shoot proved for 420 feet. The vein was found on the west side\nof the Queen fault on No. 8 level, but not developed. The west ore-shoot was developed by\ndrifting on Nos. 3, 5, and 7 levels. To the end of the year production totalled 28,197 dry tons\nof ore, containing 9,081 oz. gold and 2,517 oz. silver.\nOre Hill.\u2014This property, consisting of five Crown-granted claims and fractions situated\nnear the head of Billings (Coon) creek, immediately north of the Summit group, is reached\nfrom the end of the road at the Queen mill by following about 2% miles of rather steep trail.\nReferences appear in the Annual Report for 1917 and in Memoir 172, Geological Survey of\nCanada. Joe Gallo, of Nelson, has acquired a lease and bond on the property. In the summer,\nafter improving the trail, a small crew prospected the property, also sorted some shipping-ore\nfrom two new showings and from an old adit dump.\nIn the autumn arrangements for financing were made and toward the end of the year an\nadit was started to intersect a new discovery at a depth of 100 feet, the estimated length of\nthe drive required being 320 feet.    No ore had been shipped at the end of the year.\nFend d'Oreille River Area.\nBunker Hill (Waneta).\u2014This group consists of two Crown-granted mineral claims, the\nBunker Hill and Mormon Girl, and fourteen adjoining claims held by location. They are on\nthe east side of Limpid (16-Mile) creek, a tributary of the Pend d'Oreille river. The property\nhas been fully described in the Minister of Mines' Annual Report for 1934. Early in the season\na crew of men was engaged in making preparations for the construction of a road from the\ncamp to the adits and surface workings and for the driving of a new low-level adit.\nRossland Camp.\nOres of this camp are valued chiefly for their gold content. Silver is also present, usually\nwith low values in copper. In a few cases there are quite high values in silver with moderate\nvalues in lead.\nCompany Leases.\u2014With a view to providing employment for residents of Trail and\nRossland who were former employees of the company, then unemployed, the Consolidated\nMining and Smelting Company of Canada in 1933 offered sections of its mining properties\nin the vicinity of Rossland for lease. Production from these leases and from independent\nmines in the vicinity reached very considerable proportions, exceeding the volume of such ore\nwhich could be handled economically at Trail, and resulted in the accumulation of Rossland ore\nin the yards at the smelter.\nIn order to reduce the rate of production to a volume which could be handled economically\nat the smelter, new leases were granted in 1935.    These provide that those employed must be EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5). E 31\nformer employees of the company resident in Rossland or Trail and the production per lease\nis limited to a maximum of 25 tons each month. The quantity of similar ore from independent\nshippers accepted per month is also limited.\nThe effect of this policy at Rossland will be to restrict the benefits of employment to\notherwise unemployed residents of Rossland and Trail who are former employees of the\ncompany and will increase the time during which such employment will be possible.\nProduction by lessees at the Rossland mines of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting\nCompany for the year 1935 was approximately 32,900 dry tons, containing $680,000 gross value\nin gold and silver, for which the settlements amounted to $480,000 after freight and treatment\ncharges had been deducted. The value which the silver content contributes to the amount is\nsmall.\nApproximately 120 individuals and partnerships, leasing sections of company mines, made\nshipments to the smelter. Part of this number is due to rearrangements of partnerships which\nwere frequently composed of a number of miners. Before the new leases were granted lessees\nin some cases hired a number of employees.\nIn the last quarter lessees shipped a total of 2,650 dry tons, having a gross value of\n$67,480 in gold and silver and a net value after deducting freight and treatment of $50,580.\nThis is about one-fourth of the average for the earlier periods. The number of shippers was\nsixty-one, while the quantity per shipper averaged much less than in the earlier periods. It is\nunderstood that approximately fifty men were working on company leases at the end of the\nyear.\nIndependent Shippers.\u2014In the vicinity of Rossland fourteen properties working in most\ncases on a leasing basis made shipments to Trail. The total from these independent shippers\nwas 1,600 tons, as against 1,036 tons from eleven shippers in 1934. The 1935 shipments are\nlisted below.\n\u201e,.  _ Tons of Ore Ml Tons of Ore\nMlne- shipped. Mme- shipped.\nBluebird     49                Lily May  24\nCliff  247               Mayflower \\  90\nEvening Star  624                Midnight   95\nGeorgia       4               O.K.  55\nHattie       9                Silverine  22\nI.X.L  165                Ural  4\nJumbo  196                Mighty Midas  16\nFire Valley, Arrow Lake Mining Division.\nFrom the Paladora group, consisting of three claims about 27 miles north-west from\nEdgewood by road, S. P. Pond shipped 60 tons of ore averaging 0.78 oz. gold and 3.9 oz. silver\nper ton.\nSlocan Area.\nL.H.\u2014This property comprises the following Crown-granted mineral claims: L.H.,\nHarlem, Baby Ruth, Camden, C.B., St. Joe, Bain Fraction, and Summit. The property is at\nthe head of Vevey (L.H.) creek and is between elevations of 5,200 and 5,600 feet. The geology\nand mine-workings have been adequately described by C. E. Cairnes in Memoir No. 184,\npublished in 1935 by the Bureau of Economic Geology, Department of Mines, Ottawa. Work\nhas been temporarily suspended on the property.\nLardeau Area.\nMeridian Mining Co., Ltd.\u2014This company has continued mining and milling operations\non its consolidated groups of claims at Camborne. However, most of the work during 1935 was\nconfined to mining and milling ore from the Criterion vein as exposed in the Criterion Nos. 1\nand 2 in the Rossland adits.\nBreaking of ore in the stopes in the above-mentioned levels ceased in November and a\nprogramme of development-work was initiated. It is understood that the programme is to\ncrosscut north-eastward from the Criterion No. 2 adit to the Eva shear; to drift on this and\nraise to the upper workings of the Eva. Since November ore for the mill has been obtained\nby drawing from the stopes. E 32 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nSilver-Gold Deposits.\nSlocan Valley.\nShipments of crude ore valued for its gold and silver content were made to Trail during\nthe year from the following properties in the vicinity of Slocan City:\u2014\nLemon Creek-Springer Creek area\u2014 shipped.\nChapleau   50\nMeteor  17\nPort Hope  1\nNorth of Slocan City\u2014\nGold Viking   7\nRepublic   65\nWhite Hope  16\nDry Silver-ore Deposits.\nSlocan Camp.\nDry silver ores\u2014that is, siliceous ores with values in silver but comparatively little lead\u2014\nwere produced principally from the vicinity of Slocan City. They are also produced at other\npoints in the Slocan camp. Usually the dry ores come from veins in or near the Nelson\nbatholith.\nOttawa.\u2014This property, consisting of twenty-one claims on Springer creek owned by the\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, is under lease and bond to a Spokane\ngroup represented by W. R. Green. The latter, with three or four men, built a new camp and\nhas been engaged in reopening and retimbering No. 5 level. The property is described in\nGeological Survey of Canada Memoir 184 and various Annual Reports; that of 1921, by A. G.\nLangley, being of especial interest. The following paragraphs are quoted from Langley's\nreport:\u2014\n\" The ore deposits occur in a sheared fissure in granite. The character of the ore-bodies\nwould indicate that they owe their origin to replacement by the circulation of mineral-bearing\nsolutions or vapours through small channels and filling interstices in the sheared material\nbetween the walls of the fissure, and that continuity might be expected with depth.\n\" The ore occurs in lenses of considerable dimensions, the stoping-width being as great\nas 8 feet. The ore is essentially a ' dry' silver ore consisting of argentite with which is\noccasionally associated small leaves of native silver, the latter, no doubt, being of secondary\norigin. The gangue is quartz and country-rock. In places barytes is the predominant gangue\nand is invariably associated with high values. It is both a difficult ore to sort and to recognize\nunderground, as often lean-looking material will run well in silver.\n\" In the past only the highest-grade ore was shipped owing to the difficulties presented\nby the concentration of the silver minerals. Hence the dumps contain some high-grade and\na considerable tonnage of second-grade ore, while there is a possibility of winning a fairly large\ntonnage of mill-feed from the old stope fillings.\n\" The fissure dissects the hillside in a northerly and southerly direction and dips at 37\ndegrees to the east. The mine has been opened by five adit-tunnels at vertical distances of\n100 feet. The uppermost, or the No. 1, is the old original prospect-tunnel and is no longer\nof any consequence. The Nos. 2, 4, and 5 are in good condition and the No. 3 is caved. Below\nthe No. 5 there is still another level, the No. 6. This does not come out to the surface and is\nnow full of water. It is interesting to note that the ore-shoots showed a marked increase in\nsize as depth was gained. The ore has been stoped out above the No. 5, although there are\nplaces from which small tonnages can be mined, while further prospecting on the hanging-wall\nside may reveal the presence of parallel shoots. By a rough estimation the dumps contain\nabout 25,000 tons in which the values are bound to be spotty. In order to arrive at an estimate\nof the tonnage suitable for mill-feed, extensive and costly sampling would have to be undertaken. Shipments made so far have been encouraging; for instance, 700 tons shipped in 1919\naveras-ed 19.8 oz. in silver, while another 700 tons recently treated by the mill averaged 12 oz.\nin silver.\" EASTERN DISTRICT  (No. 5). E 33\nAs certain rather optimistic reports concerning the ore reserves at this mine have been\ncirculated, it is considered advisable to mention that the official production figures from 1903\nto 1934 were 6,448 tons, containing 764,650 oz. silver and 750,540 lb. lead; there was no\nproduction between 1926 and 1934. The total tonnage given includes ore removed from the\ndump.\nIn Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 184, Cairnes says: \"In 1921, 1,440 tons of\nmill-feed averaging less than 5 oz. in silver were extracted. Production of all other years has\nbeen of higher-grade material and has, exclusive of 1921, amounted to 4,758 tons of ore with\nan average content of 159 oz. of silver a ton.\" From this it would appear that the total of\ncrude shipping-ore taken from the stopes amounted to 4,758 tons. It is quite improbable that\nin mining this quantity of shipping-ore any very large tonnage of second-grade ore could have\nbeen left in the stopes.\nCrude Ore.\u2014Shipments of crude ore, usually from leasing operations, were made to Trail\nfrom the following properties. Of these properties the Molly Hughes at New Denver produces\nore carrying important values in gold.\nSection and Mine. dipped.'6\nSpringer creek\u2014\nAlma   2\nCub   9\nL.T. (also known as Olympic) .  6\nMorning Star  4\nRiverside  3\nEnterprise creek\u2014Buster  2\nSilverton\u2014Metallic   23\nNew Denver\u2014Molly Hughes  61\nKane creek (Three Forks)\u2014Black Grouse  11\nSilver-Lead-Zinc Deposits.\nCranbrook Area.\nSullivan.\u2014The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited, continues\nto be the most important factor in the economic life of the East Kootenay district and during\nthe autumn brought this property to peak production. Total production for the year amounted\nto 1,861,245 tons, comprising 1,859,171 tons of lead-zinc ore shipped to the concentrator at\nKimberley and 2,074 tons of crude lead ore to the smelter at Tadanac, an increase of 112,844\ntons over the production of 1934. During the year the mine worked 278 days, the coarse-\ncrushing plant 281.5 days, and the concentrator 312 days. The concentrator treated 1,859,221\ntons, an average of 5,959 tons per day, and produced 226,837 tons of lead concentrates and\n209,078 tons of zinc concentrates.\nAn interesting feature in this year's operations is the filling of \" K stope \" with boulder-\nclay from the surface. This is an initial and, to some extent, an experimental step in the\nprogramme designed to make possible recovery of the large tonnage of ore in mine pillars.\nDibble Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company, promoted in Calgary by G. M. Wittichen, employed two\nor three men during the season, driving a crosscut 180 feet into the hill at 6,500 feet elevation.\nThe Dibble group lies in a basin 4% miles by steep pack-trail from the end of a branch road\n10% miles south-easterly from Fort Steele. Years ago there was some production of silver\nore from small scattered quartz-lenses in schist exposed on the surface.\nSirdar.\u2014This claim, leased by a Calgary syndicate represented by W. W. Douglas, is\nreached by a branch from the road to Bull River power plant, some 21 miles south-east from\nFort Steele by road. A shaft sunk this year to a depth of 24 feet was full of water when the\nproperty was visited. This shaft prospects a showing which at the surface is 12 feet wide\nconsisting of quartz containing fragments of limy wall-rock and bunches of sulphide mineralization, principally pyrite with some galena.\nPend d'Oreille River Area.\nMichaely Silver Lead Co.\u2014This company, operating the property formerly known as the\nRed Rock group, on the north side of Salmo river, shipped 35 tons of silver-lead ore to Trail. Slocan-Ainsworth Camp.\nWestern Exploration Co., Ltd.\u2014This company owns the Mammoth mine and the Standard,\nadjoining it on the west. The Mammoth has been developed on seven levels, a flotation-mill\nbuilt at Silverton, and a tramway from the mine to the mill when operations were suspended\nin 1930. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 184 and the Annual Reports for 1926, 1928,\nand 1929 describe the mines and the new mill. During the past few years lessees shipped\nsome ore from both mines and are still working in the Standard.\nIn the past summer the property was reopened under the management of A. M. Ham.\nMilling was commenced in July. After tuning up the mill and doing initial work at the mine\na daily production of about 100 tons was reached. Lead concentrates were at first shipped to\nTrail and later to Europe.\nFisher Maiden.\u2014This property, consisting of the Fisher Maiden and Troy Crown-granted\nclaims on Silverton creek, about 8 miles by road and trail from Silverton, is owned by the Fisher\nMaiden Troy Mining Company. References are Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 184\nand Annual Reports for 1896, 1904, and 1926.\nThe property had been idle for several years until the summer of 1935, when, financed by\nsubscriptions from the larger shareholders of the company, some work was undertaken by\nJ. L. Prickett and a small crew. The old route up Silverton creek was reopened and in part\nrelocated. A good log cabin was built at the mine. No. 5 level on the Fisher Maiden vein was\ncleaned out and retimbered from the surface to caved ground encountered farther in. A shipment of 9 tons of ore was made to Trail.\nMonitor.\u2014The Slocan-Monitor Silver Mines, Limited, to which reference is made in the\nAnnual Report for 1934, began work at the property with a small crew in June, 1934. Recently\nit was decided to install a portable compressor and a machine-drill. Three short raises have\nbeen put up from No. 5 level and the drift has been advanced 200 feet. Recently No. 4 fault\nhas been crossed and it is hoped that the vein will shortly be picked up beyond. In the upper\nlevels a good ore-body was worked beyond this fault.\nNoble Five Mines, Ltd.\u2014This company, of which Paul Lincoln is president and manager,\nresumed operation of its property at Cody in the spring. In June the mill began operations\nafter a five-year shut-down. Operating on day shifts the plant milled about 30 tons daily.\nOre was mined on the 1,800 and 800 levels. Work was stopped again in the late autumn when\na cold snap caused difficulty with the water-power supply.\nRoss Mining Syndicate (N.P.L.).\u2014The Ross Mining Syndicate, Limited (N.P.L.), leased\nthe Wellington mine, part of the Whitewater mine at Retallack, and the Rambler-Cariboo mine\nin McGuigan basin. The tramway from the old Rambler mill in the basin to a newer mill\non Seaton creek was reconditioned. Tailings from the old mill were trucked and trammed to\nthe Whitewater mill, which treated 80 tons daily until early in December. Concentrates\naveraging about 50 per cent, lead and 80 oz. silver per ton and zinc concentrates averaging\nabout 50 per cent, zinc and 27 oz. silver per ton were shipped both to Trail and to Europe.\nDevelopment was done by hand on the Wellington group. At the Whitewater mine a\n100-foot raise was put up from No. 10 level and 150 feet of drifting was done on a cross-\nfracture on No. 14 level. Some ore from the Whitewater Deep workings was milled during\nthe year.\nLucky Boy.\u2014This group of three claims held by annual recording of assessment-work and\nowned by Charles Lind, of Kaslo, is situated on the south side of Kaslo creek, 14 miles from\nKaslo on the railway, and lies immediately east of the Contact group, owned by A. J. Curie.\nThe claims cover benches along Kaslo creek.\nExploration consists of surface-trenching and an adit 75 feet long, from which a branch\ndrift commencing at a point 35 feet from the portal has been driven to the contact of limestone\nand thin-bedded argillaceous sediments. Some massive galena and sphalerite is developed in\nthe limestone.\nBurton, Arrow Lake Mining Division.\nBlack Bear.\u2014This property, adjoining the Millie Mac and the Great Western pronerties\nand owned by H. E. Forster, of Wilmer, is reached by 4% miles of steep pack-trail from\nthe end of the wagon-road near the Blue Grouse creek on the north side of Caribou creek. EASTERN DISTRICT   (No. 5). E 35\nC. Marshall and C. A. Marshall, of Burton, have done surface work in the past two seasons,\nconsisting of cuts exposing a shear-zone which appears to be the same as that upon which\nthe Millie Mac and Black Bear underground workings and the open-cuts at the Great Western\nare located.\nEureka.\u2014This group consists of two claims, Eureka No. 1 and Eureka No. 2 Fraction, held\nin the names of Annie Prough and R. H. Brett, of Burton, which extend southerly from Caribou\ncreek at a point some 15 miles by road and trail north-easterly from Burton. The camp is on\na low bench on the north side of Caribou creek. South of the creek the closely timbered side\nof the valley rises steeply from a low bench a few feet above creek-level. John Prough and\nWalter Isaacs have been driving No. 2 level by hand. Three adits have been driven southwesterly on a graphitic shear-zone in limestone from the western side of a small stream:\nNo. 1, elevation 4,100 feet and 1,500 feet from Caribou creek; No. 2, elevation 4,280 feet; and\nNo. 3, elevation 4,350 feet.\nCrude Silver-lead Ore, usually produced by lessees, was shipped from numerous properties\nto the smelter at Trail. G. H. Grimwood, of Nelson, representing Ayerton & Cohen, of London,\nEngland, supplied information that ore from the Banker, Jackson, and Whitewater mines had\nbeen exported to Europe. The following list gives the names of properties and amount of\ncrude ore shipped during the year; 163 tons from the Banker, 10 tons from the Jackson, and\n30 tons from the Whitewater were shipped to Europe. The other shipments went to Trail.\nOre from the Western at Three Forks carried important values in gold. Ore from the Bosun\nmine is frequently high in zinc. The shipments from the Bosun include ore won by jigging\nmaterial from the dump.\nSection and Property. ^^\nSpringer creek\u2014Dayton        4\nSilver ton-New Denver\u2014\nBosun  343\nCliff      16\nComstock        3\n.   Fisher Maiden       9\nHewitt       7\nLucky Thought   190\nMammoth*      62\nMountain Chief     64\nShannon        5\nStandard  179\nThree Forks-Sandon-Cody\u2014\nBlack Colt !  180\nCanadian group     22\nIvanhoe      29\nPalmita  213\nPayne        2\nReco       5\nRio  .     14\nRuth-Hope   233\nVictor _\u2022_     64\nWestern     17\nWonderful       1\nAinsworth-Kaslo-Retallack\u2014\nBanker  163\nDaybreak     33\nJackson     10\nUtica        5\nWhitewater*      49\nAlso shipped concentrates. E 36 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1935.\nPlacer-gold Deposits.\nGolden M.D.\u2014Six dredging leases near Wood river, 90 miles north-westerly from Golden,\nwere located in the fall by a Toronto syndicate and some prospecting and testing done on the\nground with bore-holes. Prospecting on placer-ground was reported on Canyon creek and\nalso on Quartz creek at Beavermouth.\nWindermere M.D.\u2014Placer-mining or prospecting was done on seven leases located on\nFindlay, Toby, and Dutch creeks.   .\nFort Steele M.D.\u2014Placer operations were under way during the season on Perry, Sawmill,\nPalmer Bar, and Wild Horse creeks and Skookumchuck and Moyie rivers, and a number of\nsmall operators have been active. The total production from this area was 640 oz. placer gold.\nOn Perry creek a Calgary syndicate undertook to drive to bed-rock, but work was stopped by\nthe breakdown of their water-wheel. Driving of rock drifts was undertaken on Boulder creek\nby W. A. Drayton and on Moyie river near the falls by James Ewen and Dave Oscarson.\nNelson M.D.\u2014On 49 creek there was some activity from which a recovery of 5% oz. gold\nwas reported. During the low-water period \" snipers \" were active along the Pend d'Oreille\nriver below the mouth of the Salmo river. Late in the year a considerable amount of interest\nwas taken in the ground along the lower Salmo river, where in a short time two men recovered\n27 oz. gold from two 250-foot leases.    Recovery of 1 oz. was reported from Erie creek.\nArrow Lake M.D.\u2014West of Whatshan lake, on Holding creek and on Eureka creek below\nthe mouth of Holding creek, four men working on three leases recovered 6 oz. gold. Holding\ncreek is a tributary of Barnes creek.\nSlocan City M.D.\u2014Recovery of 4 oz. gold was reported from placer operations on Lemon\ncreek.\nAinsworth M.D.\u2014On the Duncan river four placer-miners recovered 30.8 oz. gold. On Fry\ncreek 8 dwt. 7 gr. placer gold was recovered.\nRevelstoke M.D.\u2014There was, as usual, some \" sniping \" along the Columbia river and on\nother streams. Coughlin Gold Mines, Limited, operated the Theda Bara group of five leases\non Camp creek, about 3% miles easterly from the road and 60 miles north from Revelstoke.\nA drag-line scraper operated by a steam donkey-engine was used in excavating for sluices and\nin moving top gravel. Preliminary work was still in progress when the property was visited\nat the end of August. It is understood that L. N. 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