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MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966
Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia
British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
Foldout Map: BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING DIVISIONS; Foldout Map: Figure 2 DEAS LAKE MINES LTD. Geology at Gnat Lake; Foldout Map: Figure 3 SCHAFT CREEK BEDROCK GEOLOGY Bird and Sno Claims - Liard Copper Mines Ltd. Nabs Claims. Paramount Mining Ltd.; Foldout Map: Figure 8. GEOLOGY OF AJAX GROUP, MT. McGUIRE AREA; Foldout Map: Figure 9 GEOLOGY OF THE BIG ONION; Foldout Map: Figure 11. GEOLOGY IN THE VICINITY OF GLACIER GULCH, HUDSON BAY MOUNTAIN; Foldout Map: Figure 12. OLD FORT MOUNTAIN AREA; Foldout Map: Figure 15 GEOLOGY OF THE BERG Modified from company plans; Foldout Map: Figure 18 GEOLOGY OF THE RED BIRD From company plans; Foldout Map: No. 4 ZONE CHATAWAY EXPLORATION CO. LTD. (Partly after company maps) Figure 26
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LODE METALS CONTENTS General Review of Mining and Exploration Page 13 Notes on Metal Mines— Atlin Mining Division— Atlin— Atlin-Ruffner (Silver, Barber) Liard Mining Division— Alaska Highway—• Tootsee River— Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod, Ruby . Key Racing River— Churchill, Davis, Bird, Caribou.. Cassiar— S.Q.E., Kon, Rex Dease Lake—• Horn Les Moss Latitude and Longitude Metals 59° 133° N.W. Ag, Pb, Zn June, Stikine, September.. Cap, Flat Let, Tak._ Dalvenie, Mac, New Deal- Cry Lake— Bartle Turnagain River— Turn, Pyrrhotite, Cobalt.. Stikine River— Barrington River— Gordon MH Edson Galore Creek— HAB, BUY, GC (Galore Creek). BIK C.W Mess Creek—- Bird, Sno, Bud Nabs Arctic, Ann, Bam.. Iskut River— E and L Ray, Joann.. Bron, Don, Son, Pang.. Skeena Mining Division— Tide Lake Flats— Granduc Portland Canal— Stewart— Silbak Premier Mine.. Big Missouri Mobile Rufus, Ven.. Goat Radio, Mayou, Roosevelt- Moonlight 59° 130° N.E. 59° 130° N.E. 58° 125° S.E. 59° 129° S.W. Ag, Pb, Zn Ag Cu Mo 17 17 17 18 18 58° 129° S.W. 58° 129° S.W. 58° 129° S.W. 58° 129° S W (Ju, Mo - Cu, Mo Cu Cu _ 18 18 _ 19 19 58° 129° S.E. 58° 129° S.E. 58° 129° SW Cu, Mo Cu, Mo Cu . 20 21 21 58° 129° N.E. Mo 22 58° 128° S.W. Cu, Ni . 22 57° 131° N.W. 57° 131° N.W. 57° 132° N.E. Cu Fe Cu 22 23 24 57° 131° S.E. 57° 131° S.E. 57° 131° S.E. Cu Cu Cu 25 25 25 57° 130° S.W. 57° 130° S.W. 57° 130° S.W. Cu, Mo Cu, Mo Cu, Ag 26 29 31 56° 130° N.W. 56° 131° N.E. Ni, Cu Au, Ag, Pb, Zn 31 34 56° 131° N.E. Cu, Au 37 56° 130° S.E. Cu 38 56° 130° S.E. 56° 130° S.E. 56° 129° S.W. 56° 129° S.W. 56° 129° S.W. 56° 129° S.W. 56° 129° S.W. Au, Ag, Pb, Zn Au, Ag, Pb, Zn Ag, Pb, Zn Cu Au, Ag, Zn Ag Ag, Pb, Zn 39.A51 - 40 40 40 40 41 41 2 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Skeena Mining Division—Continued Portland Canal—Continued Loirorrura;D Metals Stewart—Continued Pa°e Dunwell 55° 129° N.W. Pb, Zn, Ag 41 Porter Idaho 55° 129° N.W. Ag, Pb, Zn 41 Observatory Inlet— Anyox— RedWing 55° 129° S.W. Cu 41 Vanguard 55° 129° N.W. Cu, Au 42 Dolly Varden, Wolf, North Star, Toric 55° 129° N.W. Ag, Pb, Zn 42 THM 55° 129° N.E. Mo 44 KIT 55° 129° N.E. Ag 44 Ajax 55° 129° N.E. Mo 44 Kinskuch, Reina Blanca, King, Etc 55° 129° N.E. Cu 47 Bel, Norm, Mac, Sun, Dak, Standard 55° 129° N.E. Mo 47 Roundy Creek 55° 129° S.E. Mo 48 Moly 55° 129° S.E. Mo 48 Alice 55° 129° S.E. Mo 49 Silver Bow, MCC 55° 129° S.E. Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn, Mo 49 Nass River— Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias ... 55° 129° S.E. Mo, Cu 51 Tbith cp , Hope 54° 128° N.W. Pb, Zn, Cu 51, A51 Big, Joe 54° 128° N.W. Mo 51 Kitimat River— Barbs, Ell 54° 128° S.E. Mo 52 Porcher Island— Blue Jay, Mac, Ray, Star, Zero 53° 130° N.E. Mo 52 Queen Charlotte Islands— Moresby Island— Tasu 52° 132° N.E. Fe, Cu 52 Garnet, Ruby 52° 132° N.E. Cu, Fe, Mo 53 Jessie, Adonis, Rose 52° 131° S.W. Fe 53.A51 Ecstall River— Ecstall 53° 129° N.W. FeS2, Zn, Cu 54 Gambsy River— Ice 53° 127° S.E. Cu, Mo 54 Pooley Island— HandC, Rod_ 52° 128° N.E. Cu 54 Bella Coola— Bella Coola Chief 52° 126° N.W. Cu 55 Vancouver Mining Division— Knight Inlet— BHA 51° 125° S.E. Cu, Mo 55 Bute Inlet- Colossus 50° 125° N.E. Au, Ag, Cu, Mo 55 Powell River— L.L 50° 124° S.W. Cu, Mo 56 Norco, Canyon 50° 124° S.W. Cu, Pb, Zn 56 Snowfall-Sunshine 49° 124° N.W. Fe 56 Alta Lake— London, Axe 50° 122° S.W. Cu 57 Howe Sound— Britannia 49° 123° N.E. Cu, Zn 57, A52 LODE METALS Notes on Metal Mines—Continued New Westminster Mining Division— Hope—- Pride of Emory.. A.P.M., Bear, King, Calico, Len.. Bab, Barbara, Joan Bea Iago, Mac, Max, Bar Chilliwack— Mt. Cheam No. 2 Harrison Lake— Meg, Bailey, Sash PF, Midnight.. Latitude and LONGrruDE 121° S.W. 121° S.E. 121° S.E. 121°S.E. 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 121° N.E. 49° 121° S.W. Ascot, Jes, Gloria, J_ Stave Lake— Friendship 49° 49° 49° 121° N.W. 121° S.W. 121° S.W. 49° 122° N.E. Nanaimo Mining Division— Quatsino-Port Hardy— HPH __. Hep Bay Lake Ace, Flats, Kaye, Rick, Etc.. Yreka Merry Widow, Kingfisher.. Old Sport Nimpkish— Kinman, Alpha N.C Sayward— White 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 127c 127' 127° 127' 128' 127' 127' 127' N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.E. S.W. S.E. S.E. Iron Mike Campbell River— Chal Lark- Iron River.. Ivy- Quadra Island—■ Copper Road Courtenay— Mount Washington Mine (Domineer No. 22 ) . Texada Island—■ Texada Mine Alberni Mining Division— Zeballos— F.L Hiller, Churchill- Sonny, Black Knight Flores Island— Ormond, Contact Tofino— Moly, Tofino, Tofino Nickle- Kennedy Lake— Brynnor Mine Alberni Inlet— Mary Andy, Pak SR Oma, Sunny, Fid, Kathy Buttle Lake— Lynx, Paramount, Price 50° 126° S.W. 49° 126° N.E. 50° 125° S.W. 50° 125° S.W. 50° 125° S.E. 50° 125° S.W. 49° 125° N.E. 49° 125° N.E. 50° 125° S.E. 49° 125° N.E. 49° 124° N.W. 50° 126° S.W. 50° 126° S.W. 50° 126° S.W. 49° 126° S.E. 49° 125° S.W. 49° 125° S.E. 49° 124° S.W. 49° 124° S.W. 48° 124° N.W. 48° 124° N.W. Metals Ni, Cu Page -58,A51 Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn, Ag Mo Ni, Cu 59 60 60 Mo, Cu 61 Cu 61 Mo 61 Cu 62 Cu 62 Cu, Mo . 63 Zn 63 Cu 64 Cu 65 Cu 65 Cu ___._ 65 Cu . 65, A50 Fe ..66, A50 Cu, Fe -66, A50 Cu, Zn 68 Cu 68 Ag, Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd Fe . 68 68, A50 Cu 69 Cu 70 Fe, Cu Fe ... 70 71 Cu -71, A50 Cu 71.A50 Fe, Cu Fe 72, A50 72, A49 Fe 73 Cu 74 Cu, Zn 74 Cu, Ni, Mo 74 Fe - 75, A49 Cu 75 Cu, Mo 76 Mo 77 Au, Ag, Cu 77 49° 125° N.W. Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn _-... 77 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Victoria Mining Division— Nitinat Lake— Mai and S Latitude and Longitude Chemainus River— Yam Cowichan Lake— Alpha, Beta, Taboga.. Jordan River— Sunlock and Gabbro.. Mount Brenton— Tot, Rum.. Omineca Mining Division— Zymoetz River—■ Zym, Zymoetz Legate Creek— Hub, FM- Grizzly, Glen, Snowshoe, Sno, Etc. Fiddler Creek— Lynda, Sno Hazelton— Bill, PB Skeena Mountains— Atna Range— Fog, Frost Sicintine Range— Motase A Motase B. Cariboo Heart Range Fred, Etc... McConnell Range— Marmot Smithers— Cronin Silver Queen, New Strike, Extension Big Onion Silver Creek, Silver Lake, Trade Dollar, Iron Vault- Glacier Gulch Midnight, Zobnic, Seymour, Canadian Citizen, American Citizen Katie A, B, C, and Petra A Telkwa River— A Joker, PR, SQ Babine Lake— French Old Fort Mountain Area.. Off, Raid, DDT Trek Haut, BI„ DA, AX . Penn Granisle Mine- Newman Morrison Lake Area.. Morrison BEE Houston— Huber. Lakeview Barr, Lybdenum . 54° 128° S.E. 54° 128° N.E. 54° 128° N.E. 54° 128° N.E. 55° 127° S.W. 55° 127° N.E. 56° 127° S.E. 56° 126° S.W. 56° 126° S.E. 56° 126° N.W. 54° 126° N.W. 54° 126° N.W. 54° 126° N.W. 54° 127° N.E. 54° 127° N.E. 54° 127° N.E. 54° 127° N.W. 54° 127° S.W. 54° 127° S.E. 55° 126° S.W. 55° 126° S.E. 55° 126° S.E., 54° 126° N.E. 55° 126° S.E. 55° 126° S.E. 54° 126° N.E. 54° 126° N.E. 54° 126° N.E. 55° 126° S.E. 55° 126° S.E. 54° 126° N.W. 54° 126° N.W. 54° 126° S.W. Metals 48° 124° N.W. Ag, Cu, Zn 48° 124° N.E. Cu, Pb, Zn . 48° 124° N.E. Cu 48° 124° S.E. Cu 48° 123° N.W. Cu, Pb, Zn . Page .. 78 .. 78 .. 78 Cu Cu, Pb, Ag Cu ..79, A52 79 Mo Ag, Pb, Zn Mo Cu Cu, Mo Cu Cu, Mo, Ag, Au Ag, Pb, Zn . Pb, Zn, Ag 79 80 80 80 81 81 81 81 82 82 _82,A51 82 Cu, Mo 83 Ag, Pb, Zn Mo Ag, Pb, Zn, Cu . Mo 86 86 90 91 Cu 91 Cu, Ag 92 Cu Cu, Mo Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu Cu. Cu . Mo Cu . Mo 92 92 93 95 95 95 ....... 97 -97.A51 99 99 101 102 102 102 103 LODE METALS Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Omineca Mining Division—Continued Houston—Continued Klondike B Van, Wyd, Gerry Far, Mo Silver Queen Bell, Van.. Morice Lake— Lucky Ship, Sam. Tahtsa Lake— Emerald Berg Troitsa Lake— OVP Whitesail Lake— Ace, Deuce, Trey... Eutsuk Lake— Red Bird (CAFB). Pondosy AT, TA Endako— Endako Mine.. K, S, Poop, End.. Enco, Molly, Jen, Beaver, NithL Fort St. James— K, Belle, M Geo, Toad, Dabar, RAF. CIN .54 .54 Kwanika Creek- Pine Boom, Frankie, CV, TX, CHO, MG, OVP, JAM 55 Takla Lake— Bol Osilinka River— Slide Cariboo Mining Division—■ Mouse Mountain— Wanda : Latitude and Longitude 54° 126° S.W. 54° 127° S.E. 54° 126° S.W. 54° 126° S.W. 54° 126° S.W. 54° 126° S.W. 54° 127° S.E. 53° 127° N.E. 53° 127° N.E. 53° 127° N.E. 53° 127° S.E. 53° 127° S.E. 53° 126° S.W. 53° 126° S.W. 54° 125° S.E. 54° 125° S.E. 53° 124° N.W. ' 124° S.E., N.E. ' 124° S.E., N.E. 54° 124° N.E. 55° 125° N.E. ' 125° S.E., N.E. 55° 125° S.W. 56° 125° S.W. Wells-Barkerville— Aurum Space, Ma McLeese Lake— Mayday, Remo, Brenda, Sue- Ann Geology of the Granite Mountain- Cuisson Lake Area Gibraltar 53° 122° S.E. 53° 121° S.W. 53° 121° S.W. 52° 122° S.E. 52° 122° S.E. Pollyanna.. Likely— CE, CHA. Liz CGQ- Polley, Red Rock, Bee, Herb„ Bayshore, B.I., Key. Carmadon, Don Cariboo Bell Carex Mines Ltd Quesnel Lake- Mae, S.F.-- Joy 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 52° 122° N.E. 122° N.E. 121° 121° 121° 121° 121° 121° 121° 121° 122° N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.W.. N.E. 120° N.W. 120° N.E. Metals Page Cu, Mo 103 Cu 103 Cu, Mo 103 Ag, Cu, Zn, Mo 103 Ag, Pb, Zn 104 Ag, Pb, Zn 104 Mo 104 Pb, Zn, Ag 105, A51 Cu, Mo 105 Cu. Mo 112 112 Cu, Mo 112 Cu, Mo 116 Cu, Ag 117 Mo 117, A51 Mo 118 Mo 118 Hg 118 Hg 118 Hg I 118 Hg 119 Cu, Mo 119 Cu 119 Mo 119 Cu 120 Au 120, A49 Pb, Ag 120 Cu Cu Cu Cu 120 121 121 123 124 Cu 125 Cu 125 Cu 125 Cu 125 Cu 125 Cu 126 Cu 126 Cu 131 Ag, Pb, Zn 131 Pb, Ag 132 6 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Cariboo Mining Division—Continued ^SuSe™ Metals Horsefly— Page Wood 52° 121° S.E. Cu 132 GI 52° 121° S.E., 52° 120° S.W. Cu 132 Horsefly Lake— Sue 52° 120° S.W. Cu, Au, Ag 132 Crooked Lake— EN 52° 120° S.W. Cu 132 Big Timothy (Takomkane) Mountain— Boss Mountain Mine 52° 120° S.W. Mo 133, A49 Clinton Mining Division— Taseko Lakes— Rowbottom 51° 123° S.E. Cu, Mo 134 KH, Granite 51° 123° S.E. Cu, Mo 134 Eggs 51° 123° S.W. Cu, Mo 135 Lac la Hache— Peach, Fly, Tim 51° 121° N.E. Cu 135 FF 51° 121° N.E. Cu, Pb, Zn 135 70 Mile House— Pot, I.D.S 51° 121° S.E. Cu 135 C-Soo 51° 120° S.W. Cu 136 Poison Mountain— Giant, PM, Fish, Copper, Cheap 51° 122° S.W. Cu, Mo 136 Lillooet Mining Division— Poison Mountain— Hill . 51° 122° S.W. Cu, Mo 136 Churn 51° 122° S.W. Cu, Mo 137 Yalakom River— Yalakom, Ridge 50° 122° N.E. Mo 137 J.C., J.B 50° 122° N.E. Ni 137 Eagle 50° 122° N.E. Hg 137 Tyaughton Creek— Silverquick, Quicksilver, Dot, Bob, Kim, Etc 51° 122° S.W. Hg 137 Empire Mercury Mine 51° 122° S.W. Hg 138 Bridge River— BralorneMine 50° 122° N.W. Au 138, A50 Texas Creek- Index 50° 122° N.E. Mo 140 Nesikep Creek— Rickhill, Rusty — see under Kamloops Mining Division. Pemberton— Sal, R, EE, Etc 50° 123° N.E. Mo .. 140 Kamloops Mining Division— Little Fort- Mo 51° 120° N.E. Mo 143 TC 51° 120° N.E. Cu, Mo, Pb, Zn 143 RO, SO, TC 51° 120° N.E. Mo, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag, Au 143 Silver 51° 120° N.E. Cu, Pb, Zn 144 Birch Island— Sinbad, Lucky Star. 51° 119° N.W. Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn 144 Barriere— Bar, Don, GM, George, Tim, Barriere, Joe, Glen- 51° 119° S.W. Mo 144 CC 51° 119°S.W. Cu 144 Ultima, Good Luck, Creek, Harper, Ruth. 51° 119° S.W. Cu, Pb, Zn, Ag 145 Leemac, Boomac 51 ° 119 ° S.W. Cu, Ag, Pb, Zn 145 LODE METALS Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Kamloops Mining Division—Continued Squaam (Agate) Bay— Joe, Art. Elmoore Shuswap Lake— Garnet, D, S, Pat. Annis, Dawn, Lakeview.. Greenstone Mountain— TC.Spur Kamloops— Vanco Explorations Limited Nesikep Creek— Mud, Cherry, Rickhill, Rusty, Joyce, Sharon Lytton— Tetra, Gene.. Ashcroft— Red Hill Highland Valley— Krain Lux, Cindy- Trojan- Bethlehem Mine- April, UP- Eden, Ezra, Job, CL RAF, TAM, MER, JAC, CM_. A.L., I.C., Etc Ezz, O.K Bethsaida Royal, Cana, R.C... Lornex Calco, Shorty- Victor AM, IDE, Etc AM, IDE, Etc Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, Mark Lake, Laken, Bron, PM, PIM Merv, Bet, Lee, B.J., Etc Cris BO Rio Gem, Hal, Fir, Curmo.. Yubet Cal Price, Oro, M.M.. Rain Chataway Nicola Mining Division— Highland Valley— Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, Mark — see under Kamloops Mining Division. Price—see under Kamloops Mining Division. Chataway — see under Kamloops Mining Division. Swakum Mountain— Lee, Sunshine, Lo Latitude and LoNGrruDE 51° 119° S.W. 51° 119°S.W. 50° 119°N.E., 51° 119°S.E.,S.W. 50° 119° N.E. 50° 120° N.W. 50° 120° N.E., N.W 50° 121° N.W. 50° 121° S.W. 50° 121° N.E. 50° 121° N.E. 50° 120° N.W. 50° 120° N.W. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 120° N.W. 50° 121° N.E. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 121°S.E. 50° 121°S.E. 50° 121°S.E. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 121°S.E. . 50° 121° S.E. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 121° S.E. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 120° S.W. 50° 120° S.W. . 50° 120° S.W. Metals Page Cu, Pb, Zn 145 Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn 145 Pb, Zn, Ag, Au, Cu 146 Zn, Pb, Cu 146 Cu, Mo Cu 148 148 Cu, Mo, Ag, Ni 148 Cu 148 Cu 149 Cu, Mo 151 Cu 151 Cu, Mo 152 Cu, Mo 152, A50 Cu, Mo 153 Cu 153 Cu, Mo 154 Cu 154 Cu 154 Cu, Mo 155 Cu 155 Cu, Mo 155 Cu 158 Cu 158 Cu, Mo 158 Cu, Mo 159 Cu, Mo 159 Cu, Mo 159 Cu 160 Cu, Mo 160 Cu 161 Cu 161 Cu 161 Cu, Mo 162 Cu 162 Cu 163 Cu 163 Cu 164 50° 120° S.W. Zn, Cu 165 8 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Nicola Mining Division—Continued longitudeD Metals Merritt— Page Craigmont Mine 50° 120° S.W. Cu 166, A51 Len, Law 50° 120° S.W. Cu 166 Keith, Bill, Mickey, Jarl, Night 50° 120° S.W. Cu 167 Nicola— Guichon 50° 120° S.W. Au, Ag, Cu, Mo 167 Cam, Gary 50° 120° S.E. Cu 168 Aspen Grove— Ski 49° 120° N.W. Cu, Mo 168 CM 49° 120° N.W. Cu 168 Pay 49° 120° N.W. Cu 168 June 49° 120° N.E. Cu 169 Echo, Toe 49° 120° N.E. Cu 169 Missezula Lake— Strike, Lorna 49° 120° N.W. Cu 169 Selish Mountain— Selish 49° 120° N.W. Cu 170 Mount Thynne—■ B & R, Dawn 49° 120° N.W. Cu 170 Coquihalla—• Hope 49° 121° N.E. Au, Ag, Pb, Zn 171 Ly, Ford, Snow, Dora, Etc 49° 121° N.E. Pb, Zn, Cu 171 Mag 49° 121° N.E. Cu, Zn 172 Brenda Lake— North Brenda—see under Osoyoos Mining Division. BrenMac Mines Ltd. — see under Osoyoos Mining Division. Marn, Vise, Cam, Rob, Bob 49° 120° N.E. Cu, Mo 173 Wilson, Ian, McK, Etc.-.: 49° 120° N.E. Cu, Mo 173 Similkameen Mining Division— Brenda Lake—■ BrenMac Mines Ltd. —■ see under Osoyoos Mining Division. Maria—see under Osoyoos Mining Division. Pinta, Copco, May 49° 120° N.E. Cu, Mo 174 Trout Creek— X, D—see under Osoyoos Mining Division. Tulameen— PR, David, Skidoo 49° 121° S.E., N.E., 49° 120° S.W. Cu 174 Lode 49° 120° N.W. Cu 175 H-G, Iron, BD, DB 49° 120° S.W. Fe 175 Princeton— K.R. _ _ 49° 120° N.W. Cu 175 Ron 49° 120° N.E. Cu 175 Snow, Pine, Tom, F.C., Leo 49° 120° N.E. Pb, Zn, Cu 175 Primer 49° 120° N.E. Cu 176 Copper Mountain Mine 49° 120° S.W. Cu 176 Bern, May, Queen 49° 120° S.E. Cu 176 Whip, M.J., Axe, Ski 49° 120° S.W. Cu, Au 177 Ingersoll Belle 49° 120° S.W. Cu 177 Deep Gulch 49° 120° S.W. Cu 178 Manning Park— Hope-Summit— 49° 120° S.W. Zn, Cu 178 Osoyoos Mining Division— Brenda Lake—• Brenda Mine 49° 120° N.E. Cu, Mo 181 North Brenda 49° 120° N.E. Cu, Mo 184 LODE METALS 9 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Osoyoos Mining Division—Continued longitude™ Metals Brenda Lake—Continued PA0E Mac 49° 119° N.W. Cu, Mo 184 BrenMac Mines Ltd. (Sandberg Property and Ila and Red Rock Groups) 49° 119° N.W. Cu, Mo 185 Marn, Vise, Cam, Rob, Bob—see under Nicola Mining Division. Wilson, Ian, McK, Etc.—see under Nicola Mining Division. Pinta, Copco, May —■ see under Similkameen Mining Division. Maria 49° 119° N.W. Cu, Mo 187 Trout Creek— X, D 49° 119° N.W. Cu, Mo 187 Peachland— Astra, Baal, Calumet, Ida 49° 119° N.W. Cu, Mo 187 Ashnola River— Ash, Nola, Cat, Dry, Car 49° 120° S.E. Cu, Mo 187 Olalla— Kopr, Papex, Paychex 49° 119° S.W. Cu 188 Osoyoos— Copper Coin, Silver Coin 49° 119° S.W. Cu, Pb, Zn 190 Keremeos—■ Horn Silver Mine 49° 119° S.W. Au, Ag 190 Buller, Bobbs, Eclipse, Kitchener 49° 119° S.W. Au, Ag, Cu 190 Okanagan Falls— Lynx 49° 119° S.E. Cu 190 Vernon Mining Division— Lightning Peak—- Waterloo 49° 118° N.E..N.W. Ag, Pb, Zn 191 Greenwood Mining Division— Beaverdell—■ Highland-Bell Mine 49° 119° S.E. Ag, Pb, Zn 191, A49 Wellington, Bounty, Tiger, Ruby Silver, Etc 49° 119° S.E. Ag, Pb, Zn 191 Ester, Ed 49° 119° S.E. Ag, Pb, Zn 191 MO 49° 119° S.E. Mo 192 Rock Creek— Old Nick. 49° 119° S.E. Ni 192 Kettle River— Barnato 49° 118° N.W. Au 193, A49 Greenwood— IvaLenore 49° 118° S.W. Cu, Mo 193 Wendy 49° 118° S.W. Cu 193 Phoenix— Phoenix Mine 49° 118° S.W. Cu, Au, Ag 194, A49 B.C. Mine 49° 118° S.W. Cu, Au, Ag 194 OroDenoro 49° 118° S.W. Cu, Au, Ag 195 Stan 49° 118° S.W. Cu, Au, Mo 195 Midway— Texas 49° 118° S.W. Cu 195 Grand Forks— Lucky John, Exchange 49° 118° S.E. Cu 196 Pathfinder, Little Bertha 49° 118° S.E. Cu 197 Paulson— Ajax 49° 118° S.E. Au, Pb, Zn 198 Trail Creek Mining Division— Rossland— Velvet 49° 117° S.W. Cu, Au 199 Midnight 49° 117° S.W. Au 199 Geology of the Coxey-Giant Area 200 10 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Trail Creek Mining Division—Continued Rossland—Continued Coxey Giant, Gold King, Little Darling, Evening, Etc Triumph Vandot Nelson Mining Division— Nelson— Molly Gibson Silver King- Queen Victoria- Hall Creek- Fern Mine T.P.M., J Ymir— Fresnu Jack Pot, Oxide, Last Chance- Yankee Girl Salmo— Erie Creek— New Arlington Silver Dollar. Dick, Ralph Sheep Creek— Gold Belt Aspen Creek— H.B Iron Mountain— Jersey Nelway— Reeves MacDonald Mine- Procter— Big Pay Off Crawford Bay— Ben Derby UNF Summit Creek— Jordan Goat River— Leadville Slocan Mining Division— Pingston Creek— Odin Big Ledge Springer Creek— Colorado Ottawa Anna Arlington. Myrtle- Hampton Mine- Enterprise Creek— Neepawa Mine.. Latitude and Longitude 49° 117° S.W. 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 50' 50' Boomerang and Richmond- Enterprise Mine 49° 49° 49° Silverton— Hecla, Mammoth, Standard- Hewitt Galena Farm.. Monarch 117° S.W. 117° S.W. 117° S.W. 117° N.E. 117° S.E. 117° S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 117° S.E. 117° S.E. 117° S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 49° 117°S.E. 49° 117°S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 49° 117° S.E. 49° 116° N.W. 49° 116° N.W. 49° 116° N.W. 49° 116° S.W. 49° 116° S.E. 118° N.E. 118° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 117° N.E. 117° N.E. 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. 49° 117° N.E. Metals Mo Page .207, A52 Mo, Au, Bi Mo Cr204 Ag, Pb Au, Ag, Cu Cu Au. Au. Mo Zn _ Au. 208 208 208 208 209 210 210 211 212 212 212 Au, Si02 212, A50 Ag, Pb 212, A51 Au, Ag 213 Au, Ag 213, A50 Pb, Zn 213.A50 Pb, Zn 214, A50 Pb, Zn 215, A50 Pb, Zn 217 Mo 217 Mo 217 Au, Ag 217 Ag, Pb, Zn 217 Zn Zn Ag, Pb, Zn Ag Ag Ag, Pb, Zn Ag Ag 218 218 218 -218, A52 219 219 -219, A52 219 Ag, Pb, Zn 220 Ag, Au 220 Ag, Pb, Zn 220 Pb, Zn 220, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 220, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 221, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 221, A52 LODE METALS 11 Notes on Metal Mines- Slocan Mining Division- Sandon— Deadman Shady. -Continued -Continued Slocan Sovereign- Victor Altoona Silmonac Retallack-Three Forks— Charleston Antoine Winona Hillside Miner Boy, McAllister.. JoJo Caledonia- Ohio Keen Creek— Cork Province Mine.. Ainsworth— Jewel, Greenacres Union Donna, Linda, Sharon- Brian Krao and Lead Coin- Duncan Lake— Duncan Mine Riondel— Bluebell Mine- Crawford Creek— Silver Hill Humbolt Revelstoke Mining Division— Revelstoke— J & L S Group.. Joan River Jordan, King Fissure- North Lardeau—■ True Fissure, Broadview Silver Cup Ethel Golden Mining Division- Parson— Ruth Vermont Mine.. Latitude and Longitudb 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 50° 117' 117° 117° 117° 117° 117' 117° 117' 117c 117' 117° 117° 117' 117' N.E. N.E. N.E. N.E. N.E. N.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. 49° 49° 49° 49° 49° 116° N.W. 116° N.W. 116° N.W. 116° N.W. 116° N.W. 50° 116° S.W. 49° 116° N.W. 49° 49° 51° 51° 51° 51° 50° 50° 50° 50° 116° S.W. 116° N.W. 118°S.E. 118° S.E. 118° S.E. 118° S.E. 117° N.E. 117° N.E. 117° N.W. Alpha, Maud S., Standby 50' FE, HIL, Etc Atlas.. Spillimacheen— Lead Mountain.. 50° 50° 51° 50° 50° Windermere— Mineral King 50° Fort Steele Mining Division— Kimberley— Sullivan Mine Western Exploration Joe 116° 117° 116° 117° 117° 116° N.W. N.E. N.W., N.E., S.E. N.W. Warhorse, Granite.. 49° 49° 49° 49° 116° N.W. 116° S.E. 115° N.W. 115° N.W. 116° N.W. 116° N.E. Metals Page Ag, Pb, Zn 221, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 221 Ag, Pb, Zn 221, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 222, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 222, A51 Ag, Pb, Zn 222 Ag, Pb, Zn 222, A51 Ag, Pb, Zn 222 Ag, Pb, Zn 223, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 223 Ag, Pb, Zn, Cu 223 Ag, Pb, Zn 223 Ag, Pb, Zn 224, A51 Ag, Pb, Zn 224 49° 117° N.E. Ag, Pb, Zn. ..224, A52 Ag, Pb, Zn 224 Ag, Pb, Zn 225 Ag, Pb 225 Ag, Pb 225 Ag, Pb, Zn 225 Ag, Pb, Zn 225 Ag, Pb, Zn 226, A51 Ag, Pb 227 Ag, Pb, Zn 227 Au, Ag, Pb, Zn Cu Mo Pb, Zn 227 228 228 229 Ag, Pb, Zn 229 Ag, Pb, Zn 229 Ag 230 ... 230 ... 235 Ag, Pb, Zn Ag, Pb, Zn, Cu Au, Ag, Pb, Zn 236 Ag, Pb, Zn 236 Pb, Zn 237 Ag, Pb, Zn 237, A49 Ag, Pb, Zn 238, A49 Pb, Zn 239 Cu 239 Ag, Pb, Zn 240 12 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Notes on Metal Mines—Continued Fort Steele Mining Division—Continued ^onotude ° Metals Cranbrook— Page Sko and Chuck 49° 116° N.E. Sn, W 240 Tom, Bety, Happy Day 49° 115° N.W. Cu 240 Helg 49° 115° S.W. Pb, Zn 240 EX., Bert, St. Joseph 49° 115° S.W. Ag, Pb, Zn 241 Moyie— Midway 49° 115° S.W. Au, Ag 241 St. Eugene, St. Eugene Extension, Aurora 49° 115° N.W. Ag, Pb, Zn 241 Estella 49° 115° N.W. Ag, Pb, Zn 241, A49 Galloway— Empire, Strathcona 49° 115° S.E. Cu 242 GENERAL REVIEW OF MINING AND EXPLORATION By Stuart S. Holland Production.—The value of metals produced in 1966 was $208,756,760, an increase of 17.9 per cent over 1965. This new record is the result of a large increase in copper production at the record average price of 53.34 cents per pound, a 138-per-cent increase in molybdenum production at an average price of $1.62 per pound, offset by small decreases in zinc, silver, and iron production, and the single large decrease, of 19.4 per cent, in lead production. This value of metals was contained in 20,008,060 tons of ore mined at 56 mines, of which five produced 1 million tons or more each, 19 produced 100,000 tons or more each, and 12 produced 1,000 tons or more each. The quantity of gold produced increased slightly over that of 1965. This reflects the increasing contribution made to the total by base-metal producers, who now produce 39 per cent of the Provincial gold production. Production at Bra- lorne, the Province's largest gold mine (contributing 36.4 per cent of the total gold), again declined substantially in 1966, and the early closure of the Cariboo Gold Quartz mine at Wells is anticipated. Silver production, which has been declining gradually since 1950, increased slightly owing mainly to increased production at the Sullivan, Silbak Premier, and Highland Bell mines. Copper production increased by 23.5 per cent to 105 million pounds, contributed by a full year's production at Britannia, resumption of production at Craig- mont, increased mill capacity at Bethlehem, resumption of production at the Sun- loch and Gabbro, initiation of production by the new mine at Granisle, combined with sustained production from the Old Sport, Mount Washington, Yreka, Texada, Phoenix, Pride of Emory, and others. The immediate future for copper-mining appears good despite lower copper prices. Both the Tasu mine, an iron-copper operation, and the Lynx (Western), a copper-zinc operation, will begin shipments of concentrates in 1967, and Granisle will contribute a full year's production. The production of lead and zinc is dominated by the three Cominco properties, the Sullivan, Bluebell, and H.B. mines, by Canadian Exploration Limited's Jersey mine, and Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited's Reeves MacDonald mine. Production of lead and zinc declined to 211 million and 305 million pounds respectively. The production of iron concentrates decreased very slightly. Brynnor's production was greatly reduced owing to a strike, that of the F.L. and Jedway (Jessie, Adonis, and Rose) were increased. There was, in addition, production from the Merry Widow and Kingfisher, and the Iron Mike. The Iron Mike, brought into production late in 1965, closed in September, 1966. Facilities at the Tasu mine of Wesfrob Mines Limited on Moresby Island were under construction, and a very large production of iron concentrates will begin in 1967. The production of molybdenum increased by 138 per cent to 17.3 million pounds, contributed by the more than doubled production at the Boss Mountain and Endako mines, and new production from the Coxey at Rossland. A further increase in molybdenum can be expected in 1967 from a full year's production at the Coxey, a further increase in concentrator capacity at Endako, and 13 14 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 new production from British Columbia Molybdenum Limited at Alice Arm. Since 1964 British Columbia has become an important producer of molybdenum in the free world. In 1966, 36 mills were in operation, 14 treated silver-lead-zinc ores, 7 treated copper ores, 3 treated molybdenum ores, 1 treated copper-molybdenum ore, 1 treated nickel-copper ore, 5 treated iron ore, 2 treated iron-copper ore, and 3 treated gold ore. Trial production of copper by bacterial leaching is being attempted at the Victor in Highland Valley and at Mount Sicker. In 1966 five new mills were constructed and came into production. These were at the Coxey (Red Mountain Mines Limited), treating molybdenum ore at Rossland, at the Estella (Giant Soo Mines Limited) at Wasa, treating silver-lead- zinc ore, and at Granisle (Granisle Copper Limited) at Babine Lake, treating copper ore. A mill erected at the Emerald (Emerald Glacier Mines Ltd.) at Tahtsa Lake operated for a short time and treated a small tonnage of silver-lead-zinc ore. The mill of Western Mines Limited at Buttle Lake was completed and in December began initial, intermittent operation during a tune-up period. The capacity of the mill at Bethlehem Copper Corporation Ltd. was increased from 6,000 to 10,000 tons per day, and a further increase to 12,000 tons per day in 1967 is planned. Milling operations were resumed at Craigmont Mines Limited in April when a labour dispute was settled. Milling operations terminated at the Cork Province mine on Keen Creek, at the Iron Mike at Sayward, at the H.B. at Salmo, at the Brynnor mine at Kennedy Lake owing to a strike, and at the Sunloch and Gabbro at Jordan River owing to financial problems. New mills were under construction at Tasu by Wesfrob Mines Limited, to treat iron-copper ore, and at Alice Arm by British Columbia Molybdenum Limited, to treat molybdenum ore. The Trail smelter, owned and operated by Cominco Ltd., received 143,302 tons of lead concentrates and 199,101 tons of zinc concentrates from its three British Columbia mines. It treated on a custom basis 4,718 tons of lead concentrates and 4,407 tons of zinc concentrates from 13 British Columbia mines, 1,395 tons of crude ore from 10 mines, and 742 tons of gold and silver concentrates from 1 mine. The smelter also treated a large tonnage of ore and concentrates from sources outside the Province, of which the company's Pine Point mine was the main source. Concentrates exported to American smelters were: Copper concentrates (including 1,134 tons of copper matte and 14 tons of copper ore), 17,242 tons; lead concentrates, 13,450 tons; and zinc concentrates, 74,819 tons. The value of these concentrates is $21,711,539, which is about 10.4 per cent of the metal production of the Province. Concentrates exported to Japanese smelters were: Copper concentrates, 176,- 389 tons; nickel-copper concentrates, 18,387 tons; zinc concentrates, 3,638 tons; iron concentrates, 1,987,854 tons; molybdenite concentrates, 1,644 tons. The value of these concentrates is $79,408,680, which is about 38 per cent of the metal production of the Province. The importance of Japanese participation in British Columbia's mineral economy is obvious. Molybdenite concentrates and molybdic trioxide were shipped to Japan, England, Austria, Holland, France, and eastern Canada. Development.—Pre-production development culminated in 1966 in new mines coming into production at the Granisle on Babine Lake and at the Coxey at Ross- LODE METALS 15 land, and an old mine, the Estella at Wasa, resumed production with a new mill. Development of the Tasu property by Wesfrob Mines Limited has been extremely costly, and production of iron and of copper concentrates will begin in 1967; development of the Lynx by Western Mines Limited was completed in 1966, and production will begin early in 1967. Development of the Alice property by British Columbia Molybdenum Limited continues, and completion of its 6,000-tons-per- day mill will initiate molybdenum production in 1967. Development at Granduc continues. The Leduc camp was occupied in order to drive a drainage tunnel into the shaft. The Tide Lake camp was continuously occupied. The face of the tunnel at year-end was 17,986 feet from the Tide Lake portal, its total length ultimately is to be 11.6 miles. Late in the year, Utica Mines Ltd. announced the early building of a 300-ton mill to bring its Horn Silver mine into production in 1967. Statistical returns received from mining companies indicate that in 1966, about $44 million was spent on mine development, largely by British Columbia Molybdenum Limited, Wesfrob Mines Limited, Western Mines Limited, Giant Soo Mines Limited, Granduc Mines Limited, The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., Endako Mines Ltd., and others. Exploration.—In 1966 the number of mineral claims recorded again has exceeded that of any previous year. In 1966, 91,703 claims were recorded, a 119- per-cent increase over the 41,882 recorded in 1965. The great increase in 1966 was due to a resurgence of activity in the Omineca, Cariboo, and Clinton Mining Divisions, stimulated by copper discoveries in the vicinity of Babine Lake and Likely and by molybdenite mineralization east of Lac la Hache. Widespread locating of claims in the Brenda Lake area accounts for the large increase of recorded claims in the Osoyoos, Similkameen, and Nicola Mining Divisions. A record was set in the number of certificates of work issued, 56,138 or 30 per cent more than the 43,013 certificates issued in 1965. The increase in the number of certificates of work is a measure of the increased amount of exploration work that is being done currently. For the first time, more than 10,000 free miners' certificates were issued. Every statistic indicates that 1966 was a record year. The focal points of major exploration programmes which in 1966 consisted mainly of diamond drilling and (or) percussion drilling were the HAB copper deposit at Galore Creek, the Glacier Gulch molybdenite deposit at Smithers, the Newman copper deposit at Babine Lake, the Cariboo Bell copper deposit at Bootjack Lake, the Lornex and Highmont copper deposits in Highland Valley, the Brenda copper-molybdenum deposit at Brenda Lake, and the Copper Mountain and Inger- soll Belle copper deposits at Princeton. In 1966 more than 10,000 feet of diamond drilling was done at each of the following: Ajax, Bay, Bird, Giant, Gibraltar, Huber, and Red Bird copper and (or) molybdenum deposits; at the Ruth Vermont and Far East silver-lead-zinc deposits; at the Hiller iron deposit; and at the Empire mercury deposit. The present knowledge of these and other deposits has been gained through the expenditure of many millions of dollars by exploration companies, both large and small. This flow of exploration money must not be impeded if British Columbia's mineral industry is to continue at its present high rate of discovery and production. Statistical returns received from mining exploration companies indicate that about $22 million was spent in the exploration of 169 properties. The Department distributed a questionnaire to exploration companies, and information regarding work done by them on 265 properties is tabulated below. 16 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 ■H 11 P Type 3f Work Done <M ■2 fi Drilling Mining Division 0.8 0 02^ ■0 c S 0 H U> M Diamond Percussion 10 1 16 7 4 4 7 36 20 7 7 6 10 21 47 9 4 12 18 6 2 6 1 4 7 1 9 5 ' 3 4 4 15 11 4 ' 5 " 4 14 32 5 ' 3 6 13 1 2 5 2 6 8 4 1 1 5 ' 21 11 3 6 1 3 ' 12 ■17 3 1 8 5 ■ i 1 __ 4 11 5 1 ' 3 19 6 3 4 ' 1 1 9 22 5 ~~6 7 1 2 1 ' 1 3 "ii 6 1 3 4 22 10 4 2 1 5 10 26 6 1 8 10 4 ~1 " i ~ i 1 2 1 .1 __ 2 1 ~5 1 3 10 " 2 2 3 4 5 20 9 5 5 4 5 12 ■ 27 3 4 7 7 2 2 3 2 17,969 3,670 AH in 32,700 13,052 2,466 37,714 13,530 • 35,504 50,572 8,362 21,756 7,890 11,883 23,560 122,201 44,143 13,079 23,651 33,761 697 32,718 3,900 7,000 Fnrf Stftftfc 89 24,580 23,206 163 8,585 8,123 58,122 Tn.iJ CrepV Vancouver 849 Totals 265 155 121 112 139 21 143 551,957 133,538 Out of 265 properties enumerated, geological mapping was done on 155, surface work done on 139, underground work done on 21, drilling done on 143, geophysical surveys were made on 120, and geochemical surveys made on 112. It is apparent from these figures to what extent the use of geophysical and geochemical techniques have become important adjuncts to applied geology in exploration. It is also notable how few properties (21) currently are being explored by means of underground workings. The modern tendency is to proceed directly from surface work to diamond drilling and to devote increasing amounts of drilling to investigate geochemical or geophysical anomalies. Information submitted shows that a total of not less than 551,957 feet of diamond drilling and 133,538 feet of percussion drilling was done on 143 properties. LODE METALS 17 NOTES ON METAL MINES ATLIN MINING DIVISION Silver-Lead-Zinc ATLIN Atlin-Ruffner (Silver, Barber) (59° 133° N.W.) Company office, 625, 925 Armore Mines Limited West Georgia Street, Vancouver 1. R. J. Brad- ByH. Bapty shaw, mining engineer. This group of 87 mineral claims is on Fourth of July Creek about 10 miles by road west from the highway connecting Atlin to the Alaska Highway. The claims and old workings were surveyed and some geological mapping was done. Shield Geophysics Limited did some surface drilling. Five men were employed on the property for three months. The property was not visited. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1925, pp. 115-117; 1951, p. 73; 1952, p. 75; 1965, p. 8.] LIARD MINING DIVISION ALASKA HIGHWAY Silver-Lead-Zinc TOOTSEE RlVER Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod, Ruby (59° 130° N.E.) Company office, 409, 612 Silverknife Mines Ltd. View Street, Victoria; field office, Whitehorse. By w. g. ciarke The property consists of the original 32 Silvertip claims, the Rod 1 to 6, and the Ruby 1 to 62 held by Rodstrom Yellowknife Mines Ltd. The property is on the east side of Tootsee River, 2 miles northeast of Tootsee Lake. It is 12 miles south of the Alaska Highway and is connected by a road suitable for four-wheel-drive vehicles that is 17 miles from the ford at Mile 701 or 22 miles from the bridge to the microwave station at Mile 706. The showing is an old one and has been explored by Conwest Exploration Limited (1957), Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. (1958), Noranda Exploration Company, Limited (1960), and Chapman, Wood and Griswold Ltd. (1961 and 1962). In 1966, Rodstrom Yellowknife Mines Ltd. drilled 2,243 feet in four holes, using a 4Vi-inch rotary drill mounted on a Nodwell carrier. In addition, geophysical and geological surveying was done and 10 trenches (total length, 800 feet) were excavated by bulldozer. Six men worked for four months under H. R. Jones, field manager. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 352 and 370.] Silver Key (59° 130° N.E.) The Key group of five claims is owned by By w. o. ciarke Bentley M. McMullin, of Aurora, Colo. It is on Freer Creek and is accessible by 6 miles of truck-road south of the Alaska Highway at Mile 706. High-grade silver mineralization is reported to be in narrow veins in a vertical shear zone in altered granite. Three men under the direction of Leroy Davis, prospector, worked for two weeks improving the access road and digging 100 feet of trenches by hand. 18 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper Racing River Churchill, Davis, Bird, Caribou, Etc. (58° 125° S.E.) Head office, 308, 540 Churchill Copper Corporation Ltd. Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. These sev- By w. g. ciarke erai groups, amounting to about 467 claims, under agreement to Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd., are toward the head of Racing River, 1 mile southwest of the junction of Churchill Creek and Goat Creek. A base camp at the foot of the mountain is accessible by a 35-mile truck-road from Mile 419 on the Alaska Highway. In 1966, 12 men worked four months under the direction of R. McKamey. A detailed geological survey of the showings was made by R. W. Cannon and 2,100 feet of trenching was done in rock. Because of the steep terrain, two short adits (total length, 80 feet) were driven to provide diamond-drill stations. There was 692 feet of diamond drilling done in five holes. Five camp buildings were erected. The property was not visited. Molybdenum CASSIAR S.Q.E., Kon, Rex (59° 129° S.W.) Head office, 160 Front Street, New Jersey Zinc Exploration New York; field office, 905, 525 Seymour Street, Company (Canada) Ltd. Vancouver 2. R. C. Macdonald, assistant to the By w.G.ciarke president. This group of 54 claims, formerly called the Storie, is about 4 miles south of Cassiar. It is owned by W. J. Storie, of Cassiar, and is under option to New Jersey Zinc Exploration Company (Canada) Ltd. The pyrite and molybdenite mineralization occurs both as disseminations and in quartz veinlets in granite and quartz feldspar porphyry. Geological and geophysical surveys were made in 1964 and 1965. In 1966, work consisted of 5,600 feet of access-road construction and diamond drilling. A total of 6,715 feet of BQ size was drilled in 13 holes. The property was not visited. Copper-Molybdenum DEASE LAKE Horn (58° 129° S.W.) Head office, 235 East 42nd United States Smelting, Refining Street, New York; field office, 935, 470 Gran- and Mining Company ville Street, Vancouver 2. R. D. Westervelt, By w. g. ciarke geologist. This group of 95 claims, owned by a syndicate managed by the company, is south of Tanzilla Butte and may be reached by helicopter from the Stewart-Cassiar highway near Dease Lake, a distance of 5 miles. In 1966 five men spent three months working on geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys under K. F. Bickford, geologist. The area of interest is reported to be a shear structure in Triassic volcanics close to an intrusive contact. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 849.] Copper-Molybdenum Les United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company By W. G. Clarke (58° 129° S.W.) Head office, 235 East 42nd Street, New York; field office, 935, 470 Granville Street, Vancouver 2. R. D. Westervelt, geologist. This group of 20 claims, owned by a syndicate managed by the company, is south of Tanzilla Butte and may be reached by helicopter from the Stewart-Cassiar highway near Dease Lake, a distance of 8 miles. LODE METALS 19 In 1966 three men spent two weeks prospecting and making a reconnaissance geochemical survey under K. F. Bickford, geologist. The property was not visited. Copper Moss (58° 129° S.W.) Head office, 519, 602 West Has- Lytton Minerals Limited tings Street, Vancouver 2. This group of 18 claims, By w. g. ciarke owned by the company, is on the west side of the north ern Gnat Lake and is crossed by the Cassiar-Stewart highway. The claims are about 16 miles south of the south end of Dease Lake. In 1966 six men under M. Bradford, geologist, spent three months making geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 845.] Copper June, Stikine, September, Etc. (58° 129° S.W.) Company office, 519, 602 Deas Lake Mines Ltd. West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. The prop- By w. g. Jeffery erty comprises the June 1 to 12, Stikine 1 to 20, September 1 to 35, and July 1 to 5 claims and is adjacent to the Cassiar-Stewart highway 20 miles south of Dease Lake. The property is held by Deas Lake Mines Ltd., to whom the claims have been transferred by Lytton Minerals Limited, a subsidiary of the Patifio Mining Corporation Ltd. Mineralization was first discovered in 1960, and intermittent work was done up to 1964, when fairly extensive exploration of the widespread low-grade copper mineralization commenced. The highway passes on the west side of two small lakes known as the Gnat Lakes, which occupy a flat area about 2 miles in width trending north. The Gnat Lakes drain northward to the Tanzilla River, but immediately south of the lakes, drainage is southward directly to the Stikine River. The property lies north and east of the northern Gnat Lake at an elevation just below 4,000 feet. To the east, hills form the Three Sisters Range up to heights of approximately 7,000 feet. On the south and west is the rounded form of Thenatlodi Mountain, rising to an elevation of 6,100 feet. The property area is covered with overburden and largely devoid of outcrop. The initial mineral discovery was found in outcrops on the eastern side of the flat area at the base of the hills, and in some small outcrops along Gnat Creek where it flows northward from the Gnat Lakes {see Fig. 2). Regional work by the Geological Survey of Canada indicates that the rocks are Upper Triassic or earlier volcanic andesite and basalt flows, tuffs, and breccias with some sediments intruded by small stocks and sills of porphyritic andesite and basalt. The property is adjacent to the contact of the Hotailuh batholith, a large plutonic body of hornblende quartz monzonite and granodiorite. Thenatlodi Mountain is, in part, underlain by an apophysis of this batholith. Locally the geology remains obscure due to the extensive overburden, and the alteration of the rocks exposed. Quartz monzonite of the Hotailuh batholith occurs south of the main areas of mineralization. In natural exposures and trenches in the vicinity of mineralization the rocks consist of dark-green porphyritic hornblende andesite, fine-grained andesitic greenstone, volcanic breccia, and tuff. Basaltic rocks and basaltic lithic tuffs were observed in specimens from the diamond-drill cores. All the volcanic rocks are intruded by an apparently irregular mass of fine-grained broken feldspar porphyry rock that has a great deal of textural variation. Much of the rock indicated as feldspar porphyry on the geological map is a leucocratic reddish-stained fine-grained felsite or alaskite that could be in part highly altered 20 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 versions of the volcanic rocks. Feldspar phenocrysts are commonly lacking. Rare quartz phenocrysts were observed. In the vicinity of the two main mineralized areas known as the Hill zone and the Creek zone, all the rocks exhibit considerable alteration. Carbonate is widespread throughout the rocks and also as veinlets. Sericite is patchily distributed. The feldspar porphyry and possibly some of the volcanic rocks have been bleached, patchily silicified, and have much widespread iron-oxide staining and hematite on many irregular fractures. Chlorite occurs on fractures in the volcanic rocks together with dense black veins of tourmaline. In places fine-grained potash feldspar occurs in the volcanic rocks. All the rocks exhibit in many places cataclastic breccia textures and variable evidence of squeezing and over-all deformation due to pervasive movement throughout the rock. The feldspar porphyry outcrops, which are few in number and scattered, and the irregular distribution of the rock in the diamond-drill core prevent, as yet, a clear idea being obtained of the shape and extent of this intrusive rock. Structurally the only definite attitudes are those in greywackes and basic volcanic rocks exposed above 4,500 feet elevation on the eastern slopes above the property. These beds are reported to dip between 35 and 40 degrees to the northeast. In the area of the mineralization, only one attitude was observed along Gnat Creek. The rock exposures at the Hill zone are strongly fractured and broken by joints and small faults, but no dominant direction was evident. The information from the diamond-drill core shows that much of the rock has been crackled or brec- ciated, and there are some strong fault zones. In the Creek zone the rocks are fractured, and in places they are irregularly schistose in a northwesterly direction. Large parts of the area are covered by overburden where the geology remains unknown. However, sparse drill-core information, combined with a study of the topographic forms and the aerial photographs, suggests that major north-trending faults pass through the area, and these are shown on the geological sketch-map. The Gnat Lakes lie in a north-trending valley, and a concentration of faults together with crackled zones in the rocks adjacent to the irregular contact of the Hotailuh batholith at this point appears to be fairly evident. The mineralization consists of dispersed and disseminated chalcopyrite with a little bornite. The sulphide occurs in the altered andesitic greenstones, and the dark-green porphyritic andesites in blebs, wisps, and along fracture planes. There are occasional pods of richer mineralization, but no massive sulphides were seen. Pyrite occurs in minor to negligible amounts. Magnetite is noticeable in all the volcanic rocks, and in places there appears to be strong concentrations of magnetite with chalcopyrite. In 1966 the company completed 8,900 feet of diamond drilling in 14 holes. In addition, mapping, magnetometer surveys, and geochemical work were done under the direction of M. Bradford, geologist in charge at the property. An average of 13 men was employed. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 660.] Copper-Molybdenum Cap, Flat (58° 129° S.E.) Head office, 235 East 42nd United States Smelting, Refining Street, New York; field office, 935, 470 Gran- ami Mining Company ville Street, Vancouver 2. R. D. Westervelt, By w. g. ciarke geologist. This group of 56 claims, owned by a syndicate managed by the company, is near Glacial Lake at the head of McBride River. It is accessible by helicopter a distance of 14 miles east from the Stewart- Cassiar highway. LODE METALS 21 In 1966, three men spent one month on reconnaissance geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys, under K. F. Bickford, geologist. The property was not visited. Copper-Molybdenum Let, Tak (58° 129° S.E.) Head office, 235 East 42nd United States Smelting, Refining Street, New York; field office, 935, 470 Gran- and Mining Company ville Street, Vancouver 2. R. D. Westervelt, By w. g. ciarke geologist. This group of 60 claims, owned by a syndicate managed by the company, is 10 miles southeast of Glacial Lake at the head of McBride River. It is accessible by helicopter, a distance of 21 miles east from the Stewart-Cassiar highway. In 1966 four men spent one month on reconnaissance geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys, under K. F. Bickford, geologist. The property was not visited. Copper Dalvenie, Mac, New Deal (58° 129° S.W.) B. Linton, 14432—79th Avenue, Copper Pass Mines Ltd. Edmonton, Alta., is a principal of Copper Pass Mines Byw.G.Jefiery Ltd The property consists of the Dalvenie 2 to 9, Mac, and New Deal 1 to 4 Crown-granted claims together with the Frac, Rac, Tac, Nat, Fog, Pass, and Lin claim groups held by record. Access is from the Cassiar highway at a point 22 miles south of Dease Lake. The recorded claims extend along the west side of the highway. The showings on the Crown grants are at an elevation of approximately 5,100 feet on the flanks of Thenatlodi Mountain, and are reached by a tote-road of about 1 mile from the highway. The mineralization on the Crown grants was first discovered in 1899. The claims were Crown-granted in 1935, but little work has been done on the property since that time. The property lies on the western flank of the Hotailuh batholith, composed mainly of granodiorite and quartz monzonite. The intrusive rock in the immediate vicinity of the showings has been described as basic, probably basaltic to gabbroic plutons. These basic rocks have intruded an assemblage of porphyritic andesite and strongly folded argillite, quartzite, and chert. There are some diabase dykes. Mineralization has been exposed in trenches across a shear or fault zone up to 60 feet wide trending north 16 degrees east. This zone, with variations in the width and intensity of shearing, can be traced over a distance of about 2,500 feet. Overburden is extensive and the exposures are oxidized with much iron staining. Linear depressions suggest a pattern of generally north-trending faults underlying the property. Mineralization is reported to consist of pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, bor- nite, and magnetite, along with a gangue of altered rock, quartz, and some barite. There are values in gold and silver. Geological mapping, induced polarization and soil geochemical surveys, trenching, and some short X-ray diamond-drill holes were put down under the over-all direction of M. A. Roed. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1935, p. B 22; Geol. Surv., Canada, Maps 9-1957, 29-1962; Assessment Reports Nos. 896, 897, 898, and 899.] 22 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Molybdenum CRY LAKE Bartle (58° 129° N.E.) Head office, 360 Raymond Ave- Bartle Explorations Ltd. nue, Richmond. John Bartle, director. The Bartle By w. g. ciarke group 0f 22 claims is 2Vz miles north of the mid-point of Cry Lake, and 110 miles by air from Watson Lake. Twenty-two open cuts, averaging 5 to 6 feet deep, were made by hand-drilling and blasting. The property was not visited. Copper-Nickel TURNAGAIN RIVER Turn, Pyrrhotite, Cobalt (58° 128° S.W.) Western office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1112 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. By w.G.ciarke The property is on the Turnagain River just east of Flat Creek and is accessible from Dease Lake, 45 miles away, by trail or helicopter. The Cobalt claim has been optioned from E. Larson, the Pyrrhotite claim from W. Thompson, and the Turn group of 78 claims is held by agreement. The chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pentlandite are reported to occur as replacements in shears in peridotite. In 1966 eight men spent two months under J. J. Mc- Dougall, geologist, making geological and geophysical surveys. One 30-foot hole was diamond-drilled. The property was not visited. STIKINE RIVER Copper BARRINGTON RlVER Gordon (57° 131° N.W.) Company office, 730, 505 Burrard Kennco Explorations, Street, Vancouver 1; C. J. Sullivan, president. The (Western) Limited Gordon group consists of 30 recorded claims, situated By w. g. Jeffery across the junction of Limpoke Creek and the Barring- ton River, about 30 miles west of Telegraph Creek. The terrain is very precipitous, and both streams at this point form deep gorges with steep cliffs and slopes in the order of 1,000 feet from the water. The slopes above these gorges are gentle, covered with dense brush and alder, and expose little outcrop. The difficult access to the rocks exposed by the Barrington River and the lower part of Limpoke Creek has prevented earlier observation of the rocks and the discovery of mineralization on the cliffs. An anomalous geochemical sample collected from Limpoke Creek at its junction with the Barrington River was initially attributed to mineralization discovered higher upstream on the Poke group {see Annual Report, 1965, p. 18). Helicopter reconnaissance in the gorges of the Barrington River and Limpoke Creek revealed small areas of green copper stain on the cliffs, the most widespread being on the cliffs on the north side of Limpoke Creek. The regional geology indicates that the area is underlain by Triassic or Permian volcanic and sedimentary rocks. South and west of the junction of Limpoke Creek and the Barrington River there is a large granitic stock. A brief examination of the rocks forming the uppermost cliffs on the north side of Limpoke Creek was made. The mineralized rocks at this point consist of pink syenite porphyry and fine-grained dark-green and pink porphyritic rocks that may be volcanic in origin. The syenite porphyry is a mottled pink and grey markedly magnetic rock. There are pink potash feldspar phenocrysts averaging 1 centimetre in length in an aggregate of cream altered feldspar, green anhedral masses of aegirine-augite partly altered to chlorite, and variably abundant flakes of green bio- tite. Widespread but minor accessory minerals include apatite and sphene. Associated rocks that are fine-grained, dark green in colour, and appear to be volcanic LODE METALS 23 consist of essentially similar but more dispersed minerals as described above. Most of the rocks are porphyritic to some degree and are magnetic. All the rocks are cut by veinlets of potash feldspar, and there are pockets of coarse biotite, epidote, and magnetite. Garnet was observed in a small veinlet. There are dykes of hornblende syenite porphyry where the amphibole is altered to biotite and chlorite, and there is much dispersed carbonate. Coarse-grained grey syenite dykes or sills up to several feet wide also occur. No clear structural relations between syenite porphyry and the green finegrained rocks were observed. On the cliffs there are planar weathered-out rusty- brown features that suggest faults striking roughly east and dipping steeply to the south. Scattered patches of weak chalcopyrite mineralization were observed on the outcrops in the small area seen. More copper mineralization is reported in other parts of the claim group. Dispersed and disseminated pyrite mineralization is widespread. The areas of finely disseminated chalcopyrite mineralization are irregular in extent but are noticeable on the cliffs due to the local patches of green copper oxide stain, and it was this feature that first drew attention to the area. In the 1966 field season an average number of eight men under the direction of G. Rayner carried out topographic and geologic reconnaissance mapping, line- cutting, and induced polarization and geochemical surveys. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 18; Assessment Report No. 847.] Iron MH (57° 131° N.W.) Company office, 409 Granville Stikine Iron Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. The MH group of 70 recorded By w. g. jeffery mineral claims is at the head of Shakes Creek, 20 miles directly west of Telegraph Creek and 34 miles distant by a rough four-wheel-drive road. No work was done on the property in 1966. A brief visit was made in the 1966 field season, and some samples were collected. The area of interest lies between 3,300 and 4,300 feet elevation in gently undulating countryside, and natural outcrops are rare. Bedrock was uncovered by trenching and stripping with a bulldozer in 1965 through overburden depths that generally vary from 2 to 12 feet in thickness. The iron mineralization is magnetite. The host rock is an equigranular pyrox- enite composed mainly of augite with a minor amount of biotite flakes and abundant disseminated magnetite. The pyroxenite varies in grain size from place to place, with the coarse-grained fractions up to one-eighth inch in size. The biotite, apart from individual flakes in the rock fabric, also occurs as scattered concentrations and pockets from place to place. The magnetite occurs interstitially throughout the rock in rounded grains and blebs, and the size range does not appear to be directly related to the local grain size of the pyroxenite. In isolated instances the magnetite penetrates cracks in pyroxene or surrounds broken pyroxene grains. There are scattered veins up to 2 inches in width of dark-grey very fine-grained rock composed of pyroxene, very finely disseminated magnetite, and some feldspar. These veins commonly have selvedges of pink potash feldspar with some pyroxene and biotite grains. There are also narrow stringers of pink potash feldspar and epidote through the pyroxenite, but they are not abundant, and in general the pyroxenite outcrops show considerable uniformity as a dark-green massive crystalline rock. A natural exposure at the junction of two small creeks was observed to have a distinct layered structure by grain size, with an approximate northeast strike and a dip of 30 degrees to the southeast. The stripping has uncovered bedrock close to the northern con- 24 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 tact of the pyroxenite. The exposure reveals weathered and shattered non-magnetic andesitic greenstone which, according to regional mapping, is either Permian or Triassic in age. This was the only country rock observed. However, the ground magnetometer work completed in 1965 indicates strongly that the pyroxenite is an intrusive plug with a roughly oval shape at the surface. The long axis is about 14,000 feet long in an east-northeasterly direction, and the plug is at least 5,000 feet across in a north-northwesterly direction. A chip sample taken over a length of 59 feet from a bulldozed exposure near the centre of the plug assayed as follows: Total iron, 12.67 per cent; magnetite iron, 6.51 per cent; titanium, 0.83 per cent; phosphorus, 0.14 per cent. Another chip sample taken over 51 feet at a natural exposure that had been extended by a bulldozer assayed: Total iron, 14.38 per cent; magnetite iron, 8.25 per cent; titanium, 0.80 per cent; phosphorus, 0.05 per cent. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 773.] Copper Edson (57° 132° N.E.) The Edson group of 64 recorded mineral By w. g. Jeffery claims lies on the south side of the headwaters of the Barrington River. The claims were recorded in the names of Edward Sonnenberg, Egil H. Lorntzsen, and A. David Ross. In 1966 the property was under agreement by Cominco Ltd., and S. Pedley was the engineer in charge. An average number of four men carried out geological mapping, geophysical work, hand-trenching, and 141 feet of diamond drilling in three holes. The property is at an elevation of about 3,500 feet in gently undulating fairly open country. The underlying rocks are Middle and Upper Triassic sediments that have been crumpled and folded, with a predominant east-northeast trend in this area. A brief examination of the property showed scattered outcrops and small bluffs of severely crumpled and folded quartz-chlorite-mica schists and phyllites. The rocks strike north 80 degrees east, and all dips are steep, mostly to the north. Fold axes plunge 60 to 70 degrees west, and a lesser number plunge about 20 degrees westward. Lineations plunging to the west in the order of 20 to 30 degrees were commonly observed. The contorted sediments are shot through with much white quartz in irregular masses, gashes, and disconnected pods making up 5 per cent of the rock in places and locally up to 10 per cent. The mineralized outcrops are along the south shore of a small lake that is elongated in the direction of the regional grain; that is, east- northeast. South of this mineralized area there is a shallow swampy draw devoid of rock exposure, except for some black graphitic slates striking north 80 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees south that occur in a small creek. South of the draw there are low bluffs forming the base of a prominent ridge with the same east- northeast trend. The lowermost bluffs of this ridge are composed of a green andesitic volcanic rock, which is generally fairly massive but partly schistose in places. Immediately south of the small lake, chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization was observed disseminated through the sediments and in granular pods and massive blebs at least in part connected with the folds. These outcrops are scattered over a strike distance of about 1,000 feet. Nowhere did the zones appear to be greater than a few feet wide. The longest mineralized exposure was traced over approximately 100 feet, and a chip sample over a width of 7 feet assayed: Gold, 0.01 ounce per ton; silver, 0.6 ounce per ton; copper, 0.70 per cent. A greater amount of chalcopyrite is dispersed through the chloritic and micaceous schists than in the finely granular quartzitic schist. Chalcopyrite also occurs with lenses of coarsegrained quartz and feldspar in places. Small pods of chalcopyrite are in or close to LODE METALS 25 crests of folds, and it appears that mineralization is connected with the folds and dispersed in the schists close to the crests of folds. The massive white quartz veins and gashes are deficient in sulphides, except that a little chalcopyrite and a small amount of bornite were observed in a fissure in white quartz in one place. copper GALORE CREEK HAB, BUY, GC (Galore Creek) (57° 131° S.E.) Company office, 1111, 1030 Stikine Copper Limited West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. C. H. Bur- ByH. Bapty gess, president; S. K. Smyth, development engi neer; J. A. McAusland, project engineer. The Galore Creek copper property consists of a very large number of recorded mineral claims held as the HAB, BUY, and GC claims in the headwaters of Galore Creek. Work on the property commenced in mid-April and continued until the end of the year. The working crew averaged 35 men on the property. Work accomplished: the 30-mile access road begun in 1965 was completed, 19,564 feet of surface diamond drilling was completed, and 2,000 feet of underground driving in the adit and drifts was done. A camp at the adit portal was installed in September. This consisted of a trailer-prefab camp of six units, a repair-shop, a compressor-house for a 600-cubic- foot-per-minute compressor, a change-house, and a generator-shack to house a 75-kw. generator. An airstrip suitable for a Beaver aircraft was constructed at the junction of Galore Creek and Scud River. Shipments were made to the camp during the summer by barge and truck, and during the early spring, autumn, and winter by aircraft. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 24-29; Assessment Reports Nos. 367, 368, 371 to 373, 444, and 445.] Copper BIK (57° 131° S.E.) Company office, 808, 602 Silver Standard Mines Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. R. W. Wil- ByH. Bapty son> president; W. St. C. Dunn, superintendent of exploration. This is a joint venture of Silver Standard Mines Limited and American Smelting and Refining Company. This property consists of 118 recorded claims known as the BIK and is divided into two areas termed Stikine North and Stikine East. The claims straddle central Galore Creek and extend eastward from the upper part of Galore Creek along the northern slopes of the East Fork almost to Copper Canyon. Two men were on the property for a month during the summer. Eight trenches were made with a D-7 bulldozer tractor for a total length of 3,400 feet. The geology exposed by the trenches was mapped. The property is reached by helicopter, and the newly constructed road from the mouth of the Scud River passes through the property on the east side of Galore Creek. The property was not visited while work was being performed. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 29-31; Assessment Reports Nos. 589 to 593, 622 to 623, 687 to 688, 692, and 694.] Copper C.W. (57° 131° S.E.) Head office, 1001, 85 Richmond Street Conwest Exploration West, Toronto, Ont.; western office, 901, 675 West Has- Company Limited tings Street, Vancouver 2. P. O. Hachey, western man- By w. g. ciarke ager The c.w. group of 69 claims, owned by the com- 26 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 pany, is on Galore Creek, 2 miles south of the Scud River, and may be reached by the Stikine Copper access road. In 1966 seven men spent one month making geophysical (induced polarization) and geochemical (soil and stream sediment) surveys. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 937.] Copper-Molybdenum JV1ESS OREEK Bird, Sno, Bud (57° 130° S.W.) Company office, 807, 602 West Liard Copper Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. R. W. Wilson, presi- By w. g. Jeffery dent. The property comprising the Bird 1 to 4, Sno 1 to 16, and Bud 1 to 28 mineral claims is just east of the junction of Hickman Creek with Schaft Creek. It is 36 miles south of Telegraph Creek and is accessible by aircraft a distance of 150 miles from Stewart. Copper mineralization was discovered by N. Bird in 1957, and the Bird group of claims was recorded by prospectors of the BIK Syndicate, which comprised Silver Standard Mines Limited, Mc- Intyre Porcupine Mines Limited, and Kerr-Addison Gold Mines Limited. Prospecting done in 1957 and 1959 revealed low-grade copper mineralization within an area 1,000 feet long and 500 feet wide extending along and on the western slopes of a north-striking ridge east of Schaft Creek and between elevations of 4,000 and 4,500 feet. In 1964 the Sno group of claims was recorded by Silver Standard Mines Limited and Kerr-Addison Gold Mines Limited, and the Bud group of claims was recorded by Silver Standard Mines Limited, and some trenching and mapping were done. Liard Copper Mines Ltd. was formed in 1966 and holds all the claims in the Bird, Bud, Sno, Nov, I.D., and Gav groups. Silver Standard Mines Limited has a 66-per-cent interest in the company, with most of the remainder held by Mclntyre Porcupine Mines Limited, Kerr-Addison Mines Limited, and Dalhousie Oils Ltd. Liard Copper Mines Ltd. reached an agreement with American Smelting and Refining Company whereby the latter would explore and develop the property. The work done in 1966 consisted of geological and induced polarization geophysical work, extensive bulldozer clearing, and 10,939 feet of diamond drilling in 24 holes. An average of 18 men spent five months on the property. T. C. Osborne, of American Smelting and Refining Company, Vancouver office, was responsible for the field operations. Schaft Creek is a broad valley with a widely braided stream. Mineralization was first discovered on the western slopes of a low saddle that crosses the ridge between Schaft and Mess Creeks. The saddle slopes gently down to a flat area forming the east side of Schaft Creek valley, where there are very few rock exposures. The property lies on the east flank of the Hickman batholith that underlies the precipitous mountain and glacier area of which Mount Hickman is the highest point (9,700 feet). The eastern batholith contact trends north along the course of Schaft and Hickman Creeks. Adjacent to the batholith are volcanic rocks that have been classified as Permian or older in age. Mapping at a scale of 1,000 feet to 1 inch has shown that these rocks can be divided into two groups that in the field were termed the green volcanics and the purple volcanics (see Fig. 3 ). The green volcanics consist of green andesitic flows, tuffs, and volcanic breccias. This unit is the main host to copper mineralization, and these rocks underlie the large low area west of the low saddle where outcrops are very sparse. The ande- LODE METALS 27 sites are dense fine-grained rocks that are usually porphyritic with subhedral plagio- clase and pyroxene phenocrysts. The pyroclastic rocks are mainly fine-grained tuffa- ceous rocks, a large number of which are not readily recognizable as such in hand specimen. There is a considerable amount of crystal tuff with broken irregular feldspar crystals in a fine-grained matrix. These tuffs range up to coarser more distinct volcanic lithic breccias with fragments up to 1 to 2 inches in size. The finer- grained tuffaceous rocks are much more abundant than the volcanic breccias. Throughout this sequence there is considerable alteration of the original rocks to epidote, chlorite, calcite, and some quartz. Overlying the green andesitic volcanic rock unit is a dark-green augite porphyry basalt, and in the area of mineralization this unit roughly separates the green and purple volcanic units. South of the mineralized area, green volcanic rocks are seen above the porphyry basalt. The porphyry basalt may be either a sill or a flow unit. Within the low-lying area of mineralization it can be recognized in sparse outcrops and is also intersected in the diamond-drill holes. The distribution of the porphyry basalt exposures could indicate that there is more than one layer of this rock. However, the interpretation of the geological structure in the area suggests that there is only one unit of porphyry basalt. An outcrop in a creek in the centre of the low- lying area shows the porphyry basalt overlying a 6-inch to 1-foot thick brecciated flow top of a porphyritic andesite flow and dipping 20 degrees to the southeast. There is evidence here of a relatively thin (25 feet approximately) layer of andesite intercalated at the base of the porphyry basalt. Further evidence of this interlayer- ing of green andesite and dark-green porphyry basalt can be seen in the outcrops at higher elevations on the slopes south of the saddle, but strong northerly faults confuse the relationships in the creek exposures. An examination of the ridge south of the mineralized area showed a zone of basalt approximately 50 feet thick only partially porphyritic and overlain by featureless green andesitic rocks with some thin cherty beds in places. However, in the area immediately south of the saddle the rocks above the porphyry basalt are dark-purple basic pyroclastics, purple olivine porphyry basalts, hematite-stained volcanic flows with ropy flow tops in places, and coarse angular purple and green volcanic breccias with fragments commonly 6 inches across and rarely to 2 feet across. The exposures of these rocks and the porphyry basalt reveal a confused relationship. In places large blocks of porphyry basalt appear caught up in the purple volcanic rocks. The porphyry basalt contains patches of epidote and a little copper stain along fractures. Elsewhere the porphyry basalt is spotted with reddish-purple coloration as though including ashy phases of the purple volcanic rocks. At elevations of about 4,800 feet the porphyry basalt appears to be in the form of an irregular dyke about 75 to 100 feet wide intruding purple and green tuffs. On the slopes north of the saddle the porphyry basalt was not observed, except for scattered thin occurrences on the west-facing slopes north of the mineralized area. The variable occurrence and thickness of the porphyry basalt suggest that it is an intrusive and perhaps contemporaneous phase of the purple volcanic pyroclastic deposition, and that its main zone of intrusion was at the top of the underlying green volcanic rocks. On the ridge immediately north of the saddle, the upper contact of the green volcanic rocks was not seen distinctly. However, there must be a relatively sharp change from highly fractured and locally mineralized green andesitic volcanics to relatively fresh unmineralized purplish basaltic flows and purple tuffs and fragmen- tals which are lithologically similar to the purple volcanic rocks seen on the ridge south of the saddle. At higher elevations along the flanks of the northern ridge 28 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 there are purplish-green amygdaloidal porphyritic flows, green volcanic fragmental rocks, and on the eastern slopes purple volcanic rocks both porphyritic and aphani- tic, green and reddish pyroclastic rocks similar to those seen south of the saddle, and greenish bedded tuffs. At elevations above about 5,500 feet some thin-bedded fine-grained sediments are intercalated with these volcanic rocks. These volcanic rocks are similar to the volcanic rocks observed on the ridge south of the saddle. The relationship of the purple volcanic rocks to the mineralized green andesitic rocks remains uncertain, but they appear to be structurally conformable. Limited exposures in lower areas of the contact between the green volcanics and the porphyry basalt show uniform dips to the east in the order of 20 to 40 degrees. The dips in the overlying purple volcanics become steeper to the east. The ridges north and south of the saddle show strikes trending east, and with steep north and south dips on the north and south sides of the saddle respectively. Although not conclusive, these attitudes suggest the presence of a large steep easterly plunging antiform with its axis coinciding approximately with the saddle. The igneous rocks of the Hickman batholith are well exposed in Hickman Creek immediately south of the main showing, and in scattered sparse outcrops in the low areas east of Schaft Creek. The intrusive rock is a pinkish-brown medium- grained monzonite to quartz monzonite that has intruded the volcanic rocks. The contact is seen in a small creek flowing into Schaft Creek. On one side of the creek the contact dips steeply southwest in a zone marked by numerous faults in both the intrusive and the volcanic rocks. The other side of the creek shows that the intrusive is brecciated and foliated with a general northerly trend against irregularly schistose volcanic rocks. A dioritic dyke trending north and about 20 feet wide is exposed on the slope below the western side of the saddle. The diamond-drill holes have intersected feldspar porphyry and quartz feldspar porphyry dykes with intersections up to 25 feet. These granitic dykes and the volcanic rocks are cut by fresh fine-grained dark- green basaltic dykes with no evident over-all trend, though some were observed with an east strike and steep to vertical dips. Faults are the most important structural feature of the geology and appear to be the feature with the strongest relationship to mineralization. There is a large amount of cover, and there are limited exposures of some of the faults. However, the fault pattern as shown on the map has been determined using the air photographs, known exposures, diamond-drill core, rock alteration, and the interpretation of the volcanic stratigraphy assuming only one layer of the distinctive augite porphyry basalt. To some degree the fault pattern has been substantiated by the geophysical induced polarization surveys and the associated broad pattern of known sulphide mineralization. The major faults have a dominant north trend and dip steeply east. There are fault exposures with clay gouge and sheared and shattered iron-stained zones along the higher slopes south of the saddle in several creeks, and this has been termed the Wolverine fault by previous observers. The northward extension of this fault is along the western edge of the saddle, and it is believed to extend farther northward into the overlying purple volcanic rocks. Some of the attitudes of the faults seen in the creeks indicate that a branch of the fault extends west of north under the covered area, and that this may diverge and coalesce with other major north-trending faults in the low-lying area. The same north trend of the fault pattern as interpreted from some exposures in creeks and also from the distribution of the volcanic rock types seen whilst mapping appears to persist farther north on the slopes north of the saddle. LODE METALS 29 Some faults with an east trend were observed, but they are not as persistent nor as important as those having a north trend. Planar structures that may be either faults or prominent joint planes occur within the Hickman batholith. The green andesite rocks are extensively jointed and fractured. As with the faults, the joints have two trends, north and east, with the north joint system being the stronger and more prominent. The joints have vertical to steep dips, with steep westerly dips being most common. Sulphide mineralization consisting of chalcopyrite, bornite, molybdenite, and pyrite is widespread in the green volcanic rocks of the low-lying area and slopes west of the saddle. The copper minerals and pyrite occur finely disseminated and as wisps and clots on minute irregular cracks through the andesite breccias, tuffs, and flows. In the breccias the sulphide may be in both the matrix and the fragments, usually replacing the mafic constituents. Chalcopyrite, bornite, and pyrite also occur in distinct veinlets, commonly with quartz and calcite. Chalcopyrite is also widespread as fine coatings on the surfaces of the joint planes through the volcanic rocks, and this type of occurrence forms a substantial part of the copper mineralization. Molybdenite is dominantly distributed on fractures and joint planes, and commonly exhibits polished surfaces due to post-mineral movement. To a lesser extent, molybdenite has been seen with copper minerals, quartz, and calcite in distinct veinlets. Pyrite has a widespread distribution in all the forms described above, and no spatial relationship to other minerals has been recognized so far. Calcite, epidote, quartz, sericite, chlorite, and feldspar are all associated with the sulphide mineralization. The most prominent alteration is the over-all brown- pink to pink-red coloration of the volcanic rocks due to fine-grained blurred feldspar development in the rock matrix. The intensity of the alteration appears to be related spatially to the north faults, with diminishing alteration away from them. The greatest intensity of alteration may occur at fault junctions. The apparent effect of the feldspathization has been to heal the original faults, but in places the feld- spathized rock is itself brecciated, with some chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization occurring between the breccia fragments. All the other minerals are much more widespread in their distribution, and so far there is no evident pattern to their extent or relationship to sulphide mineralization. A small knoll very close to the batholith contact exposes a north-trending zone of strong fracturing and disruption in the volcanic rocks, which in places contains veinlets, lenses, and crumpled wisps of granitic rock. There are patches of massive sulphides, mainly chalcopyrite with some hematite, replacing and filling fractures in a skarny assemblage of coarse green epidote, actinolite, and chlorite. This area has abundant green copper stain on the many rock fractures. Fragments of float with green copper stain are also relatively widespread on the western slopes leading down from the saddle. In summary the copper-molybdenum mineralization occurs as disseminated sulphide and along joints in altered volcanic rocks adjacent to a large monzonite intrusion. The major structural controls appear to be dominant north-trending reverse faults and associated joints that may be connected with a regional steep easterly plunging fold structure in the volcanic rocks. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 588.] Copper-Molybdenum Nabs (57° 130° S.W.) Company office, 1008, 789 West Paramount Mining Ltd. Pender Street, Vancouver 1. The property consists of By w. g. jeffery 34 recorded claims, two of which are fractions, known as the Nabs group, which adjoins immediately to the north of Liard Copper Mines 30 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Ltd. It is 36 miles south of Telegraph Creek, 150 miles north of Stewart, and on the eastern slopes of Schaft Creek, a tributary to Mess Creek. The property covers the low-lying area that narrows to the north and the slopes east of Schaft Creek extending northward from the saddle described in the property of Liard Copper Mines Ltd. (see Fig. 3). Almost the entire low-lying area is covered and has no exposures of bedrock. Traverses on the higher slopes reveal similar regional geology to that described on the property to the south. A broken green andesitic series of flows, tuffs, and breccias is overlain with apparent conformity by more basic purple-covered flows and breccias similar in many respects to rocks seen at higher elevations to the south. In scattered occurrences there is evidence of a dark-green basaltic flow or sill intervening between the two volcanic units, but it appears to be considerably thinner and more inconsistent than where observed to the south. Underlying the main part of the Schaft Creek valley is the easternmost margin of the Hickman batholith. In most of the area the granitic rocks are not seen, but quartz-rich phases of the monzonite, mineralized with finely disseminated chalcopyrite and a little bornite, are seen in the northern part of the property on slopes above Schaft Creek where the valley becomes narrower. There is noticeable green copper oxide stain on weathered joint and fracture surfaces of the outcrops. Apart from pyrite, very small amounts of chalcopyrite and some green copper oxide stains were seen associated with those volcanic rocks exposed on the higher slopes. These locations were in the north end of the property and close to the outcrops of mineralized granitic rocks described above. However, the lower covered portion of the area is most likely underlain by the green volcanic rock unit that farther south carries dispersed copper and molybdenum sulphide mineralization. The relatively few dip and strike determinations made indicate that the volcanic rocks have moderate dips in a northwesterly direction. One steep dip was noted adjacent to the intrusive rocks. Faults are the major structural features. There is evidence of these faults in the creek exposures on the higher slopes where there are outcrops which are broken and highly altered with iron oxide stains. In places they weather out to form slight depressions along the slope as the main trend is west of north roughly parallel with the slope. No direct observation of formation offset was seen on these faults, but the rock distribution and location of faults seen in traversing, together with linear features on the air photographs, indicate the structure as shown on the map. Most of the dips are steeply east, though one observation was an apparent flat fault structure dipping 24 degrees northeasterly where a wedge of the purple volcanic rocks may have been thrust over the green volcanic rocks. Part of the drainage off the slope into Schaft Creek was noted to come from springs that emerge at elevations that roughly coincide with the outcrops of the faults and about the position of the contact between the two volcanic units. In the small amount of outcrop observed, no dominant joint direction, such as seen farther to the south, was apparent. The most prominent joint direction in the granitic rocks was vertical to steep- dipping planar structures with a north trend. There was no clear evidence seen that the northwesterly trending faults intersected the batholith. The copper mineralization in the granitic rocks occurs as finely dispersed chalcopyrite in a crackled monzonite that carries introduced quartz and chlorite. Insufficient work has been done to delineate the extent of this mineralization. Work done on the property in 1966 included line-cutting, induced polarization and ground magnetometer geophysical surveys, and soil geochemical sampling for copper and molybdenum. The work was done under the direction of C. A. R. Lammle. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 900.] LODE METALS 31 Copper-Silver Arctic, Ann, Bam (57° 130° S.W.) Head office, 385 St. Patrick The Shawinigan Mining and Street, Lasalle, Que.; western office, 1030 West Smelting Company Limited Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. Douglas Parent, By w.G.ciarke general manager. The property consists of 103 claims held under option by the company. The claims are east of Arctic Lake near the head of Mess Creek. Three drill camps were built, in preparation for diamond drilling in 1967. Ten men worked for two months. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 695.] Nickel-Copper ISKUT RlVER E and L (56° 130° N.W.) The E and L group of 40 Silver Standard Mines Limited recorded mineral claims is controlled by Silver Byw.G.iefiery Standard Mines Limited, 808, 602 West Has tings Street, Vancouver 2, with some interest by Kerr-Addison Gold Mines Limited and Mclntyre Porcupine Mines Limited, in the claims E and L Nos. 1 and 2. The property is on the north side of the headwaters of Snippaker Creek, a tributary of the Iskut River (see Fig. 4). The surface showing is at 6,200 feet elevation, and a drill tent was set up on the property supported by a base camp on Snippaker Creek at 2,800 feet elevation. For two months in 1966 an average of four men was employed under the direction of William St. C. Dunn. A total of 1,248 feet of diamond drilling in five holes was completed. The mineral showings occur in a rocky exposed area at the top of steep cliffs on the south, and at the edge of an extensive permanent snowfield to the north and east. The accessible rock exposures lie along the generally east-trending ridge between 5,800 and 6,400 feet elevation south of the snowfield. At the eastern end of the ridge there are green and grey volcanic breccias and cherty tuffs striking northeasterly and dipping 70 degrees to the northwest. The remainder of the rocks seen on the ridge consist of bedded cherts, tuffaceous cherts, and thin-bedded shaly argillites intruded by coarse-grained gabbro, part of which is mineralized with sulphides. Mineralization occurs within two distinct areas of gabbro, probably connected, and almost completely surrounded by sedimentary chert beds. These two areas are termed the Northwest and the Southeast zones. The ridge exposures east of the main showings are of gabbro that has a distinct northeasterly foliation imparted by diabase dykes, local epidote and carbonate alteration, and a strong vertical joint pattern. Some of these rocks may be highly metamorphosed tuffs. In the vicinity of the mineralization the contacts of yellow and green bedded cherts and the gabbro are sharp. The gabbro-chert relationships and the variable southwest to south dip of the sediments indicate a forceful intrusion of the gabbro with disruption of the sediments into blocks or panels. North and west of the mineralized area are outcrops of homogeneous gabbro cut by northeasterly trending diabase dykes. A large dyke 70 to 80 feet wide separates the gabbro from sediments to the west. The sediments are brown to black sub-fissile shaly argillites that have been weathered to frost-riven shattered debris along the ridge. Beyond the highest point where the ridge trends southwesterly, some poorly preserved fossils were found. The highest parts of the ridge expose more gabbro, but the contacts against the shaly sediments are indistinct and gradational and with possible inclusions of sediments within the gabbro. The unmineralized and mineralized gabbro is medium to coarse grained with a granular to ophitic texture. Coarse plagioclase and pyroxene is accompanied by variable amounts of olivine ranging up to about 20 per cent in one unmineralized 32 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 HtJ0N'0JtsV T3 a cd eo o o a 3 13 S3 ■o a « tH CJ I 2 a s LODE METALS 33 specimen. There appears to be no relation between olivine content and sulphide mineralization. Interstitial patches of chlorite, altered feldspar, prehnite as veinlets and scattered grains, white mica, and other fibrous fine-grained minerals, amphi- bole, biotite, carbonate, epidote, and some quartz are usually present. There is abundant evidence of fractures and deformed minerals to show that the gabbro has been squeezed and deformed. Mineralization consists of pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite, with lesser pyrite and magnetite. In the main the sulphides occur as coarse blebs averaging between one-half to 1 centimetre across and distributed fairly evenly through the gabbro. In places, pyrrhotite with lesser chalcopyrite occurs in massive form and also in veinlets. Diamond drilling has so far shown that the dispersed mineralization extends very uniformly to at least 400 feet below the surface exposures. A little pyrite with chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in tiny fractures in the cherty tuffs close to the gabbro contact was seen in the outcrops. Diamond-drill hole No. 1 at minus 60 degrees in the Northwest showing passed through normally mineralized gabbro with coarse splotches of sulphide and some marked fracture zones. Close to the gabbro contact there is a dense finer-grained chilled zone with disseminated sulphide extending over 7 feet in the core, followed by 2 feet of massive (approximately 60 per cent sulphide) pyrrhotite-pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite. Beyond this, grey fine-grained hornfelsed sediments with brown basaltic hornblende and fine-grained pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, both dispersed and in minute fractures, extend over a distance of about 8 feet in the core. Further sediments seen in the core contain only wisps of pyrite. The distribution of sulphides at surface in the gabbro is in the two rather irregular areas of the Northwest and Southeast zones. Most of the gabbro outcrop of the Northwest zone is mineralized. The gabbro is surrounded by bedded chert outcrops on three sides and covered by rubble, snow, and ice to the east. Thus the mineralized zone forms a roughly triangular area approximately 200 and 140 feet along two sides at right angles. Strong mineralization persists up to the gabbro-chert contact. A chip sample (No. 2 on Fig. 4) along a trench over a distance of 90 feet gave: Gold, trace; silver, 0.2 ounce per ton; platinum, 0.003 ounce per ton; nickel, 0.44 per cent; copper, 0.70 per cent. The gabbro exposed north and west of this Northwest zone beyond the sediments is unmineralized, apart from some minute specks of pyrrhotite observed in thin calcite veinlets at one place. The Southeast zone is also roughly triangular in shape and has approximately the same dimensions as the Northwest zone. The gabbro is partly bounded by. bedded cherts but joins unmineralized gabbro that outcrops eastward along the ridge. However, in this zone the strongly mineralized gabbro does not extend up to the gabbro chert contact but grades out to unmineralized gabbro. This is noticeable on the north side, where there is about 10 feet of weakly mineralized gabbro between the contact and the main mineralized area. The western margin of mineralization in the Southeast zone is covered by rubble. A chip sample (sample No. 1 in Fig. 4) from outcrop over a distance of 51 feet gave: Gold, trace; silver, 0.2 ounce per ton; platinum, 0.003 ounce per ton; nickel, 0.30 per cent; copper, 0.35 per cent. The outcrops of the two zones are separated by a steep talus-filled draw which, from evidence on the western wall, appears to be underlain by a fault striking slightly east of north. The west wall of the draw also reveals unmineralized gabbro underlying the bedded cherts exposed on the surface south of the Northwest zone. At the head of the draw close to the permanent snowfield, a shallow trench to bed- 34 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 rock through the rubble, probably situated on the west side of the draw fault, exposes heavy sulphide mineralization in gabbro. In addition to the two main zones of mineralization, a little chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite were observed in the gabbro east of the Southeast zone, but this is only local in distribution. In the area of the two zones there are, as yet, no clear controls to account for the sulphide distribution. Numerous fractures in the gabbro and textural evidence show that the mineralized gabbro has been deformed and squeezed. The most prominent direction of fracturing in the gabbro is in a northeasterly direction. The possibility of the Southeast zone being a southward faulted extension of the Northwest zone has been suggested. If this is the case, there is the possibility that the mineralization has a northeast trend through the gabbro that probably extends under the snowfield. In a vertical sense the diamond drilling has proved that the mineralization and grade are persistent to a depth of 400 feet below surface, and that the mineralized bodies may have a pipe-like form. An ore estimate reported by the company at the end of 1966 was 3,227,000 tons of ore containing 0.80 per cent nickel and 0.62 per cent copper. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 741.] Gold-Silver-Lead-Zinc Ray, Joann Iskut Silver Mines Limited By W. G. Jeffery (56° 131° N.E.) Company office, 625, 925 West Georgia Street, Vancouver 1. R. D. Wesemann, president. There are 34 recorded mineral claims Figure 5. Iskut Silver Mines Limited. Sketch of showings, from enlarged air photographs. LODE METALS 35 situated on the north side of the Iskut River, 2>V2 miles east of Twin River and 3 miles northwest of the mouth of Bronson Creek (see Fig. 5). The property is accessible by aircraft, which land on a short airstrip on a sandbar in the Iskut River. In 1965 and 1966 work, under the direction of R. D. Wesemann, has consisted of geochemical soil-sampling, a ground magnetometer survey, hand trenching and stripping, and 228 feet of packsack diamond drilling in four holes. The property is on the north bank of the Iskut River in heavily timbered rolling and gullied country, at approximately 500 feet elevation. The area has very few natural outcrops. Geochemical prospecting provided the initial indications of mineralization. Further detailed geochemical soil-survey work led to the exposure of mineralization in several hand-made cuts and trenches. Excavations in some places have failed to reach bedrock due to excessively deep overburden. Lead-zinc mineralization with values in gold and silver and in places some copper mineralization occur in showings Nos. 1 and 2 and Devils Club Gulch (see Fig. 5). Showing No. 1 consists of several cuts on either side of a steep-sided gully (see Fig. 6). Cut No. 2 reveals quartz-biotite and biotite-quartz-feldspar schists with some garnet and chloritoid in places. At one end of the cut is a 1- to 2-foot band of coarsely crystalline limestone with faults along both contacts. The faults and margins of the limestone are irregularly mineralized with sphalerite and galena. The limestone bed, the foliation in the schists, and the faults all strike northwesterly and dip at 55 degrees to the southwest. Chip samples were taken across the mineralized zone. On the hangingwall of the limestone bed a sample over 1.1 feet consisted of sulphides with iron and manganese oxide stained fault rock and clay gouge assayed: Gold, 0.04 ounce per ton; silver, 1.3 ounces per ton; lead, 0.14 per cent; zinc, 2.0 per cent. The limestone bed with scattered blebs and masses of sulphide over a width of 1.7 feet assayed: Gold, 0.04 ounce per ton; silver, 4.5 ounces per ton; lead, 0.96 percent; zinc, 10.30 per cent. The limestone footwall sample over 1.1 feet included fault material and 3 inches of strongly schistose rock on the footwall of the fault. The results were: Gold, 0.22 ounce per ton; silver, 43.8 ounces per ton; lead, 1.37 per cent; zinc, 1.80 per cent. Cut No. 3 exposes strongly fractured and faulted biotite-quartz schists with muscovite, some cherty siliceous patches, and areas of dispersed pyrite. The over-all schistosity is northwesterly to westerly with a 55-degree dip to the south and west. Massive sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and quartz occur in an irregular lens or pod cutting across the schistosity and cut by some of the faults. A chip sample over 2.4 feet at the widest part of the mineralization assayed: Gold, 0.53 ounce per ton; silver, 51.6 ounces per ton; lead, 2.68 per cent; zinc, 9.3 per cent; copper, 8.92 per cent. At showing No. 1 there are three other small cuts, all in fractured quartz- biotite schists with pyrite, each showing small lenses and stringers of quartz and pyrite with a little sphalerite. Cut No. 4 exposes a distinct overturned fold with a gentle southerly plunge in the schists. The core of the fold is a cherty siliceous zone with traces of sphalerite. Showing No. 2 is approximately 2,000 feet northwest of showing No. 1, with no outcrop discovered on the line between the two showings. At showing No. 2, stripping and trenching has partly uncovered bedrock and mineralization over an 36 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 HH°N'0JtsV \ \ \ 1 ■s d s o Z a o 00 o ■=: e 55 a a 5 Ih () > T sa W) w O z 1 li. ►—1 o , < VO ni o < i z E cn h- r> o u. O I o HH°N '0JtsV LODE METALS 37 area about 130 feet long and up to 25 feet wide. The rock is mainly quartz-biotite schist, with the quartz and biotite in varying proportions. Some parts of the schist have a feldspar-quartz matrix, and some dispersed garnet was observed in two specimens. The foliation strikes northwest and dips southwest at 70 degrees. A crystalline limestone lens up to 2 feet wide with a strongly faulted hangingwall contact is exposed in part of the cut. The limestone strikes northwest and dips 80 degrees southwest. Another strike fault occurs in the schists a few feet from the footwall of the limestone. Sphalerite occurs as massive pods, dispersed in siliceous schists along the footwall of the limestone, and as thin stringers along the fault in the quartz-biotite schists. The sulphide is associated with quartz, biotite, muscovite, chlorite, and small amounts of garnet. A chip sample over a 3.4-foot width of dispersed stringers of sphalerite in schist on the footwall of the limestone bed assayed: Gold, 0.02 ounce per ton; silver, 0.2 ounce per ton; lead, 0.04 per cent; zinc, 5.6 per cent; cadmium, 0.03 per cent. In Devils Club Gulch, about 800 feet south of No. 2 showing, a small cut reveals thin stringers of sphalerite along the foliation of an open fold in quartz- biotite schist that plunges to the west at 30 degrees. There is also a little sphalerite and quartz on a fault plane. In summary the cuts have exposed small amounts of sulphide mineralization with some high values in gold and silver. There is evidence that in different places, faults, fractures, and folds in the host rock can all be features that control the mineralization. Approximately 1 Vi miles east-northeast of the sulphide showings a trench has exposed magnetite with a little disseminated chalcopyrite. The magnetite is variably dispersed through an epidote-quartz-tremolite skarn, probably an altered volcanic rock. The overburden is considerable, and the extent of this mineralization is unknown. This magnetite showing is approximately 1,000 feet north of the contact to a syenite porphyry stock. Kerr (1948) has mapped this intrusive stock straddling the Iskut River. A specimen taken not far from the contact showed zoned orthoclase phenocrysts set in a matrix of altered feldspar with about 5 per cent quartz. There are clusters of brown biotite, calcite, and possibly allanite that may represent exotic fragments. [References: Kerr, F. A., 1948, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 246; Assessment Report No. 921.] Copper-Gold Bron, Don, Son, Pang (56° 131° N.E.) Field office, 1150 Bay Avenue, Trail. Cominco Ltd. T. W. Muraro, senior exploration geologist. This group By h. Bapty of 89 recorded claims and 14 Crown-granted claims held under option is at the mouth of Bronson Creek on the south side of the Iskut River, 28 miles from the Stikine River. The original work was done by F. E. Bronson between 1908 and 1919 on the south side of the creek at 3,000 feet elevation. A crew of four under the supervision of L. J. Nagy worked for a month on the Don 1 to 4 mineral claims on Mount Johnny. A topographic map made by Hunting Survey Corporation Limited of an area 4 miles by 1 mile was used as a base for geologic mapping by L. J. Nagy. Bedrock was stripped by hand and blasted over an area 1,400 square feet. The property was serviced by a helicopter based at Stewart. The camp was not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 43.] 38 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 SKEENA MINING DIVISION copper TIDE LAKE Granduc (56° 130° S.E.) Company office, 520, 890 West Granduc Mines Limited Pender Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Stewart. By e.w. Grove and h. Bapty jyr, a. Upham, president; N. Gritzuk, vice-president and general manager; D. E. Howard, resident manager. The Granduc mine is located at the head of the Leduc River, 25 miles north-northwest of Stewart. The property consists of 64 Crown-granted claims, 319 recorded claims, and 10 mineral leases. The Tide Lake camp, mill-site, and mine access tunnel are at the toe of the Berendon Glacier, about three-quarters of a mile due north of Summit Lake and about 30 miles by road from Stewart. The Leduc camp was operated from mid-April until early December by Haste Mine Development Ltd. The face of the drainage adit, which measures 9 by 11 feet, was advanced through metasediments from 814 to 6,700 feet from the portal and to within 300 feet of the internal shaft at the mine. A branch drift to a future crushing-chamber was advanced 211 feet. Eight drain holes were drilled into the 2475 level from points in the drainage adit between 5,600 and 5,900 feet from the portal. Slashing for layby, fan, and canton switches amounted to 47,414 cubic feet, and 500 feet of test drift, 12 by 10 feet, was driven as a crosscut in mineralization on the 3100 level. There was no exploration diamond drilling at Leduc in 1966. A combined shop and power-house, a new explosives magazine, and an extension to the warehouse were constructed in the main camp area. A tote-road was built from the camp to 3100 portal, a distance of 1.5 miles. A 1,200-foot-long airstrip capable of handling an Otter aircraft was constructed in the camp area late in the year. The crew at Leduc averaged 47 men during the period, with a maximum of 58 men. Freight was taken into Leduc over the Salmon Glacier route by " cat" train and Nodwell carrier in April and May, and the camp was serviced by Otter and helicopter for the entire season. The Tide Lake camp operated continuously, with a work interruption of one month caused by a labour strike. The tunnel was driven 11,678 feet to 17,986 feet from the portal. Slash for laybys and equipment amounted to 81,000 cubic feet. The total rock removed was 189,000 tons. The tunnel was driven through the Summit Lake hornblende diorite stock and intersected the main sediment contact under the Berendon Glacier. Sediments west of this contact are blocky incompetent siltstones and lithic wackes cut irregularly by granitic dykes. Diamond drilling amounted to 63 feet. Dual fans were installed at 5,000 and 9,000 feet, each with a capacity of 16,000 cubic feet per minute and drawing 100 horsepower per set. A Jacobs sliding floor was installed to assist the tunnelling operation. This is a hydraulically moved trackway system 451 feet long and 11.5 feet wide, weighing 201 tons. A scavenger fan is mounted near the front of the floor, rated at 7,200 cubic feet per minute and drawing 10 horsepower. A pump-station for supplying water to the face was installed at 5,841 feet. An air-drier with capacity of 4,700 cubic feet per minute at 100 pounds per square inch was installed at 14,677 feet. Additional rolling-stock put into use during the year included two 10-ton Goodman battery trolley locomotives, one 24-man Hudson man-car, one 5-cubic-yard ballast- car, one 2- by 30-foot direct-current-powered conveyor to work with the ditch- digger, and four flat cars. A rectifier, substation, and transformers were installed at 9,000 feet. LODE METALS 39 New buildings added during the year at the main camp-site included a single- story 40-man bunk-house, four two-story 60-man bunk-houses, a 500-man cafeteria, a cold-storage building, a snowblast garage, a two-sheet curling rink with artificial ice plant. A fully serviced trailer park for 18 trailers was constructed at Betty Creek on Tide Lake Flats about 1.5 miles east of the main camp. Auxiliary buildings for this park included a power-house, a primary pump-house, and a second pump-house. A rented 60-man trailer-camp complex was installed to house construction personnel during the summer and was removed before year-end. Site drilling was done using a Becker drill for mill-site soil-testing, townsite soil-testing, and water-supply testing. In the mill-site area 850 feet of drilling was done, and in the townsite area 943 feet was done. Site preparation for mill and service building, the main power-house, and the permanent tank-farm were almost completed. Rock excavation amounting to 64,900 cubic yards, glacial moraine and other material excavation amounting to 119,700 cubic yards, access road construction amounting to 3,200 feet, and culvert installations amounting to 1,169 feet were completed. The tunnelling crew averaged 130 men. Contract crews reached a maximum of 90 men at peak construction. The Tide Lake camp was serviced by road from Stewart. After the flood damage of 1965, part of the Alaskan road section was relocated above the narrow portion of the Salmon River at Nine Mile and 6,700 feet of new road was built. A further 40,000 feet of new road was built following the old Premier road right-of-way, making a total of 46,700 feet of new road built in Alaska. The tote-road in British Columbia section was widened and improved along its entire length from the Alaskan border to the Tide Lake camp. A total of 173 culverts ranging up to 18 feet in diameter were installed. The road crew averaged 50 men, reaching a peak of 65 men in July. Eleven miles of new road was built. Summary of Work Accomplished Tunnel Drifts, Crosscuts Slash Underground Diamond Drilling Ft. 5,886 11,678 Ft. 711 Cu. Ft. 47,400 81 .nnn Ft. 63 Totals 17,564 711 1 128.4(1(1 63 PORTLAND CANAL GoU-Silver-Lead-Zinc STEWART Silbak Premier Mine (56° 130° S.E.) Company office, 355 Burrard Silbak Premier Mines Limited Street, Vancouver 1. A. E. Bryant, president. By e.w. Grove Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited continued management of the property, which has operated almost continuously since 1916. Adam O. Krainec, mine manager, supervised the operation during 1966. Mining was confined to the south side of the main glory-hole, where sulphide- rich ore has been located. Ore from the glory-hole was trucked to the mill and stockpiled for winter mill operation. Production in 1966 was 14,189 tons. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1964, pp. 21-22; 1965, p. 49.] 40 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Gold-Silver-Lead-Zinc Big Missouri (56° 130° S.E.) Company office, 2100, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 7 King Street East, Toronto 1, Ont. D. H. By e. w. Grove and h. Bapty Brown, geologist in charge on the property. The Stewart-Wikstrom group consists of the M 51, M 52, and M 118 mineral leases, comprising 10 Crown-granted mineral claims, the Province, and the Day group of five Crown-granted claims. Five men were employed over a three-month period running grid lines for geological mapping and geochemical sampling, resampling old trenches in the area, and clearing and draining the Province adit in the Hog Lake camp-site area. Parts of the Big Missouri-Premier tote-road which were washed out in the spring of 1965 were rebuilt to allow access by truck or four-wheel-drive vehicle. The Big Missouri property lies 4 miles due north of Premier and is approximately 21 miles by road north of Stewart. In the period 1927-42, 847,615 tons of ore containing 58,384 ounces of gold and 52,677 ounces of silver as well as minor lead and zinc were produced from the Province mineral claim. The camp was abandoned because of the low gold values and has remained inactive to date. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 912.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Mobile (56° 129° S.W.) Company office, 1905, 7 King Anglo United Development Street East, Toronto 1, Ont. Work during 1966 Corporation Limited consisted of geochemical soil-sampling and surface By e.w. Grove prospecting of areas not completed in 1965. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1964, p. 22; 1965, p. 51; Assessment Report No. 745.] Copper Rufus.Ven (56° 129° S.W.) Company office, 10, 558 Crest Copper Company Limited Howe Street, Vancouver 1. A. C. A. Howe By h. Bapty & Associates Ltd. are consultants for Crest Copper Company Limited. This group of 86 Crown-granted and recorded claims is on the upper Bear River valley at Erickson Creek, 20 miles north of Stewart. The property was formerly known as the Rufus Argenta (see Ann. Rept., 1928, p. 109). For a three-month period 10 men and two geologists, J. C. Willars and R. Mottershead, worked on the property doing geological mapping and digging trenches. Access to the claims is by trail or helicopter. The property was not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1928, pp. 108-109.] Gold-Silver-Zinc Goat (56° 129° S.W.) Company office, 425 Howe Street, Noradco Mines Limited Vancouver 1. D. N. Cameron, president; K. C. Rose, By e.w. Grove geologist in charge. During 1966 a crew of 10 em ployees supervised by E. Foran worked a period of five months completing the tram-line and extending the lower adit 150 feet. The main camp was relocated close to the Stewart-Cassiar road because of deep snow problems at the old glacier site. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1964, p. 23; 1965, pp. 55-57.] LODE METALS 41 Silver Radio, Mayou, Roosevelt (56° 129° S.W.) Company office, 10, 558 Crest Silver Company Limited Howe Street, Vancouver 1. A. C. A. Howe & By h. Bapty Associates Ltd. are consultants for Crest Silver Company Limited. This group of 34 Crown-granted mineral claims is on Bitter Creek, 12 miles northeast of Stewart. During a two-month period 10 men and two geologists, J. C. Willars and B. Mottershead, were engaged in geological mapping. Transportation to the property was by helicopter. The claims were not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1935, pp. 4-5.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Moonlight (56° 129° S.W.) Company office, 642 Clark Frontier Exploration Limited Drive, Vancouver 6. The claims were under By e. w. Grove agreement during 1966. Work consisted of pros pecting, trenching, and sampling. The claims are located on the west side of American Creek about 13 miles north of the American Creek-Bear River junction. Access was by helicopter. Mineralization consists of quartz sulphide veins in volcanic sediments. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1932, p. A 60; Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 175, p. 134.] Lead-Zinc-Silver Dunwell (55° 129° N.W.) Company office, 800, 789 Silver Arrow Explorations Ltd. West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. F. S. Hof- Bye.w.Grove man, president. Work conducted in the sum mer of 1966 consisted of trenching along the extensions of the known vein system. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1964, p. 22; 1965, p. 51.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Porter Idaho (55° 129° N.W.) Company office, 1831 Cassiar Consolidated Mines Ltd. Marine Building, 355 Burrard Street, Van- By e.w. Grove and h. Bapty couver 1. W. R. Wheeler, president and manager; A. C. Skerl, consulting geologist. The property consists of 91 Crown- granted mineral claims and eight Crown-granted claims held by option. These claims all lie southeast of Stewart on Mount Rainey. Work on the property commenced in May and continued on throughout September with a crew of five men directed by W. R. Wheeler. Surface work on the Red Reef claim was done with a D-8 bulldozer tractor, which stripped and built a tote-road for 3,500 feet on Mount Rainey immediately across the Bear River from Stewart. At the " I " tunnel of the Porter Idaho, 300 feet of new drifting was done to by-pass incompetent blocky country rock, and 200 feet of the old drift was retimbered. Twelve hundred feet of old tunnel was cleaned up and the drainage ditch cleared. Transportation to the property is by Stewart-based helicopter. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 50-51.] OBSERVATORY INLET Copper ANYOX Red Wing (55° 129° S.W.) Company office, 116, Anaconda American Brass Limited 744 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. By e. w. Grove and h. Bapty Roderick Macrae, engineer in charge. The 42 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Red Wing property (held by Canusa Mines Limited) is under option to Anaconda American Brass Limited. The property lies west of Granby Bay at the head of Tauw Creek. It consists of 126 claims, of which three are Crown-granted and one is a mineral lease and all others are held by record. Work commenced in May and was completed by the end of September. Eleven men were at work extending No. 2 adit by 770 feet (7 by 8 feet) and cutting underground diamond-drill stations. Eighteen AX diamond-drill holes were driven from No. 2 adit to extend and explore the mineralized shear zone drilled in 1965 (see Fig. 7). A total of 5,622 feet of drilling was completed. Mining and drilling equipment as well as supplies were transported to Granby Bay by Prince Rupert barge and thence to the work area on Tauw Creek by helicopter. The property was also serviced by helicopter from Alice Arm. Surface work completed during the same period included a 9,000-foot geophysical induced polarization survey (400- and 800-foot spreads), a magnetometer survey, as well as detailed and reconnaissance geological mapping. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 59.] Copper-Gold ALICE ARM Vanguard (55° 129° N.W.) Company office, 700 Bur- Cane* Aerial Exploration Ltd. rard Building, Vancouver. The Vanguard By h. Bapty group of eight mineral claims, held by M. Peterson, of Alice Arm, is under option to Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. The workings are between 2,750 and 3,200 feet elevation on the west slope of the Kitsault River valley, 1 mile north of the west fork. S. J. Tennant, field geologist, and three assistants spent three months on the property. Work comprised surveying the old workings, geological mapping, making an electromagnetic survey of an 800- by 4,400-foot area, and soil-sampling the same grid area. The property was not visited. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1951, pp. 88-90; Assessment Report No. 956.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Dolly Varden, Wolf, North Star, Toric (55° 129° N.W.) Company office, Dolly Varden Mines Ltd. Suite 1400, United Kingdom Building, By h. Bapty Vancouver 2; mine office, Alice Arm. P. E. Cromie, president; T. E. Swanson, project engineer. This block of 73 mineral claims extends north from the Dolly Varden (Torbrit) Camp 5 miles to the Clearwater hydro-power plant. Twenty-one mineral claims are Crown-granted, 21 claims are held under option, and the remainder of the claims are held by record. The camp is connected with Alice Arm by 17 miles of good gravel road. The Torbrit 1000 adit was driven through to the Kitsault River, and a 70-foot Bailey bridge was erected to span the river and to join up with the North Star portal. Two adits were advanced 200 feet, and two raises were advanced 125 feet each. Fifteen hundred feet of roadway was built between the Torbrit 1000 level portal and the Toric 1900 (Torbrit 1150) adit. Six company personnel and 12 contractors were employed for six months under the supervision of T. E. Swanson. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1964, pp. 41-43.] LODE METALS 43 A 14 1-Z6°40' ' 0 I00 200 _ , gjiiB^B^^^~*^ Feet I Elevn.1825' J. AS -3I°30' Figure 7. Anaconda American Brass Limited. Underground exploration at the Red Wing. 44 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Molybdenum THM (55° 129° N.E.) Company office, 1111, 505 Burrard Kennco Explorations, Street, Vancouver 1. C. S. Ney, project manager. This (Western) Limited group of 18 recorded mineral claims is at the head of By h. Bapty white River, 24 miles north of Alice Arm between 2,000 and 4,000 feet elevation. The property is served by Alice Arm-based helicopter. It is reported that molybdenite and some galena and sphalerite occur in scattered veinlets in quartz monzonite and hornfels. A reconnaissance geophysical survey over 12 claims and a geological map of the property were made. Three men spent a month on the property. The claims were not visited. Silver KIT (55° 129° N.E.) Vancouver office, 1521 Pemberton Ave- Coranex Limited nue, North Vancouver. The KIT group of 17 recorded min- By h. Bapty erai claims is 20 miles north of Alice Arm and along the south side of Kitsault (Clearwater) Lake. Some geological mapping was done on the KIT No. 2 claim by J. R. Woodcock and four trenches were dug on the same claim. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 1001.] Molybdenum Ajax (55° 129° N.E.) Vancouver office, 604, 744 Newmont Mining Corporation West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. D. M. of Canada Limited Cannon, vice-president. This property, consist- By n. c carter jng 0f 202 full and fractional recorded claims, is on the eastern slope of Mount McGuire, 8 miles northeast of Alice Arm. Access is by helicopter or by a truck-road from Alice Arm up the Dak River valley to the exploration camp at an elevation of 2,400 feet. During 1966, exploration work was carried out over a six-month period by 6 company and 17 contractor employees under the supervision of D. M. Cannon. A semi-permanent exploration camp was constructed and 2 miles of road was built from the camp to an elevation of 3,600 feet on the steep mountain slope. Fifteen NX-wireline size holes were drilled, totalling 13,731 feet. Detailed geologic mapping of the central part of the claims group was carried out by T. Takeda, geologist. Other work included some soil-sampling and an air-borne magnetometer survey of the Mount McGuire area. The main part of the claim group includes the steep east-facing slope of Mount McGuire and elevations range from 1,500 feet along Dak River to 5,374 feet at the summit. Slide alder and isolated small areas of standing timber extend to an elevation of 3,200 feet. Bedrock is well exposed in several east-flowing creeks and in steep ridges above the 3,200-foot level. Argillaceous sedimentary rocks and some interbedded volcanics are intruded by four small closely spaced stocks of quartz-monzonite porphyry in the central part of the claim group (see Fig. 8). Molybdenite mineralization occurs both in the intrusive rocks and adjacent hornfelsed sediments. Sedimentary rocks, striking north-northwest and dipping steeply east, underlie most of the eastern half of Mount McGuire and consist of black argillites, siltstones, and microgreywackes. Banding on both microscopic and macroscopic scales is well developed in the sedimentary rocks, and shaly partings were noted northwest of the top of Mount McGuire. At lower elevations, near Dak River, calcareous argillites and buff-coloured limy siltstones were noted. Dark-grey to black argillaceous sedi- I Quartz monzonite porphyry, biotite bearing Zone of brown hornfels Volcanic rocks-augite, andesite, tuffaceous in part Argillite, argillaceous siltstone.microgreywacke, minor interBedded augite, andesite Contact, approximate Approximate limit of biotite hornfels -—— Approximate limit of quartz-elbite-epidote hornfels AAA/rurvr Fault, defined, assumed Bedding s Joints Scale Figure 8. GEOLOGY OF AJAX GROUP, MT. McGUIRE AREA LODE METALS 45 ments in all parts of the area mapped were seen to contain 2 per cent 0.05-millimetre plates of brown biotite and up to 5 per cent pyrite and pyrrhotite as fine disseminations and as coatings on fracture planes. With increasing proximity to the quartz- monzonite porphyry stocks, the sediments grade to biotite hornfels. Augite andesites, weathering to a reddish-brown colour, occur as 3-foot-thick interbeds within the sedimentary rocks. The rock is medium grained and consists essentially of augite, partly altered to fibrous actinolitic hornblende, and plagioclase, exhibiting varying degrees of sericite alteration. A larger area of volcanic rocks, on the west slope of Mount McGuire, consists of purple tuffs and breccias. Intrusive rocks, in the form of four small stocks of quartz-monzonite porphyry, are grouped close together in a 2,500-foot-square area in the central part of the claim group between 3,000 and 4,200 feet elevation. The stocks are roughly rectilinear in plan, and the largest, the most southerly one, is elongate in a north- northwesterly direction, measuring 1,500 by 1,000 feet. The remaining three measure 1,000 by 500 feet and are elongate in an east-northeast direction. The area between the stocks is featured by an abundance of dykes of similar composition. The largest stock and the one immediately northwest of it are composed of leuco- cratic white to pink quartz-feldspar porphyry. Twenty-five to thirty per cent of the rock consists of 3- to 6-millimetre phenocrysts of anhedral quartz, subhedral sericitized plagioclase, and ragged perthitic orthoclase in a fine-grained matrix of quartz, feldspar, and sericite. Sericite, in part an alteration of original biotite, is the major mafic mineral. One-eighth to one-quarter inch quartz veinlets are common. The other two intrusive bodies, which are essentially a network of closely spaced east-northeast and north-northwest dykes, are of similar composition, but differ from the quartz-feldspar porphyries by being medium grey in colour and by having a biotite content of between 7 and 10 per cent, with some chlorite and hornblende. Two- to four-millimetre phenocrysts of quartz and normally zoned oligoclase-andesine make up 25 per cent of the rock. In contrast to the quartz- feldspar porphyries, plagioclase is essentially fresh and potash feldspar is largely restricted to the matrix. Some of the narrow dykes have a seriate texture. Dykes of quartz-feldspar porphyry and biotite-bearing quartz-monzonite porphyry, striking east to east-northeast and not exceeding 25 feet in width, cut sedimentary rocks on top of Mount McGuire. Felsite dykes, porphyritic in part and containing some disseminated pyrite, were noted south of the main area of intrusive rocks. Northeast-striking 6-foot-wide dykes of fine-grained hornblende and biotite lamprophyres were noted south and east of the quartz-monzonite porphyry stocks. These weather to a brown colour, have chilled contacts, and contain no sulphide minerals. Contact metamorphism associated with the intrusion of the porphyry stocks has converted a large area of sedimentary rocks in the central part of the property to brown- and purple-coloured biotite hornfels. The hornfels zone surrounding the stocks, elongate in a north-northwest direction, and measuring 7,000 by 5,000 feet, is gradational outwards from a fine-grained granoblastic-textured rock consisting of anhedral quartz and biotite to an alternating sequence of banded black argillite and brown hornfels. The biotite hornfels is featured by closely spaced fracturing and widespread limonite stain due to abundant disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite. The inner zone of hornfels, extending outward from the stocks a distance of between 500 and 1,000 feet, has been affected by a more intense alteration, resulting in the transformation of biotite hornfels to a pale-green fine-grained quartz-albite-epidote 46 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 hornfels. In the outer part of this zone, hairline fractures in biotite hornfels containing quartz and actinolite and lesser amounts of clinopyroxene and pyrrhotite are rimmed by 4-millimetre-wide zones of quartz-albite-epidote hornfels. Adjacent to and between the four stocks where fracturing is most intense, quartz-albite-epidote hornfels has almost completely replaced biotite hornfels, and is probably a reflection of the degree of quartz veining and silicification within and adjacent to the intrusive rocks coupled with higher temperatures prevailing near the contacts. East of the stocks, near the outer limits of the zone of quartz-albite-epidote hornfels, a narrow band of similar composition contains 4-millimetre porphyroblasts of pink garnet. The effects of contact metamorphism on interbedded augite andesites includes partial to complete alteration of original clinopyroxene to fibrous actinolitic hornblende and sericitization of plagioclase. Alteration of the intrusive rocks is most widespread in leucocratic quartz- feldspar porphyries and includes the sericitization of plagioclase phenocrysts, the alteration of biotite to muscovite, and the development of ragged porphyroblasts of potash feldspar. Flakes of biotite in the quartz-monzonite porphyries may be of secondary origin. Drilling information indicates light-grey pervasive silicification adjacent to quartz veinlets in deeper parts of the intrusive bodies. Sedimentary and volcanic rocks underlying Mount McGuire represent the steep east limb of a regional anticlinal structure. East and west of the porphyry stocks, strikes are uniformly north-northwest, while attitudes north and south of the stocks indicate contortion of the sediments along strike. Adjacent to the stocks, attitudes suggest the presence of a large dragfold modified by doming associated with the intrusion of the stocks. Most of the creeks on Mount McGuire follow faults, which strike north-northwest and east-northeast. The rectilinear nature of the porphyry stock contacts, which follow steep fractures, and the trends of smaller dykes also reflect the north- northwest and east-northeast fault and fracture pattern, indicating the importance of major faults in the localization of the stocks. Evidence of later movement of the faults is seen on the south slope of Mount McGuire, where lamprophyre and felsite dykes are offset along a north-northwest- striking fault. Pyrrhotite and lesser amounts of pyrite coat fracture planes and occur as fine disseminations in the sedimentary rocks on the east slope of Mount McGuire. Pyrrhotite is particularly widespread in the intrusive rocks and adjacent altered sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Limonite staining is prominent. Molybdenite mineralization occurs in both the intrusive rocks and in the marginal zone of hornfels affected by quartz-albite-epidote alteration. The most common form of occurrence is that of fine-grained quartz and molybdenite coating randomly oriented hairline fractures. Disseminated molybdenite also occurs in a stockwork of V&- to ,4-inch quartz veinlets and in the silicified zones in the deeper parts of the stocks. At least two stages of quartz-molybdenite mineralization follow an initial stage of quartz-pyrrhotite mineralization. The latest stage of mineralization is represented by coarse-grained quartz veins several inches wide, containing sphalerite and lesser amounts of pyrite, galena, and chalcopyrite. On surface these veins strike north-northeast and dip to the west at shallow angles. Chlorite-filled fractures cut mineralized veinlets, and gouge zones containing molybdenite indicate post-mineral shearing. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 63-65.] LODE METALS 47 Copper Kinskuch, Reina Blanca, King, Etc. (55° 129° N.E.) Company office, 404, Forest Kerr Mines Ltd. 510 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. ByN. c. carter E a. Glick, president. This group of 201 claims is situated around the south end of Kinskuch Lake, 13 miles northeast of Alice Arm. Access is by helicopter or float-equipped aircraft. Kinskuch Lake, which occupies a glacially scoured basin is at an elevation of 3,790 feet. Relatively low hills surround the western side of the lake, while elevations of the east side of the lake rise sharply from lake-level to Lavender Peak, at 7,620 feet, the highest point in the Alice Arm district. Glaciers, extending from near the summit of Lavender Peak down to lake-level, have receded more than 1,000 feet since copper mineralization was discovered on the southeast shore of the lake by local prospectors in the 1930's. In 1955 and 1956, Northwestern Explorations Limited held options on claims around the southeast shore of the lake and drilled 25 holes totalling 7,262 feet. Forest Kerr Mines Ltd. acquired claims in the area in 1965 and took up an option on the claims covering the copper showings. Work performed on the property in 1965 included geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and 1,247 feet of diamond drilling. Cyprus Exploration Corporation, Ltd., optioned the wholly owned claims of Forest Kerr Mines Ltd. in 1966 and engaged Stokes Engineering and Management Company to carry out geological mapping, a geochemical survey, and to supervise drilling near the southwest end of the lake. An average crew of eight men was employed for three months under the supervision of Ronald B. Stokes. The area around the southern part of Kinskuch Lake is underlain mainly by northwest-striking easterly dipping fine- to medium-grained andesite flows and tuffs exhibiting varying degrees of albite, chlorite, carbonate, and epidote alteration. Sedimentary rocks, mainly thinly laminated argillaceous siltstones, are interbedded with the volcanic rocks west of the lake. Red felsitic tuffs and breccias, apparently overlying the andesites, make up most of Lavender Peak. East- and north-striking dykes of porphyritic hornblende diorite and quartz monzonite porphyry intrude andesitic rocks along both the south and west sides of the lake. Narrow northeast- striking dykes of lamprophyre cut all rocks in the area. Pyrite in fractures and as fine disseminations is widespread in the andesites and hornblende diorites along the western margin of Kinskuch Lake. Easterly trending brecciated and silicified zones up to 10 feet in width, and containing 25 per cent pyrite, occur in andesite rocks on small islands near the south end of the lake. Chalcopyrite occurs with pyrite as disseminations and in irregular lenses and quartz veins in shattered andesites on a small peninsula near the southeast end of Kinskuch Lake. Most of the mineralized quartz veins and fractures are less than 1 inch wide, but a few of the mineralized zones attain a width of 3 feet. The best grades of copper mineralization occur in easterly trending veins and fractures which are offset by north-striking quartz-pyrite veinlets. A sample of andesite containing disseminations of chalcopyrite assayed 0.10 per cent copper. A second sample with chalcopyrite in closely spaced fractures assayed: Gold, 0.07 ounce per ton; silver, 0.20 ounce per ton; and copper, 3.14 per cent. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1956, p. 21; 1965, p. 65; Assessment Report No. 712.] Molybdenum Bel, Norm, Mac, Sun, Dak, Standard (55° 129° N.E.) Company office, 34, May fair Molly Mines Ltd. 845 Hornby Street, Vancouver 1. N. E. By h. Bapty Jenkinson, president; Harold A. Quinn, 48 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 consulting geologist. The company holds 180 claims, an area of 12 square miles that includes all of McGrath Mountain, 3 miles northeast of the hamlet of Alice Arm. A geologist and a helper spent the month of August investigating old showings and soil-sampling. Transportation to the property is by boat across the Kitsault River and thence by trail to the old workings. The property was not visited. Molybdenum Roundy Creek (55° 129° S.E.) Company office, 846 West Has- Sileurian Chieftain Mining tings Street, Vancouver 1. Walter Eilers, president. Company Limited This property of 40 full and fractional claims is on By n.c carter Roundy Creek VA miles from tidewater. A 2Yz- mile road leads from the site of the British Columbia Molybdenum townsite on the south shore of Alice Arm to the exploration camp at an elevation of 500 feet. Forty- three drill-holes totalling 8,863 feet were drilled during 1966, and a geochemical survey was carried out over much of the claim group. An average crew of 10 men was employed for most of the year under the direction of A. P. Fawley, geological consultant. During the early part of 1966, drilling was concentrated on a faulted-off section of the quartz monzonite porphyry intrusive body on the east side of Roundy Creek. Fairly uniform molybdenite mineralization in quartz veinlets and fractures was indicated throughout the intrusive, which in this area is in the form of a wedge, with near vertical north, east, and south contacts and a western contact dipping at moderate angles to the east. Drilling was continued in the vicinity of a relatively high-grade zone of molybdenite mineralization on Sunshine Creek, a northwesterly flowing tributary of Roundy Creek. Irregular zones of similarly good grades of mineralization were intersected to the south and east of the exposed high-grade zone. The molybdenite occurs as uniform disseminations and in irregular blebs and lenses with and without quartz in both the quartz monzonite porphyry and fine-grained alaskite. North- northeasterly trending dykes of diorite and andesite, later than the mineralization, were intersected in a number of drill-holes. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1964, pp. 36-39; 1965, pp. 62-63.] Molybdenum Moly (55° 129° S.E.) Company office, 502, Bell Molybdenum Mines Limited 1200 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. W. By n. c. carter r Bacon, exploration manager. The prop erty, consisting of 135 recorded claims located in 1965, is on Clary Creek at an elevation of 2,400 feet. Access is by helicopter from Alice Arm, 6 miles to the west. The relatively gentle topography of much of the claim group is broken on the southern end of the property by the presence of two mesas of Tertiary basalt which rise 300 to 700 feet above the surrounding terrain. The flat-lying basalts, characterized by steep columnar-jointed walls, unconformably overlie a sedimentary sequence of greywacke and microgreywacke. Rock exposures are sparse in the central and northern areas of the claim group, being confined to creeks and small hummocks. An elliptical stock of quartz monzonite porphyry, elongated in a northeasterly direction and measuring approximately 1,900 by 1,400 feet, has metamorphosed sedimentary rocks in the central part of the property to brown biotite hornfels. The quartz monzonite porphyry varies from a mesocratic type containing flakes of fresh biotite in the northeast part of the stock to a leucocratic type near LODE METALS 49 the southwest contact, which is characterized by the presence of 4- to 8-millimetre phenocrysts of anhedral glassy quartz and euhedral feldspars. Mineralization, consisting of molybdenite and pyrite, occurs in randomly oriented quartz veinlets and fractures which cut both the porphyry and hornfels along the northern and eastern margins of the stock. Exploration work during 1966 included a geochemical programme of silt and soil sampling and the drilling of 12 holes totalling 3,169 feet. An average crew of 10 men was employed for three months under the supervision of W. R. Bacon. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 814.] Molybdenum Alice British Columbia Molybdenum Limited (55° 129° S.E.) Company office, 402 West Pender Street, Vancouver 3. CD. Michaelson, president; C. C. Kamm, project manager. The property, consisting of By h. Bapty j Q2 fun an{j fractional claims held by record, is on Patsy Creek, the east fork of Lime Creek, and is 5 miles southeast of Alice Arm. The ore- body is an annular ring of molybdenite mineralization with an east-west axis of 2,200 feet and a north-south axis of 1,500 feet. Work was continuous throughout the year. The average number of men employed on the property throughout the year was 149. There was 4,800 feet of ore and waste haul roadway constructed during the year. Open-pit development was started, and 46,000 tons of ore was stockpiled. The concentrator building and secondary crusher building were completed during the year. The primary crusher building has steel erection completed. A 220-man camp accommodation, with cookery and recreation hall, was constructed at the concentrator- site. Foundations were completed for the office. At the foreshore the staff-house and one residence were built, and a garage and warehouse had been completed. The main transportation for construction equipment, supplies, and mill equipment has been via barge. The camp is served by coastal shipping and regular air service. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept. 1964, pp. 30-36.] Gold-Silver-Copper-Lead-Zinc-Molybdenum Silver Bow, MCC (55° 129° S.E.) Company office, 734 Fort Marshall Creek Copper Co. Ltd. Street, Victoria. James M. McNulty, presi- ByN. c.carter dent, This property, comprising 63 recorded claims and three optioned mineral leases, is situated 5 miles south of Alice Arm near the headwaters of both Roundy Creek and the southwest fork of Lime Creek. Access to the property is by helicopter. The property includes numerous workings and mineral showings referred to in various Annual Reports and Memoir 175 of the Geological Survey of Canada. The first record of work in the area is contained in the Annual Report for 1916, and intermittent work was done on the Sunset, Verona, Theda Bara, and Basin claims by individuals and companies up to 1927. The mineral showings on the claims are in the form of quartz-carbonate- sulphide veins which follow north-northeast shear zones in dark argillaceous micro- greywackes near their contact with granodiorites and quartz diorites of the Coast Intrusions. The most northerly showings include those of the Sunset claims, on which the Keystone Mining Company Limited drove two adits and erected three cabins between the years of 1921 and 1927. The upper adit, situated 1,000 feet east of Roundy Creek at an elevation of 2,225 feet, was driven 40 feet along a north-striking 4-inch-wide mineralized shear zone. A sample of the vein material from the adit dump, containing quartz, carbonate, pyrite, sphalerite, and galena, assayed: Gold, 0.05 ounce per ton; silver, 0.40 ounce per ton; copper, 0.05 per cent; lead, 0.32 per cent; zinc, 2.2 per cent. The lower adit, north of the upper 50 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 adit at an elevation of 2,075 feet, trends south-southeast and is over 700 feet in length. North-striking shear zones and lamprophyre dykes cut microgreywackes from the portal to a distance of 400 feet in the adit, where medium-grained quartz diorites are in fault contact with the sedimentary rocks. Pyrite is disseminated in and adjacent to the shear zones. The Verona showing is exposed in the southwest fork of Lime Creek at an elevation of 3,150 feet. Quartz-carbonate-barite-sulphide veins follow bedding shears in north-northeast-striking westerly dipping microgreywackes. Intrusion of porphyritic basic sills along these same zones of weakness following the period of mineralization has resulted in great variation of width of the veins along strike. Both the sills and the veins are offset by northwest faults. The main sill, exposed on the east side of the creek, over a distance of 200 feet, and varying in width from 6 to 15 feet, is of andesite composition, containing 1-centimetre phenocrysts of augite, plagioclase, and olivine. Chilled margins of the sill render the rock a light- green colour, characterized by 0.50-millimetre augite phenocrysts. Quartz veins, variable in width and length, occur as inclusions within the main sill. At the northern end of the sill, a near massive sulphide lens, varying in width from 9 to 28 inches, and exposed over a distance of 20 feet, contains pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and galena in a quartz gangue. A chip sample taken from the widest section of the vein assayed: Gold, 0.32 ounce per ton; silver, 2.4 ounces per ton; copper, 0.10 per cent; lead, 2.04 per cent; zinc, 13.3 per cent; cadmium, 0.47 per cent. On the west side of the creek, quartz veins containing varying amounts of sulphides occur on both hangingwall and footwall of a 1-foot-wide fine-grained lamprophyre sill. The mineralized zone is 30 inches wide adjacent to a west-striking shear zone near the south end of the sill. Veins and sills pinch out a short distance to the south at an elevation of 3,200 feet, near the Coast Intrusions contact. The Theda Bara showings are situated 1,500 feet west of the Verona showing, and consist of north-northeast-striking quartz veins, exposed on surface and in two short adits on a north-facing slope. The quartz veins, generally less than 1 foot wide, occur in shear zones in microgreywackes which have been intruded by granodiorite and lamprophyre dykes, and contain varying amounts of carbonate, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and galena. Eight hundred feet south of the adits, a 4-foot-wide quartz vein of similar trend, and containing near massive lenses of pyrrhotite, occurs adjacent to a fine-grained gabbroic rock. The Basin showing is exposed over a distance of 200 feet on the side of a ridge at an elevation of 3,750 feet west of the headwaters of the southwest fork of Lime Creek. A quartz vein, 1 to 2 feet wide, and pinching out on both north and south ends, follows a shear zone in sedimentary rocks adjacent to granodiorites of the Coast Intrusions. A chip sample taken across a 2-foot width near the south end of the vein assayed: Gold, 0.18 ounce per ton; silver, 18.1 ounces per ton; copper, 0.8 per cent; lead, 19.76 per cent; zinc, 6.0 per cent. Several other showings were investigated, including several narrow quartz veins in Roundy Creek containing some galena and sphalerite, and some disseminated molybdenite in granitic rocks on Dawson Ridge, 1 mile west of Roundy Creek. During 1966 the company erected a camp near the old Keystone workings and cleaned out the old adits. All of the showings were mapped in detail, and a geological survey was made of the claim group. Some trenching and stripping were carried out in the vicinity of the mineral showings, and some silt-sampling was done. An average crew of three men was employed for 3V£ months under the supervision of I. M. Watson, geologist. LODE METALS 51 Molybdenum-Copper NASS RIVER Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias (55° 129° S.E.) Company office, 55 Yonge Nass River Mines Limited Street, Toronto 1, Ont. P. H. McCloskey, By n. c. carter and h. Bapty president. These claim groups, consisting of 91 full and fractional recorded claims, are on the south side of the Nass River approximately 12 miles southwest of Aiyansh. The company also holds under option two groups (Snafu and Kay) totalling 52 claims in the immediate vicinity. Access to the property is by the Columbia Cellulose private logging-road from Terrace. The company was incorporated in 1966, with Madsen Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. having controlling interest. Other participating companies include Canadian Nickel Company Limited, Newconex Canadian Exploration Ltd., Noranda Mines, Limited, and Union Carbide Canada Limited. The claim groups include an area of the contact between the Coast Intrusions and northeast-trending hornfelsed greywackes and argillites of the Bowser Group. Several small intrusions of leucocratic quartz monzonite porphyry, containing 2- to 4-millimetre phenocrysts of potash feldspar and quartz, cut both the sediments and the Coast Intrusions. Basalt lava flows of Recent age cover a large area north and east of the claim groups. On the Valley claim group, molybdenite mineralization occurs in quartz vein- lets and fractures and as disseminations in quartz monzonite porphyry, fine-grained alaskite, and hornfelsed greywacke. On the other claim groups, shear zones in the sedimentary rocks contain pyrite, pyrrhotite, and some chalcopyrite. Two geologists and two helpers were employed full time from May 1st until December 1st on geophysical prospecting and geological mapping. An induced polarization geophysical survey was carried out over 4.7 miles of line by McPhar Geophysics Limited. Rock trenches, totalling more than 262 lineal feet, were excavated, and T. Connors diamond-drilled a number of holes totalling 3,241 feet. A Terrace-based helicopter was used to move diamond-drilling equipment from one site to another and to shift geologists to fly camps at higher elevations. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 914.] Lead-Zinc-Copper Hope By H. Bapty TERRACE (54° 128° N.W.) Two claims, Hope Nos. 1 and 2, recorded in the names of C. L. M. Giggey and Kenneth Mayner, of Terrace, are on Cedar River 15 miles north of Kitsumkalum Lake. They were worked during the summer by means of a small-tracked tractor and a % -yard shovel. Fifteen tons of ore removed from a pit was hand-cobbed into 80 sacks of shipping-grade material. The property may be reached from the private logging-road of Columbia Cellulose Company Ltd., north from Terrace. The property was not visited. Molybdenum Big, Joe (54° 128° N.W.) Company office, 808, 602 Silver Standard Mines Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. N. W. Bur- ByH. Bapty meister, geologist. The Big and Joe claims are near the head of Cedar River, 32 miles north of Terrace, and between 1,000 and 3,000 feet elevation. The property may be reached from the Columbia Cellulose Company Ltd.'s logging-roads. Molybdenite is reported to occur in quartz monzonite. Soil samples were taken at 100-foot intervals along 33 miles of line. Ten 10-foot trenches totalling 100 feet were dug. Eight men spent one month on the property. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 857.] 52 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Molybdenum KITIMAT RIVER Barbs, Ell (54° 128° S.E.) Western office, 601, 535 Thurlow Amax Exploration, Inc. Street, Vancouver 1. R. A. Barker, manager. This By w. g. ciarke group of 131 claims, owned by the company, is on the upper reaches of the Kitimat River. It is accessible by helicopter from Terrace, 32 miles away. The molybdenite and minor chalcopyrite and pyrite are reported to occur in quartz veins and stockworks in granitic quartz porphyry and granodiorite. In 1966 nine men spent 316, months under P. W. Richardson, geologist, making geological and geochemical surveys of an area 3 miles square and doing some trenching and chip-sampling. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 818 and 819.] Molybdenum PORCHER ISLAND Blue Jay, Mac, Ray, Star, Zero (53° 130° N.E.) Company office, 9918— Five Star Petroleum & Mines Ltd. 109th Street, Edmonton, Alta. The corn- By h. Bapty pany 0wns 56 mineral claims, the Blue Jay, M.J., Mac, Star, Ray, and Zero groups, south of Porcher Inlet on Porcher Island, 20 miles west of Prince Rupert. The showing is close to tidewater and less than 100 feet in elevation. Three men and two contractors worked on the Blue Jay Nos. 1 and 2 claims for two months during the summer doing surface geological mapping, sinking a 20-foot shaft, and diamond drilling one X-ray hole to a depth of 147 feet. The work was supervised by J. Foster Irwin Engineering and Management Services, Limited, consulting engineers. The property was not visited. QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS Iron-Copper MORESBY ISLAND Tasu (52° 132° N.E.) Wesfrob Mines Limited is a wholly Wesfrob Mines Limited owned subsidiary of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Lim- ByH. Bapty fe^ 7 King Street East, Toronto 1, Ont. Vancouver office, 504,1112 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. P. N. Pitcher, president; F. A. Godfrey, mine manager; L. W. Hall, construction manager. The property consists of 21 Crown-granted mineral claims and 83 recorded claims. Work was continuous throughout the year, except for a shutdown in September caused by a strike of construction carpenters. The crew throughout the year averaged 400 men. The property is served by barge, coastal ship, and aircraft. The primary crushing plant has been built underground, and ore is to be fed to it by transfer raises from the surface pits. The crushed ore will then be conveyed to the cobbing plant and from there to the fine-ore bins. The concentrating plant will produce a copper concentrate and an iron-ore concentrate. This plant has been constructed near the shoreline in Tasu Harbour so that concentrates can be stored near the deep-sea loading-dock for overseas shipment. Work Accomplished Underground work— Diamond drilling ft. 460 Advance Slashing (Ft.) (Cu. Ft.) Adit 321 Ore-passes 2,117 Crusher-station 65,307 Ore-bins 73,101 LODE METALS 53 Pit preparation— No. 1 zone, waste mined __ No. 2 zone, waste mined ._ Ore mined and stockpiled Plant-site excavation Advance (Ft.) _cu. yd. _cu. yd. tons cu. yd. Slashing (Cu. Ft.) 91,640 2,401,269 281,000 123,296 Surface Buildings Installed The townsite, consisting of 67 buildings, was substantially completed. Construction of the mining plant was 75 per cent completed. This consists of underground crushing-station, crushing and cobbing plant, concentrator, concentrate- storage facility, concentrate reclaim and ship-loading, deep-sea dock, power plant, fresh-water impoundment and pipeline. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 68-69.] Copper-Iron-Molybdenum Garnet, Ruby (52° 132° N.E.) Company office, 1327, 510 West Moresby Mines Limited Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. R. E. Dale, president; By h. Bapty David Arscott, resident geologist. The property con sists of 61 recorded mineral claims, of which 56 are owned by the company and 5 are held by option. The claims cover Botany Island and the peninsula between Gowing Island and Botany Island. Prospecting, trenching, and geological mapping were carried on continuously throughout the year. Line-cutting and a magnetometer survey were started in February, and the survey was completed in April. Approximately 9 miles of line was cut and picketed for the magnetometer survey. Diamond drilling commenced in July and is continuing. Total diamond-drilling footage during the year amounted to 1,600 feet in 12 short exploratory holes. Roadwork, trail-cutting, buildings, and heliports were completed as required. A tractor-road 1.5 miles long was completed, along with approximately 2 miles of trail. Four heliports were built, and a floating wharf 60 by 10 feet was constructed in order to facilitate the moving of supplies. Four frame buildings were constructed during the year. The camp is serviced by radio-telephone to Vancouver, Sandspit, or Prince Rupert. The property is serviced by air from Sandspit or by unscheduled barge service from Vancouver. Local transportation is provided by a small company- owned boat. Iron Jessie, Adonis, Rose (52° 131° S.W.) Company office, 1111 West Geor- Jedway Iron Ore Limited gia Street, Vancouver 5; mine office, Jedway. L. T. By h. Bapty Postle, president; N. G. Cornish, mine manager; F. Walters, mine superintendent; L. McGinnis, mill superintendent. The mine is on Harriet Harbour, near the southeastern tip of Moresby Island. The property consists of 61 mineral claims held by record, 10 Crown-granted claims, and 4 mineral leases. Ore zones are magnetite in limestone and in volcanics. Work was continuous throughout the year, and an average of 130 men was employed full time. The following work was done during the year:— Drifting ft. Raising ft. 54 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Test-hole drilling ft. 3,360 Blast-hole drilling ft. 98,185 Road construction ft. 7,400 Waste stripping tons 1,202,481 Ore mined— Open pit tons 643,009 Underground tons 220,015 Ore milled tons 889,281 Concentrate produced dry short tons 515,299 Concentrate shipped dry short tons 539,190 The property is serviced by weekly scheduled coastwise boat and freighter and a daily aircraft service from Sandspit. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1959, pp. 11-14; 1961, pp. 13-15; 1962, pp. 11-12; 1963, p. 16.] Pyrite-Zinc-Copper ECSTALL RIVER Ecstall (53° 129° N.W.) Company office, 34 King Texas Gulf Sulphur Company Street East, Toronto 1, Ont.; Vancouver office, By h. Bapty 355 Burrard Street. C. O. Stephens, New York, president; R. H. Clayton, engineer in charge. The company owns 21 Crown- granted claims on Red Gulch Creek, a tributary of the Ecstall River. The property is 45 miles southeast of Prince Rupert. The orebody consists of a massive pyrite body containing minor amounts of sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Three week's work was done by six men during August. The old adit was reopened, and 10 tons of ore was slashed from various areas and shipped for bulk assay and metallurgical testing. Transportation to the property is by boat or float-plane. The property was not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1952, pp. 81-84.] Copper-Molybdenum GAMSBY RIVER Ice (53° 127° S.E.) Head office, Box 1510, Station B, Montreal Cominco Ltd. 2, Que.; field office, 1150 Bay Avenue, Trail. The Ice group By w. g. ciarke 0f ejght claims, optioned by the company, is on the west side of the Gamsby River near its headwaters. It is accessible from Burns Lake by helicopter. It is reported that chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization is sparsely distributed on widely spaced fractures in granite. Two men spent one week on a geological survey under the supervision of G. Parsons, exploration geologist. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 732.] copper POOLEY ISLAND H and C, Rod (52° 128° N.E.) Company office, 1132 West Geor- Rainbow Mines Limited gia Street, Vancouver 5. William Howden, president. By h. Bapty jjjjs group consists of one Crown-granted mineral claim (Lot 1553), the Rod group of 10 claims, and the H and C group of 10 claims held by record. The claims are on the west side of Pooley Island, 35 miles northwest of Ocean Falls. LODE METALS 55 A small crew of men, under the direction of J. P. Elwell, consulting engineer, commenced work in early April and finished late in October. Showings were explored by trenching and by 4,000 feet of diamond drilling. Transportation to the property is by coastal boat or aircraft. The property was not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1963, p. 21.] Copper BELLA COOLA Bella Coola Chief (52° 126° N.W.) British Columbia office, 1150 Bay Ave- Cominco Ltd. nue, Trail. G. Parsons, exploration geologist. The property, By h. Bapty comprising the Bella Coola Chief, Torger Copper, Queen Sul phur, and Red Deer, was formerly known as the Salloomt Copper and Torger Copper, and was explored in 1954 by Noranda Mines, Limited, and in 1956 by Silver Standard Mines Limited. These four mineral claims are on the Salloomt River 12 miles north of Hagensborg, and may be reached by trail or by helicopter. Two company geologists, M. R. Wolfhard and M. R. Murrell, mapped the property. One diamond-drill hole 351 feet long was drilled, and six trenches (total length, 80 feet) were dug by hand. The property was not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1910, p. 83.] VANCOUVER MINING DIVISION Copper-Molybden um BHA Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited KNIGHT INLET (51° 125° S.E.) Company office, 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. This company owns the BHA group of 28 recorded claims lying between elevations of By j. e. Merrett 4000 and 6,500 feet on the southwest side of Mount Waddington, 15 miles up Franklin River and Glacier from the head of Knight Inlet. The mineralization is molybdenite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite in a poorly developed stockwork of quartz veinlets in silicified and sericitized quartz monzonite. A crew of four men under C. S. Ney made a geological map, sampled stream sediments of an area of 1.5 square miles, and drilled seven AX diamond-drill holes. Gold-Silver-Copper-Molybdenum BUTE INLET Colossus (50° 125° N.E.) Company office, 203, 1515 Pemberton Alquin Mines Ltd. Avenue, North Vancouver. This company owns the Colos- By j. e. Merrett sus (Lot 256), Blue Bell (Lot 258), Portage (Lot 259), and Champness (Lot 260) Crown-granted claims and the Lou group of 29 recorded mineral claims, lVSz miles northwest of Estero Basin off Cordero Channel at the mouth of Bute Inlet. Access is by way of 3 miles of logging-road from the entrance to Estero Basin. The companies having previously operated this property are B.C. Copper Co. (1899-1912) and Colossus Copper Co. Ltd. (1929). The mine workings comprise three adits at elevations of 1,300, 1,460, and 1,550 feet, with interconnecting raises. Mining completed on these levels by former companies included 2,600 feet of drifting and 270 feet of raises. This work was done to explore occurrences of chalcopyrite and molybdenite in a silicified shear zone in granodiorite. W. R. Quinn was in charge of a crew of four men for seven months. Geological, geomagnetometer, and self-potential surveys of the property were made, and 16 diamond-drill holes, totalling 1,600 feet, were drilled. In addition, 1,700 feet of access road was built and three camp buildings were constructed. 56 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper-Molybdenum POWELL RIVER L.L. (50° 124° S.W.) Company office, Britannia Anaconda American Brass Beach. The L.L. group of 74 claims is 8 miles by Limited road north of Powell River. Molybdenite and chal- Byj.E. Merrett copyrite mineralization occurs in quartz seams and fractures in granodiorite and quartz diorite. Geological and geochemical (soil and stream sediment) surveys were made of the claims by a four-man crew. J. M. McAndrew was geologist in charge of the work. Copper-Lead-Zinc Norco, Canyon (50° 124° S.W.) Company office, 310, 1425 Marine Norco Resources Ltd. Drive, West Vancouver. This property, formerly known By j. e. Merrett as tfie Copper King and operated by Theodosia Mines Limited, comprises five Crown-granted mineral claims (Lots 1831 to 1835) and the Norco, Canyon, Bell, and Ace groups. The claims are 4 miles up Theodosia River from the head of Theodosia Arm and are 1 to 2 miles south and west of Olsen Lake. Access to the camp is by way of 5 miles of trail from Powell Lake. The mineralization is magnetite, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite in a narrow northwesterly trending skarn zone which is exposed along the southeast flank and across the summit of a ridge about 1 mile south of Olsen Lake. A crew of three men was employed for three months making a topographical map of the mineralized area. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1960, p. 90.] Iron Snowfall, Sunshine (49° 124° N.W.) The group consists of 11 claims, Snow- By n. d. McKechnie fav| Nos. 3 and 4, Sunshine Nos. 1 to 9, held by record by Frank Lehman of Victoria. The claims are 7 miles up Appleton Creek, a southward-flowing tributary of Sliammon Creek, which flows into the Strait of Georgia about IVi miles northwest of Powell River. The rocks are basaltic lavas, with some limestone, of the Vancouver Group. These are intruded by grey quartz diorite, which in turn is intruded by a lighter-grey granodiorite and a diorite porphyry. Except along a logging-road, outcrops are scarce. Skarn, chiefly coarse dark-brown garnet, epidote, and quartz, and tremolite amphibolite occur in and near limestone. The basalt, normally fine grained, along some joints and fractures shows a coarse texture, which grades into quartz diorite and apparently is a recrystallization related to the quartz diorite. Only three formational contacts were seen; one limestone contact strikes east and dips 55 degrees south, two flow contacts respectively strike north 30 degrees and north 60 degrees west and dip 65 degrees northeastward and 88 degrees southwest- ward. On Snowfall No. 3 mineral claim there are some small exposures of magnetite, as stringers and blebs in skarn. The magnetite contains small quantities of pyrite and^a very little chalcopyrite. Magnetite also occurs elsewhere as blebs in the coarse-grained altered basalt, where it is accompanied by minor hematite. The quartz diorite carries fine-grained disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite up to about 1 per cent combined sulphides. A number of high dip-needle readings which show little or no pattern and which were obtained by Frank Lehman in areas of scant outcrop probably are caused by magnetite in the recrystallized basalt. LODE METALS 57 Copper ALTA LAKE London, Axe (50° 122° S.W.) Company office, 905, 525 New Jersey Zinc Exploration Seymour Street, Vancouver 2. R. C. Macdon- Company (Canada) Ltd. aid, assistant to the president. The company By a. r. c. James holds Mineral Lease M9, comprising the Lon don, Royal Edward, Hard Cash, Iron Hat, Albany, Tonopah, and Iron Wedge Fraction Crown grants and also the eight-claim Axe group on the southwest side of Fitz- simmons Creek about 5 miles from Alta Lake. A jeep-road connects the property with the Squamish-Pemberton road. The property was described in some detail in the 1963 Annual Report. Copper mineralization, including chalcopyrite and malachite, occurs near the westerly dipping contact of green schistose tuffs and underlying granodiorite. The present company has been active since 1963. In 1966 an exploration adit 917 feet long was driven at the 3950 level, below the surface showings. A crew of nine men was employed for seven months. The work was supervised by M. R. Swanson. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1963, p. 64.] Copper-Zinc Britannia Mine The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd. By A. R. C. James ager, Britannia Operations; HOWE SOUND (49° 123° N.E.) Registered office, 1600,409 Granville Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Britannia Beach. D. F. Cornish, president; J. B. Knaebel, vice- president, Western Division; B. B. Greenlee, man- L. Pollish, general superintendent; J. C. S. Moore, mine superintendent; W. R. Stern, mill superintendent; R. N. Lovlin, maintenance superintendent. The Britannia mine is on the east side of Howe Sound, 40 miles by road from Vancouver. The main haulage adit of the mine is on the 4100 level, with the main portal at Britannia Beach. This now extends for approximately 4 miles along the Britannia shear structure. Orebodies are at present being mined in the Victoria, Bluff, and No. 8 sections of the mine. The Victoria section is serviced by the Victoria shaft, which extends from the surface above the 1800 level down to the main haulage at 4100 level, 3.8 miles from the portal. The Victoria workings extend from 2900 to 4100 levels and include stopes in the Beta vein, a large long-hole stope in the West Victoria or 188 orebody, and development in the " G " vein. The Bluff section is serviced by No. 7 shaft, which extends from the 2200 level to 4100 level, and is 2.25 miles from the portal, and also by No. 4 incline shaft, which is in operation between 2700 and 3500 levels. Production in the Bluff section has come mainly from an orebody above 2700 level and one above 4000 level. Development is proceeding in a large ore block in the vicinity of No. 4 shaft. The No. 8 section is mined from the No. 8 shaft, 1.8 miles from the 4100 portal, which extends from 4100 level to 5700 level. The present No. 8 workings extend from 4400 to 5250 levels. Development and exploration are being carried on at various levels, but especially on 5250, 5400, and 5700 levels. A main ventilation raise and escapeway was driven from the 5700 level to the 5400 and 5250 levels. Methods of mining at Britannia include shrinkage, square-set, and long-hole methods. The following is a summary of development work done in 1966:— Drifting and crosscutting Raising Diamond drilling Rotary drilling Ft. 12,098 5,355 49,288 2,767 58 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Further work was done in 1966 on the Jane Basin project. Access roads were completed to all the glory-holes above the Mount Sheer townsite, and a considerable amount of drilling and sampling was done to evaluate the mineral reserves in the old upper workings. In conjunction with this study, some of the old underground upper workings are being rehabilitated, using the 1050 portal at Jane Basin for access. Other workings and raises are being reconditioned so as to control the flow of underground waters and increase the leaching of copper. A settling-pond was constructed in the mill yard at the beach, through which all classifier overflows and other solutions from the mill pass before being discharged into the sound. The concentrator milled 503,685 tons of ore, from which 14,346 tons of copper concentrate and 2,075 tons of zinc concentrate were produced. A total crew of 452 men was employed in December, of whom 272 were employed underground. NEW WESTMINSTER MINING DIVISION Nickel-Copper tixjsfl^ Pride of Emory (49° 121° S.W.) Administrative office, 1825, Giant Mascot Mines Limited 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1; mine ad- ByG. E.P.Eastwood and T.M. Waterland JreSS, BOX 820, Hope. L. P. Starck, vice- president and general manager; F. Holland, resident manager; K. Dahlke, mine superintendent; G. Bosnich, mill superintendent. The mine is at the head of Stulkawhits (Texas) Creek, which flows eastward into the Fraser River about 8 miles north of Hope. A gravel road about 5 miles long leads from the Trans-Canada Highway 8 miles north of Hope to the mine plant at the 2600 portal. The geology has been described in the Annual Reports for 1954, 1964, and 1965. Briefly, a body of ultramafic rocks is surrounded and irregularly intruded by diorite. Some 17 steeply plunging, pipe-like orebodies occur in the ultramafic rocks near the diorite contact. They are variously designated by name, name and number, or number alone. Stopes developed in them bear the same designations. The ore minerals are pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite, which in most orebodies are disseminated in peridotite and pyroxenite, but in parts of the 600 and the lower part of the 1500 orebody they form steep pegmatitic veins a foot or two thick. These veins are closely spaced in the lower part of the 1500 orebody and increase its grade considerably. They appear to terminate, both above and below, at tight slips dipping gently northeast. The lower slip is also the bottom of the 1500 orebody. From 50 feet above the 2600 level it dips almost to the level. The pegmatitic veins are light yellow-bronze in colour, and have the appearance of massive pentlandite. However, a grab sample of this material from the 1500 orebody assayed: Platinum, 0.06 ounce per ton; palladium, 0.21 ounce per ton; copper, 0.90 per cent; nickel, 2.6 per cent. Much of the vein material, therefore, is pyrrhotite rather than pentlandite. The mine is developed from two adit levels at elevations of approximately 3,550 and 2,600 feet, the 2600 level being the main haulage level. These and three intermediate levels are joined and serviced by an internal inclined shaft. Workings above the 3550 are serviced by various raises, and development headings in the 1500 ore- body are serviced by a raise from the 2600 level. An ore-pass near the shaft transfers ore from the 3550 and intermediate levels to loading-chutes on the 2600. The ore is mined by horizontal and vertical blast-hole stoping methods. Two- inch-diameter blast-holes are drilled with 4- and 4Vi-inch deep-hole drills using LODE METALS 59 sectional drill steel and tungsten carbide bits. The blast-holes are loaded with a commercial brand of AN/FO explosive and primed with 75 per cent gelatin dynamite and detonating-cord. All production blasts are initiated with short-period electric blasting-caps. Ore is loaded into 6-ton Granby cars by 9-cubic-foot-capacity track-mounted mucking-machines and hauled to the mill on 2600 level via trolley locomotive. Development work done during 1966 was as follows:— 3550 level: Development of the 512 orebody was completed and the stope placed in production. Pride of Emory " C " zone pillar at 3840 was removed and the stope backfilled. Development of Pride of Emory " D " zone was completed from 3550 to 3800 levels and stoping started. Ore was drawn from Pride of Emory stopes at 3,400 feet elevation and transferred via ore-pass to 3250 level. The 1900 stope was mined above 3550 level to 3,584 feet elevation. The Brunswick 2a stope was explored, developed, and readied for production. 3250 level: The Brunswick 10 orebody was developed and put into production to 3,480 feet elevation. The Brunswick 11 orebody was developed to elevation 3,400 feet and the 3400 level pillar was removed. Removal of caved ore from the Brunswick 5 stope was resumed. The 600 stope was operated throughout the year. Production from the 1900, 1600, and 1500 stopes was completed. Development was carried out in the 1400 orebody. 2950 level: The 600 orebody raise was completed to 3250 level. 2600 level: The 2200 orebody was developed to 3250 level and placed in production. The 2000 orebody was developed. Development was accelerated in the 1500 orebody after diamond drilling indicated that this high-grade orebody continued to the 2600 level. At year-end long- hole drilling in it was under way between 2600 and 2900 levels, and development was continuing between 2900 and 3250 levels. The above development work aggregated: Drifting and crosscutting, 3,496 feet; raising, 4,788 feet; diamond drilling, 38,969 feet; and blast-hole drilling, 168,002 feet. At year-end, ore was being obtained from the 512, the Pride of Emory, the Brunswick 1, 2, 5, and 10, the 2663, and the 1500 stopes. During the year the mill treated 327,164 tons of ore at an average rate of 1,325 tons per day, producing 18,387 tons of bulk concentrate containing 3,622,400 pounds of nickel and 1,822,000 pounds of copper. The concentrate was hauled by company-owned trucks to Vancouver and there delivered to the buyers, Sumitomo Shoji Canada Ltd., for shipment to Japan. Copper-Molybdenum-Lead-Zinc-Silver A.P.M., Bear, King, Calico, Len (49° 121° S.E.) Company office, 7, 515 Allison Pass Mining Ltd. Granville Street, Vancouver 2; field office, By t. m. waterland Hope. One hundred and forty-eight claims are owned and six are held under agreement in the Sumallo Basin area about 7 miles south of the Hope-Princeton highway. Access to the property is via a logging-road 60 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 which leaves the Hope-Princeton road just east of the " big slide " at the Allison Pass Sawmill. Mineralization consists of galena, sphalerite, molybdenite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pyrite in altered and silicified argillites of the Hozameen Group. The area is intruded by dioritic rocks and by numerous basic dykes. The zone of brec- ciation, alteration, and mineralization varies from 300 to 1,600 feet wide and has been traced for a length of 2 miles. Work has been continuous, with six to seven men working under the supervision of William Howard Myers. Geological mapping was carried out by Mr. Myers, and an induced polarization survey was conducted by Geofax Surveys Ltd., of Calgary. Two short trenches have been dug by hand and about 1 mile of road was constructed. Four 2-inch holes were drilled to bedrock, and these were later deepened by diamond drilling. Seven AX diamond-drill holes were drilled for a total of 4,050 feet. (49° 121° S.E.) Company office, 504, 535 Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. Thirty-six claims, comprising the Bab, Barbara, and Joan Molybdenum Bab, Barbara, Joan American Smelting and Refining Company, Canadian Exploration Division By T. M. Waterland groups on Sowaqua Creek, some 15 miles southwest of Hope, are owned by American Smelting and Refining Company. Access to the property is by helicopter. Two men supervised by D. L. McKelvie, geologist, worked for two weeks and blasted five trenches in rock for a total length of 200 feet. It is reported that molybdenite occurs in quartz stringers in monzonite. Nickel-Copper Bea (49° 121° S.E.) Company office, 411, 470 Granville Kelso Explorations Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. S. D. Faider, president. The By g. e. p. Eastwood property comprises a large number of recorded claims extending in a block north from Schkam Lake to the west of the Trans-Canada Highway. In August, Kelso Explorations Ltd. acquired an interest in the claims from Impad Holdings Ltd. and proceeded to deepen the diamond-drill hole that had been put down 300 feet by Impad. Access to the drill-site is through the Cariboo Road Auto Court. In addition to the workings mentioned in the report for 1965, there is an adit, 900 feet long, which is partly on the Murphy property and partly on the Bea group. The portal is about 200 feet west of the Trans-Canada Highway at a point about 1.2 miles north of Schkam Lake, and is reached by a short dirt road. This adit was driven in 1934-35 by Ideal Gold & Nickel Mines, Ltd. Samples taken by the Resident Engineer of the Department of Mines in 1934 contained only traces of gold and silver. Pyrite and chalcopyrite are locally discernible. The rocks lie within the Fraser River fault zone, and have been greatly modified, both structurally and chemically. The principal rock in the adit appears to have been a granite or granodiorite that was crushed and strongly silicified. This silicified rock contains many dark bands and lenses, some of which are clearly lamprophyre, others of which resemble argillite, and still others which appear to consist largely of amphibole and pyroxene. This complex has been further broken by a sheeting which dips about 30 degrees east, and which is locally warped or folded, creating an illusion of bedding. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1934, p. F 19; 1965, p. 217.] LODE METALS 61 Molybdenum-Copper lago, Mac, Max, Bar (49° 121° N.E.) Company office, 514, 615 West Pender Iago Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2. D. G. McRae, president. The lago, By t.m. waterland MaC) Max, and Bar groups consist of 90 claims held by location and lying some 15 miles northeast of Hope. Access from Hope is via 20 miles of logging-road and trail. It is reported that pegmatitic granite is cut by dykes carrying molybdenite and chalcopyrite. Work extended over a four-month period with two to four men working under the supervision of G. LeBrun. Work included geological mapping, soil-sampling, and digging some 60 shallow exploration pits. Copper Mt. Cheam No. 2 By J. W. McCammon CHILLIWACK (49° 121 ° S.W.) Since 1957 Louis Herman, of Agassiz, has held one claim, the Mt. Cheam No. 2, on a copper showing on the north slope of Cheam Peak. The showing is six-tenths of a mile southeast of and 1,700 feet above the Trans-Canada Highway at the point where it is crossed by the power-line from the generating-station at Cheam View. It is near the centre of the Northeast Quarter of Section 10, Township 3, Range 28, west of the 6th meridian. Access is via an overgrown logging-road for 1 Vi miles to its end and thence 800 feet southeast through the bush. At the showing two irregular, more or less parallel and vertical, vuggy quartz veins 7 feet wide and 50 feet apart trend southward up the face of a limestone bluff. Within the veins are scattered veinlets of chalcopyrite and irregular masses of pyrrhotite. Some sulphide extends into the limestone wallrock in a few places. More sulphide is reported to occur higher up the hill above the bluff. The limestone is crystalline and in spots is altered to garnet. It has been mapped as part of the Pennsylvania^?) Chilliwack Group. A pit 20 feet wide and 5 feet deep was blasted out of the rock on the west vein at the base of the bluff, but is now caved. Four samples were collected for assay. No. 1 was a 7-foot channel sample cut across the east vein, No. 2 was a 7-foot channel sample cut across the west vein, Nos. 3 and 4 were selected samples of massive sulphide mineralization from patches in the west vein. The results of the assays are as follows: No. 1 —gold, trace; silver, nil; copper, 0.08 per cent; No. 2—gold, nil; silver, nil; copper, 0.11 per cent; No. 3—gold, trace; silver, trace; copper, 0.025 per cent; No. 4—gold, nil; silver, trace; copper, 0.17 per cent; tungsten, trace. [Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Map 737a.] Molybdenum HARRISON LAKE Meg, Bailey, Sash (49° 121° N.W.) Company office, 1272 West Gem Explorations Limited Pender Street, Vancouver 1. R. W. Caskey, presi- By a. r. c. James deni; j a. McAskill, managing director. The com pany owns 101 recorded mineral claims, called the Meg, Bailey, and Sash groups, near the crest of the Lillooet Range at the head of Clear Creek, a tributary of Big Silver Creek. A series of logging-roads along the east side of Harrison Lake give access to the property for four-wheel-drive vehicles. The camp on Clear Creek is at about 2,500 feet elevation. Exploration has been done by Utah Construction & Mining Co. by agreement. In 1966, four holes totalling 3,550 feet were diamond- drilled. A crew of 11 men was employed for three months. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 219.] 62 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper PF, Midnight (49° 121° S.W.) Company office, 1821, 355 Bur- Bethex Explorations Ltd. rard Street, Vancouver 1. C. J. Coveney, manager. By n. d. McKecnnie The property consists of 76 mineral claims and three fractional mineral claims known as the PF, Midnight, Rex, Jay, and Blondie, all held by record and situated south of the Harrison River between the summits of Agassiz Mountain and Mount Woodside. The showings are near the junction of Midnight Nos. 1 and 2 and PF Nos. 31 and 32 mineral claims, at an elevation of about 475 feet. They are reached by a jeep-road which leaves from a farmyard at Mountain Slough, about one-half mile north of the Agassiz-Harrison Mills highway. The geology of the area is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 737a, Hope. The rocks underlying the working area are greywackes of the Upper Jurassic (?) or Lower Cretaceous Agassiz Group. They show little alteration, chiefly the development of secondary calcite and chlorite. They are massive, and bedding contacts are hard to recognize; one possible such contact had a strike of north 35 degrees east. The only intrusive rock recognized is an andesite dyke about 2 feet wide exposed near the south end of the working area, striking north 30 degrees west and dipping 85 degrees southwestward. It is some 500 feet southwest of the principal mineral showing. The principal mineral showing is in a stripping measuring about 50 by 120 feet. Here the rock is fractured on planes striking north 15 degrees east, dipping 85 degrees southeastward, and striking north 45 degrees west, dipping 80 degrees northeastward. These fractures are best developed in an area about 20 feet square at the northeast side of the stripping, and here they are mineralized with coarse pyrite and chalcopyrite and minor quartz. At a distance of 200 feet eastward, a similar mineralization occurs sparsely in fractures striking north 50 degrees west, dipping 80 degrees southwestward; striking north 25 degrees west, dipping 70 degrees northeastward; and striking north 35 degrees west, dipping 45 degrees northeastward. There appeared to be no connecting structure between the two exposures; outcrops between and immediately south of a connecting line show only a sparse mineralization of fine-grained pyrite unrelated to visible fractures. They are not on a common greywacke bed. Remains of a shack and scattered segments of drill core near these showings suggest that the occurrence has been tested before; the 1955 Annual Report, page 74, notes a test of a copper showing on Mount Agassiz. In 1966 an induced polarization survey was carried out, some geological mapping was done, six trenches totalling 1,950 feet were dug by bulldozer, and two holes totalling 1,056 feet were diamond-drilled. A crew of about eight men was employed for three months. Copper Ascot, Jes, Gloria, J (49° 121° S.W.) Company office, 1211, 1030 West Ascot Mines Ltd. Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. The company holds by rec- ByN.D. McKecnnie ord the Ascot 1 to 16, Jes 1 to 8, Gloria 1 to 10, and the J 1 to 10, on the north side of the Fraser River, on the southward slope of Mount Woodside, about 3 miles east of Harrison Mills. A jeep-road which leaves the highway 2Vi miles east of Harrison Mills leads through the property toward Stacey Lake, near the top of the mountain. The working area is on the J No. 6 and Ascot No. 4 mineral claims at between 400 and 600 feet elevation. LODE METALS 63 The working area is underlain by andesitic flows and flow breccias that are Lower Jurassic (Geol. Surv., Canada, Paper 64-1, p. 29). In a trench at the side of the jeep-road, on J No. 6 mineral claim and at elevation 550 feet, chalcopyrite occurs in a shear in porphyritic andesite. The shear is about 6 inches wide, strikes north 70 degrees west and dips 65 degrees southwestward, and is parallel to a band of grey cherty rock (tuff?) about 10 feet wide. The cherty rock is well mineralized with pyrite. On Ascot No. 4 and also on the jeep-road, at about 400 feet elevation, there is 350 feet of rock trenching and stripping in andesite flow breccia. The rock is locally silicified and strongly pyritized; it is cut by somewhat irregular quartz-filled fractures striking generally west-northwest and dipping steeply northeastward. The quartz carries pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. Similar rock and mineralization is exposed in a trench about 200 feet to the southwest and 25 feet lower in elevation. All of the quartz-sulphide mineralization is sparse. No contacts of the breccia with other rocks were seen, so its strike and dip are not known. Copper-Molybdenum STAVE LAKE Friendship (49° 122° N.E.) Company office, 905, 525 New Jersey Zinc Exploration Seymour Street, Vancouver 2. R. C. Macdon- Company (Canada) Ltd. aid, assistant to the president. The Friendship By a. r. c. James group of 10 recorded claims is AV2 miles north east of the north end of Stave Lake and was under option to the company in 1966. Access is from the north end of Stave Lake, by road for AVi miles and by trail for 1V2 miles. The showings consist of molybdenite, chalcopyrite, and minor amounts of pyrite occurring as scattered aggregates from 0.1 to 1 inch in diameter in granodiorite and leucogranite. In 1966 five holes were diamond-drilled, totalling 2,327 feet. An access road 1V2 miles long was built on the east side of Winslow Creek and a helicopter landing was made at 2,200 feet elevation. A crew of seven men was employed for three months under the supervision of J. B. Seaton and R. C. Macdonald. The option was terminated at the end of the season. Zinc NANAIMO MINING DIVISION QUATSINO-PORT HARDY HPH (50° 127° N.W.) Company office, 1825, 355 Giant Explorations Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. R. A. Sutherland, By n. d. McKecnnie geologist in charge. The company holds 28 mineral claims by record and 82 claims by agreement at Nahwitti Lake. Access is by logging-road from Port Hardy, 15 miles distant. The claims are underlain by Quatsino Limestone, older Karmutsen andesitic and basaltic lavas, and younger Bonanza sediments, tuffs, and lavas. The volcanic and sedimentary rocks are intruded by diabase and felsite dykes, and by younger monzonites which are believed to be a part of the Coast Range Intrusions. The bedded rocks strike generally north of west and dip gently southward. The Quatsino Limestone is displaced along a mylonite zone striking north 25 degrees west; north-striking faults also have been recognized. Mineralization, chiefly by pyrite and sphalerite, with minor galena and chalcopyrite, is prominent in three areas, all south of the lake or of Nahwitti River: toward the west end of the lake, on R.A.S. No. 4, Norman Nos. 1 and 2, and HSW No. 64 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 3 mineral claims; 1 mile east of the east end of the lake, on the HPH Nos. 1 and 3 mineral claims; and 3 miles east of the east end of the lake, on the Rain Nos. 1 and 2 mineral claims. All of the showings are in or at the contacts of Quatsino Limestone. The westernmost showing, on R.A.S. No. 4 mineral claim, is about 700 feet south of the lake and just east of the creek known locally as Monzonite Creek. Massive magnetite-ilvaite pods in limestone carry sphalerite and coarse pyrite. Monzonite outcrops about 200 feet east of these showings. On the Norman Nos. 1 and 2 mineral claims, at the creek known as Contact Creek and about 400 feet south of the lake, a 5-foot width of mylonite is exposed striking north 75 degrees east and dipping 70 degrees southward; it is not mineralized. Just upstream, and on the west bank of the creek, is a small cliff of skarn mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite, and minor chalcopyrite. The chalcopyrite is associated with epidote in reticulate fractures. Limestone is exposed in the creek-bed about 100 feet away. About 50 feet downstream from the mylonite, Karmutsen lavas are in contact with monzonite. On the HPH No. 3 mineral claim, about 400 feet south of the Port Hardy road, a shear 4 to 5 feet wide, striking north 75 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees southward, is in limestone exposed in an old pit. No sulphides were seen in this shear. The pit is about 200 feet east of Ida Creek, and old trenches recur for about 500 feet farther eastward. Some breccia was seen, but very little mineral; most of the old trenches are caved. On the HPH No. 1 mineral claim, toward its eastward boundary, a shaft and adit have been opened in limestone near the Karmutsen contact. They expose a 20-foot-wide felsite dyke striking north 80 degrees east and dipping 50 degrees northwestward; the felsite carries scattered stringers of galena and sphalerite. There is some magnetite along its contact with the limestone. The working leads downward in steps and exposes a 3- to 4-foot shear striking north 20 degrees east and dipping 65 to 70 degrees northwestward. In the shear are carbonate masses which carry galena. The shear is cut off to the northeast by a narrow fault striking north 60 degrees west and dipping 50 degrees northeastward. In the hangingwall of the shear is what appears to be a solution chamber some 20 to 30 feet in diameter. No sulphides were seen except in the shear. On the Rain No. 2 mineral claim near the eastern end of the property, several stringers in limestone of massive sphalerite carrying appreciable gold values have been exposed by stripping. Work during 1966 included a compass and chain survey of the claims,- a geochemical survey, and 2,863 feet of diamond drilling in 21 holes. Five men were employed. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1930, p. 297; 1931, p. 171; 1932, p. 207; 1936, Part F, pp. 47 and 49; Geol. Surv. Canada, Sum. Rept, 1931, Pt. A, pp. 36-45; Assessment Report No. 30.] Copper Hep (50° 127° N.W.) Company exploration of- Utah Construction & Mining Co. fice, 718, 510 West Hastings Street, Vancou- By n. d. McKechnie and j. e. Merrett ver 2. This company owns the Hep group of 86 mineral claims, lying between 1,300 and 1,800 feet elevation south and west of Nahwitti Lake and 20 miles by logging-road from Port Hardy. Chalcopyrite and pyrite occur as fracture fillings in chloritized andesite of the Vancouver Group LODE METALS 65 adjacent to a diorite stock. A crew of three men employed for a period of two months completed 14 X-ray diamond-drill holes totalling 1,340 feet. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 684.] Copper Bay (50° 127° N.W.) Company exploration of- Utah Construction & Mining Co. fice, 718, 510 West Hastings Street, Vancou- By n. d. McKecnnie and j. e. Merrett ver 2. This company holds by agreement the Bay group of 112 mineral claims, lying between sea-level and 500 feet elevation on the north side of Rupert Inlet, 12 miles by road southwest of Port Hardy. Chalcopyrite and pyrite occur as fracture fillings in a complex shear zone in volcanic rocks of the Bonanza Formation. A crew of 12 men was employed for a period of 11 months, during which time a topographical map was made of the property; a geological survey and map were completed of an area of 2VSi square miles; an induced polarization survey was made of an area half a mile square; and geochemical and magnetic surveys were made of the entire claim group. In addition, 77 diamond-drill holes totalling 15,000 feet of drilling and extensive surface trenching were completed. The work was supervised by A. G. Humphrey. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 710 and 731.] Copper Lake (50° 127° N.W.) Vancouver office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1111 West Pender Street. S. N. Charteris, By j. e. Merrett manager. The Lake group of nine mineral claims is north of Nahwitti Lake and east of Nahwitti River and is under option to the Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited. It is reported that the mineralization is chalcopyrite and magnetite in skarn. A crew of five men employed for two months made topographical, geological, geophysical (self-potential and magnetometer), and geochemical surveys on the Lake mineral claim. Three test-pits were excavated, and 200 feet of EX core-sized diamond drilling was done in six holes. The work was under the supervision of J. J. McDougall. Copper Ace, Flats, Kaye, Rick, Etc. (50° 128° N.E.) Company office, 709 Dunsmuir Holberg Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. This company owns 104 re- By j. e. Merrett corded mineral claims between elevations of 300 and 500 feet about the head of Holberg Inlet, 25 miles by logging-road from Port Hardy. The Rick claims cover the former Millington group, which was explored between 1918 and 1928, and between 1954 and 1959 by Noranda Exploration Company, Limited. The mineralization is reported to be bornite disseminated in basalt, in fracture fillings, and as a replacement of orthoclase and quartz. In 1966 a crew of four men employed for eight months under the supervision of Moore Schram completed 80 feet of rock trenching and did 1,946 feet of diamond drilling in six holes. Copper Yreka (50° 127° S.W.) Company office, 543 Granville Minoca Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2. The company is 51 per cent By N.D.McKechnie and j. e. Merrett owned by Mitsubishi Metal Mining Co. Ltd. and 66 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 49 per cent by Yreka Mines Limited, which, in turn, is controlled by Noranda Mines, Limited; J. R. Billingsley, general manager; George Dvorak, mine manager. Underground, 1,293 feet of drifting and crosscutting and 748 feet of raising were completed in the development of the "A," " B," and " C," orebodies, where 83,205 tons of ore was mined. The concentrator milled 73,960 tons of ore to produce 11,628 tons of copper concentrate. Surface construction included the building of a concentrate-loading dock with a loading capacity of 200 tons per hour, a 4,000-ton capacity concentrate-storage shed, and a camp recreation hall. The average number of men employed was 41, of whom 23 were employed underground. Operations during 1966 were confined to mining; little new geological information is available. Stoping has indicated that there are two fault directions in the mine. The faults strike north 40 degrees east, dip 65 degrees southeast, and strike north 30 degrees west, dip 80 degrees northeastward. The oreshoots tend to lie along the north 40-degree east set; the north 30-degree west set contains some mineralization. The line of intersection of these faults rakes south 40 degrees east at 65 degrees, and is nearly parallel to the rake of the oreshoots as shown by stoping. It is probable, therefore, that these faults are a part of the structure which controlled the deposition of ore in the skarn. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1953, p. 167; 1955, p. 76; 1965, p. 228; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept., 1929, Pt. A, p. 124.] Iron Merry Widow, Kingfisher (50° 127° S.E.) Company office, 1017, Empire Development Company Limited 736 Granville Street, Vancouver 2; By j. e. Merrett mine 0gce) port McNeill. E. C. Oates, general manager; J. J. Hogan, mine manager. The Empire mine adit is at an elevation of 1,911 feet on Merry Widow Mountain, on the west side of the Benson River valley, approximately 2 miles south of Benson Lake. The camp and concentrator are at an elevation of 800 feet. A 3-mile tote-road connects the adit and camp, and 25 miles of gravel road provides access to the camp from Port McNeill on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Ore is crushed at the portal and conveyed by means of a jig-back aerial tramway to the concentrator. Underground development work, comprising 830 feet of drifting and cross- cutting and 560 feet of raising, was completed in the Merry Widow ore zone. Blast- hole mining was used to produce the ore, of which 145,371 tons was removed from five mucking-machine draw points. A magnetic scalping conveyor pulley was installed between the portal crusher and the tramway ore-storage bin. A repair-shop was constructed near the portal, and the 4,000-ton-per-day concentrating plant, destroyed by fire in January, was replaced. The iron concentrate produced was trucked to the loading-dock at Port McNeill for shipment to Japan. The average number of men employed was 53, of whom 27 worked underground. Copper-Iron Old Sport (50° 127° S.E.) Company office, Tadanac; Coast Copper Company Limited mine office, Port McNeill. Cominco Ltd. is By N.D.McKechnie and j. e. Merrett the principal shareholder of Coast Copper LODE METALS 67 Company Limited and manages the operation. H. G. Barker, property superintendent; R. T. Trenaman, mine superintendent; G. M. Dorland, mill superintendent. This property, comprising 48 Crown-granted claims, 5 recorded claims, and 1 mineral lease, extends southward from Benson Lake on the west side of Benson River. The claims adjoin those held by Empire Development Company Limited. This company and Cominco Ltd. have an option agreement whereby the latter company may explore for and mine copper ores in the Benson Lake property of Empire Development Company Limited. Access is by way of a 26-mile gravel road from Port McNeill, where an employee residence townsite is located. A total of 11,435 feet of drifting and crosscutting was done, most of which was on the south headings of the 5100, 4900, and 4700 levels and on the north headings of the 5500 and 5300 levels. The principal drifting was on the 4700 south drift, which has been extended to explore an area of copper mineralization in the vicinity of the Empire concentrator. In the stopes, 1,942 feet of subdrifting and 4,521 feet of raising were completed. Other exploration work included 35,419 feet of diamond drilling. A crew of 190 men, of whom 120 were employed underground, mined and milled 282,832 tons of ore. Copper and iron concentrates were produced and trucked to the Port McNeill loading terminal for shipment to Japan. The following account of the geology is intended to supplement the previously published report in the Annual Report for 1960, page 100. The Old Sport deposit lies in the upper part of the Karmutsen Formation in a layer of skarn and sills known as the Old Sport horizon. Stratigraphically above the Old Sport horizon and at the base of the Quatsino Limestone is an intrusive sill termed the Included Diorite, which also contains ore. The Old Sport and Included Diorite Formations strike west-northwest and dip 30 to 35 degrees westward toward a diorite-gabbro stock, the Coast Copper stock. A series of faults striking north 40 degrees east to north 60 degrees east cross the Old Sport and Included Diorite Formations. They lie chiefly to the northwest and to the southeast of a northeastward salient of the Coast Copper stock. Ore occurs at the intersections of these faults with the Old Sport and Included Diorite Formations. The faults to the southeast of the salient include the Kingfisher and Merry Widow faults of the neighbouring Empire Development property. Also, there are fractures striking west of north which are occupied chiefly by dykes of felsite and andesite; they and the dykes are mineralized and are therefore at least in part pre-mineral. It has been observed that where wide sections of felsite are in contact with the Old Sport skarn, the felsite is mineralized for only a few feet from the contact, the Old Sport having been, apparently, the principal locus of deposition. On the 4700 level a contact between Coast Copper diorite and Karmutsen volcanics is well exposed in the southward-trending main crosscut. The sequence of events illustrated there is interpreted to be: fracturing of the Karmutsen and development in it of red garnetite; the garnetite zone intruded by a fine-grained dark rock; the dark rock intruded by the diorite and the development of porphyroblasts of feldspar in the dark rock; intrusion of andesite and felsite dykes; emplacement of the sulphides. Possibly some sulphide mineralization preceded the dyke intrusion since mineralization in these dykes is less usually than in contiguous skarn. Felsite at this exposure is of two kinds—a light-grey aphanitic rock, and a darker-grey to slightly greenish rock with a faint, finely porphyritic texture. In thin- section both are seen to be of the composition of granite, but the second or darker rock has phenocrysts of plagioclase, micrographic texture, and shows thin chains and irregular aggregates of garnet and (or) calcite. The lighter rock is equigranular, 68 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 shows no micrographic texture, and no garnet, although some calcite is present. The presence of garnet in the darker porphyritic rock would suggest that it is the older. They were not seen in contact. The metallic minerals are magnetite, which is contemporaneous with the skarn, chalcopyrite, bornite, pyrrhotite, and pyrite. Bornite occurs with chalcopyrite closer to the intrusive stock than does chalcopyrite alone; pyrrhotite is almost entirely confined to the ore along one fault; pyrite is scarce. Copper-Zinc NIMPKISH Kinman, Alpha (50° 126° S.W.) Company office, 736 Empire Development Company Limited Granville Street, Vancouver 2. The By j. e. Merrett Kinman and Alpha groups, totalling 14 claims, are located at the headwaters of Kinman Creek, which flows into the southeast side of Nimpkish Lake. The property was formerly known as the Kinman Copper group (1929). The mineral showings, which are between elevations of 2,000 and 3,300 feet, contain chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, and magnetite in garnet epidote skarn. Chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization is also reported to occur in fractures in granodiorite. The geology of the claims was mapped, and an induced polarization survey was made of a U-shaped block 1,600 by 7,700 feet. A crew of five men for 2Vi months was under the supervision of John Lamb. Copper N.C. (49° 126° N.E.) Company office, 736 Empire Development Company Limited Granville Street, Vancouver 2. The By j. e. Merrett N_C group of 20 claims is located at the headwaters of Nimpkish River, 5 miles southeast of Vernon Camp. The mineral showings, which are between elevations of 2,000 and 3,100 feet, contain chalcopyrite and bornite in a skarn zone in limestone. A crew of two men in two weeks completed 54 feet of EX core-size diamond drilling in three holes. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 728.] Silver-Lead-Zinc-Copper-Cadmium oA Y WARD White (50° 125° S.W.) Company office, 914, Newconex Canadian Exploration Ltd. 525 Seymour Street, Vancouver 2. This By j. e. Merrett property comprises the White group of 36 recorded mineral claims and is in the White River valley 11 miles by logging-road south of Sayward. The mineral occurrence is mainly sphalerite, with minor quantities of galena, chalcopyrite, and greenockite, confined mainly to northwest- and northeast-trending fractures and shears in a skarn zone in limestone. The claims were geologically mapped, as was the trenched area, a geochemical survey by " total heavy metals " of an area 2,400 by 7,200 feet was made, and nine trenches were drilled and blasted on the White Nos. 1 and 3 claims. A crew of four men was employed for two months under the supervision of J. S. Ives. Iron Iron Mike (50° 125° S.W.) Company office, 519, 355 Bur- Orecan Mines Ltd. rard Street, Vancouver 1. H. H. Upton, president; By N.D.McKechnie and j. e. Merrett t__ J. Manning, manager; Hill, Manning & Associates Ltd., consulting engineers. The property is 4 miles southwest of Sayward LODE METALS 69 and 3 miles west of the junction of the White and Salmon Rivers, and comprises 48 recorded mineral claims, of which 13 are in the name of Orecan Mines Ltd. and 35 are held by the Hartt-Caldwell interests. The geology of the magnetite deposit is described in the Annual Reports for 1965 and earlier. The following notes are supplementary. Mapping by the Orecan staff in the mining area has shown a set of faults striking north 40 to 60 degrees east and dipping from near vertical to 60 degrees southeastward, which seem to be spatially related to higher-grade magnetite. In the higher-grade area, too, are two faults striking about north 30 degrees west; the dips are not certainly known. The relationship between the two sets of faults is not known. In the No. 1 pit the crest of an anticlinal fold was exposed, but by the time of the writer's visit it had been destroyed by mining. This would correspond to the arch postulated in the 1965 Report (p. 227). Open-pit bench-mining methods were used to remove 61,885 tons of waste rock and 186,000 tons of ore, of which 149,664 tons was milled to produce 91,341 tons of concentrate having a grade of 62.25 per cent iron. A crew of 40 men was employed until operations were suspended on September 10, 1966. Copper CAMPBELL RIVER Chal Menzies Bay Mining Ltd (50° 125° S.E.) Company office, 7, 250 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. The group, compris- ByN.D. McKecnnie jng four full minerai ciaims (chal 1 to 4) and one fractional mineral claim (Chal No. 5 Fraction), located by record, is one-half mile west of the Island Highway on the Menzies Bay-Mohun Lake road, some 12 miles north of Campbell River. The claims include copper-bearing mineral showings described as the Menzies group in the 1916 Annual Report. More recent activities, in 1953, 1955, and 1959, are briefly described in the 1959 Annual Report, page 131, under the name Chalco. The predominant rock underlying the claims, and the region surrounding them, is amygdaloidal basalt of the Vancouver Group. In the basalt at the centre of the Chal group there is a lenticular-shaped exposure of tuff about 40 feet long and 5 feet thick at the widest place. It strikes north and dips 15 degrees east. Along the hangingwall of the tuff, and to a lesser extent along the footwall, there is a well-developed seam of gouge which, however, thins and disappears in both directions on strike as it passes into the basalt. The tuff and the basalt in the immediate footwall are mineralized with chalcocite, bornite, and minor chalcopyrite. The gouge shows almost no copper staining; the tuff and its immediate footwall are well stained with malachite and minor azurite, the latter concentrated in a narrow band at the tuff-gouge contact. West of Mohun Lake road from, and about 600 feet east of, the above showing there are some surface workings at an elevation of about 100 feet above the road. The writer was told by a local resident that this is the site of the shaft and adit described in the 1916 Report, but more recent rock blasting has covered these workings. The rock there is amygdaloidal basalt and is fractured along two principal planes, one striking north 65 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees northwestward, and the other striking north 85 degrees east and dipping 25 degrees northward. The fractures, up to 1 inch in width, erratically distributed and infrequent, are mineralized with chalcocite. Some larger pieces of chalcocite in the spoil indicate that wider mineralized fractures exist. In thin-section the mineralized basalt is seen to be altered largely to prehnite both in the amygdules and along fractures. A very 70 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 little epidote was seen. The basalt is fragmental, and there are some tuffaceous bands indicating that the mineralization probably is in a flow top. Similar copper mineralization occurs at Brown Bay, V/i miles to the northeast, and in some old surface cuts about 6 miles to the north, again just west of the Island Highway. Copper Lark (50° 125° S.W.) Head office, 902, 470 Granville Teknol Mining Co. Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2. Don Johnston, president. The By n. d. McKecnnie Laik group consists of eight claims recorded by J. Sirola and located 14 miles west-northwest from Quinsam, on the Campbell River-Camp 5 road. The south boundary of the group crosses the north end of Boot Lake. The camp-site is on a narrow dirt road about 100 yards north of the Camp 5 road. All the workings are at short distances on either side of the Camp 5 road. The rocks are amygdaloidal andesites and basalts of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. No intrusive rocks were recognized at or near the working area. The volcanic rocks strike north 35 degrees west and dip about 60 degrees south- westward. Two exposures of unmineralized faults were seen, the widest being about 2 feet, striking north 5 degrees east and dipping 65 degrees west, and the other striking north 20 degrees west and dipping 75 degrees westward. The exposures could be on a single, curving fault zone. A 75-foot-long trench on the southwest side of the Camp 5 road near the junction with the Teknol camp road exposes dark basaltic lava with carbonate-healed fractures. No sulphides were seen here. On the same side of the Camp 5 road and 700 feet southeastward is a 50- by 150-foot stripping in andesitic and basaltic lava with numerous carbonate threads and stringers. No sulphides were seen here. At from 200 to 300 feet northeast of the road, andesite flow breccias are exposed in two trenches which are about 350 feet apart on the north 35 degrees west strike. The southeasterly trench is about 500 feet northwest of the junction of the Teknol camp road. The breccia in the northwesterly trench is about 2 feet wide, contains interstitial calcite and scattered grains and veinlets of malachite. No sulphides were seen; a finely disseminated black opaque mineral is thought to be iron oxide. The breccia in the southeasterly trench is about 3 feet wide and has fragments of red rhyolite. The strike and dip here are uncertain, but since this exposure is nearly in line of strike of the northwesterly exposure, it is presumed that a single breccia horizon is represented. Prehnite is present in this rock, and there are scattered grains and veinlets of native copper, some of which can be seen with the naked eye, in both the fragments and the matrix. The only other metallic mineral recognized is hematite. The breccia is truncated to the southeast by the fault striking north 20 degrees west. Iron-Copper Iron River (49° 125° N.E.) Registered office, 626 West Pender Texada Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Box 10, Gillies Bay. By j. e. Merrett This company optioned Lot 242 from Canadian Collieries Resources Limited. Access is by 21 miles of road from Campbell River. The mineral occurrence is adjacent to the Iron River, a tributary of Quinsam River, and is IVi miles east of Middle Quinsam Lake. It consists of magnetite and chalcopyrite in garnetite. A five-man crew was employed for four months; some mapping and 2,715 feet of diamond drilling were done. LODE METALS 71 Iron Ivy (49° 125° N.E.) Company office, Trail. The company holds Cominco Ltd. the Ivy group of eight claims by agreement. The property is at By a. r. c. James an elevation of about 2,500 feet on Iron Hill, between Sihun and Mine Creeks and south of east Upper Quinsam Lake, about 23 miles from Campbell River. Magnetite and chalcopyrite occur in skarn at or near the contact of the Karmutsen-Quatsino Limestone and the Quinsam intrusive. From 1951 to 1957 the Argonaut Mine Division of Utah Co. of the Americas mined a total of 4,027,337 tons of ore from its Iron Hill mine, from which 2,193,917 tons of concentrate was shipped. In 1966 a magnetometer survey and geological mapping were conducted over an area of 0.8 square mile. Two holes totalling 546 feet were diamond-drilled. A crew of two men was employed for a month under the supervision of R. G. Gifford. copper QUADRA ISLAND Copper Road (50° 125° S.E.) Company office, Heriot Bay. R.I. Ribco Leasing Limited Bennett, manager. This property, on the west side of By j. e. Merrett Quadra Island about 2 miles north of Deepwater Bay, comprises 11 recorded mineral claims held by E. G., John, Blanche, and Antoinette Adams and leased to Mr. Bennett, who also holds an additional eight recorded mineral claims in that area. The mine is connected by road to Deepwater Bay and the ferry terminus at Quathiaski Cove. Three men completed 85 feet of drifting and 50 feet of raising in the shaft area. In addition, 1,748 tons of copper ore was shipped to the Britannia concentrator and, after smelting, produced 118,427 pounds of copper. copper COURTENAY Mount Washington Mine (Domineer No. 22) (49° 125° N.E.) Company of- Mount Washington Milling Co. Ltd. fice, 204, 569 Howe Street, Van- By a. r. c. James couver 1; mine office, Box 1809, Courtenay. A. Southwell, president; G. F. Groves, general manager. A short history and description of the property was given in the Annual Report for 1964, and the geology has been described in some detail in the Annual Reports for 1959, 1960, and 1963. The mine is on the Domineer No. 22 mineral claim, near the summit of Mount Washington at about 4,400 feet elevation, 18 miles from Courtenay by logging-road. It is designated Domineer No. 22 to differentiate it from the old Domineer gold showing on Murex Creek to the east. The orebody is a flat-lying quartz vein mineralized with chalcopyrite, bornite, and other minerals. The mineralization also extends into adjacent rocks, which consist of Cretaceous sediments and intrusive porphyry and breccia. The average width of the orebody is 10 feet, and it is overlain with waste of an average thickness of 20 feet. So far all mining has been by open-pit methods, using four air-track drills, one IVi-yard and one 2Vz-yard shovel, and three D-8 bulldozers. Waste is removed in two 14-cubic-yard Euclid trucks, and ore is transported to the mill in seven 11- to 14-cubic-yard trucks. In 1966 the mine was operated from the beginning of June to the end of November; heavy snow conditions on Mount Washington normally curtail operations in the winter and early spring. The concentrator is situated on the northeasterly slope of Mount Washington at an elevation of 2,400 feet and 4J/i miles by road from the mine. A crushing, grinding, and flotation plant of 750-tons-per-day capacity operated continuously 72 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 throughout 1966. Sufficient ore is stockpiled near the mill to enable it to operate during the winter months when the mine is closed. A total crew of 79 men was employed on the property when the mine was in full operation. This included employees of the mining contractors, which totalled 28 men. Production in 1966 was as follows: Total ore mined, 172,052 tons; ore milled, 179,502 tons; copper concentrate produced, 8,511 tons; 301,137 tons of waste and overburden was removed from the open pit. Iron-Copper TEXADA ISLAND Texada Mine (49° 124° N.W.) Registered office, 626 West Pender Texada Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Box 10, Gillies Bay. A. By j. e. Merrett jy_ Christensen, San Francisco, Calif., president; A. M. Walker, general manager. The mine and plant are at Welcome Bay on the southwest coast of Texada Island, 8 miles by road south of Vananda. The major portion of the ore mined came from underground, where long-hole stoping was used to produce 1,025,211 tons. Included in this was ore produced in the slope or decline being driven at minus 13 degrees down pitch on the Lake ore zone. An additional 85,405 tons was produced by open-pit mining at the bottom of the Paxton and Lake pits. The combined tonnage of open-pit and underground ore milled was 1,315,858 tons, from which 576,875 tons of iron concentrate and 8,248 tons of copper concentrate were produced. During open-pit operations, 26,539 cubic yards of waste rock was mined and removed. The development of the Le Roi and Lake decline areas for diesel haulage greatly increased the amount of drifting completed in 1966. The total of 13,513 feet included 4,943 feet of haulage drifts, 8,459 feet of scraper subdrifts, and 111 feet of ventilation subdrift. Other development work included 4,190 feet of raises. Diamond drilling amounted to 43,875 feet underground and 4,763 feet on the surface. Extensive use was made of diesel-powered equipment. The Lake decline and adjacent room-and-pillar stopes employed a three-machine Jumbo mounted on a remodelled Kenworth 802 truck and a No. ST-5A Wagner scooptram. Two TL-55 Joy transloaders were employed in the Le Roi area on the 1855 level and transported approximately 25 per cent of the mine production. The flotation section of the concentrator was improved by a bank of scavenging cells added to the copper-recovery circuit. The number of persons employed was 302, of whom 137 were underground. ALBERNI MINING DIVISION Iron ZEBALLOS F.L. (50° 126° S.W.) Company office, 504, 1112 Zeballos Iron Mines Limited West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. P.N. Pitcher, By a. rc. James president; C. E. Gordon Brown, manager. The property comprises 13 Crown-granted and 15 recorded claims and is 4 miles north of Zeballos. A high-grade magnetite orebody outcrops on the west side of Zeballos River valley at an elevation of approximately 2,600 feet. The outcrop of magnetite extends in a northerly direction for 1,500 feet, averaging 70 feet thick, and dips westward at about 40 degrees. The hangingwall is a complex of tuff, intrusive ande- LODE METALS 73 site, diorite, and granodiorite locally altered to skarn, and the footwall is composed of grey Quatsino Limestone. The present company commenced work on the property in 1959. Open-pit mining began in 1962, but the property was closed on February 27, 1963. After a complete reorganization of the company and change of control, the property was reopened on November 1, 1963, and prepared for renewed production as an underground mine. Operations have been continuous since that time. The mine is developed from a main haulage level at 2,280 feet elevation, and the method of mining is long-hole blasting with mucking-machine drawpoints. In 1966 the stopes in "A" zone were mined out, leaving only the ribs and crown pillars. Development work was continued in the " B " zone, to the north of "A" zone, and two stopes in this zone were brought into production. The ore from these stopes is loaded out at draw- points on " B " level at 2,440 feet elevation and put through an ore-pass to the main haulage at 2,280 feet elevation. The following is a summary of underground development work completed in 1966:— Drifting Subdrifting _ Crosscutting Raising Drilling (long-hole) Ft. 164 870 1,011 945 161,515 The ore is trucked from the mine to the primary crusher at 2,100 feet elevation. It then passes through a secondary crusher and into a 100-ton surge bin. From there it is withdrawn in 9-ton steel skips which descend over a standard-gauge triple- track surface tram to the crude-ore stockpile just above the mill. The tramway is 2,500 feet long and extends from elevation 1,900 feet to the mill horizon at 1,200 feet. At the mill the ore is beneficiated by magnetic separation. It is then trucked to a loading-dock at the head of Zeballos Inlet, where a stacker conveyor delivers the ore to a stockpile, which may contain up to 80,000 tons. An underground conveyor system removes ore from the stockpile and loads directly into the holds of oceangoing freighters at a rate of 900 tons an hour. A total crew of 100 men was employed, 45 being employed underground. Total production of ore trammed to the mill was 365,576 tons. Total iron concentrates produced was 323,302 tons. Iron Hiller, Churchill (50° 126° S.W.) Company office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1112 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. By a. r. c. James jjje pr0perty comprises 42 claims, situated at the headwaters of Lime Creek and Fault Creek and on the divide between these creeks and the Kaouk and upper Artlish Rivers. The claims are at an average elevation of 3,400 to 3,600 feet, and are 10 miles by helicopter from Zeballos and 4 miles north-northwest of Zeballos Iron mine. The showings are reported to consist of magnetite, with some pyrite and pyrrhotite associated with skarn alteration of Bonanza Group volcanic rocks. In 1944 Privateer Mines Limited did a little work on the Churchill group, which was described in Bulletin 27, 1950, pages 131 to 134. In 1951 The Argonaut Mining Co. Ltd. drilled 12 holes totalling 817 feet on the same group. In 1960 Ventures did some work, and in 1962 Utah Construction & Mining Co. did 2,500 feet of diamond drilling on the Artlish group, which forms part of the present property. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited commenced work on the property in 1964. 74 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In 1966 the company did geological mapping on both the Churchill and Hiller groups. A magnetometer survey was completed on both groups. Twenty-one holes were diamond drilled, totalling 11,000 feet, on the Hiller group, and two holes were diamond drilled, totalling 1,024 feet, on the Churchill group. A crew of 12 men was employed for four months under the supervision of R. N. Saukko. The property was serviced by helicopter. Copper Sonny, Black Knight (50° 126° S.W.) Company office, 716, 602 Consolidated Skeena Mines Ltd. West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. The prop- By a. r. c. James erty consists of seven Sonny and Black Knight claims situated about 5 miles in a direct line northeast of Zeballos and east of Gold- valley Creek. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, and bornite mineralization occurs at a granite- skarn contact. Three surface holes totalling 1,110 feet were diamond drilled, and one hole was diamond drilled from an old underground adit for a length of 531 feet. An electromagnetic survey and some topographical mapping were done. The property was serviced by helicopter, although it is also accessible by trail. A crew of eight men was employed for about five months. The work was under the general supervision of W. M. Sharp. Copper-Zinc FLORES ISLAND Ormond, Contact (49° 126° S.E.) Company office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1112 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. By a. r. c. James The property comprises 34 claims in the southeast part of Flores Island near the village of Ahousat, and at an average elevation of 600 feet. Access is by about \Vi miles of trail from Matilda Inlet. The property was under option to Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited from Van-West Minerals Limited, but the option was terminated before the end of the year. It is reported that chalcopyrite and sphalerite mineralization occurs in andesite volcanics and chert in several old adits. An induced polarization geophysical survey was done by Van-West early in 1966. Later, Falconbridge did self-potential and magnetometer surveys, soil-sampling, and geological mapping. Three holes were diamond drilled, totalling 538 feet, and four holes were drilled by packsack drill totalling 268 feet. A crew varying from 8 to 10 men was employed for one month under the supervision of R. N. Saukko. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 465.] Copper-Nickel-Molybdenum TOFINO Moly, Tofino, Tofino Nickle (49° 125° S.W.) Company office, 803, 1636 Sun-West Minerals, Limited Haro Street, Vancouver 5; field office, Box 111, ByA.R. c. James Tofino. Lome Hansen, president. The company owns a total of 75 recorded claims at the head of Tofino Inlet, extending from an elevation near sea-level to 850 feet. Access to the property is by boat from Tofino, a distance of 18 miles. A detailed description of the property was given in the Annual Report for 1963. The mineralization comprises irregular masses and disseminations of molybdenite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite, associated with skarn alteration. The property has been explored intermittently since 1898, and by the present company since 1962. It is reported that in 1966 geophysical and geochemical surveys were carried out by Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited, a total of 730 feet of trenching was done, LODE METALS 75 and two holes were diamond drilled totalling 200 feet, employed under the supervision of Lome Hansen. A crew of four men was Iron KENNEDY LAKE Brynnor Mine (49° 125° S.E.) British Columbia office, 1050 Brynnor Mines Limited Davie Street, Vancouver 5; mine office, Ucluelet. (Kennedy Lake Division) T. R. Wearing, manager; T. Salmon, pit supervisor; By a. r. c. James a.. M. Cormie, underground superintendent; A. W. Hagerty, mill superintendent. This company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Noranda Mines, Limited. The mine is situated about 2Vi miles southeast of Kennedy Lake, near the headwaters of Draw Creek. Access is by the Alberni-Tofino road as far as Kennedy Lake and by a logging road from there to the mine. Ore is trucked from the crushing plant to the mill and loading-dock at Toquart Bay, a distance of 8 miles. Here the magnetite is loaded from a large storage pile into ocean-going ore-carriers for shipment to Japan. The geology of the mine and surrounding area has been described in the Annual Reports for 1962, 1963, and 1965. All the ore produced up to the present time has been by open-pit methods. The open pit is worked by standard benching methods, the benches being approximately 30 feet apart. Down holes are drilled with a 9-inch Bucyrus Erie 40-R and a 6-inch C.I.R. Drillmaster rotary drill and are loaded with AN/FO in conjunction with M.2 and M.4 aluminum-TNT slurry explosives. Lifter holes are drilled with air-tracks and are loaded with conventional explosives. Muck is loaded by two Dominion and one Bucyrus Erie shovel into Dart end-dump trucks and hauled to the crusher or waste dump. Operations are now confined to the north-central section of the pit, and present workings are 360 feet below the rim of the pit. Preliminary excavations were begun in August, 1963, for the sinking of a three- compartment shaft to give access to a deeper orebody lying to the southeast of the open-pit orebody. By the end'of 1965, the Brynnor No. 1 shaft had been sunk 1,062 feet. In 1966 the shaft was sunk a further 172 feet to a depth of 1,234 feet. Extensive stope development was done at the 600- and 750-foot levels. A summary of development work done in 1966 is as follows :- Drifting Raising Shaft-sinking Diamond drilling Ft. 1,815 1,002 172 9,502 A new office building and a well-equipped dry and shifters' office building were completed and put into use in 1966. In July, operations at Brynnor ceased as a result of a strike and had not been resumed by the end of the year. The total amount of ore mined up to the beginning of the strike was 369,747 tons. This yielded 321,157 tons of concentrate. The number of men employed immediately previous to the strike was 189. Copper Mary Gunnex Limited By N. D. McKecnnie ALBERNI INLET (49° 124° S.W.) Company office, 1019, 409 Granville Street, Vancouver 2. The company holds by record 72 mineral claims on Mount Spencer, at the head of the south fork of Museum Creek, 16 miles southeast of Port Alberni and 8 miles east of Alberni Canal. Access is by logging-roads from Port Alberni to Franklin River, thence 76 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 to Museum Creek and up its south fork to the end of the road at about 2,000 feet elevation. From there the remainder of the distance to the camp at elevation 4,100 feet on Mount Spencer is by helicopter, or on foot along the creek. In 1966 all the claims were prospected, geological mapping and geophysical surveys were made, comprising induced polarization, magnetometer, self-potential, and electromagnetic, in selected areas, and eight holes totalling 3,064 feet were drilled. A crew of eight men was employed for five months under the supervision of T. F. Schorn. The general geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 49-1963, Alberni Area. Mount Spencer is in Karmutsen volcanics, and an area south of the peak, drained by the south fork of Museum Creek, is shown as probable Bonanza Formation. The working area is on a broad hogback, about one-quarter mile south of the peak of the mountain, lying between 3,900 feet elevation on the westward side and 3,300 feet on the eastward. It is underlain by Karmutsen basaltic lavas and flow breccias. Limestone is exposed south of the creek gully; its stratigraphic position is not evident, but its position corresponds to the Karmutsen-Bonanza contact shown on Map 49-1963. Feldspar porphyry dykes, in steep fractures striking northwestward and westward, cut both the Karmutsen lavas and the limestone. The two principal mineral showings are: No. 1 showing in the gully of Museum Creek, on the westward slope, at 3,900 feet elevation, and No. 2 showing on an eastward-trending nose about one-half mile east of No. 1 showing and at an elevation of 3,700 feet. No. 1 showing, the original discovery, is a rusty fault zone about 5 feet wide striking north 80 degrees east and dipping 40 degrees southeastward. The footwall is limestone breccia with fragments composed of garnet, hornblende, orthoclase, and plagioclase. The limestone is veined with serpentine, and the whole is veined and replaced with quartz containing euhedral crystals of clinopyroxene. The hanging- wall of the fault is limestone. The limestone breccia contains an appreciable amount of pyrrhotite; the fault zone carries chalcopyrite, sphalerite, minor galena, and locally prominent biotite. No. 2 showing is a banded fracture zone striking north 85 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees northward. The rock is a dark-green basalt breccia. The fragments are large, are composed of fibrous hornblende, epidote, and albite, and are cut by fractures lined with fibrous brown hornblende and filled with calcite and sodic hornblende and pyroxene. The matrix is basalt which is only slightly altered. The mineralization is almost entirely in fractures in the matrix and consists of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. A pit about 200 feet northwestward exposes a banding in the breccia which strikes north 40 degrees east and dips 75 degrees northwestward. Breccia and mineralization are found in isolated exposures to elevation 3,300 feet, and if they are on a single structure indicate a possible width of some 500 feet. Company officials state, however, that the results of induced polarization surveys and a small amount of test drilling do not support this possibility. The occurrence of sulphides at a probable Karmutsen-Quatsino-Bonanza contact zone suggests that the area may have merit for prospectors. Copper-Molybdenum Andy, Pak (49° 124° S.W.) British Columbia office, 1050 Davie Noranda Exploration Street, Vancouver 5. The property comprises 38 claims Company, Limited in the vicinity of Corrigan Creek, east of Alberni Inlet By a. r. c. James and 17 miles south-southeast of Port Alberni. Access is LODE METALS 77 by road from Port Alberni. It is reported that copper and molybdenum mineralization occur as disseminations and in quartz veins within a host rock consisting mainly of granodiorite. In 1966 electromagnetic and magnetometer surveys were made over an area of 640 acres on the Andy 5 to 10 and 19 to 24 claims. Soil samples were taken over the same area. Six holes totalling 1,549 feet were diamond drilled, and three-quarters of a mile of road was constructed. An average crew of seven men was employed for five months under the supervision of R. C. Heim. Molybdenum SR Marshall Creek Copper Co. Ltd (48° 124° N.W.) Company office, 734 Fort Street, Victoria. James M. McNulty, presi- By a. r. c. James dent, -phis company has 101 recorded mineral claims, the SR group, in the vicinity of Sarita River, IV2 miles east of Bamfield. Access to the property is by government and logging roads from Cowichan Lake. The showings comprise molybdenite occurring in fractures, shears, and quartz veins in felsite, diorite, monzonite, and feldspar porphyry. A crew of five men was employed on the property for \Vi months under the supervision of I. M. Watson. Twenty-one holes totalling 3,670 feet were diamond drilled. Gold-Silver-Copper Oma, Sunny, Fid, Kathy Peel Resources Limited By A. R. C James (48° 124° N.W.) Company office, 501, 535 Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. The company holds, by option agreement, more than 100 claims in the vicinity of Sarita River, IV2 miles northeast of Bamfield. The property includes a group of old Crown-granted claims (Black Bear, Eureka, etc.), on which some work was done in the early years of the century, a description of this being given in the 1906 Annual Report on page 189. It is reported that in 1966 a magnetometer survey was done over an area of 2,000 by 2,400 feet on the Oma 1 to 4 claims. Four trenches were excavated totalling 1,100 feet. A number of test-pits were dug, and VA miles of road was made. Two holes totalling 180 feet were diamond drilled. An average crew of three men was employed for a period of six months under the supervision of W. T. Smith and R. J. Billingsley. Gold-Silver-Copper-Lead-Zinc BUTTLE LAKE Lynx, Paramount, Price (49° 125° N.W.) Company office, 802, 850 West Western Mines Limited Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Box 8000, By j. e. Merrett Campbell River. C. M. Campbell, Jr., general manager; J. B. C. Lang, general superintendent. Western Mines Limited, together with its wholly owned subsidiaries Myra Falls Mines Ltd. and Price Creek Mines Ltd., holds a total of 23 Crown-granted mineral claims, two mineral leases, and 158 recorded claims in the Myra Creek area at the south end of Buttle Lake. The mine is reached by 55 miles of road from Campbell River. Construction, which had begun in 1965, continued in 1966 with the completion of a combined service building and the erection of a 750-tons-per-day crushing plant and concentrator in the mine camp area. A steel penstock having a water head of 2,160 feet and a 4,500-horsepower electrical generating plant were constructed on Tennent Lake, 1 mile west of the camp. At Painter's Spit in Campbell River the Argonaut mine dock was reconstructed and an ancillary concentrate-storage building with ship-loading facilities was nearly completed. The Myra Creek and Buttle Lake roads were linked with the construction of 25 miles of road along the east shore of the lake. 78 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Immediately east of No. 10 level adit a large area has been stripped by the removal of 280,000 cubic yards of overburden and waste rock to establish an open pit for surface mining. The waste removed was used for road and tailings-pond fill. During an eight-month operational period, underground development mining included the driving of 3,210 feet of drifts and crosscuts, 1,009 feet of subdrifts, and 1,457 feet of raises. In addition, 38,845 feet of diamond drilling was completed in 169 holes. The crushing plant and concentrator began intermittent operation in December while various phases of milling were being co-ordinated. A total of 246 men was employed, of whom 55 worked underground. VICTORIA MINING DIVISION Silver-Copper-Zinc NITINAT LAKE Mai and S (48° 124° N.W.) Company office, 734 Fort Marshall Creek Copper Co. Ltd. Street, Victoria. James M. McNulty, presi- By j. e. Merrett dent. The company owns the Mai and S groups of 23 recorded mineral claims on Marchand Creek, which flows westward into Nitinat Lake, 5x/i miles from the head of the lake. Access is by logging-roads, either from Port Alberni or from Lake Cowichan, to the head of Nitinat Lake and thence by boat to the property. The mineral showings, about 1,000 feet from the lake, are bands or lenses of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrite in a shear zone in altered granitic rock cut by andesite dykes and quartz monzonite. Two men employed for four months did extensive stripping and drilled twelve 6-foot holes to obtain sludge for sampling. Copper-Lead-Zinc CHEMATNUS RIVER Yam (48° 124° N.E.) Cominco Ltd. owns the Yam group of 41 Cominco Ltd. recorded mineral claims south of Coronation Mountain in the By j. e. Merrett headwaters of Chipman (Boulder) Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Chemainus River. Access to the property from Duncan is by way of 25 miles of public roads and logging-roads. As the claims lie within the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway land grant block, an option agreement for the base-metal rights was obtained from the Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas Limited. A geological map and an induced polarization survey were made of an area 6,000 by 10,000 feet underlain by rocks of the Sicker Group, but no mineral occurrences of significance were found. Work was supervised by A. De Voogd. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 935.] Copper COWICHAN LAKE Alpha, Beta, Taboga (48° 124° N.E.) Company office, 170 Craig Street, Dun- Albeta Mines Ltd. can. This company owns 3 Crown-granted and 18 recorded By j. e. Merrett mineral claims in the vicinity of the confluence of Long Creek and Robertson River. The mineralization is chalcopyrite and magnetite, with minor amounts of silver and gold occurring in bodies in a skarn zone in volcanic rocks adjacent to a massive granite intrusive. A crew of three men employed for a period of three months made a magnetometer survey of 78 acres of the claims, took soil samples for geochemical analysis, constructed half a mile of access road, and diamond drilled 777 feet in six holes. G. E. Apps was in charge of the work. LODE METALS 79 Copper Sunloch and Gabbro Cowichan Copper Co. Ltd. JORDAN RIVER (48° 124° S.E.) Company office, 620 Howe Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, River Jordan. By j. e. Merrett O. G. MacDonald, president. This property is on the Jordan River about 1 mile upstream from its mouth and is connected by road to the Victoria highway about one-half mile east of the River Jordan Post Office. Cowichan Copper Co. Ltd. has an operating lease from Sunro Mines Limited (controlled by Cominco Ltd.) to mine on 18 contiguous claims, within which are the Cave, Central, and River ore zones. Aetna Investment Corporation Limited, which had a management agreement with the company, on September 16th suspended operations at the mine, and Cowichan Copper Co. Ltd. assumed the necessary maintenance responsibilities for the balance of the year. During the operating period a considerable amount of development work was completed in the " D " ore zone and in the shaft area or lower " B " ore zone. Stope- development work was started in the " D " orebody on the 5100 level, and a raise driven to the surface to intersect the Cave zone adit. In the lower " B " an ore transfer raise was driven from the shaft crushing-station to intersect 5100 level south of the main crushing plant. Development drifting and crosscutting totalled 1,587 feet and raising 1,592 feet. Underground diamond drilling totalled 6,947 feet. Most of the ore that was mined and milled was obtained from the " C " ore zone. While in production, a crew of 127 men was employed, of whom 57 were mining and 30 were in the underground mill. Since mid-September, 10 men have been employed underground and 2 on the surface. Copper-Lead-Zinc MOUNT BRENTON Tot, Rum (48° 123° N.W.) Cominco Ltd. owns the Tot and Rum Cominco Ltd. groups of 29 recorded mineral claims south of Mount Brenton By j. e. Merrett and wesi of the Chemainus River between Silver Creek and Holyoak Creek. Access to the property from Duncan is by way of 20 miles of public roads and logging-roads. As the claims lie within the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway land grant block, an option agreement for the base-metal rights was obtained from the Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas Limited. A geological map and an induced polarization survey were made of the claim group, which is underlain by rocks of the Sicker Group intruded by Franklin Creek intrusions. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 936.] OMINECA MINING DIVISION Copper ZYMOETZ RIVER Zym, Zymoetz Native Explorations Limited By H. Bapty (54° 128° S.E.) Company office, 807, 900 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. C. Shipclark, president; H. W. Agnew, geologist. The company holds 154 mineral claims, which include the Zymoetz group of 58 claims and Zym 1 to 9 held by option, and the balance are held by record. The claims are on the south side of Zymoetz River 15 to 19 miles from the confluence of Zymoetz and Skeena Rivers. The showings consist of chalcopyrite, chalcocite, and bornite in volcanic tuffs and breccias which overlie quartz-feldspar porphyry. An average of 10 men, under the supervision of T. D. Wilkinson, worked from mid-May until the end of October. Work completed consisted of an induced polarization survey over 7.3 miles of line, 80 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 20.5 miles of geochemical survey, 13 diamond-drill holes totalling 2,947 feet, 1.5 miles of access road and trails, 1,650 feet of trenching, about 1 square mile of detailed geological mapping, and reconnaissance mapping and prospecting of most of the claims. The main camp, on Zymoetz River 17 miles upstream from Highway No. 16, was serviced by excellent gravel road, owned and maintained by Columbia Cellulose Company Ltd. Much of the reconnaissance elsewhere in the area was completed from fly camps moved into the areas by Terrace-based helicopter. Copper-Lead-Silver LEGATE CREEK Hub, FM (54° 128° N.E.) Company office, 85 Com- Hub Mining & Exploration Ltd. mercial Street, Nanaimo. B. C. Clements, By h. Bapty president. The 26 Hub and FM claims, cov ering ground originally known as the M & M and M & K groups, are at the head of Legate Creek. In May, 1966, they were optioned to Sileurian Chieftain Mining Company Limited. A small crew, under the direction of A. P. Fawley, consulting geologist, cut line and made a geophysical (electromagnetic) survey during June and July. At one time a good packhorse trail ran up Legate Creek, but transportation to the property is now by Terrace-based helicopter. The property was not visited. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1928, pp. 148-149.] Copper Grizzley, Glen, Snowshoe, Sno, Etc. (54° 128° N.E.) Company office, 1307, Glen Copper Mines Limited 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. By h. Bapty D. Parent, general manager; E. W. John son, geologist. This group of 366 recorded mineral claims is 30 miles east of Terrace between 4,500 and 6,000 feet elevation. For an eight-month period 7 company employees and 11 contractors worked on the property. Geological mapping was done on 18 claims in the Legate Creek area. Twenty-two AX diamond- drill holes totalling 7,955 feet were drilled. Sixty-three trenches, having a total length of 5,300 feet, were excavated by bulldozer and by hand, 35,000 square feet of bedrock was stripped, and 7 miles of four-wheel-drive truck-road was built. The property is reached by helicopter or by the Columbia Cellulose Copper River logging-road and thence along the road to the B.C. Telephone Copper River microwave station. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1930, p. 136.] Molybdenum FIDDLER CREEK Lynda, Sno (54° 128° N.E.) British Columbia office, 601, 535 Amax Exploration, Inc. Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager; By h. Bapty p. \y. Richardson, geologist. The Lynda and Sno groups of 16 recorded mineral claims are on the west side of Fiddler Creek 20 miles northeast of Terrace, between 3,200 and 4,000 feet elevation. Two geologists, P. Kennedy and J. N. Schindler, with two assistants, spent three weeks on the claims mapping the geology and taking soil, silt, and rock samples in an area 5,000 by 6,000 feet. Transportation was by Terrace-based helicopter. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 843 and 866.] LODE METALS 81 Silver-Lead-Zinc HAZELTON Bill, PB Frontier Exploration Limited (55° 127° S.W.) Company office, 642 Clark Drive, Vancouver 6. Ivan Todd, president. By h. Bapty The 16 Bill and PB recorded claims and two mineral leases M 54 and M 57 lie on Nine Mile Mountain at 4,000 feet elevation in the Silver Cup Basin approximately 13 miles northeast of Hazelton. The claims surround the old Silver Cup Crown grant, and cover showings formerly known as the Barker Bill. From early July until the end of August four men completed 1,000 feet of road and extended the known length of the Tunnel vein from 230 to 370 feet by 500 feet of trenching. The Tunnel vein lies at 4,100 feet elevation and averages 2.8 feet wide. Other veins are known on the property, and a large amount of mineralized float material exists in the talus slopes extending down the cirque. Transportation to the property is by four-wheel-drive truck from Hazelton. The property was not visited. [Reference: Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 223, pp. 29, 64.] SKEENA MOUNTAINS Molybdenum ATNA RANGE Fog, Frost (55° 127° N.E.) British Columbia office, 601, 535 Amax Exploration, Inc. Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager; By h. Bapty p \y Richardson, geologist. The Fog and Frost claims cover showings formerly known as the Ole group. They comprise 20 recorded mineral claims lying at an elevation of 6,500 feet at the head of Goathead Creek on Kisgegas Peak, 36 miles north of Hazelton. Nine men under the supervision of R. H. MacMillan, geologist, drilled and blasted two trenches, having a total length of 138 feet, on the Fog No. 3 mineral claim. The geology of an area 2,400 by 4,800 feet was mapped, and one diamond-drill hole was drilled to a depth of 1,486 feet. Transportation was by helicopter from the Kisgegas camp, 8 miles from the claims. The property was not visited. Sicintine Range (56° 127° S.E.) Office, 730, 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. P. T. Black, project manager. The Motase A group of 70 claims, owned by the company, is 16 miles northwest of Motase Lake. It is accessible by air from It is reported that pyrite and chalcopyrite are disseminated in porphyry and felsite. In 1966 six men spent a month on the property; two AXT holes totalling 182 feet were diamond drilled. The property was not visited. Copper Motase A Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited By W. G. Clarke Smithers, 100 miles away. Copper-Molybdenum Motase B (56° 126° S.W.) Office, 730, 505 Burrard Street, Van- Kennco Explorations, couver 1. P. T. Black, project manager. The Motase B (Western) Limited group of 54 claims, owned by the company, is 3 miles By w. g. ciarke east 0f Motase Lake. It is accessible by air from Smith ers, 87 miles away. It is reported that pyrite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, sphalerite, and galena occur in fractures and disseminated in diorite porphyry. The property was first explored by W. P. Hammond in 1951. 82 . MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In 1966 eight men were employed for six weeks under the supervision of P. T. Black. Four holes totalling 474 feet were diamond drilled. The property was not visited. copper Cariboo Heart Range Fred, Etc. (56° 126° S.E.) Company office, 325, 1155 Northstar Copper Mines Ltd. West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5; field office, By w.G.ciarke gox 937^ Smithers. Robert M. Tait, president. This group of 92 claims, comprising the Fred, Bobo, Marg, Kiwi, Maori, etc., is on Ominicetla Creek in the Cariboo Heart Range at an elevation of 5,200 feet. Access is by air from Smithers, a distance of 100 miles. In 1966 geological surveys were made, and some trenching, stripping, and test-pitting were done on the Fred group. The work was under the supervision of R. M. Tait. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 8 3 3.] Copper-Molybdenum-Silver-Gold McCONNELL RANGE Marmot (56° 126° N.W.) Head office, 607, 1405 New Wellington Mines Limited Douglas Street, Victoria. W. D. Savage, field By w.G.ciarke manager. This property, consisting of 101 claims owned by the company, is on Menard Creek near the headwaters of the Ingenika River. It may be reached by flying from Fort St. James to Thorne Lake, a distance of approximately 200 miles, from there a " Cat " road leads to the camp, which is approximately 10 miles southeast of the lake. A geological map of the entire group was made, and an induced polarization survey was made on five claims. Eleven trenches (total length, 2,500 feet) were made by bulldozer, and about 10 acres of bedrock was stripped. Access roads were built and temporary buildings erected. Four men spent six months on the property, working under the direction of W. D. Savage. The property was not visited. Silver-Lead-Zinc SMITHERS Cronin (54° 126° N.W.) Company office, 610, New Cronin Babine Mines Limited 890 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. L. By w.G.ciarke q Creery, president; Hill, Manning & Associates Ltd., consulting engineers. The property consists of the Sunrise No. 7 Crown-granted mineral claim and seven claims held under option, on the east slope of Mount Cronin, about 30 miles from Smithers by road. Kindrat Mines Ltd. is controlled by Paul Kindrat, Box 1057, Smithers, and was formed in 1966, primarily to operate the Cronin mine, on which it has a lease running for 1966, 1967, and 1968. During 1966 a crew of two to three men worked from June to November, during which time 147 feet of raising and 30 feet of drifting were done, and 1,000 tons of ore was mined and milled. Production was 137 tons of zinc concentrate and 91 tons of lead concentrate, containing 7 ounces of gold, 10,045 ounces of silver, 110,926 pounds of lead, 177,243 pounds of zinc, and 2,293 pounds of cadmium. P. Kindrat was in charge of the work. Lead-Zinc-Silver Silver Queen, New Strike, Extension (54° 126° N.W.) Head office, 15, 558 Native Mines Limited Howe Street, Vancouver 1; field office, By w. g. ciarke c/0 Box 986, Smithers. This group of 18 LEGEND fsSs. Quartz monzonite dyke BIG ONION PLUTON Que Figure 9 GEOLOGY OF THE BIG ONION LODE METALS 83 claims is at the head of Higgins Creek, 34 miles by road from Smithers. The access road goes up Higgins Creek from the Cronin mine road. The property was formerly known as the Lorraine. Quartz veins in argillite are mineralized with galena, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite. In 1966 nine men spent 10 months working on the property under C. Amyotte, mine foreman. Detailed geological mapping in the vicinity of the showings was done, the main adit was driven 800 feet, and 15 holes totalling 1,760 feet were diamond drilled. Copper-Molybdenum Big Onion (54° 126° N.W.) This property, locally called Texas Gulf Sulphur Company the Big Onion, is on Astlais Mountain, 12 miles By a. Sutherland Brown east 0f Smithers. The property consists of 99 claims of the Astlais, Ast, and several other groups, either held by or under option to Texas Gulf Sulphur Company (company office, 420, 1033 Davie Street, Vancouver 5; J. R. Louden, manager; A. L'Orsa, geologist on the property). This property has been known also as Cimbria, and much of the original prospecting was done by Axel Elmstead and Ben Muller. Two adits were driven in the early 1920's. Recent work started in 1963-64, when Noranda Exploration Company, Limited, ran geochemical and some electromagnetic surveys, and then did some stripping and drilled two short diamond-drill holes. In 1966 work performed by Texas Gulf Sulphur Company included over 3,000 feet of bulldozer stripping, detailed geological, geochemical, and induced polarization surveys, and 1,241 feet of BQ-WL diamond drilling in three holes. Geology The Big Onion property is underlain principally by Hazelton volcanic rocks that are intruded by an elongated complex pluton (see Fig. 9). The Hazelton Group here is mapped as the lowest volcanic division and is overlain on the property by part of the lower sedimentary division. The volcanic rocks, which are the site of the intrusion of the pluton, consist of green and maroon andesites. The green andesites are microporphyritic rocks, now composed of fine sericitized plagioclase in a matrix of chlorite and minor fine epidote. Some are clearly fragmental rocks; others may be massive flow rocks. The maroon andesites are all fine-grained tuffs in which the original glassy and lithic fragments are highly stained by very finely disseminated iron oxides. Reliable bedding attitudes are rare, but in the volcanic rocks areal distribution indicates they form a northeasterly trending anticline into the core of which the pluton is intruded. The Big Onion pluton is formed of two phases—an early quartz feldspar porphyry and a later quartz diorite porphyry. In general the quartz feldspar porphyry forms a sheath around the quartz diorite. Dykes of quartz feldspar porphyry are common in the andesites near the margin of the pluton, and a few dykes of quartz diorite extend into the quartz feldspar porphyry, although only one is shown on the geological map, Figure 9. The quartz feldspar porphyry is a white aphanitic rock with a few scattered quartz bipyramidal crystals 1 to 4 millimetres in diameter. Feldspar phenocrysts are rarely recognized in hand specimens and are seen microscopically to be highly sericitized. Most of the feldspars were plagioclase, but some appear to have been potash feldspar. In addition, a few biotite phenocrysts occur now entirely converted to muscovite plus opaque minerals. Feldspar phenocrysts form 5 to 10 per cent of the rock; quartz, 3 to 5 per cent; and muscovite, less than 1 per cent. Pyrite may form up to 3 per cent of the rock. Matrix is formed of sugary textured 84 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 quartz and feldspar sheathed in muscovite. Average matrix grain size is 0.015 to 0.02 millimetre. Commonly natural exposures are coated with jarosite or limonite. The quartz diorite porphyry is superficially a medium-grained grey rock with plagioclase and mafic phenocrysts 3 to 7 millimetres in diameter forming 50 to 65 per cent of the rock. Plagioclase, about An35, occurs in chunky crystals in which complex twinning is common. Alteration to sericite and kaolinite commonly is fairly intense. Mafic phenocrysts are now entirely chlorite, sphene, and opaque minerals derived mostly from original hornblende and with minor biotite. The matrix is a sugary mosaic of plagioclase, quartz, chlorite, and opaque minerals about 0.1 millimetre in average diameter. In aggregate, feldspar forms 55 to 64 per cent of the rock; chlorite, 23 to 25 per cent; quartz, 10 to 15 per cent; and opaque minerals, sphene, and calcite total 3 to 5 per cent. Very commonly the quartz diorite porphyry is so highly altered that it is only recognized with difficulty. On the basis of the petrography it is unlikely that the quartz diorite porphyry is just a coarser phase of the quartz feldspar porphyry. In addition to the main plutonic rocks, there is a wide post-mineralization quartz monzonite dyke and several varieties of small late hornblende andesite dykes. The quartz monzonite is a distinctive dark-grey medium-grained rock with prominent biotite plates. It is formed of about 33 per cent plagioclase, 25 per cent orthoclase, 10 per cent feldspar, 5 per cent micrographic granite, 20 per cent biotite, 6 per cent opaques, pyrite, and magnetite, and 1 per cent hornblende. The plagioclase is simply zoned andesine and is fairly well sericitized with minor alteration to clinozoisite. Much of the plagioclase is mantled by orthoclase. The mafic minerals are partly converted to chlorite and epidote. Structure of the pluton is obscured partly by alteration and partly by insufficient exposure. Primary foliations are observable in the quartz diorite porphyry, where it is least altered. The margins of both bodies are cut by small shears sub- parallel to the contacts, and some evidence of primary foliation parallel to the contacts exists. In addition, volcanic rocks have a secondary foliation parallel to the contact that decreases rapidly with distance from the contact. Many small faults exist. The most continuous one follows the northwest margin of the western quartz diorite body. Another important fault follows the southeastern contact of the eastern quartz diorite body. Mineralization Copper and molybdenum mineralization is widely distributed in minor amounts in the Big Onion pluton, particularly near the contacts of the two phases and of the peripheral volcanic rocks. Ore minerals present include chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and minor bornite. Pyrite is ubiquitous but most abundant in volcanic rocks near the contact. The mineralization is contained largely in a stockwork of fine quartz-filled fractures but is also disseminated. In general, the best copper mineralization occurs in the quartz diorite near the quartz feldspar porphyry contact. It also occurs selectively along the quartz feldspar porphyry-andesite contact. Molybdenite occurs chiefly in stockworks in the quartz feldspar porphyry near the quartz diorite contact. No significant orebodies have yet been discovered. Mercury Geochemistry Three profiles were run by the writer along lines cut across the pluton and a fourth along the Babine Lake road. These all show background readings (0.01 to 0.04 p.p.m.) in the centre of the pluton and where traverses were carried well beyond the margins; peaks (0.05 to 0.12 p.p.m.) centre on the contact areas (see Fig. 10). LODE METALS 85 o.io 0.05 0.10 5 a 0.05 0.10 0.05 0.10 0.05 # ACCEPTABLE SAMPLE 0 ORGANIC SAMPLE LINE 72 LINE 28 BABINE LAKE RD. _1 I I L_ NORTHWEST SOUTHEAST 1000'- Figure 10. Texas Gulf Sulphur Company. Mercury in soils at the Big Onion. 86 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1927, p. 138; 1964, p. 52; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept., Pt. A, 1924, p. 33; Assessment Report No. 830.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Silver Creek, Silver Lake, Trade Dollar, Iron Vault (54° 127° N.E.) Company Hudson Bay Mountain Silver Mines Ltd. office, 602 West Hastings By r. v. Kirkham Street, Vancouver 2. The property consists of 20 claims, comprising the Silver Creek, Silver Lake, Trade Dollar, Iron Vault, and Cee, between 5,000 and 7,000 feet elevation on the northwest shoulder of Hudson Bay Mountain. It is 14 miles from Smithers and is reached by the Toboggan Creek road. A crew of nine men worked from June through October under the direction of H. B. Gilleland, manager. In 1966 the company continued to explore the same two groups of showings that had been worked in 1965. These consist of an upper group of small but high- grade silver-lead-zinc veins and a lower group of both high- and low-grade replacement bodies in limestone lenses. The two groups of showings are about half a mile apart. On the upper showings two prospect shafts totalling 91 feet were sunk on high-grade shoots in the silver-lead-zinc veins. A sublevel was driven 97 feet from the bottom of one of the shafts. It is reported that the veins exposed in these shafts are offset by numerous small faults. At the time of the writer's visit in early September, the shafts were almost completely filled with ice. Underground exploration continued on the lower showings. The 5375 level was extended 238 feet, and seven EX diamond-drill holes totalling 712 feet were drilled from the 5375 and 5150 levels. This underground work was done mainly to test the continuity of a replacement pod of silver-lead-zinc ore that is exposed at an elevation of 5,620 feet on surface and in a winze on the 5525 level. Molybdenum Glacier Gulch (54° 127° N.E.) Vancouver office, 535 Climax Molybdenum (B.C.) Ltd. Thurlow Street; field office, Box 696, By r. v. Kirkham Smithers. J. K. Sturgess, vice-president. The company holds a total of 393 recorded claims and fractions and 14 Crown- granted claims centred on Glacier Gulch on the east side of Hudson Bay Mountain. The 14 Crown-granted claims and 30 recorded claims are held under lease and option from W. Yorke-Hardy and partners, of Smithers. In 1966 the company continued to explore this large molybdenum deposit. An adit was collared at an elevation of 3,500 feet on the east slope of Hudson Bay Mountain south of Glacier Gulch and driven south 66 degrees west for 6,000 feet. Since 1958 a total of 79,000 feet of diamond drilling in 41 holes has been completed from surface. The company plans to extend the adit and to do additional drilling from underground. The adit, some of the drill-holes, and the geology are shown on Figure 11. During the summers of 1963, 1964, and 1965 the writer studied the geology and mineral deposits in the Hudson Bay Range. The work is continuing, and the following is a brief summary of the results to date. The Hudson Bay Range is an isolated group of mountains about 200 square miles in extent which has Hudson Bay Mountain as its dominant feature. It is immediately west of the Bulkley River at Smithers and lies about 40 miles east of SYMBOLS Geological boundary: defined, assumed Bedding Flow banding Fault Thrust fault: observed, concealed Limit of molybdenite mineralization Diamond-drill hole (VWW\AAATU SECTION A-A' SECTION B-B' LEGEND TERTIARY || \J Granodiorite, quartz monzonite,and aplite(dyke scale exaggerated) UPPER JURASSIC BOWSER GROUP Mudstone, siltstone, greywacke, conglomerate, coal, and hornfelsic equivalents o fi o°o°c PRE-UPPER JURASSIC il§!llll Granodiorite Porcelaneous felsite Massive, spherulitic , and banded felsite HAZELTON GROUP Mainly intermediate pyroclastic rocks and hornfelsic and altered equivalents £aM Quartz- feldspar-rich lapilli tuff r- ,< 11 Mainly massive, intermediate and basic volcanic rocks and hornfelsic and altered equivalents; some felsic units Scah 0 Miles Figure II. GEOLOGY IN THE VICINITY OF GLACIER GULCH, HUDSON BAY MOUNTAIN LODE METALS 87 View across Lake Kathlyn to Glacier Gulch on the east side of Hudson Bay Mountain. Unfrozen " bubble " channel extending eastward across Babine Lake to Granisle mine. 88 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 the Coast Mountains. The 50 to 60 known mineral deposits occur in the eastern half of the range. The range is underlain mainly by volcanic and sedimentary strata of the Hazelton Group and sedimentary strata of the Bowser Group. Most of these rocks are probably Jurassic; however, the relative ages of many of the volcanic sequences within the Hazelton Group have not been established accurately. A few small bodies of granodiorite and quartz monzonite are exposed in the northern and western parts of the range, and numerous porphyry dykes and some small plugs and stocks occur near the molybdenum deposit in Glacier Gulch. Greenstone, diabase, and diorite dykes and felsitic intrusions are abundant in most volcanic sequences. Structural geology of the range is complex. Most of the major structural features are the result of doming and faulting with minor associated folding. Thrust faulting appears to have been of major tectonic importance, although individual thrust faults are difficult to define. The lack of internal features in some volcanic units, absence of good marker horizons, scarcity of fossils in the volcanic units, and presence of numerous alteration zones make a clear understanding of the regional structures difficult. The main ore minerals of the district are pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, magnetite, molybdenite, scheelite-powellite, tetra- hedrite, and ruby silver minerals. Most of the known mineral deposits are relatively small, complex sulphide-sulphosalt veins rich in zinc and lead. These deposits are open-space fillings and replacement bodies within sheeted and brecciated fracture zones and are crudely arranged in zones surrounding a centrally located molybdenum deposit. An inner zone of molydenum-copper-tungsten mineralization is surrounded successively by a barren quartz zone, a zone of zinc-gold-copper- arsenic mineralization, and a zone of lead-silver-copper-arsenic mineralization. The mineral deposits appear to be genetically related, but their zonal arrangement is complicated by the fact that there were several stages of mineralization which in some areas resulted in outer zone mineralization being superimposed on inner zone mineralization. On surface the molybdenum mineralization occurs over an area of about 1 by Wz miles in Glacier Gulch, on the eastern side of Hudson Bay Mountain, and in places it is known to extend to depths greater than 3,000 feet. Most of this area is underlain by a bedded pyroclastic sequence of highly altered and metamorphosed Hazelton volcanic rocks of intermediate composition. Aphanitic felsitic intrusions, probably related to volcanism, cut this pyroclastic sequence. A small part of the mineralized area is underlain by Upper Jurassic clastic sediments of the Bowser Group that unconformably overlie the volcanic strata. A concealed discordant and differentiated granodiorite sheet up to 1,700 feet thick is present at depth beneath most of the mineralized area. Some parts of this sheet have aplitic, porphyritic, and granophyric textures, and other parts have a fine-grained granitic texture. Most of the sheet is highly altered, and the original mafic minerals have been destroyed. Numerous basic dykes and irregular bodies have intruded both the granodiorite sheet and the volcanic rocks but do not cut the Bowser sediments; hence it is believed that the granodiorite is pre-Upper Jurassic. Three porphyry bodies and numerous small quartz-feldspar porphyry and aplite dykes, tentatively dated as early Tertiary, occur in the Glacier Gulch area. Two concealed bodies are thought to be small stocks, and a partly exposed body may be a small plug. The dykes, which have a modified radial pattern, both cut and LODE METALS 89 are cut by molybdenite-bearing quartz veinlets, hence have been designated intra- mineral dykes. One of the concealed stocks is porphyritic granodiorite which probably has a sub-outcrop under the glacier. Biotite from this stock has been dated as 67 ±5 million years (Paleocene) by the Geological Survey of Canada. At present there is no evidence to suggest that this stock is directly related to the mineralization. The second concealed stock is quartz monzonite porphyry which underlies the ridge south of the toe of the Hudson Bay Mountain glacier. The top of the stock occurs about 3,000 to 3,500 feet below the crest of the ridge. The upper contact of this stock is marked by a quartz latite chilled zone containing unusual fine " wormy " quartz veinlets, by an intensely silicified zone which extends into the overlying volcanic rocks and the granodiorite sheet, and by a number of intra- mineral quartz porphyry dykes. It is believed that this quartz-monzonite porphyry stock is the source of the first stage of molybdenum mineralization. The third body is granodiorite porphyry and is partly exposed in a crevasse near the toe of the glacier. Its shape and dimensions are unknown, but it may be a small plug. Apparently it post-dates the surface molybdenite mineralization but is cut by numerous veinlets containing chalcopyrite. The structural history of the mineralized area remains uncertain. The granodiorite sheet was probably intruded along a thrust plate. Subsequently the volcanic rocks above the granodiorite sheet were partly eroded and the continental and marine strata of the Bowser Group were deposited on them. Then, probably sometime in the lower Tertiary, a number of small porphyry intrusions were em- placed in the Glacier Gulch area. There appears to have been some faulting, and the attitudes of the Bowser sediments show that there was broad gentle doming associated with the intrusive activity. It is difficult to evaluate the importance of doming in the structural evolution of the area because the volcanic units were inclined prior to the doming. Hydrothermal alteration and bleaching are common both inside and outside the area of molybdenum mineralization. Although no specific type of alteration can be directly related to molybdenum deposition as a whole, there is quartz, sericite, carbonate, and minor potash feldspar alteration that seems vaguely associated with areas of more intense mineralization. Quartz, sericite (and muscovite), carbonate, potash feldspar, biotite, chlorite, hornblende, epidote, garnet, magnetite, and pyrite are widespread alteration minerals. In the vicinity of the molybdenum deposit, most of the hydrothermal alteration is superimposed on an area of thermal metamorphism. Bleaching, a removal of mafic constituents (pigment material) without significant alteration of the remaining minerals, is extensive in the area. Many veinlets in the deposit have bleached halos (borders), some have alteration halos, and others have none. Molybdenite, the main ore mineral, occurs almost entirely in a stockwork of quartz veinlets. Most of the veinlets are less than one-half inch wide; they average between one thirty-second and one-quarter inch. The largest veins are 2 feet wide, but these are very rare. The mineralogy, texture, structure, and chronology of the veins are very complex. Minerals found in the veins are quartz, magnetite, pyrite, molybdenite, hornblende, biotite, chlorite, potash feldspar, muscovite, calcite, pyrro- tite, chalcopyrite, scheelite-powellite, gypsum, sphene, stilbite, bismuthinite, tennan- tite, arsenopyrite, and native arsenic. Sphalerite and galena have been found in the deposit, but they occur in quartz-carbonate veins that cut the stockwork of the quartz veinlets. 90 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 It is reasonably well established that there were at least two main periods of molybdenum mineralization. Veinlets belonging to these periods have been designated Type I and Type II (see the following table), but it has been found that contradictory age relationships between vein sets exist, that many veinlets are difficult to classify as either Type I or Type II, and that molybdenite-bearing veinlets, some of which are similar to Type I, cut veinlets of Type II. The first stage of molybdenum mineralization was preceded by the emplacement of a stockwork of barren quartz veinlets. These veinlets are concentrated in the contact region of the quartz monzonite stock, where they coalesced to form a rock that ranges from 80 to 99 per cent silica. Molybdenite veinlets of Type I seem to radiate outward from this region. The " wormy " quartz veinlets in the upper chilled contact zone of the stock pre-date the barren quartz veinlets. The molybdenite veinlets of Type II cut the veinlets of Type I and form regular sets that dip moderately and gently to the southwest. They are concentrated in a zone 500 to 1,000 feet above the stock. Their source is unknown. The granodiorite sheet was a particularly favourable host for mineralization. Some of the best-grade mineralization occurs in it where veinlets of Types I and II intersect. However, lower zones composed primarily of veinlets of Type I contain good-grade material. Features of Molybdenite-bearing Veinlets of Type I and Type II Mineralogy Texture and Structure Type I (early). Quartz, molybdenite, magnetite, pyrite, sericite, calcite, chlorite, biotite, hornblende, scheelite-powellite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphene. All minerals fine grained, sugary; many have well-developed banded (ribbon) structure; many sets mainly steeply dipping. Type II (late). Quartz, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, potash feldspar, muscovite, calcite, gypsum, chlorite, biotite, hornblende, scheelite-powellite. All minerals coarse grained; drusy cavities are common; mainly in sets that dip gently to moderately westerly. The area of quartz veining is far more extensive than that of molybdenite mineralization. The quartz veins on Hudson Bay Mountain related to molybdenum deposition occur over an area of about 10 to 15 square miles. The attitudes of the veins become more uniform away from the central area. Most of these veins strike approximately north and dip moderately to steeply west. Intrusive activity was very complex in the Glacier Gulch area; hence it is impossible yet to evaluate accurately the relative importance of each pluton in the formation of the deposit. However, the presence of intra-mineral dykes should be stressed because such dykes prove that there was magmatic activity concomitant with mineralization. It is believed that hydrothermal solutions, derived from one or more of the stocks of the area, followed permeable joints to the positions of ore deposition. These joints probably were formed during cooling following thermal metamorphism or possibly from relaxation of the magmatic forces that caused the doming. The fact that the granodiorite was the most favourable host could have been for chemical or structural reasons or purely fortuitous. It is concluded that the evidence indicates that the molybdenum mineralization of Hudson Bay Mountain was a product of hydrothermal activity associated with the emplacement of porphyritic early Tertiary intrusions. Silver-Lead-Zinc-Copper Midnight, Zobnic, Seymour, Canadian Citizen, American Citizen Buval Mines Ltd. By R. V. Kirkham (54° 127° N.E.) Company office, 200, 535 Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. The company holds a total of 175 claims located immediately west of Smithers on LODE METALS 91 the lower slopes of Hudson Bay Mountain. These claims include the old Snowshoe, Zobnic, Canadian Citizen properties, and part of the Vancouver (see Kindle, 1954). Work in 1966 included geological, geochemical, and geophysical surveys, trenching, road construction, and construction of a heliport. Most of the work was done on the Midnight Nos. 2 and 4 claims and Crown-grant Lots 7171 and 7238. Thirty trenches were drilled and blasted, and 2 miles of road was completed. Most of the work was of a preliminary nature and was intended to provide access to areas of interest and outline exploration targets for future work. The trenching was done in an effort to extend the previously known mineralization on the Zobnic and Midnight claims. The old Snowshoe vein was exposed in some of these trenches for a few hundred feet to the north of the old workings. The part of Hudson Bay Mountain covered by these claims is underlain mainly by relatively unaltered, massive, purple, red, and grey volcanic rocks of the Hazelton Group. The known mineral deposits of the area are relatively small silver-lead- zinc-arsenic-copper veins that belong to the outer zone of mineralization of Hudson Bay Mountain (see p. 88). More veins of this type may occur in some of the covered areas. The copper mineralization on the Canadian Citizen (Lot 7171) and American Citizen (Lot 7238) is of unknown affinities (see Ann. Rept., 1963, pp. 25-26). Two chip samples for assay were taken from the highest-grade material exposed in the trenches on the Snowshoe vein. A massive sulphide vein ranging from 6 to 12 inches wide, exposed in a trench near the old workings, assayed: Gold, 0.21 ounce per ton; silver, 152.7 ounces per ton; lead, 43.94 per cent; zinc, 9.71 per cent; copper, 0.70 per cent. A 9-inch massive sulphide vein exposed in a trench about 300 feet north of the old workings assayed: Gold, 0.11 ounce per ton; silver, 84.3 ounces per ton; lead, 46.30 per cent; zinc, 8.22 per cent; copper, 1.35 per cent. In the trenches between these two areas the vein consists primarily of relatively barren quartz that apparently post-dates much of the sulphide mineralization. A crew of seven men under the supervision of W. Yorke-Hardy worked on the property for six months. William Sharp was the consulting geological engineer. [References: Kindle, E. D., Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 223, 1954; Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1963, pp. 25-26.] Molybdenum Katie A, B, C, and Petra A (54° 127° N.W.) Western office, 601, 535 Thurlow Amax Exploration, Inc. Street, Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager. The By w.G.ciarke Serb Creek property of 151 claims, owned by the company, is near the head of Serb Creek, tributary of Zymoetz River, 26 miles southwest of Smithers. It is accessible by helicopter. In 1966, 14 men worked 2>Vz months under the direction of H. W. Sellmer, exploration geologist. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys were made, and 5,000 feet of diamond drilling was done in five holes. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 76-80.] copper TELKWA RIVER A (54 ° 127 ° S.W.) Western office, 404, 1112 West Phelps Dodge Corporation Pender Street, Vancouver 1. Larry M. Appelgate, of Canada, Limited project geologist. The A group of 104 claims, Byw. G.ciarke owned by the company, lies between 3,500 and 6,000 feet at the headwaters of the Telkwa River. It is accessible by helicopter from Smithers, 30 miles away. 92 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Bornite and chalcopyrite are reported to occur in veins and fractures in feldspar porphyry. In 1966 eight men and a diamond-drill crew spent four months under M. J. Beley, geologist, making topographic and geological maps, trenching, and drilling 2,453 feet in four diamond-drill holes. The property was not visited. Copper-Silver Joker, PR, SQ (54° 127° S.E.) Company registered office, 675 West Norcan Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. S. J. Hunter, consulting By h. Bapty engineer. This group of 255 mineral claims is between elevations 3,500 and 5,000 feet in Howson Basin, 22 miles southwest of Smithers. The key claims, which were originally the Duchess, Santa Maria, War Eagle, Jefferson, Evening, etc., were worked by Telkwa Mining and Development in 1907-10, Dockrill Syndicate in 1916-17, Cominco Ltd. in 1928-29, and Kennecott Copper Corporation in 1952. Five men and three contractors were employed for eight months on the property under the supervision of W. Tompson, geologist. An area 12,000 by 15,000 feet was surveyed and geologically mapped. Electromagnetic and self-potential surveys were made over three claims by GeoCal Limited, and an induced polarization survey was conducted over the Santa Maria and War Eagle zones by Sulmac Exploration. An aerial electromagnetic survey was flown by GeoCal Limited and some soil-sampling was done. A bulldozer tractor dug 20 trenches for a total length of 25,000 feet. Three and a half miles of road was constructed and a small bridge was built across the Telkwa River. Ten AX-BX diamond-drill holes were drilled, totalling 5,350 feet. Transportation is by Smithers-based helicopter or by Telkwa road to within 5 miles of the property. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 919.] copper BABINE LAKE French (55° 126° S.W.) Office, 730, 505 Burrard Street, Van- Kennco Explorations, couver 1. The French group of 20 claims, owned by the (Western) Limited company, is 3 miles north of French Peak and 47 miles By w. g. ciarke northeast of Smithers, whence it is accessible by air. It is reported that the mineralization consists of pyrite disseminated in a porphyry host rock. One AXT hole 105 feet deep was drilled on the French No. 20 claim. Five men spent two weeks under the direction of P. T. Black. The property was not visited. Old Fort Mountain Area By N. C. Carter Old Fort Mountain, rising to 5,148 feet at the head of the main part of Babine Lake, is accessible by road and boat from Smithers, 55 miles southwest. A rough trail leads from a point north of McKendrick Island to a Forest Service lookout on top of the mountain. A few families spend the summer months at Old Fort Indian reservation. Tree cover, broken by grassy meadows on the south slope, extends to within a few hundred feet of the summit of the mountain. Glacial deposits of gravel, sand, and clay limit good rock exposures to ridges and higher elevations on Old Fort Mountain. Much of the area is underlain by a succession of interbedded sedimentary and volcanic rocks (see Fig. 12). Sedimentary rocks are most widespread and consist of dense black argillites and light- to dark-grey banded argillaceous siltstones. Vol- IS u u ■ u o „ oo„ o, 0»0 0° °° J. > > V J Quartz monzonite, hornblende biotite feldspar porphyry Quartz diorite Sandstone, pebble conglomerate Mainly volcanic rocks- andesite tuffs and breccias- some interbedded fragmental rhyolites and sediments Mainly sedimentary rocks- argillaceous siltstones and hornfelsed equivalents Bedding Joints Schistosity o OJ o <D CM Geologic contact, inferred <wm rvrw Fault, defined, inferred Lineament Limits of biotite hornfels in 0 sediments I Figure 12. OLD FORT MOUNTAIN AREA LODE METALS 93 canic rocks include medium-green andesite tuffs and breccias, purple amygdaloidal andesites, and some acid fragmental rocks. A stock of fine- to medium-grained quartz diorite intrudes sedimentary rocks on the east flank of the mountain, and similar rocks occur as small dykes and sills in the central part of the area. Quartz monzonites and associated dykes of hornblende- biotite-feldspar porphyry cut quartz diorites in the central part of the small stock and also occur as sills in sedimentary rocks near the higher parts of the mountain and the north boundary of the Indian reservation. Sedimentary rocks adjacent to the quartz diorite stock have been metamorphosed to fine-grained chocolate-brown biotite hornfels with abundant disseminated pyrite. In addition to this well-defined zone, irregular areas of hornfelsed sedimentary rocks occur near the summit of the mountain and adjacent to sills of quartz monzonite on the Indian reservation. Well-sorted lithic and feldspathic sandstones and pebble conglomerates, apparently overlying the sedimentary and volcanic sequence, were noted southeast of the quartz diorite stock. The sedimentary and volcanic sequence has been folded into a northwest- plunging synform, the axis of which extends in a northwesterly direction across the southwest slope of Old Fort Mountain. Some dragfolding was noted on the west limb of the fold, and sediments on the east limb are domed adjacent to the small quartz diorite stock. A prominent north-northwest-striking fault extends across the top of Old Fort Mountain, and creek courses reflect the regional northeast-northwest fracture pattern. The east flank of the mountain is characterized by a series of step-like ridges bounded by north-northwest lineaments suggestive of high-angle block faulting. The most prominent of these is roughly on strike with a fault extending southeast across Newman Peninsula. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 90-93.] Copper-Molybdenum Off, Raid, DDT (55° 126° S.E.) Vancouver office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1112 West Pender Street. S. N. Charteris, By n. c. Carter exploration manager. This property, con sisting of 116 claims, is on the southeast slope of Old Fort Mountain. Elevations range from 2,332 feet at Babine Lake to 4,700 feet near the northwest boundary of the property. Access from the lake to the central part of the property is by a 3-mile tractor-road. The majority of the claims were located in 1965 following a soil-sampling programme. An additional 36 claims were located in 1966, and exploration work included detailed geologic mapping and the drilling of 17 holes totalling 3,652 feet. Ten men were employed between June and September under the supervision of G. D. Bysouth, geologist. Much of the claim group is mantled by glacial deposits of gravel, sand, and clay. Above 3,000 feet elevation, bedrock is exposed only on prominent ridges and in a few creeks. An elliptical stock of quartz diorite, elongated in an easterly direction and measuring 3,000 by 2,000 feet, intrudes argillaceous siltstones and interbedded andesite tuffs in the central part of the property. Within the stock, quartz diorites have been intruded by a small elongate mass of quartz monzonite and related hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry dykes. Chalcopyrite and lesser amounts of molybdenite occur as disseminations and in fractures in both the quartz diorite and porphyry dykes adjacent to the western margin of the inner quartz monzonite body. 94 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The quartz diorite which constitutes the greater part of the stock is a fine- to medium-grained light-grey equigranular rock having an average composition of 67 per cent euhedral, normally zoned oligoclase-andesine, 15 per cent quartz, 10 per cent hornblende, and 5 per cent biotite, with the remainder consisting of apatite, epidote, and opaque minerals. Alignment of 3-millimetre hornblende needles was noted near the margins of the stock. The quartz diorite is an essentially fresh rock, with only local sericitization of feldspar and chloritization of mafic minerals. Contacts between the quartz diorite and later quartz monzonite are sharp to gradational. The quartz monzonite is distinguished by a slightly coarser equigranular to seriate texture, and a lighter-grey colour with pinkish cast due to the presence of ragged, poikilitic potash feldspar. Biotite is the dominant mafic mineral, and occurs both as 1- to 2-millimetre books and flakes, and as a fine alteration of hornblende. A typical specimen is composed of 45 per cent euhedral, normally zoned oligoclase-andesine, 20 per cent orthoclase, 15 per cent quartz, 10 per cent biotite, 5 per cent hornblende, and 5 per cent accessory minerals including apatite, epidote, and opaque minerals. Varying degrees of argillic alteration of feldspar and bleaching of mafic minerals were noted in some sections of drill core. A porphyritic texture is developed along the western margin of the quartz monzonite body, and dykes of hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry, not exceeding 100 feet in width, radiate outward from this zone into the quartz diorites. Two-millimetre phenocrysts of euhedral oligoclase-andesine and plates and books of fresh brown biotite constitute 30 per cent of the rock, the remainder being composed of finer- grained quartz, plagioclase, and amphibole, largely altered to fine biotite. Argillaceous siltstones, including dense dark-grey and light- to dark-grey well- banded varieties, have been metamorphosed to chocolate-brown-coloured biotite hornfels, for a distance of between 1,000 and 3,000 feet outward from the quartz diorite stock, indicating a probable larger size of the stock with depth. Disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite with resultant limonite stain is a common feature of the hornfelsed rocks. Andesite tuffs are interbedded with the sedimentary rocks south and west of the stock. A small area of grey hornblende feldspar porphyry, apparently conformable with essentially unmetamorphosed sediments 1,500 feet southeast of the stock, may be of volcanic origin. Exposures near the western stock contact and information obtained from drilling indicate steep contacts. Forceful intrusion of the stock is suggested by a break in the regional sedimentary trend, resulting in a general conformity in strike between sedimentary rocks and the stock contacts. Drainage patterns and cleavages in sedimentary rocks adjacent to the quartz diorite stock reflect regional northeast and northwest structural trends. Within the stock, steep fractures and shear zones having northeast, northwest, and north strikes are most common. Shear zones, several feet wide, were noted in sections of drill core. Pyrite and pyrrhotite are widely disseminated in all intrusive and adjacent sedimentary rocks. Several small isolated zones containing variable amounts of copper mineralization are grouped in a semicircular pattern within the area of porphyry dykes adjacent to the western margin of the central quartz monzonite mass. Chalcopyrite and minor bornite occur with magnetite as disseminations and in fractures in both the quartz diorite and hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry dykes. Molybdenite flakes are found in some fracture planes rimmed by Vs- to Vi-inch fine-grained pink potash feldspar veinlets. The most northerly zone of mineralization, near the central part of the stock, has been exposed in a 200-foot-long trench. Copper mineralization is most widespread in the eastern half of the trench, where porphyry dykes intrude quartz dio- LODE METALS 95 rites. Chalcopyrite occurs as disseminations in both rock types and in north- trending fractures and irregular 1-inch zones rich in mafic minerals and magnetite in quartz diorites. A grab sample from the east end of the trench assayed 0.43 per cent copper. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 103-104.] Copper Trek (55° 126° S.E. and 54° 126° N.E.) Company Bethex Explorations Ltd. office, 1818, 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. C. By w.G.ciarke j Coveney, exploration manager. The Trek group of 100 claims is a new property located 4 miles northeast of Granisle Copper Limited. It is accessible by boat from Topley Landing. Nine men spent three months making geological and geophysical surveys in an area that is mostly drift covered. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 893.] Copper Haut, Bl (55° 126° S.E.) Vancouver office, 1050 Davie Street. Noranda Exploration B. O. Brynelsen, president. The Haut and BI groups Company, Limited of 46 claims are situated 4 miles southeast of Nakini- ByN. c. carter lerak Lake. Access is by air or by a 15-mile tractor- road from Hatchery Arm on Babine Lake. Northerly trending andesite tuffs underlie most of the claim groups. In the central part of the property, as exposed in a creek, andesite tuffs exhibiting crude columnar jointing are cut by an easterly trending 25-foot-wide biotite-feldspar porphyry dyke of quartz diorite composition. Within the porphyry dyke, north- and east-striking narrow quartz-filled fractures, rimmed by potash feldspar, contain pyrite and some chalcopyrite. Geochemical work was carried out on the property during the field season under the supervision of R. Woolverton, geologist. Copper DA, AX (55° 126° S.E.) Vancouver office, 1050 Davie Street. Noranda Exploration B. O. Brynelsen, president. The DA and AX groups, Company, Limited consisting of 54 recorded claims, are 2 miles east of ByN. c. Carter Nakinilerak Lake. Access is by aircraft or by a 15-mile tractor-road from Hatchery Arm on Babine Lake. A considerable amount of exploration work was done on the property in 1964 and 1965. It consisted of geochemical and geophysical surveys, diamond drilling, and trenching. Additional trenching was done during 1966 under the supervision of R. Woolverton, geologist. Elevations in the area of the claims range from 3,000 to 4,100 feet. Glacial deposits of gravel, sand, and clay cover much of the area, and good rock exposures are limited to ridges and some creek valleys. A north-northwest-striking easterly dipping succession of andesite and rhyolite tuffs and breccias and grey to black argillites is intruded by stocks, sills, and dykes of granodioritic biotite-feldspar porphyry, and related intrusive rocks in various parts of the property (see Fig. 13). Conglomerates, possibly correlative to the Sustut Group of Upper Cretaceous age, and containing 1- to 2-inch rounded quartz pebbles, are exposed near Nakinilerak Lake in the extreme western part of the property. The major rock type underlying the claims is light-green propylitized andesite tuff, containing 4- to 8-millimetre fragments of chert and andesite. Apple-green epidote alteration is a common feature. These andesites, and some acid volcanics 96 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Figure 13. Noranda Exploration Company, Limited. Geological map of the DA and AX, Nakinilerak Lake. LODE METALS 97 and argillites, near the central part of the property at 3,500 feet elevation, have been intruded by an elongated porphyry stock. Contacts are not well denned, but it appears that the intrusive is more than 2,000 feet long in a north-northwest direction and 1,800 feet wide. The stock is composed mainly of hornblende-biotite- feldspar porphyry of granodiorite composition with subordinate amounts of buff feldspar porphyry and equigranular quartz diorite. The stock is bordered on its west side by a 300- to 400-foot-wide sill of similar composition which has been traced 2,500 feet in a north-northwest direction. Some 2,000 feet south of the main stock, a poorly exposed mass of hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry may represent a southern extension of the main intrusive. Similar intrusive rocks underlie much of the prominent hill 1 mile west of the main porphyry stock. Medium- to coarse-grained equigranular monzonite and quartz monzonite intrude andesite tuffs to the north and east of the main stock. The age relationship of this rock type to the porphyritic intrusive rocks is not known. Copper mineralization is exposed over an area 200 feet square on the extreme south end of the porphyry sill immediately west of the main stock. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, and minor bornite occur as disseminations in feldspar porphyry and in V&- inch quartz veinlets in hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry and equigranular quartz diorite. A grab sample of mineralized feldspar porphyry assayed 0.35 per cent copper. Disseminated pyrite is widespread in most of the volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the area. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1964, p. 53.] Copper Penn (54° 126° N.E.) Company office, 1825, 355 Giant Explorations Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. E. R. Gayfer, chief By n. c. Carter engineer. This group, consisting of 64 claims, is in the central part of Newman Peninsula. Access is by boat from Topley Landing. Giant Explorations Limited, which carried out work on the claims during 1966, has a one-quarter interest in the claim group, with the remaining interest being held by R. W. Falkins, of Vancouver. Six men worked for 2*/i months carrying out a geochemical survey, geological mapping, and drilling of three holes totalling 720 feet. Work was under the supervision of H. Fader, geologist. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 103; Assessment Report No. 664.] Copper Granisle Mine (54° 126° N.E.) Head office, 1111 West Georgia Granisle Copper Limited Street, Vancouver 5. L. T. Postle, president; A. J. By w. g. ciarke McDougall, mine manager. The mine is on McDon ald Island (also known as Copper Island), 10 miles north of Topley Landing. The property consists of 31 Crown-granted mineral claims and 15 claims held by record. In addition, the company holds 44 recorded claims on Sterrett Island and on an adjoining island to the south. Access to the property is by ferry from the townsite of Granisle, which is on the west side of Babine Lake and is connected to Topley Landing, 7 miles away, by a good gravel road. The plant started production on November 16, 1966. By the end of the year 205,630 tons had been milled and 3,583 tons of concentrate had been produced, containing 2,103,760 pounds of copper. 98 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 At the pit, 353,000 tons of overburden had been stripped by March 1st. During the remainder of 1966, 500,000 tons of waste rock was removed; about 415,000 tons was used to build a causeway between Sterrett Island and Copper Island for a tailings disposal area, and 85,000 tons was used for road construction. Approximately 270,000 tons of ore was mined and hauled to the crusher, a distance of 5,000 feet. The pit is being developed in 30-foot benches, with a safety berm of 25 feet every second bench. Most of the blasting is done with ammonium nitrate and fuel- oil. The mine crew consists of 21 hourly-rated employees and three staff. There are 12 mining shifts per week. Pit equipment includes one P. & H. electric shovel with a 5-cubic-yard bucket; one Bucyrus Erie shovel with a 3 Vi -cubic-yard bucket; five trucks, 35 tons capacity; one rotary drill to drill 9-inch holes; one air-track drill, including a 600-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor; one D-8 Caterpillar tractor; one motor grader; one crew bus; and two pick-up trucks. The primary crusher is a 42- by 65-inch gyratory. Minus %-inch material from the crusher goes to the fine-ore storage bins, and the remainder goes to a 5,000-ton live-load-capacity stockpile. From this stockpile the ore goes to a 13- by 84-inch hydrocone secondary crusher, and the minus %-inch material goes to the fine-ore bins, with the remainder recirculating to the tertiary crusher. The fine- ore bins have a live-load capacity of 15,000 tons. The grinding plant in the concentrator consists of one rod mill and two ball mills, all 12 feet in diameter by 15 feet long, and all driven by 1,100-horsepower motors. Mill discharge is classified in Krebs cyclones. The pulp, 65 per cent minus 200 mesh, is distributed to four banks of 48-inch Agitair cells. The rougher concentrate is pumped to the third stage of 24-inch Denver cleaner cells. Four stages of cleaning are employed. The middling concentrate is pumped to the first stage of the cleaner cells. The scavenger concentrate, along with the tails from the cleaner cells, is pumped back to the head of the flotation circuit. After flotation the concentrate is pumped into a 30-foot-diameter double-tray thickener tank, from which the underflow goes to a 14- by 12-foot stock tank. It is then filtered by a 6- by 6-foot disk filter and carried by conveyor to a 4- by 28- foot rotary kiln drier. The concentrate is carried by a conveyor from the drier to a 300-ton-capacity storage building. Tailings are pumped 800 feet through a 12-inch wood-stave pipe, or 2,600 feet through an 8-inch pipe to the tailings-disposal area. Concentrates are hauled by truck to Topley, and then by Canadian National Railway freight cars to a dock at Prince Rupert for shipment to Japan. Power for the plant and townsite is supplied by 11 diesel-electric generating units with a total capacity of 5,500 kilowatts. Fuel for the units is stored in ten 20,000-gallon-capacity tanks. Approximately 11 per cent of the produced power is directed to the ancillary buildings on the plant-site, and to the townsite via 20,000 feet of overhead transmission-line, and four underwater transmission-lines of 7,000 feet each. The remainder is distributed to the concentrator (65 per cent), crusher (17 per cent), and open pit (7 per cent). The plant includes an office-warehouse, a dry, an assay building, and a maintenance-shop. Major equipment purchased during the year, in addition to the pit equipment, includes one ambulance, one 3-ton fuel truck; five pick-up trucks; one front-end loader, 2Yi-cubic-yard bucket; one Kerry Krane; one 49-passenger bus; one 29-passenger bus; one mobile welding unit; one 175-horsepower 600-cubic- feet-per-minute compressor. LODE METALS 99 At the end of the year 107 men were employed, 84 on the hourly payroll and 23 on staff. Most of the contractor's work was completed by mid-October. At one time 200 men were employed on plant construction. Granisle, the townsite for the mine, was built in 1966 and consists of 25 houses and 20 row houses. In addition, an eight-man staff-house, a cook-house unit, and six 16-man trailer bunk-houses were erected. A school was under construction at the end of the year. Copper Newman (54° 126° N.E.) Western office, 1050 Davie Street, Noranda Exploration Vancouver 5. G. C. Camsell, project supervisor. This Company, Limited group of 169 claims, owned by the company, is on By w. g. ciarke Newman Peninsula, on the northeast side of Babine Lake. The property may be reached by boat from Smithers Landing, Granisle, or Topley Landing. It is 45 miles by air from Smithers. Six men worked throughout 1966 making geophysical and geochemical surveys and six men were diamond drilling. A total of 42,325 feet was drilled. Morrison Lake Area By N. C Carter Morrison Lake, 9 miles long and approximately 1 mile wide, is 2Vi miles north of the northeast arm of Babine Lake. The lake is accessible by aircraft or by a tractor-road from Babine Lake. The area has been the scene of a considerable amount of exploration activity since copper mineralization was discovered near the southeast end of the lake in 1962. Elevations in the area range from Morrison Lake at 2,405 feet to between 3,500 and 4,500 feet. Gentle slopes predominate, with the exception of the relatively steep west slope of Hearne Hill, near the southeast end of the lake. Much of the area around the south and central parts of Morrison Lake is underlain by northwest-striking, buff to grey, massively bedded siltstone. Banded argillaceous siltstones were noted in a few areas. Brown to purple andesite and basalt tuffs, commonly containing 2- to 4-millimetre calcite amygdules, are inter- bedded with the siltstones east and west of the central part of Morrison Lake. Rhyolite tuffs make up an isolated area of outcrop ridges 2 miles west of the south end of the lake. Hearne Hill is chiefly underlain by light-green andesite tuffs and breccias, with minor amounts of schistose, hematite-stained felsite tuffs. Near the north end of Hearne Hill, these rocks have been intruded by a stock-like body of fine- to medium- grained quartz diorite, monzonite, and quartz monzonite. The intrusive rocks consist, for the most part, of nearly equal proportions of orthoclase, oligoclase-andesine, and quartz, with interstitial ragged hornblende and chlorite. Limits of this intrusive body were not completely defined during the course of field mapping. Interbedded lithic and feldspathic sandstones and pebble conglomerates, striking north-northwest and dipping moderately to the east, outcrop near the north end of Morrison Lake and are believed to be correlative with the Sustut Group of Upper Cretaceous age. Dykes, sills, and small stock-like bodies of hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry and quartz monzonite intrude siltstones near the southeast and west central parts of Morrison Lake. Varying amounts of disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite are associated with these rocks. 100 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Figure 14. Geological map of the Morrison Lake area. LODE METALS 101 Prominent linear features, which may represent faults, include a northerly trending lineament marking the west base of Hearne Hill and a northwest-trending lineament extending across the south end of Morrison Lake. The spatial relationship of intrusive rocks to the latter lineament suggests that it may have been instrumental in the localization of the intrusive bodies. Copper Morrison (55° 126° S.E.) Company office, 1050 Davie Street, Noranda Exploration Vancouver 5. B. O. Brynelsen, president. This property, Company, Limited consisting of 22 recorded claims, is at the southeast end By n. c carter 0f Morrison Lake. Access to the property is by aircraft or a 5-mile tractor-road linking Morrison and Babine Lakes. The claims were located in 1962 following a reconnaissance geochemical survey. Subsequent work has included line-cutting, geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys, 10,000 feet of bulldozer trenching, and the drilling of seven holes totalling 2,406 feet. No work was done in 1966. The claims cover a relatively flat area which rises gently to about 300 feet above the level of Morrison Lake. Two areas of east-west trenches, separated by a creek valley, expose north- to northwest-striking grey siltstones which have been intruded by sill-like masses of hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry and feldspar porphyry. The siltstones are mainly massively bedded, but some banded varieties indicate considerable contortion and dragfolding along strike. There is a grey carbonate- rich type of siltstone and some silicification and hornfelsing adjacent to intrusive rocks. Quartz pebble conglomerates and thinly laminated shales and greywacke are exposed near the south end of the creek between the two areas of trenches, and are similar to the Sustut Group rocks exposed farther north on Morrison Lake. Sill-like bodies of feldspar porphyry were noted intruding these rocks both in the creek and in one of the trenches. Hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry and feldspar porphyry sills, closely spaced and varying in width from 10 to 200 feet, intrude siltstones in and adjacent to the two trench areas. Contacts between the siltstones and intrusive rocks are fairly sharp, commonly along fractures. Angular fragments of siltstone were noted in the intrusive rocks in several locations. The grey hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyries are of quartz diorite composition, with one-quarter to one-third of the rock consisting of 2- to 3-millimetre phenocrysts of fresh, euhedral, normally zoned oligoclase-andesine. Abundant 0.5- to 1-millimetre plates and books of fresh brown biotite, partly an alteration of hornblende, are also a characteristic feature of these rocks. The buff to light-grey feldspar porphyries have sharp to gradational contacts with the aforementioned rock type, and may represent an intensely altered variety of hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry. The feldspar porphyry consists of chalky-white plagioclase phenocrysts set in a fine-grained matrix of quartz and carbonate. Information obtained from drilling suggests that the porphyry sills exposed in the trenches may be peripheral to an unexposed mass of intrusive rock lying between the two trench zones. All rocks exposed in the trenches are intensely fractured, the density of fracturing being one fracture per 2 inches. The major fracture orientations are north and east, and many, particularly those in the hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyries, are healed by Vs- to J4-inch quartz veinlets, commonly rimmed by potash feldspar. Pyrite and lesser amounts of chalcopyrite occur as disseminations in the matrix 102 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and in fractures and quartz veinlets in all rocks exposed in the trenches. A composite grab sample, collected from one of the northern trenches in the west trench zone, including mineralized siltstone, feldspar porphyry, and hornblende-biotite- feldspar porphyry, assayed 0.40 per cent copper. A sample from a sill of rhyolite and quartz breccia, collected in the same area, assayed a trace of molybdenite. (See Annual Report, 1965, p. 104.) Copper Bee (55° 126° S.E.) Vancouver office, 1112 Kerr-Addison Gold Mines Limited West Pender Street. William M. Sirola, By n. c. carter manager. This group of 40 recorded claims is on the west side of Morrison Lake, 4 miles north of its south end. Grey banded siltstones, which contain disseminated pyrite and strike north-northwest, underlie much of the claim group. The siltstones, locally with interbeds of andesite tuff, have been intruded by small stock-like bodies of equigranular quartz monzonite, and by dykes and sills of hornblende-biotite-feldspar porphyry. The medium-grained quartz monzonite consists of partly sericitized euhedral, zoned oligoclase-andesine, quartz, orthoclase, and ragged hornblende crystals partially altered to brown biotite. The porphyry dykes and sills, peripheral to the larger bodies of quartz monzonite, are of similar composition, with 2- to 3-millimetre phenocrysts of plagioclase making up 25 per cent of the rock. Pink aplite veinlets, consisting of quartz and potash feldspar, and one-half inch wide, were noted in some of the dykes and sills. During the 1966 field season, two men spent six weeks conducting geochemical and geophysical surveys under the supervision of William M. Sirola. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 761.] Molybdenum HOUSTON Huber (54° 126° N.W.) Company office, 200, 535 Molymine Explorations Ltd. Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. W. D. Yorke- By w. g. ciarke Hardy, president. The Huber property, compris ing 131 claims, some owned and some optioned, is about 8 miles north of Houston and 1 mile east of Highway 16. In the spring of 1966, Cominco Ltd. optioned the property and spent four months diamond drilling and mapping. The option was terminated during the summer. Exploration work was continued by Anco Explorations Ltd. under contract with Molymine Explorations Ltd., with a crew of 10 men for seven months. Geological, geochemical, and geophysical surveys were made, 26 trenches totalling 6,500 feet were drilled and blasted, about 3,000,000 square feet of bedrock was stripped by bulldozer, an access road 3,500 feet long was built, and 15 diamond-drill holes totalling 7,300 feet were drilled. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 75-76; Assessment Reports Nos. 509, 510, and 757.] Copper Lakeview (54° 126° N.W.) Head office, 102, 402 West Pender Plateau Metals Limited Street, Vancouver 1. C. Riley, consulting geologist. By w. g. ciarke This group of 11 claims, optioned by the company, is 5 miles northwest of Knockholt siding on the Canadian National Railway. It is accessible by 6 miles of truck-road from Highway 16. Two men spent two months, under the direction of C. Riley, stripping and trenching with a bulldozer. The property was not visited. LODE METALS 103 Molybdenum Barr, Lybdenum (54° 126° S.W.) Company Office, 601, 535 Thur- Amax Exploration, Inc. low Street, Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager. By w. g. ciarke jjjg j}arr ancj Lybdenum claims, lying 4 miles west of Barrett at an elevation of 3,200 feet, are under option to Amax Exploration, Inc. During the summer six men, under the direction of N. Shepherd, carried out 7 miles of induced polarization survey and additional soil-sampling. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 869.] Copper-Molybdenum Klondike (54° 126° S.W.) Company office, 200, 535 Thurlow Normont Copper Ltd. Street, Vancouver 5. The Klondike group consists of By w.G.ciarke 34 ciaims on Dungate Creek, 6 miles by road from Houston. In 1966 Anco Explorations Ltd. did the field work on contract. Two men spent two months on geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys of the Klondike 1, 2, 7, and 8 claims. The property was not visited. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 80; Assessment Report No. 909.] Copper B (54° 127° S.E.) Western office, 404, 1112 West Phelps Dodge Corporation Pender Street, Vancouver 1. L. M. Appelgate, of Canada, Limited project geologist. The B group of 96 claims, owned Byw. G.ciarke Dy me COmpany, is 18 miles west of Houston on Houston Tommy Creek on the southeast slopes of the Telkwa Mountains. It is accessible by helicopter. Chalcocite, chalcopyrite, and bornite mineralization are reported to occur in veins and shear zones in andesite and limestone. In 1966 eight men spent 3Vi months on topographic, geological, and geophysical mapping. In addition, 12 miles of "Cat" road was constructed, and 75 bulldozed trenches totalling 21,000 feet were excavated. The property was not visited. Copper-Molybden um Van, Wid, Gerry (54° 126° S.W.) Western office, 601, 535 Thurlow Amax Exploration, Inc. Street, Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager. This Byw.G.ciarke group of 50 claims is on the west flank of Morice Mountain. It is 15 miles by road from Houston and is accessible by four-wheel- drive vehicle. Molybdenite and chalcopyrite mineralization is reported to occur in a quartz vein stockwork and as disseminations in quartz porphyry and granodiorite. In 1966 two men and a diamond-drill crew spent three months working under the direction of N. Shepherd, staff geologist. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys were made, and 600 feet of trenching was done by bulldozer. Two miles of access road was built. There was 3,232 feet of diamond drilling done in four holes. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 797.] Silver-Copper-Zinc-Molybdenum Far, Mo (54° 126° S.W.) Company office, 200, 535 Thurlow Normont Copper Ltd. Street, Vancouver 5. There are 204 claims in the Far Byw.G.ciarke ancj y[o groups on Tsalit Mountain, 22 miles by road 104 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 south from Houston. The mineralization is reported to be in shear zones in volcanics. In 1966 the field work was done on contract by Anco Explorations Ltd., who employed 10 men for four months. Geological, magnetometer, and geochemical surveys were made. Thirty trenches (total length 1,000 feet) were drilled and blasted, some 8,000 square feet was stripped to bedrock by bulldozer, and 80 test-pits were dug to an average depth of 2 feet. Three miles of access road was built. The property was not visited. Silver-Lead-Zinc Silver Queen (54° 126° S.W.) Head office, 1003, 789 West Nadina Explorations Limited Pender Street, Vancouver 1; field office, Owen By w.G.ciarke L^g j g Magee, general manager. The company holds 17 Crown-granted mineral claims and fractions under agreement with Canadian Exploration Limited and 33 recorded mineral claims. The property is on the east side of Owen Lake, between elevations of 2,500 and 3,500 feet. Access is by good gravel road 27 miles south of Highway 16 from a point 2 miles west of Houston. During 1966, 295 feet of No. 1 level (elevation 2,985 feet) and 2,830 feet of No. 2 level (elevation 2,710 feet) were rehabilitated, widened where necessary, and new ties, track, and pipe were installed. A manway raise 292 feet in length was driven to connect the two levels. There was 1,296 feet of drifting and crosscutting advanced on both levels. Short diamond-drill holes (total length 600 feet) were drilled at regular intervals from the development drifts and crosscuts. During the summer further surface stripping by bulldozer exposed the veins to the east of Wrinch Canyon for a total length of 3,000 feet. Ore- and waste-dumping facilities were erected at No. 2 level portal, and a service road was built from No. 2 portal to No. 1 portal. Camp facilities consist of dining and sleeping accommodation for 12 men, assay office, powerhouse, and repair-shop. Mine equipment includes two portable compressors, three battery locomotives and chargers, twelve 2-ton rocker dump cars, two loaders, drills, etc. An average of eight men was employed during 1966. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 81-84.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Bell, Van (54° 126° S.W.) Head office, 642 Clark Drive, Frontier Exploration Limited Vancouver 6. This group of 22 claims, optioned By w. g. ciarke by the company, is east of Owen Lake and ad joins the Silver Queen group on the east. The property is 30 miles south of Houston. Four men spent three months on the property under the direction of Rae Jury, engineer. Geological and geophysical surveys were made, soil samples were taken for geochemical analysis, and 1,048 feet of diamond drilling was done in seven holes. Molybdenum MORICE LAKE Lucky Ship, Sam (54° 127° S.E.) Western office, 535 Thurlow Street, Amax Exploration, Inc. Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager. This group Byw.G.ciarke 0f 1Q5 claims is held under agreement with Plateau Metals Limited. The property is south of Morice Lake and may be reached by road in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, 59 miles from Houston. In 1966, 30 men under T. J. R. Godfrey spent five months on exploration. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys were made, 2,000 feet of trench- LEGEND ^^ I Andesite dyke Monzonite porphyry Quartz monzonite porphyry Quartz diorite HAZELTON GROUP | Hornfelsic pyroclastic rocks —i Diamond-drill hole, vertical, inclined <www Fault x Mercury soil sample point ----- Bulldozer cuts and trails x23 Figure 15 GEOLOGY OF the BERG Modified from company plans i * v m * LODE METALS 105 ing was done with a small bulldozer, and seven diamond-drill holes totalling 7,783 feet were drilled. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 84-87.] Lead-Zinc-Silver TAHTSA LAKE Emerald (53° 127° N.E.) Head office, 4635 Lazell Ave- Emerald Glacier Mines Ltd. nue, Terrace. Darrell Foote, mine manager. This Byw.G.ciarke property consists of mineral lease No. 15, com prising 9 old Crown-granted mineral claims and 27 claims held by record. The mine is near the crest of Sweeney Mountain at an elevation of 6,000 to 6,500 feet, 5 miles north of Tahtsa Lake. It is about 60 miles by road from Houston, via the Morice Lake and Owen Lake roads and the Alcan highway. The mill and camp are on the side of the road at the foot of the Sweeney Mountain road and are connected to the mine by 6 miles of switchback road suitable for trucks. The main vein and others which have been developed at the Emerald Glacier mine are mineralized shears or fault zones in bedded tuffs and argillites which are intruded by aplitic and granitic dykes. There are two granodiorite stocks to the north and east. The eastern margin of the Coast Intrusions is about 15 miles to the west. The deposit was originally staked by W. J. Sweeney and others in 1915, who did some surface work. In 1917 James Cronin leased the property. During the next two years he did further surface work and drove an adit. In 1927 Cominco Ltd. took an option. The adit was advanced and two others were collared at a lower elevation. This option was terminated in 1931. In 1950 the Alcan highway was constructed from Burns Lake to the east end of Tahtsa Lake. In 1951 Emerald Glacier Mines Limited reopened the upper level, did some development work and mining, and shipped 1,700 tons of ore to a custom mill at Nelson. In 1952, 2,908 tons was shipped, and a final shipment of 12 tons was made in 1953, when the mine closed. The present owners acquired the property in 1965. During 1966 the camp was built and a 75-tons-per-day mill installed. Most of the mill equipment came from the old Silver Standard mine at Hazelton. About 400 tons of ore was mined by taking down backs in the old upper adit. This ore, when milled, produced 117 tons of concentrate, which was shipped to Trail. Work started on April 8th by ploughing snow from the road to the mill-site. The mill started operations on October 15th. Ore is trucked from the mine to the coarse-ore bin, which is of log construction and has a capacity of 200 tons. It is fed to a 9- by 16-inch jaw crusher, which discharges to a hexagonal fine-ore bin of laminated plank construction having a capacity of 100 tons. The ball mill is 5 by 5 feet. A lead concentrate and a zinc concentrate made by differential flotation are trucked to Houston for shipment on the Canadian National Railway. The power-house contains two diesel generators. Camp buildings include a cook-house, dry-house, office, two bunk-houses, two cottages, and one trailer. An average crew of 20 men was employed for seven months. Copper-Molybdenum Berg (53 ° 127° N.E.) This property is in the Tahtsa Range Kennco Explorations, 6 miles north of Tahtsa Lake and 9 miles west of Sibola (Western) Limited Peak. It consists of 108 recorded claims held by By a. Sutherland Brown Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited (730, 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1; J. A. Gower, manager of exploration). The property 106 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 is serviced by a 26-mile " Cat " road from Twinkle Lake on the road from Houston to Tahtsa Lake. The Berg was located in the autumn of 1961 as a result of geochemical reconnaissance surveys. Exploration has been continuous since 1962 and has included detailed geochemical, geological, and magnetometer surveys, and since 1964 some 13,000 feet of drilling of all types. In 1966 about 10 NX-WL holes were cored, totalling about 6,000 feet. George O. M. Stewart was geologist-in-charge. Geology The Tahtsa and Sibola Ranges are chiefly underlain by massive and clastic volcanic rocks of the Hazelton Group of Middle Jurassic age. These are moderately folded with north-trending axes. The volcanic rocks are intruded by a series of small plutons, two of which occur in the vicinity of the Berg copper-molybdenum deposit. One is a quartz diorite with a surface area of 4 or 5 square miles; the other is a subcircular plug of quartz monzonite porphyry about 2,400 feet in diameter. Both are important hosts of the mineral deposit, and the porphyry appears to have a genetic relation to it. These plutons cut the Hazelton rocks on the east flank of a north-trending anticline. In the vicinity of the deposit, dips of 20 to 35 degrees to the east are characteristic. Mineral Composition, Intrusive Rocks at Berg Copper-Molybdenum Deposit (Volume per cent.) Phenocrysts Total o a •a V o n jj M .2 o a <u CO u 3 N a .2 "Ec a O J3 0) 3 a u VI U 3 cr © CO at CU o a 0 O & O K ca O H o Oh O X m O < i 10.8 57.6 8.0 16.6 46 3.9 5 Quartz monzonite porphyry (2). 4.1 27 2.4 2.1 3.5 1.0 58.9 20.3 38.8 ' 30.0 3.0 6.1 1.4 4 Latite monzonite porphyry (4)~ 3.0 20 7.5 3.7 1.5 64.0 4.2 49.0 ' 23.0 13.5 5.0 3.0 2 — — — 6.5 68.0 18.5 4.5 5.5 ? (2) (3) (4) (5) Geology close to the quartz monzonite porphyry plug is shown on Figure 15. Much of the area is covered with felsenmeer, so that true outcrop is relatively rare. In the map-area the Hazelton rocks are cut by a series of five intrusive bodies, which, in the probable order of intrusion from oldest (1) to youngest (5), are:— (1) Quartz diorite and diorite stock. Quartz monzonite porphyry plug. Quartz monzonite porphyry breccia pipe. Monzonite porphyry dykes. Small andesite dykes. The order of breccia pipe and monzonite porphyry dykes may be reversed, but both seem to post-date the main sulphide mineralization The breccia pipe is just south of the map-area. Its areal extent is poorly known because it occurs in a deeply drift-covered area. The accompanying table lists the average mineral compositions of the main intrusive phases. Percentages were estimated, using charts for all specimens and some were checked by point count. The petrology of all intrusive phases and the wallrocks is discussed in sequence. The Hazelton rocks in the immediate vicinity are dominantly andesitic tuffs, lapilli tuffs, and volcanic sandstones. Minor marine shales occur. The andesite LODE METALS 107 tuffs, where only slightly metamorphosed, are dark-green to purple rocks composed of irregular fragments, most of which are of identical mineralogy if differing grain size. These are microporphyritic rocks of felted to trachytic texture composed of andesine and hornblende in a cryptocrystalline matrix. The lapilli are contained in a fine dust of similar composition plus much non-sulphide opaque matter. Such rocks in the hornfelsic aureole may be converted into rusty-weathering purply-brown biotitic hornfels or into metasomatized rocks in which the original texture is scarcely visible, if at all. The most common skarn is composed of a mosaic of fine new quartz, biotite, and potassium feldspar with palimpsest remnants of original grains shown by varying proportions of these minerals and earlier chlorite, plagioclase, and kaolinite. Locally, mottled greisen-like rocks are produced by the metasomatism. Quartz diorite (1) specimens range either side of 10 per cent quartz, so that some are diorites, others quartz diorites, but the average is the latter. The fresh quartz diorite is a fine medium-grained light-grey rock that contains scattered hornblende phenocrysts. The average grain is slightly coarser than 1 millimetre in diameter. The hornblende phenocrysts are up to 8 millimetres long and are commonly aligned in a lineation and vague foliation not evident in the other minerals. Predominant slightly rounded laths of labradorite occur surrounded by cuspate and poikilitic hornblende with random minor biotite and opaque minerals. Plagioclase is uniformly zoned from An60 to An50, and Carlsbad albite twins are common. Quartz and slightly perthitic orthoclase occur in both interstitial accumulations and in small dispersed anhedral grains. Most feldspar is fresh, but hornblende and biotite may be altered to chlorite. Near their contacts these rocks are chilled to fine nearly aphanitic rocks that are generally quartz poor. Where thermally metamorphosed, these greatly resemble hornfels derived from volcanic rocks, so that the contact appears gradational over short distances. The main metamorphic change in the quartz diorite within the hornfelsic aureole of the quartz monzonite porphyry is that hornblende has entirely been converted to new brown biotite Quartz monzonite porphyry (2) is a coarsely porphyritic rock that is grey where fresh, but in natural outcrops is coated with geothite, and on freshly broken surfaces the feldspars are stained brown. Characteristic features include abundant feldspar tablets, prominent biotite books, and irregularly scattered corroded quartz. Maximum grain size of phenocrysts approaches 1 centimetre long. Biotite books may be 3 to 4 millimetres in section and up to 7 millimetres in the Z crystalographic axis. Phenocrysts form 35 to 50 per cent of the rock. Plagioclase phenocrysts are stubby crystals commonly showing combined form and complex twinning. Carlsbad albite twins, however, are absent. Most crystals show many oscillatory zones, seven to nine being common. Average composition is about An30. Most plagioclase is partly sericitized, and some in addition is altered partly to kaolinite and calcite. The potassium feldspar is slightly perthitic orthoclase. Biotite folia may be bent and may be interleaved with chlorite. Hornblende is completely altered to chlorite plus opaque minerals. The matrix has an average grain size of 0.02 to 0.04 millimetre and is chiefly a mosaic of either subequal amounts of plagioclase and orthoclase with less quartz or of perthite with quartz. Chlorite and opaque minerals are minor. The breccia (3) is a cream to faintly green coloured rock dominantly composed of fragments of quartz monzonite porphyry with minor other types such as unmetamorphosed siltstone and andesite. Most fragments are irregular to sub- angular and of 15 millimetres or less, contained in an abundant similar finely comminuted matrix. Large fragments are very rare. The breccia is altered by intense 108 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 kaolinization of feldspar and complete change of biotite to muscovite, and minor carbonatization. Widely disseminated well-crystallized pyrite, on which octahedral faces are prominent, is common, but chalcopyrite is very rare. Some fragments contain quartz veinlets. The quartz-bearing monzonite porphyry (4) is superficially very similar to the quartz monzonite because its phenocrysts, mineralogy, and content are similar. It is, however, distinguished readily in thin-section by the relative absence of quartz in the matrix and by the abundance of hornblende both in the matrix and as middle- sized grains. By Kennecott geologists it has been called quartz-latite porphyry. The fresh rock is grey and contains about 30 to 40 per cent phenocrysts. Chilled monzonite porphyry is dark grey and slightly foliated. Quartz phenocrysts are nearly as common as in the quartz monzonite porphyry but are very deeply embayed and skeletal. Plagioclase is also similar, about An35, but seemingly not as highly zoned. It may be fresh, or sericitized. Biotite occurs chiefly in books elongated in Z direction. Bent plates are common. Hornblende is much commoner than in the quartz monzonite porphyry and occurs in long prisms of diamond-shaped section. Sphene is a common accessory phenocryst. It is in the matrix that most difference occurs between the quartz monzonite porphyry and monzonite porphyry. Here visible quartz is nearly absent and a very fine-textured plagioclase, hornblende, and opaques occur surrounded by slightly larger poikilitic potassium feldspar. Alteration of monzonite porphyry is rarely intense, but some replacement of plagioclase and hornblende by epidote and chlorite is fairly common. The andesite dykes (5) are small middle-grey aphanitic dykes that contain up to 2 per cent feldspar phenocrysts. They have a texture that is between trachytic and felted, and consist of plagioclase, chlorite after hornblende, quartz, opaques, and minor biotite. Plagioclase is generally highly altered to kaolinite and calcite and hornblende to chlorite and calcite. Structure The quartz diorite stock and the quartz monzonite porphyry plug cut the tilted panel of Hazelton rocks without visible distortion. Reliable attitudes are rare in the metamorphic aureole but generally confirm that the walls have been deformed only locally, if at all. The quartz diorite was intruded first, for, although it is not in contact at the surface with the quartz monzonite porphyry, it is metamorphosed by the latter. Also some small inclusions have been found in the quartz monzonite that are similar to the quartz diorite. The quartz monzonite porphyry plug is subcircular in outline, but its margins are quite irregular. One or more large tongue-like masses extend from the main mass. Despite the plug's small size, the wallrocks have been intensely metamorphosed. On the whole the plug resembles a volcanic neck. The breccia pipe is near the south margin of the plug in an area that would be expected to be in the ore zone, but it is only mineralized with minor pyrite and rare chalcopyrite probably originally present in the fragments. The monzonite porphyry is almost certainly a late phase of the quartz monzonite porphyry even though it is less silicic. It forms a blob-like mass roughly co-axial with the quartz monzonite plug, and from this a group of segmented dykes extends to the northeast and southwest (striking north 40 to 80 degrees east). The monzonite porphyry has a chilled foliated facies in contact with the quartz monzonite porphyry. Dykes cut mineralization but contain no significant mineralization themselves. The quartz-bearing andesite dykes are not only younger than the mineralization and monzonite, but also unrelated to the quartz monzonite porphyry. Most are small steep dykes striking about north 60 degrees west, hence nearly normal to the monzonite. LODE METALS 109 II H 1 •"** " if \i 'l' _:,-:..■■...,■:■■ Berg property—looking northward past the Kennco camp to the conical hill comprising a quartz monzonite plug. k*u* View northeastward across Haven Lake to Red Bird Mountain. The Red Bird porphyry plug is left of centre between two main creeks. 110 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Primary Mineralization The Berg deposit consists of a broad annulus co-axial with the quartz monzonite porphyry plug and is contained in this body and its peripheral hornfels and diorite. Primary mineralizing sulphide minerals include chalcopyrite, molybdenite, and pyrite with minor sphalerite, galena, and arsenopyrite. A gossan zone from weathered pyrite extends over an area slightly larger than that of Figure 15. Deep oxidation, leaching, and enrichment have affected the deposit so that chalcocite and ferrimolybdite are common. Mineralization extends from well within the porphyry to approximately 800 feet beyond. Economic mineralization is mostly outside the plug. Primary copper and molybdenum mineralization overlap, but in general the best molybdenum mineralization is near the quartz monzonite contact and may be just within the plug, whereas the best primary copper mineralization is 200 feet or more beyond the contact. Primary mineralization occurs principally in a fine-textured stockwork of quartz-filled veinlets, and as disseminations and in a few major veins. A fracture stock-work extends over a wider zone than the quartz veining and includes most of the quartz monzonite plug and well beyond the mineralization into the walls. This stockwork does not have obvious preferred orientations where it is intense, but a flat joint set striking about north 20 degrees west and dipping 15 to 25 degrees southwest is common in the less fractured areas with other sets less uniform. Fracturing occurred in at least three stages and probably more. Well-defined fracture- filling stages include an early quartz-pyrite-molybdenite-chalcopyrite stage, a later pyrite or pyrite-sphalerite-galena stage, and finally an anhydrite-gypsum stage. It is likely that the main mineralizing stage was divided into overlapping substages. Molybdenite is chiefly found in the stockwork in quartz veinlets or more rarely as dry fracture coatings. Chalcopyrite occurs in these modes, but also in the higher-grade areas occurs as widespread disseminations replacing secondary biotite in diorite or hornfels. Pyrite likewise occurs disseminated and in veinlets. Dry pyrite-filled fractures extend well beyond the economic mineralization and appear to represent products of both the first and second stages. Anhydrite-filled fractures cut the breccia pipe, although all fractures in the breccia are rare. Alteration The effects of hydrothermal alteration are not entirely separable on the basis of present study from the thermal metamorphism and metasomatism, and in fact probably were closely related in time. Hydrothermal alteration did, however, continue after the period of significant sulphide mineralization. The characteristic thermal metamorphic mineral is fine felted biotite which replaces former mafic rninerals and also feldspars. Silicification is characteristic of the metasomatism, and this grades into widespread hydrothermal alteration, in which plagioclase is initially sericitized and finally kaolinized, and biotite is converted to muscovite, and some plagioclase is mantled or partially replaced by orthoclase. The rocks of the breccia pipe which post-date mineralization are intensely kaolinized and biotite entirely converted to muscovite. Widespread anhydrite-gypsum veining and local minor replacement are a still later stage. Secondary Mineralization The primary mineralization of the Berg deposit has been subjected to intense oxidation, leaching, and enrichment. The depth of leaching is related to the topography and to present and past water-tables. In interfluve areas barren leached LODE METALS 111 rock may extend to 200 feet or more below the surface and secondary mineralization may extend to 400 feet or more. In present stream valleys the barren zone may be just a few or a few tens of feet deep. Molybdenum has been oxidized to ferrimolybdite over a lesser depth than chalcopyrite has been leached. Chalcocite appears as coatings on disseminated pyrite. Secondary copper mineralization partly obscures the original good zonation of copper and molybdenum. Distribution It is evident that the southeastern half of the annular zone contains the highest- grade material. This area is the one of greatest complexity as a result of multiple intrusion and has the greatest variety of host rocks, quartz monzonite porphyry, volcanic hornfels, and quartz diorite. The company has made no statement regarding grade or reserves. SOUTHWEST O NORTHEAST • ACCEPTABLE SAMPLE O ORGANIC SAMPLE 0.05 -•—•—•—•- _i i i u i i i u i i i i_ SAMPLE NO. 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 131211 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I—1000'—I Figure 16. Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited. Mercury in soils at the Berg. Mercury Soil Profile Figure 16 is a profile showing analyses by Lemaire S-l mercury detector of soil samples taken at points shown on the map (Fig. 15). If the organic samples are rejected, the profile is of interest because both peaks and background readings are so low. Nevertheless, the " anomalies " are symmetrical with regard to the sulphide zones. A possible explanation of the low readings is that deep weathering and leaching of sulphides resulted in early release of mercury. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 87.] 112 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 copper TROITSA LAKE OVP (53° 127° N.E.) Head office, 808, 602 West Silver Standard Mines Limited Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. N. W. Burmeister, By w.G.ciarke geologist. The OVP group of 76 claims, op tioned by the company, is at the southwest end of Troitsa Lake. It is about 75 miles by air from either Burns Lake or Terrace. Four men spent one month on the property. The geology on the OVP 1 and 2 was mapped, and 225 feet of trenching was done in rock. The property was not visited. Copper-Molybdenum WHITESAIL LAKE Ace, Deuce, Trey (53° 127° S.E.) Head office, Box 1510, Station B, Montreal Cominco Ltd. 2, Que.; field office, 1150 Bay Street, Trail. This property, By w. g. ciarke under option to Cominco Ltd., is on the north side of Chikamin Mountain between Whitesail and Eutsuk Lakes. It is accessible from Burns Lake, 75 miles distant, by helicopter. There are 35 claims in the group, which was optioned from C. V. Harrison, who has explored the mountain since 1915. It is reported that chalcopyrite and molybdenite mineralization is disseminated in volcanics and granite on the Ace and Trey groups and in skarn on the Deuce group. In 1966 six men spent six weeks making geological and geochemical surveys. G. Parsons, geologist, was in charge of the work. Two X-ray holes totalling 230 feet were diamond drilled. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 729 and 730.] Molybdenum EUTSUK LAKE Red Bird (CAFB) (53° 127° S.E.) This property consists of a large Ashfork Mines Limited group of claims (239) centred on a partly separated By a. Sutherland Brown minor peak of Red Bird Mountain, which is between Haven Lake and the west end of Eutsuk Lake. The property has previously been called CAFB after the original claim group and informally called Bone Lake and Haven Lake. It is held by Ashfork Mines Limited (head office, 55 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ont.; president, H. Z. Stuart; resident geologist, John L. DeLeen). Ashfork Mines Limited is a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of Phelps Dodge Corporation, New York. A. J. Schmidt is the company's geologist at the property. Claims were located in the late 1930's on minor copper showings on Red Bird Mountain. Phelps Dodge prospected in the vicinity in 1958 and located many of the claims in 1959. From 1960 to 1962 work included surface trenching and geophysical surveys. Drilling started in 1963 and continued each year since with 10 AX-WL holes, totalling 11,060 feet, drilled in 1966. Total drilling to date is 45,299 feet in 58 holes. The main access previously has been by float-plane to Haven Lake and by helicopter to the drill camp and sites. In 1966 a 2,500-foot-long airstrip was built in open country near the outlet of Bone Creek on Eutsuk Lake, an 11-mile road from there to Haven Lake, and an additional 2-mile road from the lake at about 3,400 feet to a portal site which was cleared and faced at about 4,800 feet. Geology The geology of the area of Bone Creek and Haven Lake is shown on Figure 17. This slightly amends the geology shown on Map 1064a, Whitesail Lake (Duffell, 1959). The area is mainly underlain by the upper volcanic division of the Hazelton Group as mapped by Duffell. In the vicinity of Haven Lake these are mostly clastic !:»"!?•■.•»'*l"'l .■ 7T>^?> . H ■! ', [■■■yww^;« ■>■ ;twpiw>ht f^VfTSfSVV <vvvw Fault x Mercury soil sample point Figure 18 GEOLOGY OF THE RED BIRD RED BIRD PLUTON From company plans *2 Quartz monzonite porphyry HAZELTON GROUP 400 0 400 800 cale Feet Hornfelsic pyroclastic rocks etc. LODE METALS 113 Figure 17. Ashfork Mines Limited. Geology in the vicinity of Haven Lake. rocks of volcanic origin, chiefly tuffs and volcanic sandstones. The fragments are dominated by finely porphyritic andesites, but scoriaceous and massive basalt and welded rhyolite tuff fragments are present. A mile west of Haven Lake these rocks are in contact with a metamorphic complex. The valley of Bone Creek is eroded from the core of an anticline. Three small intrusive bodies cut the Hazelton Group: a red granite on Key Mountain; a granodiorite tongue, similar to Coast Range rocks, north of Red Bird Mountain; and a quartz monzonite porphyry west of Red Bird Mountain. The latter body is the host of the Red Bird molybdenum deposit and is the subject of the remaining discussion. The Red Bird pluton is an irregular elliptical cylinder with a semicircular concentric ring-dyke around the northern circumference (see Fig. 18). In plan the main mass is about 2,500 by 3,500 feet in major and minor axes. At depth the pluton rakes southward at about 75 degrees. The northern dyke is about 150 to 500 feet wide and is separated by a screen of hornfels some 800 feet wide. The contacts are irregular in detail, and interleaving of small peripheral concentric dykes and hornfels screens is normal. Radial dykes occur in lesser degree. 114 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The waurocks are almost entirely pyroclastic rocks that have been deformed, metamorphosed, and metasomatized. Not uncommonly where original textures can be observed close to the contact, it is evident that the rocks have been flattened or rolled out, giving a foliation parallel with the contact. At a distance from the contact the rocks show the gentle dip of the north limb of the Bone Creek anticline. The pyroclastic rocks are all thermally metamorphosed to biotite grade, and some show initial transition of biotite to actinolite. In addition, most have been metasomatized by addition of potash, silica, iron, and sulphur. As a result, orthoclase is the chief or only feldspar, most rocks are pyritic, and some are transformed to white vaguely banded rocks composed of a fine mosaic of quartz with interstitial orthoclase and minor muscovite and pyrite. Mineral Composition, Red Bird Pluton (Volume per cent.) Phenocrysts Total N 3 o u V) tf *CJ O "3l tf - w O o u o £ u ■g O o rt 73 O "3j o cq tf 73 o 6 6 o 3 cm o u et V > < 11.8 11.7 1.3 31.2 17.3 16 1 5.0 'I' 3.5 'I 20.0 j 3.0 ? 1 7 3 i 0.5 1.7 34.7 31.0 1.0 36.5 19.0 55.0 26.0 44.0 34.0 4.5 6.0 10.0 6 3 31 i Only one coarse enough to count matrix. The bulk of the Red Bird pluton is formed of one rock type, a quartz monzonite porphyry, that where fresh is light grey, where slightly altered is pink from the growth of orthoclase poikiloblasts, or where highly altered as described below is white or buff. With the evidence of the structure of the contact and of the partial ring-dyke in mind, it at least seems possible that not all the quartz monzonite porphyry was intruded in one pulse. A minor portion of the pluton is formed of a grey monzonite porphyry that is younger than the quartz monzonite porphyry. The mineral composition of the rocks of the Red Bird pluton is shown on the accompanying table. The fresh quartz monzonite porphyry is characterized by prominent only slightly corroded quartz crystals that closely approach being six- sided double pyramids. Plagioclase phenocrysts are highly zoned with three to six oscillatory cycles over the range An35 to An20. Complex joined crystals and twins are common, although Carlsbad twinning is absent. Sericitic alteration may be slight. The potassium feldspar phenocrysts are orthoclase and may be slightly poikilitic. Biotite occurs in part in fairly equidimensional books. A few crystals of apatite or sphene are big enough to be called phenocrysts. Opaque minerals, either ilmenite or pyrite, are minor. Quartz and feldspar phenocrysts range from 0.2 to 5 millimetres in long dimension. Matrix ranges from 0.01 to 0.015 millimetre and is composed of subequal amounts of quartz and feldspar, only a small part of which is plagioclase. The slightly altered quartz monzonite porphyry differs from the above chiefly in containing a much higher percentage of orthoclase " phenocrysts " of much larger size and in being pink in colour. The " phenocrysts " are poikilitic, may be up to 15 millimetres in section, and are shown to be porphyroblasts by the nature of the inclusions. For example, plagioclase phenocrysts may be seen only partly enclosed by orthoclase and yet show complete six-cycle oscillatory zoning, whereas in the interior adjacent irregularly rounded plagioclase inclusions may be seen to be LODE METALS 115 palimpsest remnants of one crystal by identical twinning. Most of the potassium feldspar is slightly perthitic. Plagioclase is commonly completely altered to sericite, kaolinite, or both plus minor calcite. The quartz phenocrysts may be recrystallized. The alteration appears to grade between the two types described, although some core shows sharp transitions that may indicate early phases exist that were altered and then intruded by later unaltered porphyry. Alteration proceeds beyond the type described above to a rock that is scarcely different than some metasomatized wallrocks; that is, composed of a mosaic of fine quartz in a matrix of potassium feldspar. In such cases the rocks are criss-crossed by a stockwork of quartz veins. Between the extreme alteration and the slightly altered porphyry is a stage in which former plagioclase phenocrysts are recognized as rectangular clots in which kaolinite is predominant, quartz phenocrysts are strained and recrystallized, potassium feldspar is perthite, and biotite is replaced in part by calcite. The matrix will have been recrystallized to a coarser mosaic about 0.075 millimetre in average grain size. The dark monzonite porphyry is a separate younger phase. It is seen as slightly chilled small crosscutting dykes, and as larger masses. Its relation to mineralization is not fully established; however, it appears to cut some quartz molybdenite veins but is cut by some quartz pyrite veins. It is most likely related to the quartz monzonite porphyry but differs in its colour, by its quartz and mafic content, and its total percentage of phenocrysts. It is a grey rock that contains scattered highly corroded phenocrysts of quartz. The matrix is also nearly free of quartz. Plagioclase is commonly altered to sericite, kaolinite, and carbonate. Hornblende invariably accompanies biotite in subequal amounts (2 to 3 per cent). The opaque minerals are chiefly pyrite; sphene and apatite are common accessories. In relatively coarse-grained specimens, phenocrysts may be as large as 4 millimetres in diameter and the matrix may average about 0.05 millimetre. In such specimens the matrix is composed largely of antiperthite, orthoclase, and minor biotite. Mineralization The Red Bird pluton is host to a concentric zone of molybdenum mineralization that is chiefly contained within a peripheral ring of the main mass of the pluton but extending a variable amount outward into the walls (see Fig. 18). In varying degree the pluton has been fractured and cut by a stockwork of quartz veinlets, particularly near the contact where the veining and alteration are intense and the mineralization is highest grade. Preferred fracture directions in the stockwork are in decreasing order, north 40 degrees east, north 20 degrees west, and north, all with near vertical dips. The intensity of veining decreases sharply beyond the pluton, but veins occur for several thousand feet radially. In some of these chalcopyrite is common. A pyritic halo extends for one-half to 1 mile beyond the pluton colouring the weathered rocks in a characteristic gossan (see Fig. 17). The sequence of veining and mineralization is complicated. Beyond the ore zone most veins are barren quartz with some scattered pyrite. A few contain traces of molybdenite; others which contain galena, sphalerite, and pyrite or fluorite and calcite appear to be successively younger. In the ore zone, barren quartz veins predate mineralized veins and three stages of barren veins may be recognizable. Three stages of quartz-molybdenite-pyrite veins are likely, but two types occur, banded veins and drusy veins. These may be parallel in major veins. In general, drusy veins seem youngest. Both drusy and banded veins may be cut by late barren quartz with minor pyrite. Potassium feldspar forms up to 10 per cent of many veins. Banded veins appear to have been repeatedly open and mineralized. In the smallest 116 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 veinlets, lamina? containing platelets of molybdenite are commonest at the margins or centre. Dry fractures coated with molybdenite and pyrite are only common in the hornfels wallrocks. o • ACCEPTABLE SAMPLE O ORGANIC SAMPLE o o NORTH SOUTH 0.125 - 0.10 l O O 2 CL Q. 0.075 O z > a. g 0.05 O 0 a. i UJ 2 0.025 o < SAMPLE NO. 2 3 4 5 6 7 i r i 8 9 10 1 i r II 12 13 i i i i i t 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 - 500'—1 Figure 19. Ashfork Mines Limited. Mercury in soils at the Red Bird. In the Red Bird deposit, oxidation has been deep, and on the surface much pyrite has been leached and molybdenite changed to ferrimolybdite. In surface veins the latter has been flushed out so that the veins look barren. Only in veins exposed in the major rapidly eroding creeks is much ferrimolybdite or molybdenite seen even over the ore zones. No figures on grade or tonnage have been released by the company. The writer collected soil samples for mercury analysis along a cut line at the edge of the pluton (see Fig. 18). Many samples were too organic to be used, but the resulting profile, Figure 19, shows peaks of 0.10 and 0.75 p.p.m. just outward from the ore zone and a background of 0.025 p.p.m. south of the pluton. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1960, p. 14; 1962, p. 17; 1963, p. 29; 1964, pp. 57-58; 1965, p. 88; Duffell, S., 1959, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 299, Whitesail Lake.] Copper-Molybdenum Pondosy Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited By W. G. Clarke (53° 126° S.W.) Office, 730, 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The Pondosy group of 70 claims, owned by the company, is 3 to 4 miles southeast of Pondosy Bay and 120 miles south of Smithers. The mineralization LODE METALS 117 consists of pyrite and chalcopyrite disseminations in volcanics and porphyry. In 1966, four men under P. T. Black spent one month at the property. A total of 236 feet of AXT hole was diamond drilled. The property was not visited. Copper-Silver AT, TA (53° 126° S.W.) Company office, 574 Yates Street, Meteor Mining Co. Ltd. Victoria. T. Kirk, managing director. This group of By w. g. ciarke 34 claims, owned by the company, is on the south side of Tesla Lake and is accessible from Burns Lake by air, a distance of 90 miles. Chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, and galena mineralization is in siliceous replacement in volcanics and in barite veins in andesite. In 1966 three men spent five months under the direction of T. Kirk. Geological and geochemical surveys of an area 800 by 2,000 feet were made, and two holes totalling 75 feet were diamond drilled. The property was not visited. Molybdenum ENDAKO Endako Mine (54° 125° S.E.) Company office, 1218, 1030 West Endako Mines Ltd. Georgia Street, Vancouver 5; mine office, Endako. T. H. Byw.g.ciarke McClelland, president; H. J. Matheson, mine manager. This company, which is controlled and managed by Canadian Exploration Limited, holds 229 mineral claims and fractions, of which 13 are held under mineral lease. The property lies north of the east end of Francois Lake, 115 miles west of Prince George. At present the open pit is being mined within an area some 5,000 feet long by 1,000 feet wide. Benches are 35 feet high, and the slope of the final wall is 45 degrees. During 1966, 10,147,800 tons of material was removed from the pit. Of this quantity, 5,561,000 dry tons was milled, producing 4,175 tons of molybdenite concentrate and 2,439 tons of molybdenum trioxide. Total production amounted to 13,229,852 pounds of molybdenum. Nearly a third of the concentrate was shipped to Japan; the remainder was sold to England, France, Holland, Italy, and West Germany. A very small amount remained in Canada. Some 489,000 cubic yards of overburden was stripped in 1966. A total of 2,963,612 cubic yards has been stripped from the pit. Twenty diamond-drill holes were drilled during the year. The total length was 10,993 feet. While the plant was designed to mill 10,000 tons of ore a day, it averaged more than 15,235 tons a day in 1966. The increase was accomplished without making any major modifications. During most of the year, mining was done on 34 shovel shifts per week. In December the schedule was changed to continuous production, with 42 shovel shifts per week. Pit equipment consists of two 5-yard shovels, one 8-yard shovel, sixteen 35-ton haul trucks, two rotary drills for drilling 9-inch holes, three tractors, two graders, one ammonium nitrate truck, two secondary drills, one lubrication truck, one water and sand truck, one 25-ton truck crane, two flat-bed trucks with 3-ton cranes, one bus, one 600-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor, and numerous lesser items. At the end of the year there was a total of 428 employees, 320 on the hourly payroll and 108 on staff. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 136-138.] 118 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Molybdenum K, S, Poop, End (54° 125° S.E.) Company office, 305, 100 United Buffadison Mines Limited Adelaide Street West, Toronto 5, Ont. L. By w. g. ciarke Lahman, president; C. J. Cryderman, consult ing engineer; I. F. Morton, consulting geologist. This property consists of 84 claims in two groups straddling the Canadian National Railway 3 miles north of Savory station. There is an access road from Highway 16. In 1966 work consisted of geological mapping and geophysical and geochemical surveys on the K and S groups. In addition, some 10,000 feet of trenching and stripping was done by bulldozer, and 13 "B" wire-line diamond-drill holes totalling 5,991 feet were drilled. A crew of 4 to 10 men worked for 10 months. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 135; Assessment Report No. 867.] Molybdenum Enco, Molly, Jen, Beaver, Nithi (53° 124° N.W.) Head office, 700 Burrard Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. Building, 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancou- By w. g. ciarke ver 5. This group of 47 claims, optioned by the company, is on Nithi Mountain at the eastern end of Francois Lake, and is 8 miles by road from the village of Fraser Lake. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys were made and one hole was diamond drilled 190 feet. B. Patsch and A. D. Drummond, geologists, supervised the six-man crew, who spent six weeks on the ground. The property was not visited. Mercury FORT ST. JAMES K, Belle, M (54° 124° S.E. and N.E.) Head office, 16, 425 Ajax Mercury Mines Limited Howe Street, Vancouver 1; field office, Fort St. By w.G.ciarke James. The K, Belle, M, and other claims, totalling 250 owned and 15 under option, are on the highway 6V2 miles north of Fort St. James. Cinnabar occurs in sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the general area of the Pinchi fault. In 1966 five men spent nine months making 15 miles of access roads and doing exploratory trenching and stripping in preparation for future exploration. Some geological mapping was done. Mercury Geo, Toad, Darbar, RAF (54° 124° S.E. and N.E.) Western office, 1150 Bay Cominco Ltd. Avenue, Trail. A. B. Mawer, exploration geologist. Byw.G.ciarke -phis group of 164 claims, partly owned and partly optioned, is 10 to 20 miles north and northwest of Fort St. James. It is accessible by road. In 1966 eight men spent four months, under R. Wynne and L. Azzaria, geologists, on exploration. Soil samples for geochemical analysis were taken over the claim area, 16 trenches totalling 1,900 feet were bulldozed, and three holes totalling 470 feet were diamond drilled. Mercury CIN (54° 124° N.E.) Company office, 300, 999 Highland Mercury Mines Limited West Pender Street, Vancouver 3. The By a. Sutherland Brown company is controlled by Mastodon-High land Bell Limited. The property consists of 80 claims in three groups located to the northwest and southeast of the Pinchi mine property. An extensive soil-sampling LODE METALS 119 programme was carried out in 1965, which was followed in 1966 by about 6,000 lineal feet of bulldozer trenching. Trenches were cut to the southwest from bluffs exposing serpentine and ferrodolomite of Trembleur Intrusion on Pinchi Mountain east of the main Pinchi fault. Overburden is very deep over much of the area. To the southwest of the fault, quartz-muscovite-ankerite schists, andesitic tuffs, and minor graphitic schists of the Cache Creek Group are variably exposed in the parts of the trenches that reached bedrock. The sandy limestone band that is the main host at the Pinchi mine is not exposed. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 686.] Mercury KWANIKA CREEK Pine (55° 125° N.E.) Company office, 320, 355 Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. E. Bronlund, By w.G.ciarke geologist. The Pine group of 32 claims is north of the junction of Kwanika and West Kwanika Creeks. It is accessible from Fort St. James by 175 miles of gravel road. Bedrock is covered by a thick mantle of overburden, and there are no outcrops. In 1966, 16 trenches of a total length of 6,653 feet were made by bulldozer, and 93,000 square feet of bedrock was stripped. Five men worked for two months under the supervision of Emil Bronlund. Copper-Molybdenum Boom, Frankie, CV, TX, CHO, MG, OVP, JAM Hogan Mines Ltd. By W. G. Clarke (55° 125° S.E. and N.E.) Head office, 301, 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. This group of 214 claims is on Kwanika Creek east of Tsayta* Lake. The property in 1966 was being explored by Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. under agreement with Hogan Mines Ltd. A crew of 15 men spent five months working under the supervision of W. S. Pentland and B. Patsch, geologists. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys were made, 738 feet of trenching was done by bulldozer, 11 diamond-drill holes totalling 2,807 feet were drilled, and 9,500 feet of access road was built. Copper Bol TAKLA LAKE Helicon Explorations Limited By W. G. Clarke (55° 125° S.W.) Head office, 133 East 14th Street, North Vancouver; field office, Williams Lake. D. Milburn and M. Erskine, geologists. This group of 60 claims, owned by the company, is on the west side of Takla Lake, 3 miles southwest of Takla Landing. It is accessible by river boat from Fort St. James. Geophysical and geochemical surveys were made, and seven rock trenches totalling 110 feet were excavated. Six men spent two months on the property. The property was not visited. Molybdenum OSILINKA RIVER Slide (56° 125° S.W.) Office, 730, 505 Burrard Street, Kennco Explorations, Vancouver 1. R. W. Stevenson, senior geologist. This (Western) Limited group of 40 claims, owned by the company, is on the By w. g. ciarke west sjde 0f Haha Creek, tributary of Osilinka River, 12 miles southwest of Uslika Lake. Access is by road from Germansen Landing to the Osilinka Crossing, and thence by helicopter to the property. Four men spent one month under R. W. Stevenson making geological and geochemical surveys. The property was not visited. 120 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 CARIBOO MINING DIVISION copper MOUSE MOUNTAIN Wanda (53° 122° S.E.) Head office, 507, 1111 The Granby Mining Company Limited West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. K. By w.G.ciarke q Fahrni, chief geologist. This group of 28 claims, optioned by the company from Clarence Fuller, is on Mouse Mountain 13 miles east of Quesnel and is accessible by road. Geological and geophysical surveys were made, and trenching and bedrock stripping were done by bulldozer. Three men worked for two months. The property was not visited. Coid WELLS-BARKERVILLE Aurum (53° 121° S.W.) Company office, 617 West Pender The Cariboo Gold Quartz Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Wells. J. R. Mor- Mining Company Limited ris, president; Marcel Guiguet, mine manager; By w. g. ciarke Charles McNiel, mine superintendent. The mine is on the east side of Island Mountain, at Wells. The Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited acquired the property in 1954 from Island Mountain Mines Limited, who had worked the mine for 20 years. Ore is trucked from the mine to the Cariboo Gold Quartz mill on Cow Mountain, which is the location of the original mine that is now depleted. The offices, warehouse, shops, and power-house are at the mill-site. Recently practically all mining was done in the Burnett-Mosquito area. Development in 1966 consisted of 3,268 feet of drifting and crosscutting and 271 feet of raising. A total of 11,897 feet of diamond drilling was done, and 2,663 feet of test-holes was drilled with percussion drills. In 1966, 28,877 tons of ore was milled having a grade of 0.73 ounce gold per ton. From this, 20,312 fine ounces of gold and 3,390 fine ounces of silver were recovered. A crew of 90 men was employed. Lead-Silver Space, Ma (53° 121 ° S.W.) Head office, 514, 615 West Pender Mount Agnes Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2. D. G. McRae, president. This Byw.G.ciarke group of 51 claims, owned by the company, is on Mount Agnes, 5 miles southwest of Barkerville. It may be reached via 3 miles of gravel road and 2 miles of " Cat" road. In 1966 a crew of two to three men spent three months stripping bedrock and trenching. Some detailed geological mapping was done, and soil samples at 200-foot intervals were taken for geochemical analysis. The property was not visited. Copper McLEESE LAKE Mayday, Remo, Brenda, Sue (52° 122° S.E.) Head office, 213, 678 Howe Earlcrest Resources Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. R. Stokes, consulting geolo- Byw.G.ciarke gjst This block of 98 claims, optioned by the company, is on the road to Likely 4 miles northeast from McLeese Lake. In 1966 five men spent six weeks on geophysical surveys (ground magnetometer and induced polarization). The property was not visited. LODE METALS 121 Copper Ann Fidelity Mining Investments Limited By W. G. Clarke (52° 122° S.E.) Head office, 11th floor, 20 Toronto Street, Toronto, Ont. The Ann group of 38 claims, optioned by the company, is 2 miles northeast of McLeese Lake and is accessible by road. Three men spent six months making geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 908.] Geology of the Granite Mountain-Cuisson Lake Area By A. Sutherland Brown The area east of Cuisson Lake around Granite Mountain is underlain principally by granitoid rocks with only minor occurrences of tuffs, limestones, or their metamorphic equivalents. The stratified rocks in all probability are part of the Permo-Pennsylvanian Cache Creek Group. The age of the granitoid rocks is not known. A small map of the area was published in the Annual Report for 1957, page 15. The geology of the Gibraltar and Pollyanna properties is very similar and is here treated together. Figure 20 is a sketch showing the general claim areas of the Pollyanna and Gibraltar properties and the location of diamond-drill holes prior to July, 1966. The area is entirely underlain by granodiorite of the Granite Mountain batholith or schists derived from it. Other rock types, except for minor aplites, seemingly are absent. The granitoid rocks were originally foliated and have been subjected to a long history of deformation and low-grade regional metamorphism. They now range from slightly cataclastic granodiorite to chloritic quartz muscovite schist and do so in a reticulate network in plan and section and on all scales. Major through-going shears are rare compared to the irregular discontinuous, reticulate schist zones. The least deformed specimens of granodiorite are medium-grained rocks consisting of about 50 per cent plagioclase, 20 per cent quartz, 13 per cent biotite, 7 per cent hornblende, and 10 per cent of low potash alkali feldspar. Accessory minerals include pyrite, sphene, apatite, and rutile. The composition of this rock is marginal between granodiorite and quartz diorite and by some would be called quartz diorite. Plagioclase occurs as unzoned laths of An35 that have been extensively replaced by sericite and clinozoisite, except for a thin clear rim. Hornblende is fresh, euhedral, and slightly poikilitic; biotite is partly replaced by chlorite and epidote; and quartz occurs in large anhedral crystals. Interstitial to these minerals, an alkali feldspar occurs that resembles perthite, in that its patchy twinning resembles intergrowths, but there is no internal relief, and indices of refraction are relatively high so that the mineral is largely sodic. Even the least deformed specimens show some cataclasis; most biotite books have been bent and fractured and many extended like a deck of cards, some plagioclase laths have been fractured and bent, and a few quartz grains shattered and recrystallized. Such rocks are progressively transformed first into cataclastic granodiorites and then to mylonitic granodiorite and finally to chloritic quartz muscovite schists. In the cataclastic granodiorites, most plagioclase laths are aligned and others fractured and bent, the quartz is highly strained and fractured or recrystallized, and former mafic minerals are now elongated clots of chlorite and epidote. With further cataclasis and probably mild metamorphism, plagioclase laths are progressively eliminated by growth of trains of aligned muscovite and finally complete recrystallization and drawing-out of musco- 122 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 a o a. 13 id 5 M o £ r* LODE METALS 123 vite-rich areas into lenses or bands. Further deformation produces a variable schist with quartz eyes or bundles of mosaic quartz separated by layers that are muscovite- or chlorite-rich but include quartz, epidote, and possibly new plagioclase or calcite. These micaceous bands are subject to further microfolding or kinking, giving a marked lineation on micaceous folia oriented along the strike to the northwest. The only dyke rocks present are small aplites related to the granodiorite. These are composed of the following minerals: Sericitized plagioclase, 65 per cent; quartz, 20 per cent; alkali feldspar with patchy twinning, 10 per cent; and chlorite, carbonate, and opaque minerals, 5 per cent. The aplites may be transformed into clinozoisite quartz rocks in some localities. The pattern of deformation is extremely intricate. Primary foliation of the granodiorite appears to have been oriented north 70 degrees west and to have dipped about 20 degrees southward. Later movement has been channelled partly on these planes and partly on steeper planes (35 to 65 degrees) generally oriented more northerly (north 35 to 60 degrees west). The whole area is cut into a reticulate network in which fairly massive blocks are surrounded by more schistose zones. On a large scale, blocks of fairly massive granodiorite are isolated by schist zones, and on a small scale relatively undeformed eyes are isolated by micaceous folia. Transition from massive to schistose normally is gradational but may be fairly sharp. In addition to the reticulate shearing, some younger fault shears are present, oriented north 40 degrees west and north and dipping steeply west. Mineralization Chalcopyrite and pyrite are widely distributed in the area of Figure 20, particularly in areas where drilling has been concentrated. Molybdenite is of more restricted occurrence; chalcocite occurs replacing pyrite in certain near-surface localities. Pyrite and chalcopyrite both occur disseminated in transecting quartz veins, and in quartz-rich segregations and blebs parallel to schistosity. Disseminations commonly occur in streaks and networks following chlorite-rich micaceous laminae. On a larger scale, schist zones are commonly the best mineralized. Pyrite may have been deposited more than once because in adjacent schistose bands some occur as undistorted cubes with quartz shadows and others as striated and smeared-out masses. Chalcopyrite may mantle pyrite cubes; more commonly it is separate and may occur in adjacent separate streaks. Some pyrite-rich areas contain little chalcopyrite. Quartz veins are commonest near late transecting shears, and these may be the main source of mineralizing fluids further distributed by the reticulate network. Mercury in Soils Figure 21 is a profile of samples collected at the points shown on Figure 20 and analysed by Lemaire SI detector for mercury. The peaks are relatively low but well separated from background values and well located in regard to known showings. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1957, pp. 14-18.] Copper Gibraltar (52° 122° N.E.) This property includes 182 claims Gibraltar Mines Ltd. that cover much of the valley north and east of Cuisson By a. Sutherland Brown Lake and the lower slopes of Granite Mountain. The latter is about half-way between Quesnel and Williams Lake. The property is centred on the old Sunset adit and has had sporadic exploration in the past, notably in 1957 by Kimaclo Mines Limited, a private company, and in 1962-63 by Keevil Mining Group Limited. The property is held by Gibraltar Mines Ltd., Vancouver. 124 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In 1965 and the spring of 1966, Gibraltar conducted geochemical and geophysical surveys, drilled a large number of percussion holes and 15 BQ diamond-drill holes. Supervision was by W. Meyer, geologist. In May, 1966, Cominco Ltd. took an option on the main part of the property, and since then Cominco has conducted 19 line miles of induced polarization survey, an equivalent amount of geochemical soil surveys, and drilled about 14,000 feet of BQ holes. Total diamond drilling to date is 21,195 feet. R. C. Armstrong was in charge of the work. Cominco has recently concluded an agreement with Mitsubishi Metal Mining Co. Ltd. to explore the property jointly. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1957, p. 17.] WEST EAST CL CC z> u cn U.IU 1 GIBRALTAR POLLYANNA 0.075 - 1 1 1 - 0.05 - A I / \ n 1 / V A i . / V \ ~ i d \l 4—•• «r • 0.025 i i i < i i i t SAMPLE NO. 25 20 15 -2500- 10 5 4 3 2 Figure 21. Mercury in soils at the Gibraltar and Pollyanna. Copper Pollyanna (52° 122° N.E.) This property includes most of the west- Duval Corporation ern part of Granite Mountain, which is about half-way be- By a. Sutherland Brown tween Quesnel and Williams Lake. The property consists of 80 located claims and includes the old Pollyanna showings at about 3,900 feet, northwest of the lake at the source of Granite Creek. The company's head office is in Houston, Texas, and Vancouver office, 506, 675 West Hastings Street; R. E. Gale, manager of exploration; J. C. Hamm and F. J. Humphrey, geologists on the property. Intensive exploration of the area started with geochemical and geophysical surveys by Keevil Mining Group Limited in 1962-63. In 1965 Duval Corporation took an option on the Pollyanna property and conducted an induced polarization survey along 4 miles of line and drilled four NQ holes near the old showings. In 1966 a further 6 line miles of induced polarization survey and detailed geological and geochemical soil surveys were conducted, and nine NQ holes were drilled. An agreement has recently been signed with Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. to continue joint exploration on the property. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1957, pp. 17-18.] LODE METALS 125 Copper CE, CHA Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd By T. M. Waterland LIKELY (52° 121° N.W.) Company office, 1926 Ogden Avenue, Vancouver 9. The company holds the CE and CHA claims on Jacobie Lake near Likely. Six men were employed during the summer under the direction of Harry Mayson. The crew lived in a cabin to the west of the lake. Lines were slashed on a grid pattern for a soil-sampling programme that covered 255 mineral claims. Magnetometer work was tentatively planned. During September some 1,200 lineal feet of bulldozer trenching and stripping was carried out and some access roads were cleared. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 885.] Copper Liz (52° 121° N.W.) Company office, 905, 525 Seymour Street, Vancouver 2. The company has a 16-claim group on Jacobie Lake, southwest of Likely. Two men supervised by J. B. Seaton, geologist, spent a month making a magnetometer and soil-sampling survey of the claims. New Jersey Zinc Exploration Company (Canada) Ltd. By T. M. Waterland [Reference: Assessment Report No. 871.] Copper CGQ The Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited By W. G. Clarke (52° 121° N.W.) Company office, 913 Royal Bank Building, 675 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. The CGQ group of 59 claims, lying west of Maud Lake, is held by The Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited. A geochemical survey was made of the claims. No copper anomalies worth further work were found. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 960.] Copper Polley, Red Rock, Bee, Herb (52° 121° N.W.) Company office, 1825, 355 Giant Explorations Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. This block of 109 By t.m. waterland claims held by the company lies between 2,400 and 3,400 feet elevation and is reached by about 4 miles of road from Likely. Early in the season, Vanmetals Exploration Limited made geochemical and magnetometer surveys on the Polley and Red Rock. These claims subsequently were acquired by Giant Explorations Limited. During 1966 four men worked on the property for a two-month period under the supervision of R. Devaney. Some geochemical work was done, as well as about 6,500 feet of bulldozer trenching and some stripping. Copper Bayshore, B.I., Key Torwest Resources (1962) Ltd. By T. M. Waterland (52° 121° N.W.) Company office, 702, 850 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. Seventy claims are owned by the company south and west of Polley Lake in the Likely area. Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite disseminated through granodiorite and volcanic rocks. Work during the year was done by three men in a two-month period and was under the direction of W. E. Hainsworth. A geochemical sampling programme was carried out on all claims. 126 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper Carmadon, Don (52° 121° N.W.) Company office, 844 West Hastings Croydon Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. The company holds a large group By t.m. waterland 0f claims immediately to the north of the Cariboo Bell property at Bootjack Lake. Work during the season was under the direction of P. Fox and included soil-sampling and magnetometer surveys. Later in the season some trenching was done on a geochemical anomaly, and about 2 miles of road was constructed. Unsuccessful attempts were made to drill through overburden on the property. Copper Cariboo Bell (52° 121° N.W.) Cariboo-Bell Copper Cariboo-Bell Copper Mines Limited Mines Limited owns the B.J. 1 to 60, 63 to By a. Sutherland Brown 132j i4i to 168, and Bootjack No. 1 and No. 2 fractional recorded claims, which lie along both sides of Bootjack Lake, extending to Polley Lake on the east and to Trio Lake on the west. Bootjack Lake is 6 miles southwest of the village of Likely. The claims were located and explored by Mastodon-Highland Bell Mines Limited, 999 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1, but in December, 1965, a new company, Cariboo-Bell Copper Mines Limited, was formed to acquire these recorded claims and to continue exploration and development. Camp superintendent of the property is G. M. Newcombe, and geologist Dr. Torn Kikuchi. In October, 1966, letters of intent regarding further development were exchanged with three Japanese companies, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., and Nippon Mining Company, Limited. In the agreement, development was to progress in two stages with preparation for production a third stage. During 1964 and 1965 a large amount of geochemistry, geophysics, and bulldozer stripping was done on the property. This was followed in 1966 by a large amount of drilling with two BX wireline drills and one Copco drill and, in addition, detailed geological, geochemical, and ground magnetometer surveys. Drilling started in February, 1966, and most holes were drilled to 400 feet. The percussion holes were drilled wet to an equivalent depth. Total footage to the end of the first development stage in March, 1967, was: Diamond drilling, 48,301 feet, 123 holes; percussion drilling, 6,585 feet, 32 holes. At the time of the writer's visit in June, only some 13,000 feet had been drilled. The following account depends largely on information gathered by the writer at that time but is augmented by company information of more recent date. Geology The property is in a strip between Horsefly and the Quesnel River at Moorehead Creek, in which outcrop, although scarce, is almost entirely Lower Jurassic purple and green andesite tuffs, breccias, and flows. In the vicinity of the property, at Mount Polley and Bootjack Mountain, these volcanic rocks are intruded by a sequence of fine quartz-free granitoid rocks and porphyries ranging from syenodiorite to syenite. Outcrop is fairly common on hilltops and steeper slopes but is rare elsewhere, hence the over-all outline of the intrusions is not well known. Two centres that are not entirely separate are apparent—one on Bootjack Mountain and one on Mount Polley. The following description is concerned only with the Mount Polley stock and principally with the central area of this stock. There natural outcrop and extensive trenches reveal evidence of a sequence of intrusion, brecciation, metasomatic alteration, and mineralization so involved that only a most thorough study could unravel the details. This report is preliminary. LODE METALS 127 The Mount Polley stock is formed of a suite of rocks that have so many characteristics in common that a family relationship can be assumed. In particular all rock types contain similar augite as the main mafic mineral; all contain about 5 per cent magnetite, most specimens have some stubby apatite phenocrysts and an abnormal amount of sphene, and none contain quartz or feldspathoids. In composition they range from syenodiorite through at least three types of monzonite porphyries to syenite and pyroxene lamprophyre. Inclusions and screens of metavolcanic rocks, skarns, and early phases are abundant. Multiple intrusion, brecciation, intense alteration, and mineralization form part of the plutonic sequence. Unaltered rocks are either fine grained or have a fine matrix, and vugs and drusy cavities are abundant in the breccias, and former miarolitic cavities occur in some specimens of porphyry; therefore, the intrusions occurred at shallow depth. Figure 22 shows an interpretation of the geology of the central area. The oldest rocks are dark-green slightly porphyritic massive or clastic andesites which occur in greatest amount in trench 19 in the southeast; however, as metavolcanic skarns these are common as inclusions and screens, particularly within the breccia areas. In such settings they are commonly irregularly banded or mottled rocks composed of varying amounts of garnet, pyroxene, magnetite, potash feldspar with clinozoisite, calcite, chalcopyrite, muscovite, plagioclase, apatite, and rarely some zeolites. Some volcanic rocks are so metasomatized in the breccia areas that they are distinguishable from intrusive porphyries in the same setting only by the rocks into which they grade. The relative age of the various intrusive phases, the brecciation, and alteration are not fully known. The intrusive phases included a granitic-textured syenodiorite, three monzonite porphyries, and a lamprophyre dyke phase. The main element of doubt is where the syenodiorite fits in the sequence. Mineral Composition, Fresh Intrusive Rock, Cariboo Bell (Volume per cent.) Plagioclase Potash Feldspar Augite Biotite Magnetite Other Total Phenocrysts Average Of Crowded porphyry (1) Porphyry (2) - Porphyry (3) Syenodiorite _ Lamprophyre- 60.1 44.4 12 46.2 28 14.2 25.6 2 18.7 30 17.5 16.2 14 19.4 35 5.8 0.5 8.0 4.8 6.8 2 6.4 7 3.4 1.2 69.5 matrix 1.3 55 65 30.5 The preceding table shows the mineral composition of all fresh intrusive rocks. The porphyry phases will be described first from oldest to youngest. These are all similar and will be called monzonite porphyries, although this name is not entirely suitable for the first phase (1). This is typically a foliated crowded porphyry with prominent plagioclase laths in an aphanitic matrix of grey, brown, or pink. On casual inspection it may look as if it is granitic textured. Normally the augite is fresh but may be partly altered to chlorite or hornblende. The plagioclase occurs in laths up to 5 millimetres long and stubby compound grains with complex twinning. It is nearly completely sericitized. It appears to have been zoned over the interval An5 o-3o- Potash feldspar occurs as rare phenocrysts and forms half the fine-grained matrix together with plagioclase. Magnetite is partly in large grains. Biotite is absent. Accessories include stubby phenocrysts of apatite and prisms of sphene. Common alteration minerals in small amounts include clinozoisite and prehnite. 128 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 5 D u|joN-oj(sv _] 2 t/1 ~~1 / 1 f • • • 1 • 1_ m o & o 00 "3 o s o u m i O o rt CN LODE METALS 129 The second phase (2) is also a crowded porphyry with an even smaller percentage of matrix and even less obviously a porphyry. It is normally grey with a fine intersertal texture. Occasional large white (3 by 2 millimetres) plagioclase phenocrysts are characteristic. Augite may be fresh or partly altered to biotite or more rarely prehnite, chlorite, and epidote. Biotite is present also as a primary mineral as ragged middle-sized grains. The plagioclase was zoned andesine but is almost completely sericitized except for a thin rim. Potash feldspar occurs chiefly in the matrix. Accessory sphene and apatite are common. Zeolites occur in addition to the alteration minerals mentioned. The third phase (3), as far as is known, is a minor dyke phase. It is similar to (1) but contains fewer phenocrysts in a finely aphanitic, chocolate-coloured matrix. It is generally quite fresh, but plagioclase may be partly altered to muscovite or prehnite. It appears to be a post-mineral phase. The syenodiorite is a fine- to fine-medium-grained (0.5 to 2 millimetres) granitic- textured rock that is normally dark grey but without being greatly altered may be pinkish. Occasionally large mafic phenocrysts are common. At many localities it has a fair foliation, at others a lathy intersertal texture. Plagioclase was zoned from An7o-3o but is now highly sericitized. Potash feldspar generally is interstitial. Mafic minerals other than the magnetite are associated in a characteristic manner. Fresh pyroxene may be mantled by hornblende or biotite, and either one may extend away from the mantle as a large poikilitic grain with inclusions of small plagioclase laths. Biotite is more common than hornblende, and all three may occur in one specimen. The biotite may be partly altered in an interleaved fashion to chlorite. Sphene and apatite are common accessories. Prehnite is a rare alteration after plagioclase. The lamprophyre is an unusual rock of prominent zoned augite (1 to 5 millimetres) in a finer matrix of highly zoned sericitized plagioclase (An75_50) and magnetite with interstitial potash feldspar. The rocks weather rapidly to a dark sand, and some dykes can be identified in the trenches by this means. In addition, a number of small post-mineral dykes occur that are unrelated to the main plutonic suite. These are mostly sugary-textured light greenish-grey andesites. On the geological map an additional unit is shown called breccias. This is a simple term for the complex of breccias and altered rocks that are of major importance in regard to the economic mineralization. The range of types present is large, and the commonest feature is the salmon colour of most rocks, resulting from extensive potash metasomatism. The original rock type of many specimens cannot be definitely identified, but amongst those that have been are the following:— (1) Metavolcanic skarns and breccias of these in a plutonic matrix. (2) Breccias of porphyry in a different igneous matrix. (3) Breccias of porphyry only slightly expanded with a drusy matrix filled with potash feldspar, biotite, amphibole, magnetite, chalcopyrite, and stilbite. (4) Highly altered porphyry with or without many inclusions and with or without large poikilitic porphyroblasts of potash feldspar. Where alteration is least, it is the crowded porphyry (1) that is generally recognizable as the main type that occurs as breccia fragments or original host. In some cases this porphyry is entirely converted into a syenite or even an orthoclase rock with just palimpsest plagioclase, augite, or magnetite. This altered salmon porphyry may be contained in a greyer matrix composed chiefly of large irregular orthoclase or rarely microcline crystals with biotite. The porphyry (2) is present in lesser amounts and may contain definite fragments of porphyry (1). 130 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Rocks of normal mineralogy and alteration may, upon brecciation, be subjected to further alteration, in which much plagioclase in the matrix is replaced by potash feldspar and phenocrysts may be either only sericitized, or mantled, or entirely replaced by orthoclase. Augite may be fresh or replaced by clinozoisite, talc, serpentine, biotite, sphene, carbonate, or some combination. Prehnite is relatively common, and apatite and sphene more common than in original porphyries. Many of the breccias and altered rocks are also fairly porous, and most contain some chalcopyrite preferentially in the breccia matrix as well as in small seams and disseminated. Late zeolite veinlets are common. The geological map, Figure 22, is partly diagrammatic. The geology in the breccia areas is very complex. The plutonic sequence that seems most likely is as follows:— (1) Intrusion of porphyry (1). (2) Intrusion of porphyry (2) overlapped or followed by brecciation and main alteration and mineralization. Closely followed by— (3) Intrusion of syenodiorite. (4) Dykes of porphyry (3). (5) Dykes of lamprophyre. The cause of brecciation is most likely tectonic, in that the belts of breccia are fairly linear, trending generally northward but seeming to diverge about a " core " of syenodiorite. Brecciation may have occurred in advance of intrusion of one of the later phases, either porphyry (2) or the syenodiorite. One of the unexplained complexities is that foliation in the syenodiorite appears disconformable with the contacts. This could be taken to indicate it was an early phase, later truncated, although dykes of the porphyries have not been identified in the main syenodiorite masses, and alteration of the syenodiorite is slight. Both of the latter facts strongly suggest the syenodiorite was a late phase. The lamprophyre dykes follow late small northerly trending steep faults. One fairly important shear zone follows the altered rocks in this same orientation. Mineralization The Mount Polley stock is extensively mineralized with chalcopyrite, particularly in the breccia zones. Pyrite occurs as in a partly peripheral halo. Chalcopyrite is chiefly distributed in the matrix of breccia very commonly within biotite or in drusy cavities. It also coats dry fractures and occurs as disseminated grains. Extensive replacement has also occurred of some metavolcanic inclusions in breccia zones, in which case calcite is the most readily replaced mineral. Bornite is present in very minor amounts. Pyrite either in the ore zone or peripheral halo tends to be more truly disseminated than chalcopyrite. Many secondary copper minerals, notably malachite, azurite, traces of cuprite and chrysocolla, and native copper, occur in the outcrop and trenches, and in the upper part of drill-holes. The company has stated that drilling has outlined approximately 37,000,000 tons of ore of an average grade of copper, 0.50 per cent, and gold, 0.015 ounce per ton before dilution. This reserve is in three blocks. Block A contains 15,549,000 tons averaging 0.458 per cent copper with a waste to ore ratio of approximately 1 to 1, but has 3,700,000 tons assaying 0.65 per cent copper and 0.015 gold with a waste to ore ratio of 1 to 1. Block B contains 20,432,000 tons averaging 0.524 per cent copper with a waste to ore ratio of 1.9 to 1. Block C contains 1,184,000 tons averaging 0.664 per cent copper with a waste to ore ratio somewhat in excess of LODE METALS 131 2 to 1. The proposed pits for blocks A and B, pits 1 and 2 respectively, are outlined on the geological map. Block C is a small area about trench 14. The writer collected samples for analysis by a Lemaire SI mercury detector along a line from trench 19 to trench 16, then by trench 7 to the access road and on down to Bootjack Lake. The profile is shown as Figure 23. A peak of 0.10 to 0.11 was recorded from a sample from the west end of trench 16. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 140^141.] WE 0.125 ST EAST • 0.10 - - 2 a a 0.075 • • • 1 2 > a. \ • /*\ 3 °-05 • \ • ^ s. • / 4 or UJ 2 •\ 0.025 SAMPLE NO. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 II 10 9 i— 1000'—I 8 76 5 4 3 2 1 Figure 23. Cariboo-Bell Copper Mines Limited. Mercury in soils at the Cariboo Bell. Copper Carex Mines Ltd By T. M. Waterland (52° 121° N.W. and 52° 122° N.E.) Company office, 303, 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The company holds a large number of claims in six groups as follows: 120 claims near Jacobie Lake, 100 claims (Gay group) on the Quesnel River near Hydraulic, 40 claims on Buxton Creek, 60 claims east-southeast of Buxton Creek, 18 claims on Dragon Creek west of Quesnel, and 42 claims 11 miles north of Quesnel. C. S. Powney directed a crew of six taking soil samples on the various claim groups. This was to be followed by magnetometer work. Silver-Lead-Zinc QUESNEL LAKE Mae, S.F. (52° 120° N.W.) Company office, 133 East Helicon Explorations Limited 14th Street, North Vancouver. The 56-claim By t.m. waterland property is on Maeford Lake, some 30 miles southeast of Wells, and is reached by helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. Five men were employed for a period of one month under the direction of D. Millburn, geologist. Galena and sphalerite are reported to occur as fracture fillings and replacement lenses in siliceous limestone. The area was prospected, and the S.F. Nos. 3 and 5 claims were geologically mapped and soil sampled, and 12 shallow pits were drilled and blasted. 132 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Lead-Silver Joy (52° 120° N.E.) This property, formerly the Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited Bob and Joe, consisting of four claims held by By t. m. waterland Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited, 320, 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1, is located 5 miles northeast of the east arm of Quesnel Lake. Access is by boat and helicopter from Likely, a distance of 70 miles. Galena, sphalerite, and minor chalcopyrite occur as blebs and disseminations in quartz-barite veins parallel to deformed limestone beds. Two men, employed for one month under the supervision of P. Weishaupt, did a small amount of trenching on the Joy No. 1 claim. The property was not visited. Copper HORSEFLY Wood (52° 121° S.E.) Company office, 133 East Helicon Explorations Limited 14th Street, North Vancouver. The 68-claim By t.m. waterland property is 7 miles southeast of Horsefly and is reached by 10 miles of road and trail from Horsefly. The property was discovered late in 1966. Work consisted of digging several shallow pits and general prospecting in the area. It was accomplished in one month by three men under the supervision of P. H. Blanchet, geologist. Chalcopyrite and minor pyrite are reported to occur in a granodiorite. Copper Gl (52° 121° S.E. and 52° 120° S.W.) Company Helicon Explorations Limited address, 133 East 14th Street, North Vancouver. ByT. m. waterland -phis 80-claim property is on Gibbons Creek and is reached by 10 miles of road east from Horsefly. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, and magnetite are reported to occur as a contact metasomatic deposit near an intrusion of diorite into volcanics. Work included geological mapping and electromagnetic, induced polarization, ground and airborne magnetometer, and geochemical surveys. In addition, about 4 miles of road was constructed and 400 feet of bulldozer trenching and 75,000 square feet of bulldozer stripping were carried out. Seventy-five feet of trench was drilled and blasted in bedrock. Six men were employed for a five-month period under the direction of W. Shut- tleworth, geologist. Copper-Gold-Silver HORSEFLY LAKE Sue (52° 120° S.W.) Company office, 133 East Helicon Explorations Limited 14th Street, North Vancouver. The 56-claim ByT. m. waterland property is on Suey Bay in Horsefly Lake and is reached by boat from Horsefly Landing, a distance of about 28 miles. This prospect was discovered late in 1966. Work on the property was under the direction of G. M. Hurd and P. H. Blanchet, geologists. Four men were employed for two months. Chalcopyrite and pyrite are reported to occur as fracture fillings in andesite. Preliminary work on the property consisted of a geochemical reconnaissance survey and drilling and blasting about 15 feet of trench in bedrock. LODE METALS 133 copper CROOKED LAKE EN (52° 120° S.W.) Company office, 133 East Helicon Explorations Limited 14th Street, North Vancouver. The property, ByT.m.waterland comprising 172 recorded claims, is on Eureka Mountain, north of Crooked Lake near the head of Mackay River. Access to the property is via 50 miles of road from Horsefly. Work on the property for a six- month period was supervised by W. Shuttleworth, geologist, and consisted of geological mapping, electromagnetic, induced polarization, geochemical, and aeromag- netic surveys. An adit 105 feet long was driven, and a hole 700 feet in length was diamond drilled. In addition, several pits and trenches were excavated and about 5 miles of road was constructed. Mineralization is reported to consist of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite occurring as fracture fillings and disseminated in diorite. Molybdenum BIG TIMOTHY (TAKOMKANE) MOUNTAIN Boss Mountain Mine (52° 120° S.W.) Company office, 1050 Davie Street, Brynnor Mines Limited Vancouver 5; mine office, Box 247, 100 Mile House. By t.m. watenand L R Recjford, manager; K. G. Collins, mine super intendent; J. Austin, mill superintendent; A. Ozols, plant superintendent. The Boss Mountain mine is on the east slope of Big Timothy (Takomkane) Mountain, about 35 miles northeast of 100 Mile House, and is reached by 57 miles of road via Forest Grove and Canim Lake. The mine townsite is on Hendrix Lake, about 6 miles from the mine. Molybdenite occurs as pockets and veinlets in two quartz breccia zones, as seams in quartz diorite slips, and as seams, pockets, and veinlets in quartz veins. The Main quartz breccia orebody approximates a vertical prism 70 feet thick by 300 feet long. The South breccia orebody was further explored during 1966 from the 5R47 drive west, which was extended for that purpose. The Fracture ore- body, which is about half the size of the Main orebody, is a block of unbrecciated quartz diorite with well-mineralized slips and quartz veins. The High Grade vein consists of quartz and molybdenite in a sheared lamprophyre. Ore-reserve tonnages have been maintained since the start of production in 1965. The main entry to the mine is the 5045 level adit, which was driven about 1 mile from the portal (mine plant area) to the orebodies. Mining is by vertical long-hole stoping methods, with ore being loaded into 130-cubic-foot Granby cars on the 5045 haulage level by 21-cubic-foot-capacity mucking-machines. The average output per mucking-machine shift is 244 tons. The stoping method consists of drilling long-holes with an average length of 53 feet from sublevel fringe drifts spaced 60 feet vertically on the sides of the orebody. The holes are drilled with AV2 -inch deep-hole drills and are blasted into transverse slots previously excavated by long-hole blasting. Primary explosives requirements are 0.49 pound per ton of ore, and secondary blasting in the drawpoints consumes 0.22 pound per ton. Sublevels are driven with air-leg drills and rubber-tired air-powered mucking- machines. Level-development mucking is with track-mounted mucking-machines. During the year, sublevels for the 5N50 stope were completed on the 5,340, 5,400, and 5,430 elevations, and sublevels for the 5N54 stope were completed on the 5,340, 5,400, and 5,450 elevations. Service for the sublevels was from surface via the 5N50 raise. 134 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Two raises were driven to surface from 5,280 elevation—one at the north end of the orebody and the other through the pillar between the two stopes. On the main 5045 level drawpoint, development was carried out for the 5L53 and 5056 stopes. Service and slot raises were driven in these new stopes to 5,160 elevation. A summary of development work at the mine during the year is as follows:— Ft. Drifting and crosscutting 2,531 Sublevel drifting 4,784 Raising 1,981 Diamond drilling (underground) 17,867 Diamond drilling (surface) 5,539 Blast-hole drilling 272,462 Ventilation of the mine is by means of a 100-horsepower Axivane electric fan at the top of the 5R47 exhaust raise. Sixty thousand cubic feet per minute of fresh air is drawn in through the main portal, where in the winter it is preheated to 40 degrees Fahrenheit with a 5.5 million B.t.u. oil-fired heater. A total of 433,832 tons of ore was milled during 358 days of operating time. From the ore milled, 3,069 tons of concentrates was produced, containing 3,534,893 pounds of molybdenum. The concentrates were purchased by four different companies in England, one in France, and one in the United States. Two outside contractors were engaged during the year for diamond-drill work and for overburden removal. Company employment totalled 201, of whom 62 were underground. CLINTON MINING DIVISION Copper-Molybdenum TASEKO LAKES Rowborrom (51° 123° S.E.) Company office, 404, 1112 Phelps Dodge Corporation West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. The Rowbot- of Canada, Limited torn group of 24 claims is 11 miles southeast of By t. m. waterland Taseko Lakes on the east side of the head of Gran ite Creek. Access is by fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter from Vancouver. It is reported that chalcopyrite and molybdenite occur as coarse to fine disseminations and occasionally as fracture fillings in altered quartz diorite and siliceous dykes. Work consisted of drilling and blasting of trenches totalling 163 feet. Three men were employed for one month under the direction of M. H. Sanguinetti, geologist. Copper-Molybdenum KH, Granite (51° 123° S.E.) Company office, c/o Phelps Dodge Mesa Mines Limited Corporation of Canada Limited, 404, 1112 West Pender By t.m. waterland Street, Vancouver 1. Mesa Mines Limited owns 124 KH and Granite claims, 8 miles southeast of Taseko Lakes. Access to the property is by fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter, a distance of approximately 140 miles from Vancouver. Previous work was done on the property by Phelps Dodge Corporation in 1964 and 1965. Chalcopyrite and molybdenite reportedly occur as coarse blebs to fine disseminations in quartz diorite. Ten men under the direction of M. H. Sanguinetti worked for a period of four months. LODE METALS 135 Work by the company consisted of geological mapping, induced polarization and magnetometer surveys, and soil and silt sampling. Six trenches with a total length of 85 feet were dug by hand, and 10 holes with a total footage of 4,640 feet were drilled. Copper-Molybdenum Eggs (51° 123° S.W.) Company office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1112 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. By t.m. waterland The seven-claim Eggs group, held under agreement, is between 5,000 and 8,000 feet elevation on Tchaikazan River west of Taseko Lakes. Access is via helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft from Williams Lake or Vancouver. Mineral showings are reported to consist of chalcopyrite and molybdenite as disseminated replacements in quartz monzonite. Work during 1966 was carried out by a three-man crew over a three-week period and consisted of drilling and blasting trenches having a total volume of about 190 cubic yards. Work was supervised by J. J. McDougall, geologist. Copper LAC LA HACHE Peach, Fly, Tim (51° 121° N.E.) Company office, 1521 Pemberton Ave- Coranex Limited nue, North Vancouver. The Peach, Fly, and Tim claims, By t.m. waterland totalling about 450 in number, are 12 miles northeast of Lac la Hache. Work on the property was conducted over a four-month period by six men under the supervision of J. R. Woodcock. It is reported that chalcopyrite occurs as fracture fillings and as disseminations in Nicola volcanic rocks. Work during 1966 consisted of geological mapping, a geochemical survey, about 33,000 square feet of bulldozer stripping, a small amount of hand trenching, and the construction of about 5 miles of road. Copper-Lead-Zinc FF (51° 121° N.E.) The company owns 94 Anaconda American Brass Limited claims by location 6 miles northeast of Lac By t.m. waterland ja Hache. The showing consists of vein material carrying galena, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite with associated malachite and azurite in andesite. Seven men were employed for a period of 2V2 months under the supervision of John M. McAndrew, geologist. A geologic map of the property was made, an induced polarization survey run over 14,600 feet of line, and soil and stream sediments sampled on a grid covering the claims. One small trench was dug by hand on the FF No. 34 claim. The property was not visited. 70 MILE HOUSE S.E.) Cominco Ltd. holds 45 Pot claims and has Copper Pot, I.D.S. (51° 121c Cominco Ltd. options on the 16-claim I.D.S. group, some 15 miles due east of ByT.m. waterland 79 Miie House. It is reported that bornite occurs on the property as fracture fillings and minor disseminations in syenite. Three men were employed for one month under the direction of D. L. Cooke, geologist, mapping geology and running magnetometer and geochemical surveys. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 859.] 136 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper C-Soo (51° 120° S.W.) The 84-claim C-Soo Copper Soo Mining Company Limited group is east of 70 Mile House near Dis- By t. m. waterland trict Lot 4919 at the head of Campeau Creek and is reached by road from 70 Mile House. Alrae Explorations Ltd., of Vancouver, is consulting for the company, and during 1966 conducted geophysical (induced polarization) and geochemical surveys. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 938 and 939.] Copper-Molybdenum POISON MOUNTAIN Giant, PM, Fish, Copper, Cheap (51° 122° S.W.) The property, consisting Homestake Mineral Development of 180 claims comprising the Giant, Cheap, Company Fish, PM, and Copper groups, has been op- By t. m. waterland tioned from Copper Giant Mining Corpora tion Limited by Homestake Mineral Development Company. The principal showings are on the east side of Poisonmount Creek and north of Copper Creek. Present access to the property is via the Yalakom River road to Blue Creek and thence about 14 miles by jeep-road to the property. Interbedded argillite, greywacke, and conglomerate have been intruded by two kinds of dacite porphyry. These are a biotite porphyry which extends for about 1 mile along Copper Creek and a hornblende porphyry which occurs in two bodies, each measuring about 2,500 feet by several hundred feet. All rocks are affected by alteration, which includes biotitization, silicification, and feldspathization. Mineralization as both disseminations and fracture fillings consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and lesser amounts of bornite, molybdenite, and magnetite. Work during 1966 extended over a period of six months and was under the direction of H. Toohey, project engineer. It was largely restricted to an area 8,000 by 8,000 feet on Copper Creek, a tributary of Poisonmount Creek. This area was geologically mapped by B. Kaehlert, induced polarization surveys were conducted by Seigel Associates Limited, and geochemical surveys by Chapman, Wood & Griswold Ltd. Some 3,000 feet of bulldozer trenching was done, and \Vi miles of new road was constructed. About 7 miles of old access roads within the claims was reopened. Diamond drilling was carried out by Cameron-McCutcheon Drilling Limited and consisted of six NX holes with a total footage of 1,898 feet and 19 BQ holes totalling 6,714 feet. A total of 21 men was employed at the property and lived in a well-constructed tent camp. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1961, pp. 23-24.] LILLOOET MINING DIVISION Copper-Molybdenum POISON MOUNTAIN Hill (51° 122° S.W.) Company office, 418, 510 West Has- Burlington Mines Ltd. tings Street, Vancouver 2. The company owns 60 By t.m. waterland claims on the northeast slope of Poison Mountain at about the 5,500-foot elevation. Access to the property is from Lillooet via the Yalakom River road, a distance of 58 miles. Work during 1966 and done over a three-month period by five men under the direction of Ralph Sostad consisted of magnetometer and geochemical surveys and the construction of 3 miles of road. LODE METALS 137 Copper-Molybdenum Churn (51° 122° S.W.) Company office, 418, 510 West Hastings Canzac Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2. The property consists of 60 claims on By t. m. waterland me east side of Poison Mountain at the headwaters of Yala kom River. A camp was established on the property, and access was from Lillooet via the Yalakom River road. Seven men worked under the direction of Ralph Sostad for a period of four months. Work included an aerial magnetometer survey, a geochemical survey over the entire claim area, W2 miles of bulldozer trenching, and 3 miles of road construction. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1956, p. 35; 1961, p. 23; Assessment Report No. 926.] Molybdenum YALAKOM RIVER Yalakom, Ridge (50° 122° N.E.) Company address, 745 West Broad- Yalakom Mines Limited way, Vancouver 9. The property is at about the 6,500- Byt.m.waterland foot elevation in the Shulaps Range. Access is via a newly constructed jeep-road which begins at the 2,000-foot elevation some 2 miles past the Barton Ranch on the Yalakom River. At the time of the writer's visit, the construction of an 8-mile access road was nearing completion and a drill programme was planned. Nickel J.C., J.B. (50° 122° N.E.) Company office, 808, 602 Silver Standard Mines Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. Eight claims, By t.m. waterland J.C. 1 to 4 and J.B. 1 to 4, on Yalakom River, about 40 miles by road from Lillooet, were under option to Silver Standard Mines Limited. Four men worked for a period of one month under the direction of N. W. Burmeister, geologist, drilling and blasting 10 trenches totalling 150 feet and drilling two XRT drill-holes totalling 40 feet. It is reported that nickel silicate occurs in a silica-carbonate zone in serpentinite. Mercury Eagle (50° 122° N.E.) The Eagle group of 10 claims Lillooet Mercury Mines Ltd. is on the northeast side of the Yalakom River just By t.m. waterland above the mouth of Shulaps Creek and 8 miles from the Bridge River road. The property (formerly Golden Eagle and Red Eagle) was optioned from F. R. Christy, of Lillooet, by Lillooet Mercury Mines Ltd., with Fred Matthieu acting as manager. After a short period of ore-testing at the mine, the Gould mill of Silverquick Development Co. (B.C.) Ltd. was leased and a small tonnage was trucked 60 miles from the mine to the mill at Mowson Pond. Production was suspended in late December. Mercury TYAUGHTON CREEK Silverquick, Quicksilver, Dot, Bob, Kim, Etc. (51° 122° S.W.) The claims Silverquick Development Co. (B.C.) Ltd. held by the company straddle Ty- By t. m. waterland aughton Creek just west of Relay Creek. A good road leads from the Manitou mine (Empire Mercury) road to the property. The Manitou mine road leaves the Bridge River road near Mowson Pond. Mineralization on the property consists of cinnabar associated with quartz, calcite, limonite, and dickite. The cinnabar is present as disseminated grains, 138 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 streaks, and as small lenses in brecciated conglomerate, as smears on slickenside fault surfaces, and in the mud of gouge seams. The host rocks are a sequence of conglomerate and argillaceous shale beds. During 1966 three companies had options on the claims and in the latter part of the year the companies' Gould retort mill on Mowson Pond was leased to Lillooet Mercury Mines Ltd. Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. did about one month's work on the property. The work, under the direction of W. Pentland, consisted of geochemical and mercury sniffer surveys over a 2- by 3-mile area and about 800 feet of bulldozer trenching. Canex Aerial dropped its option on the property. S. H. Glassmire and associates, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, report having done some 6,500 feet of bulldozer trenching on the property. Pyramid Mining Co. Ltd. drilled 538 feet of BX wireline hole by contract. This work was under the direction of C. Millar, geologist, and employed five men for a period of two months. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1964, pp. 81-83.] Mercury Empire Mercury Mine (51° 122° S.W.) Company office, 558 Empire Mercury Corporation Ltd. Howe Street, Vancouver 1; mine postal By t. m. waterland address, Gold Bridge. E. Lorentzen, presi dent; W. Seines, mine manager. The property is located at the confluence of Mud, Relay, and Tyaughton Creeks, some 17 miles north of the Bridge River road via the Tyaughton Creek-Tyax Lake road. A total of 72 claims are owned or are held under option agreement. Cinnabar and native mercury occur in a shear zone within purple amygdaloidal and green even-grained lavas. The rocks consist of interbedded ribbon cherts, slates and lavas, intrusive serpentine, massive arkosic sandstone, and felsite dykes or sills. The cherts, slates, and lavas have been intensely folded and usually have very steep dips, while the more massive sandstone and interbedded shaly material have gentler dips. During 1966 construction work was carried out by both the company and the Department of Highways on the mine access road. Work during 1966 was done on the Mercury, Grizzly, Iris, and Florence claims. It included building drill access roads, trenching, retimbering of some mine workings, and drilling 128 holes (a total of 23,206 feet) with an overburden percussion drill. A crew of eight men under the direction of Walter Seines worked for 11 months during 1966. The crew lived in a modern camp at the mine property. [Reference: Stevenson, J. S., B.C. Dept. of Mines, Bull. No. 5, 1940, p. 70.] Gold BRIDGE RIVER Bralorne Mine (50° 122° N.W.) Company office, 355 Bur- Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited rard Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Bra- Byt.m.waterland iorne. q h. Davenport, president; W. E. Field, resident manager; D. B. Cameron, mine superintendent; E. H. Hall, mill superintendent; M. J. Mitchell, plant superintendent. The company operates the Bralorne mine on Cadwallader Creek, which is reached by 75 miles of road from Lillooet. Production from the Bralorne mine has been continuous since 1930, and the underground workings are extensive. LODE METALS 139 No. 8 level is the main adit and haulage level. No. 8 level is connected to the mine workings by the Empire service shaft, which extends from No. 3 level to No. 26 level and the main hoisting shafts; the Crown shaft, which extends from No. 8 level to No. 26 level; and the Queen shaft, which connects No. 26 intermediate haulage level to the lower producing section of the mine. The bottom level of the mine is No. 43 level and is now in the process of being developed. Rock temperature on No. 43 level is 128 degrees Fahrenheit, and it is this condition together with the ore grade that will determine the future life of the mine. Much depends on finding, at lower levels, ore of a higher grade than that on No. 43 level. The company's report for the third quarter states that ore in the 77 vein on No. 43 level is developed for a length of 460 feet and averages 12.8 feet in width with a grade of 0.70 ounce gold per ton. Initial diamond drilling below No. 43 level has not indicated the presence of a higher grade ore zone. It is anticipated that, at a production rate of 8,000 tons per month, the present ore reserves will maintain the operation until 1968. A summary of development work carried out during the year is as follows:— Drifting and crosscutting ft. 2,312 Raising ft. 589 Bore-hole raises ft. 1,404 Miscellaneous excavation cu. ft. 31,000 Diamond drilling ft. 5,186 Production, which totalled 105,813 tons, was primarily from tailings-filled " cut and fill " stopes in the 77 and 79 veins with a minor amount from the 52 vein. Some 43,222 ounces of gold was recovered. At year-end, employment totalled 190 men, of which 128 were underground personnel. Ventilation and cooling of the mine, a major problem, is accomplished by two 150-horsepower Jeffrey fans in series supplying approximately 100,000 cubic feet per minute of air to the ventilation raise and lower Queen shaft levels. Auxiliary fans draw air off onto the levels as required. Air is exhausted through the Queen 77 and 79 workings and to surface via the Crown and Empire shafts. Specially designed insulated vent ducting is used for supplying air to working- places on the lower levels. The insulated ducting was designed by W. E. Field, mine manager, and consists of an inner lining of 15 mil polytubing, a middle layer of 1-inch fibre glass, and an outer layer of waterproof mildew-resistant canvas. During 1966, in further attempts to keep ventilation air to acceptable temperatures, Bralorne successfully used a portable urethane foam spraying system to insulate the walls and back of No. 43 level with rigid urethane foam. The spraying system consists of a spray gun and one tank each of pre-foamed resin, pre-foamed catalyst flushing solvent, and nitrogen. The resin and catalyst are metered and passed through a " pre-expansion " and mixing chamber before leaving the gun. Upon contact with the rock a further 100 per cent expansion occurs, and the foam sets up almost immediately. The difficulties encountered in raising operations under extreme temperature conditions prompted the purchase by Bralorne of a Robbins raise-boring machine. This machine is used to bore 48-inch-diameter holes between levels. The bore-holes will be used for ventilation airways. To the end of 1966, five bore-holes had been completed, the longest being 345 feet in length. The company is pleased with the 140 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 performance of the machine, and but for it the provision of airways to the lower levels would have been extremely difficult. Raising with the bore-hole machine is accomplished by drilling a 9-inch- diameter pilot hole from the upper level to the lower level and then by replacing the 9-inch bit with a 48-inch reaming head and reaming the hole to 48 inches from the lower level to the upper level. All bore-holes to date have been bored in diorite and quartz, and pilot-hole penetration rates have ranged from 9.2 to 14.5 feet per hour. Reaming rates have been from 3.9 to 5.3 feet per hour. In keeping with Bralorne's constant quest to increase efficiency and reduce cost, the company worked with the Federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resources in the installation of automatic reagent feeding devices in the cyanide mill. The devices installed and tested were the alkalinity probe and the continuous cyanide titrator. Molybdenum TEXAS CREEK Index (50° 122° N.E.) The Index property consists of Texas Creek Mines Limited 13 Crown-granted claims and a number of re- By t. m. waterland corded claims on the summit between the north fork of Texas Creek and Phair Creek. Access is via an 11-mile jeep-road which follows Texas Creek from its confluence with the Fraser River. The property is at about the 8,000-foot elevation, and the camp at a considerably lower elevation. W. Inverarity was in charge of work at the property, which consisted of diamond drilling, soil-sampling, trenching, and road construction. At the time of the writer's visit, some 1,300 feet of diamond drilling had been completed. Mineralization reportedly consists of molybdenite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite in shears and fractures in a granite stock. Molybdenum PEMBERTON Sal, R, EE, Etc. (50° 123° N.E.) Company office, 535 Thurlow Amax Exploration, Inc. Street, Vancouver 5. R. A. Barker, manager. This By j. m. carr company controls the Sal, Plug, R, EE, Win, Toy, and Day groups, totalling 245 recorded claims, of which about 76 are held under option from the joint owners, Norpax Nickel Mines Limited and Purdex Minerals Limited. The property covers the western part of a mountain some 6 miles west of Downton Lake between the Bridge River and the forks of Salal Creek, which is tributary to the Lillooet River. Elevations range from 5,000 to 8,500 feet, and access is by helicopter from Pemberton Meadows, some 40 air miles to the southeast. The property partly covers ground held in 1960 and 1961 by Phelps Dodge Corporation of Canada, Limited (see Annual Report, 1961, p. 28). Indications of molybdenum mineralization were discovered in 1960 on the precipitous slopes of Float Creek, a south-flowing tributary of Salal Creek, by Phelps Dodge exploration parties. No further work was done, but in 1963 the Pemberton syndicate staked claims on Float Creek. The property was optioned to Norpax Nickel Mines Limited in 1964, who signed an agreement with Amax in 1965. Amax commenced work in that year and completed a second season's work in 1966. During that time further indications of molybdenite and other mineralization were found over a wide area. Work in 1966 was directed by D. K. Mustard and included geological mapping and 7,134 feet of diamond drilling in 12 holes. A crew of 23 men, including drillers on contract, camped at the head of the east fork of Salal Creek from July to September. LODE METALS 141 The following notes are based on a short visit made in September and on information provided by the company. The property is largely underlain by a stock with poorly exposed contacts emplaced in the Coast Range intrusions. The stock is 7 miles long in a northeasterly direction, as much as 5 miles wide, and consists of a coarser-grained envelope surrounding a finer-grained central core. The envelope, which in places is as much as 1 mile wide, is a more or less porphyritic medium-grained quartz monzonite whose composition approaches granite and which contains phenocrysts, some as large as three-quarters of a centimetre, variously composed of quartz, perthitic orthoclase, plagioclase, and biotite, set in a granitic groundmass. The central core likewise has a composition approaching granite and consists of quartz monzonite porphyry and aplite, which both possess an aplitic texture and differ from each other mainly in the number and size of phenocrysts present. The porphyry contains phenocrysts, partly as large as one-half centimetre, similar to those in the surrounding quartz monzonite, whilst the aplite has few phenocrysts and is partly so light coloured as to be alaskite. The relationship between porphyry and aplite is unknown, but the central core as a whole is believed to have been emplaced slightly later than the quartz monzonite. The latter may have formed a roof over the central core, since isolated bodies of quartz monzonite are enclosed by the finer-grained rocks at high surface elevations. Seen in drill core, the contact between the core and the envelope is relatively sharp, unchilled, and contains unusual textures that probably resulted from magmatic reaction or alteration. On a larger scale, the contact, where examined at surface, shows peculiar features that include the occurrence of intrusion breccias, in which angular to rounded blocks of assorted grey and green fine-grained foreign rocks are crowded closely together in one or other phases of the stock. It also shows evidence that locally the edge of the finer-grained mass was formed by intrusion of successive dykes of porphyry and aplite. Similar dykes and other, possibly distinct quartz porphyry dykes are reported to occur widely in the quartz monzonite envelope. Basalt dykes also occur and are no doubt related to a late vulcanism, at least partly post-glacial in age, which produced small flows and plugs of lava and agglomerate that variously overlie and penetrate the plateau-like top of the mountain. Mineralization occurs widely and is spatially related to shears, veins, and fractures which partly form widely spaced sets and locally make stockworks and breccias. As mapped by company geologists, the more prominent of these structures mostly trend easterly or northeasterly and many of them possess steep dips. On the southern slopes, a northward-dipping sheeting is apparent. In the fractured rocks, biotite is altered partly to chlorite, and plagioclase to a yellowish clay mineral which gives these feldspars a bright pink colour and is reported to be illite. The shears and fractures commonly contain quartz veins which may be multiply emplaced and are partly vuggy, and their walls are silicified and contain sericite and locally secondary green biotite. Magnetite is prominently disseminated in some of the altered rocks examined and is considered by company geologists partly to be a product of mineralization. Sulphides partly fill fractures and partly occur near the latter as fine disseminations and streaks. Pyrite is most abundant and is partly accompanied by molybdenite and in places by small amounts of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and, according to reports, galena. Surface oxidation has partly destroyed sulphides and has produced widespread limonite, local copper stains, and conspicuous platings of manganese wad. The steeply gullied southern slopes of the mountain are extensively rusty and weathered, and their loose precarious nature has rendered exploration difficult. This is the area which first attracted the attention of Phelps Dodge Corporation in 1960 and was subsequently explored by the Norpax and Purdex companies (see Annual Report, 1964, p. 84). In 1966 the present company 142 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Salal Creek camp of Amax Exploration, Inc. The Jersey open pit of Bethlehem Copper Corporation Ltd. View eastward, July, 1966. LODE METALS 143 was unable to find secure set-ups for further drilling in this area, and most of its work was done farther northeast on Big Creek, where two holes were drilled, and a wide area at high elevations some 2 or 3 miles farther north, more or less on the northern contact of the core of the stock. Here exploration is hindered by glaciers, which with volcanic rocks obscure much of the top of the mountain. In these and other areas, long surface samples and drill-core assays are reported to show mostly sub-commercial amounts of molybdenite. However, the mineralized region is large and only partly explored to date, and the possibility of commercial deposits being found remains good. KAMLOOPS MINING DIVISION Molybdenum LITTLE FORT Mo (51° 120° N.E.) Company office, 504, Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited 1112 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. By T.M. Waterland The Mo group of 42 claimS) held Under option, is east of Taweel Lake, some 17V^ miles northwest of Little Fort, whence it is accessible by car and jeep-road. The property was formerly called the Anticlimax. Molybdenite with minor pyrite, wolframite, and scheelite is reported to occur in quartz veins and as disseminations in granite. Work consisted of 2,032 feet of AX diamond drilling in five holes. Detailed geology was done around the showings. Four men were employed for a period of four months under the direction of H. S. Lazenby, geologist. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1961, pp. 49-51.] Copper-Molybdenum-Lead-Zinc TC (51° 120° N.E.) The Anaconda Ameri- Anaconda American Brass Limited can Brass Limited, of Britannia Beach, By t.m. waterland holds 131 ciaims located as the TC claims 10 miles northwest of Little Fort. Access is by road from Little Fort. Pyrite, magnetite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite occur in fracture fillings in dioritic and volcanic rocks. A crew of seven men was employed for a period of six months under the direction of H. E. Bradshaw, geologist. Work during 1966 included construction of access roads, bulldozer trenching, induced polarization and magnetic surveys, soil and stream-sediment sampling, and geological mapping. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 905, 907, and 910.] Molybdenum-Copper-Lead-Zinc-Silver-Gold RO, SO, TC (51° 120° N.E.) Anaconda American Anaconda American Brass Limited Brass Limited, of Britannia Beach, holds By t. m. waterland 207 claims at Friendly Lake. Access is by 20 miles of road from Bridge Lake. Sulphides including pyrite, galena, molybdenite, chalcopyrite, and bornite are disseminated and as seams and blebs in fractures in andesites and tuffs. Work during 1966 was under the supervision of W. M. Reed, geologist, and consisted of geological mapping, induced polarization survey, soil and stream- sediment sampling, construction of access roads, 10,300 feet of bulldozer trenching, and 430 feet of diamond drilling. 144 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 A crew of 18 men was employed for a period of six months. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 753, 754, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, and 952.] Copper-head-Zinc Silver (51° 120° N.E.) Company address, 601, United Copper Corporation Limited 475 Howe Street, Vancouver 1. The Sil- Byt.m.waterland ver nos_ 1 to 55 mineral claims held by United Copper Corporation Limited are on the southwest side of Silver (Deer) Lake, near the head of Nehalliston Creek. Access is by four-wheel-drive vehicle from Little Fort. It is reported that Rae G. Jury, of Alrae Explorations Ltd., supervised a contract geochemical soil-sampling programme for the company. Work was carried out over a four-month period, with three men being employed by the company and six by the contractor. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 981.] Gold-Silver-Copper-Lead-Zinc BIRCH ISLAND Sinbad, Lucky Star (51° 119° N.W.) Company address, 365 Bay Street, Crowpat Minerals Ltd. Toronto, Ont. The Sinbad and Lucky Star groups of By t. m. waterland claims are on the south slope of Mount McClennan and are reached via a logging-road which leaves the No. 5 highway 6V2 miles east of Birch Island. Engineering work on the property is being done by James P. Elwell, consulting engineer, with Tom Smart in charge. Diamond drilling started in October, with about 2,000 feet contracted to Midwest Drilling Company. Drilling was expected to carry through December. Nine men were employed at the time of the writer's visit. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 436.] Molybdenum BARRIERE Bar, Don, GM, George, Tim, (51° 119° S.W.) Company office, Aloha Motel, Barriere, Joe, Glen 3630 McLeod Trail, Calgary, Alta.; mine address, West Moly Mines Limited Box 219, Barriere. The property, which consists By t.m. waterland of 96 claims owned by the company, is located on the east flank of Harper Creek valley. Access to the property is via the Harper Creek road from the North Barriere Lake road at the junction of Birk Creek and the Barriere River. It is reported that molybdenite occurs on joints and as disseminations in granitic rocks that are cut by numerous felsite dykes. Work carried out over an eight-month period by five men under the direction of G. E. Midgley consisted of some 5,000 feet of side-hill cutting and 4,750 feet of diamond drilling in 10 holes. Copper cc Mining Corporation of Canada (1964) Ltd. (51° 119° S.W.) Company office, 1800, 44 King Street West, Toronto 1, Ont.; field office, 514, 402 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1. The CC claims are By t. m. waterland about 2 miles west of North Barriere Lake. Access is via the Harper Creek road, which leaves the main Barriere Lake road at the confluence of Birk Creek and Barriere River. LODE METALS 145 Seven men were employed for a one-month period under the direction of W. Rainboth, geologist, and ran self-potential, magnetometer, and geochemical soil- sampling surveys over 11 claims. An area of 100,000 square feet of bedrock was stripped by bulldozer. Copper-Lead-Zinc-Silver Ultima, Good Luck, Creek, (51° 119° S.W.) Company office, 2010 Rattenbury Harper, Ruth Place, Victoria. Barriere Lake Mines Ltd. holds 37 Barriere Lake Mines Ltd. claims, comprising the Ultima, Good Luck, Creek, By t. m. waterland Harper, and Ultima East claims, on the north side of North Barriere Lake and the Ruth group of 62 claims. Work in 1966 was being done on the claims on the north side of east Barriere Lake by Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited, of 539 Eighth Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Alta., with Paul La Fleur, geologist, in charge. Nine men were employed cutting line in preparation for magnetometer and electromagnetic surveys. At the time of the writer's visit, Boyles Bros. Drilling Company Ltd. had contracted for some 5,000 feet of drilling and was moving an AX wireline drill rig onto the property. Copper-Silver-Lead-Zinc Leemac, Boomae (51° 119° S.W.) Company office, 203, 156 Victoria Kamstar Mines Ltd. Street, Kamloops. The Leemac and Boomae claims are By t.m. waterland on Fennell Creek, 2 miles east of North Barriere Lake. Work during 1966 commenced early in March and was under the direction of T. McMahon. Sulmac Exploration Services Ltd. cut 43 miles of line, over which an electromagnetic survey was run. Some geological mapping was done, and 20 trenches, totalling 5,000 feet, were dug. About 5 miles of road was constructed, and 1,514 feet of diamond drilling was done. The crew lived in a camp on the North Barriere Lake road. Company prospectors report that blebs and streaks of pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite accompany massive quartz veins intruding a shear zone in metamorphosed sediments. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 807.] Copper-Lead-Zinc SQUAAM (AGATE) BAY Joe, Art (51° 119° S.W.) Company office, 15816—112th Ave- Buchanan Mines Ltd. nue, Edmonton, Alta. Claims on the northwest side of By t.m. waterland Squaam (Agate) Bay have been optioned from Ivan Bennett. Four men were employed under the direction of G. H. Gaven and lived in a camp on the property. Diamond drilling by a company-owned BX wireline truck-mounted drill was under way at the time of the writer's visit, and at that time 1,165 feet had been drilled in two holes. Rock in the area is talcose schist, which is cut by small quartz veins. Pyrite and chalcopyrite were visible near the quartz veins. Silver-Copper-Lead-Zinc Elmoore (51° 119° S.W.) Company address, 1946 Weston Cannon Mines Limited Road, Weston, Ont. The Elmoore group of eight By t.m. waterland claims, formerly the Old Wallace, is on the east side of Adams Lake opposite Agate Bay. Sulmac Exploration Services Limited is reported 146 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 to have carried out geological, geochemical, and geophysical surveys on the Elmoore claims, which were under option to Cannon Mines Limited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 904.] Lead-Zinc-Silver-Gold-Copper SHUSWAP LAKE Garnet, D, S, Pat (50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W.) The Giant Metallics Mines Limited Adams Plateau property of Giant Metallics Mines By t.m. waterland Limited, of 457 Credit Union Building, Salmon Arm, consists of 141 claims comprising the Garnet, D, S, and Pat groups owned by the company. The property was formerly known as the Mosquito King. Access is via a 6-mile logging-road from a booming-ground on the north side of Shuswap Lake 5 miles from the main Trans-Canada Highway at Squilax. Silicified bands carrying pyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, sphalerite, and other sulphides in minor amounts replace metamorphic rocks. The metamorphic complex is intruded by felsitic to basaltic dykes. A grid was cut to facilitate geophysical work, and topographical maps were prepared by Allen Geological Engineering Ltd. This firm also conducted a magnetometer survey, a soil-sampling survey on a 100- by 300-foot grid, and a geological mapping programme. Huntec Limited conducted an induced polarization survey. Some 400 feet of bulldozer trenching and about 2 acres of stripping to bedrock were done. Drill-site roads and extensions of existing roads were done by contract. Ascot Mines Ltd. diamond drilled some 2,000 feet of BQ hole. Big Indian Drilling Co. Ltd. drilled 625 feet of AlA -inch hole with a Mayhew down-the-hole drill. The company drilled 600 feet of 3/4-inch hole. A crew of 15 men was employed for a period of five months. Zinc-Lead-Copper Annis, Dawn, Lakeview (50° 119° N.E.) Company office, 280, 180 Seymour Annis Mines Ltd. Street, Kamloops. Donn Spankes, president; S. F. By n. d. McKecnnie Kelly, consultant. The company holds 35 claims, located as the Annis, Dawn, and Lakeview groups and situated between Mara Lake and the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake. From the Trans-Canada Highway 5 miles southwest of Sicamous, a dirt road leads eastward about a quarter-mile to the camp on Annis No. 5 mineral claim. The working area is between elevations 2,600 and 2,800 feet, and lies along and southwest of the boundary between Annis No. 5, No. 8, and No. 11 and Annis No. 6, No. 7, and No. 12. Most of the work has been done on Annis No. 5 and No. 6. The following discussion refers only to the working area and is based on a two-day examination of exposures and diamond-drill cores. The claims are underlain by the Mara Formation of the Mount Ida Group of pre-Windermere(?) age (Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 296, p. 21). The Mara Formation here is composed of interbedded mica schist and granitoid gneiss. Bedding and schistosity strike nearly west. A small number of reliable bedding attitudes indicate a dip to the north of about 60 degrees; schistosity dips about 35 degrees north. The schist and gneiss are intruded by dykes of granite porphyry and pegmatite which lie in fractures striking north 80 degrees east to south 80 degrees west and dipping 40 degrees to 55 degrees northward, and striking north 30 degrees west and dipping 70 degrees northeastward. Only two fractures of the second set were recognized; the rock in the two sets is of the same kind, but there is no direct evi- LODE METALS 147 dence of their relative ages. The granite porphyry and pegmatite appear to be facies of the same rock. In the working area they are seen almost entirely within the granitoid gneiss. They range in thickness from a few inches to more than 30 feet. A crenulated schistosity, best developed near the walls of the thicker granite and pegmatite dykes, strikes from north 35 degrees west to north 60 degrees west and dips 40 degrees to 75 degrees northeastward. The sulphide mineralization is found in this structure. The granite-pegmatite dykes truncate this and the west- striking schistosity, which is parallel to axes shown on Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 296, Figure 2, as those of the " younger deformation " and " older deformation " respectively. The mineralization consists of sulphides with minor quartz which lie along the schist planes and in the crests and troughs of the crenulations of the " younger " foliation. The sulphides are pyrite, sphalerite, and galena with locally prominent but generally minor chalcopyrite. Pyrrhotite is prominent in two places; the first is in a series of pits crossing the boundary between Annis No. 5 and Annis No. 6 mineral claims, where a west-striking fracture, dipping 40 degrees north, contains massive pyrrhotite 6 inches and more in width, with chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and minor galena; the second is in a pit about 800 feet south of these trenches, where a 3-inch band of massive pyrrhotite strikes north 30 degrees west and dips 45 degrees southwestward. Chalcopyrite was seen to vein and include sphalerite; pyrrhotite veins and includes chalcopyrite and also has inclusions of quartz, suggesting that it post-dates all the other mineralization. Sphalerite and galena occur only in the granitoid gneiss; chalcopyrite was seen as a few threads at one place in a granite drill core; quartz and pyrite are common in the dykes. The relationship of the granite-pegmatite dykes to the mineralization is not directly apparent. A clue may exist in the fact that completion of a theoretical conjugate fracture pattern which includes the two dyke directions requires a plane striking north and dipping 80 degrees east. A pit in the southeast corner of Annis No. 7 exposes a pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite mineralization that strikes north and dips 70 degrees east. The dykes and the mineralization may therefore be contemporary. The workings consist of an adit about 160 feet in length at elevation 2,630 feet and starting 120 feet southeast of the initial post of Annis 5, 6, 7, and 8. It follows the structure for 120 feet then crosscuts it northward for 40 feet. Above and just south of the adit a series of pits exposes mineralization at intervals for a strike length of 400 feet. The company reports assays along this zone of 1 to 13 per cent lead and trace to 4.3 per cent zinc across width of from 2 to 11 feet. The crosscut portion of the adit passes through the projection of this zone, but chip samples taken here by the writer assayed only fractions of 1 per cent in lead and zinc. Diamond-drill holes Nos. 3, 4, and 5 were drilled from surface to pass between the trench and the adit. The massive pyrrhotite appeared in the highest of the holes at the projection of the dip from the trench, together with a little pyrite and chalcopyrite for a length of 6 inches. The two deeper holes showed sparse pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena for 12 feet and for 5 inches respectively; the deeper hole carried a thin stringer of pyrrhotite. Diamond-drill holes Nos. 1 and 2, drilled from surface 250 feet farther east, also cut the downward projection of the zone but carried only sparse sulphides. Mineralization is exposed in a trench 500 feet south of the above zone, at elevation 2,795 feet, and again in three trenches at 350 feet farther south. They appeared comparable to the first zone. 148 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In summary, mineralization is confined to the granitoid gneiss, it is structurally controlled by crenulations in the " younger " foliation, and it may be related to the granite-pegmatite dykes. Sphalerite and galena are the principal sulphides; they are uneven in their distribution. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 205; Geol. Surv., Canada, Map 143a, Shuswap Lake; Map 1059a, Vernon.] Copper-Molybdenum GREENSTONE MOUNTAIN TC, Spur (50° 120° N.W.) Company office, 118, 815 Tro-Buttle Explorations Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; field By David smith 0gjce> 233 Cypress Avenue, North Kamloops. This property, comprising 250 recorded mineral claims, of which the key groups are the TC and Spur, lies 16 miles to the southeast of Kamloops in the vicinity of Dominic and Roper Lakes, which are south of Greenstone Mountain. Access is by forestry road from the Cherry Creek junction. In 1966 geochemical and magnetometer surveys were carried out on the Spur group. Some 1,500 feet of surface trenching was done, and 8 miles of new road was built. A crew of eight men was employed under the supervision of G. A. Burdett. Copper KAMLOOPS Vanco Explorations Limited (50° 120° N.E., N.W.) Company office, 900, By David smith mi West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. This company, owned and financed jointly by Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. and Labrador Mining and Exploration Co. Ltd., was set up in 1965 to explore a block of more than 600 claims in the vicinity of the Iron Mask batholith comprising the holdings of the following companies: Kamloops Copper Consolidated Ltd., Makaoo Development Company Limited, Galaxy Copper Ltd., Western Beaver Lodge Mines Ltd., Consolidated Negus Mines Limited, Continental Potash Corporation Limited, Rolling Hills Copper Mines Limited, Comet Mining Corporation Ltd., and Bata Resources Limited. In 1965 Vanco drilled seven diamond-drill holes totalling 2,100 feet and carried out an induced polarization survey. In 1966 Vanco drilled 24 diamond-drill holes totalling 7,250 feet. Surface exploration was continuous up to May 31, 1966, when Vanco terminated the option. A crew of 18 was employed under the direction of D. H. Nicholson, geologist in charge. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 192, 604, 605, 624, 625, 634, 640, 655, 689, 723, 724, 727, 742, and 891.] Copper-Molybdenum-Silver-Nickel NESIKEP CREEK Mud, Cherry, Rickhill, Rusty, (50° 121° N.W.) Company office, 205, 402 Joyce, Sharon West Pender Street, Vancouver 3. The Mud, Dalex Mines Ltd. Cherry, Rickhill, Rusty, Joyce, and Sharon claims By t. m. waterland are on Nesikep Creek, on the west side of Fraser River, 26 miles by road south from Lillooet. Work was carried out for a three- month period under the direction of L. Ostensoe, geologist, and consisted of 1,300 feet of bulldozer trenching and the construction of 1,200 feet of road. Copper LYTTON Tetra, Gene (50° 121° S.W.) The Tetra 1 to 17 and the Gene 1 to 10 By n.d. McKecnnie claims are held by Bernard Dupuis, R.R. 2, Petrolia, Ont. They are on the east side of the Fraser River at Izman Creek, 10V£ miles north LODE METALS 149 of Lytton. The Lytton-Lillooet highway passes through the west side of the group, and the right-of-way for a British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority transmission-line crosses it from north to south near the middle. The geology of the area is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 1010a, Ashcroft. A small mass of Cache Creek sediments about one-half mile wide by 1 mile long lying at the mouth of Izman Creek is bordered on the eastward side by a tabular mass of altered granitic rock less than one-quarter mile wide and about 6 miles long. Both these rocks are intruded by and included in the Mount Lytton diorite. The altered granitic rock is buff coloured with, in hand specimen, quartz and feldspar as the prominent constituents. It is weakly to strongly foliated and locally, particularly along shear planes, well silicified. Its contact with Cache Creek quartzites was seen in a limited area where the strike of the sediments was north 10 to 20 degrees east and the dip 45 degrees eastward. The trend of the altered granitic rock is northwest, across the strike of the sediments. Bitumen occurs in the Cache Creek near the contact. Specular hematite and azurite occur sparingly in fracture zones, striking north 30 to 40 degrees west and dipping 45 to 80 degrees northeastward, in the altered granitic rock, and to a minor extent in the quartzite. A few northward- striking and eastward-dipping and eastward-striking northward-dipping mineralized fractures also were seen. No primary copper minerals were recognized. Copper ASHCROFT Red Hill (50° 121° N.E.) Company office, 206, 713 Columbia Delkirk Mining Ltd. Street, New Westminster. E. Gordon, president. The By t. m. waterland Company owns 99 claims about half a mile from the Trans- Canada Highway 7 miles south of Ashcroft. Work for the year was supervised by Hill, Manning & Associates Ltd. and consisted of about 1,200 feet of bulldozer trenching and 300 feet of X-ray diamond drilling. HIGHLAND VALLEY During the year the Bethlehem mine further expanded from 6,000 to 10,000 tons per day capacity, and the Lornex deposit, some 4 miles to the south of Bethlehem, was shown to be several hundred million tons in size. Spurred by these developments, exploration continued actively in the Highland Valley porphyry copper camp. Many of the properties shown on Figure 24 received attention, some for the first time. In the last year or two, numerous new roads have greatly improved access to properties in the southern part of the camp. Numbered properties on Figure 24 are as follows:— 1. Bear (North Pacific Mines Ltd.). 2. Krain (North Pacific Mines Ltd.). 3. Lux, Cindy (Canzac Mines Ltd.). 4. W.D.R.,Nona. 5. Transvaal. 6. Salmo Prince Mines Ltd. 7. Trojan (South Seas Mining Ltd.). 8. Sam (Burlington Mines Ltd.). 9. NIM (New Indian Mines Limited). 10. RAF, TAM, MER, JAC (Cleveland Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd.). 11. Beaver, Lodge, Dave, Outrider (Valley Copper Mines Ltd.). 8 150 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 12. JB (North Pacific Mines Ltd.). 13. EZZ (Alwin Mining Company Ltd.). 14. AL, IC (Continental Consolidated Mines Ltd.). 15. Bethlehem Copper Corporation Ltd. 16. BX (B.X. Mining Company Limited). 17. Eden, Ezra, Job, CL. (New Indian Mines Limited and Vananda Mines Limited). 18. Bethsaida, Tom, BL (Valley Copper Mines Ltd.). Figure 24. Index map of the Highland Valley area. LODE METALS 151 19. Noranda Exploration Company, Limited. 20. Victor (Consolidated Skeena Mines Ltd.). 21. Sheba (Peel Resources Limited). 22. April, UP (Red Rock Mines Ltd.). 23. Gaza Mines Ltd. 24. Jericho Mines Ltd. 25. Lake, Laken, etc. (T.C. Explorations Ltd.). 26. Lorex (Northlode Exploration Ltd.). 27. Lornex Mining Corporation Ltd. 28. Ken (Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited). 29. Highmont Mining Corporation Ltd. 30. Ann (B.X. Mining Company Limited). 31. Award, etc. (Minex Development Ltd.). 32. Cal (General Resources Ltd.). 33. Bornite Ridge Mines Ltd. 34. Price (Oro Mines Ltd.). 35. BO (Benson Mines Ltd.). 36. Cris (General Resources Ltd.). 37. Yubet (Stellako Mining Co. Ltd.). 38. Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd. 39. Rio (Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration Limited). 40. Jae (Earlcrest Resources Ltd.). 41. Alamo (San Jacinto Explorations Limited). 42. Oro, M.M. (Oro Mines Ltd.). 43. Royal, Cana, R.C. (Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd.). Copper-Molybdenum Krain (2) (50° 121° N.E.) Company office, 408, 409 Gran- North Pacific Mines Ltd. ville Street, Vancouver 2. R. J. Wiley, president; A. By j. m. carr r Allen, consulting engineer. This company controls about 32 recorded claims in the Krain and D.W. groups east of the north peak of Forge Mountain. The property was optioned until July by Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd., which did 735 feet of diamond drilling in two holes under the direction of C. C. Rennie. Prior to this, in 1965 the same company drilled 14 holes totalling 5,872 feet and did soil-sampling. All the work was done in the same area as earlier drilling, on or near the Krain copper mineral claim. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann Rept., 1965, p. 145; Asssessment Reports Nos. 172 and 207.] Copper Lux, Cindy (3) (50° 120° N.W.) Company office, 418, 510 West Hastings Canzac Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2. R. A. Sostad, president. This com- By j. m. carr pany holds about 145 recorded claims in the adjoining Lux and Cindy groups, which lie to the east of the Krain property and partly occupy ground formerly held by Salmo Prince Mines Ltd. (see Ann. Rept., 1956, p. 43 and Fig. 2). Work in 1966 consisted of surveying and soil-sampling on the Cindy claims. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 146; Assessment Report No. 781.] 152 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper-Molybdenum Trojan (7) (50° 120° N.W.) Company office, 404, 510 West South Seas Mining Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. Benjamin H. Swig, By j. m. carr president; A. G. Pentland, manager. This company controls about 56 claims, including 24 which are Crown granted, to the north and east of the south peak of Forge Mountain. After Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company, Ltd., dropped its option in early 1965, the company on its own did work in 1965 and 1966 which included stripping and trenching variously at the Trojan mine and on the CN. and S.B. groups of claims and diamond drilling two holes at a lake north of the mine area, near the old Salmo Prince camp. Late in 1966 the Trojan mine shaft was dewatered, part of the workings cleaned out and partly retimbered, some track laid, and 115 feet of drifting completed, all by Highland Development Co. Ltd. under agreement with the company. The trenches at the Trojan mine were partly caved when examined. They lie variously southeast, east, and northeast of the shaft in parts of the breccia pipe which were explored earlier by stripping and diamond drilling, and they do not significantly extend the known areas of breccia and mineralization. Trenches on the CN. group are close to the Novak road, about 2,000 feet south of the Highland shaft, and are near a mineralized outcrop. They expose Guichon quartz diorite which is cut by fractures of several sets, along which chalcopyrite occurs in small amounts with tourmaline. Other new trenches are farther northwest, close to the volcanic contact and to old trenches, and they expose similarly fractured and altered rock with less evident mineralization. Trenches on the S.B. group are also close to old ones and are about 2,000 feet to the northeast of the Highland shaft. They show Guichon quartz diorite which is brecciated and contains tourmaline, epidote, quartz, and chalcopyrite, or malachite, on and near fractures. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., 1964, p. 85; Assessment Report No. 342.] Copper-Molyb den um Bethlehem Mine (15) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 1821, Bethlehem Copper Corporation Ltd. 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1; mine By David smith office Box 52o, Ashcroft. P. M. Rey nolds, president; T. P. Liss, general manager; D. S. Stevens, manager, engineering; C W. Overton, manager, mill production; H. G. Ewanchuk, manager, mine production. The company holds 56 Crown-granted and 146 recorded claims and fractions immediately east of Quiltanton (Divide) Lake. Access to the mine is by about 30 miles of paved road from Ashcroft. A dirt-surface airstrip 2,400 feet long has been built approximately 6 miles by road from the mine-site. Mining is carried out under contract. Production from the Jersey pit was 3,983,600 tons of waste and 2,131,424 tons of ore. In addition, 895,857 tons of stockpiled ore was moved to the crusher. Equipment placed in service in 1966 included one 5-cubic-yard diesel shovel, one front-end loader, three 35-ton trucks, and one Caterpillar tractor. In 1966 the mill capacity was increased from 6,000 to 10,000 tons per day. Additions to the plant were two 12Vi- by 15-foot rod-and-ball mills, one 30-foot- deep air cell, six No. 30 cleaner cells, twelve No. 30 D-R flotation cells, and two 200-foot-diameter tailings thickeners. Construction of a new research laboratory and a warehouse was started. Copper concentrates produced in 1966 totalled 45,688 tons. Molybdenite concentrates totalled 15 tons. Concentrates are hauled by truck to Vancouver Wharves in North Vancouver for shipment to Japan. LODE METALS 153 Fresh water is obtained from a deep well on Shula Flats capable of supplying 1,200 gallons per minute. In 1966 a second well was drilled, having a capacity of 800 gallons per minute. In 1965 the tailings dam was replaced by a rock dam 95 feet high built from mine waste. Work continued on this dam throughout 1966. In 1966 further exploration work was done on the Iona, White, Snowstorm, and Hank ore zones. This comprised 1,870 feet of diamond drilling on the Jersey, 3,365 feet on the Iona, and 2,113 feet on the White, and geophysical work on 7.3 miles of line done on the White zone. In 1966 the number of persons employed was 246, of whom 150 were employed by the company and 96 by the contractors. No housing is provided at the property; the employees commute from Ashcroft. Copper- Molybdenum April, UP (22) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 8, 558 Howe Street, Red Rock Mines Ltd. Vancouver 1. This property consists of 37 recorded By David Smith claims in the April and UP groups. The property is north of Witches Brook and accessible from the Highland Valley road. In 1966 some bulldozer trenching was done, but depth of overburden was excessive and bedrock was not exposed. A crew of two men was employed under the direction of D. M. Morgan. Copper Eden, Ezra, Job, CL. (17) (50° 120° N.W.) This property of about 78 re- By j. m. carr corded claims is held jointly by New Indian Mines Limited (company office, 714, 789 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1; T. E. Blossom, president; F. J. Hemsworth, consulting engineer) and Vananda Explorations Limited (661 Hornby Street, Vancouver 1; T. E. Blossom, president and managing director; F. J. Hemsworth, consulting engineer). It lies at about 4,000 feet elevation north of Witches Brook and west of Guichon Creek and is accessible by a road leaving the Highland Valley road a short distance west of the Jericho camp. Work in 1966 was supervised by D. R. Foster, and it included soil-sampling 10 claims, an induced polarization survey on 20 claims, 1,840 feet of trenching, and 3,000 feet of diamond drilling in nine holes. A showing immediately northeast of the camp was visited and is on the former Giselle group held in 1956 by Deer Home Mines Limited. It is about 4,000 feet south of trenches made by North Pacific Mines Ltd. (see Ann. Rept., 1964, p. 88) and is some 6,000 feet due east of B.X. (Faw) Lake. Stripping along a Z-shaped gully in bedrock, formerly a glacial meltwater channel, exposed a mineralized north- northeasterly fault which dips steeply to the west and is in quartz diorite of the younger type. The mineralization is oxidized and is apparently a lode adjoining the fault, near to which the quartz diorite is bleached and sericitized and contains random slender quartz veins. Of two holes drilled near the showing, a vertical hole drilled west of the fault intersected breccia and altered younger quartz diorite with chrysocolla and malachite for about 10 feet. Part of the adjacent rock is unaltered older quartz diorite, which apparently forms a screen in the younger rock. Core from holes drilled elsewhere on the property showed no more than a trace of chalcopyrite. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 147; Assessment Reports Nos. 606, 608, and 711.] 154 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper-Molybdenum RAF, TAM, MER, JAC, CM (10) (50° 121° N.E.) Company office, 615, Cleveland Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. 850 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. By j. m. carr j. e. Cleveland, president; F. J. Hems worth, consulting engineer. The company controls about 122 recorded claims in these and other groups that form a single property to the southwest of Pukaist Creek. Access to the property is from the O.K. mine road at a point V/i miles from Highland Valley Lodge. Work in 1966 was supervised by D. R. Foster, and it included an induced polarization survey on 30 claims in the JAC, RAF, and MER groups and soil-sampling on the remaining claims of the property. In 1966, 1,500 feet of trenching was done and 8 miles of new road was built. Using a percussion drill, eight 3-inch holes totalling 2,500 feet were drilled on the MER Nos. 5 and 6 claims, where drilling was previously done. (See Annual Report, 1965, p. 148.) A showing was visited on these two claims and is about 3 miles due west of of the southwestern corner of Indian Reserve No. 12, at about 4,700 feet elevation. It occurs immediately to the north of a prominent northwesterly slough and was apparently discovered by Henry Krause, of Merritt. Stripping exposes Guichon quartz diorite that is cut by a west-northwesterly narrow dyke of Bethlehem porphyritic quartz diorite, and both rocks show argillic bleaching, partial chloritization of hornblende crystals, some sericitization, and the local introduction of irregular quartz veins as much as 3 inches wide. Bornite is locally disseminated in chloritized patches in the rocks and is partly concentrated near quartz veins and fractures. The showing is apparently limited on the southeast by a northeasterly fault which dips west at about 60 degrees. About 100 feet farther north, malachite occurs weakly on north-dipping joints that contain quartz and epidote veins. Drill-holes are reported to have indicated grades of between one-half and 1 per cent copper. Examination of air photographs suggests that the showing lies at a broad intersection of northerly, northeasterly, and other lineaments, which may represents faults. A trench seen farther to either the west or the southwest, on the JAC No. 17 claim, is close to an old east-facing adit and is in quartz diorite which is weakly mineralized for a visible length and width of 200 feet and 20 to 30 feet, respectively. The mineralization mostly adjoins northerly fractures which dip steeply to the west, and it consists of nests and platings of coarsely crystallized chalcopyrite and molybdenite. One hundred and fifty feet farther west, weakly chloritized rock with trace amounts of sulphides is exposed to the east of a northerly gully which may overlie a fault. Copper A.L., I.C., Etc (14) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 809, 525 Sey- Great Northern Petroleums mour Street, Vancouver 2. B. I. Nesbitt, president. & Mines Ltd. This company holds by option from Continental By j. m. carr Consolidated Mines Ltd. about 40 recorded claims named A.L., I.C., and Ezz which adjoin the O.K. road about 1 mile west of Quiltan- ton (Divide) Lake. Work in 1966 was supervised by Carl Stephenson, and it included magnetometer surveying on the I. C. claims. Copper Ezz, O.K. (13) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 311, 850 West Alwin Mining Company Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. H. E. Jacques, By j. m. carr president. This company controls about 12 re corded claims named Ezz and O.K. which lie immediately north of the old O.K. LODE METALS 155 mine and until recently were held partly by Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd. (see Annual Report, 1961, p. 29). In 1966 trenching was done on the O.K. Nos. 5 and 6 claims under the supervision of K. Owens. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 380 and 381.] Copper-Molybdenum Bethsaida (18) (50° 121° S.E.) Exploration office, 1150 Bay Ave- Valley Copper Mines Ltd. nue, Trail. This company, which is under the man- By j. m. carr agement of Cominco Ltd., holds about 400 mineral claims in the Highland Valley area, of which 42 are in the Bethsaida property and include the M.D. and D.F. groups and several Crown-granted claims. Work in 1966 was directed by J. M. Allen and included 4,500 feet of diamond drilling in nine holes on the Bethsaida property, chiefly or entirely near showings on Crown- granted claims where drilling and other work was done by Bethsaida Copper Mines, Limited, in 1956 and by the present company in 1965. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C. Ann. Repts., 1956, p. 45; 1965, p. 147; Assessment Report No. 537.] Copper Royal, Cana, R.C. (43) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 270, 180 Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd. Seymour Street, Kamloops. The Royal, Cana, By David Smith an(i rc. groups consist of 29 recorded mineral claims, which are southeast of Calling Lake and are reached by a road south of the lake. In 1966 a geological survey was carried out, a geophysical survey was made, and soil-sampling was done on half the claims. A crew of five men was employed under the supervision of N. B. Vollo. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 380, 381, 848, and 854.] Copper-Molybdenum Lornex (27) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 558 Howe Lornex Mining Corporation Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Box 658, By J. m. carr and t.m. waterland Ashcroft. E. H. Lorntzsen, chairman; Rob ert D. Armstrong, president; J. W. Scott, mine manager; W. Marsh, resident geologist; A. C. Skerl, consulting geologist. This company controls about 200 recorded mineral claims which extend southward from Indian Reserve No. 13 in the Highland Valley and include a number of claims on option variously from Skeena Silver Mines Ltd. and Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited. Exploration of the property since 1965 has been financed by Rio Algom Mines Limited in association with The Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation Ltd., which took options on treasury shares and thereby gained control of the company at the end of 1966. A very large low- grade deposit of copper and molybdenum has been partly outlined by pattern drilling on the Award, Skeena Copper, and A.M. claim groups and the Lornex No. 1 fractional claim, at a distance of about 4 miles southwest of the Bethlehem mine. Late in the year the company, having announced its intention to sample this deposit in bulk from underground and to erect a small mill for the purpose, awarded a contract for underground work to Gremac Construction Limited. Work in 1966 included 38,295 feet of diamond drilling in 33 holes, 52,925 feet of percussion drilling in 215 holes, and about 8,000 feet of trenching. A Becker hammer drill was used to prepare collars through overburden for some of the diamond-drill holes, and experimental drilling was done with rotary, churn, and hammer drills. Induced polarization surveys were extended to the Discovery zone 156 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and the Kennco claims, and preparations were made for shaft-sinking and mill construction. During late summer, services for a 200-man trailer camp were installed, and living accommodation and dining facilities for 100 men have since been completed. In addition, a 25- by 40-foot shop and warehouse, a sample preparation building, an assay trailer laboratory, two guest trailers, and core storage and splitting additions were installed. A 4,000-volt power-line was built from the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority transmission-line to the camp, and at year-end this line was being extended 1V2 miles to the proposed pilot mill and shaft sites. The following notes are based on a four-day examination of surface exposures and drill core made in July and supplemented by maps and other information kindly supplied by the company. As well as showing the geology, Figure 25 shows the location of diamond-drill holes then completed and of most of the trenches on the North and Discovery zones. Some trenches failed to reach bedrock, and others were partly caved at the time of examination and afforded exposures as indicated. Later drilling on the North zone, which is the main part of the deposit so far as known, was partly on intermediate lines spaced at 400 feet and partly on lines farther to the south. Holes on line No. 3n are 800 feet south of those on line No. 11n and are reported to show a probable connection between the North and Discovery zones, which together may form a deposit 5,000 feet long in a southeasterly direction and in places as much as 1,600 feet wide. The maximum elevation of mineralized outcrops is 5,200 feet, and the deepest mineralized intersections are at 3,625 feet elevation, giving a known vertical range of mineralization of nearly 1,600 feet. Superficial deposits as much as 250 feet deep overlie the western part of the North zone, roughly along Award Creek, where they occupy a glacial valley from which at some stage meltwater escaped eastward and cut bedrock channels that are conspicuous topographic features at the Discovery zone. The Lornex deposit occurs in the Bethlehem (Skeena) quartz diorite partly at the eastern contact of a younger stock of the Bethsaida granodiorite. In holes Nos. 20 and 21 the contact is steeply and strongly faulted in a northerly direction and is the western limit of strong alteration and mineralization. Its position is inferred nearly 1 mile farther south, between holes Nos. 4 and 6, which are outside the deposit and show the two rocks as mineralized about equally. Existing maps suggest that here the contact possesses a northwesterly strike and continues southeastward to the vicinity of upper Skuhun Creek. The mineralized rocks are strongly fractured and altered. Altered quartz diorite is partly darker and partly lighter than the fresh rock, and it contains quartz grains that are enlarged by silicification. Pink perthitic orthoclase feldspar remains largely unaltered, whereas plagioclase becomes either chalky or yellow. Hornblende and some of the biotite are chloritized. Elsewhere biotite is partly bleached and in places new biotite is formed. Quartz fills abundant fractures, mostly as slender veins that are margined by sericite and chlorite and by silicified and argillized rock. The veins and fractures contain sulphides as well as coarse sericite, or calcite and zeolites which are variously pink and white in colour. A late generation of quartz veins is barren of sulphides. Faults are numerous in the drill-holes and mostly possess gouge which is either sericitic or chloritic and calcitic. The walls of the faults are extensively altered and commonly mineralized. Evidence of post-mineral movement is seen in crushed sulphides and quartz veins. Fault attitudes are poorly known, but a 30-foot-wide fault exposed at the Discovery zone has a northwesterly strike and a steep dip. LODE METALS 157 Figure 25. Lornex Mining Corporation Ltd. Geological map of part of the Lornex. 158 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Bornite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and molybdenite occur mostly in or close to quartz- filled fractures, either as stringers or as disseminations which may be quite coarse. Locally the sulphides are well crystallized in voids. Eastward near the edge of the North zone the assemblage bornite, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite gives way to chalcopyrite, pyrite, and molybdenite. Partial oxidation of sulphides has produced limonite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, cuprite, and locally native copper generally at shallow depths and without causing appreciable supergene enrichment. Due no doubt to glacial erosion, the oxidized surface zone is missing from the western part of the deposit. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 148.] Copper Calco, Shorty (19) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 1050 Noranda Exploration Company, Davie Street, Vancouver 5. The 14 Calco Limited and Shorty recorded mineral claims partly By David smith adjoin the north end of the Lornex property and are \Vi miles southwest of Quiltanton Lake. In 1966 an induced polarization survey was performed and two holes were diamond drilled. A crew of six men, including four contractors, was employed under the direction of R. C Heim. Copper Victor (20) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 1515 Pember- Bio Metals Corporation Ltd. ton, North Vancouver. C L. Emery, president. By j. m. carr Thjs company holds an option from Consolidated Skeena Ltd. on a part of the Divide Copper claims (20) measuring 800 by 1,000 feet and enclosing the Victor mine, at which a small copper orebody was outlined by work completed in 1957 (see Ann. Repts., 1956, p. 46; 1957, p. 27). In 1965 some 750 tons of material, believed to contain about 1 per cent copper, was blasted from the Victor vein on surface and stockpiled nearby to form a heap for experimental leaching and recovery of copper. The heap stands on polyethylene sheeting and an underlying sand cushion, and, at the time of visit in August, acidic water in the amount of 2,000 gallons per day was flushed constantly through it and recirculated. Copper was expected shortly to be recovered from this heap, and preparations were being made to construct a 50,000-ton heap of similar material. Ralph Mason was in charge of the operation. Copper-Molybdenum AM, IDE, Etc. (29) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 702, Highmont Mining Corporation Ltd. 850 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. By j. m. carr This company is controlled by Torwest Re sources (1962) Limited (R. W. Falkins, president; W. G. Hainsworth, consulting geologist), and it owns 34 recorded claims named AM, IDE, Ann, and Phyllis on the west slopes of Gnawed Mountain adjoining the Lornex property. For two years prior to 1966 this property was explored by Anaconda American Brass Limited, which did extensive geological, geochemical, and geophysical work and some drilling before terminating its option at the end of 1965. On its own in 1966 the company did work which included 20,000 feet of percussion drilling in 80 holes, 1,800 feet of diamond drilling in three holes, 1,486 feet of trenching, soil-sampling, on the IDE Nos. 19 and 20 claims, and induced polarization surveying by McPhar Geophysics Ltd. This programme, which from October was financially supported by Nippon Mining Company, Limited, employed a crew of 32 men, including 22 on contract, LODE METALS 159 supervised by M. Mathieu. A winter camp was constructed, which included an assay office. Under light overburden, East and West zones of low-grade copper-molybdenum mineralization have been explored and outlined mainly by the systematic drilling of eastward-inclined holes to depths vertically exceeding 250 feet. The East zone is mainly on the IDE Nos. 1 and 3 claims, and it includes mineralization previously intersected by diamond drilling (see Ann. Rept., 1962, p. 49). The West zone is mainly on the IDE No. 7 claim, where some drilling was done in 1965 by the Anaconda company. Other mineralized zones occur within the large area explored by recent drilling. In February the company published an estimate of ore reserves in the East zone to a depth of 250 feet, as follows: 72,300,000 tons grading 0.25 per cent copper and 0.064 per cent molybdenite. The West zone is reported to possess a much smaller tonnage of material, mainly containing values in molybdenite. Copper-Molybdenum AM, IDE, Etc. (31) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 8, 558 Howe Minex Development Limited Street, Vancouver 1. D. M. Morgan, president By j. m. carr ancj engineer. This company owns 33 recorded claims named AM, IDE, Ann, V.M., and Snow which are on Gnawed Mountain, mainly south and east of the Lornex and Highmont properties and accessible through them. In 1966 work was done mostly on the IDE No. 2. Eight trenches totalling 6,300 feet were bulldozed and geologically mapped. Thirteen percussion holes totalling 3,235 feet were drilled by Lornex Mining Corporation Ltd. Copper-Molybdenum Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 71, 553 Gran- Mark (24) ville Street, Vancouver 2. H. B. Hatch, president. Jericho Mines Ltd. This company holds 167 claims comprising the By David smith Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, and Mark south of Witches Brook, about 7 miles east of Quiltanton (Divide) Lake. In 1966 all work was carried out under the supervision of Canadian Superior Exploration Limited, 7 King Street East, Toronto 1, Ont., which holds the property under an option agreement. Surface exploration consisted of a geochemical survey over the entire group and an induced polarization survey carried out over three-quarters of the claims to the south. Seven trenches were bulldozed totalling in length 1,300 feet. One packsack diamond-drill hole to a depth of 118 feet was drilled. A crew of 14 men was employed under the direction of R. A. Dujardin. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 483 and 922.] Copper-Molybdenum Lake, Laken, Bron, PM, PIM (25) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 201, 569 T. C. Explorations Ltd. Howe Street, Vancouver 1. Howard T. By j. m. carr James, president; A. C Skerl, consulting geologist. This company holds about 81 recorded claims partly in the Lake and Laken groups near Pimainus Lake. Work by a small crew began in November, 1965, continued to August, 1966, and was supervised by L. Ostensoe and later by A. F. Roberts. It included road construction, line-cutting, geochemical, magnetometer, and induced polarization surveys, and, in the north part of the property, 2,000 feet of trenching and 720 feet of percussion drilling in 17 holes, eight or more 160 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 of which reached bedrock. Access to the property from Highland Valley is by about 12 miles of road which passes through the Lornex property. Trenches on the Laken claims were visited in early August. The road roughly follows the old trail northwards from the west end of Pimainus Lake. Just west of the road between lines 65n and 70n, which are about 6,000 feet north of the lake, a trench on the east side of a marsh exposes somewhat chloritized Bethsaida granodiorite in which small amounts of malachite occur partly near an east-northeast shear that dips southward at about 30 degrees. To the south a caved trench on line 65n contains debris of a pale-coloured quartz porphyry which may occur as dykes in the granodiorite. Due south on line 60n seven holes were drilled and are reported partly to have intersected small amounts of copper and molybdenite mineralization. Still farther due south a trench on line 5 On straddles a north-trending slough, on either side of which granodiorite is exposed and contains slender, irregular quartz veins in which are bornite and malachite. Assays of less than 1 per cent copper are reported from the trench. Along this line westward the Bethsaida granodiorite is succeeded by outcrops of the Bethlehem (Skeena) quartz diorite, which occur at a distance of about 2,100 feet west of the trench. One thousand feet farther west, across a broad north-northwesterly slough, the Guichon quartz diorite is exposed in a trench and is cut by a wide fault that strikes more or less parallel to the slough. Exposures of the fault are weathered and partly caved, and no mineralization was seen, although low copper assays are reported. In general, known mineralization in the explored area is apparently localized near faults, some of which may follow prominent northerly or north-northwesterly topographic depressions, and others may follow inconspicuous northeasterly topographic lineaments that are visible on air photographs of the area. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 853 and 855.] Copper Merv, Bet, Lee, B.J., Etc. (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 202, 475 Howe Highland Chief Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. This company holds 275 re- By David smith corded claims in the Merv, Bet, B.J., Lee, and Brad groups to the southwest of Pimainus Lake. The property, which is accessible by road through the Lornex property, partly covers the same ground as the former Eye and B.J. groups that were held in 1958 by Northwestern Explorations, Limited (see Ann. Rept., 1958, p. 24). Work in 1966 consisted of geological and geochemical mapping, and bulldozer trenching on the B.J. and Merv groups. A crew of five men was employed under the supervision of H. P. Killoran. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 230 and 231.) Copper-Molybdenum Cris(36) (50° 121° S.E.) Company office, 213, 678 Howe General Resources Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. W. E. Simpson, president; R. B. By j. m. carr Stokes, consulting engineer. This company holds six claims in the Cris group between Skuhost and Skuhun Creeks, 2 to 3 miles west of Roscoe Lake. Access to the property is by a road leading north from the Skuhun Creek road. The main area of interest was on the Cris Nos. 9 and 10 claims, where a large swamp lies south of north-northwesterly gullies at which trenches expose the Bethsaida granodiorite, partly strongly sheared, altered, and weathered and containing some sericite-quartz veins with traces of bornite. Work early in 1966 was supervised by B. McKnight, and it consisted of a magnetometer reconnaissance survey and approximately 1,400 feet of diamond drilling in as many as three holes, making the LODE METALS 161 total drilling done on the property in 1965 and 1966, 2,292 feet in six holes. The core was not examined by the writer but is reported to contain minor amounts of copper and molybdenum. Anomalous results obtained in the drilled area by previous induced polarization surveys were explained as due to argillic material in faults. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 151.] Copper BO (35) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 207 Rogers Building, Benson Mines Ltd. 470 Granville Street, Vancouver 2. R. Devente, president; By j. m. carr jj. Cohen Engineering Ltd., managing engineers. This com pany holds about 40 recorded claims partly in the BO group on Skuhost Creek, south of the Lornex property. Work in 1966 continued from the previous year and brought the total drilling done to five holes of unspecified aggregate length. The drilled and trenched area is near the camp, a mile or so north of the area explored by General Resources Ltd. on the Cris group, and the trenches expose the Bethsaida granodiorite, which is sheared and contains a visible trace of bornite. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 151.] Copper Rio (39) (50° 121° S.E.) Vancouver office, 404, 1111 WestGeor- Rio Tinto Canadian gia Street, Vancouver 5. L. B. Gatenby, manager. In Exploration Limited 1965 and 1966 this company held about 74 recorded min- By j. m. can erai ciaims in the Rio group southeast of Spaist Mountain and mainly west of Skuhost Creek. From June to August, 1966, a small crew under G. T. Warren camped east of the property near the road leading north to the General Resources camp and did work which included geochemical and magnetometer surveys and geological mapping. The property is largely underlain by the Bethsaida granodiorite, in which numerous minor occurrences of bornite are reported, mostly on irregular fractures in the rock. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 780.] Copper Gem, Hal, Fir, Curmo (50° 121° S.E.) Head office, Suite 710, 60 Yonge Glen Echo Mines Ltd. Street, Toronto 1, Ont. H. S. Wilson, geologist. The By N. D. McKecnnie company holds by record some 50 mineral claims, the Gem, Hal, Fir, and Curmo groups, on Skwilkwakwil Mountain, north of Skuhun Creek, which flows westward into the Nicola River 3 miles southeast of Clapperton. The property is south of the Rio group (39) and access to it is from the Merritt- Spences Bridge highway by the Skuhun Creek road. About 4 miles upstream a jeep- road leads northward up the mountain, some 2 miles to the working area at an elevation of 4,450 feet. The claims are underlain by the Guichon Creek batholith (Geol. Surv., Canada, Map 1010a, Ashcroft) and are near its southwestern margin. The principal showing, at the time of the writer's visit in June, was on the Fir No. 1 mineral claim. An area about 20 by 40 feet in grey Guichon quartz diorite is mineralized by disseminated chalcopyrite. The mineralization is in part along joints striking north 20 degrees east. The mineralized area is bounded by dykes, striking north 30 degrees west, of dacite porphyry; a small dacite porphyry dyke cuts through the middle of the mineralized area. The dykes are not mineralized. About 200 feet southwest and 100 feet lower in elevation from the above showing a dacite porphyry dyke is exposed to a width of about 60 feet. It has an undu- 162 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 lating contact with the quartz diorite, striking about north 30 degrees west. The quartz diorite here shows some copper stain but almost no sulphides. West and south from the Fir No. 1 showing, and 300 feet lower in elevation, a bulldozer stripping crosses a fault zone on the Fir No. 3 mineral claim. The zone is about 300 feet wide, strikes 5 to 10 degrees west of north, and dips nearly vertically. The zone is intruded by dykes of dacite porphyry; there is minor post-dyke movement. No mineralization was seen in the fault zone. On the boundary between Curmo No. 1 mineral claim and Curmo No. 3 mineral claim, at about 4,000 feet elevation, on the south side of a west-trending gorge and about a mile northwest of the Fir No. 1 showing, a 6-inch shear is exposed in quartz diorite. The shear strikes north and dips 80 degrees west, and it is mineralized with quartz, chalcopyrite, bornite, and pyrite. The shear and the mineralization are cut by two vertically dipping dacite porphyry dykes which strike north 50 degrees west. Post-dyke movement along the shear has produced small shear planes in the dykes which carry malachite but no sulphides. At about 30 feet in the footwall of the 6-inch shear there is a fault zone about 6 feet wide striking north 63 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees northwestward. The zone is mineralized with white quartz; no sulphides were seen. The fault zone is heavily stained with malachite, which lies along joint planes in both quartz diorite and quartz. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 786.] Copper-Molybdenum Yubet(37) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 716, 602 West Stellako Mining Co. Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. J. R. Trepanier, presi- Byj.M. carr dent; W. M. Sharp, consulting geologist. This com pany holds about 70 recorded claims at Roscoe Lake, the main showing being on the Yubet Nos. 7 and 8 claims a short distance south of the lake. In 1965 Noranda Exploration Company, Limited, financed and directed a programme of exploration and diamond drilling near the main showing, continuing into 1966 and employing as many as 24 men. As many as 21 holes were drilled, totalling an unknown footage. Work in 1966, subsequent to this programme, was by the company on its own and included magnetometer and soil-sampling surveys by a small crew under Len Hachey. The main showing is briefly described in the Annual Report for 1965 (p. 151) and is a north-trending zone of mineralization containing bornite, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite for a known length of about 800 feet and a width in places as much as 60 feet. The sulphides are associated with quartz veins in the Skeena variety of the Bethlehem quartz diorite and, although at surface the structures appear to dip steeply, drilling failed to show that mineralization persists to depth. There are aplite or aplitic quartz porphyry dykes, chloritic alteration is in places strong and sericite is abundant on faults, which may partly explain the occurrence of induced polarization anomalies. A molybdenite showing is reported elsewhere on the property, and is west of Roscoe Lake. Copper Cal (32) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 213, 678 Howe General Resources Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. W. E. Simpson, president; R. B. By j. m. carr Stokes, consulting engineer. This company holds 12 recorded claims and fractions in the Cal group at Clifford (Deer) Lake, 1 mile to the north of Roscoe Lake. Access is from the Stellako Mining Co. Ltd. camp farther south. Work in 1966 was mainly on Cal No. 7 claim and included an induced LODE METALS 163 polarization survey by McPhar Geophysics Ltd. and 1,052 feet of diamond drilling in two holes inclined under Clifford Lake from the east shore, where copper mineralization had previously been exposed. The drilling, which was paid for by Cyprus Exploration Corporation, Ltd., under an agreement with the company, is reported to have intersected copper mineralization of no commercial interest. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 153.] Copper Price (34), Oro, M.M. (42) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 201, 846 West Oro Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. Neville Lohn, presi- By j. m. carr dent; Alrae Exploration Ltd., consulting and manag ing engineers. This new company owns about 100 mineral claims mainly in the Price group, which form the North Oro property, and about 85 claims in the Oro and M.M. groups, which form the South Oro property. Work on both properties in 1966 was by a small crew directed by D. K. Bragg and operating from a camp established at Skuhun Creek on or near the South Oro property. On both properties it included road construction, line-cutting and soil-sampling on all claims, induced polarization surveys on selected claims, geological mapping, and trenching. Access is by road extending from Mile 14 on Highway No. 8 up Skuhun Creek past the camp (a distance of 14 miles) and thence a further 14 miles past Chataway and Billy Lakes to the Highland Valley road at a point one-half mile west of the Jericho camp. The properties were visited in company with Mr. Bragg briefly in August, and an imperfect examination was made in failing evening light; consequently not all details of the geology can be given. (a) North Oro Property.—A trench on the west side of the road about 1,600 feet south of Billy Lake extends west-northwest across a water-filled northeasterly draw. It exposes the older quartz diorite, of Billy Lake or Chataway Lake type, in which to the west of the draw a bornite-bearing lode persists along the trench for a distance of about 70 feet and dies out westward. Its width is several inches to a foot, and it possesses an offshoot which extends into the southwest wall of the trench and dips to the southwest. Disseminated copper mineralization is reported to occur locally in the quartz diorite. Three trenches farther west failed to reach bedrock. (b) South Oro Property.—Trenches on the M.M. Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12 claims lie at about 4,800 feet elevation a short distance to the west of the old Skuhun Creek trail, which is shown on National Topographic Series maps. They are spaced for a distance in excess of 1,000 feet in a north-northeasterly direction, and they expose the Bethsaida granodiorite, which is cut by several prominent seri- citic faults that strike approximately north 15 degrees east. The granodiorite contains strongly fractured quartz veins, some of which are several feet wide, that possess easterly strikes and steep dips. Bornite and malachite occur in restricted amounts, mainly in the quartz veins close to the faults. Red zeolite, which is probably heulandite, also occur. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 973, 974, and 975.] Copper Rain (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 213, 678 Vanmetals Exploration Limited Howe Street, Vancouver 1. This company holds By j. m. carr about 15 recorded claims in the Rain group to the east of Skuhun Creek and more or less adjoining the eastern boundary of the M.M. group of Oro Mines Ltd. (42). Access is by 16 miles of road from Mile 14 164 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 on Highway No. 8. Work in 1966 was supervised by B. K. McKnight and included 1,400 feet of trenching. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 153.] Copper Chataway (38) (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 301, 550 Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd. Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. S.W. Wright, By j. m. carr president and managing director. This com pany owns approximately 360 mineral claims in the southeastern part of the Highland Valley camp, extending nearly from Roscoe Lake southeastward to the Mamit Lake road north of Broom Creek. One hundred and forty-eight of the claims in the southern part of the property are under option to Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited (company office, 320, 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1; J. P. Weeks, chief geologist) and associated companies, which did work in 1966 that was supervised by E. Meyers and included geological mapping, induced polarization surveys, trenching, sampling, 1,118 feet of diamond drilling in four widely spaced holes, and 4,649 feet of percussion drilling in 21 holes. Work by Chataway Exploration included soil-sampling, trenching, induced polarization and magnetometer surveys, and 410 feet of diamond drilling in two holes southeast of Roscoe Lake. The main showing on the optioned part of the property was examined in August after new trenching had been done. Known as the No. 4 zone, it lies at about 4,500 feet elevation on the Wiz No. 21 and adjoining claims, and it was discovered early in 1965 and partly described in the 1965 Annual Report (p. 149). As shown by Figure 26, which is adapted from a map made for Chataway Exploration by A. G. Hodgson and includes information provided by Bralorne Pioneer, it includes a series of trenches extending for about 5,000 feet south-southeastward from Gypsum (Cougar) Lake toward an old caved adit some 2,000 feet farther distant and off the map. The area is underlain by somewhat porphyritic younger quartz diorite, more or less of the Bethlehem type, except immediately south of Gypsum Lake, where the older quartz diorite projects southward as a small body in the younger rock. The younger quartz diorite is partly fresh and has a primary foliation that dips steeply westward and strikes about north-northeast. Near Gypsum Lake one or more dacite porphyry dykes occur which strike west-northwestward and are partly of crowded porphyry. To the south, narrow basalt or lamprophyre dykes are exposed in trenches and possess a similar strike and a dip to the south. Trenches partly expose a large number of faults which mostly have northerly or northwesterly strikes and dips that are mostly either westerly at 65 degrees or steeper angles, or are steep to the east. Exploration has shown that several principal faults each persist for distances of several hundreds of feet and together constitute a fault zone which persists throughout the length of the No. 4 zone. Four principal faults occur variously near the northern claim intersection, north and south of the gully, and near the southern claim intersection respectively. The fault south of the gully was explored in 1966 by percussion drilling and has a known length of as much as 1,000 feet; its northern exposure, in a trench at the southeastern end of the gully, is the northernmost of the two showings described in the 1965 Annual Report. The faults contain gouge and breccia, in places several feet wide, and possess walls that are altered strongly either to a dark chloritic rock or to a light-coloured sericitic and kaolinitic rock. A red zeolite, which is probably heulandite, occurs in the less- altered rock at some distance from the faults. Well-mineralized pods of quartz occur in places in the faults, and sulphide veins and seams partly with quartz extend upward and outward along widely spaced parallel fractures in the wallrock of one side or the other. Poorly mineralized cross-faults in places dislocate the mineral- LODE METALS 165 ized structures and may account for their restricted continuity along strike. The copper mineralization is partly oxidized and consists of chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, malachite, and azurite. Drilling and company sampling of trenches indicate that, in places on the faults, copper contents are in the order of several per cent across widths of a few feet or between 1 and 2 per cent across widths of several tens of feet. At other places on the faults, mineralization is apparently weak. Faults which lie to the east, in the southern part of the zone, are reported to be mineralized and have been explored by trenches, most of which are not shown on the accompanying map. Weak pyrite disseminations accompany minor amounts of malachite near poorly mineralized faults that are shown in the east-central part of the zone. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 611, 737, 749, and 764.] NICOLA MINING DIVISION HIGHLAND VALLEY Part of the claim holdings of the following Highland Valley properties—Jericho Mines Ltd. (Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, Mark), Oro Mines Ltd. (Price), and Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd.—lie in the Nicola Mining Division. These properties are described under Kamloops Mining Division, pages 159, 163, and 164. Zinc-Copper SWAKUM MOUNTAIN Lee, Sunshine, Lo (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 1330, Vastlode Mining Company Limited 510 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. ByN.D.McKechnie A. D. Gavelin, president; S. F. Kelly, di rector and consulting geologist. The company holds 68 claims by record on the westerly slope of Swakum Mountain between elevations of 4,000 and 5,500 feet at the headwaters of Steffens and Tolman Creeks. Access is through the Lazy L Ranch by a dirt road which leaves the Mamit Lake road about IV2 miles from its junction with the Merritt-Spences Bridge highway. Two diamond-drill holes were drilled under the mineralized shear on the Sunshine No. 8 mineral claim; the shallower of these cut some silicified material, but in neither was the surface structure certainly recognized. Three more holes were drilled on the boundary between the Sunshine Nos. 11 and 13 claims. The company supplied the following assay results from split core samples:— Interval (Ft.) Silver (Oz.) Copper (Per Cent) Lead (Per Cent) Zinc (Per Cent) Diamond-drill hole 11— 67- 72 .. 0.05 Trace 0.10 0.10 0.05 Trace Trace 0.10 0.30 0.10 Trace Trace 0.25 Trace 1.20 0.10 0.32 0.30 0.31 0.16 0.11 0.25 0.09 0.14 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.11 0.04 0.20 0.10 0.57 0.30 0.62 0.25 Trace Trace Trace 0.20 Trace Trace Trace Trace Trace Trace 2.13 72- 77 - 5.22 77- 82 7.67 82- 87 3.59 87- 92_ ... 92- 94 4.25 1.30 Diamond-drill hole 12— 94- 98 0.18 98-104 104-109 -- 109-111 _ 111-114 7.95 18.15 21.27 5.50 114-118 118-120 0.24 3 60 120-122... . „ _ 0.18 122-123 13 75 166 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 There still is not enough data to correlate the assays with a structure. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 150.] Copper MERRITT Craigmont Mine (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 700, 1030 West Craigmont Mines Limited Georgia Street, Vancouver 5; mine office, Box 3000, By David smith Merritt. J. D. Simpson, president; R. E. Hallbauer, mine manager. This company holds 106 mineral claims and fractions, of which 22 claims and fractions are held in 10 separate leases. The Craigmont orebodies are on the Merrell Nos. 7 and 8 claims and the McLeod Nos. 5 and 6 claims and are between the forks of Birkett Creek at original surface elevations between 3,800 and 4,200 feet. Access to the property is by road north from Lower Nicola on No. 8 highway, 5 miles west of Merritt. Mining and milling were not continuous in 1966. There was no production between January 1, 1966, and April 18, 1966, when a strike by hourly employees was settled. Production was from the open-pit and from the underground operations. The copper concentrate was loaded at the Coyle siding and hauled by Canadian Pacific Railway for shipment to Japan. In 1966 the company excavated 9,420,410 tons of material, including glacial till, waste rock, and stockpiled ore, and mined 1,359,432 tons of open-pit ore, containing 67,496 tons of copper concentrates. Underground work was continued on all levels and is summarized as follows:— Development— Lateral development Raising Shaft-sinking Ore production— Cut-and-fill stopes __ Blast-hole stopes Development Ft. 6,575 4,117 470 Tons 69,637 67,825 13,347 Diamond drilling was continued underground. The cut-and-fill system of mining, using tailings as backfill material, was to be discontinued in favour of a method of sublevel caving, an adaptation of a method used in iron mines in other countries. In 1966 the engineering office was busy laying out all phases of this new programme. Some of the new mobile equipment had arrived on the property by the year-end and was undergoing testing under actual mining conditions. In 1965 a new method of placing cement as a ground support was tried. It proved so successful that in 1966 shaft No. 1 was completely lined by this means as sinking progressed. In 1966 the number of persons employed was 537. No housing is provided on the property, and the crews commute from Merritt, a distance of approximately 8 miles. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1960, pp. 35-40; 1961, pp. 31-37.] Copper Len, Law American Smelting and Refining Company By David Smith (50° 120° S.W.) Office of the Canadian Exploration Division, 504, 535 Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. The Len and Law comprise 76 recorded claims lying 5 miles west of Merritt. Access is by 12 miles of road from Merritt. In 1966 some bulldozer trenching was done and 11 percussion holes total- LODE METALS 167 ling 1,115 feet were drilled. A crew of eight men, of whom six were contractors, was employed under the supervision of S. A. Anzalone. Copper Keith, Bill, Mickey, Jarl, Night (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 248 Second Merritt Copper Co. Ltd. Avenue, Kamloops. The company holds about By n. d. McKechnie iqo mineral claims, located as the Keith, Bill, Mickey, Jarl, and Night claims, and situated on the south side of the Nicola River between 1 and 3 miles west of Merritt. The claims include the old Anaconda and Copper Belle showings (see Ann. Rept., 1915, pp. 230-231). The property is underlain by Upper Triassic Nicola lavas. At the Copper Belle workings, toward the western end of the property, a buff-coloured fine-grained feldspathic rock, which may be intrusive, is exposed; no undisturbed contacts of this rock with the lavas were seen. At the Copper Belle workings on Bill No. 33 mineral claim, there are four adits having a vertical range of 20 feet; the distance between the two farthest apart is about 250 feet in a direction of about north 80 degrees west. The elevation is about 2,500 feet. All of the workings expose separate fractures, and these do not form a recognizably coherent pattern. Strikes range from north 30 degrees west to north 80 degrees east and dips from 55 to 6 degrees. Widths of fracturing range from 1 to 5 feet, and in no instance is there evidence of strongly developed shearing. Mineralization, which is sparse, consists of quartz and calcite with chalcopyrite and specularite; the latter is later than the quartz and sulphide. One fracture striking north 55 degrees east and dipping 25 degrees northwestward contains rutile-bearing quartz with chalcopyrite, hematite, and calcite and is exposed for a width of IV2 feet and a length of 10 feet. It is the best exposure of copper mineralization seen by the writer on the property and would possibly assay 1 per cent copper. The Anaconda showings, on Keith No. 3 and No. 4 mineral claims, are described as containing only specular hematite. The only working seen by the writer was the 200-foot adit near road level. This adit exposes a zone of intersecting fractures near a water-filled sump about 150 feet from the portal. The fractures carry quartz and carbonate but no sulphides. At elevation 2,700 feet, and directly above the Anaconda showings, the present company drilled a vertical hole to a depth of 438 feet in andesite and basalt flows and flow breccias. Sulphides comprise sparse pyrite and rare chalcopyrite; specular hematite occurs along some joint planes. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 736.] NICOLA Gold-Silver-Copper-Molybdenum Guichon (50° 120° S.W.) Company office, 10, 815 West Hast- Quilchena Mining & ings Street, Vancouver 1. This property comprises seven Development Co. Ltd. Crown-granted mineral claims including the Spitfire and By David smith Sonny Boy, held under agreement with Guichon Mine Limited, a mineral lease covering 12 former Crown-granted claims, and 67 claims comprising the Joe, Gail, and Quill groups held by record, all on the west side of Quilchena Creek and south of Nicola Lake. A road leads about 1 mile to the property from the Nicola-Kamloops highway. In 1966 work on the Sonny Boy and Joe claims consisted of soil-sampling. Two diamond-drill holes totalling 520 feet were drilled. A crew of five was employed under the supervision of P. Schutz. 168 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper Cam, Gary (50° 120° S.E.) Company office, U.K. Building, Ramada Mines Limited Granville and Hastings Street, Vancouver. The Cam By David Smith an(j Gary claims are 8 miles southeast of Douglas Lake. In 1966 three bulldozed trenches of 590 feet in length were made and soil samples were taken on four of the Cam claims. A crew of four was employed under the supervision of R. Filardeau. Copper-Molybdenum ASPEN GROVE Sk Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd. By J. M. Carr (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. S.W. Wright, president. The company controls 140 claims, partly in the Ski group, mainly on the east side of Quilchena Creek about 2 miles north of Pothole Lake. The property is accessible by 4 miles of road leaving Highway No. 5 at the Kentucky Lake turn-off 4 miles north of Aspen Grove. Work on the property was done from a camp on Quilchena Creek and included soil-sampling, induced polarization surveying by Canadian Aero Surveys, road-building, trenching, and 990 feet of diamond drilling in two holes. A small crew was employed under the direction of S. W. Wright. A very brief visit was made, and the main showing was examined. It consists of rock cuts along an access road on the east bank of Quilchena Creek, in which weathered latite porphyry is exposed for distances of about 300 feet in a northwesterly direction and 100 feet in a northeasterly direction. The porphyry is traversed by closely spaced fractures in several dominant sets, which give it a partly sheeted appearance. Slender quartz veins fill many of the fractures, which are commonly mineralized and now contain limonite, malachite, azurite, and remnants of chalcopyrite. One or more northeasterly trending dykes of darker latite or andesite porphyry cut the earlier porphyry, are less strongly fractured, and contain disseminated pyrite. For 100 feet to the south of a 2-foot-wide gossanized fault which strikes eastward and dips to the north, the earlier porphyry appears especially well mineralized. Similar porphyry in drill core from a vertical hole in the nearby hillside exhibited argillic, chloritic, and sericitic alteration and contained chalcopyrite, pyrite, and small amounts of molybdenite in quartz veins and on fractures. This prospect is about 1 mile east of an area near Tule Lake explored by the Granby company in 1958, where diorite and other intrusive bodies are described as occurring in volcanic strata of the Nicola Group. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 250 (K.M. group) and 925.] Copper CM (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 661 Hornby Vananda Explorations Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. Vananda Explorations Ltd. By David smith owns the CM group of 12 recorded mineral claims 4 miles northeast of Aspen Grove and accessible by 16 miles of road from Merritt. In 1966 nine percussion-drill holes were drilled totalling 620 feet. A crew of four was employed under the direction of F. J. Hemsworth. Copper Pay (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 549 Howe Alscope Consolidated Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. The Pay group of 40 mineral By David Smith claims is west of Alleyne Lake, 3 miles southeast of Aspen Grove. The property is reached by a dirt road that turns north from Ken- LODE METALS 169 tucky Lake road about 2Vi miles east of the Princeton-Merritt highway. The claims are being worked under an option agreement with Payco Mines Ltd. In 1966 an induced polarization survey was carried out and six diamond-drill holes totalling 1,040 feet were drilled. A crew of eight men was employed under the supervision of F. Kangas. Copper June (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 325, 1155 West Magnet Explorations Ltd. Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. The company holds ByN. d. McKecnnie by record 15 mineral claims and 4 fractional mineral claims on Quilchena Creek 3V2 miles northeast of the village of Aspen Grove. Access is by a dirt road eastward from the Princeton-Merritt highway about 2 miles north of Aspen Grove. Work done to July, 1966, consisted of about 1,800 feet of trenching and 1,321 feet of diamond drilling in three holes, all at 2,950 feet elevation on the west side of Quilchena Creek on the June No. 9 mineral claim. The rocks are andesitic and basaltic lavas of the Upper Triassic Nicola series. They are propylitized, and some specimens show a fresh secondary clinopyroxene. Small local patches of epidote-garnet skarn also occur in them. No intrusive rocks were recognized in the trenches; 2Vi feet of altered and brecciated granitic rock shows in one of the drill cores. Six unmineralized faults are exposed, of which two, about 400 feet apart, 15 and 7 feet wide respectively, strike north 5 degrees west. The eastern fault dips 85 degrees westward; the other dips 75 degrees eastward. Most of the trenching is between these faults and along the eastern one. The four remaining faults all are exposed on the west side of the 75-degree dipping fault; three are westerly striking and dip 75 degrees to 80 degrees northward, and one strikes north 20 degrees east and dips 80 degrees northwestward. Mineralization is of two kinds—pyrite and chalcopyrite without quartz occurring as sparse disseminations and along some joint planes, and pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz threads and stringers. The quartz stringers lie in a fracture pattern composed of northeasterly striking fractures dipping 15 to 30 degrees northwestward, east-southeasterly striking fractures dipping 70 to 80 degrees northward, and a few easterly striking fractures dipping steeply northward. They are sparsely distributed in a zone of well-developed east jointing and light fracturing toward the northern end of the trenching, in the northeast quadrant of the claim. Copper Echo, Toe (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 716, Consolidated Skeena Mines Limited 602 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; By David smith geld 0flice) Box 1179, Merritt. The Echo and Toe groups, comprising 117 mineral claims, lie 1 mile northeast of Paradise Lake, 20 miles southeast of Aspen Grove. A geologic map was made. Soil- sampling was carried out over all claims by a crew of two men under the direction of J. White. MISSEZULA LAKE Copper Strike, Lorna (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 102, 402 West Plateau Metals Limited Pender Street, Vancouver 3. Plateau Metals Limited By David Smith owns me strike and Lorna groups of 22 recorded claims lying 22 miles to the north of Princeton. Access is by 5 miles of logging-road from 170 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Highway No. 5. In 1966 the claims were under option to Adera Mining Limited. This company dug 14 bulldozer trenches totalling 2,640 lineal feet and drilled six diamond-drill holes totalling 1,475 feet in addtion to making geological, magnetometer, and induced polarization surveys over all the 22 claims. On completion of that work, Plateau Metals drilled one hole to a depth of 210 feet. All work was supervised by C. A. R. Lammle. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 977 and 978.] SELISH MOUNTAIN Copper Selish (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 702, 850 Torwest Resources (1962) Ltd. West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; field office, By N. D. McKechnie and David Smith Box 1101) Merritt. The Selish group Of 54 mineral claims is held by record in the name of Selish Mines Ltd. of Merritt. The group is on Selish Mountain, east of the Coldwater River and 9 miles south of Merritt. Access is by a jeep-road which leaves the Merritt-Tulameen highway about 7 miles south of Merritt. The jeep-road, some 6 miles long, leads to the Torwest camp and working area at elevation 5,100 feet, about 1 mile due west of the peak of Selish Mountain. In 1966 geological and induced polarization surveys were made of all claims. Two trenches totalling 145 lineal feet were bulldozed, and seven diamond-drill holes totalling 1,500 feet were drilled. A crew of six men was employed under the supervision of W. G. Hainsworth. The principal working is a stripped area about 200 feet square in Nicola volcanic rocks. The prevalent rock type exposed is a hard green fragmental rock, probably tuffaceous. This rock is cut by weak fractures striking north 65 degrees west and dipping 75 degrees northward. In some places this fracturing is sufficiently well developed to form small local fault breccias in which threads of quartz, pyrite, and chalcopyrite may occur. An unmineralized fault zone 5 feet wide, striking north 65 degrees west and dipping 75 degrees northward, crosses the stripping near the middle. This fault is parallel to and probably contemporaneous with the sparsely mineralized fracturing. Exposures of the " red granodiorite " of Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 243, page 38, lie about 1,200 feet southeast of the stripping. Cores from seven diamond-drill holes of up to 252 feet depth are stored at the camp. Cursory examination showed no appreciable mineralization. copper MOUNT THYNNE B & R, Dawn (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 901, 736 Gran- Lawless Creek Mines Ltd. ville Street, Vancouver 2; R. E. Dale, president. The By n. d. McKechnie company holds 40 mineral claims by record situated northwest of the summit of Mount Thynne, 13 miles northwest of Tulameen, at between approximately 5,500 and 6,000 feet elevation. Access is by the forestry road which leads southwestward from the Brookmere road just east of Brookmere; the distance to the property is 8 miles. The general geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 888a, Princeton. The property is underlain by Nicola volcanic rocks, which are cut by granitic intrusions. Both are overlain, at the eastward side of the claim group, by Kingsvale andesite porphyries. The working area is on the height of land between tributaries of Lawless Creek, to the southward, and of Brook Creek. Unmineralized fault zones, 30 to 50 LODE METALS 171 feet wide, cut Nicola volcanic flows. The faults strike north 20 to 35 degrees west and dip 65 to 70 degrees southwestward. The rocks are weakly schistose near the faults; the schistosity strikes north 50 degrees west and dips about 45 degrees southwestward. Chalcopyrite is sparsely distributed in the volcanic rocks; pyrite is more evident but is not markedly developed. Some joint planes are coated with red iron oxide. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 659.] Gold-Silver-Lead-Zinc COQUIHALLA Hope (49° 121° N.E.) Company office, Britannia Anaconda American Brass Limited Beach. This group of nine mineral claims By David smith Ijgi^ ^y 0ption js located 1 mile by road north of Mile 14 on the Kettle Valley Railway, midway between Coquihalla station and Juliet. It was formerly known as the Keystone group. A geological map and a geochemical survey were made of the Hope Nos. 1, 2, and 5 and the Padala Fraction. On the surface 14 trenches totalling 1,925 feet in length were bulldozed. A crew of three men was employed under the supervision of P. A. Lindberg. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1936, pp. 30-32; 1954, p. 113; Assessment Report No. 696.] Lead-Zinc-Copper LY, Ford, Snow, Dora, Etc. (49° 121° N.E.) Head office, 549 Howe Street, Dorian Mines Ltd. Vancouver 1. Fred Kangas, manager; Dorian Roy, By n.d. McKechnie property superintendent. The LY, Ford, Snow, Dora, B & L, J & A, and King claims are held by Dorian Mines Ltd. This company is 80 per cent owned by Alscope Consolidated Ltd. The claims are on the west side of the Coldwater River, on an eastward-flowing tributary, 1V2 miles north of the former Coquihalla station on the Kettle Valley right-of-way. A gravel road on the old railroad grade can be entered from Brookmere or, by arrangement with the logging companies concerned, from Hope. A jeep-road leads to the working area half a mile west of the river at about 3,700 feet elevation. The general geology in the vicinity of the claims is shown on the following maps of the Geological Survey of Canada: Map 46a, Tulameen; Map 1988, Coquihalla River Area; and Map 737a, Hope. The group is underlain by the Eagle granodiorite and lies near the easterly contact of the granodiorite with Nicola volcanic rocks. The rock in which the mineralization occurs is a light-grey to pale-buff rock which presents on a weathered surface a clayey or limy appearance. It does not react to hydrochloric acid. The texture is finely porphyritic and in places frag- mental, with subangular fragments up to one-half inch in diameter. In thin-sections the rock is seen to be an altered porphyry, a quartz monzonite or quartz diorite, in which the feldspars are extensively sericitized and the somewhat scarce ferromag- nesian minerals are wholly altered to aggregates of chlorite, hematite, and carbonate. The original minerals have been well fractured and, locally, comminuted so that the texture ranges from a fine breccia to a mylonite. The fractures have been filled by quartz and minor orthoclase; the later quartz veins and embays the earlier. A small number of exposures indicates the altered porphyry has a northwestward strike and dips of 50 degrees or steeper to the northeast. Mr. Roy states that diamond drilling indicates a maximum width of about 150 feet. The drill cores of completed holes were not available at the time of the writer's visit. 172 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Core from a current hole in the footwall side of the porphyry was of a grey locally porphyritic quartz feldspar rock containing a sparsely distributed green amphibole. The altered porphyry is mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and, sparsely, chalcopyrite. Their distribution in the porphyry seems to be erratic. The sulphides occur as disseminated grains; pyrite occurs both as grains and in veinlets cutting the other minerals. The sphalerite grains are anhedral with serrated outlines, and there are some indications that they have been replaced by pyrite. Where the rock has a streaky texture, the sulphide grains, particularly the sphalerite, are aligned with the foliation. Pyrite is prominent in the footwall rock, but no other sulphide was recognized. This occurrence and that of the Mag group adjoining on the south are on line of strike with the granite porphyry dyke in which the chalcopyrite-chalcocite- sphalerite-molybdenite mineralization of the Independence property occurs 4 miles to the southeast. This dyke is shown on Maps 46a and 1988 and is stated (Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 139, p. 110) to attain a maximum width of 1,500 feet and a length of 5 miles. It was not known to cross the Coldwater River. It is possible that the altered porphyry on the Dorian is either a continuation or, more likely, a recurrence of this rock type. It possibly marks the locus of a mineralized zone of movement extending some 15 miles from Law's Camp, on the southeast, along the northeastward contact of the Eagle granodiorite. Copper-Zinc Mag (49° 121° N.E.) The Mag 1 to 4 mineral claims are held by By n. d. McKechnie T0fin g. N0tt; 1276 Edgewood Drive, Penticton. They are on the west side of the Coldwater River W2 miles north of the former Coquihalla station on the Kettle Valley right-of-way. A gravel road on the former railroad grade can be entered from Brookmere or, by arrangement with the logging companies concerned, from Hope. The working area is immediately west of the main road. The mineralized rock, exposed by trenching on the Mag No. 3 mineral claim, is the same brecciated and altered porphyry as described at the Dorian showings, and probably is a continuation of that body. On the Mag it is exposed by stripping over an area of about 300 by 200 feet. The walls were not exposed. Toward the westward, or footwall, side there is a shear about 5 feet wide which strikes north 50 degrees west and dips 85 degrees northeast. The showing is weathered and locally resembles a coarse conglomerate where orbicular weathering is prominently developed. Black sooty material, probably a manganese oxide, occurs in considerable quantity in some of the fractures. Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite are disseminated through the altered porphyry. Their amount is hard to assess in the weathered material, but it might be 1 to 3 per cent combined sulphides. The north 50 degrees west shear is cut by a narrow vein of comb quartz carrying manganese oxides; its strike is south 50 degrees west and its dip is nearly vertical. A similar vein 3 inches wide, striking south 75 degrees west and dipping 80 degrees southeastward, is exposed at one point in unsheared altered porphyry. No fresh sulphides were seen in either quartz vein. BRENDA LAKE Part of the holdings of Noranda Mining Company, Limited (North Brenda), and of BrenMac Mines Ltd. are in the Nicola Mining Division, but the reports on these properties will be found on pages 184 and 185 under the Osoyoos Mining Division. LODE METALS 173 Copper-Molybdenum Marn, Vise, Cam, Rob, Bob (1) (2) (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 1614, Kel-Glen Mines Ltd. 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. By j. m. carr Gordon V. Murray, president; Carson A. Murray, manager; E. J. Lees, supervising engineer. The company owns about 92 recorded claims in the Marn, Vise, Cam, Rob, and Bob groups, which are at the north and west boundaries of the North Brenda property, mostly in a single block. The property is numbered (1) and (2) on Figure 27 on page 180, and access is chiefly from the Cameo Lake road, on which the company in 1966 established a trailer camp to accommodate a crew of about 11 men. The general elevation of the property is 4,700 feet, and much of it is drift covered. Work began in March, continued to October, and included surveying, line- cutting, road-building, soil-sampling, geological mapping, an induced polarization survey by Canadian Aero Mineral Surveys Limited, stripping and blasting, 1,461 feet of diamond drilling in four holes, and 2,201 feet of rotary percussion drilling in 23 holes. The property was visited briefly in August, and a recently discovered molybdenum showing was seen on or near the Marn No. 18 claim, which is about 3 miles due north of Brenda Lake. The showing is near the top of a bluff on the southwest side of a short steep ravine which heads to the northwest and probably was a glacial meltwater channel. The ravine is strewn with talus blocks, and its far side is occupied by granodiorite, or quartz diorite, which is medium grained and contains only a small amount of pink feldspar. At the showing, this rock, which is probably a marginal phase of the nearby Brenda granodiorite, intrudes dark fine-grained Nicola greywacke at an unchilled contact whose strike is north of west and is parallel to that of foliation in the granodiorite and of bedding in the greywacke. This contact, although locally irregular and dyke-like, probably dips mainly steeply to the south, as does the granodiorite foliation. The Nicola beds dip southward at about 60 degrees at the contact and rather less steeply farther from it. Molybdenite and traces of chalcopyrite were seen in fractures and slender quartz veins in granodiorite at intervals along the bluff for 150 feet. The mineralized fractures and veins are spaced widely and have various attitudes; some possess northwesterly strikes and moderate northeasterly dips; others possess north-northeast strikes and steep dips, or are quite irregular. Molybdenite is not abundant; it occurs partly as coarse plates accompanied by blebs of pyrite. Pyrite, or pyrrhotite, also occurs finely disseminated in the otherwise unmineralized greywacke. Some drilling is reported to have been done at this showing subsequent to the visit. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 875.] Copper-Molybdenum Wilson, Ian, McK, Etc. (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 201, 846 West Komo Explorations Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. This property, which By David smith Dy rec0rd consists of 162 mineral claims partly named Wilson, Ian, and McK, is in fact much smaller because of overstaking. It lies close to Brenda Lake and is not shown on Figure 27. In 1966 work was directed by Alrae Explorations Ltd. Geological and geochemical surveys were made of an area 4,000 by 8,000 feet, and an induced polarization survey was made over 13 line miles at 600-foot spacing. A crew of six men, including four contractors, was employed for six months under the supervision of R. Philp. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 864.] 174 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 SIMILKAMEEN MINING DIVISION BRENDA LAKE Part of the Maria group (T. C. Explorations Ltd.) and some claims held by BrenMac Mines Ltd. he in the Similkameen Mining Division. These properties are reported under Osoyoos Mining Division, pages 187 and 185. Copper-Molybdenum Pinta, Copco, May (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 302, 550 Fort Reliance Minerals Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The Pinta, By David smith Copco, and May groups, comprising 133 re corded mineral claims, are about 4 miles southwest of Brenda Mines Ltd. Access is by 20 miles of road from Peachland. In 1966 work consisted of a reconnaissance magnetometer survey and soil-sampling and some bulldozer trenching. For two months a crew of five men was employed under the direction of A. D. Wilmot. TROUT CREEK Part of the X and D groups (Lodestar Mines Ltd.) lie in the Similkameen Mining Division. This property is reported under Osoyoos Mining Division, page 187. copper TULAMEEN PR, David, Skidoo (49° 121° S.E., N.E. and 49° 120° S.W.) Com- Bethex Explorations Ltd. pany office, 1821, 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. By n. d. McKechnie jfie property, comprising 78 recorded claims, lies along Jim Kelly Creek, a southeasterly flowing tributary of the Tulameen River, 13 miles southwest of the village of Tulameen. From the Tulameen River road a jeep- road leads about 5 miles to the Bethex camp at elevation of about 4,150 feet. Jim Kelly Creek is on the southeastward slope of Coquihalla Mountain, in the Hozameen Range of the Cascade Mountains. Work done on the claims during 1966 was AV2 miles of access road built; topographical, geological, and geophysical (induced polarization) surveys made; 35 trenches totalling 18,060 feet excavated; and five diamond-drill holes totalling 2,832 feet drilled. The general geology of the area is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 737a, Hope. Eagle granodiorite underlies the Jim Kelly Creek basin; southwest of the creek the granodiorite is overlain by the younger Lower Cretaceous Pasayten sediments. The mineralization occurs only in the igneous rocks. The principal showings are on the northeastward side of and from 300 to 1,000 feet from the creek, on the David Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 mineral claims. The rock in which mineralization occurs differs markedly from the Eagle granodiorite as described (Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 26, pp. 76-82) in that it is extensively altered and contains hematite rather than magnetite as a minor constituent. In hand specimen the rock is medium to coarse grained, crystalline, and unevenly porphyritic, with a dark-green matrix. In thin-section it is seen to be composed largely of secondary minerals, uralite, chlorite, calcite, garnet, saussurite, secondary orthoclase, and an optically positive hornblende, possibly cummingtonite. It is an altered rock which may represent either a structurally controlled zone of alteration within the Eagle granodiorite or an inclusion of an older igneous rock. LODE METALS 175 Near the creek, and only a few tens of feet from an outcrop of Pasayten sandstone and shale, there is a small exposure of recognizable granite, but its contact with the altered rock was not seen. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occur erratically in the metamorphic rock. Higher concentrations of the two sulphides seem to favour those parts of the host rock having higher proportions of ferromagnesian minerals. Copper Lode (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, Medical Dental Copper Mountain Building, West Georgia Street, Vancouver. This com- Consolidated Limited pany holds the Lode group of 16 claims which he 3 miles By David Smith west 0f Tulameen and are accessible by a forestry access road. In 1966 some bulldozer trenching was done on the Lode Nos. 7, 10, 11, 15, and 16 claims. A geochemical survey was carried out. Two men were employed by R. Collishaw. Iron H-G, Iron, BD, DB (49° 120° S.W.) Company office, 501, 535 Imperial Metals and Power Ltd. Thurlow Street, Vancouver 5. N. H. Mc- By David Smith Diarmid, president. This company owns about 180 claims encompassing the area of Lodestone and Olivine Mountains and Tangle- wood Hill. The property lies about 15 miles due west of Princeton and is accessible by logging-roads from the community of Coalmont. Work up to and including 1965 consisted of trenching in the vicinity of the old workings and five diamond-drill holes totalling 1,250 feet. In 1966 sampling was carried out systematically on a grid pattern used for a magnetometer survey. Using percussion drills, 44 holes totalling 8,400 feet were drilled. Some bulldozer trenching and road-building were carried out. A crew of seven men was employed. All work was under the supervision of Wright Engineers Limited. Copper PRINCETON K.R. (49° 120° N.W.) Company office, 102, 402 West Plateau Metals Limited Pender Street, Vancouver 3. The company owns the By David smith KR group of 40 recorded claims lying 20 miles north of Princeton. They are 6 miles from Highway No. 5 by way of the road to the microwave station. Roads were built and a camp-site established. Surface exploration was performed on the K.R. Nos. 3, 7, and 9 claims, and three diamond- drill holes totalling 817 feet were drilled. Work was supervised by C. Riley. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 517, 530, and 985.] Copper Ron (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 409 Mclntyre Porcupine Mines Limited Granville Street, Vancouver 2. The com- By David Smith pany owns the Ron gr0up of 40 recorded claims in the vicinity of Rampart Lake, 20 miles north of Princeton. Access is by logging-road. In 1966 soil samples were taken on grid lines spaced 750 feet apart. Two men were employed under the supervision of A. E. Angus. 176 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Lead-Zin c-Copp er Snow, Pine, Tom, F.C., Leo (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 801, 900 West Coin Canyon Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. This company holds By David smith 179 recorded mineral claims known as the Snow, Pine, Tom, F.C., and Leo groups. The claims lie to the south of Missezula Lake, about 16 miles by road north of Princeton. In 1966 work consisted of a magnetometer survey, four trenches bulldozed totalling 1,000 feet, and two 5-inch percussion-drill holes totalling 1,008 feet. A crew of seven men was employed under the direction of Frank Cooke. Copper Primer (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 501, 1111 West Primer Group Minerals Ltd. Georgia Street, Vancouver 5. The company holds By n. d. McKechnie \ QO mineral claims by record, located along Dillard Creek east of the south end of Missezula Lake. A jeep-road connects the showings with the Missezula Lake road, which leaves the Princeton-Merritt highway at the sawmill 6 miles north of Princeton. Additional stripping was done on the Primer No. 21 claim, and three diamond- drill holes were drilled on Primer Nos. 47 and 55 to depths of about 400 feet each. On the Primer No. 21 claim an altered hornblende diorite, intruded by monzonite porphyry, carries a small amount of chalcopyrite in fractures. The fractures in the main lie in two systems striking respectively northward and westward. The limits of neither the diorite nor of the fracturing were exposed. The drill cores all were in Nicola basaltic and andesitic flows with minor tuff and breccia. Copper mineralization was fairly consistently in or near the several intersections of hornblende diorite. Grab samples of split core, approximately equal quantities taken at 5-foot intervals, assayed as follows:— Diamond-drill hole No. 1: 0-76 feet, 0.15 per cent copper; 195-295 feet, 0.29 per cent copper. Diamond-drill hole No. 4: 0-50 feet, 0.15 per cent copper. The samples assayed nil and trace in gold and silver. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1963, p. 57; 1965, p. 157; Assessment Report No. 493.] Copper Copper Mountain Mine (49° 120° S.W.) Company office, 507, The Granby Mining Company Limited 1111 West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5; By David smith field office, Allenby. This company owns 79 Crown-granted claims covering the workings of the Copper Mountain mine, which suspended operations in 1956. In 1966 an extensive drill programme was carried out. The drilling was based on information derived from magnetometer and induced polarization surveys and a geological survey by K. C. Fahrni. Percussion drilling, using 21/4-inch bits, comprised 307 holes with total footage of 49,204 feet. A crew of six men, including contractors, was employed under the direction of K. C. Fahrni. Copper Bern, May, Queen (49° 120° S.E.) Company office, 302, 550 Burrard Cumont Mines Limited Street, Vancouver 1; field office, Princeton. E. M. By n.d. McKechnie Wilson, exploration manager. The company holds 50 recorded claims located as the Bern, May, and Queen groups, as well as 10 mineral LODE METALS 177 leases. The property is in the vicinity of Copper Mountain, 10 miles south of Princeton, and extends from Voight Camp, on Wolfe Creek, westward to about half a mile west of the Hope-Princeton highway. The present working areas are reached from Princeton by the Copper Mountain road to Voight Camp. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys have been made over the whole property. During 1966 bulldozer trenching was done on the Duke of York and Alabama mineral claims and on Mineral Lease No. 39. Surface diamond drilling amounted to 8,106 feet in 16 holes. Seven men were employed. The writer examined trenches on the Alabama (Lot 2429), June Bug (Lot 3029), and Margaret Fractional (Lot 2310 S) mineral claims. These claims are underlain chiefly by Nicola volcanic rocks. The Alabama claim, where the work was centred, is some 3,000 feet west of the Voight stock and about a mile northeast of the Copper Mountain stock. The trenching exposed intrusive rocks similar, in hand specimen, to those of the outer zone of the Copper Mountain stock, reddish syenodiorites and syeno- gabbros. The Copper Mountain rocks are intruded, chiefly along northeastward strikes, by grey augite diorites and reddish syenite porphyries which possibly relate to the Voight stock. Both rocks are cut by unmineralized, usually steeply dipping faults striking in the northwest and northeast quadrants. The Copper Mountain and Voight rocks and the faults are cut by felsite dykes, the " Mine dykes " (Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 171, p. 17). Sulphide mineralization consists of chalcopyrite, pyrite, and bornite sparsely disseminated in the Copper Mountain rocks; pyrite and chalcopyrite are very sparsely present in the later rocks. Veinlets and small veins of magnetite, some of them vuggy, also occur; most include grains of chalcopyrite. Company assay results indicate averages in excess of 0.5 per cent copper in trench lengths of up to 118 feet. No related structural pattern or continuity has yet been established. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 838.] Copper-Gold Whip, M.J., Axe, Ski (49° 120° S.W.) Company office, 202, 1533 West Kalco Valley Mines Ltd. Pender Street, Vancouver 5. D. F. Hamelin, presi- By David smith dent. A block of 148 claims, including the Whip, M.J., Axe, and Ski groups, is on Whipsaw Creek and also south of Copper Mountain. This ground was formerly held by Friday Creek Development Co. Ltd. Access is by road 10 miles south of Princeton. In 1966 some surface exploration, including soil-sampling and trenching by bulldozer, was carried out. Two holes were drilled totalling 235 feet in length. Access roads were built under contract. A crew of three men was employed under the supervision of D. F. Hamelin. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 314, 362, and 409.] Copper Ingersoll Belle (49° 120° S.W.) Vancouver office, 604, 744 Newmont Mining Corporation West Hastings Street. D. M. Cannon, vice- of Canada Limited president. This company holds by agreement By James t. Fyies 63 ciamis on Kennedy Mountain along the Hope-Princeton highway 12 miles south of Princeton. Most work in 1966 was done on the Ingersoll Belle and La Reine Crown-granted claims, which straddle the highway, but showings of copper mineralization have been found by present and 178 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 past exploration on the Lela to the northwest and on the Red Buck and Magnetic Crown grants, which lie to the east on the steep slope between the highway and the Similkameen River. Showings on the Lela claim and on the Ray group, which lies north of the Red Buck, are described in the Annual Report for 1963 (pp. 62-63). Cumont Mines Limited holds the ground to the south and east. About 26,000 feet of bulldozer trenching was done in 1966 on the relatively flat ground west of the highway. In the same area, seventeen 5-inch churn-drill holes were drilled on a grid to a total footage of 7,865 feet, and 14 diamond-drill holes totalling 11,706 feet were drilled to check the best mineralization found in the churn drilling. The work was done in June, July, and September under the direction of T. N. Macauley, company geologist. The rocks in the area are altered dark-green and grey volcanics of the Nicola Group, extensively intruded by dykes of syenodiorite porphyry and latite porphyry. In the trenches they are highly fractured, faulted, and generally rusty with widespread copper stain. Fine chalcopyrite and pyrite are present over wide areas, and minor bornite is present locally. Geological mapping by the company shows a set of fractures, dykes, and faults trending northeast and another trending northwest. The drill-core is dark-green metavolcanic and fine-grained porphyritic dyke rocks. Locally breccias and thin bands or beds are seen in the volcanics. A green alteration, probably rich in epidote and feldspar and associated with magnetite, pervades the volcanics and the dykes, and extends outward from minute fractures. Fine-grained chalcopyrite, pyrite, and rarely molybdenite occur along fractures, and chalcopyrite is disseminated in the volcanics and locally in the dykes adjacent to the fractures. Silicified zones apparently later than the green alteration and the sulphides are found in the drill core and on surface. Copper mineralization occurs in a poorly defined northeasterly trending zone (several hundred feet wide) continuing across the Ingersoll Belle and La Reine claims dipping steeply to the southeast. In this zone, grades as high as 1 per cent copper over widths of more than 100 feet are indicated. Copper Deep Gulch (49° 120° S.W.) Company office, Medical Dental Build- Copper Mountain ing, West Georgia Street, Vancouver. This company Consolidated Limited holds 45 claims, on which the main showings are immedi- By David smith ateiy east 0f tfie Hope-Princeton highway, to the south of Deep Gulch Creek, about 12 miles south of Princeton. A geochemical survey was made in 1966. Zinc-Copper MANNING PARK Hope-Summit (49° 120° S.W.) Mineral showings near the Giant Explorations Limited headwaters of the Similkameen River, about 2 By g.e. p. Eastwood mjies north-northeast of Allison Pass, have been covered successively by the Sparkler group, Big Ben group, and Hope-summit group of claims. The Hope-Summit group consisted of eight recorded claims, owned principally by B. E. Williams, of Keremeos. From a point on the Hope-Princeton highway about a mile east of the Department of Highways depot at Allison Pass, a rough tote-road leads off along the west side of a large gravel pit and continues north and north-northwest along the slope west of the river, crossing a small creek 3.3 road miles from the highway. About 200 feet above the tote-road a small open cut had previously been made in the bank of this creek, near the southwest corner LODE METALS 179 of Hope-Summit No. 3. In 1966 Giant Explorations Limited diamond drilled 1,029 feet in three holes near the open cut. The country rock is sandstone and pebble conglomerate of the Dewdney Creek Group, which contain bands and fragments of black argillite. It is traversed by veins and veinlets of pyrrhotite and sphalerite, with less chalcopyrite and arseno- pyrite. Chunks of almost massive sulphide as much as 3 inches in diameter can be found on the dump of the open cut, indicating the presence of veins of at least this width, but in the drill core the veins are only 0.1 to 0.5 inch wide. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1925, p. 212; 1927, p. 248; Rice, H. M. A., 1947, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 243, p. 113.] OSOYOOS MINING DIVISION BRENDA LAKE By J. M. Carr The continued development of a very large copper and molybdenum deposit by Brenda Mines Ltd. was accompanied by considerable exploration activity on surrounding properties, some of whose locations are shown on Figure 27. Recorded claims are almost continuous from Okanagan Lake on the east to Missezula Lake and Aspen Grove on the west, and properties in the Brenda Lake camp lie in the Osoyoos, Nicola, and Similkameen Mining Divisions. The area shown has a total relief greater than 3,000 feet, with the highest ground trending more or less along the eastern boundary of the Nicola Mining Division. Eastward the ground descends irregularly and is incised deeply by the valleys of creeks draining to Okanagan Lake. Bedrock exposures occur mostly on the higher ground and in the creek walls. Westward the plateau surface is largely drift covered and swampy, with bedrock exposures being few or non-existent. The area is largely underlain by granitic rocks of the Okanagan batholith and by Upper Triassic strata of the Nicola Group, into which the batholith is emplaced. The edges of the batholith are shown on Figure 27 in the positions determined by company mapping. West of the batholith the Nicola strata consist variously of hornfelsed banded tuffs, greywacke, andesite and dacite flows or tuffs, and black argillite and limestone. Attitudes of these strata suggest the existence of a major syncline trending north and possessing a core of sheared argillite and limestone which lies close to Brenda Lake. The edge of the batholith occupies the east limb of the syncline and curves northwestward around its nose. Large bodies of Nicola rocks are isolated farther east in the batholith and, between Greata and Peachland Creeks, they include a sequence of limestones and associated greywackes which possess dips partly to the southwest. In the western marginal part of the batholith within the area, the prevalent rock is a grey granodiorite, or quartz diorite, similar to that in which the Brenda deposit occurs. From place to place this rock, which may be termed the Brenda granodiorite, varies from fine grained to medium grained, but otherwise its appearance changes little. It contains as much as 20 per cent of biotite and hornblende which, like plagioclase feldspar, occur mostly as well-shaped crystals rarely exceeding one- half centimetre in size. Pink orthoclase feldspar, or microcline, forms sieve-like crystals as much as 1 Vi centimetres in size. The plagioclase is strongly zoned and is partly as calcic as andesine (An38). The rock possesses a foliation which is due to crystal alignment and which dips to the west at steep to moderate angles. The foliation commonly strikes toward the north or northeast but locally is parallel to the 180 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 outer contact, and thus is partly northwesterly. Small dark inclusions scattered in the rock are partly angular and partly rounded. North and east of Peachland Lake this rock gives way to quartz diorites partly with a crudely banded appearance, which predominate farther east. The Brenda granodiorite is cut in places by chilled dykes of trachyte which may be of pre-mineral age, and others of lamprophyre which are probably later and may be mainly post-mineral. Dykes composed of biotite-andesite porphyry are reported in drill-holes but were not examined. Most dykes near the mine appear to strike between west-northwest and due west. Light-grey biotite-andesite porphyry occurs apparently as a wide northeastward-trending dyke in faulted granodiorite on the Red Rock claims adjoining the old road north of Peachland Lake. It is post-mineral and resembles dykes of probable Eocene age in the Highland Valley camp. North of Brenda Lake an indurated conglomerate overlies Nicola rocks and is either Cretaceous or Tertiary. It seems strictly local in its distribution. <t°o \ ° J --—-.CAMP Figure 27. Index map of the Brenda Lake area. LODE METALS 181 Molybdenite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite occur together in the Brenda deposit and at small showings elsewhere in the Brenda granodiorite. Pyrite and pyrrhotite are widely disseminated in the Nicola tuffs and volcanic rocks. In the eastern part of the area on Sandberg Mountain, an enclosed body of Nicola limestones and associated rocks contains small masses of skarn and sulphides which are largely pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite with some molybdenite. [References: H. M. A. Rice, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 243, Princeton Map- area, 1947; H. S. Little, Map 15-1961, Kettle River (West Half); Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 163; B.C. Dept. of Mines, Bull. 46, 1962.] Properties shown on Figure 27 are as follows:— 1, 2. Marn, etc. (Kel-Glen Mines Ltd.). 3. Slim, F.W.P. (Quinalta Petroleum Ltd. and Fleetwood Resources Ltd.). 4. North Brenda (Noranda Exploration Company, Limited). 5. Penmex (Cascade Molybdenum Mines Ltd.). 6. Brenda (Brenda Mines Ltd.). 7. Ram (Kellcam Exploration Limited). 8. Mac (Anuk River Mines Ltd.). 9. WP, Bill, etc. (Buttle Lake Mining Company Limited and Trojan Consolidated Mines Ltd.). 10,11, 12, 15. BrenMac Mines Ltd. 13. Head, Tail, Sun, Moon (Christina Lake Mines Ltd.). 14. Maria (T.C. Explorations Ltd.). 16. JO (Lakeland Base Metals Ltd.). Copper-Molybdenum Brenda Mine (6) (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 1030 West Georgia Brenda Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 5; field office, 44 Padmore Street By j. m. carr and David smith West, Penticton. B. O. Brynelsen, president; Peter Stym, mine superintendent; Chapman, Wood & Griswold, consulting engineers. The company owns 51 mineral claims which include seven Crown-granted claims 1 mile east of Brenda Lake. A trailer camp is established at MacDonald Lake, about 2 miles by road from the mine. Work in 1966 included surveying, geological mapping, soil-sampling jointly with Noranda Exploration Company, Limited, and induced polarization surveying by McPhar Geophysics Ltd. In 74 holes 42,573 feet of diamond drilling was done by Mutch Diamond Drilling Company using BQ wireline equipment, and 7,323 feet of rotary-percussion drilling in 19 holes of S^-inch diameter was done by Gulf Drilling Company. Underground work was contracted to Haste Mine Development Ltd., and it included 1,475 feet of drifting, 400 feet of crosscutting, and 960 feet of inclined raising. A 100-ton pilot mill designed by Wright Engineers Ltd. was built by Klassen Construction Ltd., and a crushing plant was provided by Dawson Construction Ltd. Including men on contract, an average crew of 48 men was employed. The mineralized zone forms outcrops at elevations between 5,100 and 5,600 feet on a southeasterly spur between tributaries of MacDonald and Peachland Creeks. As outlined by induced polarization surveys and subsequent drilling, the zone measures about 2,000 feet in a north-northwesterly direction and is as much as 1,500 feet wide. Sampling of the zone has followed a rectangular grid laid out on 400-foot centres and orientated with grid north on a bearing north 30 degrees west. Holes inclined at 63 degrees were drilled from these centres, in the direction of either grid-north or grid-south, mostly in pairs from the same set-up, and to a uniform elevation of 4,750 feet. The deepest hole was more than 1,000 feet long. All core 182 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 was crushed and used for sampling and preliminary mill tests. In March, 1967, the company released estimates giving the total content of the orebody as 167,498,900 tons of material containing 0.19 per cent copper and 0.087 per cent molybdenite. Starting in June, 1966, and using trackless mining methods, an 8- by 10-foot adit was driven northerly on a grid line for a length of 1,230 feet from a portal at 5,140 feet elevation. At a point in the adit about 900 feet from the portal, a west crosscut 400 feet long was made to connect with north and south drifts, each about 110 feet long. Three raises each followed up a drill-hole for a length of 240 feet or more, one being northerly from a point in the adit 1,180 feet distant from the portal and the others being northerly and southerly respectively, and converging upward from the ends of the drifts. Muck from each round taken from the adit, drifts, and raises was crushed to Vi-inch maximum size, split, and sampled. A one-third portion was treated in a 100-ton pilot mill erected at the portal, and separate concentrates of copper and molybdenum were produced. Approximately 7,500 tons of mill feed was treated. Between two and three days in August were spent examining the surface showings and an 800-foot length of the adit. The mineralized zone is in the Brenda granodiorite, which is fresh appearing in outcrop and is cut in places by narrow aplite dykes that mostly strike northwestward and dip to the east, partly at steep angles. The granodiorite is strongly fractured on planes that are mostly steep and follow numerous directions, which company investigation has shown to fall partly into three sets with strikes that are east of north, north of east, and due northwest respectively. The intensity of fracturing varies in the zone and lessens outside it. The fractures in a set may be spaced as close as 2 inches, although 8 to 10 inches is probably their average spacing in the mineralized zone. Chalcopyrite, pyrite, and molybdenite he in the fractures and occur weakly disseminated within a distance of one-quarter inch of them. In outcrop the walls of the fractures are weathered and the sulphides partly oxidized. Many fractures contain mineralized veins, which apparently formed by replacement of the wallrock and are mostly of two kinds. The veins of one kind have a granitic appearance and consist mainly of quartz and vivid pink potassium feldspar. They mostly have widths between one-eighth inch and 1 inch and may possess well-sealed walls and partly vuggy centres. In thin-section, one of these veins was seen to contain mosaic-textured quartz, turbid microcline partly in crystals as large as those in the adjacent rock, and green biotite, calcite, chlorite, and sulphides. The adjacent rock appears unaltered, except that hornblende and biotite are partly changed to secondary green biotite. The second kind of vein consists mainly of quartz, with which there may be calcite and locally epidote. Such veins occasionally exceed 2 inches in width, and they may be vaguely banded. Seen underground, either kind of vein may show bleached margins and the quartz veins appear mainly to lie on sheared fractures. Sulphides occur mostly as coarse disseminations and, in the quartz veins, partly as coalescing masses and fine streaks and disseminations. Slender calcite veins contain lesser amounts of sulphide than the quartz veins which they cut. Examination of a polished section of sulphides in a quartz vein suggests that pyrite is mostly earlier than chalcopyrite, which surrounds and slightly replaces it, and that molybdenite may be later than chalcopyrite. Faults and lamprophyre dykes are seen underground and possess strikes that are more or less easterly and dips that are mostly fairly steep to the south. The faults contain as much as 3 feet of gouge and brecciated altered rock and are either dark and chloritic or white and argillic. Narrow slips and shears of varied attitude occur widely, and they commonly have molybdenite smeared on their surfaces. A fault seen in drill core contains graphite as well as molybdenite. The walls of the faults and shears are argillized and bleached, and they contain chlorite and epidote. LODE METALS 183 Surface outcrop of the Brenda orebody showing mineralized fractures in granodiorite. Brenda mine sampling operation showing the crusher and fine-ore bins, August, 1966. . 184 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The lamprophyre dykes are each as much as 1 foot wide and do not all he in faults. They are generally unmineralized, although one was seen to contain small amounts of chalcopyrite in veinlets at its margin. The structural control of mineralization is unknown and was presumably related to intense fracturing of the granodiorite. Fault movement alone is probably not responsible since many intersecting fractures show no offset and were therefore produced by means other than faulting. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 189.] Copper-Molybdenum North Brenda (4) (49° 120° N.E.) Company office, 1050 Davie Street, Noranda Exploration Vancouver 5. B. O. Brynelsen, manager. The com- Company, Limited pany holds about 133 recorded claims adjoining the By j. M. carr north boundary of the Brenda Mines property and ac cessible by road either from Brenda Lake or from near the Brenda Mines adit. Work in 1966 was supervised by R. C. Heim and included soil-sampling, geological mapping by D. H. MacDonald, induced polarization surveys, property surveys, trenching, road-building, and 4,196 feet of diamond drilling in 11 holes. A crew of approximately 20 men occupied a camp which is situated on the property about 1 Vi miles northwest of Long Lake. The property was visited briefly in August, and two newly discovered chalcopyrite and molybdenite showings were seen in the northeastern part of the property, which is largely drift covered. The showings are in the Brenda granodiorite, nearly a claim length apart in an easterly direction on the Jeff Nos. 41 and 43 claims respectively. At an eastern showing a small outcrop of rather fresh granodiorite contains narrow dykes of aplite and is cut by numerous irregular fractures along which the granodiorite is brecciated, altered, and mineralized. Seams of breccia occupy the fractures and enclose fragments of granodiorite and rarely of aplite. Small masses of quartz have secondary textures and may not be fragments despite their angularity. The matrix of the seams is largely of quartz and biotite, possibly with chlorite, and it contains molybdenite and lesser amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrite. In places the seams contain quartz vugs. At the western showing a small outcrop of fresh or only slightly chloritized granodiorite contains slender quartz veins that chiefly occupy closely spaced north-northeasterly fractures which dip westward at a shallow angle. The fractures contain biotite and also pyrite, molybdenite, and very small amounts of chalcopyrite, which are further weakly disseminated in the walls of the fractures. About 1,000 feet to the southwest of the showing, an easterly diamond-drill hole intersected granodiorite that is partly sheared and strongly chloritized and contains streaks and disseminations of pyrite. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, p. 163.] Copper-Molybdenum Mac (8) (49° 119° N.W.) Company office, 535 Howe Street, Anuk River Mines Ltd. Vancouver 1. A. Briden, president; N. Zora, manag- Byj. m. carr mg director; Alrae Exploration Ltd., consulting and management engineers. The company holds about 18 recorded claims in the Mac group adjoining the southern boundary of the Brenda Mines property. The camp is near the old Brenda Lake road at about 5,000 feet elevation. Work in 1966 included 23 percussion-drill holes and 3,960 feet of diamond drilling in 15 holes, all spaced near the boundary of the Brenda Mines property. LODE METALS 185 The property was visited but no drill core was examined. According to company information, all the diamond-drill holes were in the granodiorite body, and the assays provided by the company show molybdenite occurring mostly in sub-commercial amounts. Small amounts of copper were also recorded. Outcrops seen along two adjacent creeks which flow southeast from the Brenda Mines property are of fractured granodiorite containing small amounts of chalcopyrite and pyrite on or near veins similar to those on the adjoining property. Lamprophyre and trachyte porphyry dykes trend more or less easterly and are each several feet wide. Copper-Molybdenum BrenMac Mines Ltd. Company office, 312, 510 West Hastings Street, Vancou- Byj.M. carr ver 2. i. Shulman, president; A. D. K. Burton, manager. This and associated companies (BrenColl Mines Ltd., BrenCap Mines Ltd., and BrenSand Mines Ltd.) together control about 500 claims, of which 11 are Crown granted and the remainder are held by record, in several widely distributed properties in the Brenda Lake area. These properties were explored from June onward by a crew of 15 men, supervised by A. D. K. Burton and W. C. McLoughlin. Work done included surveying, geological mapping, soil-sampling, induced polarization surveys by McPhar Geophysics Ltd., 5 miles of road construction, trenching, test- pitting, percussion drilling in 100 holes, and rotary drilling in four holes totalling 800 feet. Notes on the two properties visited briefly in August are given below. (a) Sandberg Property (15) (49° 119° N.W.).—About 19 recorded claims in the Iron Horse and Sandi groups occupy the eastern part of Sandberg Mountain, between Greata and Peachland Creeks, at elevations between 4,000 and 5,000 feet and 11 miles distant by road from Peachland. The Iron Horse claims are reverted Crown-granted claims whose showings are believed to date from the 1930's, and on which in 1956 Noranda Exploration Company, Limited, did work that included a self-potential survey, trenching, and diamond drilling. The property is underlain by limestones and associated strata of the Nicola Group, which in places are cut by dykes and sills variously of diorite, quartz diorite, and granite. The granite dykes, which may be later than the others, are reported to trend northerly and to be unmineralized where they cut mineralized rocks. The property was visited briefly and showings were seen at two localities spaced nearly one claim length apart in an easterly or southeasterly direction. The eastern showing is judged to be on the southeastern part of the George claim and is reached from the south by a newly built road ascending steeply to the eastern spur of the mountain. The showing consists of a bulldozed trench which extends easterly and exposes limestone and greywacke beds that strike north 65 degrees west and dip at about 20 degrees northward. The beds are overlain by an intrusive sill of dark diorite, which has an unknown thickness and possesses in part a hornfelsed texture. Other bodies of diorite occur in outcrop variously to north and south of the showing. In the trench at the showing, the limestone and associated beds are more or less converted to skarn and skarny marble across a stratigraphic width of as much as 10 feet and for a distance along the trench of about 100 feet. Epidote, actinolite, garnet, calcite, and some magnetite now chiefly form the rocks, which contain veins and patches of milky quartz as much as 3 inches wide. A few slickensided shear surfaces were observed, their strike being east-northeasterly and their dips mostly southerly. The skarny rocks are locally mineralized by disseminated sulphides, which are partly on fractures and include molybdenite in rosettes, chalcopyrite, and 186 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 pyrite. The grade in both copper and molybdenum is judged to be very low. Eleven percussion-drill holes were made around the showing to depths of about 40 feet in an area which measured approximately 150 by 100 feet. The showings at the western locality are judged to be mostly on the Iron claim and are reached by a road which follows the spur from the eastern locality to a ridge near the summit of the mountain. They occur in an area measuring about 1,500 by 800 feet that crosses the ridge and is mainly on its south slope, which is steep. The area is underlain by medium- to thick-bedded limestones and greywackes with northerly to northwesterly strikes and dips that are mostly to the west and are locally steep. As exposed west of the area, some of the limestone is graphitic. Limestone in the area locally exhibits compressed dragfolds whose plunges are partly steep to the north-northeast. Skarn that is composed variously of garnet, wollastonite, epidote, and quartz appears largely to be developed as discrete bodies at limestone-greywacke contacts adjacent to faults or shear zones whose attitudes are various. Contacts of the skarn bodies with recrystallized limestone are commonly sharp and are partly curved and fold-like. Sulphide mineralization is more or less massive in the skarns and consists mostly of pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Small amounts of zinc and cobalt are shown to be present by a spectro- chemical analysis. Limited oxidation has produced small amounts of chalcocite and malachite and gives an over-all rusty appearance to the showings. Copper content of the best mineralization is estimated to be of the order of 4 per cent across widths of a few feet. In places, sulphides are disseminated in hornfelsed greywacke, and they include small amounts of molybdenite. The continuity of mineralization between individual showings is unknown. Showings high on the north slope have been exposed by stripping in an area where diamond drilling was done in 1956. They involve two or more mineralized skarn bodies, one of which appears to be a lens striking northwestward for a distance of about 30 feet and having a width of several feet, the other a shorter bulbous-shaped body of northeasterly trend. The latter is partly surrounded by unmineralized limestone. On the south slope numerous pits, mostly of recent origin, have explored an area about 1,000 feet long and 400 feet wide which extends obliquely uphill to the northeast through a vertical interval of several hundred feet. The pits are mostly in two groups separated by outcrops of unmineralized limestone. Pits of the lower group lie due south of the showings on the north slope and are spaced at least 100 feet apart. They mostly expose sulphides which are partly more or less massive in skarn and partly disseminated in greywacke, in each case for distances of as much as 10 or 20 feet. Contacts with unmineralized wallrock are seen in places, but the shapes of the mineralized bodies are nevertheless unknown. (b) lla and Red Rock Groups (12) (49° 119° N.W.).—These groups, which are about 2 miles southeast of the Brenda Mines property, contain large unexposed areas and are accessible from the old Brenda road. At the road on the Red Rock group the exposed Brenda granodiorite is weathered and strongly fractured, contains limonite after sulphides, and is intruded on the west by a north-northeasterly trending dyke of light-coloured andesite. It is believed that this dyke, which is unmineralized, largely occupies a fault. Several holes drilled by the company immediately east of this exposure failed to reach bedrock. On the lla group to the east, holes were drilled north of the road near unmineralized outcrops of crudely banded quartz diorite which is steeply foliated in a northwesterly direction. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 886.] LODE METALS 187 Copper-Molybdenum Marn, Vise, Cam, Rob, Bob (1) (2) (49° 120° N.E.) See under Nicola Min- Kel-Glen Mines Ltd. Copper-Molybdenum Wilson, Ian, McK, Etc. Komo Explorations Ltd. ing Division, page 173. (49° 120° N.E.) See under Nicola Mining Division, page 173. Copper-Molybdenum Pinta, Copco, May Fort Reliance Minerals Limited (49° 120° N.E.) See under Similkameen Mining Division, page 174. Copper-Molybdenum Maria (14) T.C. Explorations Ltd. (49° 119° N.W.) Company office, 201, 569 Howe Street, Vancouver 1. Howard T. James, president; A. By j. m. carr q skerl, consulting geologist. This company holds about 53 recorded claims in the Maria group near the new Brenda Lake road some 4 miles south of the Brenda mine. An airborne magnetometer survey was made in 1966 but no ground work was done. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 861.] Copper-Molybdenum X,D Lodestar Mines Ltd By David Smith TROUT CREEK (49° 119° N.W.) Company office, 303, 540 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The X and D groups consist of 100 recorded mineral claims held by Lodestar Mines Ltd. The property, which is near Kirton on Trout Creek, is accessible by 18 miles of forestry access road from Summerland. In 1966 some geochemical soil-sampling was done at 100-foot intervals over 9 miles of line, and seven trenches totalling 900 feet in length were bulldozed. For two months a crew of five men was employed under the direction of G. L. Mill. Copper-Molybdenum Astra, Baal, Calumet, Ida PEACHLAND Boundary Exploration Limited By David Smith (49° 119° N.W.) Company office, 148 Tenth Street, Grand Forks. The property, of 22 recorded mineral claims, comprising the Astra, Baal, Calumet, and Ida claims, is near Silver Lake, northwest of Peachland. Access is by 8 miles of logging-road from Peachland. In 1966 about 400 feet of bulldozer trenching was done and 2 miles of road was built. A crew of three men was employed under the supervision of J. W. Carson. Copper-Molybdenum ASHNOLA RIVER Ash, Nola, Cat, Dry, Car (49° 120° S.E.) Company office, 808, 837 Meridian Exploration Syndicate West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. This By David Smith property, formerly known as the Rick, consists of 157 recorded claims grouped as the Ash, Nola, Cat, Dry, and Car and lies southeast of Placer Mountain near the head of McBride Creek, a tributary of the Ashnola River. Access is by 14 miles of road from Similkameen Falls. In 1966 seven trenches totalling 3,100 feet were bulldozed on the Nola group, and geological, geophysical, and geochemical work was done. A crew of five men was employed under the supervision of J. H. Montgomery. 188 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper OLALLA Kopr, Papex, Paychex (49° 119° S.W.) Company office, 306 Martin Street, Apex Exploration and Penticton. W. J. Weymark, consultant. The property Mining Company, Ltd. comprises 107 mineral claims held by record and four By n.d. McKechnie mineral leases situated at the headwaters of Cedar and Loak Creeks on the southeastward slope of Apex Mountain and about 25 miles southwest of Penticton. A road passable for two-wheel-drive vehicles leads ZV2 miles up Loak Creek from the Keremeos-Penticton highway. From this point, at a creek junction, a jeep-road leads southwestward 0.4 mile to the southerly of two working areas at 5,200 feet elevation. The other lies 2,300 feet to the northward at 5,350 feet elevation and is reached by a tractor-trail, also from the Loak Creek road. The southerly working area is at the junction of Kopr 1, 2, 3, and 4 mineral claims; the northerly one is on the boundary between Papex 5 and 6 mineral claims, near its mid-point. The geology of the region is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 628a, Olalla. The rocks from Beaconsfield Mountain southward to Olalla Creek are discussed by H. E. O. Neugebauer in an unpublished Master of Arts thesis " Lithology and Structure of the Late Paleozoic Rocks of the Apex Mountain Area, British Columbia," University of Oregon, 1965. The claims are underlain by the Shoemaker and Old Tom Formations, sediments, and volcanic rocks, shown on Map 628a as of Triassic or older age. Neugebauer states that fossils collected by him, from limestone bodies interbedded with greenstones, were determined to be Pennsylvanian or Permian. The southeastern part of the property is underlain by the band of Old Tom Formation shown on Map 628a trending northeastward across the headwaters of Olalla, Cedar, and Loak Creeks; the working areas are near its northwestward contact with the Shoemaker Formation. The two working areas are on the sites of old workings, comprising short adits and rock cuts which cannot now be certainly identified but which probably were made during a period of considerable activity about 1900 to 1902. Recent work consists of bulldozer trenching in the vicinity of the older workings. The rocks exposed in the working areas are sillimanite hornfels of the Shoemaker Formation; crystalline limestone and propylitized greenstone (andesite?) of the Old Tom Formation; skarn, associated with the greenstone; and diorite. The metallic minerals found in these rocks are pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite. There is a marked tendency for chalcopyrite to occur in the Old Tom greenstone and derived skarn rather than in the Shoemaker rocks. Distinguishing between some Old Tom and Shoemaker rocks is not always possible in hand specimens, yet it may be important to do so as a guide in prospecting the property. The Shoemaker sillimanite hornfels is a dark-grey rock typical of most of the Shoemaker exposed in this general area. In thin-section, sillimanite-rich aggregates enclose and are interbanded with quartz-feldspar masses. The sillimanite is associated with cordierite, orthoclase, uralite, quartz, and hematite; a few grains of forsterite and some apatite also were seen. The sillimanite hornfels has been replaced by quartz, so that the present rock is composed of embayed and serrated inclusions of the hornfels in a mosaic of anhedral quartz. This later quartz embays and veins the earlier quartz and all other minerals. Pyrite is common as a fracture filling; chalcopyrite occurs but is scarce; and magnetite may be locally prominent. The Old Tom propylitized greenstone is a dark-grey to greenish fine-grained massive rock in which, with the aid of a hand-lens, an amygdaloidal texture is perceptible. Under the microscope the rock proves to be a mat of epidote, zoisite, LODE METALS 189 and fibrous amphibole with some quartz and albite. The amygdules are an optically positive non-fibrous zeolite. In places this rock has been partly replaced by quartz and so made to resemble, megascopically, the Shoemaker silicified hornfels. The greenstone carries pyrite and, in places, appreciable chalcopyrite. Magnetite seems to be absent. White fine-grained crystalline limestone, with uneven dark patches, occurs with the greenstone and appears to be part of the greenstone sequence. It was seen at only one place, a lO-foot-thick exposure in the Kopr workings. Skarn (associated with greenstone) is exposed at both the Kopr and Papex workings. It is composed chiefly of brown garnet with calcite and quartz; the calcium-magnesium silicate akermanite was recognized in a specimen from the Papex workings. No magnetite was detected in the skarn from either workings. The skarn is mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. The only intrusive rock recognized is a grey medium-grained diorite with phenocrysts of hornblende in a fault zone in the Kopr workings. Megascopically, the rock shows no shearing or fracturing. It carries pyrrhotite as coarse disseminated grains. At the Papex workings an unmineralized fault zone striking north 20 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees southeastward is exposed for a width of about 50 feet in Shoemaker hornfels. Projection of this fault on strike leads to the Kopr workings. At the Kopr workings a 40-foot-wide fault, also unmineralized, strikes north 80 degrees east and dips 75 degrees northward. Its relationship to the north 20 degrees east fault is not known. In the footwall of the north 80 degrees east fault a fault strikes north 60 degrees west and dips 85 degrees southwestward; it is in this fault that the diorite occurs. The principal Papex showing is in a short adit driven in the footwall of the north 20 degrees east fault. In the adit, silicified Old Tom greenstone and skarn are mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite for a width of 8 to 10 feet. On the westward side it is bounded by a fracture zone in silicified Shoemaker hornfels 1V2 feet wide, containing magnetite, pyrite, and some chalcopyrite, striking north 5 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees west. On the eastward side it is in fault contact with Shoemaker hornfels also. The north 20 degrees east fault is well developed for 50 feet eastward from the adit and contains fault blocks of Old Tom greenstone. There are two other exposures of more or less mineralized Old Tom greenstone to the southeast of the adit and still in the disturbed zone; they also are in fault contact with Shoemaker. At the Kopr workings, pyrite and chalcopyrite occur in Old Tom greenstone in the footwall of the north 80 degrees east fault. The hangingwall of this fault is Shoemaker hornfels. An adit 50 feet in elevation below the fault exposure and on the footwall side of the fault is in Shoemaker hornfels at the portal, but the spoil is in part skarn and Old Tom greenstone. The skarn carries pyrite and chalcopyrite. The adit is in very poor condition and could not be properly examined. The Papex and Kopr showings are in unmineralized fault zones; their relative positions suggest that the north 20 degrees east fault is the controlling structure. The mineralized Old Tom greenstones at the Papex workings are certainly blocks of limited extent contained in the fault zone cutting Shoemaker hornfels. The situation at the Kopr workings essentially is the same. It seems likely that the fault has cut mineralization in the Old Tom Formation at some point along its strike. The fault zone could be traced across the property and the Old Tom rocks on either side of it prospected. 190 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper-Lead-Zinc OSOYOOS Copper Coin, Silver Coin (49° 119° S.W.) Company office, 800 Hall Building, Coin Explorations Ltd. 789 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1; field office, Box By David smith 230, Osoyoos. This property consists of 48 recorded mineral claims lying southeast of Kilpoola Lake and is accessible by 4 miles of dirt road from Highway 3a. In 1966 work consisted of 4,130 feet of trenching done on the Copper Coin 5 and 6 and Silver Coin 9 and 10 claims. Work was done under contract by Rayrich Mine Services Ltd.; three men were employed. Gold-Silver KEREMEOS Horn Silver Mine (49° 119° S.W.) Company office, 904, 510 West Hastings Utica Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Box 47, Keremeos. Isaac By n.d. McKechnie Shulman, president; S. Radvak, manager; Egil Lygvard, geologist. The property comprises two Crown-granted and 41 recorded mineral claims situated on the western slope of Richter Mountain 16 miles south and east of Keremeos and 4 miles north of the International Boundary. Access to the mine plant at 2,622 feet elevation is by a 2Vi-mile road which leaves the Keremeos- Richter Pass highway at the foot of Mount Richter. Development during 1966 has been principally on the 2570 sublevel, where two veins, termed the "A" vein and the " N " vein, are being investigated. The "A" vein is the one followed eastward on the 2600 level and lies on the footwall side of the shear zone. The "N" vein is well sheeted and strikes parallel to the "A" about 30 feet in the hangingwall. It is joined to the "A" by a cross-fracture striking somewhat north of east. A coarse pegmatite which has not been seen elsewhere in the mine is exposed in the sublevel. It is composed of pink potash feldspar, highly sericitized plagioclase, and biotite; it is cut by quartz-bearing fractures. It may be related to the " numerous small, pink feldspar dykes " mentioned in Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report, 1927, on page 49a. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965; pp. 162-163; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept., 1927, Pt. A, p. 47; Map 341a, Keremeos.] Gold-Silver-Copper Buller, Bobbs, Eclipse, Kitchener (49° 119° S.W.) Company office, 514, 615 lago Mines Ltd. West Pender Street, Vancouver 2. This prop- By David Smith er(y; formerly called the Mak Siccar, consists of four Crown-granted mineral claims, the Buller, Bobbs, Eclipse, and Kitchener, owned by lago Mines Ltd. The property is 10 miles south of Keremeos and is accessible from Richter Manor by 6 miles of road. In 1966 a 2Vi-mile access road was built from the west ridge of Mount Kobau to a point at which underground work is contemplated. A crew of four men was employed under the supervision of S. Flodstrom. copper OKANAGAN FALLS Lynx (49° 119° S.E.) Company office, 213, 678 Howe General Resources Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. The Lynx group of 29 recorded By David smith mineral claims, held by option, is in the vicinity of Allendale Lake, 11 miles northeast of Okanagan Falls. Access is by 14 miles of road from Okanagan Falls. In 1966 geological and geochemical surveys were made on eight claims. Surface exploration included 7,760 feet of trench dug by bulldozer and 800 feet of trench drilled and blasted in rock. A crew of seven men was employed under the supervision of R. B. Stokes and R. Beaton. LODE METALS 191 VERNON MINING DIVISION Silver-Lead-Zinc LIGHTNING PEAK Waterloo (49° 118° N.E., N.W.) Company office, 320, Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The com- By p. e. oison pgjjy nas optioned 52 mineral claims, the Don and Hope groups, in the Lightning Peak area, 18 miles due west of Needles. The property is reached by 30 miles of gravel road from Needles via the Monashee Pass. The area covers such old claims as the Waterloo, Dictator, and Pay Day, but current work was mainly directed toward locating extensions of the Waterloo vein. A geochemical survey of 17 claims was made under the direction of J. P. Weeks. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1933, pp. 149-152; 1954, p. 119; Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept., 1930, Pt. A, pp. 99-103; Assessment Report No. 817.] GREENWOOD MINING DIVISION Silver-Lead-Zinc BEAVERDELL Highland-Bell Mine (49° 119° S.E.) Company office, 300, 999 West Mastodon-Highland Bell Pender Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Beaverdell. Mines Limited B. Goetting, manager; P. Lessard, mine superinten- By David Smith tendent; R. Williams, mill superintendent. The former manager, O. S. Perry, resigned in September, 1966. The property consists of 32 Crown-granted and 14 recorded mineral claims on Wallace Mountain. In 1966 ore was mined from the 2850, 2900, and 3000 levels, and the production of the mill was maintained at 105 tons per day, of which a small tonnage is discarded as waste by hand-sorting on a washing and picking belt in the crusher-room. The lead and zinc concentrates were shipped to Trail. The main haulage is the 2900 adit. Development work underground was continued on all levels and consisted of drifting and crosscutting, 3,289 feet; raising, 762 feet; and diamond drilling, 24,790 feet. An average crew of 51 men was employed, of whom 28 worked underground. Silver-Lead-Zinc Wellington, Bounty, Tiger, Ruby Silver, Etc. (49° 119° S.E.) Company office, Silver-Lee Mines Limited 509, 602 West Hastings Street, By David Smith Vancouver 2. K. E. Wickstrom, president. Silver-Lee Mines Limited holds 27 claims, including the Crown-granted claims Bounty, Ruby Silver, Wellington, Tiger, and Kokomo Fraction. In former years extensive exploration and mining were done in this area. In 1966 some bulldozer trenching and stripping were done on the Tiger and Kokomo Fraction, and soil samples were taken on 35 miles of line covering all claims. A crew of three men was employed under the direction of K. E. Wickstrom. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1949, p. 143.] Silver-Lead-Zinc Ester, Ed (49° 119° S.E.) Company office, 148 Tenth Boundary Exploration Limited Street, Grand Forks. This property, formerly By David Smith the Inyo and Ackworth, and Dollar mine, con sists of 50 recorded mineral claims known as the Ester and Ed groups. In 1966 seven trenches totalling 280 feet were bulldozed, 300 feet of old adit was opened, and three diamond-drill holes totalling 327 feet were drilled. A crew of five men was employed under the supervision of J. W. Carson. 192 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Molybdenum MO (49° 119° S.E.) Company office, 601, 535 Thurlow Amax Exploration, Inc. Street, Vancouver 5. George Leary, project manager; By n. d. McKechnie jorin Arnason, geologist. The MO group of 27 re corded mineral claims, held by Amax Exploration, Inc., is on the west side of the Westkettle River between Tuzo and Big Goat Creeks. Access from Beaverdell is by a dirt road which parallels the Canadian Pacific Railway line southward for 5 miles then climbs from 2,500 to 4,760 feet elevation in an additional 4 miles to the Amax camp. Geological Survey of Canada Map 15-1961 shows the area to be almost wholly underlain by plutonic rocks mapped as Nelson, Valhalla, and Coryell. A small remnant of Anarchist greenstones, about 1 Vz miles long by 1 mile wide, is mapped on the eastward face of the hill about 1 mile south of Tuzo Creek. The following description summarizes information provided by Mr. Leary. The molybdenite mineralization is in plutonic rocks. The area of principal interest is included in the MO Nos. 6, 8, 17, 18, 19, and 20 mineral claims and underlies an area of some 2,300 feet in length and between 500 and 800 feet in width, with the longest dimension lying nearly east and west. The principal host rock is Valhalla quartz monzonite, which here is a medium-grained porphyritic rock with prominent quartz phenocrysts and a pink colour due to secondary potash feldspar. In drill cores the quartz monzonite is seen to grade into a fine-grained, feldspathic, pale buff-coloured quartz porphyry, locally termed the " white porphyry," which is possibly a marginal phase of the quartz monzonite. Granodiorite, a coarse-grained grey to greenish-white rock with prominent quartz, is known to be intruded by the " white porphyry " and therefore is presumably older than the quartz monzonite. All of these rocks are intruded by porphyry dykes, some of which are pre-mineral and some post-mineral. They strike in two principal directions, northward and northeastward, the northward-striking ones being chiefly post-mineral. Mineralization in the granodiorite consists of sparsely disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite; molybdenite is in fractures, with quartz, striking westward and west of north. In the quartz monzonite, molybdenite occurs in dry fractures with magnetite and, rarely, chalcopyrite. Some of the fractures contain quartz which is later than the metallic minerals. A magnetite-hematite mineralization in fractures has been recognized north and east of the molybdenite zone; it is thought that it may be peripheral. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1961, pp. 63, 114; 1962, pp. 67, 130 (Matt); 1965, p. 167; Assessment Report No. 654.] Nickel ROCK CREEK Old Nick (49° 119° S.E.) Company office, 1403, 1030 West Geor- Utica Mines Ltd. gia Street, Vancouver 5. Egil Lygvard, geologist. The corn- By n. d. McKechnie pany holds by record 122 mineral claims and one fractional mineral claim of the 190-claim Old Nick group. The Old Nick 1 to 4 mineral claims, upon which work has been done, are held in the name of Estey Agencies Ltd., of Vancouver. The working area is about one-half mile southeast of the Osoyoos-Greenwood highway and is reached by a dirt road which leaves the highway 1 Va miles west of the Rock Creek bridge. The general geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Maps 538a and 15-1961, Kettle River (West Half). LODE METALS 193 The rock is greywacke of the Permian and later Anarchist Group. It is locally silicified; in one exposure a bright-green micaceous mineral resembling mariposite occurs in highly silicified greywacke. The only intrusive rock recognized was one small exposure of serpentine which here forms the matrix of a breccia composed of fragments of silicified greywacke. Thin-section examinations of cores from three test-holes drilled in the working area, however, show the greywacke to be cut by numerous fine fractures containing actinolite, cummingtonite, hypersthene, and biotite. The biotite has formed in fractures and may show as fine reticulate brown streaks in amphibole-rich sections of the greywacke. The mineralization consists of quartz, pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Pyrite is by far the most evident. Pyrrhotite, and a lesser amount of chalcopyrite, is associated with the amphibole-bearing greywacke, where it generally lies in or near the streaks of biotite. It was seen only as scattered grains. Mr. Lygvard states that assays up to 0.2 per cent nickel were obtained from the drill cores. So far as the writer knows, this is the first time nickel has been reported from this region. Gold KETTLE RIVER Barnato (49° 118° N.W.) Company office, 825, 510 Amcana Gold Mines Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. The Barnato By p. e. oison js near me confluence of Dear Creek and the east fork of the Kettle River, about 25 miles north of Westbridge. Some mining was done on the property and 21 tons of ore was shipped to the Tacoma smelter. Copper-Molybdenum GREENWOOD Iva Lenore (49° 118° S.W.) Company office, 511, 602 Crown Silver Development Ltd. West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. The prop- By p. e. oison erty consists of 40 mineral claims 2 miles west of Greenwood. It is serviced by a dirt road which leads southward from the Greenwood-Deadwood road at about 1 mile northwest of Greenwood. Key claims on the property are the Iva Lenore and Salamanca Crown-granted mineral claims. This property is held jointly by Silver Dome Mines Limited and Crown Silver Development Ltd. Utah Construction & Mining Co. optioned the property in 1966. Exploration work consisted of five holes totalling 2,110 feet of diamond drilling, and some bulldozer stripping was done. Magnetic, induced polarization, and geochemical surveys were also made in an effort to locate further anomalies to those found in 1965. Copper Wendy (49° 118° S.W.) Company office, 808, 837 Meridian Exploration Syndicate West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. The By p. e. oison company holds options, from J. Foreshaw, of Greenwood, on 27 Wendy recorded mineral claims which lie 2 miles east of Greenwood. A geological map and self-potential and geochemical surveys of the claims were made by the company under the direction of R. Wolfe, company geologist. Diamond drilling amounted to 495 feet in three holes. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 835.] 194 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Copper-Gold-Silver PHOENIX Phoenix Mine (49° 118° S.W.) Company office, The Granby Mining Company Limited, 1111 West Georgia Street, Vancouver Phoenix Copper Division 5; mine office, Box 490, Grand Forks. By p. e. oison l -p. Postle, president; J. S. Kermeen, manager; J. Jewitt, mine superintendent; G. Hingley, mill superintendent. The property, centred around the old town of Phoenix, consists of 55 Crown-granted mineral claims as well as 137 claims held by record and under lease. All ore and waste mined in 1966 came from two pits, the Old Ironsides and the Stemwinder, as follows:— Location Tons of Ore Tons of Waste Old Ironsides pit 665,807 2,465,465 Stemwinder pit 12,115 458,895 Included in the waste figures are 388,420 tons of low-grade ore estimated to carry 0.30 to 0.50 per cent copper. This material is being stockpiled near the mill and will eventually be processed. The mill treated 700,743 tons of ore grading 0.80 per cent copper. Mill recovery is adversely affected by the presence of oxides of copper, and also by the extreme fineness of some of the copper sulphide grains. Much wood is run through the mill since mining is in areas which were previously stoped by underground methods, including square setting. Provisions are made at three points to remove wood from the mill circuits. The Stemwinder pit operation necessitated the relocation of the Greenwood- Phoenix road; it also supplied fill for a tailings and water-reclamation dam across the headwaters of Twin Creek. This dam, when completed, will satisfy all future requirements for tailings disposal from Phoenix milling operations. The Old Ironsides pit was deepened one bench and was expanded considerably to the south and east on all upper benches. The pit and waste-disposal areas now cover 290 acres of land over and around the old town of Phoenix. Pit workings embrace old abandoned underground mine workings. Much of the ore being mined is in the form of pillars, cave-ins, and marginal ore left behind when underground operations were stopped in 1919. Large quantities of ice encountered in old workings refreezes after blasting. Six-inch blast-holes are drilled with down-the-hole drilling equipment, AN/FO, which is mixed at the hole, and commercial slurries are used for primary blasting. Ore and waste material is loaded with power-shovels into 30- and 40-ton haulage units for transport to the mill or waste dumps. Equipment for handling concentrates was improved early in 1966, but only minor changes were made in the mill and crusher plants. The mill handles about 1,700 tons of ore per operating day. Exploratory diamond drilling was done in the vicinity of the pits, as well as at several properties optioned by the company in the Greenwood area. The company employed an average of 140 men, 20 of whom were on staff. Copper-Gold-Silver B.C. Mine (49° 118° S.W.) The B.C. mine is on The Granby Mining Company Limited, the north side of the Greenwood-Grand Phoenix Copper Division Forks highway, 4 miles northeast of By p. e. oison Phoenix. The company completed a programme of diamond drilling and mapping started in 1965 and then dropped its option. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 809.] LODE METALS 195 Copper-Gold-Silver Oro Denoro (49 ° 118 ° S.W.) Company office, 104, 569 Howe West-Coast Resources Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. John Luttin, president; W. E. By p. e. oison McArthur, Jr., project manager; W. J. Weymark, consulting engineer. The property is \Yz miles south of Eholt, a stop on the Kettle Valley line of the Canadian Pacific Railway about 7 miles by road east of Greenwood. A jeep-road to the property leaves the Greenwood-Grand Forks highway IVi miles north of its junction with the Phoenix cut-off. Work done in 1966 included surface diamond drilling, 15 holes totalling 5,170 feet; underground diamond drilling, 15 holes totalling 4,378 feet; some surface trenching; and a geomagnetometer survey of the Oro Denoro claim. Bulk sampling was done on the upper workings, and the lowest adit (3440 level) was cleaned out. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 171-172.] Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Stan King Resources Company By P. E. Olson (49° 118° S.W.) Company office, 1300 Elveden House, Calgary, Alta. Consulting geologist, M. C. Robinson. The property consists of 20 Stan mineral claims and fractions, situated 5 miles by bush road from Eholt. A geological and an induced polarization survey were made under the direction of the company consultant. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 768 and 889.] Copper MIDWAY Texas (49° 118° S.W.) Company office, 511, 602 Mustang Explorations Company West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. D. N. Limited Johnstone, president; G. M. Rutherford, con- By n. d. McKechnie suiting engineer. The company holds eight mineral claims by record and two mineral leases situated on the east side of Ingram Creek and 3Vi miles northwest of Midway. The southern boundary of the group is immediately northeast of the highway, and access is by jeep-road which leads through the northern boundary at about 3,100 feet elevation. The property includes the old Texas and Granada claims (Ann. Repts., 1894— 1898), and the place once was known as the Graham Camp. The general geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 6-1957, Kettle River (East Half). The northern and most of the eastern part of the claim group is underlain by sharpstone conglomerate similar to that exposed in the Greenwood area and mapped there as the oldest Triassic Formations (Geol. Surv., Canada, Paper 65-1, p. 56). The southern two claims of the recorded group, which surround the Granada, are underlain by recrystallized limestone striking south of west and dipping 45 degrees north. These rocks are intruded by a green to grey fine- to medium-grained diorite stock which in hand specimen appears to be composed mostly of grey feldspar and dark pyroxene with little or no quartz and which carries very sparse, finely disseminated chalcopyrite and bornite. It underlies most of the Texas claim and the area between the Texas and Granada claims. The only other intrusive rock recognized is a hornblende-diorite dyke striking east and dipping 85 degrees south, in the limestone near to and striking subparallel to the limestone-diorite contact. It was not seen in contact with the diorite stock. The principal mineral showings are at the old Texas adit, at about 2,500 feet elevation; at some pits on the Granada claim and between a quarter and a half mile 196 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 southward and at 2,600 feet elevation; and at an adit at 3,100 feet elevation westward from an abandoned farm known as the " Landers place." The Texas adit is about 60 feet long on a due east bearing. The rock is an epidote garnet skarn in which some relicts of diorite can be seen. The skarn is cut by scattered veinlets of quartz. At the face there is a well-developed unmineralized fault, 2 feet wide, striking north 20 degrees west and dipping 70 degrees south- westward. The rock in the footwall is unmineralized diorite breccia. The skarn shows some malachite staining but no sulphides. On the dump is some coarse chalcopyrite in skarn, indicating that pockets of sulphides do occur. No controlling structure was recognized. Three small pits, 25 feet apart, in limy skarn with magnetite in the Granada expose chalcopyrite-chalcocite mineralization in fine silicified fractures. The distribution of the sulphides is erratic; they tend to concentrate in discontinuous cherty sections, but no definite structure was recognized. The adit at 3,100 feet elevation was driven about 50 feet westward into dark- grey massive more or less epidotized diorite carrying scattered blebs of chalcopyrite. A 45-degree down hole drilled under the adit from near the portal entered sharpstone conglomerate at 300 feet. The most consistent, though sparse, mineralization is in the diorite stock. There is, however, no sign of widespread and persistent fracturing or brecciation in the stock nor of possible impounding structures in the contiguous limestone. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 341.] copper GRAND FORKS Lucky John, Exchange (49° 118° S.E.) Company office, 308, 535 West Fento Mines Ltd. Georgia Street, Vancouver 1. L. F. Pretty, president; By n. d. McKechnie r_ fj_ Renshaw, consulting engineer. The company holds 170 mineral claims and fractions in the vicinity of the old Simpson mine. The claims are situated along and north of Pass Creek, which flows eastward into the Granby River about 11 miles north of Grand Forks. The east boundary of the property at Pass Creek is less than one-quarter mile west of the Grand Forks- Franklin Camp road. The working area is on Lucky John Nos. 1 and 2 and Exchange Nos. 1 to 6 claims at elevations (barometer) between 2,060 and 2,240 feet. No one was at the property at the time of the writer's visit. The general geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 6-1957, Kettle River (East Half). The rocks are Permian(?) Anarchist sediments intruded by Lower Cretaceous (?) Nelson porphyritic granodiorite and granodiorite, which in turn are intruded by Paleocene(?) Coryell syenite, shonkinite, and pulaskite. The principal showing is on the edge of the main valley at elevation 2,060 feet. A dark-grey crystalline fine-grained rock, micaceous but not noticeably foliated, containing finely disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite is cut by, and included in, a fine-grained light-grey highly siliceous rock. Both are cut by fractures which are filled with iron oxides; rare fresh material in the fractures is quartz mineralized with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Most fractures are fractions of an inch in width. Both rocks and mineralized fractures are cut by andesite dykes. The mineralized zone trends about east, is exposed for about 75 feet along strike, and is 40 feet wide. The north side is bordered by a coarse quartz poryphry which contains very little dark mineral; it is not mineralized. The quartz porphyry is intruded by white pegmatite. The relationship between the quartz porphyry and pegmatite and the andesite dykes is not evident. LODE METALS 197 About 500 feet from this showing, on bearing north 65 degrees west and 100 feet higher in elevation, is an exposure of similar rocks and mineralization but with fewer mineralized fractures. Rocks to the northward are also quartz porphyry. A fresh dark-grey syenite porphyry cuts across the westward strike of the zone. During 1966 about 80 claims were geologically mapped by R. E. Renshaw, and magnetometer and induced polarization surveys were run on seven claims (Exchange 1, 2, 3, FNO 2, 16, 31, and Lucky John). Some stripping and trenching were done, and five holes totalling 1,050 feet were diamond drilled. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1939, p. 91.] Copper Pathfinder, Little Bertha (49° 118° S.E.) Company office, 311, 850 Alwin Mining Company Ltd. West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, By n. d. McKechnie Grand Forks. Foster Irwin, manager. The property comprises 55 claims and fractions located as the Bat, Cedar, B, Path, and Hornet claims and mineral leases M-139 and M-253 (Pathfinder, Lot 782; Little Bertha, Lot 959; Lone Star; and Iron Bell Fractions). The claims are on Pathfinder Mountain, between Hornet and Pathfinder Creeks, westward-flowing tributaries of the Granby River, about 17 miles north of Grand Forks. Access is by gravel road north from Grand Forks; a dirt road leads along the north siding of Hornet Creek to the old Pathfinder showing at elevation 3,160 feet (barometer). The Little Bertha and Pathfinder showings are mentioned in Annual Reports from 1896 to 1932. The regional geology is shown at 1 inch equals 4 miles on Geological Survey of Canada Map 6-1957. The rocks between Hornet and Pathfinder Creeks are shown on Map 6-1957 as Lower Cretaceous (?) Nelson intrusive rocks to the north and sediments of the Permian(?) Anarchist Group to the south. Paleocene(?) Coryell rocks are in intrusive contact with the Nelson rocks north of Pathfinder Creek. The sediments are a part of the large mass of Anarchist Group rocks which extend southward and westward to the International Boundary and to Deadwood. At about W2 miles east of the Granby River, both Anarchist and Nelson rocks are in fault contact with the Grand Forks Group of metamorphic rocks. The first recorded discovery of mineralization was on the Pathfinder in 1895. By 1905 this property had underground workings totalling 337 feet of " shaft work " and 800 feet of " tunnelling." Recorded production totalled 264 tons, from which was obtained 24 ounces of gold, 130 ounces of silver, and 5,136 pounds (0.97 per cent) copper. From the Little Bertha workings, about one-half mile west-northwest of the Pathfinder and 600 feet lower in elevation, 996 tons of ore was obtained, which yielded 426 ounces of gold, 3,867 ounces of silver, and 65 pounds of copper. In 1920 an adit was started, trending south of east, to cut the Little Bertha vein 200 feet below the workings; it was expected that the vein would be cut at about 130 feet from the portal. The project was unsuccessful, but the adit was extended, at different times, toward the downward projection of the Pathfinder showings, and by 1932 had reached a distance of about 1,000 feet from the portal. No appreciable mineralization in the adit is reported. None of the underground workings, either at the Little Bertha or at the Pathfinder, were accessible at the time of the writer's visit. The recent workings at the Little Bertha consist of a bulldozer trench some 1,000 feet long crossing the hillside in a northerly direction just above the portal of the long adit. At about 500 feet northward from the adit, Coryell pulaskite porphyry is in contact with interbedded Anarchist dark-grey quartzite and dark-grey limestone. The contact strikes north 50 degrees west and dips 25 degrees north- 198 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 ward. The sediments, exposed for about 40 feet along the trench, strike north 55 degrees west and dip 55 degrees northward. At about 100 feet southward from the adit and at intervals to about 500 feet, greenish Nelson quartz porphyry is exposed. The quartzites and, to a lesser degree, the limestones are sparsely mineralized with disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite; the quartz porphyry carries pyrite. No mineralization was seen in the pulaskite. The Little Bertha vein is stated (Ann. Rept., 1924, p. 164) to occur in "granodiorite intruded by porphyry dykes," and to consist of pyrite and galena in a quartz gangue. The copper included in the reported production suggests an appreciable occurrence of copper-bearing mineral, probably chalcopyrite. At the Pathfinder workings an old shaft was being rehabilitated. At about 300 feet east of the shaft is a stripped area, about 50 by 100 feet and trending southwest, of brecciated rock heavily mineralized with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. The associated rocks were a light-grey quartz porphyry and, more intimately mixed with the sulphides, a fine-grained rock composed chiefly of zoisite, epidote, uralite, and quartz. The mineralized rock is intruded by unaltered pulaskite. In the stripping it is seen to be cut off on the southeast and southwest by the pulaskite; to the northeast and northward some 100 to 200 feet distant are frequent exposures of unaltered pulaskite with no sign of mineralization. An adit portal on bearing north 15 degrees west from and 40 feet below the stripping also is in pulaskite. It seems clear that the occurrence is an inclusion in the pulaskite and that the pulaskite is younger than the pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite mineralization. The writer saw no direct evidence of the age relationship of the pulaskite to the Little Bertha mineralization, but its failure to show in the adit possibly is due to its having been cut off by the " porphyry dykes." The uniformly fresh and unmineralized character of the rock at both the Little Bertha and Pathfinder workings suggests that it is younger than either mineralization. The Pathfinder occurrence, however, and the Fento Mines occurrence across the Granby River valley suggest that the pulaskite may have intruded along a zone mineralized with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. The valley of the Granby River and its northward extension into Burrell Creek through Franklin Camp is a locus of faulting and may mark the line of an older zone of structural weakness. The main mass of Coryell intrusive rocks, which includes the pulaskite, lies to the northward. Exploration southward along the valley into the Anarchist rocks may be worth consideration. PAULSON Gold-Lead-Zinc Ajax (49° 118° S.E.) Company office, 928, 736 Gran- Christina Lake Mines Ltd. ville Street, Vancouver 2. The property consists of By n.d. McKechnie 20 mineral claims held by record and 5 mineral leases situated near the heads of Josh and Mollie Creeks, about 1 mile southwest of the Paulson bridge on the Christina Lake-Kinnaird highway. Access is by a jeep- road 2Vi miles long which leaves the highway about 1 mile south of the bridge. The working area is on the slope northward toward Molhe Creek at about 4,500 feet elevation. The property includes a claim group known earlier as the Motherlode, on which some underground development had been done (Ann. Repts., 1899, 1900, 1917, 1925,1931, 1932). This ground is on Josh Creek, about a mile north of the present surface workings. Regional geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 6-1957, Kettle River (East Half). The property lies in a northeasterly trending band of Pennsyl- LODE METALS 199 vanian or Permian Mount Roberts sediments which is here about 2 miles wide. To the northward the sediments are in contact with Nelson plutonic rocks and to the southward with Coryell. Recent stripping had been done in the area about 1,000 feet in diameter about one-half mile westward from the initial post of Als Gift No. 9 and No. 10 fractional mineral claims. The rocks here are limy siltstones interbedded with platy limestone. They are folded on northwest axes which plunge from 25 to 60 degrees northwestward. The axial planes dip steeply northeastward. The sediments are intruded by altered biotitic syenite dykes striking and dipping most commonly parallel to the axial planes of the folds. Pulaskite dykes striking northwestward also cut the sediments; their relationship to the syenite is not known. The sediments are mineralized with dark-brown sphalerite, with magnetite, galena, and chalcopyrite. The mineralization is closely associated with an altered rock composed of pyroxene, calcite, amphibole, and hematite which is intrusive into the sediments along bedding planes and in the crests of folds and crenulations. It shows, locally, crosscutting relationships with the bedding. Width ranges from one- sixteenth inch to several inches. In every place that mineralization was seen, the sulphides were in this altered rock rather than in the sediments. The mineralization is spotty and not well exposed. Near the best showing, a width of about 10 feet, a diamond-drill hole had been started. The results are not known to the writer. TRAIL CREEK MINING DIVISION Copper-Gold Velvet Hydra Explorations Limited ROSSLAND By P. E. Olson (49° 117° S.W.) Company office, 100 Adelaide Street West, Toronto 1, Ont. The company, in partnership with Rayrock Mines Limited, optioned the mine from Mid-West Mines Limited. The property is on the Rossland-Cnristina Lake highway immediately east of Big Sheep Creek. Underground diamond drilling totalling 2,718 feet in 21 holes was done following a geological study in 1965. The company employed five men for four months under the direction of T. Antoniuk. The option was dropped upon completion of the drilling. Gold Midnight (49° 117° S.W.) Company office, Suite 1322, 510 West Cinola Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Rossland Motel, By g. e. p. Eastwood Rossland. William Thompson, president; A. Pompu, mine manager; S. Tan, geologist. The company controls the Midnight Crown-granted claim and 13 recorded claims and fractions, astride the old Rossland-Cascade highway about 2 miles west of Rossland. The workings on the Midnight claim are reached by about a mile of road that descends into the valley of Little Sheep Creek from a point on the old highway about 500 feet west of the junction with the Paterson highway. The Midnight claim lies immediately east of the I.X.L. and O.K. claims, on which a considerable amount of work was done in the early years of the Rossland camp. Development of the Midnight began in 1924, and some work was done almost every year through 1952. In 1965 Cinola Mines Ltd. acquired an interest in the claim, and late in the year retained A. C. A. Howe & Associates Limited to conduct an exploration programme. 200 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Work in 1966 was confined to the Midnight claim. The consulting firm de- watered and rehabilitated the workings, straightened 110 feet of drift, drove 25 feet of new drift and 12 feet of new raise, and did 3,000 feet of underground diamond drilling, all on the main level, which is identified as the lower Midnight adit in earlier reports. A further 2,000 feet was diamond drilled from surface. In September a new adit was established about 150 feet below the main level and had been driven 200 feet by the end of the year. Six men were employed under the direction of A. Pompu. The country rock is dense to medium-grained andesite and augite porphyry which Little, Geological Survey of Canada Map 23-1963, assigned to the Rossland Group. A body of serpentinite lies a short distance to the south. Diamond-drill core discloses a small body of dark biotitic monzonite in the Rossland rocks. The andesite, augite, porphyry, and monzonite are traversed by two sets of quartz veins, and the veins in turn are transected by lamprophyre dykes and offset on cross-faults. The country rocks are extensively silicified adjacent to the veins^ The dominant veins on the Midnight claim strike north 20 to 30 degrees west and dip west at an average angle of 70 degrees. Two veins of the other set, which are actually extensions of veins on the adjoining I.X.L. claim, strike west-northwest and dip about 40 degrees north. The dominant veins tend to show an in echelon pattern. Any individual vein is not a continuous body of quartz, rather it is a fracture along which there is a succession of quartz disks or lenses. The disks are from 8 inches to 2 feet thick, and 50 to 150 feet long, and pinch and swell in both horizontal and vertical sections. Between disks the vein structure is normally traceable as a slip; that is, a tight fracture with slick walls. The horizontal interval between disks in a vein structure is of the order of 50 feet. Some of the in echelon veins overlap and continue side by side for as much as 100 feet; these are commonly connected at acute angles by branch veins of quartz that strike more northerly and dip less steeply. They are also connected in places by narrow quartz ladder veins. In part the quartz disks are fairly massive quartz, and in part they are strongly brecciated, the interstices between fragments being a green material which probably consists mainly of chlorite. Pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, galena, and free gold occur both in the massive quartz and in the breccia, the concentration of metallic minerals appearing somewhat higher in the breccia. Gold is the only metal occurring in economic amounts. Some of it is visible with the naked eye or under a 10-power lens. It occurs in the chlorite and galena as well as in the quartz. [References: Little, H. W., 1960, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 308, p. 171; Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1924-1952.] Geology of the Coxey-Giant Area By G. E. P. Eastwood The Coxey (Lot 1221) and Giant (Lot 997) are contiguous Crown-granted claims on the west slope of Red Mountain, Wz miles in a direct line northwest of Rossland. Molybdenite ore on the Coxey claim is being mined by Red Mountain Mines Limited. The claims are underlain by variably metamorphosed sedimentary rocks of the Mount Roberts Formation, by dioritic rocks of variable appearance and form, by intrusions of quartz diorite and quartz diorite breccia, and by many narrow dioritic and lamprophyric dykes. An ill-defined zone of mixed breccia underlies the north half of the Coxey claim and extends under claims adjoining on the east and west. The known molybdenite orebodies on the Coxey are in this zone. The rocks and mixed breccia have been broken by several north- and northwest-striking faults. To LODE METALS 201 facilitate description of the rocks as they are now, several disparate sedimentary, metamorphic, plutonic, and structural units are shown by pattern and number in the accompanying sketch (Fig. 28). Much of the zone of mixed breccia, together with some smaller areas to the north and south, was mapped in detail by plane-table, and a plane-table traverse was run to the Giant adits. The geology of the rest of the area is based largely on traverses along jeep-roads (most of which are omitted from the sketch) and little off-road traversing was done. Over most of the area the compass is virtually useless, owing to strong local attraction, and in the southwest part natural exposures are scarce. Mount Roberts Formation The Mount Roberts Formation presents widely varying aspects in the area owing to the effects of metamorphism and metasomatism. The unaltered rock js mostly fine-grained greywacke which consists essentially of plagioclase, hornblende, and quartz. Some beds contain very little quartz. The rock is uniformly fine grained in about half the thin-sections examined, and in the other half contains variable amounts of medium-sized clastic grains of quartz and plagioclase. The fine-grained quartz is fairly well rounded, whereas the medium-grained quartz is commonly angular or subangular. The hornblende is commonly confined to layers, some of which are thick enough to produce a banding visible in hand specimen. The hornblendic and non-hornblendic layers are of about equal thickness. The sediments contain a variable amount of black colouring matter, presumably finely divided carbon, and range from light grey to black in hand specimen. This colouring is particularly intense in a section of the sedimentary sequence that is exposed on the south part of the Coxey and the west part of the Giant, and persists through a considerable degree of metamorphism. In outcrop the rocks appear as dark-grey to black argillite and silty argillite. They are shown as unit 1 on the sketch. Near the Giant No. 2 portal these dark sediments are interbedded with light-grey ones, and in this adit they are underlain by light- to dark-green rocks that also appear to be largely sedimentary in origin. The colour of these green rocks is due to detrital hornblende and metamorphic pyroxene and is not masked by the presence of black colouring matter. They are not exposed on surface within the area mapped, and hence do not appear on the sketch. Bedding is generally prominent in the grey and black sediments. It is marked by a parting which separates beds of slightly different shades or textures and is parallel to the hornblendic banding. The beds strike between west-northwest and north-northwest and dip rather gently southwest. Dips as large as 45 degrees were measured near Jumbo Creek, but in most places they are less than 20 degrees and less than the slope of the hillside. As a consequence, the trace of bedding down the hillside is slightly north of west. In the southeast part of the Coxey claim the dark sediments of unit 1 are overlain abruptly by light- to dark-green rocks showing little or no bedding and resembling bleached and fresh andesite (unit 3). The contact appears to be a normal bedding surface. Minor patches of bedded grey siltite occur in the green rocks. In thin-section the green rocks are seen to be silt-sized sediments, similar to the grey rocks, in which abundant fine-grained pyroxene is developed. Similar rocks continue north of the zone of mixed breccia to the limit of mapping. The dark sediments of unit 1 grow lighter in colour to the east and southeast, and grade on strike to massive pale-buff rocks that are hard, brittle, bleached of their black colouring matter, and that seem to be highly siliceous (unit 2). One specimen in thin-section showed relics of the fine-grained sediments and also an 202 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Light to dark green siltite and quartzite, much altered to pyroxene; locally grey and fresh Dark grey to black argillite, siltite; minor quartzite 400 Feet Figure 28. Geological sketch-map of the Coxey and Giant claims, Red Mountain. LODE METALS 203 intensive replacement by pyroxene and orthoclase. Since this specimen is fairly well mineralized, it may not be typical of the massive buff rocks. Dioritic Rocks ( Unit 4) The dioritic rocks as a unit include a variety of rocks of more or less dioritic aspect, together with some small andesitic dykes and sills that intrude the dark sediments. Only one area of dioritic rocks is shown in the sketch. Smaller patches occur in unit 3 to the northeast of the road to the mill and in the southeast part of the Coxey claim. Small bodies of andesitic and dioritic rocks intrusive into units 1 and 2 are variously buff, light green, and light grey on fresh surfaces and weather light to medium brown. The buff ones can usually be distinguished in the field from the altered rocks of unit 2 by their slightly deeper colour and coarser grain. In the southeast part of the Coxey claim, around the trench and northward, patches of vaguely dioritic buff rock obscure the continuation of the contact between units 1 and 3. East of the main haul road to the mill there are patches of grey to reddish- brown dioritic rock that appear to have gradational contacts with both fresh and altered sediments. A series of thin-sections from margin to core of one of these patches disclosed progressive metasomatism of pyroxenized sediments by introduction of plagioclase, biotite, and opaque minerals. These introduced minerals are scattered through the rock, in contrast to lensy veinlets or dykelets of plagioclase, amphibole, and pyroxene that occur in siltite about 100 feet to the northwest. The central part of the area of dioritic rocks shown on Figure 28 is mainly fine grained and buff, locally light green, and is similar to the dioritic rocks intrusive into units 1 and 2. Northwest of Coxey No. 1 portal there is a relatively small patch of medium-grained dark greenish-grey rock that appears fresher than the other diorites and may be younger; it was not examined in thin-section. The rock in the southwest lobe of the dioritic area shown is strongly gneissic and weathered exposures are friable to a depth of a foot or more. In thin-section it consists of large crystals of hornblende, biotite, plagioclase, and pyroxene in a fine-grained semi-interlocking matrix of plagioclase, biotite, hornblende, and quartz. The gneissic texture is produced mainly by alignment of the large hornblende crystals. Although fine grained, the matrix is considerably coarser than the usual Mount Roberts sediment, and differs also in containing biotite. It is not clear whether this rock is a deformed quartz diorite intrusion or Mount Roberts sediment that has been drastically changed by recrystallization and metasomatism. In any case, it appears to be unrelated to the quartz diorite described below. Mixed Breccia ( Unit 5) Three types of breccia are present in and near the Coxey open pit: a fault breccia along the headwall fault, a quartz diorite breccia which is clearly intrusive, and a mixed breccia which may be intrusive. These last two differ greatly in several respects and do not appear to be related. " Mixed " was selected as a simple term to distinguish the third type from the others because it implies nothing as to origin and it is descriptive of the fragments of several different aspects. The mixed breccia comprises white, light-grey, light-green, buff, and, southwest of Coxey No. 2 portal, dark-grey to black blocks in a matrix of light- to dark-green andesite-like rock. Where the matrix and blocks are both light coloured, the blocks are identified with difficulty. A few blocks are of fist size, but most of them are more than 5 feet long, and blocks more than 30 feet long have been identified. They are generally irregular polygons with rounded corners. Few have sharp boundaries; 204 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 most grade into the matrix over 2 or 3 inches. The white and light-grey blocks probably constitute less than a quarter of the total, but they are the most conspicuous. Some contain narrow dark-grey bands and resemble the light-coloured sediments at the Giant No. 2 portal. This banding is diversely oriented in neighbouring blocks, demonstrating that they have been rotated. In thin-section the varicoloured blocks all appear to be siltites that have been variably altered to pyroxene and locally potash feldspar. Some are traversed by narrow dykelets of fine- to medium-grained quartz diorite or diorite. Some of these dykelets are unaltered and others are considerably pyroxenized. The matrix appears to consist of smaller blocks of siltite and larger injections of fine- to medium-grained diorite and quartz diorite, both of which are intensely pyroxenized. It would appear that the sediments were shattered, the interstices filled by the intrusive rock, and the whole more or less pyroxenized. The three processes may or may not have been contemporaneous. Toward the west the light-coloured blocks are no longer present, and scattered patches of dark argillite and silty argillite appear in a generally light-green matrix. These patches are probably blocks of the dark-coloured sediments of unit 1. Some of these blocks are clearly intruded by the light-green rocks, whereas others have contacts that are gradational through white siliceous rock. There probably has been some bleaching and alteration of the sediments, and it is unlikely that the light-green rock is entirely intrusive. The northeast limit of the dark blocks is shown on Figure 28, and it appears that this line is more or less a continuation of the contact between units 1 and 3. The boundaries of the zone of mixed breccia are poorly known, and those shown on the sketch are approximate at best. The breccia is most readily identified in large clean exposures and where it contains white blocks. It so happens that outcrops are small—smaller than many blocks—and scattered in the boundary zones, and the white blocks seem to be less common. If the boundary were drawn around only those exposures that are clearly breccia, it would be exceedingly irregular, sending long tongues into unit 3. There would also be some doubt as to whether the zone is continuous down the hillside. Continuity is, however, indicated by truncation of the contact between units 1 and 3, and its continuation as a phantom contact through the breccia. The north limit of continuous dark sediments is here taken as the south limit of the breccia zone. Only a minor amount of breccia was found in the Coxey No. 2 adit, near the face, despite the fact that breccia was mapped in several places on surface above it. Near the jog the adit passes through a considerable section of thinly banded greenish rocks which clearly are not breccia. Between the jog and the portal the non- dioritic rocks resemble massive andesite. It is conceivable that pyroxene alteration may have obliterated the distinction between fragments and matrix, or that the large blocks may not be recognizable in muddy walls and within the confines of an adit, but it must be reported that little evidence was found of the presence of mixed breccia in the adit. Diamond-drill holes are not helpful because the large blocks are virtually impossible to recognize in the core. It is not clear what the relationships are between the mixed breccia and the diorites (unit 4) and quartz diorites (unit 6). Some blocks in the breccia resemble the buff diorite, but those examined in thin-section proved to be altered sediment. The mass of diorites projecting into the mixed breccia from the north does not appear to be brecciated. It does not seem likely that the buff diorite was responsible for the brecciation, for breccia has not been found associated with it elsewhere, and the gneissic diorite and quartz diorite appear to be too much the products of LODE METALS 205 metasomatism to have caused widespread brecciation. The quartz diorite breccia appears to intrude the mixed breccia. However, the relationships are not clear. Quartz Diorite Breccia (Unit 6) The faulted segments of a large dyke of quartz diorite breccia are shown on Figure 28. Several much smaller bodies of quartz diorite and quartz diorite breccia are scattered along two zones, respectively near the north and south boundaries of the mixed breccia. These bodies range from irregular pockets as much as 20 feet across to wispy dykes a few inches wide. The dominant rock type is coarse-grained fight-pink quartz diorite. The dyke shown in the sketch has a narrow marginal zone in which blocks of the country rock are caught up in a quartz diorite matrix, but most of the body consists of fragments of the pink quartz diorite thickly strewn through a medium-grained medium-green matrix. The fragments range from blocks 2 feet long down to individual crystals. A thin-section from a small body of massive quartz diorite consists predominantly of coarse plagioclase, with less quartz, hornblende, and biotite, and a little orthoclase. In a thin-section of the breccia from the larger body the fragments are very similar to the massive quartz diorite, except for an absence of biotite and the presence of large euhedral crystals of sphene. The green matrix appears to be the same rock that has undergone comminution, loss of hornblende, extensive development of fine-grained pyroxene, and introduction of sphene. These several processes may or may not have been contemporaneous. Dykes The older rocks have been injected by many narrow dykes of varied aspect. Most of them are between 1 and 10 feet thick, but one dyke across the headwall of the open pit on the A orebody has an outcrop width of 65 feet. Most of the dykes strike north or north-northwest and dip steeply, transecting bedding at large angles. The following lithologic aspects were noted:— (1) Headwall type—medium-grained grey biotite gabbro containing scattered small vugs more or less filled with amphibole, quartz, and calcite. Disintegrates to green sand on weathering. (2) Mottled porphyry—fine-grained dark greenish-grey rock mottled with ovoids, 0.1 to 0.3 inch across, consisting of a dark-green core and white to reddish rim. (3) Diorite porphyry—dark-green aphanite crowded with light-green ovoidal phenocrysts of feldspar. (4) Biotite porphyry—black to dark reddish-brown aphanite containing biotite phenocrysts. (5) Hornblende porphyry—hornblende needles in a groundmass consisting largely of plagioclase. (6) Sooty lamprophyre—fine-grained friable jet-black rock. One small dyke observed. (7) Grey diorite—medium-grained medium-grey diorite. The grey diorite dykes appear fairly constant in type. Many others show different aspects either from side to side or from end to end; for example, one dyke in the lower part of the open pit grades southward from headwall type to biotite porphyry, and exposures on strike to the south are again of headwall type. Some dykes of biotite porphyry aspect transect dykes of mottled porphyry aspect, but a reverse 206 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 relationship was also observed. Possibly dykes showing the first five aspects are not greatly different in age or composition. Dykes of all lithologic types traverse the mixed breccia, and a dyke of headwall type transects the quartz diorite breccia. Some small quartz diorite bodies, however, appear to transect dykes of biotite porphyry and mottled porphyry aspect. Most of the dykes are strictly tabular, but some biotite porphyry forms intricate intrusions which defy description. Molybdenite and other sulphides are rare in the dykes, and most or all of them may be post-mineralization. Faults One fault only is shown on Figure 28. It strikes north-northwest and probably dips steeply. North of the split it is marked by a breccia zone as much as 20 feet wide, but this decreases to 3 to 5 feet along the westerly branch and to 10 inches on the main fault south of the split. The main fault separates the headwall dyke from the A orebody. The fault zone is exposed in the open pit, and extensions to the north and south are indicated by the topography. The only indication of the movement on the fault is the disruption of the dyke of quartz diorite breccia. This would indicate an apparent horizontal displacement on the main fault that is right hand and at least 100 feet. It would also suggest a vertical component of unknown sense and amount. The branch fault seems to have a horizontal component of opposite sense. In the Coxey No. 2 adit, 18 shear, gouge, and breccia zones from 1 inch to 6 feet wide were mapped. Most of them strike northwest, but those near the face strike north. Dips are both gentle and steep, both southwestward and northeastward. Movement on some is only a few inches, on two others is greater than the adit dimensions (that is, 4 and 6 feet), and on most is unknown. Movements comparable to that on the headwall fault are not impossible, but they do not appear necessary to explain the rock distribution as presently outlined, either on surface or underground. The Giant No. 2 adit passes through many north-striking shear zones and two or three gouge and breccia zones, all of which probably result from some fault movement. Dips are generally steep, to both east and west. On several the throw is of the order of 10 feet. In Giant No. 1 adit the ruptures are small and movement is probably slight. Mineralization Two types of mineral deposit, differing both structurally and chemically, are present in the Coxey-Giant area. One type consists of molybdenite, pyrrhotite, and minor chalcopyrite in mixed breccia and adjacent rocks, and is hereafter referred to as the breccia type. The other comprises molybdenite, arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, cobaltite, and bismuthinite along slips and minor shear zones in the bleached altered sediments of unit 2 and is called the minor fracture type. Pyrrhotite is disseminated throughout the Mount Roberts Formation and the dioritic rocks, and is especially common in the dark sediments. Sparsely disseminated chalcopyrite was noted in a number of places. The other sulphides appear to be very largely restricted to the mineral deposits. On surface, virtually all recognizable mixed breccia is more or less mineralized, and in three areas this mineralization is of ore grade. Diamond drilling on the Coxey has disclosed that the ore extends only about 50 feet below surface; the ore- bodies are tabular and dip with the hillside. The breccia ore is somewhat unusual among molybdenum deposits in that vein quartz is rare. The molybdenite and other sulphides occur disseminated and as pockets, preferentially in the matrix and to a lesser extent in the blocks. LODE METALS 207 One typical molybdenite-quartz vein was seen. It is about a foot thick, dips 55 to 70 degrees southwest, and follows a shear and gouge zone for 60 feet northwest from the jog in Coxey No. 2 adit. Minor fracture mineralization occurs in the trench in the southeast corner of the Coxey claim, in the two short adits in the northwest part of the Novelty claim, in the north part of the Giant claim, and in the Giant No. 1 adit. Some pockets of sulphides occur in the Giant working, but mostly the sulphides are disseminated in the bleached rock, in which some quartz, garnet, and epidote are present. The associated structures appear to be weak and local. The band of mineralization in the Coxey trench is about 50 feet long and 5 to 10 feet wide. It appears to lie along a locus of crossed sheeting and shearing, being related to it as a vertical stroke through the middle of an X. Very little of the sheeting and shearing can be detected more than 15 feet from the mineralization. At the portal of the southerly of the two Novelty adits, arsenopyrite and molybdenite are disseminated through 10 feet of bleached rock along the contact of a diorite dyke. Erythrite-bearing material obtained from winzes in the northerly adit may have come from a continuation of this zone. Another zone is suggested by scattered arsenopyrite and molybdenite in core from two diamond-drill holes on the Giant claim 130 feet to the west- southwest. The westerly branch of the Giant No. 1 adit is walled by slips and passes north into an inaccessible stope. The south elbow of this branch exposes some weak intervening slips, a square foot of fairly concentrated molybdenite, some erythrite, and a few additional spots of molybdenite. Arsenopyrite is disseminated here and there along the walls. Another slip is followed by the middle section of the adit, between the outer section and the junction of the branches. Molybdenite is finely disseminated in places along it. [References: Drysdale, C. W., 1915, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 77; Little, H. W., 1960, Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 308; Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 174-176.] Molybdenum Coxey (49° 117° S.W.) Office, 1500, 355 Burrard Red Mountain Mines Limited Street, Vancouver 1. Brian Fillingham, resident By g. e. p. Eastwood and p. e. oison manager. The company holds the Coxey, Ophir, Jumbo, Nevada, Mountain View, High Ore, Peak, Sam Hayes, Good Friday, and Ontario Crown-granted claims, two mineral leases, and eight recorded claims and fractions, mostly on the west and south slopes of Red Mountain just northwest of Rossland. Red Mountain Mines Limited is a company jointly owned by Torwest Resources (1962) Ltd., Metal Mines Limited, and Canadian Nickel Co. Ltd., and was formed to exploit a molybdenum orebody discovered by the Torwest company on the Coxey claim. Plant construction, which was started in the autumn of 1965, was completed by April, 1966, and production started on April 24, 1966. Overburden stripping from the Coxey A orebody was completed early in the year, and ore-breaking was well under way before the 400-ton mill was completed. This orebody is tabular and lies parallel to the slope of Red Mountain and requires negligible waste removal during open-pit mining. Open-pit blast-holes are drilled with an air-track to an average depth of 30 feet, and blasting is done mainly with conventional explosives and primacord. A contractor loads the broken ore with a front-end loader and trucks the ore to the crushing plant about half a mile from the pit. The mill treated 74,094 tons of ore which graded 0.43 per cent molybdenite. Since starting actual production, the company has employed 30 men. 208 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The A orebody is one of three that have been more or less outlined by diamond drilling. The others are known as the Upper A and the B. All three lie essentially in the zone of mixed breccia (see p. 203), though some adjacent quartz-diorite breccia and diorite are also mineralized. The orebodies are local concentrations having assay boundaries. There are indications from diamond-drill core of a fourth ore- body, called the Upper B, in or under the mass of dioritic rocks shown on Figure 28. Production results disclose that the earlier estimates of grade derived from the diamond drilling are uniformly low. Thus it became necessary to recalculate ore reserves, and a re-evaluation of them was in progress in the latter part of the year. The positions of the orebodies are indicated in general terms. The Upper A is bounded on the west by the headwall lamprophyre dyke and the headwall fault. To the south it may extend to the quartz-diorite breccia. Some exposures of molybdenite mineralization straddle the claim boundary between the Coxey and the Golden Queen. To the north, exposures are scattered and rubbly, and the extent of the orebody is unknown. The A orebody is bounded on the east by the headwall fault and dyke. On the southeast it includes a small part of the quartz- diorite breccia. To the north and west it extends approximately to the portal of the No. 1 adit. The B orebody lies north and west of No. 2 portal, in part beneath the lobe of dioritic rocks. Molybdenum-Gold-Bismuth Giant, Gold King, Little Darling, Evening, Etc. (49° 117° S.W.) Company Cascade Molybdenum Mines Ltd. office, 539 Eighth Avenue By p. e. oison Southwest, Calgary, Alta.; field office, Rossland Motel, Rossland. The company holds 10 Crown-granted mineral claims immediately south of Red Mountain Mines Limited holdings on Red Mountain. The company owns all of the claims except the Giant, which is held under lease from Cominco Ltd. Approximately 30,000 feet of AX wireline drilling in 117 holes was done, mainly on the Giant claim. Other work included mapping, stripping, and engineering studies. A new office of igloo design was erected at the junction of the Cascade highway and the Rossland—Paterson highway. Molybdenum Triumph (49° 117° S.W.) Exploration office, Rossland Motel, Ross- Cicada Mines Ltd. land. This company controls the Triumph group of 50 By p. e. oison mineral claims 2 miles south of Rossland. Exploration work consisting of geological mapping, soil-sampling, and geophysical surveys was directed by A. C. A. Howe & Associates Limited, of Vancouver. Chromite Vandot (49° 117° S.W.) The property consists of five recorded mineral By p. E.oison claims, owned by V. M. Van, of Rossland. It is on the Cascade highway at the first summit, 6 miles west of Rossland. Chromite has been found on the claims where previous operators did trenching and stripping. V. M. Van deepened some of the old cuts and sampled most of the showings. Silver-Lead Molly Gibson Homestake Silver Ltd. By N. D. McKechnie NELSON MINING DIVISION NELSON (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 1403, 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver 5; mine office, Box 560, Nelson. C. G. Newton, engineer in charge. The com- LODE METALS 209 pany holds by option from Cominco Ltd., Trail, five mineral claims and five fractional mineral claims, all Crown granted, situated at the head of Kokanee Creek, 12 miles by road from the Nelson-Balfour highway. The present working-level is at an elevation of 3,880 feet. The Molly Gibson mine has a recorded production, 1899 to 1950, of 61,575 tons, which yielded 12 ounces of gold, 998,626 ounces of silver, 4,991,560 pounds of lead, and 20,376 pounds of zinc. Most of the ore was mined by 1910. The general geology is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 1090a accompanying Memoir 308, Nelson Area, West Half. The Molly Gibson deposit is in Nelson porphyritic granite (Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 173, p. 62). The porphyritic granite is cut by dark-grey fine-grained diorite porphyry with phenocrysts of quartz and feldspar. The Molly Gibson vein system consists of two veins, the Florence and the Aspen, about 50 feet apart, striking north 35 degrees west and dipping 75 degrees southwestward. The veins were developed on five levels, and the distribution of stopes as shown on longitudinal section suggests that the oreshoots plunge to the southeast at nearly 45 degrees. All of the ore mined came from the third, fourth, and fifth levels, a vertical distance of about 500 feet. The fifth level is at 6,900 feet elevation. The adit at 5,880 feet elevation is a crosscut, driven by Cominco Ltd. and finished in 1932, on bearing north 39 degrees east to a distance of 2,000 feet from the portal. A diorite dyke was intersected at about 1,000 feet and a mineralized shear, assaying 5 ounces of silver per ton, at about 1,300 feet. The Florence vein was expected at about 1,750 feet, but it has not been recognized. The present operators propose to drive northwestward from the adit toward the downward projection of the productive sections of the Florence vein, the stronger of the two in the upper workings. An unsuccessful attempt was made to diamond drill from the 5880 level to the projected positions of the Molly Gibson vein. , A contract was let to extend the 5880 level to the vein, and this was a success. Where the vein was encountered, it is strong and carries values across 15 inches as follows: Silver, 14.85 ounces per ton; lead-zinc combined, 7.60 per cent. Mineralization occurs as bands, mainly of sphalerite, in chalcedony. The vein was followed by a drift, and was found to pinch out about 200 feet to the north. High costs, resulting from running a winter operation, necessitated closure of the mine in the late part of the winter. Avalanche conditions also were avoided by the temporary shutdown. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1896 to 1950 (1922, p. 206); Report of the Zinc Commission, Mines Branch, 1906, pp. 262-266; Geol. Surv., Canada, Ec. Geol. Series No. 8, Zinc and Lead Deposits of Canada, pp. 352-353.] _ Gold-Silver-Copper Silver King (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 844 New Cronin Babine Mines Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. The By p. e. oison company holds a controlling interest in a large block of mineral claims embracing the old Silver King mine on Toad Mountain, 9 miles southwest of Nelson. The Silver King mine has been idle, except for minor leasing, since 1913. , . 210 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The Dandy level was reopened to the shaft, about 2,000 feet from the portal. This level intersects the shaft about 40 feet above No. 8 level. Other levels, raises, and stopes were also made accessible and some sampling was done. Surface diamond drilling amounting to about 3,000 feet completed the exploration programme started in 1965, leaving only engineering and feasibility studies to be made by the consulting engineers, Hill, Manning & Associates Ltd. Between four and eight men were employed most of the year under the direction of Robert Jennings. Copper Queen Victoria (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 1028, 736 Trans-Pacific Engineering & Granville Street, Vancouver 1. A. R. Bullis, Management Ltd. project manager. The company investigated the By p. e. oison area surrounding the Queen Victoria mine, from which the last major shipments were made 50 years ago. The area immediately surrounding the mine was extensively drilled in 1955 without success. The company ran induced polarization and geochemical surveys over the area and discovered a mineralized skarn zone about half a mile west of the old mine. The bedrock was stripped and sampled, and found to be considerably weathered and to show small amounts of copper stain. Gold HALL CREEK Fern Mine (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 1316, 510 West Has- Weland Mining Ltd. tings Street, Vancouver 2. The company holds 49 mineral By n. d. McKechnie claims by record and 6 mineral leases at the site of the old Fern mine on Hall Creek, 9 miles by road south of Nelson. The workings are reached by 3 miles of jeep-road from the Nelson-Ymir highway and are on the south side of Hall Creek at an elevation of about 5,000 feet. An exploration programme initiated in 1965 was continued under the direction of John Gilroy, who is also a director of the company. Diamond drilling amounted to 1,020 feet from the surface and 2,600 feet from underground drill-sites. A road was built to the portal of No. 6 adit, and No. 6 level was cleaned out in preparation for a 1,200-foot drifting programme. Six men were employed until December, when the operation was shut down. The geology of the Fern mine is discussed in detail in Memoirs 94 and 191 and need be only briefly summarized here. The Fern vein is a quartz vein containing some pyrite and, rarely, chalcopyrite in augite andesite of post-Sinemurian Rossland Formation (Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 308, pp. 62-67). The vein in part cuts an altered dyke of Nelson (Silver King) porphyry, and it is only within this dyke that oreshoots are known to be present. Vein and dyke strike about north 65 degrees east; the vein dips about 60 degrees northwestward and the dyke a few degrees flatter. The Fern vein is cut off by a fault, containing a lamprophyre dyke, striking northwest and dipping 75 degrees northeast. In 1945 and 1946, what was believed to be the Fern vein was found southwest of the fault and explored there by an adit. Assays were disappointing, and no futher work was done on the property until that begun by the present company in 1965. Between 1896 and 1942 there was a recorded production of 12,430 tons, from which was obtained 6,316 ounces of gold and 531 ounces of silver, all mined from four levels to a depth of 425 feet below the apex of the vein. Of this, all but about 200 tons had been mined by 1909. The description of the vein, at three levels, in the Bureau of Mines Bulletin No. 3, 1897, indicates that the tonnage mined contained an appreciable proportion of oxidized material. LODE METALS 211 At an elevation of 90 feet above the third level portal and some 500 feet southwest of the Fern vein, an adit exposes a fracture striking north 50 degrees east and dipping 75 degrees northwestward. The footwall is porphyry, and the hangingwall is augite andesite. The fracture is marked by a calcite-healed breccia containing fragments of chloritized andesite and silicified porphyry. A quartz vein up to 6 inches wide and some 30 feet in length lies in the fracture and cuts the breccia. The quartz is very sparsely mineralized with disseminated arsenopyrite. In this it differs from the Fern vein and more nearly resembles the mineralization at the old Canadian Belle property (Ann. Rept., 1937, p. E 34), where quartz veins carrying arsenopyrite, with subsidiary pyrite, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite, are found in sediments of the post-Rossland Hall Formation. The Canadian Belle is on Keno Creek, a mile southeast of the Fern. A bulldozer trench extends eastward from near the portal of No. 3 level; two small areas of mineralization are exposed. The first area is about 250 feet eastward from the portal and about 40 feet lower in elevation. Three quartz veins are exposed there. One composed of lenticular quartz bodies up to 5 inches wide occupies a thin shear in augite andesite striking north 80 degrees west and dipping 60 degrees northward; no sulphides were seen in the quartz. In the footwall of the north 80 degrees west vein are two short quartz veins that pinch out in lengths of 5 to 6 feet; they strike north 10 degrees west, dip 85 degrees southwestward, and contain vugs with quartz crystals and some rust, but no fresh sulphides. The second area, also in augite andesite and some 500 to 600 feet east of the portal, is in the vicinity of the Oldman vein (Mem. 191, p. 50). Two shears, each about 2 inches wide, strike north 15 degrees east and dip 75 degrees westward; these are connected by a similar shear striking north 35 degrees east and dipping 80 degrees southeastward. Quartz up to 4 inches wide occupies the north 35 degrees east shear near the intersections, and the quartz terminates in possibly a tension fracture striking north 57 degrees east and dipping 75 degrees southeastward. The quartz carries sparse pyrite. At about 15 feet westward from the converging shears, there is a 4- to 6-inch quartz vein having remarkably straight walls; it strikes north 23 degrees east, dips 80 degrees northwestward, and carries sparse very fine-grained pyrite. At about 15 feet eastward from the converging shears, there are two quartz stringers 1 to 2 inches wide; one with a comb structure along the centre line strikes north 50 degrees east and dips 80 degrees southeastward; the other contains a little pyrite, strikes north 20 degrees east and dips 85 degrees northwestward. At the eastward end of this trench a post-mineral fault is exposed striking north 15 degrees east and dipping 70 degrees northwestward. [References: B.C. Bureau of Mines, Bull. No. 3, 1897, p. 86; Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Repts., 1915, p. 148; 1933, p. 224; 1935, p. E 27; 1937, p. E45; 1945, p. 99; 1946, p. 140; Geol. Surv., Canada, Mem. 191, p. 48; Mem. 94, p. 137; Paper 52-13, p. 29; Ann. Rept., 1894, Vol. 7, p. 35a.] Gold T.P.M., J (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 5989 Sprott Street, Nelway Mines Ltd. Burnaby 2; mine office, Nelson. The T.P.M. and J re- ByP.E. oison corded mineral claims include the old Golden Age mine, which is on the Nelson-Salmo highway 1 mile north of Hall Creek. The company did some stripping and sampling around the old workings, opened the portal on the highway for retimbering and sampling, and erected a mine building below the highway near the main dump. Work was directed by Jim McMahon, of Greenwood, who employed three to five men for four months. 212 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Molybdenum YMIR Fresnu (49° 117° S.E.) The Fresnu group of 36 recorded Copper Horn Mining Ltd. mineral claims was located by R. Joy and associates, By p. e. oison 0f Nakusp. The claims are on Quartz Creek, Wz miles west of Ymir, and are owned by Copper Horn Mining Ltd., 125 Nanaimo Avenue, Penticton. Molybdenum mineralization was found in acid intrusives outcropping west of Ymir. Soil-sampling and some X-ray diamond drillingwere done late in 1966. Zinc Jack Pot, Oxide, Last Chance (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 905, 525 Sey- New Jersey Zinc Exploration mour Street, Vancouver 2. R. C. Macdonald, Company (Canada) Ltd. manager. This company controls a group of 50 By p. e. oison mineral claims extending northward from the sum mit between Hidden and Porcupine Creeks to the summit between Oscar and Ymir Creeks. The main showings are reached by jeep-road which leaves the Porcupine Creek road 3 miles from the Salmo River. Sphalerite and pyrite mineralization occurs in dolomitized Reeves Limestone. This mineralization has been explored by adits and diamond drilling since 1949. During 1966 two drill-holes, amounting to 885 feet of hole, were drilled on the Spot No. 3 fractional mineral claim. Gold Yankee Girl (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 418, 510 West Burlington Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 1. Company manager, By p. e. oison Ralph Sostad. Portals were examined and the under ground workings were checked for fallen rock and broken timber. SALMO Goid-siiica Erie Creek New Arlington (49° 117° S.E.) The New Arlington mine is on Rest Creek, a By p. e. oison tributary of Erie Creek, about 7 miles by road from Salmo. The property is leased by G. D. Fox, of Trail. A tunnel on the Directorate Crown- granted mineral claim, which was started in 1964, was extended 75 feet. The No. 60 level was retimbered and the old workings made accessible. Levels and workings of this mine have not been systematically identified, largely because the workings are in a flat-lying vein similar in shape to an inverted saucer. Shipments of old dump material to the Trail smelter amounted to 7,017 tons. This material contains gold, silver, lead, and zinc, as well as a high silica content. Loading and hauling are done under contract. Silver-Lead Silver Dollar (49° 117° S.E.) The Silver Dollar group of claims is immediately By p. e. oison west 0f Salmo, on the north side of Erie Creek. D. Norcross, of Nelson, has leased the property from L. R. Clubine, of Salmo. Work started in 1965 was continued by Mr. Norcross, who shipped about 286 tons of ore to the Trail smelter. Mr. Norcross works alone, uses a small compressor, hand-tools, and a wheelbarrow. There was a noticeable improvement in size and grade of oreshoots encountered. LODE METALS 213 Gold-Silver Dick, Ralph (49° 117° S.E.) The Dick and Ralph groups of recorded mineral By p. e. oison ciaims are on the west side of Erie Creek, 12 miles by road from the Salmo-Trail highway. These claims cover an area which was previously Crown granted. Current exploration is about 2,000 feet southwest of the Second Relief mill-site, on ground previously known as the Union. R. Emel and H. Zikowski quarried about 50 tons of vein material but were unable to ship their ore to Trail owing to difficulties over ownership of the ground. Gold-Silver Sheep Creek Gold Belt (49° 117° S.E.) The Gold Belt mine is a former producer on Sheep By p. e. oison Creek, lying north of the Queen and south of the Reno mines. A. Endersby and son, of Fruitvale, continued to work a stope about 600 feet from the main portal. They mined 39 tons of ore, which was shipped to the Trail smelter. Lead-Zinc ASPEN CREEK H.B. (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, Trail; mine office, Salmo. Cominco Ltd. R. R. McMichael, property superintendent; J. B. Burleson, mine By p. e. oison superintendent; C. Sedeco, mill superintendent. The H.B. mine is on the west side of Aspen Creek, on the north side of Sheep Creek, 7 miles by road from Salmo. The ore occurs as a galena-sphalerite-pyrite replacement of dolomite zones within the Reeves limestone, a formation that contains similar orebodies at the Jersey and Reeves mines to the south. The H.B. orebodies are of three types. Most production has come from No. 1 zone, which is steeply dipping, has a lenticular cross-section, and a long axis which plunges gently to the south. This zone is mined by long-holes which are drilled from fringe drifts in vertical fans. There are several flat-lying tabular ore zones radiating from No. 1 zone, which are mined by conventional jackleg slashing. The Garnet zone outcrops above the 3300 level and is mined by open-pit and underground long-hole methods. All ore from the Garnet zone is transferred by raises to the 2800 level for eventual haulage by diesel-powered trains to the crushing plant and mill. Production from the various phases of the operation is tabulated hereunder:— Tons No. 1 zone 127,329 Flat zones 132,665 Garnet zone (underground) 48,471 Garnet zone (open pit) 79,665 Total 388,130 Due to interlocking of mine openings adjacent to No. 1 zone, ventilation becomes sluggish and often results in flows of exhaust air to working-places. Although some difficulties were encountered, the over-all ventilation has been improved through the use of bulkhead, booster fans, and tighter regulations in the use of ventilation doors. There was no exploratory drifting or raising done during the year. Stope development amounted to 2,974 feet of sublevel drifting and 2,488 feet of raising. Surface diamond drilling totalled 4,507 feet, and underground drilling amounted to 11,161 feet, including 3,457 feet of BX wireline deep-hole drilling. Long-hole percussion drilling comprised 28,703 feet done from surface and 57,725 feet done from underground. 10 214 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Ammonium nitrate and fuel-oil explosives (AN/FO), which are manufactured at Kimberley by Cominco, are the chief explosives used at the mine. Prilled AN/FO is loaded into long-holes by pneumatic chargers and is detonated with primacord and electric detonators. Secondary blasting is done with pulverized AN/FO in plastic bags. Caving in No. 1 zone has increased the amount of secondary blasting at drawholes. Electric slusher hoists are used to draw broken ore to ore passes which terminate at ore-chutes on the 2800 level. The mill treated 388,902 tons of ore, the concentrates being shipped to the Trail smelter. Although ore reserves at the mine had not been exhausted, the H.B. mine was closed on November 1st. The plant was prepared for a protracted shutdown before all the personnel left the mine. Up to November, the operation employed 130 people, 28 of whom were on staff payroll. Lead-Zinc IRON MOUNTAIN Jersey (49° 117° S.E.) Head office, 700 Burrard Canadian Exploration Limited Building, Vancouver 1; mine office, Salmo. By p. e. oison q jj Brown, mine manager; J. W. Robinson, mine superintendent; D. A. Knight, mill superintendent. This company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Placer Development Limited. The property comprises 56 Crown-granted mineral claims between Sheep Creek and Lost Creek. Access is by two roads which leave the Salmo-Nelway highway 4 and 6VS miles respectively south of Salmo, the north (Emerald) road being the main access road. The concentrator is located in the Salmo River valley, on the highway at the junction with the south access road. Ore is transferred to the mill from the crushing plant at the mine by a system of conveyors and raises. There are seven conveyor units totalling 6,970 feet, and the vertical drop from crusher to mill is about 1,700 feet. The mine, offices, plant buildings, 60 company residences, and a two-room school are located at the 4,000-foot elevation on the southward-facing slope of Iron Mountain. The lead-zinc ore of the Jersey mine occurs at the base of the Reeves limestone member, and is generally concentrated in the western limbs of two fold structures which are overturned to the west. The most westerly of these structures is the "A" zone, whose axis strikes about due north. The ore bands vary in thickness from a few inches to several feet, and the zone has an over-all thickness up to 80 feet. The eastern structure, the Dodger trough, strikes about north 15 degrees east and is more complex. The ore occurs in a variety of bands, lenses, and mantos which dip from flat to 30 degrees easterly. The structures have a gentle dip to the south. Mining is by open-stope methods. Drilling is done by jacklegs, except for one three-boom jumbo which is used in large headings and on occasional benches. Most blasting is done with AN/FO. Muck is scraped to ore passes and chutes, or loaded with front-end loaders into Dumptors and hauled to pockets over the crushing plant. Ore-pass muck is hauled with DW-10's and semi-trailers to the crusher pockets. New equipment obtained in 1966 includes a Caterpillar 966-B loader, a Wagner Scooptram, a 40-foot Trump Giraffe, and an 85-foot Trump Giraffe. Ventilation was augmented by an additional 60-horsepower 48-inch fan. All production came from the Jersey zone. The mill treated 417,440 tons of ore, with a three-week shutdown in July for annual holidays. Monthly tonnage was approaching 40,000 tons per month at year-end. Lead concentrates were LODE METALS 215 shipped to the Bunker Hill smelter at Kellogg, Idaho, and zinc concentrates were shipped to the Anaconda smelter at Black Eagle, Montana. Development work consisted of 8,756 feet of drifting and crosscutting, 599 feet of raising, 10,348 feet of underground diamond drilling, and 2,691 feet of surface diamond drilling. Probable reserves carried at December 31, 1966, totalled 606,455 tons, slightly down from the previous year. One mine-rescue team competed in the West Kootenay Mine Rescue Competition. Ten members of crew and staff successfully wrote shiftboss examinations. There were 225 men employed by the company, 94 of whom worked underground. Lead-Zinc NELWAY Reeves MacDonald Mine (49° 117° S.E.) Company office, 410, 837 Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; mine By p. e. oison office, Remac. L. M. Kinney, general man ager; F. R. Thompson, mine manager; M. B. Wiwchar, chief engineer; J. M. McDearmid, mill superintendent. The Reeves MacDonald mine is on the north side of the Pend d'Oreille River, on the Nelway-Waneta road 4 miles west of Nelway. Lead-zinc-pyrite mineralization occurs in dolomitized zones of the steeply dipping Reeves limestone. Ore has been mined through a vertical range of more than 2,000 feet, and a lower limit has not been reached thus far. Ore zones have been developed by the 1900 level main haulage and two internal shafts, the larger of which (No. 3 shaft) is the main production shaft. Ore- bodies are all steeply dipping, range up to 100 feet in width, are often several hundred feet long, and are fairly continuous down dip. Most of the ore comes from long-hole stopes, from which it is drawn through drawholes to ore passes which lead to an ore pocket above No. 3 shaft. Ore is hoisted to another pocket above the 1900 level main haulage. Trolley-powered trains haul the ore to the crushing plant. Mining is done from the O'Donnell zone above the 2350 level to the 480 level, with most ore coming from the vicinity of the 1100 level. Five raises were mined by long-hole methods, using a reamed 6-inch hole for a central cut. All other raising and drifting was done by conventional methods. Development and exploration footages are as follows: Drifts and crosscuts, 4,829 feet; raises, 3,726 feet; surface diamond drilling, 3,495 feet; underground diamond drilling, 8,627 feet; production long-hole drilling, 62,222 feet; and test-hole percussion drilling, 3,043 feet. Ore production is as follows:— Tons O'Donnell zone 43,588 Upper Reeves zone 14,270 Lower Reeves zone 336,921 O'Donnell exploration 1,142 The company started a vigorous exploration programme on the Annex property, on the south side of the Pend d'Oreille River from Remac. To facilitate this work, a suspension bridge was built across the river to handle small equipment and personnel, and a twin-engined barge was used on the river to handle any heavy gear required. The Annex is owned outright by the company. At the end of 1966 a drift had been started about 60 feet above the river and about 200 feet south of the south shore. The mill treated 395,921 tons of ore, with the grade slightly improved over the previous year. Heated water is used in the mill during the autumn and winter and results in an improved recovery and concentrate grade. 216 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 LODE METALS The company employs 141 men, 23 of whom are on salary, and cook-house are operated by the company. 217 A bunk-house Lead-Zinc PROCTER Big Pay Off (49° 116° N.W.) Company office, 522, 837 West Citation Silver Mines Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; exploration office, By p. E.oison Nelson. The company holds 64 recorded mineral claims on Kootenay Lake about 1 mile east of Procter. During the period from 1933 to 1938 Cominco Ltd. did a considerable amount of underground work on a marble bed which was a source of limerock. These workings are centrally located in the Big Pay Off group of claims. A magnetometer survey was done on the property, followed by road-building designed to give access to diamond-drill sites. Work on the property was directed by M. K. Lorimer of Hill, Manning & Associates Ltd., of Vancouver, who are consultants for the company. Molybdenum CRAWFORD BAY Ben Derby (49° 116° N.W.) Company office, 502 Lan- United New Fortune Mines Ltd. caster Building, Calgary, Alta. The company By p. e. oison owns a large block of recorded mineral claims straddling the lower part of Gray Creek, which drains into Crawford Bay of Kootenay Lake. Soil-sampling and diamond drilling were done on the property following the discovery of molybdenite in the vicinity of the Gray Creek canyon, about 1 mile from Kootenay Lake. Molybdenum UNF (49° 116° N.W.) Company office, 709 Lan- Kamalta Exploration Limited caster Building, Calgary, Alta. R. W. Sargent, By p. E.oison consulting engineer. The company owns 21 recorded mineral claims immediately east of Gray Creek. An electromagnetic survey was made by the consulting geologist. The property was not visited. Gold-Silver SUMMIT CREEK Jordan (49° 116° S.W.) The property is on the south side of Summit By p. E.oison Creek, 9 miles east of the summit on the Salmo-Creston highway. A drift was driven 55 feet into quartzitic rock containing scattered lenses of pyrite. A sample taken from the face of the tunnel assayed: Gold, nil; silver, nil. Work was suspended upon completion of the short drift. R. Weirtzba, of California, was in charge of this operation. Silver-Lead-Zinc GOAT RIVER Leadville By P. E. Olson (49° 116° S.E.) The Leadville group of recorded mineral claims is on Goat River, about 6 miles north of Kitchener. The property is serviced by a dirt road which leaves the southern Trans-Canada Highway at Kitchener. Fred Smith, of Kitchener, optioned the property to Henry Zikowski, of Creston. The old workings on the east side of Goat River are caved and flooded, so a new shaft was started near the vein not far from the old shaft. After sinking about 15 feet, a heavy flow of water from Goat River entered the shaft through cracks, and the project was abandoned. The vein was not encountered. 218 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 SLOCAN MINING DIVISION zinc PINGSTON CREEK Odin (50° 118° N.E.) Company office, 675 West Northwest Zinc Company Ltd. Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. The property is By p. e. oison on tjje west sj(je 0f Upper Arrow Lake on Ping- ston Creek. Low-grade zinc mineralization similar in character to mineralization on the Big Ledge property, which lies to the west, has been encountered on the Odin. Two bulldozers were used to establish drill-sites and put in trenches. Two diamond drills were in use during the summer and completed 4,000 feet of drilling. Nine men were employed from July to October under the direction of D. C. Malcolm. Zinc Big Ledge (50° 118° N.E.) Company office, 1150 Bay Avenue, Trail. Cominco Ltd. The Big Ledge property consists of 44 Crown-granted and 25 By p. e. oison recorded mineral claims, situated along the north side of Trout Creek, a tributary from the west of Pingston Creek. The property is owned by Cominco Ltd. Since 1964 the company has been conducting an exploration programme of geological studies and diamond drilling on the Big Ledge showings. Pyrite, pyrrhotite, and sphalerite occur in a layer of schistose rock which is part of the Shuswap metamorphic complex. One diamond-drill hole was drilled to a depth of 397 feet on the BL No. 3 mineral claim. The operation was serviced by helicopter from Nakusp and was directed by H. Copper. Silver-Lead-Zinc SPRINGER CREEK Colorado (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 850 West Western Standard Silver Mines Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Slo- (1966) Ltd. can. The company holds 22 mineral claims on By p. e. oison Memphis Creek, 4 miles north of Slocan. Hold ings embrace the White Hope and the Colorado mines, both of which were actively explored around the turn of the century. The Colorado is reached by jeep-road that leaves the Slocan-New Denver highway about 4 miles north of Slocan. An adit started in 1965 was driven about 400 feet toward the downward projection of the Colorado lead, which has been explored by workings about 150 feet vertically above the new heading. Four men were employed under the direction of Ray Bentley. Silver Ottawa (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 201, 569 Howe Slocan Ottawa Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, Box 75, Slocan. By p. e. oison xhe Ottawa mine is 5 miles from Slocan on the north side of Springer Creek. The company leased the property to W. Tyler, who subleased to Kirsch Silver Mines Ltd., who had been exploring on nearby properties. Drifting on No. 9 level was continued, and a raise was put through from No. 9 level to No. 8 level, which provided natural ventilation. Mining was confined to an area immediately above No. 9 level and an area below No. 6 level. Production amounted to 929 tons of ore, which was shipped directly to the Trail smelter as a siliceous ore. LODE METALS 219 Kirsch Silver Mines Ltd. dropped its lease in November and operations ceased. Henry Marasek directed the mine crew for most of the year. About 10 men were employed up to the time of the mine closure. Silver Anna Kirsch Silver Mines Ltd. By P. E. Olson by road from Slocan. No (49° 1170 n.E. ) Company and mine office, Box 74, Slocan. Henry Marasek, mine manager. The property is immediately north of the Ottawa mine, 6 miles 4 level was extended northerly for 112 feet along the hangingwall of the main shear, and a 120-foot raise was driven up the shear zone at a point 960 feet from the portal of the No. 4 level. This work was done over a two-month period under the direction of Henry Marasek. Stiver-Lead-Zinc Arlington (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 809, 525 Sey- Arlington Silver Mines Ltd. mour Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Slocan. By p. e. oison Xhe property consists of 16 mineral claims on the north side of Springer Creek, 6.7 miles by road from Slocan. On the property there are several old adits which explore a northerly striking shear zone that cuts Nelson granite porphyry. Raising and stoping were done from these levels around the turn of the century, but since then these openings have mainly caved. The present company reopened the two lowest levels on the property by driving new drifts in the hangingwall of the shear zone. Diamond-drill holes were driven from the new workings to test pillars and new ground in the mineralized zone. "A" level was recollared and advanced 640 feet after the upper level (" B " level) was shut down. " B " level was advanced 55 feet early in 1966, and later about 900 feet of diamond drilling was done from it. S. Walsh directed a crew of seven men who lived in a camp at the mine. Silver Myrtle (49° 117° N.E.) Company and mine office, Box 74, Kirsch Silver Mines Ltd. Slocan. Henry Marasek, mine manager. The Myrtle By p. E.oison group of recorded mineral claims is 8 miles by road from Slocan via the Ottawa mine road. No. 100 level was widened by slashing to accommodate modern machinery and extended 30 feet in a southerly direction. About 80 feet of raise and sublevel drift were driven in the shear zone above the main level to explore the potential zone north of the main level. About 50 tons of ore was shipped to the Trail smelter in order to obtain a bulk assay. A 10-ton shipment of selected ore graded 76 ounces of silver per ton, with minor amounts of lead and zinc. The company employed five men for five months under the direction of Henry Marasek. Silver Hampton Mine By P. E. Olson (49° 117° N.E.) The Hampton mine is in the Arlington Basin, 9 miles by road from Slocan via the Arlington mine. Kelly Lotze, of Trail, completed a road to the Hampton mine and stripped with a bulldozer in the vicinity of the old workings. The Hampton mine adit was repaired, and the underground workings were cleaned out. 220 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Silver-Lead-Zinc ENTERPRISE CREEK Neepawa Mine (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 700 St. Andrew's Silver Pegg Mines Ltd. Road, West Vancouver. The company has optioned a By p. e. oison group of recorded mineral claims covering the Neepawa mine, which is on the south side of Enterprise Creek, 5 miles from the Slocan-New Denver highway. A Cully type of gravity mill was set up on the property near the portal of the Neepawa No. 3 adit. This mill was fabricated in Grand Forks and concentrates ores on a vibrating table. No. 3 level was rehabilitated, and a few tons of ore from the stopes above this level was run through the mill, but no concentrates were shipped. A. Pegg directed a crew of two men at the property during the latter half of the year. Silver-Gold Boomerang and Richmond By P. E. Olson (49° 117° N.E.) The Boomerang and Richmond recorded mineral claims are on the south side of Enterprise Creek, about 12 miles by road from the Slocan-New Denver highway. George Forster, of Trail, completed a drift started in 1964 to go around a caved section of old adit. Silver-Lead-Zinc Enterprise Mine By P. E. Olson (49° 117° N.E.) R. T. Avison and J. Nesbitt, of Silverton, have a lease on the Enterprise mine from Western Exploration Company Limited. A raise was driven from No. 6 to No. 5 level, and some stoping was done under No. 5 level in the vicinity of the raise. Some ore was stockpiled at the mine, but no shipments were made. The work was done in July. Silver-Lead-Zinc SILVERTON Hecla, Mammoth, Standard (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 1011, 2200 Johnsby Mines Limited Yonge Street, Toronto 12, Ont.; mine office, Silver- By p. e. oison ton. r c. Phillips, mine manager; C. Blaney, mill superintendent. The company property is on the north side of Silverton Creek, about 2 miles east of Silverton. The company operated the Hecla and the Mammoth mines as separate operations, and milled the ore at the Silverton mill. Ore on the mines was exhausted late in 1966; the entire operation was shut down and the properties reverted to Western Exploration Company Limited. Ore shipments to the concentrator amounted to 7,133 tons, grading 6.69 ounces of silver per ton, 2.9 per cent lead, and 5.3 per cent zinc. Concentrates were shipped to the Trail smelter. The mines and mill were idle at year-end, and most of the mining equipment had been sold. Silver-Lead-Zinc Hewitt (49° 117° N.E.) This mine, which is on the south side of Silverton By p. e. oison Creek about 3 miles east of Silverton, is under lease to Jack Kelly, of Silverton. Kelly stoped 329 tons of ore from a shoot on No. 10 level, which was opened up during 1965. The ore was milled at the Silverton concentrator. LODE METALS 221 Silver-Lead-Zinc Galena Farm (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 634 Sixth Avenue Red Deer Valley Coal Southwest, Calgary, Alta.; mine office, Silverton. W. Company, Limited MacLeod, mine manager. The property is 2Vi miles By p. e. oison south of Silverton, and is reached by a road that leaves the Slocan-New Denver highway at Silverton. The company owns a large group of claims including the Galena Farm group. During January and February dump rock from the Galena Farm was trucked to the company concentrator, which is 1 mile south of Silverton. The mill treated 1,700 tons of this material and shipped 21 tons of lead concentrates and 105 tons of zinc concentrates to the Trail smelter. During the summer and autumn the mine area was investigated by means of a geophysical survey and geochemical analyses. The mine and mill were idle at the end of the year. Silver-Lead-Zinc Monarch (49° 117° N.E.) A. Elsmore and M. Fryters leased on the Mon- By p. e. oison arcn> which is on the north side of Silverton Creek about 4 miles east of Silverton. Underhand stoping on an oreshoot below the Monarch adit produced about 74 tons of lead ore, which was shipped to the Trail smelter. The two men worked the property on week-ends from June to October. Silver-Lead-Zinc SANDON Deadman (49° 117° N.E.) The Deadman lode, part of the Noble Five prop- By p. e. oison eriy at Cody, is held under lease by L. Fried, of New Denver. Failure of the Carnegie mill to operate in Sandon forced Fried to limit his efforts to extracting shipping ore rather than milling ore. Fried hand-sorted 5 tons of lead ore, which he shipped to the Trail smelter. Silver-Lead-Zinc Shady (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 320, 355 Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The Shady ByP.E. oison anfj shady Fractional mineral claims are on Carpenter Creek about 1 mile east of Cody. The property has been worked extensively as a source of high-grade galena, which is found as float in overburden on the north side of Carpenter Creek. The company did some trenching and put down a 300-foot diamond-drill hole on the Shady Fraction with a view of locating the source of the galena boulders, but did not intersect ore. Work was directed by J. P. Weeks. Silver-Lead-Zinc Slocan Sovereign (49° 117° N.E.) The Slocan Sovereign Crown-granted min- By p. e. oison erai ciaim js adjacent to the Reco mine about 1 mile northeast of Cody on the Cody-Reco mine road. P. Leontowicz and A. Maxinuk hold a lease on the property and did some mining and exploration in the vicinity of a discovery made during 1965. The property was worked on a part-time basis during the summer. Two small shipments of crude lead were made to the Trail smelter. 222 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Silver-Lead-Zinc Victor (49° 117° N.E.) The Victor mine is immediately Kam-Kotia Mines Limited south of Three Forks, but is reached by a road By p. e. oison which crosses Carpenter Creek at the Carnegie mill at Sandon. E. H. Petersen and E. Perepolkin, of Sandon, leased the mine and worked an area on and below No. 5 level. Work was done on an irregular basis; 63 tons of crude lead ore was shipped to the Trail smelter. Silver-Lead-Zinc Altoona (49° 117° N.E.) The Altoona Crown-granted Hallmac Mining Syndicate mineral claim is on the abandoned Kaslo and Slocan By p. e. oison railway grade about 1 mile northwest of Sandon. Access to the property is via a road built on the railway grade from Sandon to the portal of No. 2 level. Some mining was done above No. 1 level, and 725 tons of ore was trucked to the Johnsby concentrator at Silverton. Lead and zinc concentrates, amounting to 14 and 27 tons respectively, were shipped to the Trail smelter. No. 2 level was rehabilitated shortly before operations were suspended early in 1966. Five men were employed under the direction of Sven Hallgren. Stiver-Lead-Zinc Silmonac (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 808, 602 West Silmonac Mines Limited Hastings Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, New Den- By p. e. oison ver The company is financed by a group of mining companies, with Kam-Kotia Mines Limited supplying management. The property consists of 69 Crown-granted claims lying west of Sandon. Access to Silmonac is through the Ruth No. 5 level. This level was reactivated since being shut down in 1964, and was advanced several hundred feet farther into Idaho Peak. A northerly crosscut was started about 2,500 feet from the face of No. 5 level and advanced about 300 feet. Some lode strands were cut in this crosscut, which has led to the decision to diamond drill above and below the crosscut with a view to locating commercial zones of mineralization. John Black, of New Denver, directed a crew of 12 men. Silver-Lead-Zinc RETALLACK-THREE FORKS Charleston (50° 117° S.E.) Company office, 15816—112th Ave- Buchanan Mines Ltd. nue, Edmonton, Alta.; mine office, 917 Tenth Street, By p. E.oison Nelson. The company owns the Keystone, Charleston, Corean, Colorado, and Kingston Crown-granted mineral claims, and has a mineral lease on the Irene Crown-granted mineral claim on the west side of Whitewater Creek, 2 miles north of Retallack. The company explored the Colorado, Keystone, and Charleston veins extensively through stripping, diamond drilling, and underground drifting. The veins strike northwesterly and dip steeply to the southwest. The stripping and diamond drilling has disclosed a mineralized zone on the Colorado vein, but the depth of this showing has not been demonstrated. Work was directed by L. Siega but was suspended during the winter. Four to seven men were employed. Silver-Lead-Zinc Antoine (50° 117° S.E.) Company office, 114 West 15th Antoine Silver Mines Ltd. Street, North Vancouver; mine office, New Denver. By p. E.oison w_ Wingert, mine manager. The property consists LODE METALS 223 of the Antoine group of five Crown-granted and three recorded mineral claims and the Soho group of eight Crown-granted mineral claims at the head of McGuigan Creek. The property is reached by 9 miles of good mining-road which leaves the Kaslo-New Denver highway 3 miles east of Three Forks. A good mining camp was set up near the Tom Moore adit, in a slide-free area. Work consisted of extending the Tom Moore crosscut 1,200 feet to the projected downward extension of the Antoine veins, where a thin veinlet, containing siderite and minor galena and sphalerite, was encountered and subsequently drifted for 200 feet. Diamond drilling amounted to 300 feet, from the Tom Moore crosscut. W. Wingert directed a crew of eight men during the latter part of 1966. Work stopped in December. Silver-Lead-Zinc Winona (50° 117° S.E.) Company office, 360 Homer Street, Van- Hilroy Mines Ltd. couver 3. The company has an option on several claims By p. e. oison centred about the Winona Crown-granted mineral claim on the east flank of Reco Mountain, 2 miles northeast of Sandon. The company repaired the old mining-road up Stenson Creek to the Jackson Basin mine, and constructed 3 miles of new road from Jackson Basin to the upper workings on the Boon Crown-granted mineral claims (elevation, 7,800 feet). Old workings were reopened and examined on the Dublin Queen, Boon, and Winona Crown grants. A small amount of ore from the old workings was shipped to the Trail smelter. Four men were employed during the summer under the direction of R. Ingleby. Silver-Lead-Zinc Hillside (50° 117° S.E.) Company office, 360 Homer Street, Van- Hilroy Mines Ltd. couver 3. The Hillside workings are now covered by the By p. e. oison Floyd recorded mineral claim on the Stenson Creek mining- road, 2 miles south of Retallack. Old workings were stripped and a tunnel reopened to permit an examination of the Hillside vein. Four men were employed for a month under the direction of R. Ingleby. Miner Boy, McAllister By P. E. Olson Silver-Lead-Zinc-Copper (50° 117° S.E.) The property is situated on the west slope of London Ridge and is reached by road from Three Forks by way of Kane Creek. R. A. Sostad, of 418, 510 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2, directed exploration, which was a continuation of work started in 1965. A road built to No. 3 level of the McAllister mine was extended to the Miner Boy adit. Another road extends from the McAllister No. 3 level southward about 1 mile. Stripping was done on old showings, and the Miner Boy adit was re- timbered and the level examined. Work was confined to the late summer and early autumn. Silver-Lead-Zinc JoJo (50° 117° S.E.) The JoJo is on the east side of Kane Creek, 3 By p. e. oison miles from Three Forks and immediately north of the McAllister mine. A compressor was installed near the mine workings and underground drilling attempted on No. 3 level. Caving ground was encountered and prevented the drill from reaching the target zone where the JoJo vein was expected. Joe Hambly and Frank Mills did the work under the direction of Fred Hemsworth. 224 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Silver-Lead-Zinc Caledonia (50° 117° S.E.) Company office, 400, 837 West Blue Star Mines Limited Hastings Street, Vancouver 2; mine office, Kaslo. E. By p. e. oison l Borup, managing director; W. Tyler, consulting engineer; C. Lind, manager. The property is on the north side of Kaslo Creek, 2 miles east of Retallack. The Kaslo-New Denver highway passes within 200 feet of the mine dumps. Exploration work was started early in 1966, with ore being encountered about mid-year on the lowest level (No. 4). Ore-handling facilities were erected near the portal, and the mine went into production at a rate of 50 tons per day. The company mill at Ainsworth was put into operation in the autumn at a rate of 50 tons per day, working on a one-shift-per-day basis. Drifting and raising explored the vein between No. 4 and No. 2 levels, which are 120 feet vertically apart. A sublevel was driven about 70 feet above No. 4 level to provide a second horizon from which to stope. Drifting and raising amounted to 888 feet, and diamond drilling, done mainly from No. 4 level, amounted to 481 feet. The mill, which was supervised by F. Wood, of Kaslo, treated 4,500 tons of ore and produced 124 tons of lead concentrates and 294 tons of zinc concentrates, all of which was shipped by truck to the smelter at Trail. The company employed 11 men at the mine and mill. Ore was hauled by a contractor from the mine to the mill, a distance of 32 miles. Silver-Lead-Zinc Ohio (50° 117° S.E.) The Ohio group of recorded mineral claims is on By p. e. oison the west side 0f Lyie Creek, about 2 miles northwest of Retallack. Art Bennett, of Kaslo, who owns the property, had a road built to the Ohio mine workings, which consist of three short levels and some stopes. Silver-Lead-Zinc KEEN CREEK Cork Province Mine (49° 117° N.E.) Company office, 611, 850 London Pride Silver Mines Ltd. West Hastings Street, Vancouver 1; mine office, By p. E.oison Kaslo. L. Olson, mine manager; C. Hartland, mill superintendent. The property consists of 21 mineral claims, 9 of which are Crown granted, on the east side of Keen Creek, 6 miles from the Kaslo-New Denver highway. The property was optioned by the company from Base Metals Mining Corporation Limited, with payment paid on a royalty basis. The mine and mill were closed early in May, when known ore reserves were exhausted. Following the closure, the mine filled with water to No. 3 level. All production came from stopes immediately above No. 8 level. No exploratory work has been done since the end of 1965. The company operated a cook-house, bunk-house, and an assay office and employed 25 men prior to the closure of the operation. A watchman was engaged to protect the mine plant. Silver-Lead-Zinc AINSWORTH Jewel, Greenacres (49° 116° N.W.) The Jewel Crown-granted mineral claim By p. e. oison and the Greenacres recorded mineral claim are 1 mile north of Ainsworth. T. Lane and partner, of Ainsworth, sank 15 feet of shaft and did some stripping on a lead-zinc showing prospected during 1965. The shaft has LODE METALS 225 yielded about 30 tons of mill-feed and several tons of crude lead ore, all of which has been stockpiled on the property. The workings are close to the boundary between the Jewel and Greenacres claims. Silver-Lead-Zinc Union Coin Explorations Ltd. (49° 116° N.W.) The Union recorded mineral claim ByP.E. oison js 2 miles west of Ainsworth, on the western edge of the mineral belt lying between Coffee Creek and Cedar Creek. The company optioned the claim from H. Currie, of Ainsworth, and put down several drill-holes to test a mineralized zone at depth. The option was dropped following the drilling programme. Silver-Lead Donna, Linda, Sharon (49° 116° N.W.) Company office, 320, 355 Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited Burrard Street, Vancouver 1. The property By p. e. oison is on me norm side of Woodbury Creek, about 3 miles from the Ainsworth-Kaslo highway. The Sharon, Donna, and Linda recorded mineral claims are owned by T. D. Logan and Associates, of Nelson, who optioned them to the company. Two diamond-drill holes totalling 505 feet at depth were put down on the Donna claim to test a zone which on surface is heavily oxidized and partly leached and which is locally referred to as the " soft lead." The option was dropped after the diamond drilling was completed. Silver-Lead Brian (49° 116° N.W.) Exploration office, Ainsworth. The Coin Explorations Ltd. Brian group of 16 mineral claims covers the old work- By p. e. oison mgS 0f me silver Coin mine on the north side of Woodbury Creek, about 5 miles from Kootenay Lake. All the old levels were reopened, and the vein was sampled where found. The property was last worked in the late 1930's, when various lessees shipped a few tons of cobbed ore assaying more than 100 ounces of silver per ton mined from a narrow vein containing scattered lenses of galena in thinly bedded and highly folded calcareous sediments. Silver-Lead-Zinc Krao and Lead Coin (49° 116° N.W.) Company office, P.O. Box 230, Coin Explorations Ltd. Osoyoos. The Krao Crown-granted mineral claim is on By p. e. oison Krao Creek, about 3 miles by dirt road from Ainsworth. The property consists of 20 claims centred around the Krao. Surface exploration, including soil-sampling and stripping, was done by Rayrich Mine Services Ltd., under the direction of Ray Richards. DUNCAN LAKE Silver-Lead-Zin c Duncan Mine (50° 116° S.W.) Company office, 1150 Bay Avenue, Trail. Cominco Ltd. The property extends from the south side of Glacier Creek to the By p. e. oison north end of the large peninsula on Duncan Lake. The company has expended most of its efforts on exploring that portion of a limestone band which is on the peninsula. 226 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Duncan Lake and much of the Duncan Valley will be flooded upon completion in 1967 of the Duncan Dam near the south end of Duncan Lake. The lake will be raised about 90 feet, and much of the company property will be flooded. A crosscut driven 35 feet above Duncan Lake in 1959 was sealed with a substantial concrete plug, and the mine buildings were moved to ground higher than the anticipated flood-line. Silver-Lead-Zinc RIONDEL Bluebell (49° 116° N.W.) Company office, Trail; mine office, Riondel. Cominco Ltd. J. B. Donald, property superintendent; A. J. Richardson, mine By p. e. oison superintendent; T. F. Walton, mill superintendent. The Blue bell mine is on a peninsula in Kootenay Lake, 6 miles by paved road north of Kootenay Bay. The mine workings are below lake-level and are serviced mainly by the No. 1 shaft, inclined westward at 35 degrees near the footwall of a layer of limestone. The orebodies are replacements of limestone. They extend laterally from a series of steeply dipping fractures that cross the formation almost at right angles. Mineralization favours the hangingwall of the limestone bed. Mining operations continue to encounter thermal conditions, especially in the lower workings. The flow of carbon dioxide into the mine has increased. Fresh air supplied to the underground workings amounts to 250,000 cubic feet per minute, with extra capacity available should need for it arise. Exploration northward on No. 8 level continued, and ore was encountered about 1,000 feet north of No. 1 shaft. A Robbins raise-boring machine was ordered by the company with a view to providing a means for delivering fresh air to No. 8 level. This machine can drill 48-inch raises and eliminates the normal hazards of raise mining. Pumping-stations on No. 5 level and No. 8 level, which are set to operate automatically, handle influent water, much of which is of thermal origin and contains dissolved solids which tend to precipitate on the walls of rising mains. A diamond- drilling machine specially adapted to ream rising mains of build-up obviates the need of dismantling the pipe-lines. The mine produced 246,300 tons of ore. Mining is done by cut-and-fill or by open-stope methods. Deslimed tailings are used for backfill and are supplied to the mine stopes from the mill via a system of 4-inch plastic pipes. This system has proven itself over the years as a result of the ease for handling plastic pipe and the life of the pipe in spite of abrasion from the tailings. Tailings backfill has supported the walls of stopes more effectively than other methods used in the mine. Ore is milled on the property, and tailings which are not used for backfill are discharged into Kootenay Lake at the extreme south end of the peninsula. Except during violent storms, the tailings vanish to the bottom of the lake and cannot be detected in nearby waters. The mill treated 246,300 tons of ore and produced 18,183 tons of lead concentrates and 27,573 tons of zinc concentrates, with all production going to the Trail smelter. Employment at the operation is as follows: Staff, 42; surface, 31; mill, 15; underground, 135. Two teams competed in the West Kootenay Mine Rescue Competition. The team captained by Ben Ramage won this competition and went on to win the Provincial competition held in Cranbrook. The company won the Regional Ryan Trophy for safety. LODE METALS 227 Silver-Lead CRAWFORD CREEK Silver Hill (49° 116° S.W.) Company office, 26, 425 Howe Ryslo Silver Mines Ltd. Street, Vancouver 1. This is a private company set up By p. e. oison to explore the Silver Hill mine on the southwest side of Canyon Creek, which flows into Crawford Creek, about 6 miles from Crawford Bay. The property consists of the old Silver Hill Crown-granted mineral claims and recorded mineral claims which were recently located around the Crown grants. Road-building and some geological work were done before winter weather forced operations to stop. Work was directed by David Sloan. Silver-Lead-Zinc Humbolt (49° 116° N.W.) The Humbolt mine is about 1 mile Rose Pass Mines Ltd. west of Rose Pass and is reached by 15 miles of logging- By p. e. oison r0ad from Crawford Bay. The company maintained a mine office at Crawford Bay during the summer. An induced polarization survey was done over several claims embracing the known mineralized zones. Following this, bulldozer stripping and diamond drilling were done on anomalous areas. No mineralization was encountered. Work was directed by Glen Champion. REVELSTOKE MINING DIVISION Gold-Silver-Lead-Zinc REVELSTOKE J & L (51° 118° S.E.) Company office, Box 520, Westairs Mines Limited Bathurst, N.B.; mine office, Box 1318, Revel- By james t. Fyies and t.m. Waterland stoke. Ivan C. Stair s, president; T. W. Roy- non, regional projects engineer. The company holds by option agreement nine Crown-granted and 48 recorded mineral claims. The property is on the south side of the east fork of Carnes Creek half a mile above its junction with the main creek. Carnes Creek joins the Columbia River 24 miles north of Revelstoke. During the year 7.7 miles of access road was completed from the Columbia River highway along the south side of Carnes Creek to the property. The road was constructed under a half-cost grant from the Provincial Government. A cookhouse, office building, and compressor-house were constructed. A total of 892 feet of drifting was carried out on the 2770 level adit, and 600 feet of AX diamond- drill hole was drilled. A crew of 13 men was employed under the supervision of T. W. Roynon until work was suspended in August. Showings on the J & L property are in fine-grained dark-grey and light greenish- grey phyllites, siliceous phyllites, and limestones that strike northwest and dip at moderate angles to the northeast. The rocks are highly sheared, isoclinally folded, and, because of the structure, the rock units are lenticular. Over a period of years several siliceous zones containing arsenopyrite, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, and minor chalcopyrite have been discovered. They strike northwest, dip at moderate angles to the northeast, and are parallel to the schistosity of the enclosing rocks. Current work has been underground exploration of two zones, called the main vein and the middle vein, exposed on the south bank of the east fork of Carnes Creek. In 1965 and 1966 an adit, known as the 2700 level, was driven a few tens of feet above creek-level to follow these two zones. It was collared on the middle vein, which it followed southeastward for about 100 feet. In this length the vein is 2 to 4 feet wide, containing mainly arsenopyrite, quartz, 228 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and pyrite with disseminated sulphides in both walls for 1 or 2 feet from the vein. It is reported to carry 0.1 to 0.2 ounce per ton in gold. From the middle vein the adit was turned to the northeast for about 100 feet to intersect the main vein, which was followed for about 500 feet to the southeast. In this distance the vein consists of irregular lenses of massive fine-grained sulphides in a light-green sericite schist containing disseminated sulphides. The massive sulphides are folded on small wrinkles with axes that plunge 25 to 30 degrees to the east. In the inner part of the adit, fractured white quartz containing medium- to coarse-grained sphalerite, galena, and pyrite makes up most of the vein. The vein has an average width of about 4 feet. About 500 feet from the portal, a horizontal hole was diamond drilled 462 feet to the southwest. It encountered the middle vein but no other mineralization. A vein exposed in old workings above and to the south of the 2700 level is thought to be the main vein. It is described in old reports (see Annual Report, 1922, pp. 215-217, and Geol. Surv., Canada, Sum. Rept., 1928, Pt. A, pp. 165- 171). Considerable limestone, which does not occur at lower elevations, is exposed near the vein in that area. Copper S Group (51° 118°S.E.) The old Copper Queen property was restaked By James t. Fyies in 1966 as the 60-claim S group by T. W. Roynon for I. C. Stairs, of Bathurst, N.B. It is on the east slope of the Columbia River about 18 miles north of Revelstoke. Showings of disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite, and locally sphalerite in fine-grained hornblende schist are exposed in small bluffs at an elevation of about 3,500 feet \Vz to 2 miles north of La Forme Creek. The hornblende schist trends northward and dips at moderate angles to the east into the hill. It is probably an altered volcanic rock locally containing small lenses of white crystalline limestone, disseminated carbonates, as well as chlorite. The sulphides occur in poorly defined lenses, the most highly mineralized of which, exposed in bluffs on either side of a small creek, is up to 30 feet thick and a few hundred feet long. Scattered sulphides occur in minor amounts to the north and south. In June, Clearwater Mines Limited drilled five diamond-drill holes from a helicopter-supplied tent camp on a bench of slumped till beside a small pond above the showings. Two holes collared on the bench failed to reach bedrock, but three collared just above the showings intersected mineralized hornblende schist and were drilled to depths of 350 to 400 feet. Assays indicate an average grade of somewhat less than 0.5 per cent copper and 0.1 per cent zinc. Molybdenum Joan (51° 118° S.E.) Company office, 1300 Elveden House, King Resources Ltd. Calgary, Alta. This company owns 156 claims, covering By James t. Fyies me ridge between Hiren and Copeland Creeks, about 15 miles northwest of Revelstoke. The principal showings are at an elevation of 7,200 feet on the north slope of the ridge about 2 miles west of Mount Copeland. Exploration, started in 1965 (see Annual Report, 1965, p. 205), was continued in August and September. The work consisted of prospecting and geological mapping both in the area of the principal showings and on the south side of the ridge. Molybdenite mineralization in syenite and lime silicate gneisses was traced eastward from the showings tested last year, and a zone with scattered mineralization, extending a total of 4,000 feet along the formational strike, was mapped and sampled in detail LODE METALS 229 with the aid of a packsack drill and blasting. The work was under the direction of M. C. Robinson, consulting geologist, Calgary, and was done by a crew of about 15 men serviced by helicopter from Revelstoke. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 679.] Lead-Zinc River Jordan, King Fissure (51° 118° S.E.) This property consists of Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited 82 claims held under option from Consoli- By James t. Fyies and t. m. Waterland date(i Standard Mines Limited, 320, 355 Bur rard Street, Vancouver 1, by Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. The property is on the upper northern slope of Mount Copeland, about 12 miles northwest of Revelstoke at an elevation of 5,500 to 8,000 feet. Mineralization consists of an aggregate of fine-grained pyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, and sphalerite in a sequence of limestone, schist, gneiss, and quartzite. The property was described by C. Riley in Transactions of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1961, pages 268-272. Work in 1966 consisted of continuing the holes drilled in 1965 to complete a fan of four holes in the western part of the mineralized area and also of drilling one hole at the eastern end of the area. The fan was drilled by wedging. A total of four deep holes was drilled under contract by Canadian Longyear, with a total length of 7,979 feet. Work was started in June while there was more than 20 feet of snow at the drill-site from a camp at the west end of the property. The camp was moved in September to the eastern end of the property for the last hole. A total of eight men was employed using one drill. The work was under the direction of R. Walton and S. Pilcher, and G. Berry was the drill foreman. Silver-Lead-Zinc NORTH LARDEAU True Fissure, Broadview (50° 117° N.E.) Company office, Columbia Metals Corporation Limited 1002, 80 Richmond Street West, To- ByP.E.oison ronto, Ont.; mine office, Trout Lake. D. Sloan, consulting engineer. The company controls property including the True Fissure, Great Northern, and Broadview Crown-granted mineral claims 2 miles northwest of Ferguson. The property is reached by 2Vz miles of jeep-road from Ferguson. The mine road to the old True Fissure camp was repaired, and new roads constructed to the Great Northern and Broadview showings. An induced polarization survey over these claims revealed an anomaly which more or less coincides with the projection of the main True Fissure vein toward the Broadview. Diamond drilling of this anomaly was stopped at a depth of 750 feet because of poor core recovery. No. 2 level of the True Fissure mine was then repaired and the face advanced 55 feet before the onset of winter forced closure of the operation. Explosives and equipment were left at the mine after the shutdown. J. Branca was in charge of a crew of nine men from July to November. Silver-Lead-Zinc Silver Cup (50° 117° N.E.) Reuben Bond, of Vancouver, and associates By p. e. oison from los Angeles, entered into a purchase agreement with E. C. Wragge, of Nelson, for the Silver Cup mine. This property is on Silver Cup Ridge, east of Trout Lake, and is reached by road from Ferguson via Trout Creek and Silver Cup Creek. The Silver Cup mine was partly dewatered and examined by The Granby Mining Company Limited in 1952. Since then the mine has been idle. 230 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Bond and associates had the road to No. 7 level cleared, but this road is still in poor condition. Plans were made to make a bulk concentrate from the old dumps by means of a gravity concentrator, and to haul this concentrate to Camborne, where separate lead and zinc concentrates would be made by selective flotation. Work at the mine employed five men, who were under the direction of C. A. Gilliard, of Ventura, California. Heavy snows in December forced a stoppage of work. Silver Ethel (50° 117° N.W.) The Ethel is an old prop- Rexony Mining Company Limited erty at an elevation of 6,000 feet 3Vi miles By James t. Fyies southwest of the community of Trout Lake. It is reached by a logging and " Cat " road which leaves the Galena Bay-Trout Lake road 4 miles west of Trout Lake. The mine was worked between 1898 and 1918, during which period five shipments of sorted ore totalling 76 tons were rawhided by means of a steep trail to Trout Lake; gross contents: Silver, 9,251 ounces, and lead, 12,664 pounds. Four adits, the longest about 300 feet, and several other workings were driven over a vertical range of 120 feet. Since that time the property has been idle, and the claims, which were Crown granted, have reverted. In the summer of 1965 the ground was located by K. G. Sanders for Rexony Mining Company Limited, and a " Cat" road was built to the old workings from the logging-road. The workings were mapped and sampled, and in June, 1966, three holes were drilled which totalled 776 feet. The showings consist of a series of closely spaced quartz veins in dark-grey phyllites and limestones. A layer of fine-grained limestone 50 to 75 feet thick contains the principal showings, but they extend beyond the limestone into the phyllite. The limestone dips 60 degrees to the northeast, essentially parallel to the schistosity in the phyllites. The quartz, containing scattered grains of galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and tetrahedrite, forms lenses up to 18 inches thick parallel to the schistosity. They have been mostly mined out, but judging from surface exposures and small stopes underground they formed an in echelon group of lenses with an average dip to the northeast of about 40 degrees. The old workings passed from one lens to the next, giving the appearance of a continuous vein. Selected pieces from surface containing sulphides or showing copper stain assayed as much as 80 ounces per ton silver. Three holes were drilled southwestward into the limestone and the mineralized zone but failed to encounter significant mineralization. [References: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1914, p. 317; B.C. Dept. of Mines, Bull. No. 45, 1962.] GOLDEN MINING DIVISION Silver-Lead-Zinc PARSON Ruth Vermont Mine (50° 116° N.W.) Registered office, 410, 470 Columbia River Mines Ltd. Granville Street, Vancouver 2. The Ruth Vermont By James t. Fyies mme js on the south side of Vermont Creek 25 miles southwest of Golden and is reached from Parson via the Vowell Creek logging-road. The property is an old one, originally consisting of 11 Crown-granted claims, on which more than a dozen short adits were driven before 1930. In 1956 and 1957 Rio Canadian Exploration Ltd. made an extensive survey of the property and did a small amount of drilling and soil-sampling. In 1964 the old Crown grants which had reverted were taken up by Mel Pardek, of Vancouver, as a mineral lease, LODE METALS 231 Camp of Columbia River Mines Ltd. on Vermont Creek. 1 '".■ ■■ in ..... S-7?■?.?*?■&?. Looking southwestward across the Duncan River and up Houston Creek from the Alpha property of Bonanza Explorations Ltd. 232 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and about 40 claims surrounding the lease were located. The present company acquired the property in 1965 and began underground work in an old adit called the Old Timers level and subsequently referred to as the 6000 level. The main activities in 1966 were directed to the development of the 6000 level. The level was driven from the footwall to the hangingwall of a mineralized zone containing appreciable values of lead, zinc, and silver, and was extended along the hangingwall for 1,200 feet. Contact was maintained with the zone by frequent drilling, which amounted to 132 holes totalling 20,000 feet by the year-end. A new level was opened at the 5,750-foot elevation and was extended 650 feet. It is expected that the 5750 will eventually become the main haulage level. Surface activities included the construction of an 88- by 20-foot power-house and machine-shop near the portal of the lower level. A new 41/i-mile access road replacing the old road was built, partly on the south side of the valley of Vermont Creek to avoid snowslides as much as possible and to improve snow removal. Twenty men were employed the year round under the direction of T. E. Swanson, consulting engineer. Rocks in the Vermont Creek area are grey slates; light-grey quartzites, grits, and pebble conglomerates; and minor limestones belonging to the Horsethief Creek Group of Late Precambrian age. The slates commonly carry disseminated pyrite, the quartzitic rocks contain white quartz veins and rusty iron carbonates, and the limestones are dark grey, fine grained, and more or less micaceous and cleaved. The slates and limestones are thin bedded, and beds crossed by cleavage are apparent in almost every exposure. Minor folds are fairly common, and from a distance major folds can be seen in cliffs. In the mine area a bed of limestone 30 to 50 feet thick, here referred to as the Ruth limestone, lies between two thick slate formations. The lower slate, which is several hundred feet thick, is underlain by a greyish-brown quartzite that forms prominent cliffs on the Charlotte claim east of the mine and on the north side of Vermont Creek. It is buff-weathering to light-grey somewhat micaceous quartzite with rounded bluish-white quartz grains up to one-eighth inch in diameter. The quartzite has an irregular fracture cleavage, and contains local stockworks of barren white quartz veins. A major asymmetric anticline trending northwest crosses Vermont Creek near the Ruth property. Reconnaissance suggests that it continues southeast and northwest of the mine for many miles and that most of the known showings of the region are near the hinge zone. On Vermont Creek the anticline plunges gently to the southeast and the axial plane dips steeply to the northeast parallel to the cleavage in the slates. Figure 29 shows two large anticlines, the Charlotte on the northeast, the Sheba on the southwest, and between them the Ruth syncline. They are named from the old Crown-granted claims on which they are well exposed. All three folds are in the hinge zone of the major anticline just referred to and are local structures which change in form up or down the axial plane and along the axis of the anticline. The Ruth syncline as outlined by the Ruth limestone is exposed near the portals of the 6000 level and is encountered underground on the level. The synclinal axis plunges at 5 degrees toward an azimuth of 135 degrees, and the axial plane dips 75 degrees to the northeast. In the inner part of the working the axis appears to swing to the west and steepen somewhat in plunge. The limestone on the southwest limb has a fairly uniform attitude with an average strike of 140 degrees and a dip of 30 degrees to the northeast. This southwest limb of the Ruth syncline contains the sulphide mineralization currently being developed. LODE METALS 233 234 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Quartz veins occur in well-defined sets of fractures. One set contains most of the sulphides, and the others are sparingly mineralized or barren. A set of barren quartz veins is perpendicular to the axis of the Ruth syncline. Other mineralized veins lie parallel to the bedding; the most prominent of them is on the footwall of the Ruth limestone. The veins containing most of the sulphides trend 110 to 115 degrees and dip at moderate to steep angles to the south. They are well displayed in the 6000 level and in cliffs near the new portal. The veins are oblique to the structure transecting both the folds and the cleavage and occurring in the Ruth limestone and the slate above and below it. They contain galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and arsenopyrite and small amounts of chalcopyrite, boulangerite (Pb5Sb4Sn), argentiferous tetrahed- rite, scheelite, and carbonates. The attitudes of these mineralized fractures which form a mineralized zone and the relationship of the mineralization to the Ruth limestone and the Ruth syncline are shown on Figure 30. The veins in the slate beneath the limestone are up to a foot thick and most are only a few inches thick. They are lenticular and many pinch out in one direction or another where exposed in the workings. The largest one was stoped in the early days for about 80 feet along the level and for 15 feet above it. The veins are more numerous and richer in sulphides just under the limestone, and they extend PORTAL OLD TIMERS LEVEL NEW PORTAL LEGEND | i i j I | Ruth limestone ^^ Attitude of bedding *^ Average attitude of mineralized fractures ",'.'••" 'Limits of mineralized fractures (approximate) ~-\~ Axial trace of Ruth syncline Figure 30. Columbia River Mines Ltd. Geological sketch-map of part of the 6000 level of the Ruth Vermont mine. LODE METALS 235 for several tens of feet beneath it, dying out irregularly down their dip. The quartz is vuggy and the sulphides are medium grained, occurring in clusters and pods which commonly occupy the entire width of a vein. The slates above the Ruth limestone contain veins which are more widely spaced than those below it. In the limestone itself where a mineralized section is exposed in the T-9 crosscut, the sulphides are along mineralized fractures ranging from many very closely spaced ones a fraction of an inch thick to one fracture containing up to 5 feet of massive coarse-grained sulphides. Fine-grained sulphides, formed by replacement, are disseminated in the limestone adjacent to the fractures, but replacement ends abruptly and is very closely controlled by the fractures. The veins have been explored by short adits and open cuts from the earliest days of discovery. This early work is described by Sargent (Annual Report, 1936, pp. E 37-E 41) and O'Grady (Annual Report, 1930, pp. 234-236), and the assays quoted are tabulated below. The veins and mineralized limestone in the 6000 level are known as the Nelson orebody and two groups of veins above the limestone as the Blacksmith and the Pine Tree veins. Vein Width Gold Silver Lead Zinc Blacksmith In. 3-7 12 8W 12 Oz. per Ton 0.30 0.14 0.10 0.02 Oz. per Ton 2.0 29.0 32.0 14.0 Per Cent Trace 35.1 18.8 13.3 Per Cent 0.7 1.6 Pine Tree... _ 14.4 13.9 A shipment of sorted ore made in 1965 averaged: Silver, 63 ounces per ton; lead, 31 per cent; zinc, 19 per cent. As indicated on Figure 30, the veins and the fractures that contain most of the sulphides form a mineralized zone with more or less well-defined margins that trends 130 degrees and probably dips steeply to the southwest. Within the zone are many in echelon veins and fractures which on the average strike 112 degrees and dip 50 degrees to the south. The veins transect the cleavage of the slates and are oblique to the trend of the Ruth syncline. Mineralization appears to have developed along tensional openings superimposed on the uniform and gently dipping southwestern limb of the Ruth syncline. The limestone obviously controlled the amount of fracturing and may also have aided the precipitation of the sulphides. Possible changes in the character of the mineralized zone as it impinges on the axial zone of the Ruth syncline underground to the southeast and as it crosses the Sheba anticline on surface to the northwest are of paramount importance in current exploration. The search for comparable zones along the southwestern limb of the Ruth syncline is continuing. Silver-Lead-Zinc-Copper Alpha, Maud S., Standby Bonanza Explorations Ltd By D. R. Morgan (50° 117° N.E.) Company office, 404, 510 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. The Alpha lies between the headwaters of Bobbie Burns and Bennison Creeks at elevations ranging from 7,500 to 8,500 feet on the Spillimacheen Range of the Purcell Mountains, 30 miles southwest of Golden. It comprises eight Crown- granted claims, including the Maud S. and Standby, and the seven-claim Alpha group held by record. It is an old showing that has been worked on a number of occasions since 1896. Some geological mapping was done in 1966, and approximately 400 feet of trenching done by hand. Four AX holes totalling 610 feet were drilled from the 236 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 surface, and seven AX holes totalling 2,100 feet were drilled from the old Kimpton tunnel. There were five men employed, who stayed in a camp on the property. Access to the camp was by helicopter. The operations, which were under the direction of G. R. Hilchey and L. DeBriske, were suspended toward the end of September. Gold-Silver-Lead-Zinc FE, HIL, Etc. (50° 116° N.W., 50° 117° N.E., 51° 117° S.E.) Far East Minerals Ltd. Company office, 543 Granville Street, Vancouver 2. By James t. Fyies par gast Minerals Ltd. and associated companies hold 1,527 claims, mainly by record, in the Purcell Mountains between the headwaters of Vowell and McMurdo Creeks. The claims cover ground along a northwesterly trending belt including the valley of upper Vowell Creek near Conrad and Crystalline Creeks, Carbonate Mountain, the valley of Carbonate Creek, the Bobbie Burns basin to the northwest, and the basin of McMurdo Creek. The selection of the area where the claims were located was made on the basis of an airborne geophysical survey and photogeological interpretation. The claims include a number of old showings and old Crown-granted claims held by agreement. The old showings are small lenticular quartz veins in slates, grits, quartzites, and minor limestones of the Horsethief Creek Group of late Precambrian age. Many carry a good grade of silver, lead, and zinc and locally up to 0.5 ounce per ton in gold. Although the values are confined mainly to veins, replacement of limestone and rarely of quartzite near the veins is known at a few localities (see Ruth Vermont, Atlas). Many of the old showings are described by Sargent (Annual Report, 1936, pp. 25-42). During the summer, exploration of parts of the large area covered by the claims was carried on by diamond drilling and by geological mapping and a ground magnetometer survey of the claims on Vowell Creek. A total of 12,350 feet of diamond drilling was done in 28 holes, mostly along Vowell Creek between Crystalline and Conrad Creeks and in the basin on the north side of Carbonate Mountain and the Bobbie Burns basin to the northwest. Helicopters were used extensively for transport from Golden and from a base camp on Vowell Creek about 2 miles above the mouth of Crystalline Creek. A total of about 32 miles of " Cat" road was built principally up Conrad Creek and Bobbie Burns Creek to the mouth of Carbonate Creek. Silver-Lead-Zinc Atlas (50° 116° N.W.) Registered office, 801, 736 Purcell Range Mines Limited Granville Street, Vancouver 2. This company By James t. Fyies has optioned the Atlas group of recorded mineral claims from R. Renn, of Calgary. The claims are west of Vowell Creek between Vermont and Crystalline Creeks. The main work has been on showings at an elevation of 5,800 feet on the slope north of Crystal Creek, a small tributary of Crystalline Creek from the west. The workings are reached by a steep " Cat" road from a trailer camp at Mile 33 on the Vermont Creek logging-road. They are bulldozer strippings on a steep jack pine slope covering an area about 400 feet square which exposes showings of galena discovered by Renn in 1965. Two short diamond-drill holes were put down in the upper northwest corner of the stripped area in July, 1966. The rocks exposed at the showings are dark-grey slates and grey to light brownish-grey micaceous quartzites. The slates are pyritic, and the quartzites contain rusty iron carbonates. The showings consist of half a dozen scattered occurrences of gossan or galena, sphalerite, and pyrite in both the slates and the quartzites. The zones of gossan are LODE METALS 237 mainly in slates, range from 2 to 4 feet wide, and are parallel to the cleavage. Samples 1 and 2 in the following table are of gossan. The sulphides are mainly in the quartzites. One showing consists of massive galena, minor pyrite, and sphalerite along a series of fractures in the quartzite that strike 120 to 125 degrees and dip steeply. They form a lens of sulphides 1 to 2 feet thick and several feet long more or less parallel to a bed of quartzite on the northeast limb of a small syncline. An assay from this lens is given in the table as sample 3. Another showing 300 feet to the southwest contains galena and minor sphalerite and pyrite disseminated in quartzite. The sulphide zone is irregular and poorly defined and is well mineralized over widths up to 5 feet. Samples 4, 5, and 6 are of mineralized quartzite, and 7 and 8 of a black gossan from this area. The mineralized quartzites lie above the slates containing the gossans, and the rocks have the form of a shallow open syncline with an essentially horizontal axis and vertical axial plane trending 135 to 140 degrees. The folds are asymmetric and lie on the northeastern limb of an anticline. The exposures provide very slight evidence on the control of mineralization, but the mineralization appears to be associated with fractures principally in the quartzitic beds. Locally the quartzites near the fractures are replaced by the sulphides. Sample Width Gold Silver Copper Lead Zinc 1 - 2 .. 3 Ft. 2 3 2 2 3 3 1.5 2 Oz. per Ton Trace Trace Trace 0.02 0.02 Trace 0.02 Trace Oz. per Ton 0.9 Trace 4.5 9.6 18.6 2.7 6.4 Trace Per Cent 6.01 0.03 Per Cent 1.82 0.05 5.25 14.04 9.64 3.91 6.43 0.15 Per Cent 1.3 0.27 1.3 4 5 6_ 7 ... 3.3 1.9 1.8 5.2 8 1.1 Lead-Zinc SPILLIMACHEEN Lead Mountain (50° 116° N.W.) Head office, 1825, 355 Bur- Giant Mascot Mines Limited rard Street, Vancouver 1. L. P. Starck, vice-presi- ByD. r. Morgan dent anfj general manager. This old property, comprising 12 claims (recorded as the Tony, Don, and Ron claims), is 6 miles by road northeast of the Silver Giant mine in the Spillimacheen Valley. A crew of three men drilled three holes totalling 450 feet during a period of three weeks in the summer of 1966. The work was under the direction of A. G. Ditto. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1955, p. 73.] Silver-Lead-Zinc WINDERMERE Mineral King (50° 116° S.E.) Head office, 170 Aetna Investment Corporation Limited Donway West, Don Mills, Ont.; mine By d. r. Morgan oSicq, Toby Creek. W. W. Cummings, resident manager. This mine is on Toby Creek, 28 miles southwest of Athalmer, and is reached by means of a good road from Wilmer. The workings are in a steep mountain ridge between Toby and Jumbo Creeks. They are entered by four levels, Nos. 2, 3, and 7 in descending order being driven from the Toby Creek side and No. 9 from the Jumbo Creek side, the latter two levels being used for main haulage. The mine is operated by the open-stope method, and the workings are in four irregular-shaped orebodies known as the "A," " B," " C," and " D " zones. A detailed description of the property is given in the 1959 and 1962 Annual Reports. 238 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The mine produced 114,737 tons of ore during 1966. Most of the ore was mined from the open stopes in the upper levels, and the remainder by the development of the lower levels. The total development during 1966 was 1,701 feet of drifting, 987 feet of crosscutting, and 28,416 feet of diamond drilling. The difficulty experienced in contacting an ore zone in the lower levels that are being developed from No. 2 shaft below No. 9 level was overcome by the reported intersection of mineralization on No. 11 level at the 12,500 section at the end of 1966, and by the intersection of a mineralized zone by diamond drilling from No. 12 level. Further exploration is being done at both levels. Approximately 1,000 tons of barite was mined from No. 3 level in 1966. The mine is ventilated by both mechanical and natural means. Approximately 36,000 cubic feet of air per minute is exhausted from the workings, of which 23,000 cubic feet per minute is supplied by a 15-horsepower electrically driven fan on No. 2 level. The ventilation in the lower workings is also boosted by a small auxiliary fan located on No. 9 level. These quantities were found to be sufficient for the present requirements of the workings. The concentrator operated throughout the year and produced 6,686 tons of zinc concentrates grading 55.9 per cent zinc and 2,438 tons of lead concentrates grading 66.2 per cent lead. The average number of men employed at the mine and concentrator during the year was 95, of whom 56 were employed underground. The compensable accidents totalled 19, of which one was a fatality, and is reported more fully in this report under the heading of " Fatal Accidents." FORT STEELE MINING DIVISION Silver-Lead-Zinc KIMBERLEY Sullivan Mine (49° 115° N.W.) Company office, Box 1510, Station B, Cominco Ltd. Montreal 2, Que. W. S. Kirkpatrick, chairman; R. Hendricks, By d.r. Morgan president; D. D. Morris, vice-president, operations. Western headquarters, Trail: J. H. Salter, vice-president, western region; S. M. Rothman, manager, western operations. Sullivan mine office, Kimberley: R. M. Porter, manager, Kimberley operations;. O. E. Weightman, superintendent, Sullivan mine; R. M. Lauer, superintendent, Sullivan concentrator. The Sullivan mine is on Mark Creek, 2 miles north of Kimberley, and the concentrator is at Chapman Camp, 2 miles south of Kimberley. The holdings include 678 Crown-granted claims and fractions and 30 recorded claims. The following report, prepared by the management, is a synopsis of the operations:— " During 1966, about 2,100,000 tons of Sullivan ore were treated at the Concentrator. In addition, the Concentrator treated ore from Pine Point Mines Limited, as capacity was available. A crushing plant to handle Pine Point ore on surface was completed and commenced operation in June. The Concentrator operated 254 days during 1966. " Development driven totalled approximately 26,500 feet and core-hole diamond drilling about 7,600 feet. Backfill totalled 482,000 cubic yards of float rock, cave and development waste. " The ventilation system handled approximately 850,000 cubic feet per minute of air. As part of the major ventilation circuit revision, No. 42 Shaft airway equipment installation was completed during the year. " Construction of the first intake air heating plant at the Sullivan was nearly completed. Located at the collar of No. 41 airway it consists of an indirect type heating plant fired by natural gas and rated at 16 million B.T.U. per hour. LODE METALS 239 " Continued progress was made by the Rock Mechanics Section in developing systems of underground instrumentation. A number of pillar stress measurements were carried out during the year and a good start was made on the development of systems to indicate changes in stress resulting from various mining activities. An underground chamber for long-term testing of instruments under controlled environmental conditions was started. Further monitoring of surface subsidence features provided more knowledge on the behaviour of the hanging wall mass with respect to ore extraction. " Technical developments relating to health and safety included methods for accurate tensioning of rock bolts hydraulically and for setting the outer anchorage perpendicular to the bolt. Noise suppression devices are in use on all rock drills and improvements have been made in muffler design and manufacture. " Other technical subjects under development include improved blasting techniques using ammonium nitrate, improved reaming techniques for relief holes both in ordinary development rounds and in longhole winzes and application of trackless loaders. " In 1966, the Sullivan mine had 20 lost-time accidents; there were 7 at the Concentrator. No fatalities were suffered at either mine or the mill. Accident frequency per 1,000,000 man hours worked was 16.83 at the mine and 18.75 at the Concentrator. The severity rate per 1,000,000 man hours worked was 1,789 calendar days at the mine and 1,401 at the concentrator. " Eleven Sullivan mine and concentrator employees obtained or renewed their Industrial First-aid certificates, and 57 employees passed their St. John Ambulance First-aid examinations. Eleven Sullivan mine employees obtained their mine rescue certificates, making a total of 339 since training first started at the mine in 1929. "A team from the Sullivan mine won the East Kootenay Mine Safety Association First-aid Competition. " Employees at the year end totalled 657 at the mine and 255 at the concentrator." Lead-Zinc Western Exploration (49° 115° N.W.) Head office, 410 Metro- Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited politan Building, 836 West Hastings Street, By d.r. Morgan Vancouver 1; mine office, Remac. L. M. Kinney, Metaline Falls, Wash., general manager; F. R. Thompson, superintendent. This property is between the east fork of Mark Creek and Mather Creek, and is approximately 10 miles north of Kimberley. It is at an elevation ranging from 5,000 to 7,000 feet, and may be reached by means of an old forestry road leading from the open-pit area of the Sullivan mine. The property consists of 110 Crown- granted claims, optioned from Western Exploration Company Limited of Silverton, and six mineral claims held by record. A crew of three men drilled one BX-WL hole to a depth of 1,770 feet on the Bur No. 5 (Lot 12884). The drilling was done under contract and was supervised by D. C. Plecash, geologist. Copper Joe (49° 116° N.W.) Field office, Trail. This property, also Cominco Ltd. known as the Bracebridge, is on the west fork of the St. Mary By d.r. Morgan River, 24 miles northwest of Kimberley, and is reached by a 32-mile road from Marysville. It comprises the 22-claim Joe and Goat groups held 240 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 by record, and covers lenses of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite in schistose dolomitic argillite of the Kitchener Formation. A 2-mile access road was built into the property, and six IEX holes totalling 658 feet were drilled. The three-man crew was under the direction of R. G. Gilford, exploration geologist. The option has since been relinquished. Silver-Lead-Zinc Warhorse, Granite (49° 116° N.E.) Registered office, Creston. Hellroaring Silver Lead Ltd. John Wolfe, president. This property, also known By d.r. Morgan as me Boy Scout, is on the west fork of Hell- roaring Creek, approximately 10 miles southwest of Kimberley, and is reached by road from Marysville. The property consists of four Crown-granted claims—War- horse (Lot 13077), Granite (Lot 13079), Hope (Lot 13078), and Faith (Lot 13080)—optioned from Harold Bennett, of Cranbrook, and the 12-claim Granite group held by record. It includes the Warhorse mine, which was last operated in 1955. The present company is the successor of Wescan Developments Ltd., who held the property in 1965. The three upper adits of the Warhorse mine were rehabilitated in the summer of 1966, and 11 diamond-drill holes totalling 471 feet were drilled from two of the adits. Some surface stripping and soil-sampling were done, and approximately 5 miles of the access road from St. Mary Lake was repaired. One BX-WL hole, length 310 feet, was drilled from the surface in the vicinity of the upper adit. The crew of five men was employed for four months and was under the supervision of John Wolfe. Tin-Tungsten CRANBROOK Sko and Chuck (49° 116° N.E.) This property is at Newconex Canadian Exploration Ltd. an elevation of 8,500 feet on Rusty By d. r. Morgan Ridge in the Selkirk Mountains, 40 miles by air northwest of Cranbrook. It comprises 36 claims, and covers cassiterite and wolframite mineralization in narrow quartz veins in metadiorite sills in the Moyie Formation. A crew of three men did some prospecting, mapping, and soil-sampling for a period of one month during the summer of 1966. Transportation was by means of helicopter, and the work was under the direction of J. S. Ives, geologist. The property was not visited. Copper Tom, Bety, Happy Day (49° 115° N.W.) This property, consisting of 134 Cindy Mines Ltd. claims, is near Eager Hill, 4Vi miles northeast of Cran- Byd.r.Morgan brook. It covers narrow stringers and disseminated grains of chalcopyrite within a diorite sill of the Purcell series. The sill intrudes calcareous and argillaceous sediments of the Kitchener Formation. The company conducted a magnetometer survey in the summer of 1966, and more than 7 miles of line-cutting was done. Two men were employed under the direction of Richard Haering. The property was not visited. [References: Assessment Reports Nos. 945, 946, and 964.] Lead-Zinc Helg (49° 115° S.W.) Field office, 1150 Bay Avenue, Trail. This Cominco Ltd. property, comprising 354 mineral claims held by record, is near By d.r. Morgan Monroe Lake, 12 miles southwest of Cranbrook. It is reached LODE METALS 241 by a 7-mile road leading from No. 3 highway at Green Bay, north of Moyie. The property is at an elevation of 4,600 feet and covers a showing of galena, sphalerite, and pyrrhotite in the Aldridge Formation. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys were made, and one IEX hole 138 feet deep was drilled. Some 400 feet of trenching was done by bulldozer, and a 1-mile access road was built. A four- man crew was employed for six months under the direction of R. G. Gilford, exploration geologist. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 834.] Silver-Lead-Zinc E.L., Bert, St. Joseph (49° 115° S.W.) This property, com- Rimrock Mining Corporation, Limited prising 53 mineral claims, is at the south By d. r. Morgan en(j 0f me ridge between Kiakho and Jim Smith Lakes, and is reached by 5 miles of road west of Cranbrook. It covers silver-lead-zinc mineralization in narrow quartz veins in the Aldridge Formation. A crew of two men conducted an electromagnetic and magnetometer survey during the summer of 1966. Some line-cutting was done. The work was under the direction of Brian Hamilton, geologist. The property was not visited. [Reference: Assessment Report No. 895.] Gold-Silver MOYIE Midway (49° 115° S.W.) Registered office, 645 Hornby Street, Calix Mines Ltd. Vancouver 1. This property, consisting of the Midway and By d. r. Morgan a iarge number of other claims in the River, Mark, and Stan groups, is adjacent to No. 3 highway 6 miles southwest of Moyie. It has been worked intermittently since 1933, and was optioned by Calix Mines Ltd. in 1963. A description of the property is given in the 1933 and 1965 Annual Reports. The work done in 1966 was confined to a small amount of surface stripping on the mountainside above the adits. Silver-Lead-Zinc St. Eugene, St. Eugene (49° 115° N.W.) This property is astride the lower Extension, Aurora Moyie Lake, south of Moyie, and consists of 23 Crown- By d. r. Morgan granted claims owned by Cominco Ltd. and 81 Crown- granted claims owned by St. Eugene Mining Corporation Limited. A joint agreement was made in 1965 with Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited to explore the property. In 1966 one diamond-drill hole 420 feet long was drilled on the east side of the lake. Six men were employed for five weeks. Silver-Lead-Zinc WASA Estella (49° 115° N.W.) Head office, 1825, 355 Burrard Giant Soo Mines Limited Street, Vancouver 1. L. P. Starck, vice-president By d. r. Morgan an(j general manager. Mine office, Box 249, Cran brook. A. G. Ditto, resident manager; J. Coffey, mill superintendent. The Estella mine is in a basin at the head of Tracy Creek, 5 miles east of Wasa and 11 miles north of Fort Steele. The property comprises 12 Crown-granted and 42 mineral claims held by record, ranges from 6,000 to 7,000 feet in elevation, and is reached by road from Wasa. The mine was formerly operated by the Estella Mines Limited, and was purchased by the Copper Soo Mining Company Limited in 1962. The present company was formed lated in 1965 following a joint agreement with Giant 242 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Mascot Mines Limited to build a mill and place the mine in production. A detailed description of the property is given in the 1963 Annual Report. In the early part of 1966 the mill and a prefabricated camp, complete with cook-house and dining-room to accommodate 33 workmen, were built and the mine prepared for production. The mill was completed and put into operation on September 1st. It is located below the entrance to the Estella level, and has rated capacity of 150 tons per day. Water is supplied from the creek and the underground workings. Ore treated was 11,141 tons; production, 1,885 tons of zinc concentrates and 710 tons of lead concentrates. The concentrates were trucked to a railway siding at Wasa. Most of the ore was obtained from an orebody known in two immediate levels above the Rover tunnel. The total underground development was 800 feet of drifting and raising. Other underground work included changing over 2,000 feet of track in the Estella tunnel to facilitate haulage of ore to the concentrator. The mine is ventilated by natural means, which are adequate for the present needs of the workings. Total men employed at the end of 1966 was 41, of whom 22 were underground. copper GALLOWAY Empire, Strathcona (49° 115° S.E.) Registered office, 602, Altamont Exploration Company Ltd. 543 Granville Street, Vancouver 2. Ross By d. r. Morgan Stanfield, president. This property is on Sand Creek, approximately 4 miles north of Galloway and 26 miles southwest of Fernie. It comprises the Empire and Strathcona Crown-granted claims and 150 mineral claims held by record. The claims are at elevations ranging from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, and are reached by means of a private logging-road leading from No. 3 highway at Galloway. A detailed description of the property is given in the 1930 Annual Report. During 1966 nine BX-WL holes totalling 4,000 feet were drilled at various points on the surface, and four holes totalling 700 feet were drilled in the tram-line tunnel, which is at an elevation of 4,100 feet. Track and pipe-lines were laid in the tunnel, and approximately 7 miles of access roadways was built to the drill- sites. In addition, a 30- by 60-foot garage was built near the camp, and a new bunk-house and dry were built at the camp. A 15-man crew was employed for 10 months; operations were suspended at the end of October. The work was under the direction of Ross Stanfield. LODE METALS 243 GEOLOGICAL, GEOPHYSICAL, AND GEOCHEMICAL REPORTS The Annual Report for 1958 lists all geological, geophysical, and geochemical reports which to that time had been credited for assessment work on mineral claims or placer leases. Since then each annual report lists the reports accepted during the current calendar year. A copy of each report is filed in the office of the Mining Recorder for the mining division in which the property is located and a second copy is in the office of the Chief of the Mineralogical Branch, Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Victoria. These reports are available for examination one year after their date of submission. Because of space limitations in the Victoria office, it is requested that appointments for examination be made in advance. The property name is that which appears to be in most common use. It is not feasible to list all the claim names in each property. The author of each report is given and the principal for whom the report was written. The co-ordinate given for each report is the southeast corner of the 1-degree quadrilateral within which the property lies. Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966 Geographic Position Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report d u O Kind of Work 1° Quadr. Quarter *c3 u '3> o o 73 >. XI a 0 73 0 1 U (J u fit O O a 0 49° 115° 49° 115° 49° 115° 49° 115° 49° 116° 49° 117° 49° 117° 49° 118° 49° 118° S.W. S.W. N.W. S.W. N.W. S.W. S.W. S.E. S.W. 863 834 822 813 783 714 828 860 809 X X X X X X X X X X X X Placid Oil Company. J. S. Scott and R. A. Buckley. December 19, 1966. Helg claims. Cominco Ltd. R. G. Gifford and J. Richardson. October 11, 1966. King Resources Company. M. C. Robinson. February 1,1966. Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited. K. E. Northcote and J. A. Gower. August 5, 1966. Silver Eagle Explorations Ltd. H. Cohen. May 13,1966. Trojan Consolidated Mines Ltd. C. B. Selmser. January 24, 1966. Northern Belle, View, Snowshoe claims (Mineral Lease No. 17) Cascade Molybdenum Mines Ltd. J. E. Arteaga and M. K. Lorimer. August 18, 1966. Chromex Nickel Mines Ltd. D. L. Hings. November 28, 1966. The Granby Mining Company Limited. P. E. Lane and N. R. Paterson. September 22,1966. 244 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued Geographic Position Property Kind of Work ^H •a Owner or Principal ci 73 o Author of Report % y >> s 1° Quadr. Quarter Date of Submission of Report t: 0 o o 4= O u o o ft O 0 o 49° 118° S.W. Boundary Creek No. 1 and July Creek No. 1 Groups (PP claims) Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited. A. R. Rattew. October 8,1965. 703 X — 49° 118° S.W. Boundary Creek No. 1 Group (PP claims) Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited. Earl F. Elstone. October 8,1965. 706 X X 49° 118° S.W. Brandon, Marshal, Tio Buracho, Glenside, Little Annie, and Little Brown claims H. H. Shear and I. McCallum. H. H. Shear. November 1,1966. 827 X X 49° 118° N.E. Don Nos 47 nnd 48 801 X Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. J. P. Weeks. September 2, 1966. 49° 118° S.W. H & M Groups (Lady of the Lake, Silver Duck, Rob Roy, Falcon) Joseph Paradis. S. A. Mouritsen. August 2,1966. 805 X X 49° 118° N.E. Hope and Don Claims (Waterloo Crown grant) . 817 x Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. J. P. Weeks. October 5, 1966. 49° 118° S.W. July Creek No. 1 Group and Boundary Creek No. 1 Group (PP and Scurry claims) Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited. P. E. Lane. October 8,1965. 705 X 49° 118° S.W. July Creek No. 1 Group (PP claims) ._ 704 X Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited. Earl F. Elstone. October 8, 1965. 49° 118° N.E. Kingfisher, r>ndge, and Par claims 812 — X J. A. McDougall. S. A. Mouritsen. August 16, 1966. 49° 118° S.W. Moe Claim Group 785 X The Granby Mining Company Limited. P. E. Lane and G. W. Faessler. June 21, 1966. 49° 118° S.W. Stan Group (F.hnlt) 768 X King Resources Company. M. C. Robinson. May 20, 1966. 49° 118° S.W. Wendy Group 835 X X X James Forshaw. Robert Wolfe. October 14, 1966. 49° 119° N.E. Alta, Springfield, King Solomon, and Queen of Sheba claims.... King Resources Company and O. V. Burkinshaw. M. C. Robinson. April 19, 1966. 770 X 49° 119° S.W. Blue Bell, Bertha, Moly, Huts, Whistler, Treasury, Ianto, Cat, California, Chukar, Osoyoos-Heclar, Dividend, Manx, Eagle, Lakeview, Quail, Bullfrog, Bullseye, Gem, Copper King, Tiger, Molka, Orient, Lion claims Torbrit Silver Mines Limited. E. L. Gregotski and P. E. Lane. May 30, 1966. 808 X 49° 119° N.W. Camp Group (C.H. and Lyla claims) King Resources Company, O. V. Burkinshaw, D. Longacre, E. H. Ewer. M. C. Robinson. April 1, 1966. 766 X LODE METALS Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued 245 Geographic Position 1° Quadr. Quarter Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 49° 119° 49° 119° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 120° 49° 122° 49° 123° 49° 125° 49° 125° 49° 125° 11 S.W. N.W. S.E. N.E. N.W. S.W. N.E. N.E. N.W. N.W. N.E. N.E. N.W. N.E. N.W. S.W. N.E. Penx Group (Penticton and Apex claims) W. Wallin and M. Streber. B. K. McKnight. August 18, 1966. Silver King Group (Rat and Big Daddy claims) O. V. Burkinshaw. M. C. Robinson. October 15, 1965. Bern Group (Voight Camp). Cumont Mines Limited. E. M. Wilson. November 18,1966. Brenda Lake Group (McK, Wilson, and Ian claims). Komo Explorations Ltd. R. Philp. December 13, 1966. Doe, Gay, Kane, Salem, and A.K. claims _ T.C. Explorations Ltd. P. Sullivan. October 31, 1966. Elk, Ilk and Ni claims.. The Hanna Mining Company. Robert A. Bell. January 20,1966. ELN Group . D. W. Smellie. D. W. Smellie. April 29,1966. ELN Group.. D. W. Smellie. D. W. Smellie. May 24,1966. Independence Group (FRM, Low, Ponoka claims). Bethex Explorations Ltd. C. J. Coveney and R. P. Chilcott. October 29, 1965. Independence Group (Ponoka, FRM claims) Bethex Explorations Ltd. R. K. Watson and P. E. Lane. October 29,1965. SHR and JOY Groups ____ D. W. Smellie. D. W. Smellie. May 24,1966. Tail, Head, Sun, and Noon. Christina Lake Mines Ltd. D. W. Smellie and M. K. Lorimer. November 30,1966. Max claims D. R. Cochrane. D. R. Cochrane. June 15, 1966. Zel claims_ Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. W. Leszczyszyn. August 30,1965. Cream and Bear claims Frank A. Lang. D. L. Hings. September 23, 1966. Lone Cone No. 13 (Meares) Lindale Copper Mines Ltd. J. J. McDougall. March 9,1965. ME Group.. 803 838 864 751 760 779 707 708 778 850 782 752 826 739 839 f X Mt. Washington Copper Co. Ltd. W. G. Stevenson. November 10, 1966. 246 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued Geographic Position 1° Quadr. Quarter Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 49° 125° 49° 126° 49° 126° 50° 116° 50° 117° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° 50° 120° S.E. N.E. N.E. N.W. S.E. N.E. N.W. S.W. N.W. S.W. N.E. N.E. N.W. S.W. S.W. S.W. N.E. Orphan Boy claims_ Alberni Mines Ltd. R. Jury. June 17, 1966. Nimpkish Copper Group (N.C. claims) Empire Development Company Limited. John C. Lund. February 3,1966. Oktwansh Group- Empire Development Company Limited. John C. Lund. February 2, 1966. Lead Queen Group . Silverton Explorations Ltd. H. C. B. Leitch. June 14, 1966. KAT Group D. W. Smellie. D. W. Smellie. September 28,1966. BEE Group.. Mineral Mountain Mining Co. Ltd. Joseph Sullivan. April 28, 1966. Bell, Bill, Keith claims Merritt Copper Syndicate. D. L. Hings. January 13, 1966. Bruce, Pick claims Cleveland Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. F. J. Hemsworth. September 8, 1966. Eden 1-20 New Indian Mines Ltd. and Vananda Explorations Ltd. F. J. Hemsworth. January 19, 1966. Eve Group_ Arthur Lake. R. E. Renshaw. June 6, 1966. Hal claims Madison Oils Limited. E. P. Sheppard and John F. Schaefle. October 14,1966. Hal claims- Madison Oils Limited. E. P. Sheppard. September 28, 1966. Lux claims.. Canzac Mines Ltd. A. R. Dodds. February 4,1966. Mid East, North, and South Groups Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. J. P. Weeks. April 26, 1966. Mid East, South East, South West, and North Groups.. Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. J. P. Weeks. March 21,1966. Mid East, South West, South East, and North Groups.. Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. J. P. Weeks. March 2, 1966. Mix claims _ Continental Potash Corporation Limited. E. B. Nicholls. December 13,1965. 777 728 743 796 824 772 736 802 711 795 820 821 781 764 749 737 725 LODE METALS Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued 247 Geographic Position Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 1° Quadr. Quarter 1 o a. u a 73 u '3> o 75 P O 73 _u in >> J3 a o u o *3 •s o 0 50° 120° N.E. S.W. S.E. N.E. N.E. S.E. S.E. N.W. N.W. N.W. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. N.E. 742 763 727 722 723 748 724 755 784 762 854 848 786 855 735 853 806 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 50° 120° Rolling Hills Copper Mines Ltd. E. B. Nicholls. January 4, 1966. 50° 120° 50° 120° Ramada Mines Limited. F. J. Hemsworth. May 16,1966. RO, Lorna, and I.C. claims Vanco Explorations Limited. W. G. Wahl, A. R. Rattew, and J. C. Denholm. December 14, 1965. — 50° 120° Consolidated Negus Mines Ltd. E. B. Nicholls. December 13, 1965. 50° 120° Bata Resources Limited. E. B. Nicholls. December 13, 1965. 50° 120° Ramada Mines Limited. F. J. Hemsworth. March 24, 1966. 50° 120° Rolling Hills Copper Mines Limited. A. R. Rattew and J. G. Denholm. January 4, 1966. 50° 120° Boraway Mines Ltd. Harvey H. Cohen. March 21,1966. W.D.R. Group No. 1 and No. 2 x 50° 121° Valley Copper Mines Limited. J. M. Allen. May 18,1966. 50° 121° San Jacinto Explorations Limited. Robert A. Bell and Philip G. Hallof. March 21,1966. 50° 121° Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd. G. E. White. December 13, 1966. X 50° 121° Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd. N. B. Vollo. November 25, 1966. 50° 121° Glen Echo Mines Limited. H. S. Wilson. July 26,1966. 50° 121° T.C. Explorations Ltd. Harold O. Seigel and A. C. Skerl. December 7, 1966. 50° 121° 50° 121° Torwest Resources (1962) Ltd. A.C.A. Howe and J. C. Rowntree. February 9, 1966. P.M., P.I.M., Bron, IL, and Oversight T.C. Explorations Ltd. A. F. Roberts and A. C. Skerl. December 7,1966. Rez 1-6 X X North Pacific Mines Ltd. Alfred R. Allen. July 5, 1966. 248 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued Geographic Position 1° Quadr. Quarter Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 50° 121° 50° 121° 50° 123° 50° 123° 50° 125° 50° 125° 50° 126° 50° 126° 50° 126° 50° 127° 50° 127° 50° 127° 50° 127° 51° 117° 51° 118° 51° 119° 51° 120° S.E. N.W. S.E. S.W. S.E. N.E. S.W. S.W. S.W. N.W. N.W. N.W. N.E. N.W. S.E. S.E. S.W. N.E. Rio West and East Groups Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration Limited. L. B. Gatenby. May 10, 1966. Valley Copper Nos. 12 and 13 Groups Valley Copper Mines Limited. J. M. Allen. March 21,1966. Elk claims _ _ Mining Corporation of Canada (1964) Limited. W. Rainboth. April 21, 1966. Robin and Stib claims G. Harold Clarke and Len Belliveau. E. Percy Sheppard. October 7,1966. Nab and Lake Groups.. Big Lake Mines Ltd. Franklin L. C. Price. September 22, 1966. Salal Creek Molybdenite Property Amax Exploration, Inc. D. K. Mustard, P. E. Fox, and R. A. Barker. November 18, 1965. Hazel and Alpha claims.. Empire Development Company Limited. Andrew R. Dodds. October 26, 1966. Hazel, Alpha and Pie claims (Kinman Group). Empire Development Company Limited. John Lamb and John C. Lund. October 26,1966. Zip claims.. Cominco Ltd. A. C. N. deVoogd. May 19,1966. Bay claims.. Utah Construction & Mining Co. G. A. Noel. February 28,1966. Bay claims . Utah Construction & Mining Co. G. A. Noel. February 28, 1966. Bay and Cove claims. Utah Construction & Mining Co. G. A. Noel. January 17,1966. Wanokana 1-6 — Utah Construction & Mining Co. G. A. Noel. September 9,1966. Bobbie Burns Group (KM claims) _ Hellroaring Silver Lead Ltd. S. J. Hunter. December 21,1966. Hiren, Copeland, Jordan, and Revelstoke Groups.. King Resources Company. George A. Wilson. April 29, 1966. Leemac, Boomae, B-Mac, and Star Kamstar Mines Ltd. Clemens T. Pasieka. June 17,1966. Friendly Lake No. 1 (RO, SO)_ 780 750 756 837 852 709 832 831 765 731 738 710 804 865 776 807 788 Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21, 1966. LODE METALS Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued 249 Geographic Position 1° Quadr. Quarter Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 51° 120° 51° 120° 51° 120° 51° 120° 51° 120° 51° 120° 52° 121° 52° 121° 52° 122° 53° 127° 53° 127° 53° 127° 54° 124° 54° 124° 54° 124° 54° 124° 54° 124° N.E. N.E. N.E. N.E. N.E. N.E. S.E. N.W. N.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. N.E. N.E. N.W. S.E. N.E. Friendly Lake No. 2 (RO) Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21, 1966. Friendly Lake No. 2 (SO) Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21, 1966. Friendly Lake No. 3 (RO, SO).. Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21,1966. Friendly Lake No. 4 (RO)-. Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21, 1966. Friendly Lake No. 4 (RO, SO). Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21, 1966. Friendly Lake No. 5 (RO, SO). Anaconda American Brass Limited. P. E. Hirst. July 21, 1966. Limecap, Copperridge, and Morehead . Milestone Mining & Development Co. Ltd. C. B. Selmser. October 11,1966. Marnie and Kate claims— — Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd. S. W. Wright. December 9,1966. GM Group.. Keevil Mining Group Limited. Richard Addison. February 14, 1966. Ace claims Omineca Sixty Four Syndicate. D. C. Malcolm. February 3,1966. Deuce claims Omineca Sixty Four Syndicate. D. C. Malcolm. February 3, 1966. Ice 1-8 Northwest 66 Syndicate. D. C. Malcolm. February 3,1966. Ban claims Cominco Ltd. D. W. Heddle. November 16, 1965. Merc claims Cominco Ltd. D. W. Heddle. November 24,1965. Ora claims Cominco Ltd. D. W. Heddle. December 29,1965. Pinchi Group (Wilmar and Mar claims).. Cominco Ltd. D. W. Heddle. June 7,1966. Will claims 789 754 790 791 753 792 815 862 744 730 732 Cominco Ltd. D. W. Heddle. December 29,1965. 716 720 774 719 250 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued Geographic Position Property Kind of Work ^- 73 0 Owner or Principal d 73 0 1° Quadr. Quarter Author of Report Date of Submission of Report 0 u '5a 0. B u 0 & 0 u 0 u 0 m O 0 0 54° 125° S.E. Garnett Group (Poop and End claims) 867 X United Buffadison Mines Limited. Ian F. Morton. August 30, 1966. 54° 125° S.E. T.nrne claims 787 X X X Amax Exploration, Inc. N. Shepherd and R. A. Barker. June 16,1966. 54° 125° S.E. RI claims 715 X X Glenn Explorations Limited. E. B. Nicholls. January 31, 1966. 54° 126° N.W. Big Onion Property 830 X Texas Gulf Sulphur Company. J. B. Boniwell. September 16, 1966. 54° 126° N.E. Code claims . .. 799 X Julian Mining Co. Ltd. Roderick Macrae. June 9, 1966. 54° 126° N.W. Huber and Mineral Hill claims 757 X Molymine Explorations Ltd. A. R. Dodds. April 14, 1966. 54° 126° N.E. Jen claims 810 X X R. Wolfe. D. R. Cochrane. August 18, 1966. 54° 126° N.E. Ketza claims 844 X x J. H. Montgomery. D. R. Cochrane. September 9, 1966. 54° 126° N.W. Len, Wedge, Silver Fox, Ruth claims 726 X Copper Ridge Mines Ltd. C. B. Selmser. February 9, 1966. 54° 126° S.W. Morice Mountain Prospect (Van, Wid, Wyk claims) 797 X Amax Exploration, Inc. P. G. Hallof and D. B. Sutherland. August 8, 1966. 54° 126° N.E. Rum claims - 811 X X R. Wolfe. D. R. Cochrane. August 18, 1966. 54° 128° N.E. Dug claims. _ ... 798 X X Amax Exploration, Inc. D. J. Murphy and P. W. Richardson. August 25, 1966. 54° 128° S.E. Grade, ALG, ELM, T, DA, GR, DAKO claims 758 X Francois Lake Mines Limited and National Explorations Lim ited. E. Amendolagine. March 11, 1966. 54° 128° S.E. Kitimat River M0S2 Property (Hony, Bee, Ell, Liza, Barbs, Mel, etc. claims) Amax Exploration, Inc. R. A. Bell and D. B. Sutherland. May 27, 1966. 775 X 54° 128° S.E. Kitimat River M0S2 Property (Hony, Bee, Ell, Liza, Barbs, Mel, etc. claims) Amax Exploration, Inc. A. C. Gambardella and P. W. Richardson. August 26,1966. 818 X X 54° 128° S.W. Knob claims - — 823 X G. L. Oates. E. E. Mason. September 1, 1966. LODE METALS Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued 251 Geographic Position 1° Quadr. Quarter Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 54° 128° 54° 128° 54° 128° 55° 124° 55° 125° 55° 126° 55° 126° 55° 127° 55° 129° 55° 129° 55° 129° 56° 126° 56° 129° 56° 130° 56° 130° N.E. N.E. N.E. S.W. N.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. N.E. S.E. S.E. S.E. S.W. 56° 129° | S.W. N.E. N.W. Lynda and Sno claims.. Amax Exploration, Inc. P. R. Kennedy and P. W. Richardson. September 20,1966. M.C. ciaims._ SQ Coast Range Explorations Ltd. R. E. Chaplin. July 12, 1966. claims Coast Range Explorations Ltd. Robert E. Chaplin and Donald W. Smellie. August 5, 1966. Night Hawk Group (S.K. and R.T. claims) David L. Moore. J. P. Jemmett and H. Veerman. November 24, 1966. Bob claims North Star Explorations Ltd. Gavin Dirom. September 19,1966. B ee claims F. Chow and T. Rolston. W. M. Sirola. April 6, 1966. Kam claims D. MacRae, F. Chow, and T. Rolston. W. M. Sirola. March 10, 1966. Tee claims _ Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited. B. E. Lowes and S. N. Charteris. August 1, 1966. Kinskuch Property.. Forest Kerr Mines Ltd. E. Amendolagine. September 17,1965. Moly claims. Bell Molybdenum Mines Limited. W. R. Bacon. September 26,1966. Snafu claims- 843 829 800 851 816 761 746 793 712 814 794 Nass River Mines Limited. P. G. Hallof and F. Charlton. June 21,1966. Kaza Group (Fred claims).. North Star Explorations Ltd. W. H. White and A. J. Sinclair. September 19, 1966. Aztec Group (B.C. claims).. Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. G. Bird and L. Adie. April 13,1966. Mobile claims _ Anglo United Development Corporation Limited. H. L. Hill and M. K. Lorimer. March 4,1966. C. A. claims _ — 833 I X 759 | X 745 | 836 Silver Ridge Mining Co. Ltd. L. J. Manning. September 30,1966. E and L claims _ 741 Silver Standard Mines Limited. W. M. Sharp. February 4, 1966. 252 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Reports Credited for Assessment, 1966—Continued Geographic Position 1° Quadr. Quarter Property Owner or Principal Author of Report Date of Submission of Report Kind of Work 56° 131° 57° 130° 57° 131° 57° 131° 57° 131° 57° 131° 57° 131° 58° 128° 58° 129° 58° 129° 58° 129° 58° 129° 58° 132° 59° 127° 59° 130° 59° 136° N.E. S.W. S.E. N.W. S.W. S.W. N.W. S.W. S.W. S.W. S.W. S.W. N.W. N.E. N.E. N.W. Don, Son, Pang and Bron claims- Tuksi Mining & Development Company Limited, Copper Soo Mining Company Limited, and Cominco Ltd. G. Parsons. May 6,1966. AC and Alpha claims. Stikine River Mines Ltd. R. H. Dawson and A. O. Hall. October 4, 1966. CW claims . Conwest Exploration Company Limited. A. R. Dodds. March 21,1966. Gordon claims Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited. P. G. Hallof. August 29,1966. Rex, Sal, Rum claims.. New Indian Mines Ltd. D. H. James. December 21,1965. S.C. claims... Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited. D. H. James. December 20,1965. Shakes East Group and Shakes West Group (MH claims).. Stikine Iron Mines Ltd. J. F. Mclntyre. March 8, 1966. B and N claims Francis Bull and Material Trucking Co. Ltd. C. F. Millar. September 26, 1966. Horn claims United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. R. D. Westervelt. December 6,1966. May claims . Newconex Canadian Exploration Limited. J. S. Ives. May 17,1966. Moss claims Lytton Minerals Limited. D. W. Asbury. November 2, 1966. November claims.. Lytton Minerals Limited. D. W. Asbury. November 28,1966. Sparling and Banker Groups— New Taku Mines Limited. C. B. Selmser. September 9,1966. Beaver, Bear, Moose claims- Magnet Cove Barium Corporation Ltd. H. C. Bickel. April 21,1966. Amy Group.. Rancheria Mining Company Limited. W. H. Gross. August 9, 1965. C and E claims- G. J. Curzon and W. M. Erwin. W. M. Erwin. December 17,1965. 769 846 747 847 I .... I X 733 713 773 | X 825 849 X 771 X 845 | ._ f X ( X X 842 X 841 X 767 — X 734 X X 740 X X Placer Page 254 CONTENTS Atlin Mining Division Squaw Creek Spruce Creek ... . ._ 254 254 254 Pine Creek .... McKee Creek . 254 Liard Mining Division 254 254 McDame Creek Dease Lake . ...... . 254 254 255 255 255 255 Wheaton Creek Limpoke Creek _ . Hyland River Omineca Mining Division Manson Creek ... _ . Cariboo Mining Division . 255 Lightning Creek 255 255 255 Coulter Creek Williams Creek.. Grouse Creek ■ . . 255 256 256 256 Antler Creek Cedar Creek .. . Keithley Creek Morehead Creek ... 256 Clinton Mining Division . 257 257 257 257 257 257 257 257 258 Fairless Creek and Borin Creek . Lillooet Mining Division . .. Fraser River ... Nelson Mining Division Goat River Fort Steele Mining Division.... Moyie River Maus Creek .... . Lisbon Creek . —. 258 Golden Mining Division Findlay Creek 258 258 253 254 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 ATLIN MINING DIVISION (By H. Bapty) Squaw Creek (59° 137° N.E.) Ad Astra Minerals Ltd. is reported to have bulldozed approximately 4,630 yards of gravel with a D-8 Caterpillar tractor. Spruce Creek (59° 133° N.W.) Noland Mines Limited employed two men who sluiced 3,500 yards of gravel. Allan V. Mattson, helped by one other man, in 21 days sluiced 1,000 yards of gravel. Assessment work was done on the leases of Spruce Creek Placers Limited. Pine Creek (59° 133° N.W.) On P.M.L. 705 Karl Sieger, with three helpers, sluiced 500 yards. On P.M.L. 1476 one man in early August stripped 1,000 yards of overburden with a bulldozer. On P.M.L. 1382 Fred Graham, at intervals throughout the summer, sluiced 400 yards. William Husselbee sluiced 1,250 yards. This was done between the end of June and the middle of September. In August, S. R. Craft, with the help of two men, removed 1,500 yards by dragline. McKee Creek (59° 133° S.W.) Luigi Piccolo reported hydraulicking 10,000 yards of gravel. Two men were employed throughout the total working period. Time was also spent on flume- building and dam construction. Bruce Morton, with the help of one man, hydraulicked 29,000 yards of gravel. Considerable time was spent on rebuilding flume and constructing a pressure box. LIARD MINING DIVISION (By W. G. Clarke) McDame Creek (59° 129° S.E.) George Zimick continued to work his leases at Centreville. Previously he moved gravel with a monitor, but now he is clearing the old tailings with a bulldozer. The upturned slate bedrock is cleaned and is bulldozed into a sluice-box. Some coarse nuggets were recovered. Dease Lake (59° 130° N.E.) Ben Seywerd and Ben Able reported a good year. They recovered several boulders of good-quality jade from the Greengold jade leases on Sawmill Creek. John Stumpf, who has a lease farther up Sawmill Creek, recovered one jade boulder. Wheaton Creek (58° 128° S.W.) C O. and D. Davis are reported to have had three men and a dragline scraper working on the lease they purchased from Eric Larson. They are producing jade as well as gold. Jack Fillion and Walter Elliot worked Earl Faulkner's ground, on a royalty basis. PLACER 255 Gerry Davis flew several thousand pounds of jade out to Dease Lake from his lease on Wheaton Creek. Limpoke Creek (57° 131° N.W.) It has been reported that a small suction dredge was flown into Limpoke Creek by helicopter to test old placer ground. Hyland River (59° 128° N.E.) Brycon Explorations Ltd. (742 Denman Street, Vancouver 5) made some tests on leases formerly worked by Steve Serli. The equipment consisted of a Vz - yard back-hoe and a washing plant. Four men worked for about three months. Steve Serli was in charge of the work. OMINECA MINING DIVISION Manson Creek (55° 124° N.W.) (By W. G. Clarke) Two suction dredges worked for a short time on leases held by The Martin Mines Limited (Mrs. W. Tait, president). A small dredge, with an 8-inch suction head, built and owned by Ike Arn, of Penticton, operated on Manson Creek just below Slate Creek. A larger dredge, with an 11-inch suction head, owned by Grizzley Gold Mines Ltd. of Penticton and built by Mr. Arn, worked on Germansen River. Some gold recovery was reported. Lincoln Enterprises Limited (Mrs. Letitia Bown, president) had a small washing plant on Manson Creek, south of the village. Mining was done with a small front-end loader which dumped onto an elevating conveyor, which discharged into a bin that fed five sluice-boxes. A crew of about six men worked all summer. CARIBOO MINING DIVISION Lightning Creek (53° 122° S.E.) (By W. G. Clarke) Tom Crawford rebuilt the road to his leases upstream from Stanley. He has installed a small monitor and is continuing to work upstream from the old Vancouver shaft. Coulter Creek (53° 121° S.W.) (By W. G. Clarke) Fleurmont Placer Development Ltd. reported that three men worked its leases for a short time. Williams Creek (53° 121° S.E.) (By W. G. Clarke) Benischke Mines Ltd. built a ditch into its lease east of the Barkerville museum. Grouse Creek (53° 121° S.E.) (By W. G. Clarke) Grouse Creek Company office, 514, 615 West Pender Street, Vancouver 2. Mines Ltd. D. G. McRae, president. This property is 5 miles from Barkerville and is connected by a gravel road. In 1966 the No. 2 shaft, 9J/2 by 5V2 feet, two compartments, was sunk to a depth of 61 feet and a drift was driven 56 feet below the collar for a distance of 69 feet. When the gutter could not be found, the shaft was abandoned. An attempt was made to 256 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 reopen the old Heron shaft, but this had to be abandoned. A new incline was collared at the creek to intersect the old workings. At the bottom of the incline a drift was driven in bedrock parallel to the old stopes and slightly above them. Some 8 to 9 ounces of very coarse gold was reported to have been recovered. The camp has accommodation for 15 men and consists of a cook-house, dry-house, three bunk- houses, and a trailer. Mine equipment includes a 150-cubic-feet-per-minute compressor, a 30-horsepower hoist, a mucking-machine, three cars, pumps, drills, fans, etc. An average crew of seven to eight men worked throughout the year under various supervisors. The Kloopman brothers continued hydraulicking on Andy McGuire's lease above Grouse Creek Mines Ltd. Andy McGuire spent the summer farther up the creek on his other lease. Antler Creek (53° 121° S.E.) (By W. G. Clarke) J. Warawa (Three J's Mining Company) had four men and a D-4 Caterpillar reopening an old channel on Beggs Gulch. Mr. Kelly did some work at California Gulch. Cedar Creek (52° 121° N.E.) (By T. M. Waterland) Spanish Placers Ltd. leased the Ogden placer-mining leases Nos. 5907 and 5908, located 600 feet above Quesnel Lake on the north side of Cedar Creek, and by early July had nearly completed preparatory work. A 20- by 40- by 8-foot sluice plant has been built and lined with %-inch M.S. plate. The sluice-plate was to feed a 30-inch sluice-box. Placer gravels are to be loaded into a truck with a caterpillar front-end loader and hauled to the sluice-plate. Water was to be pumped from a small dam by a 14- by 12-inch Myron Jackson diesel-powered pump and fed to a monitor through a 12-inch hydraulic pipe. Tailings were to be impounded by a brush dam built below the sluice-box. Two men worked at the property with Mr. Doug Harris acting as manager. Keithley Creek (52° 121° N.E.) (By T. M. Waterland) Ernest Lang, with two men, worked on his underground placer operation on P.M.L. 3829, about 1,700 feet below the confluence of Snowshoe and Keithley Creeks. A 25-foot vertical shaft has been sunk in the placer gravels, and a drift is being driven in the opposite direction to the one driven the previous year. Compressed air is provided by a 100-cubic-feet-per-minute gasoline-powered compressor and water is removed with a gasoline-powered pump. Charles H. Pitt, of Vernon, is a partner in this operation. The crew lives in a cabin at the mine. Access is via a dirt road for 8 miles from the mouth of Keithley Creek and thence by about 2 miles of jeep-road to the property. Morehead Creek (52° 121° N.W.) McMartin Explora- Company office, 1232 Flury Road, Richmond. N. Pente- tions Ltd. cost, president. The company operated No. 9 and No. 6 mon- (Byt.m.waterland) jtors on Little Lake Creek, a tributary to Morehead Creek. Water for the monitors is fed through about 1,000 feet of 40-inch pipe, and the gravel is hydraulicked through a 40-inch sluice. Work at the property was supervised by Arthur Christmas. PLACER 257 CLINTON MINING DIVISION Fairless Creek and Borin Creek (51° 122° S.W.) Fairborn Mines Company office, 401, 402 West Pender Street, Vancouver 3. Ltd. James L. Frese, field manager. The property consists of 12 (Byt.m.waterland) placer leases on Fairless and Borin Creeks at about 5,000 feet elevation on Black Dome Mountain, some 50 miles northwest of Clinton. Access is by road from Clinton. Work was done over a six-month period and consisted of surface clearing, some 2,000 feet of bulldozer trenching for testing purposes, and construction of 3 miles of road. All work was done by the company. An average of four men was employed under the supervision of Mr. Frese. The property was not visited. LILLOOET MINING DIVISION Fraser River (50° 121° N.W.) P.M.L. 862 (North- Company address, Box 677, Lillooet. Marvin Allex, man- west Underwater ager. The Big Slide Mining Company optioned P.M.L. 862, Mining Co.) located on the Fraser River just upstream from the junction (By t. m. waterland) or xexas Creek from Northwest Underwater Mining Co., and at year-end was preparing a dredge for operation. The dredge consists of a compartmentalized plywood barge on which is mounted a centrifugal pump powered by an industrial gasoline engine. The placer gravels are to be pumped through a 4-inch-diameter pipe and run over riffles and an " undercurrent box." The intake pipe can be moved about by means of hydraulic cylinders. The coarse gravels and light sands are to be discharged into the river, and the black sands are then to be taken ashore and panned with a pan-o-matic panner powered by a gasoline engine. NELSON MINING DIVISION Goat River (49° 116° S.W.) Goat River Placer Office address, 1222—18th Street Northwest, Calgary, Alta. (By p. e. oison) Ten placer leases were located on Goat River, about 2 miles east of the Creston-Rykerts highway. A geologist, Stanley Lewicki, investigated the area for A. C. Halvorson, of Warner, Alta. Some testing was done with a front-end loader near a government gravel pit on the north side of the river. Subsequently, a large-scale testing programme was launched, using a semi-portable concentrator, a 1-cubic-yard dragline, a 100-kva. generator, a D-6 bulldozer, and a double-deck vibrating screen. The concentrator, which was built in Edmonton, used some new principles, such as vortexes and cyclones, to remove placer gold from gravel. No gold was recovered, and the operation was shut down. FORT STEELE MINING DIVISION Moyie River (49° 115° S.W.) (By D. R. Morgan) Early in 1966 T. O. Bloomer and P. Kotush, of Kimberley, did a small amount of work in one of the adits on the Monilee at the lower end of the falls on Moyie River. Further operations were abandoned later in the spring. _J 258 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Maus Creek (49° 115° N.W.) Maus Minerals Registered office, 209 British Canadian Trust Building, Leth- Ltd. bridge, Alta. G. R. Castles, president. This company, (By d. r. Morgan) formed in 1964, holds a controlling interest in four placer leases on Maus Creek, 4 miles east of Fort Steele. The property contains two shallow shafts that have been sunk to bedrock. A crew of three men extended a small drift at the bottom of the Strickland shaft during a short period in June, 1966. Lisbon Creek (49° 115° N.W.) (By D. R. Morgan) R. F. Williams and W. Kludash, of Kimberley, extended the adit they have on their placer lease at the confluence of Lisbon and Perry Creeks a distance of 15 feet during the summer of 1966. The work was confined to week-ends. GOLDEN MINING DIVISION Findlay Creek (50° 115° S.W.) (By D. R. Morgan) Three placer-mining leases at and upstream from the confluence of Deer and Findlay Creeks, 12 miles west of Canal Flats, were held by A. E. Hobbs and A. C. Halvorson. The two partners made an attempt to operate equipment that was brought in at the latter part of 1965. The equipment was found to be unsuitable and was removed. Roy McKellor, of Calgary, Alta., working alone for a few weeks during the summer of 1966, hydraulicked and sluiced approximately 150 yards of gravel from his P.M.L. 261 on the south side of Findlay Creek downstream from the confluence of Deer Creek, 12 miles west of Canal Flats. Structural Materials and Industrial Minerals Asbestos CONTENTS Page . 259 Barite 260 Building-stone 261 Cement 262 Clay and Shale 263 Diatomite . 265 Dolomite 265 Fluorite 265 Gypsum 266 Limestone 267 Magnesite 270 Marl 270 Phosphate 271 Pozzolan 271 Sand and Gravel 271 Silica 276 Talc 276 ASBESTOS Cassiar Asbestos Mount McDame (59° 129° S.W.). Head office, 1001, 85 Corporation Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ont.; mine office, Cassiar. Limited J. D. Christian, president; A. C. Beguin, general superin- (By w. g. ciarke) tendent. The property, which consists of 42 Crown-granted claims and five leased claims, is 86 miles by road southwesterly from Mile 648.8 on the Alaska highway. The open-pit mine is on the top of Mount McDame, between 5,900 and 7,000 feet elevation, while the mill and townsite are in Troutline Creek valley at 3,500 feet elevation. Annual production increased again in 1966. Slightly more than 900,000 tons of ore was mined from seven benches between 5,900 and 6,110 feet elevation, and almost 4,500,000 tons of waste was mined from 16 benches between 5,900 and 6,710 feet elevation. The rock-reject plant at the mine treated 642,217 tons, rejecting 181,477 tons or 28 per cent. A total of 720,231 tons of concentrates and raw ore was delivered to the mill, about 70 per cent by tram-line and the remainder by truck. The mill produced 87,901 tons of fibre. There were approximately 500 employees. While there was no new plant construction in 1966, services were extended in the townsite and one Pan-abode and two frame houses were built. Two new power units were installed at the plant. A tractor and a front-end loader were purchased. (See Annual Report, 1960, pp. 127-128.) 259 260 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Ace (Canadian (58° 132° N.E.) Company office, P.O. Box 1500, Asbes- Johns-Manville tos, Que.; British Columbia office, 1955 West Fourth Ave- Company Limited) nue, Vancouver 9. E. L. Mann, chief geologist. This com- (ByH. Bapty) pany investigated 15 mineral claims held by record on a chrysotile asbestos showing. The claims are 77 miles southeast of Atlin, about 4 miles due west of Nahlin Mountain, at the head of Teditua Creek, a tributary of the Inklin River. Two geologists, C. Aspinal and C. Stadler, with two assistants worked for two months mapping the claims geologically. They also ran a magnetometer survey along a base-line. Some regional geochemical sampling and prospecting were done. Chrysotile fibre was found within serpentinized peridotite. Transportation was by helicopter. The property was not visited. Kutcho Creek (58° 128° S.W.) Head office, 1001, 85 Richmond Street Asbestos (Kutcho West, Toronto, Ont.; field office, Cassiar. This company is Creek Asbestos one of the Cassiar Asbestos Corporation group. The prop- Company Limited) erty, formerly known as the Letain Asbestos Prospect, con- (By j. w. McCammon and sjsts Qf 318 claims—28 Crown granted and the rest held by record—all controlled by the company. The main showings are 2Vi miles northeast of Letain Lake, about 50 miles east of the south end of Dease Lake. The deposit consists of cross-fibre chrysotile asbestos fissure fillings in a serpentinized peridotite stock. The serpentine host rock outcrops along the top of a ridge and is visible for miles. During 1966, 17 men worked for five months under the direction of W. N. Plumb, chief geologist. M. S. Bell, geologist, was in charge of the field work. Early in the year some 290 tons of equipment and supplies were taken in by " Cat " train from Dease Lake. During the summer months there was a weekly supply flight from Good Hope Lake. A camp, consisting of eight tents on frames and one prefabricated building, was erected on the property. An access road, 12,000 feet long, was built from the camp to Letain Lake, where a small dock was constructed. A considerable area around the showings was mapped geologically, 10 line miles of ground magnetometer survey was run, 24,400 feet of trenching was bulldozed, and six NX-WL diamond-drill holes totalling 3,277 feet were drilled. BARITE Mountain Minerals Company office, P.O. Box 700, 529 Sixth Street South, Leth- Limited bridge, Alta. R. A. Thrall, managing director; William (By d. r. Morgan) McPherson, superintendent. This company owns and oper ates two barite properties in the Columbia valley, south of Golden. One is at Brisco (50° 116° N.E.) and the other at Parson (51° 116° S.W.). They are worked at alternate periods by the same crew of men. A detailed description of both properties has been given in past Annual Reports. Most of the activity in 1966 was at the Brisco operation, where a crew of three men mined and crushed 7,353 tons of crude barite and shipped it to the company's processing plant at Lethbridge. The barite was mined from the underground drift below the No. 1 quarry, and was crushed at a small plant near the railway siding at Brisco. Approximately 140 feet of development work was done in the drift. The work was carried out over a period of 10 months. From the Parson operation the men shipped 1,354 tons of chemical-grade barite to Montreal. Part of the production was mined from the underground drift and the remainder loaded from stockpile. The men were employed for two months. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 261 Baroid of Canada, Spillimacheen (50° 116° N.E.). Company office, 44 King Ltd. Street West, Toronto, Ont. J. A. Martino, president; H. K. (By d. r. Morgan) Beggs, plant superintendent. This company, a subsidiary of National Lead Company, Ltd., of Houston, Texas, operates the old Giant Mascot lead-zinc property at Spillimacheen, south of Golden, for the purpose of producing barite. The property was purchased in 1960, and since that time most of the activities have been directed to the recovery of barite from a large tailings dump left from the former operation. The tailings are loaded by front-end loader, trucked to the old mill, and crushed to a slurry by a unit that was installed in 1960. A barite concentrate is then recovered by a set of separation tables, and dewatered by a Dorrco filter. During 1966 a crew of seven men treated and recovered 12,000 tons of barite. The barite was trucked to a siding on the Kootenay Central Railway at Spillimacheen and shipped by rail to the Company's processing plant at Onaway, Alta. The men were employed for four months, and the work was suspended for the winter at the end of October. An official was left on the property for the winter months. BUILDING-STONE Layers Group Whiskey Creek (52° 122° S.E.). Company address, Box (Interior Quarries 1298, Williams Lake. In 1966 this company began oper- Ltd.) ating a stone quarry on the four-claim Layers group, 10 miles (By j. w. McCammon) northwest of Williams Lake. The claims consist of the Layers and Layers 4, located by J. J. Reimer in August, 1965, and the Layers 2 and 3, located by R. E. Williams in August, 1965. The quarry and a treatment plant are on the east bank of the Fraser River about 1 Vz miles south of the mouth of Whiskey Creek. At a sharp curve 5.8 miles north of Williams Lake, on the old river road to Soda Creek, a side road branches off to the west and zigzags down to the river. The quarry is 6.6 miles down this side road from the junction. At the quarry, nearly flat-lying interbedded cherts and argillites of the Per- mian(?) Cache Creek Group outcrop along the water at the edge of a narrow level bench. The beds are in the east limb of a north-trending anticline. Map 12-1959 of the Geological Survey of Canada shows the Cache Creek Group extending for more than 20 miles along the Fraser River in this vicinity. There cherts are in beds ranging from one-quarter inch to 8 inches or more thick. They are separated by films and thin beds of slaty argillite. The cherts vary in colour through red, rust, cream, green, and dark grey, and the argillites are brown, dark grey, and purple. The thinner chert beds are quarried in flat slabs ranging up to 4 feet long by 3 feet wide, while the thicker beds are broken into brick-sized blocks. A crushing plant consisting of a jaw crusher followed by a cone crusher and shaking screen is used to produce lA- to V^-inch chips of rock of the various colours for use as exposed aggregate and stucco dash. International Sirdar (49° 116° S.W.). Company office, 4030 Seventh Marble & Stone Street Southeast, Calgary, Alta.; plant office, Sirdar. H. Company Ltd. Rennich, manager; A. Rennich, pit superintendent; W. (By p. e. oison) Cyzborr, plant superintendent. The company operates a crushing, screening, and bagging plant near Sirdar and pits at Sirdar and Crawford Bay. Products, which are sold mainly in Alberta, include dolomite chips, limestone grit, quartzite chips, and granite poultry grit. A crusher was installed at Crawford Bay, and several women were employed to hand-sort dolomite to improve the final grade of chips. 262 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Sheep Creek (49° 117° S.E.) About 150 tons of quartzite facing-stone (By p. e. oison) was produced from talus slopes on Sheep Creek and Waldie Creek. The thickness of the stone varies from one-half inch to 4 inches. Northwestern Twin Lakes (49° 119° S.W.) Office, 1650 West First Street, Quarries Ltd. North Vancouver. In 1966 this company opened a small (By j. w. McCammon) andesite quarry 4 miles northeast of Olalla. The quarry is 3.1 miles east of Highway No. 3, on the south road into Twin (Nipit) Lakes. The road joins the highway on the east side directly opposite the Apex Mountain road, 5 miles north of Olalla. The rock in the quarry is medium to dark grey-green porphyritic andesite. It consists of scattered andesine phenocrysts 2 to 5 millimetres long with scattered pyroxene, altered olivine, and black mica phenocrysts 1 to 3 millimetres in diameter, in a groundmass of fine-grained feldspar with magnetite and secondary calcite and traces of quartz. Irregular fractures of various orientations are present. This rock is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Map 15-1961 as belonging to the Marron Formation of Eocene or Oligocene age. It is part of a lava series that strikes nearly north with a 15- to 20-degree dip to the east. It underlies an area about 16 miles long and 8 miles wide. At the quarry, talus was removed to prepare a face 100 feet wide in bare rock at the base of a 40-foot-high bluff. A portable crushing and screening plant was used to process two large piles of rock for shipment. One pile consisted of 6- to 8-inch pieces for rock facings and the other, of 1-inch pieces, for exposed aggregate. The rock was trucked to a siding at Keremeos and then moved by rail from there to Vancouver for marketing. Valley Granite Cheam View (49° 121° S.W.). Company office, 10070 Products Ltd. Timberline Place, Chilliwack; plant, Cheam View. K. (By a. r. c. James) Jessiman, general manager. The quarry and plant are on the west side of the Trans-Canada Highway about 10 miles west of Hope. A crew of six men produced approximately 8,000 tons of granite products, including poultry grits, stucco dash, and sand-blast materials. The market for sand-blast material is increasing, and a small roller crusher was installed in 1966 to increase production of this material. Ocean Cement Pitt River (49° 122° S.W.). Company office, 1295 West Limited 77th Avenue, Vancouver 14. N. D. MacRitchie, manager, (Gilley Quarry) Evco Aggregates Division; Francis J. MacDonald, quarry (By j. e. Merrett) superintendent. The quarry is on the west bank of Pitt River immediately south of its confluence with Munro Creek. During a nine-month operating period, a crew of 14 men produced 87,000 tons of quartz diorite. Columbia Marble Sechelt (49° 123° S.E.). Company office, 2356 Grandview Limited Highway, Vancouver 12; quarry, Norwest Bay Road, (By j. e. Merrett) Sechelt. K. Johnsen, manager. A crew of two men quarried 300 tons of black diorite for dimension-stone purposes from a rock outcrop one-half mile west of Wakefield Creek. CEMENT Ocean Cement Bamberton (48° 123° N.W.). Head office, north foot of Limited (B.C. Columbia Street, Vancouver 4. W. F. Foster, president. Cement Division) In 1966 this company operated four of its five kilns to pro- (By j. w. McCammon) duce 416,031 tons of cement. Installation of a new computer-controlled kiln with an annual capacity of 2,000,000 barrels was begun. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 263 Lafarge Cement of Lulu Island (49° 123° S.E.). During 1966 this company North America operated its plant over its rated capacity to produce 291,475 Ltd. tons of cement. Work on plant expansion was begun to (By j. w. McCammon) double the rated capacity by installing a second kiln, clinker- grinding mill, and raw mill. CLAY AND SHALE Mountain Minerals Canal Flats (50° 115° S.W.). Company office, P.O. Box Limited 700, 529 Sixth Street South, Lethbridge, Alta. R. A. Thrall, (By d. r. Morgan) managing director; Wm. McPherson, superintendent. This property is at the bottom of Thunder Hill, 2 miles west of Canal Flats. A crew of three men quarried and loaded 725 tons of shale at various periods in 1966. The shale was trucked to a siding at Canal Flats and shipped by rail to the company's processing plant at Lethbridge. Clayburn-Harbison (49° 122° S.E.) Head office, 1690 West Broadway, Van- Ltd. couver 9; plants, Kilgard and Abbotsford. R. M. Hunger- (By j. e. Merrett) for(j; president; G. H. Peterson, general manager; Brian Stephens, mine superintendent. Two plants are operated by this company—one at Kilgard, where sewer pipe and flue linings are manufactured, and the other at Abbotsford, where face and refractory bricks are made. Clay was produced from two underground and three open-pit operations. Nine men employed underground in the Fireclay and New Fireclay adits at Kilgard produced 29,289 tons of clay. Five men employed at the Kilgard No. 9 and Straiten pits at Kilgard and at the Selby pit, 2Vi miles east of Abbotsford, produced 52,575 tons of clay. The combined production of the two manufacturing plants was 69,072 tons. RichmixClay Kilgard (49° 122° S.E.). Office and plant, 2890 Kent Products Ltd. Avenue East, Vancouver 16; quarry, Kilgard. G. W. Rich- (By j. e. Merrett) mond, manager. The quarry is immediately south of the New Fireclay portal of Clayburn-Harbison Ltd. One man quarried 8,177 tons of fireclay and trucked it to Vancouver. Haney Brick and Haney (49° 122° S.W.). Company office and plant, Haney. Tile Limited E. G. Baynes, president; J. Hadgkiss, managing director. (By j. e. Merrett) Two men were employed removing clay from a pit and sur face scraping clay from an area adjacent to the plant, which is on the north bank of the Fraser River at Haney. Twenty-seven men were employed at the plant, which produced 10,595 tons of clay products consisting of facebrick, common brick, drain and structural tile, flue lining, and flower-pots. Pitkethly Brothers Barnet (49° 122° S.W.). Head office, 8699 Angus Drive, Building Supplies Vancouver 14; plant, Barnet. This company, formerly Limited known as Mainland Clay Products Limited, employing a (By j. e. Merrett) crew 0f mree meri) produced 1,059 tons of red clay building- bricks and firebricks at the plant adjacent to the highway on the north slope of Burnaby Mountain. Clay for the building-bricks was obtained from an adjacent pit, and fireclay was obtained from Kilgard. Operations were suspended on November 1, 1966. Fairey & Company Limited (By J. W. McCammon) Vancouver (49° 123° S.E.). L. T. Fairey, president. This company produced a variety of fireclay bricks, shapes, and cements from local and imported raw materials. 264 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 British Columbia Saturna Island (48° 123° N.E.). Head office, 475 Howe Lightweight Aggre- Street, Vancouver 1. Since September, 1959, this company gates Ltd. has produced coated light-weight aggregate by expanding (By j. w. McCammon) g^g jn a piant located on the peninsula between Winter Cove and Lyall Harbour on the north end of Saturna Island. A good road extends from the Government ferry dock at Saturna around the head of Lyall Harbour and northwest to the shale pit and plant at Winter Cove. The quarry is 100 feet south of the road one-quarter mile east of the head of Winter Cove. At the quarry an area about 500 feet wide and 1,500 feet long has been stripped of overburden. The exposed bedrock is shale of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group. It is blue-grey when fresh but weathers buff to brownish. The rock is well laminated in beds 1 to 4 inches thick that strike north 55 degrees west and dip 40 degrees northeast. Fresh rock is massive, but on exposure to the weather it soon breaks down into Vz- to 1-inch cubes. In late September, 1966, the quarry was 320 feet wide and 700 feet long parallel to the strike of the rocks. About 200 feet at the east end of the opening was filled with broken rock ready for removal to the plant. Maximum face height was 25 to 30 feet. The shale is drilled and blasted, and the broken rock is loaded by diesel shovel into a truck for haulage to the treatment plant one-quarter mile to the southwest. At the plant, raw shale is fed into a 4- by 4-foot log roll, from which it passes to a 36- by 24-inch Jeffrey hammer mill, and then to a %-inch screen. The oversize is sent to a Miller hammer mill arranged in closed circuit with the screen. Material passing through the screen is conveyed to a storage silo " day tank " that holds sufficient shale for a 24-hour kiln run. When the silo is full, the crushed rock is stored in piles beside it. From the day tank the shale is fed into a 125- by 10-foot variable-speed counter-current oil-fired rotary kiln. The shale passes through the kiln in approximately 30 minutes and reaches a temperature of between 2,100 and 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This causes the shale fragments to " bloat" or expand to form porous cinder-like individuals that acquire a thin glassy skin or outer coating and a rounded shape. From the kiln the expanded shale goes to a 90-foot-long cooler and then to an elevator which passes it on to a screening plant. Here a separation is made into four sizes, %-inch, %-inch, 4 to 8 mesh, and minus 8 mesh. The sized material is placed by a stacker into separate piles in a covered storage area. An underground recovery belt below the storage area reclaims the expanded shale and carries it through a tunnel in the ridge south of the plant to a swivel-spout loader at a deep-water floating dock on Lyall Harbour. An alternative closed-circuit screening and crushing arrangement at the end of the cooler can be used to produce smaller crushed particles for specific orders. A crew of 18 men produces 325 cubic yards of expanded shale aggregate per day. The pit and primary crushing circuit operate one shift per day for five days per week, and the rest of the plant operates 24 hours per day for seven days per week. In 1965 this company merged with Holdfast Pozzolan Limited, of Saltspring Island. The Holdfast company had produced calcined shale pozzolan at Long Harbour since 1963. British Columbia Lightweight Aggregates Ltd. uses the same shale and kiln to make pozzolan clinker as it does to make its aggregates, but the kiln is fired at a lower temperature and the shale does not expand. The calcined pozzolan clinker is shipped to a plant in South Westminster, where it is pulverized and prepared for distribution. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 265 DIATOMITE Fairey & Company Quesnel (53° 122° S.W.). Company office and plant, 661 Limited Taylor Street, Vancouver 3. L. T. Fairey, president. About (By j. w. McCammon) 70 tons of diatomite was quarried from the company-owned pit on Lot 6182 at Moose Heights and shipped to the Vancouver plant. Crownite Diatoms Quesnel (52° 122° N.W.). See write-up under " Pozzolan," Ltd. page 271 in this Report. DOLOMITE International Crawford Creek (49° 116° N.W.). See report under Marble & Stone " Building-stone," page 261 of this Report. Company Ltd. FLUORITE Eaglet Group Quesnel Lake (52° 120° N.W.). Canex Aerial Exploration (Canex Aerial Ltd. optioned this fluorite prospect from the owners, H. H. Exploration Ltd.) Forster and C. D. P. Johnson. A description of the original (Bvt m waterund? and showing was given on pages 263 and 264 in the Minister of Mines and Petroleum Resources Annual Report for 1965. The property is at the mouth of Wasko Creek, 2 miles northeast of the junction of the north and east arms of Quesnel Lake. In the summer of 1966 the company made a geochemical soil survey of part of the property and used a bulldozer to do 8,600 feet of trenching and to build 5,200 feet of access road. Four main trenches 1,500 to 2,500 feet long were dug at intervals of approximately 100 feet elevation on contours across the face of the hill west from the canyon showings. Two other trenches, 250 and 1,000 feet long, were dug up the hill perpendicular to the top contour trench. Overburden proved disappointingly deep, and bedrock was reached in only a few relatively short stretches in the trenches. The bedrock exposed is gneiss injected with aplite and some pegmatite and vein quartz. Fracturing and shearing are intense and appear to be part of a wide northeast-trending zone parallel to the mineralized zone in the canyon showings to the east. Fluorite is widely dispersed, and some can be found in nearly every outcrop visible. It occurs in veinlets, as irregular pods, in brecciated fragments, as fracture- coating films, and as disseminated grains through the coarser-grained phases of the host rock. Commonly the more concentrated areas of fluorite, especially of dark- purple material, are accompanied by a fluffy brownish black powder. This material is hydrous manganese-iron oxide, probably a form of wad. Near the east end of the third trench above the lake, some silvery white pyrite occurs in a peculiar lamellar intergrowth with quartz in a small vuggy vein. Though mineralization is widespread, concentrations are not great and the grade is low. Bulk sampling has not yet been done, so no satisfactory estimations of grade can be made. Three men worked for two months on the property under the direction of C. C. Rennie, geologist. View Group, Etc. Whiteman Creek (50° 119° S.E.). In 1966 Canex Aerial (By j. w. McCammon) Exploration Ltd. made an agreement with the owners, Fluorspar Minerals Company Ltd., to investigate a fluorite occurrence on the hill 2 miles southwest of the mouth of Whiteman Creek. This creek flows into Okanagan Lake from the west at a point Wz miles from the north end of the lake. The main road 266 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 down the west side of the lake passes within one-half mile east of the lower showings. Logging and other roads built by the company provide access from the main road to the showings. The presence of fluorite at this locality has been known for many years. It was investigated by the Department of Mines in 1944. At that time it was called the Green Gables deposit. Little was done on it then except for surface examination. In 1954 new claims were located on the same area, but no development work was done. Again in 1963-64 interest was revived and some hand and bulldozer trenching was done. In the summer of 1966 Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd. did several thousand feet of bulldozer stripping and trenching and drilled a few short diamond- drill holes. Apparently no economic bodies of fluorite were uncovered by the work done. On the property, pale-green to white and some purple fluorite occurs in irregular masses and lenses in quartz veins and fractures in granitic rock. The veining and mineralization are in a large fracture zone trending slightly west of north. The quartz veins pinch and swell rapidly, and within them the fluorite mineralization does the same. The largest fluorite masses seen were 6 inches or less thick and a few feet long. Most showings were mere films of fluorite on fracture faces. Although no large concentrations are exposed, mineralization is widespread on the hill. Oliver Silica Quarry (49° 119° S.W.) This quarry produced 150 tons of fluorite. (By j. w. McCammon) See report under this name on page 276. GYPSUM Western Gypsum Windermere (50° 115° S.W.). Head office, 2650 Lake- Mines Ltd. shore Highway, Clarkson, Ont.; Nigel Puttock, president; (By d. r. Morgan) k q French, vice-president of production. Quarry office, P.O. Box 217, Invermere. A. E. Portman, quarry manager. This company, formed in 1966 as a subsidiary of the Western Gypsum Products Limited, operates a large gypsum property on the north side of Windermere Creek, 8 miles east of Windermere. It comprises 84 claims, which are located at elevations ranging from 4,000 to 5,500 feet. Access is by means of an 11-mile private road from a company-owned crushing plant at Wilmer. The property has been in operation for many years, and a detailed description has been given in past Annual Reports. Most of the activities in 1966 were directed to the No. 3 quarry, which has been in operation since 1964. The gypsum at the quarry is over 100 feet thick. It is mined in 20-foot lifts, using AN/FO explosives, and is loaded by front-end loader. It is later transported to the mill at Wilmer in 50-ton-capacity tandem trucks. The total production shipped by rail during 1966 was 205,924 tons, of which 203,880 tons was mined from the No. 3 quarry and the remainder loaded from stockpile at the mill. A new portable primary crusher, complete with screening conveyors and a 350-ton storage bin, was installed at the quarry, and a long portion of the roadway near the foot of the mountain was relocated to straighten the road and improve the grade. More overburden was removed from the No. 3 quarry to enlarge the pit, and 14 holes, totalling 1,040 feet, were diamond drilled as part of a current exploration programme. The quarry was active throughout the year. There were 25 men employed. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 267 LIMESTONE Terrace Calcium Terrace (54° 128° N.W.). Company address, P.O. Box Products Ltd. 1269, Terrace; registered office, 4635 Lazelle Avenue, (By h. Bapty) Terrace. A. Curfman, president. The company holds 16 mineral claims by record on Copper Mountain, 6 miles east of Terrace; 12 mineral claims west of the Terrace airport; a 20-acre quarry lease on Copper Mountain; and a 20-acre mill-site adjacent to the Terrace golf course. Four men worked throughout the year under the supervision of A. Curfman. Land surveys were made, as well as the survey of a proposed tram-line. A short road was made with a bulldozer tractor, and 700 feet of heavy truck-road was constructed. One thousand tons of limerock was blasted for research and testing. A hammer mill and a stationary power plant were purchased. The property can be reached by driving up the British Columbia Telephone microwave road to Copper Mountain. [Reference: Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1965, pp. 264—265.] Harper Ranch Kamloops (50° 120° N.E.). Lawson, Lundell and Com- Quarry pany, 409 Granville Street, Vancouver 2, owns a lease on (Byt m'wateTand) and a umestone deposit on the Harper Ranch, 11 miles due east of Kamloops. A quarry has been opened on a partly bare rock bench 500 feet above and three-quarters of a mile north of the South Thompson River. A rough road 1 Va miles long runs from the quarry to the main road, which extends along the north bank of the river. The junction is 12 miles east of Provincial Highway No. 5. The deposit is near the south end of a limestone mass 2 miles long and up to 2 miles wide that forms a hill which is part of the valley wall of the river. The stone at the quarry is medium to fine grained, grey, and weathers light grey. In thin- section it is seen to consist of microfossils in a very fine-grained matrix and could be termed a biomicrite. Multi-directional fractures occur at 1- to 6-inch intervals. Most fracture faces are stained brown. No distinct bedding is evident at the quarry, but in an exposure 100 feet to the southeast, 2-inch-thick parallel bands of chert, that strike north 85 degrees east and dip 80 degrees south, probably indicate the attitude of the rocks. No chert was noted in the quarry. The limestone is part of a series of rocks mapped by Cockfield as belonging to the Carboniferous or Permian Cache Creek Group. When examined in August, 1966, the quarry was a semi-circular opening about 60 feet in diameter with a maximum face height of 10 feet. The broken muck was mostly in cubical pieces ranging from 1 to 4 inches long. An analysis of a grab sample of pieces picked at random from the muck pile had the following percentage composition: Insol., 0.22; R203, 0.22; Fe203, 0.17; MgO, 0.66; CaO, 54.96; S, 0.001; P2Og, 0.012; HoO, 0.01; Ig. Loss, 43.82. The quarry was opened in the autumn of 1965, and about 400 tons of stone was shipped to Kamloops Pulp and Paper Company for testing. Apparently initial tests proved the rock unsuitable for use in the plant of this company. [References: Bureau of Mines, Canada, Publication No. 811, 1944, p. 184; Geol. Surv., Canada, Map 886a; Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1959, pp. 167-170.] Fraser Valley Popkum (49° 121° S.W.). Head office, 7583 Edmonds Lime Supplies Street, Burnaby 3. W. T. Mairs, manager. The quarry and (By a. r. c James) crushing plant are on the east side of the Trans-Canada Highway, adjoining the southernmost tip of Indian Reserve No. 1, three-quarters 268 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 of a mile east of Popkum station on the Canadian National Railway. The crushing and screening plant was operated partly with stone from the quarry and partly with stone trucked in from other sources. Both the total production and quarry production were the highest for some years. Production from the quarry in 1966 was 5,673 tons, and 1,756 tons was trucked in from other sources, making a total of 7,429 tons put through the plant. The products were sold for agricultural use and as an industrial filler. An average crew of seven men was employed. Lafarge Cement of Vananda (49° 124° N.W.). Head office, 1051 Main Street, North America Ltd. Vancouver 4; quarry office, Vananda. W. D. Webster, (Beale Quarries quarry superintendent. Open-pit bench-mining methods Division) were used to produce 705,000 tons of limerock, of which (By j. e. Merrett) 481,340 tons was crushed and 467,000 tons shipped. A crew of 20 men was employed. Ideal Cement Vananda (49° 124° N.W.). British Columbia office, 210, Company 1033 Davie Street, Vancouver 5; quarry office, Vananda. (By j. e. Merrett) \y. S. Beale, general manager, Rock Products Division; J. K. Johnson, superintendent. Limerock, quarried by open-pit benching on Lot 25, 2 miles south of Vananda, was trucked to the processing plant at Marble Bay quarry for crushing, washing, and screening where necessary. A crew of 28 men quarried 607,136 tons of limerock, of which 514,188 tons was crushed and 434,093 tons was shipped. imperial Limestone Vananda (49° 124° N.W.). Office, 7309V& East Marginal Company Limited Way South, Seattle, Wash. 98108; quarry office, Vananda. (By j. e. Merrett) James H. Jack, general manager; A. Diewert, quarry super intendent. This company operated a limestone quarry at the summit of a small hill 1 mile west of Spratt Bay on the northeast coast of Texada Island. Two crushing plants were operated—one at Vananda dock, where stucco dash and whiting were produced, and the other, a larger one, at Spratt Bay, where whiting and coarse limerock were produced. Open-pit bench mining was used to produce 140,601 tons of limerock, while 130,686 tons was crushed and shipped to the Seattle plant. A crew of 21 men was employed. Domtar Chemicals Blubber Bay (49° 124° N.W.). British Columbia office, Limited 470 Granville Street, Vancouver 1; quarry office, Blubber (Lime Division) Bay. W. G. Smith, Blubber Bay plant manager. Open-pit (By j. e. Merrett) bench mining was used to produce 879,049 tons of limerock, of which 852,065 tons was crushed and shipped. The major portion of the limerock was obtained from a quarry 2 miles south of the Blubber Bay plant. A new quarry was opened one-half mile south of the plant. A crew of 42 men was employed. Koeye River Koeye River (51° 127° N.W.). Company office, Bella (Koeye Limestone Bella; quarry office, Namu. A. O. Widsten, manager. (1962) Ltd.) White limestone is quarried by benching methods from the (By j. e. Merrett) west 0f two adjacent quarries on the north side of the mouth of Koeye River on Fitz Hugh Sound, 6 miles south of Namu. A crew of five men employed for a period of six months produced 11,920 tons of limerock, which was shipped to the Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited paper-mill at Ocean Falls. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 269 Ocean Cement Limited (B.C. Cement Division) (By J. W. McCammon) Cobble Hill (48° 123° N.W.). This company employed an average crew of 34 men to produce 612,371 tons of limestone for use in the cement plant at Bamberton. Cowichan Lake- (48° 124° N.W.) Discontinuous patches of limestone are Port Renfrew Area widespread in the area between Cowichan Lake and Port (By j. w. McCammon) Renfrew, on southern Vancouver Island. In the summer of 1966 samples were obtained from several of the larger masses that had been located previously by A. Sutherland Brown during a reconnaissance of the region. The rock in all outcrops examined is very uniform. On freshly broken surfaces it is dark grey to black and on weathered surfaces it is medium to light grey and relatively smooth. The grain is so fine that, except for scattered crinoid plates, individual crystals are indistinguishable even under a hand-lens. Bedding is only rarely displayed. Crinoid remnants are common, but other fossil remains are infrequent. For the most part, the limestone is of the high-calcium type, although magnesian beds are present in some places. Dykes are rare. Multi-directional joints occur abundantly at random spacings. The limestone is associated with various types of volcanic rock. All of the rocks are highly folded and faulted. Although the stratigraphy has not been worked out in detail, the general geological setting suggests that the limestone is a correlative of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation of northern Vancouver Island. 46°45' \JJ Sample location ^^ Limestone Figure 31. Limestone in the Cowichan Lake-Port Renfrew area. 270 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Seven samples for analyses were collected at the locations indicated on the accompanying map (see Fig. 31). Sample 1 consisted of chips collected at 10-foot intervals along 350 feet in a cut on the Mesachie Lake-Port Renfrew road. Few impurities are visible in the section. Sample 2 consisted of chips taken at random spacings along 1,600 feet on a branch logging-road. The road runs at approximately 45 degrees to the apparent strike of the limestone. Weathered surfaces of the rock show scattered small siliceous protrusions. Several layers of magnesian limestone occur toward the apparent stratigraphic bottom of the deposit. Sample 3 was made up of chips taken at 20-foot intervals along 500 feet of exposures on a logging-road 1,200 feet in elevation above the main road. The road is perpendicular to the strike of the beds. Few impurities are visible in the outcrop. Sample 4 contained chips gathered at 10-foot intervals along 400 feet of rock cut on the main-line logging-road from Port Renfrew to Mesachie Lake. Sample 5 consisted of chips collected at 10-foot intervals along a 200-foot-long rock cut on road C-18 in the Nixon Creek logging area of British Columbia Forest Products Limited. Sample 6 was made up of chips collected at random along a 200-foot-long cut on road No. 4 south of Gordon River logging camp. Sample 7 consisted of chips gathered at random along 400 feet in a rock cut on an upper branch road 1,000 feet above and half a mile north of sample 6. Chemical analyses of the samples are shown in the following table:— Analyses of Limestone from the Cowichan Lake-Port Renfrew Area Sample Insol. R203 Fe203 MnO MgO CaO P2O5 s Ig. Loss H20 1 0.84 0.31 0.29 0.04 0.60 54.48 0.02 0.011 43.50 0.07 ?, 1.33 0.36 0.30 0.02 0.90 53.82 0.02 0.015 43.39 0.04 3 0.39 0.16 0.07 <0.01 1.00 54.54 0.02 0.004 43.65 0.05 4 0.58 0.30 0.29 0.01 4.63 49.98 0.02 0.003 44.37 0.04 5 - 1.65 0.34 0.21 0.03 0.23 54.52 0.04 0.024 43.37 0.03 6 - ~ 1.30 0.24 0.17 0.02 | 0.21 54.72 0.02 0.068 43.22 0.02 7 1.85 0.61 0.37 0.02 j 5.54 48.00 0.02 0.024 43.78 0.05 Rok (New Jersey Zinc Exploration Company (Canada) Ltd.) (By D. R. Morgan) MAGNESITE Invermere (50° 115° N.W.). Field office, 905 Seymour Street, Vancouver 2. This property is near Kootenay National Park, 25 miles northeast of Invermere. It comprises 68 claims ranging in elevations from 5,000 to 6,000 feet, and can be reached by horse-trail from the mouth of Cross River. It covers a showing of magnesite, dolomite, and calcite, in a carbonate formation. Some geological mapping was done in the summer of 1966, and in the late fall a crew of three men started constructing a 7-mile access road with a bulldozer on the south side of Cross River. The work was under the direction of J. B. Seaton, geologist. MARL Cheam Marl Popkum (49° 121° S.W.). Head office, 13 Fletcher Street Products Limited South, Chilliwack. P. C. Woodward, general manager. (By a. r. c James) This property consists of a lake deposit of marl ranging up to 10 feet thick. The deposit is post-glacial and accumulated on the bed of Cheam Lake, which was drained some years ago. The marl and topsoil are excavated by two small draglines and sold for agricultural purposes. The material is either trucked wet to the consumer or stockpiled on a drainage pad. Production in 1966 was 28,450 tons of marl and 3,689 cubic yards of topsoil. A crew of three men was employed at the property. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 271 PHOSPHATE Western Flathead (49° 115° S.W.). Company office, P.O. Box Co-operative 2500, Calgary, Alta. This company has conducted an ex- Fertilizers Limited ploration programme in the Lodgepole and Cabin Creek (By d. r. Morgan) areas 0f me Flathead valley, southeast of Fernie, during the past three years in search of phosphate for its fertilizer plant at Calgary. The property comprises 600 claims ranging in elevations from 3,500 to 7,500 feet, and covers a showing of marine sedimentary rocks containing fluorapatite. It can be reached by a forestry road from Morrissey. During 1966 several miles of access roads were built by bulldozer, and a crew of five men drilled 17 holes, totalling 2,300 feet, at various points around the property. Some trenching was done, and a number of samples of rock sent for testing. The men stayed in a camp on the property, and were employed from April 15th until October 4th. The work was under the direction of C. Warren Hunt, geologist. POZZOLAN Crownite Diatoms Quesnel (52° 122° N.W.). Company office, 507, 1640— Ltd. 16th Avenue Northwest, Calgary, Alta.; plant on Lot 906 (By j. w. McCammon) m \yest Quesnel. This company dried and pulverized a " burnt " shale, quarried from Lot 222 just south of Quesnel, to produce a pozzolan product for use in work at the Portage Mountain Dam site. The " burnt" shale used as a pozzolan source forms a colourful bluff on the east bank of the Fraser River just below the mouth of the Quesnel River. The rock quarried is a hard vitreous to porcelaneous material resembling dense fired clayware. Colours range through red, pink, buff, yellow, blue, and black. Thin-sections show the material to be so extremely fine grained that it is indeterminable by optical means. Impressions of stems and twigs of plants are present in the rock. Geological maps of the area include the rock in the Tertiary coal measures found as scattered patches along this section of the Fraser River. It is generally considered that the rock was originally clay or shale that was " burnt" or baked by the combustion of interbedded coaly members. An alternative suggestion that the clay was baked by overlying lava, now eroded away, does not have much supporting evidence. [References: B.C. Dept. of Mines, Bull. No. 3, 1940, p. 16; Geol. Surv., Canada, Rept. Prog., 1871-72, p. 59; Rept. Prog., 1875-76, p. 257; Sum. Rept., 1931, Pt. A, p. 60; Mem. 118, 1920, p. 16.] British Columbia Saturna Island (48° 123° N.E.). This company calcined Lightweight Aggre- shale on Saturna Island and ground it to make pozzolan at gates Ltd. a plant in South Westminster. (See report on this company (By J. W. McCammon) on page 264.) SAND AND GRAVEL Data on sand and gravel production are presented on the following pages. 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CJ Jj S o a S " g ft, fe w 6ft .id £ §5 •a_r So 3-U Q -1 •a ceo S ° ° EPS cu ,o.g a a521 a uT3 " a S3 cp o U^ a" or °£ cu W Ocu 9 3 ad 2 a-o o«S •5-o-g 3,§l XCOuJ 3.2 2 ca H 9 3 a H OJ QJ 3 OJ s-i lS p, PS5U pq a Jph m 3 'a •a-5 vh CU " ScoO H OJ ■I 0 O cj cr o 15 O i a. I o Is 318 *j O M 13.0:2 ioo us!1- ftl U ., ~ 3 j a o »Ph5& 3 . a cj rpu CJ" X CJ VH CJ a o cj u ao>u CO § ■of* O cj ca Pc)S 17 i* 3 o a Ph> CJ »«§ ■§ pu *j* appW'S cJ co «-i Jr • »«s S3 3 a a g a o a pUPhCh p ^ ^ u. _ i a -a Is*, s •seo (3 S oft i Sal 1 So a-a § CM Ph U -S Q O 2 cS CO .2 Ph 276 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 SILICA New Arlington (By P. E. Olson) (49° 117° S.E.) This property is on Rest Creek, a tributary of Erie Creek, about 7 miles by road from Salmo. In 1966, 7,017 tons of material from the old dump was shipped to Trail. This contained some gold, silver, lead, and zinc and had a high silica content. Oliver Silica Quarry (By David Smith) (49° 119° S.W.) Pacific Silica Limited. Registered office, 717 West Pender Street, Vancouver 1; quarry office, P.O. Box 39, Oliver. I. A. Hunter, manager. The Oliver silica quarry is on the Gypo mineral claim, Lot 30985, owned by Cominco Ltd., and operated under lease by Pacific Silica Limited. The claim is less than one-quarter of a mile west of Highway No. 97, 1 mile north of Oliver. Production for 1966 was 36,500 tons, and shipments made were 9,000 tons sacked and 27,500 tons in bulk. In addition, 150 tons of fluorite was bagged and shipped. Further modifications were made to the dust- cleaning equipment in the plant. Twenty-three persons were employed. North West Silica North Bend (49° 121° N.E.). Company office, 308, 540 Ltd. Burrard Street, Vancouver 1; plant, North Bend. This com- (By t m' wcCTmcn and Pany °Perated a sand pit and plant at North Bend to produce a silica sand product. The sand pit is 12 miles by road from North Bend. The drying, screening, and bagging plant is on a Canadian National Railway siding at North Bend. In 1966 approximately 120 tons of sand was processed and sold in Vancouver and Kamloops. TALC Clover Leaf (Black Mastodon Minerals Ltd.) (By A. R. C. James) (49° 121° S.W.) Company office, 3450 West 35th Avenue, Vancouver 13. W. E. Harvey, manager. The property comprises 12 claims at the lower end of Ruby Creek, which flows south into Fraser River 8 miles west of Hope. It is reported that a shear zone in altered serpentine contains talc. Four holes totalling 400 feet were diamond drilled from the surface, and two holes totalling 500 feet were drilled underground. Two trenches totalling 100 feet long were stripped, and two 30-foot test-pits were dug. A crew of three men worked under the direction of W. E. Harvey. Petroleum and Natural Gas CONTENTS Page General Administration 278 General Review 280 Field Office 281 Field Work 281 Geological Section 281 Geological Laboratories 282 Core and Well Samples 282 Core and Sample Examination 282 Exploration 282 Reservoir Section 284 Maximum Permissible Rates 284 Absolute Open-flow Potential Tests and Production Rate Limits 284 Gas Conservation and Pressure Maintenance 285 Water Disposal 285 Reserves 285 Development Section 287 Drilling 287 Production 290 Pipe-lines 290 Oil-gathering System 290 Oil-transmission System 291 Gas-gathering System 291 Gas-transmission System 291 Gas-distribution System 292 Oil Refineries 292 Gas-processing Plants 292 Sulphur Plant 292 Well Records 292 Reports 294 Publications 297 Tables- Table 1.—Geophysical Exploration, 1966 297 Table 2.—Surface Geological Exploration, 1966 299 Table 3.—Exploratory Test-holes Drilled, 1966 299 Table 4.—Oilfield Reservoir Data, December 31, 1966 300 Table 5.—Gasfield Reservoir Data, December 31, 1966 301 Table 6.—Proved Reserves of Crude Oil and Established Reserves of Natural Gas and Natural-gas Products, December 31, 1966 303 Table 7.—Pool, Project, and Unit M.P.R.'s, December 31, 1966„__ 304 Table 8.—Authorized Absolute Open-flow Potential Tests and Production Rate Limits, December 31, 1966 305 Table 9.—Authorized Maximum Permissible Rates, December 31, 1966._ 315 Table 10.—Wells Drilled and Drilling, 1966 327 Table 11.—Oilfields and Gasfields Designated as at December 31, 1966.„. 333 277 12 278 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Tables—Continued Page Table 12.—Number of Producing and Producible Wells, December 31, 1966 337 Table 13.—Monthly Crude-oil Production by Fields and Pools, 1966 340 Table 14.—Monthly Natural-gas Production by Fields and Pools, 1966.___ 341 Table 15.—Summary of Drilling and Production Statistics, 1966 343 Table 16.—Monthly Crude-oil Disposition, 1966 344 Table 17.—Monthly Natural-gas Disposition, 1966 345 Table 18.—Monthly Natural-gas Liquids and Sulphur Disposition, 1966 _ 347 Table 19.—Monthly Gross Values of Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Natural- gas Liquids, and Sulphur to Producers, 1966 349 Table 20.—Crude-oil Pipe-lines, 1966 350 Table 21.—Crude-oil Refineries, 1966 351 Table 22.—Natural-gas Pipe-lines, 1966 352 Table 23.—Gas-processing Plants, 1966 354 Table 24.—Sulphur Plants, 1966 354 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION Administration of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act in the Department is divided between a General Administrative Section and a Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch. The former, under the direction of the Chief Commissioner, is responsible for the administration of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act, which includes all matters related to and affecting title to Crown petroleum and natural-gas rights. The regulations governing geophysical operations are also administered by the Chief Commissioner. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, under the direction of the Chief of the Branch, is responsible for administration of the "Regulations Governing the Drilling of Wells and the Production and Conservation of Oil and Natural Gas," pursuant to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act. The regulations specify the conditions which must be employed for efficiency and safe practice in the drilling, completion, and abandonment of wells; for well spacing; prevention of waste; conservation; and all related matters. As at December 31, 1966, 41,214,803 acres, or approximately 64,398 square miles, of Crown petroleum and natural-gas rights, issued under the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act, were held in good standing by operators ranging in stature from small independent companies to major international ones. The form of title held, total number issued, and acreage in each case were as follows:— Form of Title Number Acreage Permits 392 29,716,610 Natural-gas licences 3 27,815 Drilling reservations 35 503,603 Leases (all types) 3,890 10,966,775 Total 41,214,803 Details of land disposition for the years 1947 to 1960, inclusive, may be found on page A 61 of the 1960 Annual Report. Figures for 1961 to 1965 will be found in the respective Annual Reports for those years. The Sedco-type drilling-platform being constructed by the Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. will be completed by mid-1967. As a result, the two-year drilling PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 279 programme planned by Shell Canada Limited on acreage held off the west coast of British Columbia will commence. The question of ownership of the offshore mineral rights was referred to the Supreme Court of Canada for decision. A hearing planned for November was delayed until early 1967. During 1966, land disposition was changed by the following transactions:-—■ Form of Title Issued Terminated Decrease (—) or Increase (+) No. 120 3 No. 47 22 No. +73 +3 4-5 Natural-gas licences- _ Leases— ! 1 345 1 224 -4-121 10 —10 Petroleum and natural-gas revenue for the year 1966 was as follows:— Rentals and fees— Permits $1,661,591 Drilling reservations 113,496 Natural-gas licences 1,466 Petroleum, natural-gas, and petroleum and natural-gas leases 8,432,386 Total rentals and fees $10,208,939 Disposal of Crown reserves— Permits $6,982,439 Drilling reservations 4,657,510 Leases 4,199,528 Total Crown reserve disposals 15,839,477 Royalties— Gas $2,256,725 Oil 5,449,663 Processed products 61,568 Total royalties Miscellaneous fees 7,767,956 18,073 Total petroleum and natural-gas revenues $33,834,445 Details of yearly revenue, 1947 to 1962, inclusive, are tabled on page 168 of the Annual Report for 1962. For 1963 to 1965 figures see the Annual Reports for those years. Cumulative totals, April 1, 1947, to December 31, 1966, are as follows:— Rentals and fees— Permits $39,994,071 Drilling reservations 818,756 Natural-gas licences 65,254 Petroleum, natural-gas, and petroleum and natural-gas leases 43,670,783 Total rentals and fees $84,548,864 280 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Disposal of Crown reserves— Permits $25,184,6021 Drilling reservations 20,427,453 Leases 52,862,255 Total Crown reserve disposals 98,474,310 Royalties— Gas $11,318,417 Oil 19,713,596 Processed products 811,130 Total royalties 31,843,143 Miscellaneous fees 227,120 Total petroleum and natural-gas revenues $215,093,437 1 Amended to reflect adjustment regarding Crown reserve disposals in 1953 which were included under permits. GENERAL REVIEW The 1966 production of crude oil and natural gas increased over 1965 by 24 and 16 per cent respectively to 16,677,752 barrels and 199,420,439,000 cubic feet. The sales volume of extracted sulphur showed a 12-per-cent decrease, whereas volumes sold for condensate/pentanes plus, butane, and propane recorded increases of 2, 20, and 22 per cent respectively. Production of natural gas from the Clarke Lake field greatly increased and supplied more than 20 per cent of the Provincial total. Crude-oil production increases were significant from the Milligan and Peejay fields as a result of secondary recovery methods employed. Over-all footage drilled in 1966 was slightly less than the footage obtained in 1965. More drilling of exploratory wells and less development footage were done as an absence of undrilled proven pools existed. The majority of the wells drilled in 1966 were in the area between the Beatton River and Currant fields, near the depositional edge of the Triassic Halfway Formation. Significant gas discoveries were made in Mesozoic horizons in the southern part of the northeastern corner of the Province and in the Devonian in the northern half. The most important oil discovery of 1966 was made in the Charlie Lake Formation in the Inga area. Seismic exploration, confined almost exclusively to the triangular area encompassed by the Rocky Mountains and the Provincial boundaries to the north and east, declined 22 per cent compared to 1965. Considerable interest was created in the area offshore from Vancouver Island as the drilling phase approached reality. At the end of 1966, construction of one of the largest offshore drilling-platforms was near completion in Victoria. The vessel, which employed several unique features in design and method of construction, will be the latest of all semi-submersible types. Minor extensions were made to the oil- and gas-gathering facilities. Connection to the potent Kotcho Lake, Junior, and Sierra areas was under construction at the close of 1966, as was an oil refinery at Prince George. Reserves of crude oil, gas, and the various by-products increased slightly in 1966. At December 31, 1966, crude-oil reserves were calculated to be 268,830,000 barrels; disposable natural gas, 7,057.3 billion cubic feet; natural-gas liquids, 114,407,000 barrels; and sulphur, 3,230,000 short tons. PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 281 FIELD OFFICE Field Work The Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch field office of the Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources is located at Charlie Lake on the Alaska Highway. During the winter drilling season a sub-office located at Fort Nelson is used periodically. The field office is responsible for the administration and interpretation of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act and "Regulations Governing the Drilling of Wells and the Production and Conservation of Oil and Natural Gas" at the field level. During 1966, seven vehicles were used to conduct surveys and inspections in the drilling and production phases of the oil-gas industry. A specialized bottom-hole unit was used to conduct pressure surveys in 60 wells. The surveys are used to check pressure data submitted by operating companies and for studies made by Departmental personnel. A standard for bottom-hole pressure bombs is maintained at Charlie Lake. All bottom-hole pressure bombs used in the Province are calibrated to this standard. During 1966, 251 pressure bombs were calibrated. The continuing increase of oil and gas production resulted in an increase in the inspection of production facilities. Two hundred and ninety-eight gas meters were completely tested, and 46 fast meter inspections were done. Before a gas well is allowed to produce, an absolute open-flow test must be witnessed and approved by an officer of the Branch. During 1966, 109 absolute open-flow tests were witnessed. The rate for production from oil wells is established by the Victoria office. Five tests to determine special production characteristics of the oil wells were done in 1966. Surface production equipment, storage facilities, and batteries were inspected on 73 occasions. Battery inspections are done in conjunction with the inspection of oil wells that produce into the batteries. Lease inspections were done on 661 leases to ensure that the abandonment and completion procedures conform to the " Regulations Governing the Drilling of Wells and the Production and Conservation of Oil and Natural Gas." GEOLOGICAL SECTION Branch staff geologists were engaged in subsurface geological studies of oil and gas areas in northeastern British Columbia. In addition, they were responsible for evaluation of parcels of land requested by industry for disposition by the Crown on four occasions during 1966. Special projects included detailed lithofacies studies, semi-regional mapping, and numerous interdepartmental studies, particularly those dealing with industry submissions and well classifications. Wells continued to be classified according to the " Lahee" system in an attempt to standardize well statistics as defined by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (A.A.P.G.). This system is based upon the geological interpretation at the time of approval of a well authorization. Semi-annual estimates of oil and gas reserves were carried out in co-operation with the Reservoir Section for productive areas. This involved continuous up-dating and refining of maps. Incoming data from current wells were processed by the staff and placed on file as well as on regional, semi-regional, and field maps for various purposes. Numerous studies arising out of current drilling activity required core and sample examination, which was undertaken in Victoria and at the Charlie Lake core and sample library. 282 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Geological Laboratories Core and Well Samples All cores from British Columbia wells must be preserved in labelled boxes having an inside length not greater than 30 inches and must be delivered to the geological laboratory for permanent storage. During 1966, 1,606 boxes of core from 151 wells were received at the laboratory. At the end of 1966, 24,142 boxes from 1,378 wells were stored. Unless otherwise directed, any operator who drills a well for petroleum or natural gas is required to take a sample of drilled rock (bit cuttings) at least every 10 feet of depth. Each sample, consisting of several ounces of rock fragments, is placed in a small bag at the well, labelled, and submitted to the geological laboratory, where it is washed and bottled. Each 10-foot sample is divided, resulting in three complete sets of samples for each well. One set is retained at the Charlie Lake sample library, one is sent to headquarters at Victoria, and the other to the Geological Survey of Canada in Calgary. The remainder of the 10-foot sample from the original sample-bag is retained at the laboratory for a period not exceeding one year should further samples be required. The main sample-examination facilities are at Charlie Lake, with limited facilities available at Victoria. The Charlie Lake sample library and the Geological Survey of Canda sample library in Calgary each has a set of samples from wells drilled in British Columbia since 1948; the Victoria sample library has samples from wells drilled since September, 1957. At the end of 1966, the Charlie Lake sample library contained 498,879 samples, and the Victoria library contained 497,240 samples. During 1966, samples were received at the laboratory from 218 wells. A total of 36,043 10-foot samples was washed and bottled in 1966. Core and Sample Examination A nominal fee is charged for the use of the core- and sample-examination facilities provided by the Department. In 1966, 6,629 boxes of core from 407 wells were studied by oil company personnel and other interested individuals. Cores from 24 wells were temporarily removed from the laboratory by the operators for further studies. Samples from 29 wells were studied, using the laboratory facilities at Charlie Lake. Since the core- and sample-examination laboratory at Charlie Lake was made available to the public in February, 1961, 48,556 boxes of core have been removed from the racks for examination. Exploration In 1966, 18 oil and gas companies did seismic work in northeastern British Columbia. In the Fernie area, seismic work was done by one company, and one company operated marine seismic parties off the west coast. In northeastern British Columbia 130 seismic crew-weeks were completed (Table 1). Surface parties were active in northeastern British Columbia and the Fernie area (Table 2). Five exploratory test-holes were drilled in 1966 (Table 3). Thirty-six exploratory wells and 55 development wells resulted in oil and gas completions. The success ratio of British Columbia's drilling remained high during 1966, 44 per cent. The majority of drilling was carried out in Mesozoic horizons. Much of the development activity centred around known Triassic and Lower Cretaceous pools. Continued interest was shown in the productive trend of oil and gas pools along the depositional edge of the Triassic Halfway Formation. Over 100 wells were drilled PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 283 to the Halfway in 1966, the majority of these being development wells associated with known pools. In addition, seven successful explortaory wells increased interest in the trend. Baysel Sinclair Wolf d-93-B discovered Halfway oil west of the Peejay field. An oil well at Kewanee Terrebonne Woodrush d-47-H renewed interest in the Milligan Creek area. There were also four gas discoveries in the Halfway Formation during 1966, and four Lower Cretaceous Bullhead gas wells were completed in conjunction with drilling along the trend. Tenn Cdn-Sup Dahl d-53-J encountered gas along the Bullhead pinch-out edge north of any known production in the area. Sinclair Pacific Beavertail d-71-C, west of the Wolf pool, was completed as a Bluesky Gething-Halfway multiple gas well. A significant gas discovery at Tenn Cdn-Sup et al Inga 13-7-23 in 1965 resulted in a follow-up oil discovery at Cdn-Sup et al Inga 10-25-88-24, where a thin Triassic sandstone in the Charlie Lake Formation proved to be productive. At the year-end 23 wells had drilled to this horizon in the Inga area, 13 of which were oil wells. Other significant Mesozoic oil and gas discoveries included Triassic Charlie Lake gas wells at CEGO et al Flatrock 10-27-84-16, Pacific et al N Pine 7-11-85-18, and Pacific et al N Pine 6-27-85-18, all in the Fort St. John area; a Triassic Bal- donnel Formation gas well southeast of the Rigel field was completed at Pacific West Prod E Siphon 6-4-87-15, and a possible extension to the Nig Creek field was completed at Whitehall Numac Nig a-49-J. Palaeozoic horizons provided some activity during 1966 south of latitude 57 degrees north. The main horizon of interest was the Permian Belloy Formation. Extensions to the Stoddart gas pool were made possible by two successful wells, Jeff Lake Altair Stoddart 6-11-86-19 and Uno-Tex Triad Stoddart All-5-86-19. In the Fort Nelson area, exploration continued along the Middle Devonian potential gas trend. Eight wells were drilled in the Clarke Lake area, considerably extending known gas pools. Successful gas wells were drilled at Pacific et al Clarke d-69-H, Pacific IOE S Clarke c-50-K, and Pacific Imp Clarke c-56-L. In other areas, Middle Devonian gas discoveries were made at Atlantic Tees c-15-J, Pacific Shekilie b-24-A, and Socony Mobil Swat b-50-F. Gas Discoveries, 1966 Well Authorization No. Well Name Total Depth 1940 1892 1918 1954 1927 1859 1830 1958 1865 1893 1849 1905 1825 2012 1542 1833 1913 1816 1835 Mesozoic Apache et al Wilder 7-2-84-20 Ashland Ck TB Snowberry d-57-D CDR Sun Evergreen d-54-J CEGO et al Flatrock 10-27-84-16 ... Dome et al W Peejay d-31-G Kewanee CIGOL Melanie d-68-K . Pacific West Prod N Buick b-86-F- Pacific et al N Pine 6-27-85-18— Pacific West Prod E Siphon 6-4-87-15 . Sinclair Pacific Beavertail d-71-C Tenn Cdn-Sup Dahl d-53-J Texcan N Nancy d-46-I Union HB Beaverdam d-64-L ~ Whitehall Numac Nig a-49-J Palceozoic Atlantic Tees c-15-J Pacific Imp Clarke b-56-L Pacific IOE S Clarke c-50-K- Pacific Shekilie b-24-A Socony Mobil Swat b-50-F Ft. 5,278 3,670 3,800 6,230 4,040 4,030 4,071 5,860 4,630 4,097 3,911 3,820 3,815 4,402 6,770 6,558 7,083 6,507 7,600 Baldonnel gas well. Halfway gas well. Halfway gas well. Charlie Lake gas well. Halfway gas well. Halfway gas well. Dunlevy gas well. Charlie Lake gas well. Baldonnel gas well. Bluesky Gething-Halfway gas well. Bluesky Gething gas well. Gething gas well. Gething gas well. Baldonnel gas well. Slave Point gas well. Slave Point gas well. Slave Point gas well. Slave Point gas well. Sulphur Point gas well. 284 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Oil Discoveries, 1966 Well Authorization No. Well Name Total Depth Status 1815 Mesozoic Baysel Sinclair Wolf d-93-B 4,080 7,503 3,790 3,660 6,320 Halfway oil well. 1776 Cdn Sup et al Inga 10-25-88-24 Charlie Lake oil well. 1843 Halfway oil well. 1840 Halfway oil well. 1983 Palaeozoic Uno-Tex Triad Stoddart All-5-86-19 Belloy oil well. RESERVOIR SECTION Maximum Permissible Rates In 1966 the Reservoir Section established 50 maximum permissible rates for oil wells, of which two were initial rates and 48 were interim approvals granted pending further evaluation of reservoir data. Five of the interim approvals were revisions of existing rates. One interim approval was cancelled as a result of the reclassification of the well to which it applied. Two applications were received for approval of joint M.P.R.'s, and two for amendment of existing joint M.P.R.'s. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied on behalf of itself and others for a joint M.P.R. of 4,014 barrels of oil per day for the wells in the Halfway pool of the Peejoy East and Crush areas of the Peejay field. Notice of the application was published in The British Columbia Gazette on July 14th and July 21st. Approval was subsequently granted to become effective on the date of unitization of the lands in question. The unit, which became known as Peejay Unit No. 2, was formed, effective November 1st. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied for a joint M.P.R. of 389 barrels of oil per day for the wells in the Halfway pool of the Bulrush field. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on November 24th and December 1st. Approval had not yet been granted on December 31st. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied for an increase in the joint M.P.R. of the wells in the Upper Halfway pool of the Wildmint field from 1,566 barrels of oil per day to 3,665 barrels per day on the basis of increased recovery from water-flood. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on May 19th and May 26th, and approval was granted on September 1, 1966. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied for an increase in the joint M.P.R. of the wells in the Halfway pool of Peejay Unit No. 2 to 7,631 barrels of oil per day on the basis of increased recovery by water-flood. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on December 15th. Approval had not yet been granted on December 31st. The pool, project, and unit M.P.R.'s at December 31, 1966, are listed in Table 7. Absolute Open-flow Potential Tests and Production Rate Limits Reports of 275 absolute open-flow potential tests of gas wells were processed and the corresponding production rate limits were established during 1966. The absolute open-flow potentials and production rate limits for all gas wells as of December 31, 1966, except for those in the confidential category, are shown in Table 8. PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 285 Dome Petroleum Limited, as operator of Laprise Creek Baldonnel Unit No. 1, applied for a joint gas production rate limit for the wells in the unit. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on February 17th and 24th. The application was approved on April 1, 1966, and was revised on July 1, 1966. Pacific Petroleums Limited applied for exemption from normal gas-well production rate limits for wells producing from the Halfway zone in the Kobes- Townsend field and for authority to produce gas in accordance with its judgment of good engineering practice. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on March 10th and 17th and approval was granted on March 30th. Pacific Petroleums Limited applied for exemption from normal gas-well production rate limit restrictions in the so-called pressure decline area of the Laprise Creek field and for authority to produce gas from that area in accordance with its judgment of good engineering practice. The application was not approved. Approval was granted, however, effective December 1st, for a joint production rate limit for the wells in the area similar to that applied for by Dome Petroleum Limited and approval for Laprise Creek Baldonnel Unit No. 1. Gas Conservation and Pressure Maintenance Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied for approval of a scheme to inject gas produced from the Halfway pool of the Weasel field back into the pool for the purposes of conserving gas and reducing the gas-oil ratio to a net gas-oil ratio. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on May 12th and 19th. Approval was granted on June 7th. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied on behalf of itself and others for approval of a scheme to inject gas produced from the Halfway pool of the Bulrush field back into the pool for the purposes of conserving gas and reducing the gas-oil ratio to a net gas-oil ratio. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on August 11th and 18th. Approval was granted on September 1st. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied for approval to inject water into the Halfway pool of the Wildmint field through a well, Union HB Wildmint d-44-A, in addition to other wells into which injection of water had previously been approved. Notice was published in the Gazette on May 19th and 26th. The application was approved, effective September 1st. Union Oil Company of Canada Limited applied for approval of a scheme of pressure maintenance by water injection into the Halfway pool in that portion of the Peejay field comprising Peejay Unit No. 2. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on September 29th and October 6th. Approval was granted on October 24th. Water Disposal Pacific Petroleums Limited applied for approval of a scheme of water disposal in the Jedney, Bubbles, and Beg fields by injection of produced water into the Baldonnel Formation through the wells Pacific et al Jedney b-68-J, Pacific Imperial Jedney c-78-H, Pacific Sunray Imp Bubbles b-22-I, and Pacific Imperial Beg c-24-B. Notice of the application was published in the Gazette on October 20th and 27th. The scheme was approved, effective December 1st. Reserves As a result of additional pools discovered and extensions to existing fields, the proved recoverable reserves of gas increased slightly during 1966 over the reserves of 1965. PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 287 A summary of reserves of oil, gas, natural-gas liquids, and sulphur at the end of 1966, with explanatory notes, is given in Table 6. Oilfield and gasfield reservoir data as compiled at the end of 1966 are given in Tables 4 and 5. DEVELOPMENT SECTION Drilling The over-all footage drilled in British Columbia during 1966 decreased slightly compared to 1965. However, there was a notable change in the type of drilling done. Annual footage was down 1 per cent, but upon examination of the classifications of wells drilled, a significant increase in exploratory operations is noted with a reduction in development drilling. Development footage in 1966 was 442,512 feet, a decrease of 33 per cent in comparison to 1965, while exploratory footage was 644,188 feet, up 45 per cent. A further breakdown of the exploratory drilling indicates that the operators went far afield in their search for petroleum products. The wildcat footage increased 83 per cent, while the outpost footage was up only 27 per cent. With the exception of one abandonment, BA CNP Fernie b-81-D, all drilling operations during 1966 were done in the northeastern corner of the Province. The movement of drilling rigs in and out of the Province was increased, probably as a result of the current concentration of drilling activity in northwestern Alberta. Twice the number of new rig licences were issued in 1966 compared to 1965, and a decrease of 25 per cent in the number of rig licence renewals was recorded. Although British Columbia's drilling operations were decreased, there were more oil companies, drilling contractors, and drilling rigs operating than in 1965. During 1966, 49 operators employed 19 drilling contractors that used 53 individual drilling rigs to complete the drilling. Well completions reflected the same trend as the drilling functions, showing an increase in the exploratory work and a significant decrease in development. Completed oil wells in known pools decreased 64 per cent, and abandonments, mostly exploratory in nature, gained 29 per cent. The number of gas-well completions, which were equally divided between exploratory and development, increased 25 per cent over 1965. During the past few years there have been oilfields in the development stage to encourage drilling, but this was not the case in 1966. Except for the Inga area, which only commenced development in 1966, a lack of oil pools to develop was apparent. The total wells drilled was down 12 per cent to 220. These consisted in part of 42 oil wells, 49 gas wells, and 116 abandonments, compared to 116 oil wells, 40 gas wells, and 89 abandonments recorded in 1965. In addition, three locations were drilled for service purposes to assist production, and 10 were considered as finished drilling with a final status undetermined. At the close of 1966, 25 locations were being actively drilled, with no wells in the suspended category awaiting further drilling. The method of counting each zone of a multiple completion as a completed well was continued in 1966. There were 218 wells actually completed in 1966, of which two were multiple gas wells. Wells drilled and drilling in 1966 are listed in Table 10. Monthly footages drilled since 1954 are given graphically on Figure 32, which shows the seasonal fluctuations throughout each year. The number of work-overs reported during 1966 decreased significantly, but it is felt that this is due to a lack of reporting rather than a lack of activity. Work- overs are any operation performed on a well after rig release which changes the producing interval or alters, or intends to alter, the producing characteristics of the 288 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 260 240 220 180 SO 120 100 BO eo 40 0 1 1 1 1 1 FOOTAGE DRILLED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1954 to 1966 incl. £ V £ 1 1 A w J * f f f A A 1 / I A / r h 1 M 1 A N T A ^Vul I \ a/ h / K a/ \AAj w V v ' \ v 1 rA^-V Vv—• / ' 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 I960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 Figure 32. Footage drilled in British Columbia, 1954-66. well. The producing interval of a well may be changed by perforating, cementing perforations, or by running casing or plugs. The producing characteristics of a well may be changed by any operation performed to increase the production of oil or gas. These operations include perforating, acidizing, fracturing, installing a pump, or changing a choke, but do not include the replacement of equipment. The Branch-designated fields, which are the basis for the release of well information, were reviewed quarterly. During 1966, four new fields were established and 11 field boundaries were amended. The newly designated fields were at Beaver- dam, Nettle, Osprey, and Weasel. At the end of 1966 there were 50 oilfields and gasfields in British Columbia, which are listed in Table 11 and their locations are shown on Figure 33. New fields are designated when one or more wells are on continuous production or when three or more wells capable of production exist in contiguous spacing areas, provided that one year has elapsed since the rig-release date of the discovery well for the field. The boundaries of a newly designated field contain only full spacing areas and are primarily based upon a geological interpretation. One of the prime duties of the Development Section is to study for approval all submissions made that are related to drilling operations. Such approvals must be obtained prior to the commencement of drilling a well, changing a well name, and abandoning a location or any alteration proposed to change the physical characteristics of the well. When any submission to the Development Section is received, a review is made of the proposed programme, the title under which the petroleum and natural-gas rights are held, and any other relevant requirements of the regulations. With each application for a well authorization, a surveyed position of the well- site must be given. This position must conform to the regulations. The Development Section also assigns a classification to each approved well location. The classifications are development, exploratory outpost, and exploratory wildcat. A development well may be defined as being in a location that is within a spacing area which is contiguous to a well capable of production. When a well is greater than AVz miles from a capable well, it is called exploratory wildcat. Locations situated between wildcat and development are exploratory outposts. Development wells may be further classified as deep-pool or shallow-pool tests, when undeveloped pools below or above the known pool are being explored. These classifications are used as the basis for the requirements of various reports submitted to the Branch. PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 289 FIELDS t. POOLS - DEC. 31, 1966 n. FIELD PRODUCING HORIZON OIL GAS i AITKEN CR. 2 BEATTON R. Halfwav 3 BEATTON R. WEST Blgeflkv-Cethine 4 BEAVERBAH Halfvav 5 BEG Baldonnel Halfwav 6 BEG WEST BERNADET BLueskv-Gethine a BLUEBERRY Hisaiaiippian Dunlevy Baldonnel Charlie Lake 9 BLUEBERRY EAST Baldonnel Halfway LO BLUEBERRY WEST Baldonnel Ll BOUNDARY LAKE Bojndary Lake Halfway Hluesky-Gethtng Gething Dunlevy Baldonnel 12 BOUNDARY L.N. Halfwav BUBBLES Baldonnel w BUICK CREEK Dunlevy Charlie Lake L5 BUICK CR. EAST Blueaky-Gethlng Dunlevy 16 BUICK CR. WEST Dunlevy Baldonnel Halfwav 17 BULRUSH Halfwav CHARLIE LAKE Gethlnc 19 CLARKE LAKE Slave Point ,20 CURRACT Halfwav Halfwav 21 DAWSON CREEK Cadotte Z2 FORT ST. JOHN Charlie Lake Cadonin Baldonnel a F-JRT ST. JOHN S.E. Cadonin Baldonnel Halfway 24 GUNDY CREEK Baldonnel Charlie Lake 15 HALFWAY Baldonnel Halfwav 16 HIGHWAY Dunlevy Baldonnel MiaslBSlDpian VI JEDNEY Gething Baldonnel Halfwav 28 JEDNEY WEST Baldonnel Halfwav 29 KOBES-TOWNSEND Dunlevy Charlie Lake Halfway Misaiaaippian KOTCHO LAKE Slave Point LAPRISE CREEK Baldonnel 12 LAPRISE CR. WEST Baldonnel MILLIGA.N Halfwav » MONTNEY Blueaky-Gethlng Charlie Lake Halfwav J5 NETTLE Blueskv-GethiriR Halfwav 36 NIG CREEK Baldonnel 32_ OSPREY Halfwav 38 PARKLAND Vabaaun !*> PEEJAY Halfwav iO PEEJAY WEST Halfwav PETITOT RIVER Slave Point i2 R£D CREEK Charlie Lake Halfwav '.1 RIGEL ■..'. SNYDER CREEK Bellov ■.6 STODDART WEST Bellov 47 WEASEL Halfwav IS WILDMINT Halfwav 49 WILLOW Blueskv-Gethlne ^n YOYO Slave Pt.-Plne Pt. ■ OIL & GAS FIELDS OF NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Figure 33. Petroleum and natural-gas fields, 1966. . Any application that is received to alter the equipment in a well or the proposed programme for a well is handled in a similar manner. Details of the alteration are examined and given approval by the various sections of the Branch. Prior to the abandonment of wells, the operators must submit an abandonment programme to the field engineer for his approval, but all other alterations are studied at Victoria, when the official records are filed. 290 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In 1966 the Development Section issued 220 well authorizations, which represents a decrease of 21 per cent from the 276 issued in 1965. Several maps are prepared for distribution to the industry and other interested persons. Maps are maintained to indicate the designated fields and well locations as well as the major plant and pipe-line facilities. These maps are mailed to regular subscribers, or they may be obtained by writing to The Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Victoria. Two minor fires involving production equipment were reported during 1966. Three wells are now in operation for the specific purpose of disposing of salt water produced in conjunction with petroleum products. In 1966, 289,670 barrels were disposed of by injection into subsurface formations while 449,265 barrels were evaporated in flare pits. Production Significant increases were made in the production of crude oil and natural gas during 1966. Crude-oil production was up 24 per cent, compared to 1965, to 16,677,752 barrels, and natural-gas production increased 16 per cent to 199,420,439 M s.c.f. The Boundary Lake field was again the largest oil-producer, but the greatest increases were made at the Peejay and Milligan Creek fields. The production of crude oil from Milligan Creek gained 60 per cent over the field's output of 1965, and Peejay's volume was 37 per cent higher. These three fields, Boundary Lake, Peejay, and Milligan, accounted for nearly 80 per cent of the oil produced in the Province. In natural-gas production, the Clarke Lake field increased its output by 144 per cent over 1965 and became the largest gas-producer in British Columbia in 1966. The field, in its first full year of production, contributed 24 per cent of the Provincial volume or 42,622,967 M s.c.f. The other large producers, in order of volume, were: Laprise Creek, 19,493,628 M s.c.f.; Jedney, 18,362,633 M s.c.f.; Nig Creek, 15,920,031 M s.c.f.; Rigel, 12,642,150 M s.c.f.; and Beg, 11,869,563 M s.c.f. Monthly crude-oil and natural-gas production by fields and pools for 1966 are given in Tables 13 and 14. Graphs of the monthly production for 1954 to 1966 are shown in Figures 34 and 35. Some changes were noted in the production and sales of condensate/pentanes plus, butane, propane, and sulphur compared to 1965. Most notable was the increase of 11 per cent in the production and 20 per cent in the sale of butane. Although the production of propane increased only 2 per cent, the volume sold was up 21 per cent compared to 1965, due mainly to nearly doubling the quantity exported. Propane sales showed a decrease of 71 per cent in export with a rise of 14 per cent in the volume sold in British Columbia. General statistics showing well operation and production data are given in Table 15. The monthly dispositions of the various petroleum products are shown in Tables 16, 17, and 18. Monthly values to the producers are given in Table 19. Pipe-lines Oil-gathering System Trans-Prairie Pipelines (B.C.) Ltd. added 39 miles to its main pipe-line and increased the throughput to more than 40,000 barrels per day. It also added 11 miles to its oil-gathering system to include production from the Wolf field. PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 291 500 47,0 J00 100 I0OO 900 800 TOO 500 300 200 100 0 k J" OIL PRODUCTION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1954 to 1966 incl. J" J Y j ft f ./ M/\/» I >/\ A / w / ni V'v\ V 1 / V fe A 3 A S /1 1954 n'iW l1'i95S" '"i95i/" '"1958"' ' 1959 1960' "Mi" "1962" ' 19^3 1964 1965 1966 Figure 34. Oil production in British Columbia, 1954-66. 20 IB IT » a 12 ii « ft S 7 * 4 3 0 1, i GAS PRODUCTION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1954 to 1966 incl. 1 1 , J 1 / , H / \ / V w \/ jj V <* V i I I [ 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 "1965" 1966 ] ( ( 1 Figure 35. Gas production in British Columbia, 1954-66. Oil-transmission System The throughput of the pipe-line from Taylor to Kamloops operated by Westeri ^acific Products and Crude Oil Pipelines Ltd. was increased to 41,504 barrels pe lay, and the storage capacity was enlarged to hold 586,000 barrels during 1966 Gas-gathering System No changes were reported in the gas-gathering system in the Province for 1966 Gas-transmission System The most significant change in the gas-transmission systems for 1966 wa ;ompleted by Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd., which added 60 miles to the pipe-lin letwork and raised the capacity to 78,600 M s.c.f. per day. 1 r s 292 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 PIPELINES of BRITISH COLUMBIA Figure 36. Petroleum and natural-gas pipe-lines. Gas-distribution System Minor expansions were completed to many of the gas-distribution systems in 1966. A total of 91 miles was constructed and put into operation. Oil Refineries Changes in three of the oil refineries were completed during 1966. The Provincial crude-oil capacity was increased to 100,400 barrels per calendar day and the storage capacity to 9,285,000 barrels. Construction began in 1966 of a refinery at Prince George, which will go on stream during 1967 with a planned capacity of 7,500 barrels per day. Gas-processing Plant No changes were made at the gas-processing plants during 1966. Sulphur Plant No change was made to the sulphur plant located at Taylor. Tables 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 provide data on the pipe-lines, oil refineries, gas-processing plants, and the sulphur plant. Well Records Information concerning the petroleum and natural-gas industry in British Columbia is collected and compiled by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch. The data are made available to interested persons, in strict accordance with section 51 of the regulations. Location, elevation, current depth, casing, status, PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 293 and monthly production of individual wells are released upon request. Other information is held confidential, depending upon the relationship of the well location to the designated fields. Data obtained from wells located within a field are available 30 days after the release of the drilling rig, provided that one year has expired since the rig release date of the discovery well for the field. When a well location is not within a designated field, all data are confidential for one year after the release of the drilling rig. In the case of deep-pool and shallow-pool tests, the data from the exploratory portions of the wells are held confidential for the one-year period. Confidential well information may be released to an interested person, if a letter is received by the Branch from the operator of the well authorizing its release. Information is released by publication, examination of Branch records, or reproduction of data. Cost-defraying charges are made by the Branch for these services. The records maintained by the Branch are in constant use by the Reservoir, Development, and Geological Sections. Therefore, they must be kept up to date and in a manner suitable for many purposes. As the published reports are expanded to meet the requirements of the industry and of other government bodies, the systems of keeping records must be altered. The Branch has representation on the Statistical Sub-committee which was established at the request of the Mines Ministers' Conference in 1955. This committee is composed of representatives from each Province actively engaged in the petroleum industry and personnel employed by oil companies. TTie objectives of the group are as follows:— (1) Standardization of forms designed for the same purpose but which are required individually by both the Provincial and Federal Governments under different formats. (2) Standardization of forms to accommodate machine accounting procedures for reporting production statistics to the Provincial Governments. (3) Amendment of existing model report forms to conform with present requirements. (4) Investigation of ways and means to obtain the co-operation of both Provincial and Federal Government agencies and provide earlier availability of information on all phases of the oil and gas industry. One meeting of the Statistical Sub-committee was held in 1966, when revisions in the model forms were approved and discussions were held concerning the procedures and reports employed by the Provincial authorities. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch has adopted many features of these model forms and uses the following applications and reports:— Form No. Form Name 1. Well Register. 2. Application for a Well Authorization. 3. Application to Amend a Well Authorization. 4. Application to Change a Well Name. 5. Application to Abandon a Well. 6. Application to Alter a Well. 7. New Oil Well Report. 8. New Gas Well Report. 9. Application for M.P.R. 10. Report of Wells Connected to a Battery. BC SI. Monthly Production Report. BC S2. Monthly Disposition and Crown Royalty Statement. 294 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Form No. Form Name 15. Monthly Gas-gathering Operations Report. 16. Monthly Natural Gas Plant Statement. 17. Monthly Natural Gas Processing Statement. 18. Monthly Sulphur Plant Operations Report. 19. Monthly Refinery Operations Report. 20. Monthly Crude Oil and Condensate/Pentanes Plus Purchaser's Statement. 21. Monthly Liquefied Petroleum Gas Purchaser's Statement. 22. Well Completion Report. 23. Supplement to Well Completion Report. 24. Work-over Report No. *25. Work-over Card. *26. Monthly Operations Report. 27. Application for a Rig Licence. 28. Monthly Water Flood Operations Report. 29. Monthly Water Receipts and Disposal Report. 30. Statement of Nomination and Estimated Requirements for British Co lumbia Crude Oil, Condensate/Pentanes Plus. 31. New Service Well Report. 32. Well Allowable Report. *33. Drilling Report. *7c. Meter Inspection Report. *7d. Battery Inspection Report. fMonthly Natural Gas Distributor's Statement. fMonthly Report on Oil Pipeline Gathering Operations. * For Departmental use only. f Used in conjunction with the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The Branch has representation on the Provincial-Federal Committee on Oil and Gas Statistics, which held one meeting during 1966. The purpose of this committee is to establish and revise, as required, statistical forms on the production, transportation, and distribution of oil and gas and to foster the joint collection of these statistics, eliminating as much duplication by the Provincial and Federal agencies as possible. Reports Schedule of Wells In 1966 a composite volume was compiled giving all non-confidential well information to 8 a.m., January 1, 1966. The data contained in previously published volumes were consolidated and expanded to include the releasable information for the 1965 wells. The data are arranged by location and provide the following information where applicable: Well authorization number, well name, location, classification, coordinates, K.B. elevation, total depth, status, interval(s) open to production, casing size and depth, spud date, rig release date, logs taken, cored intervals, sampled interval, drill-stem test data, and geological formation depths determined by the petroleum geologists. The information was condensed from reports submitted to the Branch by the various operators. Weekly Report A weekly report is published for Departmental use from data collected by the field office staff at Charlie Lake. The week reported is from 8 a.m. on Friday to the succeeding Friday. The following information is included:— PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 295 (1) Spudded wells. (2) Cancelled locations. (3) Changes of well names. (4) Changes of well classification. (5) Changes of well status. (6) Suspended wells. (7) Finished drilling wells. (8 ) Abandoned wells. (9) Oil wells. (10) Gas wells. (11) Work-overs. (12) Operating wells. (13) Approved wells not spudded. (14) Summary of well count giving the following totals:— (a) Finished drilling wells. (b) Abandoned wells. (c) Oil wells. (d) Gas wells. (e) Water injection wells. (/) Gas injection wells. (g) Water source wells. (h) Observation wells. (i) Disposal wells. (/) Completed wells. (k) Locations drilled. (I) Multiple completions. (m) Drilling wells. (n) Suspended wells. (o) Approved but not spudded wells. (p) Locations in good standing. (q) Locations approved. (r) Locations cancelled. The number of completed wells is calculated by two methods to provide verification. The number of wells of different status, counting each zone of a multiple completion as a well, is compared to the number of locations drilled less the multiple completions. The number of locations in good standing is calculated also by two methods. The total number of locations drilled, drilling, suspended, and approved but not spudded is compared to the total number of locations approved less the number of locations cancelled. Oil and Gas Production Report The Oil and Gas Production Report is prepared monthly from returns made by the operators of the producing wells, pipe-lines, gas plants, refineries, and distribution facilities. The contents of the report are as follows:— (1) Graphical presentations of the daily average oil production, the daily average marketable gas production, and the monthly footage drilled with comparative graphs of the totals for the preceding year. (2) Monthly summary of the drilling and completion activity with cumula- tives for the year and comparative figures for the same month of the preceding year. (3) New oil- and gas-well reports received. : 296 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 (4) The number of producing and producible oil and gas wells by field and pool and comparative figures for the same month of the preceding year. (5) Production of crude oil, natural gas, condensate, and water by field and pool with comparative volumes produced in the same month of the preceding year. These quantities are given for the current month, the current year, and the all-time cumulative. (6) Estimated oil production for the succeeding month. (7) Crude oil and equivalent disposition. (8) Value of crude-oil sales to British Columbia producers. (9) Disposition of produced water. (10) Tabulation of nominations and estimated requirement for British Columbia crude oil and condensate/pentanes plus. (11) Approved maximum permissible rates. (12) Withdrawn maximum permissible rates. (13) Approved absolute open-flow potential tests. (14) Natural-gas disposition. (15) Value of natural gas to British Columbia producers and distributors. (16) Production and disposition of condensate/pentanes plus, butane, propane, and sulphur. (17) Value of sales of natural-gas liquids and sulphur to British Columbia producers. (18) Water-flood operations showing the number of injection wells and the current monthly, current yearly, and all-time cumulative figures for each formation in each pool and field. This report is compiled and mailed to subscribers approximately two weeks after receipt of the returns from the operators. Drilling and Land Report The Drilling and Land Report is published and distributed monthly concurrently with the Oil and Gas Production Report. The Drilling Section is compiled from information forwarded by the Branch field office and contains the following:—■ (1) Monthly summary of drilling and completion activity with cumulatives for the year, and comparative figures for the same month of the preceding year. (2) Summary of the well count giving the following totals:— (a) Locations drilled. (b) Finished drilling wells. (c) Abandoned wells. (d) OH wells. (e) Gas wells. (/) Water-injection wells. (g) Gas-injection wells. (h) Water-source wells. (/) Observation wells. (/) Disposal wells. (3) Well authorizations approved. (4) Locations cancelled. (5) Locations outstanding. J PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 297 (6) Changes of well status. (7) Changes of well classification. (8) Changes of well names. (9) Suspended wells. (10) Drilling and completed wells. (11) Rig licences issued. (12) Rig licences renewed. (13) Rig licences cancelled. (14) Well data released from confidential status. (15) Descriptions of designated fields. The Land Section is prepared by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Titles Section and contains the following:— (1) Acreage synopses. (2) Summary of changes in acreage held under the following titles:— (a) Permits. (b) Leases. (c) Natural-gas licences. (d) Drilling reservations. (3) Geophysical licences issued and renewed. (4) Notices regarding sales of Crown petroleum and natural-gas rights. (5) Summary of disposition of permits, leases, natural-gas licences, and drilling reservations. Publications Various publications, maps, and services concerning petroleum and natural-gas operations in British Columbia are available. A catalogue containing descriptions and prices is available from the Chief Petroleum and Natural Gas Commissioner, Administration Branch, or the Chief, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Table 1.—Geophysical Exploration, 1966 Seismic Surveys Note.—Unless otherwise shown, the exploration method used is the reflection seismic survey. For indicating location, the National Topographic Series grid system is used, except in the Peace River Block, where the township system is used. Company Location of Exploration Number of Seismic Crews Number of Crew- weeks January Altair Oil & Gas 94-J-2, -7 94-J 2, -7, -8 2 1 4 5 Amerada Petroleum 4 Atlantic Refining - 94-P-7, -io 3 94-A-14, -15 94-P-7, -10, -11 94-1-11, -12, -13, -14 94-G-l, -8; 94-H-4,-5 .. .. 94-1-16 1 4.5 3 2 Shell Canada 94-J -9 _.. 92-E 1 81 1 298 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Table 1.—Geophysical Exploration, 1966—Continued Company Location of Exploration Number of Seismic Crews Number of Crew- weeks February Altair Oils & Gas Amerada Petroleums-. Atlantic Refining Marathon Oil Mobil Oil Canada Shell Canada Tenneco Oil & Minerals.. Texaco Canada March Altair Oil & Gas- Amerada Petroleums.. Atlantic Refining- British American Oil Company French Petroleum Company of Canada. Marathon Oil Mobil Oil Canada- Pacific Petroleums.. Shell Canada . Tenneco Oil & Minerals- Texaco Canada April British American Oil Company- May British American- June Winter Oil. July Winter Oil. August Placid Oil... Winter Oil. September Pacific Petroleums Triad Oil Winter Oil October Chevron Standard._ Pacific Petroleums . Winter Oil November Chevron Standard - Pacific Petroleums Texaco Canada Winter Oil December Chevron Standard „ Texas Gulf Sulphur- Winter Oil 94-J-2, -6, -7 94-J-2, -7, -8, -10 94-P-ll,-15,-16 94-P-10, -11, -15, -16.. 94-1-11,-12,-13,-14- 92-D, -E 94-1-14 94-H-10, -11.. 94-J-2, -11- 94-G-14; 94-C-15.. 94-J-10 94-0-7, -8, -10, -11- 94-1-6 94-A-3 Tps. 81, 82, R. 22, 23, W. of 6th M.. 94-1-6 94-J-10 94-1-5, -11, -12, -13, -14- 94-J-10 92-D, -E 94-1-14 94-H-6, -7 93-P-14, -15; 94-A-3 93-P-14, -15; 94-T-1.-2.-8 94-A-2.-3 _. 04-1-1,-R 8? <T-5 Od-T-1- Od-TT 1fi 94-A-13 - oi-P--*, -a, -s 94-T-1 Q4-TT 94-T-10 Q4_H-1fi Q4-W - 94-H-7. -8. -9 -m 04.H-I6 Q4_T 1- 04-TT \f, 94-H Q1-P-5 94-H-16 . . 4 4 4 4 4 81 3 3.5 1.5 3 0.5 3.5 1 2 2 1 0.5 4 1.5 81 4 4 0.5 6.2 4 4.2 0.3 3.5 3.5 3 1 1.5 3.4 1 2 3.2 1 Marine seismic. [ ' PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS Table 2.—Surface Geological Exploration, 1966 299 Company Location of Exploration Number of Geologists Two-man Party- weeks June Mobil Oil Canada ... 93-1-15 5 5 2 5 1 2 1 10 July Mobil Oil Canada .. 93-1-14, -15; 93-P-3, -4 10 August 93-K, -L 1 93-0-8, -9, -10 10 Plarirt Oil 82-G-5 2 September 94-0, -P 1 October Placid Oil _ . 82-G-5 1 Table 3.—Exploratory Test-holes Drilled, 1966 Company No. Location Ground Elevation (Ft.) Altair Oil & Gas 1 2 3 4 5 N. 710', E. 790', S.W. corner Sec. 20, Lsd. 4, Sec. 20, Tp. 82, R. 12, W. of 6th M 1,954 2,632 2,206.5 b-2-C, 94-A-14 Lsd. 6, Sec. 9, Tp. 86, R. 21, W. of 6th M. d-13-D, 94-A-14 2,503 3,115 b-66-D, 94-A-13, S. 1,569', W. 2,201', N.E. corner Unit 66D 300 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 VO Ov fit n « S w o w Q < < Q o > PS w tn W Q .-1 w m (xeq/'wh) VTd'W 33EJ3AV (•Stsj) sins -SSlJlBUlSpO (TJV) s33j3 -3Q fllAElQ (iSJJBg JI0AI3 -s?h iad isxreg 5IUEX 5[301S) JO} -DEJ sSbjiuuiis (JU33 13d) uoiremres 131EA\ 3SBJ3AV (PW) flinqEsuiiaj aSeisAV CltfWN) SSSU^OJUJ, JIOA -13S3X 3SEJ3AV (JU33 I3d) XllSOJOd 33BJ3AV SI a S. 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O a cj c sj 9f|8 sell o M t*H PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 303 Table 6.—Proved Reserves of Crude Oil and Established Reserves of Natural Gas and Natural-gas Products, December 31, 1966 Crude Oili (Thousands of Barrels) Established Disposable Gas (B S.C.F.2 at 14.65 Psia. at 60° F.) Disposable Gas (1,000 B.T.U./C.F. Basis B S.C.F.) Producible Natural-gas Liquids (Thousands of Barrels) Producible Sulphur (Thousands of Short Tons) Reserves remaining at December 31, Revisions and extensions 3 Production, 1966 1965 Reserves remaining at December 31, 1966 . 266,613 + 18,855 16,638 268,830 6,770.7 +455.8 169.2 7,057.3 I 7,044.0 +468.5 181.8 7,330.7 115,886 + 3,456 4,935 114,407 3,077 +232 79 3,230 i Barrels of 34.97 imperial gallons. Includes only proved drilled reserves. There are an additional 16,800,000 barrels of probable reserves which are in effect proved undrilled reserves. 2 B S.C.F.—Billion standard cubic feet. Associated gas is included only for pools wherein gas conservation schemes are operational. 3 Includes discovery from new drilling and revisions arising from new information. Note.—The production of residual gas, gas liquids, and sulphur are the quantities calculated from gas analyses to have been produced with the raw gas and are not the quantities actually extracted. 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O 3 £ MZ 11? o a © HI uoo a CJ CJ OJ CJ „ s s s i |r23r3,3 <2 i-* CN cn tt & tf tf O 'rt, 'rt PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 337 Table 12.—Number of Producing and Producible Wells, December 31, 19661 Field and Pool Aitken Creek field—Gething.. Beatton River field—Halfway Beatton River West field—Bluesky-Gething.. Beaverdam field—Halfway Beg field— Baldonnel Halfway Field totals- Beg West field—Baldonnel.. Bernadet field—Bluesky-Gething- Blueberry field— Dunlevy- Baldonnel Charlie Lake_ Halfway.- Mississippian- Field totals Blueberry East field— B aldonnel Halfway.. Mississippian- Field totals- Blueberry West field- Dunlevy_ Baldonnel- Field totals- Boundary Lake field— Bluesky-Gething Gething... Cadomin_ Dunlevy- Baldonnel Boundary Lake- Halfway Field totals- Boundary Lake North field—Halfway- Bubbles field—Baldonnel Buick Creek— Dunlevy_ Charlie Lake- Field totals- Buick Creek East field— Bluesky-Gething Dunlevy Field totals. Buick Creek West field— Gething- Dunlevy Baldonnel- Halfway Field totals- Bulrush field—Halfway Charlie Lake field—Gething Clarke Lake field—Slave Point- Currant field—Halfway.. Dawson Creek field—Cadotte.. Oil Wells Producing Producible Producing Natural-gas Wells 5 11 19 19 227 5 243 7 232 251 " 1 --- I 1 I = j J ~ i 2 i Each zone of a multiple completion is counted as a well. 19 19 5 13 1 1 — — 1 — 1 2 2 - 2 1 _._ 2 3 11 13 10 15 11 Producible 17 16 33 14 4 13 19 1 15 20 | 2 8 10 8 12 1 7 9 1 2 1 8 13 16 3 1 J 338 mines and petroleum resources report, 1966 Table 12.—Number of Producing and Producible Wells, December 31, 19661—Continued Field and Pool Oil Wells Natural- gas Wells Producing Producible Producing Producible Fort St. John field— Cadomin Baldonnel A Baldonnel A/P - 4 " 4 "1 4 5 5 2 2 6 6 1 Halfway.. Belloy Field totals 6 2 4 | 5 16 23 Fort St. John Southeast field— 1 2 4 1 Baldonnel A - Halfway Belloy - - Field totals 2 6 6 | 7 15 Gundy Creek—Baldonnel — Halfway field— 1 4 2 Halfway. Field totals . . _ — 1 | 1 3 Highway field— Dunlevy— 1 1 4 Mississippian _ Field totals 1 1 6 Jedney field— Gething 16 20 1 21 Halfway .. Field totals 21 36 43 Jedney West field— 1 Halfway Field totals 2 3 Kobes-Townsend field—■ Dunlevy.— 3 5 2 1 3 5 Halfway Mississippian. - — Field tntals 2 2 11 12 ~20 "ii "29 3 40 Laprise Creek West field—Baldonnel Milligan Creek field—Halfway Montney field— 2 1 1 1 Halfway 2 FiplH totals | _ ■ 4 Nettle field- 1 2 1 Halfway .... Field totals 1 1 | 2 2 1 2 102 2 20 2 27 Osprey field—Halfway 2 Peejay field—Halfway Peejay West field—Halfway - ... Petitnt River field—Slave Point 4 3 Red Creek field- 1 Halfway Field totals 1 — 2 PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 339 Table 12.—Number of Producing and Producible Wells, December 31, 19661—Continued Field and Pool Oil Wells Natural- ;as Wells Producing Producible Producing Producible Rigel field—Dunlevy- — 5 6 19 32 1 Stnrlrfarf field—Rellny 1 i 5 6 Stoddart West field—Belloy 1 1 Weasel field— Baldonnel .. 1 Halfway . . 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IA or-" rf UiJ a © cn w a 0 ■o a ■o o Ph ON a o Cd 0 ll § P 3 Ph0" ft *3 CO TJ a & s CO ft S s s*. K 3 O ■Z3 O r-1 c rf H TJ r- R T « S U 0 B ■3 z a •s u 'EJ u 45 u o is u Ph M « i-l a | (5 rt 1 Inspection of Lode Mines, Placer IV and Quarries By J. W. Peck, Chief Inspector of Mines ines, Page _____ 355 Fatal Accidents CONTENTS Fatal Accidents and Accidents Involving Loss of Time _____ 360 Dangerous Occurrences 361 Prosecutions . 364 Blasting Certificate Suspensions _ 364 Explosives Used tn Mines 364 Dust Control and Ventilation _____ 365 Shiftboss Certificates 367 Mine Rescue. Safety, and First Aid. 368 John T. Ryan Trophy 372 West Kootenay Mine Safety Association Trophy. _____ 372 Safety Competition. Open-pit Mines and Quarries 372 ode mines, placer 10 years of 10.0. occurred during FATAL ACCIDENTS During 1966 there were eight fatal accidents connected with 1 mines, and quarries. This compares with the average for the past The following table shows the mines at which fatal accidents 1966, with comparative figures for 1965:— Mine or Place Location Number of Fatal Accidents 1966 1965 100 Mile .House _ 1 1 i i i i l - Bralorne Brynnor Caledonia Cariboo Gold Quartz Wells .- Port McNeill Craigmont — Merritt Hope Smithers Glacier Gulch - ._ Granduc Wells Salmo H.B. Hecla Jersey Toby Creek. Mount Washington South Gold Totals Stewart - 8 10 355 356 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The following table classifies fatal accidents as to cause and location:— Cause Number Location Fall of rock 3 Underground. Haulage 1 Underground. Vehicles 1 Surface. Equipment failure 1 Underground. Bad air 1 Underground. Loose clothing 1 Underground. Total 8 A description of all fatal accidents follows. Gregg Earl Campbell, aged 19, married, and employed as a sampler at the Britannia mine of The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., was fatally injured on February 23, 1966, when struck by a moving ore train. The accident took place on the 2900 level of the mine. Campbell and his partner apparently took refuge, one on each side of the track, when they saw a trolley locomotive pulling three 5-ton capacity Granby-type cars approaching them. The motorman slowed to about 2 miles per hour until he saw the men separate and then he increased speed to 4 miles per hour. The motor headlight was on. As he passed Campbell, the motorman turned and saw one arm and one leg outstretched between the motor and the first ore car. He started to slow down but Campbell was spun against a timber by the ore car and when the train was stopped was found lying in the ditch between the second and third ore car. The other men went immediately to the assistance of the injured man. He was conscious but obviously seriously injured. He complained of being unable to breathe. Mouth to mouth resuscitation was given. He was placed on a stretcher and taken to the surface but apparently stopped breathing, being pronounced dead by the doctor when the surface was reached. Cause of the death was given as pressure or bruised lungs due to injury to the chest as well as compound fracture of the pelvis. The drift where the accident occurred was timbered by 10- by 10-inch timber sets placed at 6-foot centres. The drift here was 7 feet wide inside the timbers and 8 feet IVi inches between the lagging. There was adequate clearance on the side where Campbell's partner took refuge, in that there was 21 inches from any post to the car and 30 inches from the lagging to a car. However, on the side where Campbell took refuge, the clearance to the lagging was about 12 inches. Even so, he might have escaped if he had not attempted to move. The evidence of the motor- man would indicate Campbell tried at the last moment to leave his place of shelter by jumping out into the passing motor, and when this attempt failed he was caught and rolled. The inquest was held on March 3, 1966. The jury found no individual to blame but recommended: "That safety rules be enforced. That in narrow areas of the shaft [sic], one side be designated as a walkway. That new personnel be instructed as to safety procedure before entering the mine alone." Frank Donald Carlson, aged 38, married, and employed as a shiftboss at the Hecla mine of Johnsby Mines Limited, near Silverton, suffered death in an abandoned working on April 12, 1966. The accident took place in workings from which the machinery, air-line, and ventilation pipe had been removed by January, 1966. These workings had no through or natural ventilation. The closest ventilated place was about 250 feet from the scene of the accident. It was at this latter point that three miners were engaged in driving a slusher drift and they were the last to see Carlson alive. He reported to them that he was going into the abandoned workings and to look for him if he did INSPECTION OF MINES 357 not return in 30 minutes. This they did when he did not return, and Carlson was found unconscious 15 feet up a raise lying on his back with one foot caught in a pipe bracket. They could not rescue him because of bad air, and it took another hour before sufficient compressed air was introduced into the area to allow the recovery of the body. Artificial respiration was then applied but without avail. On April 13th the air was tested where the body had been located. It was found satisfactory, but this was probably due to the compressed air that had been introduced. Thirty feet farther up the raise, however, the safety lamp would not burn, and an air sample gave a later analysis of 3.44 per cent oxygen and 0.55 per cent carbon dioxide. The inquest was held in Nakusp on May 12th. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to a coronary thrombosis, probably brought on by lack of oxygen. (See Prosecutions. A certified shiftboss is required to hold a mine-rescue certificate to ensure a competent knowledge of mine air conditions. The deceased was not so certified.) Wayne Ake Johannessen, aged 27, married, and employed as a miner at the Jersey mine of Canadian Exploration Limited, was fatally injured on May 27th when a scaling-platform on which he was working collapsed. The accident occurred in a large open stope where mining is by room-and-pillar method and using trackless diesel-powered equipment. The scaling-platform, a " Trump Giraffe," was mounted on a Dart truck. The essential parts were two booms, about 20 feet long, hinged together and capable of being raised or lowered by hydraulic controls on the platform attached to the end of the upper boom. On the day of the accident, Johannessen and a partner were using the scaling- platform to bar down a wall of a stope. At about 5.05 p.m. the upper boom knuckles, fitting around the shaft between the upper and lower boom, failed, dropping the upper boom instantly and causing the men to fall onto a pile of broken rock 20 feet below. The noise was heard by men in a nearby stope and rescue got under way shortly after. An ambulance transported the injured men to the Salmo clinic, arriving about 6 p.m. Johannessen's partner was detained there to be treated for bruises and head cuts, while Johannessen was taken to the Kootenay Lake General Hospital at Nelson. He died at 9.45 p.m. Causes of death were internal injuries coupled with severe concussion. The scaling-platform, designed for a maximum of 1,500 pounds on the platform, was at time of failure carrying a load of about 450 pounds. It was 15 years old and had been in fairly constant use. Investigation disclosed that the failure at the knuckles of the booms was where two of the original welds had parted. There was no evidence that any large pieces of rock had struck the " trump giraffe." The inquest was held in Nelson on June 1st. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to anyone, but added a rider recommending that machines of this nature should be dismantled and thoroughly inspected periodically. Terry Elmer Davis, aged 16, single, and employed as a bulldozer operator and truck spotter by Lamac Construction Ltd., was instantly killed on August 15, 1966, at the Mount Washington (Domineer No. 22) mine of Mount Washington Milling Co. Ltd., when crushed by a bulldozer. The mine is an open-pit operation, situated about 4 miles from the concentrator. The ore is trucked to the concentrator, where some of it is dumped directly into the coarse-ore bin and some onto a stockpile above the level of the mill. Most of the stockpiled ore is retained to keep the concentrator operating through the winter and spring when snow conditions preclude mining operations. Some of the stockpiled ore, however, is fed to the mill on the night shift during the mining season 358 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and at times when the trucks are not running. On the day of the accident, Davis arrived at the dumping point about 6.20 a.m. and was apparently instructed to act as a spotter for the dump trucks and also to keep the top of the dump clear of spillage from the trucks with a small D-2 Caterpillar bulldozer. At 6.40 a.m. a "Cat" operator for Lamac Construction Ltd., on his way to work at the mine, saw what appeared to be a small " Cat" lying on its side at the bottom of the dump. He went down to investigate, and found Davis lying to the left rear of the overturned machine and apparently dead. He obtained help and the body was transported to Courtenay, where death was confirmed as being due to severe head and internal injuries. There were no witnesses, but it was evident from the track marks that Davis, in attempting to clear the dump with the bulldozer, approached the edge of the dump at an angle of about 35 degrees. In doing this the centre of gravity of the machine was brought down the slope of the dump and rolled over the edge. Davis was thrown out of the machine but was struck by it as it rolled down the slope. The day of the accident was the first day that Davis was employed by Lamac Construction Ltd. However, it was indicated that Davis had been trained on tractor operations for a period of about two years and thus, although young, had a fair amount of experience in operating tractors. However, it would seem that Davis was not operating safely in pushing the muck at an angle with the edge of the dump. The safe way to push broken material off the edge of the dump is to push at right angles to the edge. The inquest was held at Courtenay on August 18, 1966. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with no blame attached to anyone. Morley Earl Willmore, aged 27, married, and employed as a miner by Canadian Rock Company Limited, was fatally injured in a stope at the Craigmont mine on August 21, 1966, when his clothing became entangled in a rotating drill-steel. The accident took place in a subdrift in 719 stope of the mine. Willmore was operating a Gardner Denver D.H. 99 rock drill mounted on a 6-foot aluminum feed slide and supported by a 7-foot vertically positioned machine column. This machine was being used for long-hole drilling. There were no witnesses to the accident. Willmore had been visited by the shiftboss at about 9.30 a.m., but the accident was discovered by a workman at about 12.30 p.m. Help was obtained, but it was apparent from the coldness of the body death had taken place some time previous. Investigation disclosed that Willmore had encountered difficulties in collaring a hole. Apparently he went to the front end of the machine and, after turning on the drill throttle and feed, had attempted to hold the bit on the proper spot for the hole to be collared by pushing sideways on the steel with his body. His new slicker coat as well as his coveralls and sweatshirt became entangled in the drill-steel. Willmore was then drawn up and killed by strangulation. His position was such that once he became entangled he could not reach the machine throttle to shut the machine off. The drill-steel which had been in the machine was 4 feet in length, in good condition, and free from burrs. The point of entanglement was about 1 foot from the bit and thus about 5 feet from the throttle. The inquest was held at Merritt on September 13, 1966. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to anyone, but recommended: "That proper safety equipment such as a steel retainer be used in this type of drilling. That there be closer supervision." James Haggarty, aged 25, single, and employed as an electrician's helper at the Tide Lake tunnel project of Granduc Mines Limited, was instantly killed by a fall of rock on September 24, 1966, at about 2.30 p.m. INSPECTION OF MINES 359 The scene of the accident was approximately 40 feet back from the 14- by 14-foot tunnel face, where a drilling jumbo was being used. Haggarty was a member of a three-man electrical crew engaged approximately 950 feet from the tunnel face placing eyebolts to carry electrical wiring. Haggarty and the other electrician's helper were instructed by the underground electrical boss to fetch additional eyebolts from the steel car, which was situated near the face directly behind the jumbo. When the back of the steel car was reached, Haggarty continued on ahead of the left side of the jumbo to see the rock-drilling in progress, which he had apparently not seen before. When Haggarty's partner had collected sufficient bolts for the job, he went up to Haggarty, who was still standing beside the jumbo, and tapped him on the shoulder and shouted that they had better leave and finish the job. Then, according to Haggarty's partner, "everything caved in." Both men were buried by a fall of rock from the corner of the wall of the tunnel. At the time of the accident the faceboss was on the deck of the jumbo supervising drilling and rock bolting. He heard the rock fall and upon investigating saw a partly buried workman in the muck pile below the left side of the jumbo. The faceboss sent a workman for the first-aid kits and stretchers and made a telephone call to the first-aid attendant. The mining crew uncovered Haggarty's partner, who was conscious, and placed him in a basket stretcher. A large rock, weighing an estimated 300 to 400 pounds, had to be lifted, with the aid of a track jack, off the body of Haggarty. The first-aid attendant, who proceeded underground immediately, stopped briefly to attend the man in the stretcher and then proceeded to Haggarty, who was being uncovered from the muck pile. There was no heart beat and Haggarty, who showed severe multiple crush injuries, appeared dead. The first-aid attendant then devoted his attention to the injured man and remained with him until he was turned over to the Prince Rupert General Hospital three hours later. The rock type in the tunnel drive had changed the previous week, requiring rock bolting and steel lagging for support. The back and right side of the adit to the face, plus most of the left side, had been rock-bolted and strapped, while the uncompleted section near the back of the jumbo was being rock-bolted when the fall of ground occurred. The rock fall was estimated to be approximately 2 tons. Most of the rock was in small pieces, with some pieces as large as 400 pounds. Haggarty had had 10 days' underground experience, while his partner apparently had three months' underground experience as an electrical helper. An inquest was held at the Granduc Tide Lake camp on October 11, 1966. Cause of death was given as severe multiple injuries consisting of ruptures of the abdominal and chest walls, and crush injuries to the thoracic contents. A verdict of accidental death by means of a rock fall was returned with no blame attached to anyone. The jury recommended: " That anyone who is not familiar with the tunnel be warned of the dangers, and in future the supervisor in charge be more cautious of falling rock and of rock bolting. Longer rock bolts should be used where required." Werner Fredricks, aged 32, married, and employed as a miner by Blue Star Mines Limited, was instantly killed at the Caledonia mine when crushed by a falling slab of rock at about 1.30 p.m. on November 8, 1966. Fredricks and his partner were working in a small sublevel which connected two raises within an ore zone. Stoping was being started from the sublevel, and Fredricks was in the process of drilling off the first lift. Eight holes had been completed and, as Fredricks was collaring the ninth hole, a 2-ton slab of rock fell from the vein zone crushing his head, chest, and one leg. The partner, who had been about 20 feet away, immediately went to aid Fredricks, but there was so sign of life. Help was obtained and the body was removed from the cave-in. 360 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Investigation indicated that the sublevel had been scaled several hours prior to the accident. Two graphite slips had formed a conical-shaped portion of vein which presumably had become loose as a result of drilling. It was this portion of vein, estimated at 2 tons, that fell on Fredricks. The inquest was held in Kaslo on November 9, 1966. The jury found that the deceased came to his death by an unexpected fall of rock, causing instantaneous death from multiple injuries, with no blame to anyone. Sergio Antonio Pasin, aged 30, married, and employed as a shiftboss by Aetna Investment Corporation Limited, was fatally injured at the Mineral King mine by a fall of rock at about 8 p.m. on December 14, 1966. On the day of the accident, Pasin was helping a miner in 34-A stope. A muck raise had been driven in a projecting wall in the stope, and a short time prior to the accident the two men had blasted to widen the raise. Upon returning to the bottom of the raise to scale some loose ground, a large rock, or rocks, fell from the stope above into the raise and struck the two workmen. Pasin's partner was rendered unconscious, but upon recovering he noticed Pasin lying near the wall of the stope below the raise. Help was summoned and artificial respiration was performed on the body prior to the arrival of the doctor, who found that Pasin was dead. The doctor was of the opinion that the deceased had died instantly due to multiple head injuries, fractured neck, and crushing injuries to he chest. The deceased's partner suffered severe facial lacerations and abraisons and was taken to hospital. Investigation of the accident scene revealed several rocks, stained with blood, which could have caused the accident. During the morning of the accident the working-place had been inspected by the mine foreman and considered safe. Probably the concussion of the previous blast had loosened the rocks in the interim. The inquest was held at Invermere on December 21, 1966. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death with no blame attached to anyone. FATAL ACCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS INVOLVING LOSS OF TIME Eight fatal accidents and 308 accidents involving a loss of time of over three days were reported to the Department. These were investigated and reported on by the Inspectors of Mines. The following three tables classify these accidents as to cause, occupation, and as to the parts of the body injured. The fourth table lists all fatal and compensable accidents which occurred in lode mines over a 10-year period and relates these accidents to the number of persons employed. Accidents Causing Death or Injury Classified as to Cause Number of Percentage Cause Accidents of Total Atmosphere 1 0.3 Explosives 3 1.0 Falls of ground 63 20.0 Falls of persons 71 22.4 Lifting and handling material 58 18.4 Machinery and tools 71 22.4 Transportation 27 8.5 Miscellaneous 22 7.0 Totals 316 100.0 INSPECTION OF MINES 361 Accidents Causing Death or Injury Classified as to the Occupation of Those Injured Occupation Underground— Chutemen . Haulagemen Miners Helpers Timbermen Mechanics, electricians, etc. Miscellaneous Surface— Mechanics, electricians, repairmen Mill and crusher workers Carpenters Miners and drillers Vehicle-drivers Miscellaneous Number of Accidents Percentage of Total 3 1.0 . 22 7.0 . 139 44.0 . 21 6.6 5 1.6 . 15 4.7 3 1.0 23 7.4 20 6.2 9 2.8 23 7.4 13 4.1 20 6.2 Totals 316 100.0 Accidents Causing Death or Injury Classified as to the Parts of the Body Location Eyes Head, face, and neck. Trunk Upper extremities Lower extremities General Number of Accidents . 9 _ 14 _ 82 .. 82 .. 113 .. 14 Percentage of Total 3.0 4.5 26.0 26.0 36.0 4.5 Totals 316 100.0 Compensable and Fatal Accidents Related to Persons Employed Year Number of Accidents Number of Persons Employed Frequency per 1,000 Persons 1957 535 396 310 395 338 429 521 547 559 739 5,678 4,353 4,316 4,389 3,993 4,872 5,025 5,400 5,522 7,722 94 1958 91 1959... ~~ 72 1960 -- 90 1961 85 1962 88 1963 104 1964 101 1965 101 1966— 96 DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES Thirty-three dangerous occurrences were reported as required by section 9 of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act and were investigated by the Inspectors of Mines. This compares with 40 reported for 1965. 362 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Of these occurrences, nine involved fires (four of which were of electrical origin), six were connected with hoisting, six with surface vehicles, four with explosives, two with gas conditions, two with cave-ins, two with machinery, and one each with compressed air and electric shock. On January 6, 1966, at the Sullivan concentrator (Chapman Camp) of Cominco Ltd., a small fire, believed from welding origin, did minor damage to the floor below the copper sulphate mixing-tank. On January 13, 1966, at the Old Fireclay mine of Clayburn-Harbison Ltd. a cave-in occurred on the Kilgard-Straiton road where it crossed over an abandoned incline. Two people received minor injuries when their truck dropped into a 35-foot-deep hole. On January 20, 1966, at Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited, a muck skip stuck in the dump position, allowing several feet of hoisting-rope to come off the hoisting- drum and become lodged between the bull and pinion gears. On January 21, 1966, at the Yreka mine of Minoca Mines Ltd., the bolts holding the crown gear of the transmission assembly of the aerial-tramway drive sheared, and this permitted a runaway of the tram. A friction brake has been installed on the upper sheave to control any further runaways. On January 25, 1966, the concentrator section of the Empire Development Company Limited mill was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. On February 27, 1966, at Texada Mines Ltd., an electrical short circuit in a switch box caused a small fire. On February 28, 1966, at the Sullivan mine of Cominco Ltd., two men received minor injuries when they delayed at the scene of a blasting operation after having commenced lighting the fuses. On March 4, 1966, at the asbestos open-pit mine of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited, faulty repairs to the steering mechanism of a Payhauler truck caused it to swerve into a vehicle parked near the dump ramp. On March 15, 1966, in the Tide Lake tunnel of Granduc Mines Limited, an electrical short circuit caused the mechanical ventilation system to fail, thus permitting blasting gases and smoke to back up in the drift to where men were working. On April 28, 1966, in the Tide Lake tunnel of Granduc Mines Limited, two men were seriously injured when an 8-inch high-pressure air header was unbolted while under pressure. On June 15, 1966, at the Old Sport mine of Coast Copper Company Limited, a fire occurred in the battery wiring of an Atlas 3-ton locomotive. On June 17, 1966, at the Britannia mine of The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., the No. 7 shaft hoist cable became kinked when excess cable was paid out after the cage was chaired. On July 11, 1966, at the asbestos open-pit mine of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited, a power-shovel ran out of control as it was being moved. The operator jumped clear of the machine when it went over a bank. On July 25, 1966, a small fire occurred in the compressor building at H.B. mine of Cominco Ltd., when the compressor could not be stopped. The field discharge resistor overheated, igniting oily lint and dust. On August 5, 1966, at the Old Sport mine of Coast Copper Company Limited, vibrations loosened a splice in the main electrical cable splice box on 4900 level. The cable grounded out to the splice box, causing a small fire. On August 17, 1966, at the Britannia mine of The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., a man was partially buried for nearly seven hours in the collapse of a hung-up area in a stope as he attempted to cross while using a ladder. INSPECTION OF MINES 363 On August 21, 1966, at the mill of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited, a workman reached in under the ram of the bagging-machine. While doing this he activated the ram controls with his other hand. His left forearm received such injuries as to require being amputated. On August 31, 1966, at the mill-site of British Columbia Molybdenum Limited, a surveyor received a back injury when he jumped off a wall in order to avoid being struck by a crane load. The crane load was swinging due to the breaking of one of its supporting slings. On September 1, 1966, at the Tide Lake tunnel of Granduc Mines Limited, an underground electrician was rendered unconscious by electrical shock when he attempted to connect two disconnect plugs while the circuit was energized. On September 10, 1966, at the Jersey mine of Canadian Exploration Limited, a timberman was injured when an explosion occurred while he was picking the floor of a drift with a scaling-bar. On September 30, 1966, at the open-pit iron mine of Jedway Iron Ore Limited, an unattended grader ran away and suffered considerable damage. The brakes had been set but the blade was uplifted. On October 9, 1966, at the Alice mine of British Columbia Molybdenum Limited, two first-aid attendants received minor injuries when the ambulance in which they were riding rolled down an embankment after meeting a truck at a blind corner on the mine road. On October 22, 1966, at the open-pit mine of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited, a loaded Kenworth Dart truck jumped out of gear while being backed down a steep grade. The driver steered the vehicle into the side of the road to prevent a runaway, but the vehicle capsized. On October 31, 1966, a fire destroyed the underground clothes change-house of the Britannia mine of The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd. It is believed the fire was caused by a cigarette setting fire to some clothes. On November 2, 1966, at the Yreka mine of Minoca Mines Ltd., eight broken wires were found in a 15-inch length of track cable at the upper terminal of the aerial tramway. Repairs were made by removing 16 feet of cable and adding a cable link. On November 7, 1966, at the Tide Lake tunnel of the Granduc Mines Limited, a pocket of carbon dioxide gas was released after a blast at the face. On November 17, 1966, on the down-hill road to the crusher at the open-pit iron mine of Jedway Iron Ore Limited, a Euclid truck was damaged when it went out of control as the driver was attempting to change gears. On November 25, 1966, at the Mineral King mine of Aetna Investment Corporation Limited, the muck skip in the No. 2 shaft was hoisted through the dump position and caused minor damage to the shaft. On December 6, 1966, at the mill of Granisle Copper Limited, an oil furnace became ignited when the furnace backfired. On December 13, 1966, at the No. 8 shaft at the Britannia mine of The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., a number of small cracks were observed in the gussets on the underside of the brake paths which are bolted onto each hoist drum. Special precautions were instituted pending replacement of the brake paths. On December 13, 1966, at Britannia mine of The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., two men were injured as a result of an explosion which occurred as the men were drilling at the face of a drift. On December 20, 1966, at the Merry Widow mine of Empire Development Company Limited, a welder received superficial burns when the oxygen hose burst 364 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 as he was lighting an oxy-acetylene torch. The workman's oil-covered clothes caught fire. On December 30, 1966, at the Sullivan mine of Cominco Ltd., a workman was slightly injured by the concussion of a blast when he returned too soon to the scene of a blasting operation. PROSECUTIONS Two prosecutions were instituted under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, as follows:— The manager of Johnsby Mines Limited was charged under section 20 for failing to provide a certified shiftboss at the Hecla mine operated by the company. A hearing was held in New Denver on May 3, 1966, at which time the defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $75. The manager of Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited was charged under section 21, Rule 55 (a), following a blasting accident at the mine where the injured workman was found to have been performing blasting duties but was not the holder of a blasting certificate. A hearing was held in Salmo on May 11, 1966, at which the defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $100. Two prosecutions were instituted by mine management but not under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act. Two workmen at Wesfrob Mines Limited were jointly charged with "mischief" and "taking without owner's consent." The first charge arose out of discharging a carbon dioxide type fire-extinguisher in a bunk- house in which men were sleeping, and the second charge was for taking and driving a company vehicle. Guilty pleas were entered at the hearing on November 21, 1966, and the men were each fined $50 on the first charge and $150 on the second charge. BLASTING CERTIFICATE SUSPENSIONS There were violations of the provisions of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act with respect to the use of explosives and blasting procedure. Blasting certificates of five offenders were suspended for periods varying from two to six months. The offences included drilling in the socket of a hole in which blasting had been done, transporting explosives on a locomotive, and the removal of nitroglycerine-type explosives from drill-holes. EXPLOSIVES USED IN MINES The following table records the quantities, in pounds, of explosives and ammonium nitrate used in mines and quarries other than coal in British Columbia in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966:— 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 4,522,619 2,013,850 2,429,5502 5,921,690 4,072,000 1,770,000 2,639,0002 8,900,860 5,200,000 2,100,000 4,923,000 10,100,000 6,043,000 2,830,000 5,733,000 10,544,000 5,811,000 3,239,000 AN/FOi 6,375,164 15,073,000 301,000 1 Mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel-oil. 2 Not inclusive of production by Cominco Ltd., which is included in totals of ammonium nitrate for 1962 and 1963. With the exception of high explosives, the quantities of the other types of explosives and ammonium nitrate used show continuing large increases. The drop in consumption of high explosives was possibly because of a change in blasting technique wherein AN/FO-loaded holes are being initiated with either high-strength INSPECTION OF MINES 365 blasting-caps or with anodet delays. The quantity of factory-mixed AN/FO used showed a steady increase, while that produced by local mixing of ammonium nitrate and fuel-oil has increased by almost 50 per cent and is indicative of the large expansion in open-pit mining within the Province. The Amite II was an experimental substitute made to replace certain usages of Hydromex. Two operations commenced the production of a more sensitive AN/FO during 1966. This is done by impinging the AN/FO against a steel plate in order to pulverize the prills. The use of AN/FO explosives is contingent on a permit being obtained from the Chief Inspector of Mines, Victoria. For those operators who wish to blend their own ammonium nitrate and fuel-oil or to sensitize it, written permission must be obtained from the Chief Inspector of Explosives, Ottawa. DUST CONTROL AND VENTILATION The dust and ventilation conditions at the different operations in the mining industry were surveyed by the Silicosis Control Inspectors of the Department. Excerpts from the report of the Senior Inspector, R. J. Craig, follow:— (1) A total of 91 surveys of dust conditions was made at 64 operations during 1966. The surveys were made at lode mines, both underground and open pit, rock quarries, gravel pits, and asbestos and coal mines. (2) The maximum allowable concentrations of dust and threshold limit value have never been clearly defined in Canada. The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists has adopted a standard based on the midget impinger. In British Columbia the figure of 300 particles per cc. as determined with the konimeter is used as a level of dust concentration that can be obtained under good conditions of ventilation and dust control. The konimeter is used for sampling rock dust. For asbestos dust, 5 million particles per cubic foot as obtained with the midget impinger is the maximum allowable concentration. For coal dust other than anthracite, 700 particles per cc. between 1 and 5 microns in size as measured with the thermal precipitator is the accepted standard. (3) Dust from drilling operations still gives a high percentage of the dust concentrations which are above the general mine average. It was found that only 35 per cent of the surveys at drilling locations underground showed averages of less than 300 particles per cc. The use of a good supply of water together with auxiliary ventilation are still being recommended as good methods of reducing the dust concentrations. (4) At all other underground locations, 76 per cent of the surveys showed averages of less than 300 particles per cc. of air. These samples represent the locations where most of the men work underground. (5) At crushing plants for underground mines, the percentage of surveys less than 300 particles per cc. was 56 per cent. A number of the plants have been designed with inadequate exhaust systems. It is difficult to increase the capacity of a system much above its original design, and the companies are loath to scrap the old system. (6) At open-pit operations the results of the dust surveys were as follows: At drilling operations in pit, 53 per cent of the surveys were less than 300 particles per cc of air; at all other operations in pit, 100 per cent of the surveys were less than 300 particles per cc. of air; at crushing plants, 32 per cent of the surveys were less than 300 particles per cc of air. The crushing plants continue to give higher dust concentrations than normal. 366 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 (7) In assay grinding-rooms, 77 per cent of the surveys gave averages of less than 300 particles per cc of air. (8) At rock and limestone quarries the results of the dust surveys showed as follows: At drilling operations, 100 per cent of the surveys were less than 300 particles per cc; at crushing operations, 83 per cent of the surveys were less than 300 particles per cc; and at bagging operations in the warehouse, 75 per cent of the surveys were less than 300 particles per cc. of air. (9) At the asbestos-mining operation, 78 per cent of the samples taken were within the limit for asbestos dust of 5 million particles per cubic foot. (10) In a survey of conditions at a coal-mining operation, only one location was found to be above the limit of 700 particles per cc of air between 1.0 and 5.0 microns in size. 2000 1 1 1 1 1 1 LEGEND Crushing plants (underground) Crushing plants ( surface) Assuy grinding rooms 1500 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i i < O — O cc L_l 11 1000 CO UJ H Q_ < a u. o cc UJ | 500 D Z \ / V V 300 ^v...- V 0 — 1 1 Mil II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i i i i i i 937 40 45 50 55 60 65 YEAR Figure 37. Average underground dust counts. INSPECTION OF MINES 367 2000 LEGEND Stoper drilling 1 Combined Leyner drilling] 1964 All drilling underground All others underground 1500 1937 40 45 Figure 38. Average crushing and grinding dust counts. (11) Certificates of fitness were checked at the lode mines and more than 97 per cent were found to be in good order. (12) Some investigations were made of noise levels. A noise-level meter was purchased, and surveys were made at some of the drill locations and in crushing plants and concentrators. (13) Figures 37 and 38 are graphs showing the median of all the averages in various operations in the lode mines obtained each year since 1937. SHIFTBOSS CERTIFICATES Section 20 of the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act requires that every person employed underground be under the daily supervision of an official who is the holder of a shiftboss certificate issued under this Act. An applicant for a shiftboss certificate is required to pass an examination on the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act 368 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and general safe working practices. He must have three years' practical experience or one year plus a degree in mining engineering. He must also be the holder of a mine-rescue certificate and a first-aid certificate. A fee of $5 is charged for the examination. The Board of Examiners may grant provisional certificates under such conditions as the Board considers advisable. During 1966, 120 provisional certificates of six months' duration were issued. Examinations were held at various places throughout the Province, and the following 65 men were successful in qualifying for their permanent certificates:— Cert. No. Name Date Cert. No. Name Date 341 20-1-66 9-2-66 1-3-66 2-3-66 22-3-66 23-3-66 18-4-66 28^1-66 28^1-66 28^1-66 5-5-66 5-5-66 5-5-66 12-5-66 12-5-66 12-5-66 12-5-66 12-5-66 12-5-66 12-5-66 13-5-66 18-5-66 19-5-66 23-5-66 30-5-66 30-5-66 30-5-66 30-5-66 8-6-66 20-6-66 20-6-66 4-7-66 18-7-66 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 20-7-66 342 George L. Dvorak Paul Hoodikoff _ 20-7-66 343 26-7-66 344 29-7-66 345 Belmont A. Charette 4-8-66 346 Raymond Eric Coke Richards 12-8-66 347 Emile M. Roy ... 12-8-66 348 12-8-66 349 Neville James Foran 15-8-66 350 Ross W. Hunt 22-8-66 351 2-9-66 352 Adelio Tovani. 2-9-66 353 6-9-66 354 Frederick Henry Wilkinson Norman Clarence Knippleberg. 21-9-66 355 21-9-66 356 Wolfgang Hermann H. Buddee 21-9-66 357 14-10-66 358 14_10-66 359 14_10-66 360 Michael William Dowling Ayre_ 17_10-66 361 Lloyd E. Johnston... __ 18-10-66 362 25-10-66 363 James Richard Billingsley 25-10-66 364 25-10-66 365 2-11-66 366 8-11-66 367 5-12-66 368 5 12-66 369 Michael Alexander Donahue 5-12-66 370 Paul Rlchert _ 8-12-66 371 Frederick A. Pickering 12-12-66 372 13-12-66 373 Joel R. Hofl MINE RESCUE, SAFETY, AND FIRST AID The promotion of mine rescue and first aid continued on a high level throughout 1966. Four mine-rescue stations were maintained, with an instructor qualified in mine rescue and first aid available at each station. Each station is equipped with sufficient self-contained oxygen-breathing apparatus to maintain two mine-rescue teams of six men each should any emergency in nearby mines arise. There are also sets of mine-rescue equipment maintained at various mines, either on loan from the Department or owned by the mine. In 1966 Department-owned equipment totalled 60 McCaa two-hour apparatus and 40 Chemox 1-hour apparatus, while that owned by mining companies totalled 75 McCaa's, 80 Chemox's, plus six Draeger BG-174 apparatus. Each station also has auxiliary equipment, such as all-service masks, self-rescuers, gas-detectors, inhalators, and a complete set of first-aid equipment. The district instructor makes a periodic check of mine-rescue and first-aid equipment at mines in his district. The station at Nanaimo was re established after the closure of the Cumberland station in 1963. It had been in existence from 1912 to 19.51, but in 1963 the INSPECTION OF MINES 369 building was not found suitable, and a mobile unit was purchased to operate from the Courthouse. Mine-rescue or first-aid classes were held at the Granduc, Britannia, Zeballos Iron, Brynnor, Empire Development, and Coast Copper mines. A course in mine rescue was held at the Institute of Technology at Burnaby for the first enrolled class of mining students. Its acceptance would indicate it could become a voluntary part of the curriculum. A short course in breathing apparatus was also given to employees of Ocean Cement Limited and the British Columbia Forest Service. In the latter part of 1966 the Tsable River coal mine closed and all equipment on loan was moved to Nanaimo. The Kamloops station is a mobile unit which has operated from Kamloops since 1961. Service is given over a wide area in central British Columbia from the International Boundary to the Yukon Border. Mine-rescue and first-aid training as well as inspection of equipment was given at the Giant Mascot, Cassiar Asbestos, Craigmont, Glacier Gulch, Bulkley Valley, Boss Mountain, Cariboo Gold Quartz, and Horn Silver mines. The instructor travelled over 23,000 miles in the course of his duties. The Nelson station is also a mobile unit which services the West Kootenay and Boundary areas. Mine-rescue or first-aid classes were held at the Bluebell, Canadian Exploration, Reeves MacDonald, H.B., and Phoenix Copper mines. Assistance was also given to the Nelson, Greenwood, and New Denver fire departments in the use and care of breathing apparatus. Close contact was also maintained with the civil defence organizations. The mine-rescue station at Fernie is maintained principally to serve the coal mines in the area, but assistance in mine-rescue training is also given to personnel of the Sullivan and Mineral King mines. First-aid classes had a total of 65 persons, while a total of 25 men was trained in mine rescue. There were no emergency calls for the mine-rescue apparatus, but two requests for oxygen by the Fernie fire department received prompt attention. A certificate of competency in mine-rescue work is granted to each man who takes the training course and passes the examination set by the Department. For those who take a refresher course, a sticker is given for attachment to the certificate. All mine-rescue men are also entitled to a hat emblem. In 1966, in addition to the regular teams in training 235 men took the course and were granted certificates as listed below. This is the highest number granted in one year since the issuing of certificates in 1913. Certificate No. Name Where Trained Certificate No. Name Where Trained I 3909 3910 3911 3912 3913 3914 3915 3916 3917 3918 3919 3920 3921 3922 3923 3924 3925 3926 Steve Mikolcevic Andrew Jardine _ Oliver N. McLeod Daniel R. P. O'Connor James Craig _.. Kenneth Kearsley William T. Anderson _ Ronald Bailey Carl Blanes Wolfgang Bechert. Roy Fogarty Laurence A. Gagne Leslie J. Harrop J. Bruce Kendrick James Martin Konrad Stavem Larry Krishner John W. Groeb _ Portage Dam. London Pride Silver. London Pride Silver London Pride Silver Zeballos Iron. Zeballos Iron. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Britannia. Zeballos Iron. Zeballos Iron. 3927 3928 3929 3930 3931 3932 3933 3934 3935 3936 3937 3938 3939 3940 3941 3942 3943 James B. Standish Jack Heichert Kenneth A. Suitor James G. Fiske Neil J. Sterritt Bruce R. Herd Peter Lawrence Byers _ David Huston Brian W. Lawrence John C. Ruelle Peter W. Dunsford Douglas G. Bailey Paul Kindrat Wallace H. Yahnke _ John Smart Broadfoot John Filmer Coy Frank Stark Fire Department, North Kamloops. Norex. Norex. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. B.C. Inst. Technol. New Cronin Babine. Cameron-McMynn. Mineral King. Mineral King. Mineral King. 370 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Certificate No. Name Where Trained Certificate No, Name Where Trained 3944 3945 3946 3947 3948 3949 3950 3951 3952 3953 3954 3955 3956 3957 3958 3959 3960 3961 3962 3963 3964 3965 3966 3967 3968 3969 3970 3971 3972 3973 3974 3975 3976 3977 3978 3979 3980 3981 3982 3983 3984 3985 3986 3987 3988 3989 3990 3991 3992 3993 3994 3995 3996 3997 3998 3999 4000 4001 4002 4003 4004 4005 4006 4007 4008 4009 4010 4011 4012 4013 4014 4015 4016 4017 Jure Milanovic _ Robert Jenkins.. Carl Schwazer Alex Smith Garry Bryon Elliott Adelmo Stella _ John Irvin Scott Gerald Anthony Barre _ Frederick L. Hunt — Rheo L. Joseph Touzin Albert Leo Frocklage _ Warren Leech Frederick Iner Bidder _ William Russell _ Wilfred Eric Bisgrove _ Nigel Stonestreet Peter Maxim Huppie — Kenneth Williams.— Daniel Thomas Raymond H. Johnson... Fred H. Remus_ William J. Francoeur.... Modesto B. Wiwchar— Clifford Shields _ _ Robert John Flegel - Joseph John Porsmak _ Rowland Edward Klyne Floyd Flemming John Karl Riehm _ Harry Sanders Peter Hasselbacher John George Huycke — Terry Lowe — Michael W. D. Ayre Andrew Kovacs Michael A. Donahue.... Gordon G. Bryant _ Robert David Scheer — Edwin Brandel James Fitzpatrick Ivan Rudman John David Bowen Ivan Jordan Baker Peter Joseph Zeith _ Russell G. Moore Yvan De Sereville James Burtam Rannells Ronald R. Smith. Clyde A. Myers Michael Kardynal — _ John Henry Ashton Howard Nelson Geary... Patrick John Laberge — Patrick A. J. Kraftchick Heinz K. Magiera _ _ Lars M. Ortenbladt Lester H. Lubenow __ Merton William Baker... Edmond Stammet Garrick J. Hayes Gerald White John A. McWilliams Paul C. Rlchert _ George G. Gruelich Raymond I. Raby Jerry J. Krizek _ _ Herman Baril— _ Herman Hossl Dietrich Mueller.. Peter Antowiak Norman Tailleur Anthony M. Mulligan .... Joseph Shewin Martin Swizinski Mineral King. Mineral King. Mineral King. Mineral King. Mineral King. Mineral King. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Sullivan. Texada. Texada. Texada. Texada. Texada. Reeves MacDonald. H.B. H.B. H.B. H.B. H.B. Cameron-McMynn. Mineral King. Texada. Giant Mascot. Giant Mascot. Giant Mascot. Giant Mascot. Giant Mascot. Fento. Phoenix Copper. Fento. Fento. Michel Colliery. Michel Colliery. Altamont Explor'n. Michel Colliery. Giant Mascot. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Bluebell. Britannia. Britannia. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. 4018 4019 4020 4021 4022 4023 4024 4025 4026 4027 4028 4029 4030 4031 4032 4033 4034 4035 4036 4037 4038 4039 4040 4041 4042 4043 4044 4045 4046 4047 4048 4049 4050 4051 4052 4053 4054 4055 4056 4058 4059 4060 4061 4062 4063 4064 4065 4066 4067 4068 4069 4070 4071 4072 4073 4074 4075 4076 4077 4078 4080 Frank Berenyi.__ — Ferdinand Fursthaller Emile Roy — Martin Laabs IstvanToth — Earl K. Seaward Henry Werner Voss.. Frank Young Alois Schneider Ross Whiteley Hunt- Daniel Mervin Kennelly Robert Montgomery William A. Patterson — James Michael Rynn — Per-Olof Sandstrom Paul Henry Schmidt. Berwyn Rhys Williams .. Herbert Cameron Basil Zakordonski Melvin Henkel Stanley Hatch— Dieter H. Taube William M. Gulka Ivan A. Gillis _ Philip S. Martin._ Bo Wilhelm Wisser Harold M. Hemmerick . William Lawrence Bond Edwin William Bussey _ Murray E. Cryaston Donald M. Dundas George James Eftodie „ David John Hamilton... Bruce Joseph McNeill __ Douglas G. Mcintosh _ Walter Panagopka.. _. Schuyler G. Peters Dennis A. Waterstreet Thomas P. Gleboff Frederick J. Kannenberg Blake F. Kellar Joseph Wilfred Kennedy William M. Kozak Frank A. MacKinnon _ Felix A. Reyes Wolfgang Buddee Gary Gregory M. Cain . William C. Fothergill.... John Howat James Ernest Smith _ Leo Dottori Richard Leigh Irving ... Raymond Robert Spinks Marjan Blazekovic... ~ Thomas Q. O'Connor... Gregory C. Mason Lloyd A. Wood Antonio Benzon Gordon William Wright Edward J. Grabowski_ Walter W. Hansen Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Empire Developm't. Craigmont. Craigmont. Craigmont. Craigmont. Craigmont. Craigmont. Craigmont. Craigmont. Jersey. H.B. Reeves MacDonald. Reeves MacDonald. Cariboo Gold Q'rtz. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Granduc. Craigmont. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Canadian Explor'n. Zeballos Iron. Zeballos Iron. Zeballos Iron. Zeballos Iron. Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Brynnor (Kennedy Lake). Cameron-McMynn. Cameron-McMynn. Hudson Bay Mtn. Cominco (Benson Lake). Cominco (Benson Lake). Cominco (Benson Lake). Cominco (Benson Lake). Cominco (Benson Lake). Cominco (Benson Lake). Cameron-McMynn. Britannia. INSPECTION OF MINES 371 Certificate No. Name Where Trained Certificate No. Name Where Trained 4081 4113 Bluebell. 4082 EricPiehler Britannia. 4114 Larry Lawson Turner._ Bluebell. 4083 Allan McNair— Britannia. 4115 William Eldon Wiley Bluebell. 4084 Nick Ostojic Britannia. 4116 Arthur Bert Yarchenko Bluebell. 4085 Patrick D. Tweed Britannia. 4117 George Stremel _ Bluebell. 4086 PaulSametz Britannia. 4118 Lyle Emerson Paulhus .. Bluebell. 4087 Jesse Hill Britannia. 4119 Gordon Wilfred Prest... Bluebell. 4088 Henri La Belle Britannia. 4120 Richard Sydney Prest Bluebell. 4089 Grant McFarlane Britannia. 4121 Babe Gerald Beamer — Bluebell. 4090 Fred Pickering. Britannia. 4122 Paul Chechotko _ Bluebell. 4091 Clinton Nicholson Britannia. 4123 James Albert Fichten ... Bluebell. 4092 Jack Scott Britannia. 4124 David Thomas Fowler _ Bluebell. 4093 Joseph Kenneth Hall... Britannia. 4125 Joern Babicht Bluebell. 4094 Joseph D. Greschuk Britannia. 4126 Robert Joseph Hepple... Bluebell. 4095 Joseph L. Valliere Britannia. 4127 Peter Pasiechnyk Bluebell. 4096 Leonard Skakun Cassiar. 4128 Peter Richard Schultz ... Reeves MacDonald. 4097 4129 Edward (Ted) J. Nunn 4098 Donald R. Hudgeon Cassiar. 4130 Thomas L. Brown Reeves MacDonald. 4099 Cassiar. Cassiar. 4131 Reeves MacDonald. Reeves MacDonald. 4100 Malcolm J. MacLeod .. 4132 William Herbert Gray- 4101 4133 4102 Norman Kipnis Cassiar. 4134 Robert D. M. Anderson Granduc. 4103 Cornelius John Lobbes Cassiar. 4135 Sandor A. Pap.. „ Granduc. 4104 4136 4106 James Stewart.. Granduc. 4137 Fernand Joseph Mathias Granduc. 4107 4138 4108 4139 4109 John C. Black Kam-Kotia. 4140 John C. MacDonnell Granduc. 4110 Peter Donald Stewart _ Bluebell. 4141 Ross Craig Roszell Granduc. 4111 Bluebell. 4142 4112 Henry Alleyne Hincks.. Bluebell. 4143 Roland Proulx.. Granduc. The mine safety associations in different centres of the Province, sponsored by the Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources and aided by company officials, safety supervisors, Inspectors of Mines, and mine-rescue instructors, continued to promote mine rescue, first aid, and safety education in their respective districts. The Bridge River Valley Mine Safety Association held its 24th annual competition at Bralorne on May 14, 1966. This was mainly a first-aid event, but two teams were entered in a mine-rescue elimination event. The Vancouver Island Mine Safety Association held its 52nd annual competition at Nanaimo on May 28, 1966. Four teams competed in the mine-rescue event—two from the Britannia mine and one each from the Texada Iron and Coast Copper mines. The winning team was from Texada Iron mine and was captained by D. Legault. The West Kootenay Mine Safety Association held its 20th competition at Nelson on June 4, 1966. Five teams took part in the mine-rescue event—two from the Bluebell mine and one each from the H.B., Canadian Exploration, and Reeves MacDonald mines. A Bluebell team captained by B. Ramage took first place. The East Kootenay Mine Safety Association held its 45th annual competition at Kimberley on June 11, 1966. Five teams took part in the mine-rescue event—two each from the Sullivan and Michel mines and one from the Mineral King mine. A Michel mine team captained by S. Morgan took first place. The Central British Columbia Mine Safety Association held its 18 th annual competition at Hope on June 18, 1966. Six teams took part in the mine-rescue event—one each from the Bethlehem Copper, Giant Mascot, Craigmont, Bralorne, Glacier Gulch, and Boss Mountain mines. The Craigmont team captained by G. Klein took first place. At all four of the immediately preceding meets, competitions were held in first- aid as well as mine-rescue work. In these competitions, events were held for women 372 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 and juniors. There were entries in these competitions from industries and organizations not necessarily connected with mining. The 11th Provincial mine-rescue competition was held at Cranbrook on June 25, 1966. The winning teams from Nanaimo, Nelson, Hope, and Kimberley competed for a trophy and silver trays. The event was won by the Bluebell mine team captained by B. Ramage. The team also won a silver cup which had been donated by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers for annual competition for mine-rescue teams from metalliferous mines. In conjunction with this competition, the Workmen's Compensation Board sponsored the 10th Provincial men's first-aid competition, and teams competed which had won local events at Victoria, Nanaimo, Hope, Nelson, Vancouver, Kimberley, and Kitimat. The winning team was from the Kitimat fire department captained by M. F. Grogan. JOHN T. RYAN TROPHY The John T. Ryan safety trophies were set up in 1941 to promote safety in coal and metal mines. Administration of the awards is by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. In 1963 changes were made in the competition rules which required of the metalliferous mines that sufficient calendar years be submitted by each entering mine to complete 1,000,000 man-hours. In 1966 the definition of an accident was altered to include all injuries which involved a loss of time of more than three working-days not including the day of the accident. In 1966 the regional trophy for metalliferous mines was won by the Bluebell mine of Cominco Ltd., with an accident frequency of 7.9 per 1,000,000 man-hours. For coal-mining a change was made in 1966 to group the coal mines in British Columbia with those in Alberta to form a Western Region. The trophy for this region was won by the Atlas mine of Charter Coals Ltd., at East Coulee, Alta. WEST KOOTENAY MINE SAFETY ASSOCIATION TROPHY The West Kootenay Mine Safety Association in 1951 donated a safety trophy for annual competition in order to encourage and promote safety in small mines. At first the trophy was restricted to mines in the West Kootenay area, but in 1956 this restriction was removed. The award is made to the mine having the lowest accident rate and working a total of from 2,500 to 30,000 shifts per year, one-third of these having been worked underground. An accident is taken as one which involved more than three days' loss of time. In 1966 the award was won by the H.B. mine of Cominco Ltd. SAFETY COMPETITION, OPEN-PIT MINES AND QUARRIES In 1961 the Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources instituted a safety competition for the open-pit and quarry industry and put up awards and a trophy for annual competition. In 1965 an additional trophy was put up so that there were two competitions—the "A" group for those pits and quarries having under 200,000 man-hours per year, and the " B " group for those over 200,000 man-hours per year. An accident is taken as one which has been determined as compensable by the Workmen's Compensation Board. For those operations which amass over 15,000 man-hours ending in the competition year, certificates of achievement are given when no compensable accidents occur during this period. In 1966 the "A" trophy was won by three quarries, each with an accident frequency of zero—the Mary Hill sand and gravel quarry of Ocean Cement Limited, INSPECTION OF MINES 373 the limestone quarry of Lafarge Cement of North America Ltd., and the sand and gravel quarry of Construction Aggregates Ltd. The " B " trophy was won by the Phoenix open-pit mine of The Granby Mining Company Limited, also with an accident frequency of zero. Twelve quarries received certificates of achievement, four of these being those mentioned for the "A" and " B " trophies above and the other eight as follows: Cobble Hill quarry of the B.C. Cement Division of Ocean Cement Limited, Central Sand and Gravel of Ocean Cement Limited, Coquitlam gravel pit of Deeks-McBride Ltd., Highland Sand and Gravel Division of Ocean Cement Limited, Pitt River quarry of Ocean Cement Limited, Producers Sand and Gravel Division of Ocean Cement Limited, Routledge Gravel Ltd., and Langley gravel pit of Deeks-McBride Ltd. 15 Coal By Robert B. Bonar, Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines CONTENTS Production, Labour and Employment. Competition from Coal Produced Outside of British Columbia. Accidents in and around Coal Mines Explosives Machine-mined Coal Safety Lamps Electricity Inspection Committees Coal Dust Diesel Locomotives Millisecond Delay Detonators,. Dangerous Occurrences Bumps and Outbursts Prosecutions Board of Examiners for Coal-mine Officials- Notes on Coal Mines Vancouver Island Inspection District East Kootenay Inspection District Nicola-Princeton Inspection District Northern Inspection District Page 374 378 378 378 380 381 381 382 382 382 382 382 382 383 383 383 385 385 386 393 393 PRODUCTION The gross output in short tons of the coal mines of the Province for 1966 was 1,088,133 tons, a decrease of 18,539 tons or 1.64 per cent from 1965. A total of 120,362 tons came from strip mines at Michel Colliery and Bulkley Valley Collieries. The Vancouver Island production was 17,479 tons, a decrease of 24,847 tons or 58.7 per cent from 1965. There were no operating mines in the Nicola-Princeton District during 1966. The Northern District production was 11,975 tons, an increase of 6,075 tons or 102.9 per cent over 1965. The East Kootenay District production was 1,058,679 tons, an increase of 233 tons or 0.02 per cent over 1965. 374 COAL Output and per Capita Production, 1966 375 Colliery and Mine _c/; cv~ 22 __B 3 3 O t_ U V* o e: c. Xi u M i- o CO -. c. 0 II 51 o<_. ho _. ii O R<-s ■a sjS og.b 3 u 3 O Os •CWc « i_ o ££^ K"1 P.^ •a t; _3 O o o _> >> to ZWD __ 0 ti«. -go °_?_ rti-Sa «bE £ i pb ago OS" >. E 0 T_ «.r- ■_ s s 16,874 204 161 240 3,385 8,590 946,907 111,772 139 142 46 205 117 108 241 224 39 1 2 1 8 11 552 3.11 1.43 1.75 1.17 3.62 7.23 7.11 433 204 80 240 423 781 1,715 29 1 2 1 6 308 4.59 1.43 1.75 1.17 4.82 12.75 592 Loudon No. 6 Mine _ Lewis No. 2 Mine (Timberlands) 204 80 240 Bulkley Valley Collieries— 564 Strip Michel Collieries— 3,074 Strip _ District Output and per Capita Production, Underground Mines, 1966 District Gross Output Mined during Year (Tons) Total Number of Employees at Producing Collieries Yearly Output per Employee (Tons) Number of Men Employed Underground in Producing Collieries Yearly Output per Underground Employee (Tons) Vancouver Island Northern 17,479 3,385 946,907 43 8 552 406 423 1,715 33 6 308 530 564 3,074 967,771 603 1.605 1 347 2,788 Output per Man-shift, Underground Mines, 1957-66 Year Man-shifts* Tonnage Average per Man-shift (Tons) 1957 _ 226,536 204,148 171,608 210,254 213,962 160,418 170,287 158,638 149,695 139,828 945,848 728,722 646,788 766,581 877,085 805,051 866,481 960,999 772,135 967,771 4.17 1958 3.56 1959 3.77 1960 - 3.66 1961 _. 4.10 1962 .. .. 5.02 1963 _ 5.09 1964 6.05 1965 5.16 1966 6.92 i Includes both surface and underground workers. 376 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 CO Z o H H P. 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W u, S o ii a rt *c .a - - s .!_ > __« U M *3 3 "BO ft O H , O 00 sill 2 om-9 I'iiii «j 3 i?'-0 M ___>•«« .3 Vl Si > TJ a-a. oo 3 is? o n §S_«P lllirt osHup 3 pq p. o co W 3 w P tu .a § ° 2 rt Xi I! 0, _ ■o I rt- t G s tj 1 I 5 tn O C 0 X •*■ o zl "C u t3 °C </. s S __ 8 o z w ca (2 a >. rt c C 01 x •K £ 2 = o o ___ i ^ ■tt l. i- 8 3. EO w Ci t 1 > CQ 3 s c c _i t_ £ B IM ty P o o a s 00 " CUD _. c . o o y z_ is t^_= C t. o o ^ o 4J r-, ^-. O ^ o;^j_3 tn u §■§-3 3 j 5 in £22 Q t-i Hi n ri< Z O 0 -> __ » H u_5__5 m u 378 mines and petroleum resources report, 1966 Coke-making Coke is made at only one plant in the Province, that of the Michel Colliery, Crows Nest Industries Limited, Fernie. LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT In 1966, 614 persons were employed in and about the coal mines of the Province, a decrease of 35 from 1965. Because of the five-day week in force throughout the Province and legal holidays, the maximum number of working-days at the larger mines was 242. In the East Kootenay District the Michel Colliery worked 241 days. COMPETITION FROM COAL PRODUCED OUTSIDE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA In 1966 the shipment of Alberta coal, briquettes, and char to British Columbia totalled 197,521, 2,344, and 16,517 tons respectively. The following table shows the amount of Alberta coal brought into British Columbia during the past 10 years:— Year Short Tons Year Short Tons 1957 672,527 1962 283,651 1958 532,911 1963 262,433 1959 437,118 1964 261,990 1960 379,668 1965 276,608 1961 321,909 1966 197,521 Of the 580,279 tons of British Columbia coal marketed, 163,235 tons was sold for domestic and industrial use in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario; 1,171 tons was exported to the United States; and 376,249 tons was exported to Japan. The amount sold for domestic and industrial use in the Province was 67,095 tons. ACCIDENTS IN AND AROUND COAL MINES In 1966 there were three fatal accidents, one more than in 1965. The number of fatal accidents per 1,000 persons (underground and strip-mine personnel) employed was 4.88, compared with 3.08 in 1965, 2.80 in 1964, 1.33 in 1963, 0.00 in 1962, 6.37 in 1961, 0.00 in 1960, 1.89 in 1959, 0.00 in 1958, and 1.45 in 1957. The number of fatal accidents per 1,000,000 gross tons of coal (underground and strip-mine coal) produced was 2.75, compared with 1.87 in 1965. The following tables classify the accidents in coal mines in 1966:— Accidents Classified as to Occupation Occupation jrground— Miners Number of Accidents 15 Percentage of Accidents 15.47 Drillers and facemen Haulage and conveyor men Trackmen and mechanics 20 26 5 20.63 26.80 5.15 Supervisors . 2 2.06 Timbermen Coal-cutters 15 15.47 Miscellaneous 3 3.09 COAL 379 Surface— Shops - Surface Preparation and coke-ovens Miscellaneous 4 4.12 3 3.09 4 4.12 - Totals 97 100.00 Accidents Classified as to Cause Number of Cause Accidents Fall of ground 32 Fall of material and flying material 7 Lifting and handling equipment and material 33 Machinery and tools 15 Slipped and tripped 6 Falling off staging and platforms 1 Miscellaneous 3 Totals 97 Percentage of Accidents 33.00 7.21 34.02 15.47 6.18 1.03 3.09 100.00 Accidents Classified as to Injury Injury Head and neck. Eyes Trunk Back Arms Number of Accidents Hands and fingers Legs Feet Toes Totals 97 Percentage of Accidents 9.28 19 19.59 18 18.56 5 5.15 14 14.43 24 24.74 8 8.25 100.00 Compensable1 Accidents, Including Fatal Accidents Related to Tons Mined and Men Employed in and about Coal Mines Year Number of Accidents Number of Persons Employed Frequency per 1,000 Persons Tons Mined (Gross) Tons Mined per Accident 1957 J9SR 340 214 189 235 219 134 135 134 116 97 1,380 1,086 1,056 1,182 942 776 748 713 649 614 246 197 179 198 232 173 180 188 179 158 1,221,766 882,962 757,628 844,500 1,018,832 912,837 965,809 1,121,487 1406,672 1,088,133 3,593 4,126 4,009 3,593 4,652 1959 idfifl 1961 1962 6,812 196? 7,154 1964 8,369 1965 9,540 1966 11,218 i Compensable accident means an injury causing a loss of more than three days' work not including the day of the accident. 380 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In 1966 there were three fatal accidents at the mines in the Province, all of which occurred underground. James Holland, aged 38, single, and employed as a helper at the No. 4 mine of the Bulkley Valley Collieries Limited, near Telkwa, was fatally injured by a fall of roof at about 8 p.m. on January 20th. The accident occurred at the intersection of a 15-foot-wide conveyor entry and a 14-foot-wide advance into the coal. Holland, in company with a miner and the mine superintendent, was engaged in installing a shaker-conveyor engine in the entrance to the advance working-place. The superintendent was about 6 feet away from Holland while the miner was on the other side of the shaker-conveyor from him. Holland was moving an extension jack when the superintendent heard the roof crack and yelled a warning, but a slab of cap-rock consisting of 8 inches of rock and 18 inches of coal fell from the roof and struck Holland, pinning him against the jack he was carrying. Rescue operations were carried out immediately, and by 9 p.m. the injured man was in the hospital, but he died at 3.30 a.m. the following morning. The roof in the vicinity of where the deceased was working was fairly well posted, but due to the lack of a post on the other side of the conveyor the cap-rock apparently bent and finally fractured and knocked out the post holding the roof above the deceased. The roof had been tested 30 minutes prior to the accident and had been found secure. Victor A. Caldwell, aged 60, married, and employed as a pipe mechanic at the Balmer South mine, Michel Colliery, Crows Nest Industries Limited, was fatally injured when he was run over by a coal train in the main haulage level at about 10.30 a.m. on March 16th. Caldwell had entered the mine shortly before the accident and was proceeding along the main haulage level when, at about 88 feet from the portal, he was overtaken and run over by an ingoing train of empty 10-ton-capacity cars being pushed by a diesel engine. The first car of the train was equipped with a red warning light, but apparently Caldwell did not hear the train approaching. He apparently was walking in the centre of the track instead of using the travelway at the side. Death was instantaneous. Joseph John Stachurski, aged 60, married, and employed as a continuous-miner faceman at the Balmer North mine, Michel Colliery, Crows Nest Industries Limited, was fatally injured when he was buried by a fall of coal at about 6 p.m. on September 26th. The accident occurred at the intersection of a level road and 10-degree dip road. The angle between the two roads was about 30 degrees. A 20-foot bridge- stick on the dip road formed the opening to the level road. Stachurski and other men were engaged in hauling two 14-foot timbers by the use of a wire rope attached to a shuttle car up the dip road and around the 30-degree corner into the level road. Apparently in hauling the two timbers around the corner, the timbers jammed against the lower leg of the bridge-stick and dislodged it, which allowed the whole intersection to collapse. The deceased, on hearing the apparent collapsing of the roof, attempted to run up the dip roadway past the intersection but was caught by the falling coal and buried. Death was due to asphyxiation. EXPLOSIVES The following table shows the quantity of explosives used in underground coal mines in 1966, together with the number of shots fired, tons of coal produced per pound of explosive used, and the average number of pounds of explosive per shot COAL 381 fired (these quantities include all the explosives used for breaking coal and rock in coal mines):— Vancouver Island District Colliery Quantity of Explosives Used (Lb.) Coal Mined (Tons) Total Number of Shots Average Tons per Pound of Explosives Used Average Pounds of Explosives per Shot Fired Tsable River Colliery (Comox Mining Company Limited) Loudon No. 6 mine Lewis No. 2 mine (Timberlands).. Undun No. 4 mine Totals for district. 9,500 300 100 100 16,874 204 161 240 14,900 310 100 120 10,000 17,479 15,430 1.78 0.68 1.61 2.40 1.75 0.63 0.97 1.00 0.83 0.64 Northern District i 2,100 | 3,385 i 1 3,000 1.61 0.70 East Kootenay District 1 46,686 946,907 1 36,782 1 ! 20.28 1.21 Province ! 58,786 1 967,771 1 1 55,212 1 16.47 1.06 Quantity of Different Explosives Used Monobel of different grades Permissible rock powder Total Lb. 56,361 2,425 58,786 MACHINE-MINED COAL In 1966 mining-machines produced approximately 950,292 tons or 98.2 per cent of the total output from underground mining. A total of 120,362 tons of strip-mined coal was removed by mechanical means. SAFETY LAMPS There were 590 safety lamps in use in the mines of the Province. Of this number, 528 were approved electric lamps, mostly of the Wheat and Edison types. Approved Safety Lamps—Electric and Flame The following is a list of approved safety lamps, electric and flame:— The Wolf lamp, flame type. The Koehler lamp, flame type. The Edison electric lamp (cap) under Approval No. 18 of the United States Bureau of Mines, and all Edison lamps up to and including Model M-S, carrying the Approval 6D-34 of the United States Bureau of Mines, and 382 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Canada, Certificate 39-2 Coal Mines. The Wheat electric lamp and having Approval No. 20, as issued by the United States Bureau of Mines. The Wheat electric lamp and having Approval No. 6D-30, as issued by the United States Bureau of Mines. The Wolf electric lamp, No. 830c. The electric lamp manufactured by the Portable Lamp and Equipment Company, under Approval No. 27 of the United States Bureau of Mines. M.S.A. single-cell trip lamp, carrying United States Bureau of Mines Approval No. 1009, approved for use on haulage trips in mines. The Davis M.L. model pneumatic electric lamp. ELECTRICITY Electricity is used for various purposes on the surface and underground at three collieries. A total of 14,053 horsepower was used in and about these mines. Detailed information as to how and where this power was used is given in the report of the Senior Electrical Inspector of Mines. INSPECTION COMMITTEES The provisions of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, section 65, General Rule 19, require that an inspection committee of workmen shall inspect the mine regularly on behalf of the workmen and make a true report of the conditions found. In all the larger mines of the Province this rule is fully observed, and copies of the report are sent to the Inspector for the district. The work of these committees is valuable and assists in furthering the interests of safety at the various mines. COAL DUST The danger of accumulations of coal dust on the roadways and in the working- places is fully realized, and as a rule the regulations regarding the control of coal dust are adequately carried out. Large quantities of limestone dust are used continually in the larger mines to combat this hazard. It is used in the roadways, working-places, and for the tamping of shots. Dust samples are taken regularly from roof, sides, and floor of mine roadways and analysed. The reports of the analyses are forwarded to the District Inspector each month. DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES Since August, 1950, diesel locomotives have been permitted in coal mines. MILLISECOND DELAY DETONATORS In February, 1951, an amendment to the Coal Mines Regulation Act was passed to allow, with permission of the Chief Inspector, more than one shot to be fired at any one time in any coal mine or district of a mine. For further details see 1954 Annual Report. DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES On April 5th an electrical flash occurred on the No. 3 Incline at "A" North mine, Michel Colliery, when a workman accidentally pierced the insulation of a shuttle-car trailing cable with the point of a metal " timber dog " while guiding COAL 383 timber supplies behind the car. The ground leakage relay operated to isolate the circuit. No one was injured. On August 8th, in No. 1 North mine, Michel Colliery, a continuous miner was being trammed on planks when the trailing cable caught on a wooden plank and was pinched and damaged. The damaged end was removed and the cable refitted. On August 10th in No. 1 North mine, Michel Colliery, the trailing cable on a shuttle car, due to being slack, doubled over while being wound on the cable reel winder. When the car moved ahead, the doubled-over cable jammed in the guide fork and broke. No arcing was reported. On August 30th, in Balmer North mine, Michel Colliery, an electric arc occurred at a continuous miner when continuous flexing in the power cable to the conveyor on the miner caused a short circuit in the cable conductors. The arc ignited leakage of oil from the hydraulic system, but the fire was extinguished without any damage. Subsequent investigation revealed that both the power cable to the conveyor and the hydraulic hose had been damaged by continuous flexing. On September 3rd, at Michel Colliery, a fire was detected in a portion of the wooden snowsheds leading from the silo bins to the coal-preparation plant. The fire was extinguished one hour after discovery. Over 800 feet of snowshed and fire-resistant conveyor belting was damaged. No one was injured. It was suspected that spillage of coal dust from the conveyors was ignited by incipient heating from a defective portion of insulation on a steam pipe installed below the conveyors. On November 4th, in No. 2 entry, Balmer North mine, Michel Colliery, a small fire was detected on the floor. The fire was immediately extinguished, and no one was injured. Subsequent investigation disclosed that a short circuit had occurred at the coupling of a shuttle-car trailing cable lying on the floor nearby, and it is suspected that the resulting arc had ignited a small " bleeder " of gas in the coal floor. On November 15th, on No. 101 slope, Balmer North mine, Michel Colliery, a portion of fire-resistant conveyor belting on the pulley at the drive end of the conveyor was badly damaged owing to frictional heating. The heating was extinguished by the application of limestone dust, and subsequent investigation disclosed that the belt had been jammed at the pulley by spillage of coal dust. No one was injured. On November 15th, in the main entry, No. 1 South mine, Michel Colliery, an electric flash occurred due to the trailing cable of a shuttle car being jammed and damaged on the cable reel of the car. The power was immediately isolated by the electrical controls, and no one was injured. BUMPS AND OUTBURSTS There were no bumps or outbursts reported from any of the coal mines in the Province during 1966. PROSECUTIONS There were no prosecutions reported from any of the coal mines in the Province during 1966. BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR COAL-MINE OFFICIALS First-, Second-, and Third-class Certificates and Mine Surveyors' Certificates The Board of Examiners, formed on July 10, 1919, consists at present of R. B. Bonar, Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines, chairman and secretary; A. R. C. 384 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 James, Inspector of Mines, member; and D. R. Morgan, Inspector of Mines, member. The examinations are held at least once a year and more often if necessary. Examinations were held at the Fernie centre on May 18th, 19th, and 20th. The total number of candidates at these examinations was as follows: Second-class certificate, two (one passed, one failed); mine surveyor's certificate, one (failed). The successful candidate for a second-class certificate was James Walsh. All officials, before engaging in multiple blasting with millisecond delay detonators, are required to obtain a permit to do so from the Board of Examiners (Coalmine Officials). This permit is issued only after the applicant has successfully passed oral and practical examinations in such work. In addition to the examinations and certificates already specified as coming under the Board of Examiners, the Act provides that every coal-miner shall be the holder of a certificate of competency as such. Examinations are held as circumstances warrant in coal-mining districts, and no certificate is granted where the candidate has failed to satisfy the Board as to his fitness, experience in a coal mine, and a general working knowledge of the English language. During 1966, 16 candidates were successful in obtaining coal-miners' certificates. In addition to the certificates granted above, substitute certificates were issued to those who had lost their original certificates. The Board of Examiners desires to thank the different coal-mining companies for use of their premises for the holding of examinations where necessary. COAL 385 NOTES ON COAL MINES VANCOUVER ISLAND INSPECTION DISTRICT By R. B. Bonar The gross output of coal from the Vancouver Island Inspection District was 17,479 tons, a decrease of 24,847 tons or 58.7 per cent from the 1965 output. This drop in production was due to the closing of the Tsable River mine, Comox Mining Company Limited, at the end of September. The annual mine-rescue and first-aid meet organized by the Vancouver Island Mine Safety Association was held at Nanaimo on Saturday, May 28th. Four teams, two from Britannia mine, one from Coast Copper mine, and one from Texada mine, participated in the mine-rescue competition, and a very high standard of performance was maintained. The winning team was the Texada mine team, captained by D. Legault. Nanaimo (49° 123° S.W.) Midan Mine This mine did not operate during 1966, being closed at the end of 1965. Lewis No. 2 Mine (Timberlands) Glyn Lewis, operator and fireboss. The property is described in the 1965 Annual Report. The mine ceased operation at the end of 1966. Total production in 1966 was 161 tons over a working period of 46 days with a crew of two men. Undun No. 4 Mine J. Unsworth, operator and fireboss. This mine is described in the 1965 Annual Report. The skip, being taken off the inside of the pillar encountered during 1965, was completed early in the year. The pillar is now being mined on the retreat. Total production in 1966 was 240 tons over a working period of 205 days with a crew of one. Working conditions were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections, and no accidents were reported. North Wellington (49° 124° S.E.) Loudon No. 6 Mine R. B. Carruthers, operator and fireboss. This mine is about 1 mile southeast of Wellington and has been opened by a flat-dipping slope driven in a small area of outcrop coal in the No. 2 Upper Wellington seam adjacent to the old No. 9 mine workings. The top portion of the seam being mainly rock is blasted off the solid and stowed. The bottom 20 inches to 2 feet of coal is broken with light shots and hand-loaded into cars which are hauled to the surface by a small gasoline-powered hoist. Production in 1966 amounted to 204 tons over a working period of 142 days with a crew of one man. Working conditions were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections, and no accidents were reported. Comox (49° 124° N.W.) Comox Mining Company Limited S. J. Lawrence, president; G. Dutfield, vice- By a. r. c. James president; P. F. Grundy, secretary. Head office address, P.O. Box 8, Union Bay. Tsable River Mine.—S. J. Lawrence, manager; James Cochrane, overman. This mine ceased production at the end of September. In the following month, pumps and equipment were withdrawn and the underground workings abandoned. 386 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Production in 1966 was 16,874 tons. The crew decreased from 52 at the beginning of the year to about 12 men at the time of closure. The Tsable River mine commenced production in 1947 and was operated until April, 1960, by Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited. From May, 1960, until this year, the mine was operated by the present company by agreement with the successor company to Canadian Collieries Resources Limited. Total production of coal over the 20 years in which the mine has been in operation is 2,179,067 tons. The best single year was 1955, when 204,369 tons was produced. The closure of Tsable River mine marks the end of any significant coal production on Vancouver Island and thus closes a chapter of British Columbia's mining history. EAST KOOTENAY INSPECTION DISTRICT By D. R. Morgan The gross production of coal from the East Kootenay Inspection District during 1966 was 1,058,679 tons, a decrease of 233 tons or 0.02 per cent less than was produced in 1965. There were two companies in operation, but all of the production was obtained by the Crows Nest Industries Limited, whose activities were confined to the Michel Colliery. The colliery produced 1,058,679 tons, an increase of 135,423 tons or 14.67 per cent more than was produced in 1965. Two other companies, the Pacific Coal Limited and Fernie Coal Mines Limited, conducted an exploration programme on Crown lands in the Morrissey, Lodgepole, and Corbin areas, but did not produce any coal. The accident statistics at Michel Colliery during 1966 showed an increase in both frequency and severity rates despite a strong effort by the safety department to improve the accident record. Two workmen were fatally injured, both underground, one being killed by a fall of coal and timbers, and the other by transportation. Seven other accidents, also classified as serious, were reported and investigated, six of which occurred underground and one on the surface. Three of these accidents were caused by involvement with machinery, two by falls of rock and coal, and the other two by transportation. This was an increase of one on the total number of serious accidents reported in 1965. Minor accidents resulting in the loss of one or more working-days totalled 118, of which 97 occurred underground and 21 on the surface, an increase of 11 accidents. Eight dangerous occurrences were reported at Michel Colliery, and are reported more fully in another part of this report under the heading of " Dangerous Occurrences." No accidents or dangerous occurrences were reported from the British Columbia side of the coal-stripping operation on Tent Mountain or by the two exploration companies. The East Kootenay Mine Safety Association held its 45th annual mine-rescue and first-aid competitions at Kimberley on June 11th, and the various contests were well attended. Five six-man teams from Fernie, Michel, Kimberley, and Toby Creek entered the mine-rescue competition, and the Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources trophy was won by the Michel Colliery team, captained by Spencer Morgan. The men's open competition in the first-aid events was won by the Sullivan Mine team from Kimberley, captained by Warren Leach. Both teams represented the East Kootenay District at the Provincial competitions held in Cranbrook on June 25th and were successful in winning second place in their respective competitions. Crows Nest Industries Limited Thomas F. Gleed, president, 2000 Washington Building, Seattle, Wash.; J. E. Morris, vice- president, Mines, Fernie; W. R. Prentice, vice-president, Sales and Executive, COAL 387 Fernie; J. L. Cleeve, vice-president, Finance, and secretary-treasurer, Fernie. This company, formerly known as The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company Limited, has conducted large-scale coal-mining operations in the East Kootenay District since 1897, and its present operations are confined to the Michel Colliery. The coal is sold on the industrial market, and a large quantity is exported to Japan. A large amount of fines is also utilized in the making of coke, and the coke is sold in various parts of Western Canada and the United States. The operations are directed from a head office in Fernie. Michel Colliery.—(49° 114° N.W.) J. E. Morris, manager; James Anderson, general mine overman; Paul Kusnir, safety supervisor; Harry Corrigan, afternoon- shift overman. The colliery is at Michel, 24 miles northeast of Fernie, and is situated on the Crowsnest Pass branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is a large colliery, and has been in operation since 1899. Present workings include four underground mines, three stripping operations, and a modern by-product plant that is located on the colliery-site. The mines are on both sides of the valley and are located at various elevations, having been opened mainly from the outcrops of the seams. With one exception they are named according to the seam that is worked and the direction of development. Those in the No. 10 seam are known as Balmer mines. All the mines are operated by the room-and-pillar system. They are highly mechanized, and a very high percentage of coal is mined by continuous miners. The equipment is chiefly operated by electricity. It is of the flame-proof type and has been approved for use in coal mines. The present transportation of coal at most of the mines is via shuttle cars and fast-moving belts which convey the coal to the surface, from where it is trucked to the preparation plant for cleaning and treatment. Diesel and battery locomotives are used at one of the mines. The colliery employs on an average 550 men, of whom 400 are employed underground. The underground operations are under the direct supervision of five overmen and 35 firebosses. A brief description of the underground operations follows. Balmer North Mine.—Irving Morgan, overman; James Walsh, Sidney Hughes, Thomas Taylor, Frank McVeigh, Roger Girou, William Verkerk, Henry Parsons, Spencer Morgan, Kenneth Kniert, and Harry Sanders, firebosses. This mine, in No. 10 seam, is a new operation and is being worked to develop a large area of virgin coal on the north side of the Michel Valley. The mine is entered by two rock tunnels, each 1,150 feet long, which were started in September, 1965, and reached the seam in February, 1966. The present intentions are to develop a limited amount of workings on the west side of the McKay fault, extend the rock tunnels at a later date, and develop extensive workings on the east side of the fault. The portals of the rock tunnels are at an elevation of 3,850 feet. They are approximately 1 mile south of the preparation plant, and are accessible by a private road leading to the Baldy strip mine. The seam is 40 feet thick, dips at an angle of 15 to 20 degrees in a southwesterly direction, and is overlain by a fairly strong shale roof. The mine averaged a daily production after reaching the seam of 750 tons of coal with a crew of 70 men. Six development levels were opened to the west of the rock tunnels, and four slopes are in the process of being driven to the dip of the levels. The roadways are in contact with the hangingwall of the seam, and the coal is mined by continuous miners, of which there were four in operation at the end of 1966. Following mining, the coal from all the continuous miners is loaded via loaders and shuttle cars, and the entire production from the mine is transferred to 388 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 the surface by a series of fast-moving belt conveyors. At the surface the coal is trucked to the preparation plant. Total development in 1966 was 20,050 feet. The mine is ventilated by a 100-horsepower electrically driven axivane fan which delivers 145,000 cubic feet of air per minute to the mine workings at a 2.86-inch water gauge. Small auxiliary fans and synthetic tubing are also used for directing the ventilation to the face of each continuous-miner working-place to contend with the rapid advancement of the roadways. The conditions in general were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections, with exception to three instances which are reported more fully in another part of this report under the heading of " Dangerous Occurrences." Some difficulty was also experienced when the six main development levels encountered a large gravel washout in the seam, which has resulted in a temporary suspension of development work in that area. Balmer No. 1 (South) Mine.—Arnold Webster, overman; Robert Doratty, Robert Taylor, Roger Pasiaud, Michael Tymchuk, Joseph Serek, and Stanley Men- duk, firebosses. This mine, operating in No. 10 seam, was opened in 1960 to develop a large area of virgin coal on the south side of the Michel Valley. The portals are 1 mile west of the preparation plant, and the workings are entered by three levels which have been driven from the outcrop of the seam, near creek level. The seam is 40 feet thick, dips at an angle of 30 degrees in an easterly direction, and is overlain by a moderately hard shale roof. The mine is one of the major operations at the colliery, and a description of the workings has been given in past Annual Reports. The mine averaged a daily production of 1,200 tons of coal during 1966 with a crew of 90 men. There were two continuous miners in operation, and most of the activities were directed to the development and extraction of pillars in the No. 1 Incline and No. 1 slope districts. Pillars in the No. 1 Incline workings were extracted by the caving system, and those in the slope workings, where only the top section of the seam was worked, were extracted by the angling system. The whole operations in both workings were carried out by continuous miners, and a very rapid rate of extraction was made. Extraction of pillars in the slope area was completed toward the end of 1966. The production from the incline area was transported via shuttle cars and fast-moving belts to loading points on the main haulage level, from where it was loaded into 10-ton-capacity bottom-dumping cars and taken from the mine by diesel and battery locomotives. Production from the slope workings was transported directly to the surface by belt conveyors. At the surface the whole production from the mine was dumped into a large storage bin and later trucked to the preparation plant. Total development work at the mine during 1966 was 4,800 feet. The mine is ventilated by a 100-horsepower electrically driven axivane fan which delivers 41,625 cubic feet of air per minute to the mine workings at a 1.5-inch water gauge. Auxiliary fans and tubing were also used with each of the continuous miners during the development of the workings. The conditions in general were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections, with exception to the occurrences of two fatal accidents, which are reported more fully in another part of this report under the heading of " Fatal Accidents." Balmer No. 2 (Prospect No. 22) Mine.—This mine, which was opened in June, 1965, to develop an area of coal in the No. 10 seam at a high elevation on Baldy Mountain, was abandoned during the early part of 1966 owing to the main levels encountering a large fault. There was no development in 1966, and a description of the workings has been given in the 1965 Annual Report. No. 1 South Mine.—Henry Eberts, overman; Thomas Krall, John Krall, and Benjamin Volpatti, firebosses. COAL 389 This mine was opened in September, 1966, and is being worked to develop an area of No. 1 seam coal between the abandoned workings of the old No. 1 mine and the outcrop of the seam, on the south side of the Michel Valley. The portals are at an elevation of 4,400 feet, and the workings are entered by three slopes which have been driven from the outcrop of the seam by a continuous miner. The seam is 9 feet thick, dips at an angle of 15 degrees in a southerly direction, and is overlain by a fairly strong shale roof. The mine has averaged a daily production of 345 tons of coal with a crew of 29 men since its commencement, and most of the activities have been centred on the development of the slopes and connecting crosscuts with a continuous miner. The roof at most of the roadways is supported by rock bolts, and wooden bolts are used for reinforcing the coal ribs where necessary. The entire production is loaded via shuttle car and is transported from the mine by belt conveyors. At the surface the coal is dumped on the floor at present, then loaded into trucks by front-end loader, and trucked to the preparation plant along a 2-mile private roadway. The mine at present is ventilated by a 25-horsepower electrically driven centrifugal fan which delivers 35,000 cubic feet of air per minute to the mine workings with a 2.1-inch water gauge. An auxiliary fan is also used for directing the air to the face of the working-places where the continuous miner operates. Conditions in general were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections, but some difficulty was encountered at the faces of two of the main slopes at the year-end owing to a large fault. Total development during 1966 was 4,600 feet. No. 1 North Mine.—Henry Eberts, overman. This mine, which was opened in October, 1965, to develop an area of coal in the No. 1 seam on the north side of the Michel Valley, was abandoned in September, 1966, owing to geological disturbances in the seam. The mine during its operation averaged a daily production of 450 tons with a crew of 36 men. The whole production was mined by a continuous miner and was transported to the surface by a series of fast-moving belt conveyors. Total development completed during 1966 was 8,300 feet. "A " North Mine.—J. Whittaker, overman. This mine is operated in the "A" seam on the north side of the Michel Valley, and the portals are approximately half a mile east of the preparation plant. The mine was opened in 1951 and is entered by two pairs of levels which have been driven on level course from various elevations along the outcrop and follow the strike of the seam. The coal is 12 feet thick where normal but is very irregular and faulty. It dips at an angle of 15 to 20 degrees in a southwesterly direction and is overlain by a moderately strong shale roof. The mine has been one of the major operations at the colliery for many years, and a description of the workings has been given in past Annual Reports. The mine averaged a daily production of 910 tons of coal during 1966 with a crew of 73 men. There were two continuous miners in operation for the greater part of the year, and most of the production was obtained from the extraction of pillars in the No. 1 Incline district. The remainder was obtained by the development and extraction of pillars from a small panel of workings below the No. 1 level. Both operations were carried out by continuous miners, and a very rapid rate of extraction was made. Some difficulties were experienced at times owing to faults and other geological disturbances, but these were generally overcome and a fairly high percentage of pillar extraction was made. The coal from both continuous miners was loaded via shuttle cars and fast-moving belt conveyors and transferred to loading points on the main haulage level, where it was loaded into 10-ton-capacity bottom- dumping cars and transported from the mine by diesel and battery locomotives. The operations were temporarily suspended in November, 1966, owing to economic 390 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 reasons, and work was concentrated on the other mines. The total development work completed at the mine during 1966 was 16,400 feet. The mine is ventilated by a 100-horsepower electrically driven axivane fan which delivers 83,000 cubic feet of air to the mine workings at a 2.5-inch water gauge. Auxiliary fans and synthetic tubing were also used for directing the air to the working-places. These quantities were found to be sufficient for the requirements of the mine. Other conditions were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections, with exception to one incident which is reported more fully in another part of this report under the heading of " Dangerous Occurrences." "C" North Mine.—Henry Eberts, overman; Michael Mihalynuk, Albert Littler, and Henry Travis, firebosses. This mine is a new operation and was opened in November, 1966, to develop an area of workings in the top section of the " C " seam on the north side of the Michel Valley. The portals are at an elevation of 5,200 feet and can be reached by a 3J/_!-mile private road leading from the preparation plant. The mine is entered by two levels which have been driven from the outcrop by a continuous miner and follow the strike of the seam. The coal is 7 feet thick, dips at an angle of 12 degrees in a southwesterly direction, and is overlain by a strong shale roof. The mine averaged a daily production of 540 tons of coal during the short period it operated in 1966 with a crew of 25 men. Most of the activities were directed to the development of the two levels, and the whole operation was carried out by a continuous miner. The roof at all the roadways is supported by rock bolts, and the whole production of coal is transported from the mine by fast-moving belts. Total development completed was 3,080 feet. The mine at present is ventilated by a 25-horsepower electrically driven centrifugal fan which delivers 25,000 cubic feet of air per minute to the mine workings at a 1-inch water gauge. The conditions were found to be satisfactory during the course of inspections. No. 2 South Mine.—William Davey, overman. This was a small operation that was opened in January, 1966, to develop a small area of coal in the No. 2 seam in the old rock tunnels on the south side of the valley, and to test a new type of continuous miner known as a " Demag," which has been designed for thin seams. The mine averaged a daily production of 35 tons with a crew of seven men and was abandoned in June, 1966. Prospect Tunnels and Exploration.—Louis Sclippa, fireboss. This work is part of an extensive exploration programme being conducted by the company to prospect and develop a number of known seams on the mountainside in the vicinity of the colliery. Six prospect tunnels were driven during 1966 for a total length of 665 feet, including crosscuts. One of the tunnels was on the Natal Ridge in the No. 8 seam, one on Baldy Mountain in No. 8 seam, and four on Sparwood Ridge in seams Nos. 1, 2, Upper 3, and 4. A total of 60,000 feet of trenching was completed, 40,000 feet of which was on the company's property, and 20,000 feet on Crown land. Over 20,000 feet of road was built to provide access to the drill-sites and as permanent hauling-roads. In addition to the above, approximately 120 holes were drilled to an average depth of 70 feet to prove coal-stripping possibilities along the outcrops of the No. 3 and No. 7 seams on Baldy Mountain and Natal Ridge. The work was under the direction of J. J. Crabb, exploration manager. During 1966, 44,400 pounds of Monobel No. 4, 307 pounds of Monobel No. 14, 26,500 pounds of CXL-ite, and 35,543 electric detonators were used at the colliery for coal and rock blasting. No misfired shots were reported. COAL 391 Five hundred and thirty-one tons of limestone dust was used for the application of inert dust over the roadways at the various mines to minimize the coal-dust hazard and for tamping shots. Monthly dust samples were taken at all the mines and analyzed. The samples were found to be above the minimum requirements needed for incombustible content. Monthly examinations of workings were made at all the mines by the miners' inspection committees, and regular safety meetings were held each month at the colliery office. The various reports kept at the mines in compliance with the Coal Mines Regulation Act were examined periodically and found to be in order. Baldy Strip Mine.—George Lancaster, foreman. This mine is on Baldy Mountain, 4 miles northwest of Michel. It is at an elevation of 5,000 feet and can be reached by means of a private road leading from the preparation plant. The coal is 40 to 60 feet thick and dips at an angle of 25 to 30 degrees in an easterly direction. The seam is believed to be the No. 10 seam. It can be traced for miles, and the company has operated several pits along the outcrop since 1948. The present activities in this seam are confined to No. 4b pit. It was opened in 1960 and is being worked on a contract basis. Removal of overburden was completed in 1961. The mine produced 13,747 tons of coal during 1966 with a crew of one shovel operator for loading the coal and three truck-drivers for transporting the coal to the preparation plant. The operation was very restricted owing to the present state of the coal market. It was confined to a single-shift basis, and the mine was idle for several long periods. The whole operation was directed to the loading of coal with a power-shovel, and it is estimated there was approximately 50,000 tons of coal left exposed in the pit at the end of 1966. " C " Seam Strip Mine.—George Lancaster, foreman. This mine is on the Natal Ridge, 2 miles northeast of Michel, and was opened in November, 1965, to operate an area of Upper and Lower " C " seam coal outcropping on the mountainside. The mine is at an elevation of 5,600 feet. It can be reached by a good gravel private road leading from the preparation plant. The seams pitch at an angle of 15 to 20 degrees in a southwesterly direction. The upper seam is 7 feet thick and the lower 11 feet. The coal is mined by bulldozer, and blasting restricted to rock work. An area of the overburden is first removed, then the top coal is pushed into the pit prior to removal of the rock parting between the two seams. The coal is then loaded by power-shovel and trucked to the preparation plant. Total production during 1966 was 58,152 tons of coal with a crew of 11 men. The work was carried out on a contract basis. Operations were temporarily suspended in December owing to a high moisture content in the coal due to climatic conditions. No. 7 Seam Strip Mine.—J. Whittaker, foreman. This mine is on Natal Ridge, approximately 2 miles southwest of Michel, and was opened in September, 1966, to develop an area of No. 7 seam coal outcropping on the mountainside. The mine is at an elevation of 4,800 feet and can be reached by private road from the preparation plant. The seam is 31 feet thick and contains a 6-foot rock parting approximately 6 feet above the footwall. The coal pitches at an angle of 15 to 20 degrees in a southwesterly direction. The mine produced 24,164 tons of coal during 1966 with a crew of 14 men. It was operated in a similar manner to that described at the " C " North strip mine. "A " South Strip Mine.—George Lancaster, foreman. This mine, operating in the "A" seam on the Sparwood Ridge, south of Michel, was abandoned at the commencement of 1966 owing to depletion of coal reserves. The equipment was removed to the other strip mine. It had operated since 1961, and a description of the workings has been given in past Annual Reports. J 392 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Preparation Plant.—George Lancaster, superintendent. This plant is on the colliery-site and is located near the entrances to the old rock tunnels on the south side of the valley. It was built in 1936 but has been considerably modernized since that date. A description of the plant has been given in past Annual Reports. There were no major changes in 1966. By-product Plant.—Ian Dufour, superintendent. This plant is adjacent to the preparation plant and employs 60 men. Present operations are confined to the Curran-Knowles ovens, and a description has been given in past Annual Reports. The plant produced 154,991 tons of coke, 16,544 tons of breeze (coke fines), and 1,188,499 gallons of tar during 1966. There were no major changes. Coleman Collieries Limited (49° 114° N.W.) William Goodwin, mine superintendent. The coal-mining activities of this company in the East Kootenay District are confined to a large stripping operation on the interprovincial boundary on Tent Mountain, near Corbin. Most of the activities are on the Alberta side, but large quantities of coal have been produced from the British Columbia side during the past 15 years, where the seams extend into the Province. The present operations are confined to the No. 4 pit, which is at an elevation of 7,000 feet, and can be reached by means of private road leading from the No. 3 highway at the Crowsnest Lakes. The road is on the Alberta side, and all the production is taken to the company's preparation plant at Coleman. The pit has been in operation since 1954, and a detailed description has been given in past Annual Reports. Most of the activities in 1966 were directed to rock work, and there was no production of coal from the British Columbia side. The rock work is part of an extensive programme that currently is being carried out to widen the No. 4 pit to expose a greater area of coal and enable the seam to be worked to a greater depth. Operations were suspended in December owing to climatic conditions and are not expected to be resumed until next spring. Pacific Coal Limited (49° 114° S.W.) Registered office, 540, 1070 Douglas Street, Victoria. This company has conducted an exploration programme on Crown land in the Morrissey area, southeast of Fernie, since 1964. Most of the activities in 1966 were confined to the latter part of the year and were directed mainly to an area on the mountainside at an elevation of 6,000 feet on the Flathead Ridge. A crew of five men drove three prospect tunnels, totalling 291 feet (drifting and crosscutting), from the outcrops of two of the seams, and another crew of five men drilled two surface diamond-drill holes, totalling 1,400 feet, in the same vicinity. A limited amount of trenching was done along the outcrops, and several access roads were built on the drill-site and prospect tunnels. A number of bulk samples of coal were shipped from the prospect tunnels for testing. The work started in September and was suspended on December 2nd for the winter months. Fernie Coal Mines Limited (49° 114° N.W.) Registered office, 510 West Hastings Street, Vancouver 2. This company, formed in 1966, conducted an exploration programme on Crown land in the vicinity of Mount Taylor, near Corbin, for a period of two months during the summer of 1966. A 4-mile access road was built to the property, and a bulldozer trenched several of the seams. One prospect tunnel, totalling 130 feet (drifting and crosscutting), was driven in one of the seams. The seam was over 50 feet thick but appeared to be in the vicinity of a fault. Several bulk samples of coal were shipped from the tunnel for testing. There were seven men employed. COAL 393 NICOLA-PRINCETON INSPECTION DISTRICT By David Smith There was no coal production in 1966 in the Nicola-Princeton District. Imperial Metals and Power Ltd. continued testing, using local coal in conjunction with magnetite ore from the Lodestone Mountain deposits near Princeton, studying the feasibility of producing sponge iron locally. NORTHERN INSPECTION DISTRICT By David Smith The coal mines of the Northern District produced a total of 11,975 tons of coal in 1966. The output is sold entirely on the domestic market, which limits all operations to seasonal work. One fatal accident due to a roof fall was investigated. No other accidents and no dangerous occurrences were reported in this district in 1966. There were no prosecutions. Peace River (56° 122° S.E.) King Gething Mine This property is on Lot 1039, 12 miles west of Hudson Hope. In 1966, due to lack of markets, the mine remained closed. Telkwa (54° 127° N.E.) Bulkley Valley Collieries Limited Company office, Telkwa. T. D. Carnahan, general manager; L. Gething, superintendent; P. Baker and E. Ellis, firebosses. This property is on Goat Creek, a tributary of Telkwa River, about 7 miles southeast of Telkwa. Underground production in 1966 was 3,385 tons. The mine closed in March, and this terminated all underground operations. A small crew carried out a stripping operation, removal of overburden, during the summer months. The exposed coal seam lies to the north, downstream, from the portal of the old workings. Operations on surface were resumed in September, and production from this source totalled 8,590 tons. An average crew of nine men was employed. Bowron River (53° 121° N.W.) Northern Coal Mines Ltd. Registered office, 285—17th Street, West Vancouver. A. J. Garraway, manager. This company holds Coal Licence No. 148, covering Lot 9592 and parts of Lots 9591 and 9593, which lie in the vicinity of the Bowron River, about 30 miles due east of Prince George. In 1966 a new slope was started and has been driven down 300 feet at 120 degrees to intersect two known coal seams. A tipple for dumping cars and bins for storage and loading coal into trucks has been built. These workings are known as the Garraway mine and were flooded during inspection. The workings that were driven in 1964 and 1965 have not been abandoned to date but have been permitted to flood. Surface exploration using a diamond drill continued. The company is considering the recovery of resin which occurs within the coal seam. An average crew of seven men was employed. Permitted explosives and short-period delay detonators were used for blasting rock and coal. General working conditions were found to be satisfactory in the course of inspections. No accidents or unusual occurrences were reported. No coal was produced in 1966. Inspection of Electrical Equipment and Installations at Mines, Quarries, and Well Drilling Rigs By L. Wardman, Senior Electrical Inspector ELECTRICAL POWER In 1966 electric power was used by 43 mining companies in operations at 49 lode mines and three collieries. Thirty-eight metallurgical concentrators were operated during the year. Electric power was also used at 22 structural-material and industrial-mineral mines and quarries. Forty-nine drilling rigs were operated in the Province during the year. Lode-metal Mines Electrical equipment was installed at nine properties during the year and put into service. Of these nine installations, five were for use during development work, one was a pilot mill, and three were concentrators. Details of these installations are given under " Electrical Installations." At two properties, buildings to house crushing and concentrating equipment were built. Operations at six properties were suspended either temporarily or permanently. Power Plants The kilovolt-ampere capacity of mining-company-owned power plants that operated in 1966 was as follows:— Generator Kva. Prime Mover Capacity Diesel engines 37,773 Hydro 15,770 Total 53,543 The electric power generated by these plants amounted to 469,014,458 kilowatt-hours. The power purchased from public utilities and from the generating division of Cominco Ltd. amounted to 104,331,000 kilowatt-hours. The total amount of power consumed at lode mines was 573,345,458 kilowatt-hours. A general breakdown of the connected load at the operating mines was as follows:— Equipment Horsepower Hoists (incline and shaft) 8,119 Hoists (scraper) 9,035 Fans (mine ventilating) 7,435 Pumps (mine) 8,825 Rectifiers and M.G. sets 8,673 Air compressors 23,488 Crushing 22,585 Sink float 2,105 Grinding 43,730 Concentrating 28,472 394 INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 395 Equipment Horsepower Conveyors 2,834 Pumps (mill and fresh water) 16,312 Shovels and rotary drills 4,000 Workshops 3,265 Miscellaneous 7,252 Total 196,130 In addition to electrically powered equipment, there was in use approximately 19,065 horsepower of prime movers driving direct-connected or belt-connected equipment as follows:— Prime Mover Horsepower Diesel engines 17,765 Hydro 1,300 Total 19,065 On the haulage systems there were in use 146 battery locomotives, 105 trolley locomotives, and 22 diesel locomotives. Structural-material and Industrial-mineral Mines and Quarries As in 1965, electric power was used at 22 structural-material and industrial- mineral mines and quarries. Power is purchased from public utilities for all except three of these operations. At the three operations, company-owned plants of 5,668 kilovolt-amperes produced 19,715,695 kilowatt-hours of power, and this added to 15,366,102 kilowatt-hours of purchased power makes a total of 35,081,- 797 kilowatt-hours consumed during the year. A general breakdown of the connected load was as follows:— Equipment Horsepower Hoists and aerial tram 292 Hoists (scraper) 530 Fans 105 Pumps 974 Rectifiers and M.G. sets 38 Air compressors 747 Electric drills and shovels 584 Crushing, rock reject, and drying 6,040 Conveyors 3,541 Screens 747 Milling 3,978 Workshops 409 Miscellaneous 2,045 Total 20,030 At these properties there was in addition direct-driven equipment totalling 3,978 horsepower. One battery locomotive was in use for underground haulage. Coal Mines Three collieries, the same number as in 1965, were in operation. The distribution of the connected load was as follows:— 396 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Surface— Air compressors. Ventilating Hoisting Haulage Coal washing and screening. Pumping Coke production Miscellaneous Total _ Underground— Ventilation Pumping Air compressors ____. Coal-cutters Continuous miners Shuttle cars Loading Conveying Hoisting Horsepower 2,800 345 552 2,143 46 65 1,573 1.121 Total 8,645 303 265 700 100 1,950 735 220 915 125 5,313 Total for surface and underground 14,053 Six battery locomotives and two diesel locomotives were in use for surface and underground haulage. A total of 2,503,551 kilowatt-hours of electric power was used for mining and coal-processing during the year. ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS LODE MINES Tide Lake Flats (56° 130° S.E.) Granduc Mine Granduc Mines Limited The 225-horsepower M.G. set installed in 1965 was replaced with a rectifier capable of supplying 250 horsepower of direct current to the trolley system. A tandem ventilating fan, each fan driven by a 50-horsepower motor, was installed to ventilate the tunnel. An overhead line was built to the new camp and a 75- kilowatt generator was installed for the trailer camp. These additions were made at the Tide Lake camp. No changes or alterations were made at the Leduc camp. Alice British Columbia Molybdenum Limited two 150-kw. generators. Alice Arm (55° 129° S.E.) A temporary electric-power system was installed to provide power for camp and mill area during the building of a concentrator. The diesel-driven power units consist of one 75-kw., one 125-kw., one 500-kw., and INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 397 By the end of the year the crusher and concentrator buildings were completed but most of the electrical work was yet to be done. Power will be supplied by British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority at 64 kv. Three 10/13.3 M.V.A. 64-4.16-kv. transformers will step the power down for distribution to the plant and mine. The crushing plant will contain primary, secondary, and tertiary crushers driven by two 300- and one 450-horsepower 4,160-volt motors respectively. The grinding circuit will consist of three mills, each driven by a 1,250-horse- power 4,160-volt synchronous motor. There are also two regrind mills driven by 40- and 75-horsepower motors respectively. The flotation circuit will consist of 40 flotation cells driven by twenty 25- horsepower motors, 18 flotation cells driven by nine 10-horsepower motors, 12 flotation cells driven by six 5-horsepower motors, and 8 flotation cells driven by four 3-horsepower motors. Other equipment will consist of ore feeders, pumps, and filtering equipment. The open-pit equipment will be supplied at 4,160 volts through a 1,200-ampere service. Moresby Isand (52° 132° N.E.) Tasu The underground crushing chamber, the cobbing-plant Wesfrob Mines Limited building, the concentrator building, and the power-house were completed, but most of the wiring was yet to be done. The power plant will contain five 2,760-kva. 4,160-volt diesel-driven generators. The primary crusher will be installed underground and will be driven by a 350-horsepower 600-volt motor. Two conveyors will transfer the ore to the coarse- ore stockpile near the cobbing plant. The cobbing plant will contain a secondary crusher and two tertiary crushers driven by three 200-horsepower 600-volt motors. In the cobbing plant there will be also two screens driven by two 25-horsepower motors, four cobbers driven by four 5-horsepower motors, elevators, and conveyors. The concentrator will contain three rod mills driven by three 400-horsepower 4,160-volt motors, two pebble mills driven by two 1,700-horsepower 4,160-volt motors, 143 flotation cells driven by seventy-three 15-horsepower motors, and 24 magnetic separators driven by twenty-four 3-horsepower motors. Other equipment will consist of air compressors; vacuum pumps; sand, sump, and water pumps; thickeners; filters; and conveyors. Jessie, Adonis, Rose A 200-kva. transformer-station was built at the 475- Jedway Iron Ore Limited foot level adit to supply power for an air compressor, ventilation fan, and mine pumps. At the power plant a new water-cooling plant was built for a 100-horsepower diesel-electric generator. Babine Lake (54° 126° N.E.) Granisle Mine A 5,000-tons-per-day concentrator was built and put Granisle Copper Limited into operation. At the present time eleven 500-kw. diesel-driven generators supply power for the concentrator and mine. When a power-line has been completed to the property, power will be purchased from the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority. 398 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 The primary crushing plant consists of one cone crusher driven by a 350- horsepower 4,160-volt induction motor. The secondary crushing plant consists of a secondary crusher and a tertiary crusher, driven by two 350-horsepower 4,160- volt induction motors. Other equipment consists of three screens, conveyors, feeders, and dust-collecting equipment. In the concentrator there are three mills driven by three 1,100-horsepower 4,160-volt synchronous motors, a regrind mill driven by a 125-horsepower 550-volt motor, 80 flotation cells driven by forty 15-horsepower 550-volt motors, and 14 flotation cells driven by seven 10-horsepower motors. Other equipment consists of pumps, thickeners, and filters. Smithers (54° 127° N.E.) Glacier Gulch Two diesel-driven generators, one of 125 kva. and the Climax Molybdenum other of 95 kva., were installed to supply power and (B.C.) Ltd. lighting during exploration and development work. Dual fans driven by two 40-horsepower motors are used to ventilate the mine. Houston (54° 126° S.W., 54° 127° S.E.) Silver Queen The following equipment was installed: Two 50-kw. Nadina Explorations 440-volt generators driven by a Caterpillar diesel and a Limited Bolinger diesel respectively, a panelboard and transformers to control and supply camp lighting, two rectifiers for charging locomotive batteries, and a 7-horsepower fan for mine ventilation. The camp buildings were wired for lighting. Three battery locomotives are in use underground. B A camp to accommodate 40 men was built at Phelps Dodge Corporation Haven Lake and wired for lighting. A 43-kw. of Canada, Limited diesel-driven generator was installed to supply power. Tahtsa Lake (53° 127° N.E.) Emerald A concentrator building was built and the milling Emerald Glacier Mines Ltd. equipment from the Silver Standard mill was installed. Power is supplied by two diesel-driven generators at 440-volts 3-phase. One generator is 125 kva. and the other is 100 kva. A 9-kva. single-phase plant was installed for fighting when the main plant is shut down. A general description of the equipment in the mill may be obtained from the 1948 Annual Report, page 249 (Silver Standard Mines Limited). Endako (54° 125° S.E.) Endako Mine The following equipment was installed: A primary Endako Mines Limited grinding mill driven by a 700-horsepower synchronous motor with a 15-horsepower M.G. set for direct-current excitation, four 100-horsepower discharge-pump motors to replace four 75-horse- power motors, one new reclaim pump driven by a 125-horsepower motor, one 100-horsepower motor to replace 75-horsepower motor on secondary-crusher dust fan, one 100-horsepower motor to replace 75-horsepower motor on tailings pump, INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 399 a semi-automatic oxide canning system driven by 20 fractional horsepower motors, a dust-collecting system for conveyor transfer houses Nos. 6 and 7 equipped with motors of a total load of 65-horsepower, a new 125-foot thickener equipped with motors of a total load of 10 horsepower, screw conveyors for roasting plant with motors of a total load of 30 horsepower, pumps with motors of a total load of 315 horsepower, and four welders of 60 horsepower each. Four 250-foot branch lines and one 10Lyard 350-horsepower shovel were installed in the pit. Bridge River (50° 122° N.W.) Bralorne Mine Electrical work done during the year consisted of in- Bralorne Pioneer Mines stalling three 50-kva. transformers on 4100 level at Limited the Queen shaft, installing new power and signal cable from 4100 level to 4300 level in the Queen shaft, installing a new pumping-station on 4300 level, and completing the wiring at 4200 and 4300 levels. Highland Valley (50° 120° S.W.) Bethlehem Mine The remaining equipment required to raise Bethlehem Copper Corporation Ltd. the mill tonnage to 10,000 tons per day was installed. This consisted of two mills driven by two 1,250-horsepower synchronous motors; one main 2,500-kva. 4,160-600-volt 3-phase transformer; three 5,000-kva., 138-kva., and 60-4.16-kv. single-phase main transformers; and one main switchgear section. Merritt (50° 120° S.W.) Craigmont Mine The No. 34 substation on 2852 level was removed Craigmont Mines Limited and the No. 19 substation at 3000 level portal was relocated, and the transformers were replaced with three 25-kva. 4,160-600-volt transformers connected delta-delta. The installation of a 125-horsepower service hoist on 3500 level was commenced. Electric lighting in the main office extension was completed. Brenda Lake (49° 120° N.E.) Brenda Mine A pilot plant was installed for a test run of the ore. The Brenda Mines Ltd. crushing plant is driven by a diesel engine. For the mill, power is supplied by a 200-kw. 480-volt 3-phase diesel- driven generator. The mill equipment consists of a ball mill driven by a 100- horsepower motor, a rod mill driven by a 60-horsepower motor, six flotation cells driven by three 5-horsepower motors, six flotation cells driven by three l1/--horsepower motors, 18 flotation cells driven by nine V_i-horsepower motors, two regrind mills driven by two 3-horsepower motors, two conveyors driven by a 5- and a 3-horsepower motor respectively, a classifier driven by a .4-horsepower motor, a vacuum pump and filter each driven by 5-horsepower motors, and a thickener driven by a ^-horsepower motor. Rossland (49° 117° S.W.) Coxey A 500-tons-per-day mill was built and put into opera- Red Mountain Mines tion. Power is supplied from the 60,000-volt West Limited Kootenay Power and Light Company power-line stepped down to 2,400 volts. The 600-horsepower ball-mill 400 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 motor is supplied at 2,400 volts, while the remainder of the motors are supplied at 600 volts through three 150-kva. step-down transformers. The crushing plant consists of a jaw crusher driven by a 125-horsepower motor, a cone crusher driven by a 150-horsepower motor, feeders, and conveyors. In addition to the ball mill mentioned previously, the mill equipment consists of a regrind mill driven by a 75-horsepower motor, 12 flotation cells driven by six 10-horsepower motors, six cleaner flotation cells driven by three 5-horsepower motors, 10 recleaner cells driven by five 2-horsepower motors, pumps, and storage tanks. Phoenix (49° 118° S.W.) Phoenix Mine Six thousand feet of power-line was built The Granby Mining Company Limited to a new pumping area and a 200- Phoenix Copper Division horsepower ball-mill motor was replaced with a 250-horsepower motor. Aspen Creek (49° 117° S.E.) H.B. A scraper hoist driven by a 30-horsepower motor was installed Cominco Ltd. underground and an electric fan driven by an 11-horsepower motor was installed on 3300 level. A 600-c.f.m. diesel-driven compressor was installed on the surface to supplement the stationary compressors. Operations were suspended on October 31st for an indefinite period. A small fire occurred in the compressor building on July 25, 1966, at 6.45 p.m. At the end of the day shift an attempt was made to shut down the air compressor but the circuit-breaker would not trip out, so the unit was left running, apparently with the field circuit de-energized, causing the field discharge resistor to overheat and ignite an accumulation of oily lint and dust. The fire was extinguished with little damage being done. Iron Mountain (49° 117° S.E.) Jersey In the Jersey mine on 4800 level a ventilating Canadian Exploration Limited fan driven by a 60-horsepower motor was installed. To supply this fan 1,200 feet of 2,300-volt power-line, three 25-kva. 2,300-460-volt transformers, 500 feet of three- conductor armoured cable and switchgear were installed. In the underground crushing chamber a full-wave rectifier was installed to replace an M.G. set. A 1,100-kva. capacitor was installed at the Tungsten mill substation for power-factor improvement. It is automatically switched in an out of circuit. At the lead-zinc mill a platform to hold six 25-kva. transformers was built and three 25-kva. transformers were installed. Nelway(49° 117°S.E.) Reeves MacDonald Mine Three thousand feet of 1/0 A.W.G. ACSR Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited power-line was built to the Annex mine, and two 50-kva. transformers for power and 25-kva. for lighting were installed at the portal. Two new Woods fans were installed for mine ventilation. A Cameron pump driven by a 30-horsepower motor was installed at the river. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 401 RlONDEL (49° 116° N.W.) Bluebell The 6,900-volt transmission-line was extended from the Comfort Cominco Ltd. area to North Bay, where three 150-kva. 6,900-550-volt transformers were installed. The 24-inch dual ventilating fans at No. 2 winze were replaced with 30-inch dual fans driven by two motors totalling 106 horsepower. Retallack-Three Forks (50° 117° S.E.) Caledonia No additions or alterations were made at the mill. Blue Star Mines Limited At the mine a diesel-driven 2-kva. plant was installed for lights in the dry and for charging cap-lamp batteries. A 50-volt 50-ampere generator was installed for charging the locomotive battery. Kimberley (49° 115° N.W.) Sullivan Mine At the mine the electrical work outlined in the 1965 Annual Cominco Ltd. Report was completed. At the concentrator, remote-control equipment was installed for controlling the locomotives while unloading ore and loading float. A plant for crushing Pine Point ore was built adjacent to the railroad above the mill. It consists of. a jaw crusher and a cone crusher driven by two 100- horsepower motors; a set of rolls driven by two 75-horsepower motors; a screen driven by a 20-horsepower motor; six conveyors driven by one 15-, one 20-, and four 5-horsepower motors respectively; and a pump driven by a 50-horsepower motor. Other work consisted of installing switchgear for 14 motor installations. Wasa (49° 115° N.W.) Estella A 150-tons-per-day concentrator was built, and the Giant Soo Mines Limited following equipment was installed: A jaw crusher driven by a 20-horsepower motor; a gyratory crusher driven by a 50-horsepower motor; a feeder, screen, and two conveyors driven by four 5-horsepower motors; a dust fan driven by a 10-horsepower motor; an 8- by 6-foot ball mill driven by a 125-horsepower motor; 10 flotation cells driven by five IVz-horsepower motors; eight flotation cells driven by four 5-horsepower motors; a classifier, filter, and five pumps driven by seven 5-horsepower motors. Revelstoke (51° 118° S.E.) J and L A Curtis Wright 30-kva. 120/208-volt 3-phase 60- Westairs Mines Limited cycle diesel-driven generator was installed to supply power for lighting and locomotive-battery charging. Three 15-kva. transformers connected star-delta step the voltage up for the battery-charger. One thousand feet of overhead line was built to the camp-site. Howe Sound (49° 123° N.E.) Britannia Mine In the Victoria mine a 200-kva. 6,600- The Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd. 440-volt transformer was moved from 2800 level to 3500 level. A 200-kva. diesel-driven generator and a 50-ton-per-hour crushing plant was installed at Jane Basin. L 402 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 Texada Island (49° 124° N.W.) Texada Mine Five hundred kvar. of capacitors were installed throughout Texada Mines Ltd. the mine and plant, which raised the power factor to 94 per cent. The underground electrical system was extended to supply equipment in new headings. On the surface a 525-kva. transformer- station was installed to supply the Lake pit operations. Quatsino-Port Hardy (50° 127° S.W.) Yreka A concentrate-loading system was installed, which increased Minoca Mines Ltd. the connected motor load to 100 horsepower. Merry Widow, Kingfisher A magnetic scalper was installed at the Empire Development Company Limited mine consisting of a 48-inch conveyor with a magnetic head pulley and driven by a 10-horsepower motor. A 7.5-kva. rectifier supplies direct current for the pulley. In January the concentrator was burned down but was later rebuilt. Old Sport Two 40-horsepower ventilation fans were Coast Copper Company Limited installed for mine ventilation and one 6- ton Atlas locomotive was installed for mine haulage. A locomotive battery caught fire while being moved into the charging-starion north of the No. 2 winze on 5100 level. Considerable smoke was produced, but most of it went out through the ventilation raise. The cause of the fire was not determined. Zeballos (50° 126° S.W.) F.L. A new 440-volt overhead line was built to B level Zeballos Iron Mines Limited to replace the old line, and additional mine ventilation fans were installed at this level. A new blasting-line to underground was installed. Buttle Lake (49° 125° N.W.) Lynx, Paramount, Price A hydro-electric plant, a crushing plant, and concen- Western Mines Limited trator were built and tested. The hydro-electric plant consists of one 3,600-kva. unit. The equipment in the crushing plant consists of a jaw crusher and two cone crushers driven by three 150-horsepower motors, a feeder driven by a 40-horsepower motor, a Dillon screen driven by a 10-horsepower motor, a conveyor driven by a 25-horsepower motor, and two dust fans driven by a 20- and a IVz -horsepower motor respectively. The equipment in the concentrator consists of a rod mill driven by a 3 50- horsepower motor, a ball mill driven by a 400-horsepower motor, and 66 flotation cells driven by thirty-three 10-horsepower motors. Other equipment consists of conveyors, pumps, and filters. The two grinding-mill motors operate at 4,160 volts. All die others operate at 550 volts. On No. 8 level a 75-horsepower ventilation fan was installed and on No. 12 level a 25-horsepower pump. Two rectifiers and one motor generator set was installed for charging locomotive batteries. An assay office and a general service building were built and wired. INSPECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 403 Kennedy Lake (49° 125° S.E.) Brynnor Mine A new Magna-Blast air circuit-breaker was installed Brynnor Mines Limited for No. 1 hoist. A 500 M.C.M. cable was installed (Kennedy Lake Division) from the surface to the first level. A power-line was installed for the new camp-site at the mine-site. STRUCTURAL-MATERIAL AND INDUSTRIAL-MINERAL MINES AND QUARRIES McDame (59° 129° S.W.) Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited A 400-kva. diesel-driven generator was installed in the power-house, increasing the generating capacity to 5,466 kva. Windermere (50° 115° S.W.) Western Gypsum Products Limited A transportable primary crushing plant was installed at the quarry. The power unit is a DT-817 International diesel which drives by belts the crusher and a lOO^kw. generator. The generator supplies power to an apron feeder driven by a 10- horsepower motor and eight conveyors driven by two 20-, one 10-, four IV2-, and one 5-horsepower motors. Vananda (49° 124° N.W.) Ideal Cement Company Limited A transportable crusher plant consisting of two crushers, screens, and conveyors was installed on the property. It is powered by a D-333 Caterpillar driving a 120-kva. generator. In the main plant three 30-kva. capacitors were installed to improve power factor. Imperial Limestone Company Limited The installation of electrical equipment to operate on British Columbia Hydo and Power Authority power was completed. Motors and controls for four crushers were installed. These are respectively 40, 60, 75, and 125 horsepower. COAL MINES Telkwa (54° 127° N.E.) Bulkley Valley Collieries Limited AU underground work was discontinued at the end of June, and an open-pit operation was started later in the year. A bin was built in which the trucks could dump, and a pan feeder driven by a 5-horsepower motor and a belt conveyor driven by a 7-horsepower motor were installed to move the coal to the primary crusher. Comox (49° 124° N.W.) Comox Mining Company Limited The mine was closed on September 23,1966, and all equipment has since been removed. East Kootenay (49° 114° N.W.) Michel Colliery Three new mines were put into production. Crows Nest Industries Limited They are No. 1 Seam South, " C " Seam North, and Balmer North. 404 MINES AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES REPORT, 1966 In No. 1 Seam South mine, three 200-kva. 3-phase permissible transformers were installed to supply a continuous miner, a shuttle car, conveyors, pump, fans, and compressor. In " C " Seam North mine, three 200-kva. 3-phase permissible transformers were installed to supply a continuous miner, shuttle car, loader, conveyor, pump, and compressor. In Balmer North mine, thirteen 200-kva. 3-phase permissible transformers were installed to supply four continuous miners, loader, two shuttle cars, conveyors, fans, and pumps. There were six incidents of damaged cable and one of a failure, due to moisture, of the fibre insulation in a plug connector. One cable damage caused arcing which ignited combustible dust, and the failure of the fibre insulation in the plug connector also caused arcing which was assumed to have ignited a bleeder of methane. In all these incidents the protective devices functioned to isolate the circuits. There was also a case of conveyor-belt heating due to a jammed tail pulley. About W2 feet of belting melted where it passed over the drive pulley. Further details of these incidents are given under " Dangerous Occurrences." INDEX Page A, 54° 127" S.W 91 "A" North mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 389 dangerous occurrence 382 "A" South strip mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 391 A & B Gravel Sales Limited, sand and gravel 274 Abbotsford, 49° 122° S.E., clay and shale 263 Abbotsford Gravel Sales Ltd., sand and gravel 273 Able, Ben 254 AC claims, 57° 130° S.W., geological and geochemical report 252 A. C. A. Howe & Associates Limited 40, 41, 199, 208 accidents, coal mines, fatal 380 in and around 378 lode mines, placer mines, and quarries, fatal 355 involving loss of time 360 Ace, 50° 124° S.W 56 Ace, 50° 128° N.E 65 Ace, 53° 127° S.E 112 geological report 249 Ace, 58° 132° N.E., asbestos 260 Ackworth, 49° 119° S.E.—see Ester, Ed Ad Astra Minerals Ltd., placer 254 Adams, Antoinette 71 Adams, Blanche 71 Adams, E. G 71 Adams, John 71 Adams Lake, 51° 119° S.W 145 Adams Plateau property, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W 146 Adera Mining Limited, Strike, Lorna, 49 ° 120° N.W 170 administration, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64, 278 Administration Branch A 53 Adonis, 52° 131° S.W 53 dangerous occurrence 363 electrical installations 397 Aetna Investment Corporation Limited, dividends A 45 Mineral King, 50° 116° S.E 237 dangerous occurrence 363 fatal accident 360 Sunloch and Gabbro, 48" 124° S.E.. 79 Agassiz, Mount, 49° 121° S.W 62 Agnes, Mount, 53° 121° S.W 120 Agnew, H. W 79 Ainsworth area 224 air-borne magnetometer mapping A 63 air photography A 74 Ajax, 49° 118° S.E 198 Ajax, 55° 129° N.E 44 A.K. claims, 49° 120° N.W., geophysical report 245 A.L., 50° 121° S.E 154 Alabama, 49° 120° S.E 177 Page Alamo group, 50° 121° N.W., geophysical report 247 Alaska Highway area 17 Albany, 50° 122° S.W 57 Alberni Inlet area 75 Albeta Mines Ltd., Alpha, Beta, Taboga, 48° 124° N.E 78 Alberni Mining Division, lode metals 72 prospecting A 67 Aldergrove Cement Tile Products, sand and gravel 274 ALG claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological report 250 Alice, 55° 129° S.E 49 dangerous occurrences 363 electrical installations 396 Alice Arm area 42 Allard Concrete Construction Co., sand and gravel 272 Allen, A. R 151 Allen, J. M 155 Allen Geological Engineering Ltd 146 Allex, Marvin 257 Alpha, 48° 124° N.E 78 Alpha, 50° 117° N.E 235 Alpha, 50° 126° S.W 68 geological and geophysical reports 248 Alpha claims, 57° 130° S.W., geological and geochemical report 252 Alquin Mines Ltd., Colossus, 50° 125° N.E 55 Alrae Explorations Ltd., C-Soo, 51° 120° S.W 136 Mac, 49° 119° N.W 184 Price, Oro, M.M., 50° 120° S.W 163 Silver, 51° 120° N.E 144 Wilson, Ian, McK, 49° 120° N.E 173 Alscope Consolidated Ltd., LY, Ford, Snow, Dora, 49° 121° N.E 171 Pay, 49° 120° N.W 168 Alta claims, 49° 119° N.E., geological report 244 Alta Lake area 57 Altamont Exploration Company Ltd., Empire, Strathcona, 49° 115° S.E 242 Altoona, 49° 117° N.E 222 Alwin Mining Company Ltd., Ezz, O.K., 50° 121° S.E. 154 Pathfinder, Little Bertha, 49° 118° S.E. 197 AM, 50° 121° S.E 155, 158 AM, 50° 120° S.W 159 Amax Exploration, Inc., Barbs, Ell, 54° 128° S.E 52 Barr, Lybdenum, 54° 126° S.W 103 Fog, Frost, 55° 127° N.E 81 Katie, A, B, C, and Petra A, 54° 127° N.W. 91 Lucky Ship, Sam, 54° 127° S.E 104 Lynda, Sno, 54° 128° N.E 80 MO, 49° 119° S.E 192 Sal, R, EE, 50° 123° N.E 140 Van, Wid, Gerry, 54° 126° S.W 103 16 405 406 INDEX Page Amcana Gold Mines Limited, Barnato, 49° 118° N.W 193 American Citizen, 54° 127° N.E 90 American Creek, 56° 129° S.W 41 American Smelting and Refining Company, Bab, Barbara, Joan, 49° 121° S.E '60 BIK, 57° 131° S.E 25 Bird, Sno, Bud, 57° 130° S.W 26 Len, Law, 50° 120° S.W 166 Amite II 364 ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (AN/FO) 213, 214, 364 Amy group, 59° 130° N.E., geological, geophysical, and geochemical report — 252 Amyotte, C 83 Anaconda American Brass Limited, AM, IDE, 50° 121° S.E 158 FF, 51° 121° N.E 135 Hope, 49° 121° N.E 171 L.L., 50° 124° S.W 56 Red Wing, 55° 129° S.W 41 RO, SO, TC, 51° 120° N.E 143 TC, 51° 120° N.E 143 Anaconda Company (Canada) Ltd., The, Britannia mine, 49° 123° N.E 57 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 401 fatal accident 356 Anaconda smelter 215 Analytical and Assay Branch A 58 Anco Explorations Ltd., Far, Mo, 54° 126° S.W 104 Klondike, 54° 126° S.W 103 Anderson, James 387 Anderson Creek, sand and gravel 272 Andy, 49° 124° S.W 76 AN/FO 213, 214, 364 Anglo United Development Corporation Limited, Mobile, 56° 129° S.W 40 Angus, A. E. 175 Ann, 50° 120° S.W 159 Ann, 50° 121° S.E 158 Ann, 52° 122° S.E 121 Ann, 57° 130° S.W 31 Ann claims, 49° 116° N.W., geophysical report 243 Ann claims, 49° 118° S.E., geophysical report 243 Anna, 49° 117° N.E 219 Annex property, 49° 117° S.E. 215 Annis, 50° 119° N.E 146 Anticlimax, 51° 120° N.E 143 antimony, note on product A 16 production A 21, A 24, A 34 Antler Creek, 53° 121° S.E., placer 256 Antoine Silver Mines Ltd., Antoine, 50° 117° S.E. . - 222 Antoniuk, T 199 Anuk River Mines Ltd., Mac, 49° 119° N.W. 184 Anyox area 41 Anzalone, S. A. 167 Apache claims, 50° 121° S.E., geological report 247 Apex claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 245 Page Apex Exploration and Mining Company, Ltd., Kopr, Papex, Paychex, 49° 119° S.W. 188 Apex Mountain, 49° 119° S.W 188 A.P.M., 49° 121° S.E 59 Appelgate, Larry M. 91, 103 Appleton Creek, 49° 124° N.W 56 Apps, G. E. 78 April, 50° 120° S.W 153 Arctic, 57° 130° S.W 31 Argonaut Mining Co. Ltd., The, Hiller, Churchill, 50° 126° S.W 73 Arlington Silver Mines Ltd., Arlington, 49° 117° N.E 219 Armore Mines Limited, Atlin-Ruffner, 59° 133° N.W 17 Armstrong, J. E., Geological Survey of Canada A 75 Armstrong, R. C. 124 Armstrong, Robert D. 155 Arn, Ike, placer 255 Arnason, John 192 Arscott, David 53 arsenious oxide, note on product A 16 production A 21, A 38 Art, 51° 119° S.W 145 Artlish group, 50° 126° S.W.—see Hiller asbestos, Ace, 58° 132° N.E 260 Kutcho Creek Asbestos, 58° 128° S.W. 260 Mount McDame, 59° 129° S.W 259 note on product A 16 production A 21, A 24, A 38 Ascot Mines Ltd., Ascot, Jes, Gloria, J, 49° 121° S.W 62 Garnet, D, S, Pat, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W 146 Ash, 49° 120° S.E 187 Ashcroft area 149 Ashfork Mines Limited, Red Bird (CAFB), 53° 127° S.E 112 Ashnola River area 187 Aspen Creek area _ 213 Aspen Grove area : _. 168 Aspinal, C. 260 assessment reports, list of 243 Ast, 54° 126° N.W 83 Astlais, 54° 126° N.W 83 Astlais Mountain, 54° 126° N.W ___. 83 Astra, 49° 119° N.W 187 AT, 53° 126° S.W 117 Atlas, 50° 116° N.W 236 Atlas mine, trophy 372 Atlin area 17 Atlin Mining Division, lode metals 17 placer _. 253 prospecting A 69 Atlin-Ruffner, 59° 133° N.W 17 Atna Range area 81 Aurora, 49° 115° N.W 241 Aurum, 53° 121° S.W 120 Austin, J. 133 Avison, R. T 220 Award, 50° 121° S.E 155 AX, 55° 126° S.E 95 Axe, 50° 122° S.W 57 Axe, 49° 120° S.W 177 Aztec group, 56° 129° S.W., geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 251 Azzaria, L. 118 INDEX 407 B Page B, 49° 118° S.E 197 B, 54° 127° S.E 103 electrical installations 398 B & A Trucking Limited, sand and gravel 275 B & B Tracking, sand and gravel 274 B & L, 49° 121° N.E 171 B and N claims, 58° 128° S.W., geological report 252 B & R, 49° 120° N.W 170 Baal, 49° 119° N.W 187 Bab, 49° 121° S.E 60 Babine Lake area 92 Bacon, W. R 48, 49 Bailey, 49° 121° N.W 61 Baker, P 393 Baldy Mountain, 49° 114° N.W. 388, 390, 391 Baldy strip mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 391 Balmer No. 1 (South) mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 388 fatal accident 380 Balmer No. 2 (Prospect No. 22) mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 388 Balmer North mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 387 dangerous occurrences 383 electrical installations 403, 404 fatal accident 380 Bam, 57° 130° S.W 31 Bamberton, 48° 123° N.W., cement 262 limestone 269 Ban claims, 54° 124° N.E., geochemical report . 249 Banker group, 58° 132° N.W., geophysical report 252 Bapty, Harry, Inspector and Resident Engineer, Prince Rupert A 60 reports by—see lode-metal section, placer section, and industrial-mineral and structural-material section Bar, 49° 121° N.E. 61 Bar, 51° 119° S.W. 144 Barbara, 49° 121° S.E 60 Barber, 59° 133° N.W. (see Atlin-Ruffner) 17 Barbs, 54° 128° S.E 52 geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 250 barite, Brisco, 50° 116° N.E 260 note on product A 16 Parson, 51° 116° S.W 260 production A 21, A 24, A 38 Spillimacheen, 50° 116° N.E 261 Barker Bill, 55° 127° S.W 81 Barker, H. G. 67 Barker, R. A 52, 80, 81, 91, 103, 104, 140 Barkerville area 120 Barnato, 49° 118° N.W 193 Barnet, 49° 122° S.W., clay and shale ___. 263 Baroid of Canada, Ltd., barite 261 Barr, 54° 126° S.W 103 Barriere, 51° 119° S.W 144 Barriere area 144 Barriere Lake Mines Ltd., Ultima, Good Luck, Creek, Harper, Ruth, 51° 119° S.W. 145 Barrington River 22, 24 Bartle Explorations Ltd., Bartle, 58° 129° N.E. 22 Bartle, John . Page 22 Base Metals Mining Corporation Limited, Cork Province mine, 49° 117° N.E 224 Basin, 55° 129° S.E 49 Bat, 49° 118° S.E 197 Bata Resources Limited 148 Bay, 50° 127° N.W 65 geological, geophysical, and geochemical reports 248 Baynes, E. G. 263 Bayshore, 52° 121° N.W 125 B.C. claims, 56° 129° S.W., geological, geophysical, and geochemical reports __ 251 B.C. Copper Co.,Colossus,50° 125° N.E. 55 B.C. mine, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical report 243 BD, 49° 120° S.W 175 Bea, 49° 121° S.E 60 Beale Quarries Division, Lafarge Cement of North America Ltd., limestone 268 Beale, W. S 268 Bear, 49° 121° S.E 59 Bear claims, 49° 125° N.W., geophysical report 245 Bear claims, 59° 127° N.E., geophysical report 252 Bear River valley 40 Beaton, R. 190 Beaver, 53° 124° N.W 118 Beaver claims, 59° 127° N.E., geophysical report 252 Beaverdell area 191 BEE group, 50° 120° N.E., geophysical report 246 Bee, 52° 121° N.W 125 Bee, 55° 126° S.E., geophysical and geochemical reports 251 Bee claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological, geochemical, and geophysical reports __ 250 Beggs Gulch, 53° 121° S.E., placer 256 Beggs, H. K. 261 Beguin, A. C 259 Bel, 55° 129° N.E 47 Beley, M. J 92 Bell, 50° 124° S.W 56 Bell, 54° 126° S.W 104 Bell claims, 50° 120° N.W., geophysical report : 246 Bell, M. S 260 Bell Molybdenum Mines Limited, Moly, 55° 129° S.E 48 Bella Coola area 55 Bella Coola Chief, 52° 126° N.W 55 Belle, 54° 124° S.E., N.E 118 Bern, 49° 120° S.E. 176 geophysical and geochemical report __ 245 Ben Derby, 49° 116° N.W 217 Benischke Mines Ltd., placer 255 Bennett, Art 224 Bennett, Harold . 240 Bennett, Ivan 145 Bennett, R. I 71 Benray Bridge Company Limited A 72 Benson Mines Ltd., BO, 50° 120° S.W..... 161 Bentley, Ray 218 bentonite, note on product A 16 production A 21, A 38 Berendon Glacier 38 Berg, 53° 127° N.E 105 408 INDEX Page Berry, G 229 Bert, 49° 115° S.W 241 Bertha claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Bet, 50° 121° S.E 160 Beta, 48° 124° N.E 48, 78 Bethex Explorations Ltd., PF, Midnight, 49° 121° S.W 62 PR, David, Skidoo, 49° 121° S.E., N.E. and 49° 120° S.W 174 Trek, 55° 126° S.E., 54° 126° N.E. ____ 95 Bethlehem Copper Corporation Ltd., Bethlehem mine, 50° 120° S.W 152 dividends A 45 electrical installations 399 Bethsaida Copper Mines, Limited, Bethsaida, 50° 121° S.E 155 Bety, 49° 115° N.W 240 BHA, 51° 125° S.E 55 B.I., 52° 121° N.W 125 BI, 55° 126° S.E 95 Bickford, K. F 18, 19, 21 Big, 54° 128° N.W 51 Big Daddy, 49° 119° N.W., geological report 245 Big Indian Drilling Co. Ltd. 146 Big Ledge, 50° 118° N.E 218 Big Missouri, 56° 130° S.E 40 Big Onion, 54° 126° N.W 83 geophysical report 250 Big Pay Off, 49° 116° N.W 217 Big Slide Mining Company, P.M.L. 862 __ 257 Big Timothy (Takomkane) Mountain area 133 BIK, 57° 131° S.E 25 BIK Syndicate 26 Bill, 55° 127° S.W 81 Bill, 50° 120° S.W 167 Bill claims, 50° 120° N.W., geophysical report 246 Billingsley, J. R. 66 Billingsley, R. J. 77 Bio Metals Corporation Ltd., Victor, 50° 121° S.E _._. 158 Birch Island area 144 Bird, 57° 130° S.W _.__ 26 Bird, 58° 125° S.E 18 Bird, E 273 Bird, N 26 Birkett Creek, 50° 120° S.W 166 bismuth, Giant, Gold King, Little Darling, Evening, etc., 49° 117° S.W. 208 note on product A 16 production A 21, A 24, A 34 Bitter Creek, 56° 129° S.W 41 B.J., 50° 121° S.E 160 B.J., 52° 121° N.W 126 Black Bear, 48° 124° N.W 77 Black Dome Mountain, 51' 122° S.W., placer 257 Black, John 222 Black Knight, 50° 126° S.W 74 Black Mastodon Minerals Ltd., Clover Leaf, 49° 121° S.W 276 Black, P. T 81, 82, 92, 117 Blackham's Construction Ltd., sand and gravel 273 Blakey, K. B., Deputy Minister A 2, A 54, A 65 132 220 Blanchet, P. H. Blaney, C. blasting certificate suspensions Blondie, 49° 121° S.W Bloomer, T. O Blossom, T. E.. Page 364 62 257 153 268 Blubber Bay, 49° 124° N.W Blue, G. E., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Charlie Lake A 64 Blue Bell, 50° 125° N.E 55 Blue Bell claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Bluebell, 49° 116° N. W 226 electrical installations 401 mine-rescue competition 371, 372 John T. Ryan trophy 372 Blue Jay, 53° 130° N.E 52 Blue Star Mines Limited, Caledonia, 50° 117° S.E. 224 electrical installations 401 fatal accident 359 B-Mac claims, 51° 119° S.W., geophysical report 248 BO, 50° 120° S.W 161 Board of Arbitration A 65 Board of Examiners, coal-mine officials A 61, 383 shiftbosses A 61, 367 Bob, 49° 120° N.E. 173 Bob, 50° 120° S.W. 159 Bob, 51° 122° S.W. 137 Bob, 52° 120° N.E.—see Joy Bob claims, 55° 125° N.E., geological report 251 Bobbie Burns Creek, 50° 116° N.W 236 Bobbie Burns group, 51° 117° S.E., geological report 248 Bobbs, 49° 119° S.W. 190 Bobo, 56° 126° S.E 82 Bol, 55° 125° S.W 119 Bolo, 55° 129° S.E 51 Bonanza Explorations Ltd., Alpha, Maud S., Standby, 50° 117° N.E. 235 Bonar, Robert B., Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines A 60, A 61, 374, 383, 385 Bond, Reuben 229 Bone Lake, 53° 127° S.E 112 Boom, 55° 125° S.E., N.E. 119 Boomae, 51° 119° S.W 145 geophysical report 248 Boomerang, 49° 117° N.E 220 Bootjack, 52° 121° N.W 126 Bootjack Lake, 52° 121° N.W 126 Bootjack Mountain, 52° 121° N.W. 126 Border Sand and Gravel Ltd. 274 Borin Creek, 51° 122° S.W., placer 257 Borup, E. L. . 224 Bosnich, G. 58 Boss Mountain mine, 52° 120° S.W. __..__ 133 Botany Isalnd, 52° 132° N.E 53 Boundary Creek No. 1 group, 49° 118° S.W., geological, geochemical, and geophysical reports 244 Boundary Exploration Limited, Astra, Baal, Calumet, Ida, 49° 119° N.W. 187 Ester, Ed, 49° 119° S.E. 191 Bounty, 49° 119° S.E 191 Bowles, E. J., Deputy Chief Gold Commissioner A 54 Bowron River area 393 Boy Scout, 49° 116° N.E. — see Warhorse, Granite INDEX 409 Page Boyles Bros. Drilling Company Ltd., Ultima, Good Luck, Creek, Harper, Ruth, 51° 119° S.W 145 Bracebridge, 49° 116° N.W.—see Joe Brad, 50° 121° S.E. 160 Bradford, M. 19, 20 Bradshaw, H. E. 143 Bradshaw, R. J 17 Bragg, D. K 163 Bralorne Pioneer Mines Limited, Bralorne mine, 50° 122° N.W 138 electrical installations 399 Chataway, 50° 120° S.W 164 dividends A 45 Donna, Linda, Sharon, 49° 116° N.W. 225 Joy, 52° 120° N.E 132 Pine, 55° 125° N.E 119 River Jordan, King Fissure, 51° 118° S.W. 229 Shady,' 49° 117° N.E.~ — 221 Silbak Premier mine, 56° 130° S.E 39 Waterloo, 49° 118° N.E., N.W. 191 Branca, J. 229 Brandon claims, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 244 breeze (coke fines) 392 BrenCap Mines Ltd. 185 BrenColl Mines Ltd 185 Brenda, 52° 122° S.E 120 Brenda Lake area 172-174, 179 index map 180 Brenda Lake group, 49° 120° N.E., geochemical report 245 Brenda Mines Ltd., Brenda mine, 49° 120° N.E. 181 399 185 185 Brenton, Mount, area 79 Brian, 49° 116° N.W 225 Briden, A. 184 Bridge River area 138 Bridge River Valley Mine Safety Association 371 Brisco, 50° 116° N.E., barite 260 Britannia mine, 49° 123° N.E. 57 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 401 fatal accident 356 B.C. Aggregates Ltd., sand and gravel _.__ 274 B.C. Cement Division, Cobble Hill quarry, Ocean Cement Limited, limestone 269 certificate of achievement 373 British Columbia Forest Products Limited 270 British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority 397 British Columbia Lightweight Aggregates Ltd., clay and shale 264 pozzolan 271 British Columbia Molybdenum Limited, Alice, 55° 129° S.E 49 dangerous occurrence 363 electrical installations 396 Broadview, 50° 117° N.E 229 Bron, 50° 121° S.E 159 geophysical and geochemical report ___. 247 Bron, 56° 131° N.E. 37 geological report 252 electrical installations BrenMac Mines Ltd. BrenSand Mines Ltd. Bronlund, E. Bronson, F. E. Bronson Creek, 56° 131° N.E. Brothers, Hon. Donald L. Brown Bay, 50° 125° S.E Brown, C. E. Brown, C. E. Gordon Brown, D. H. Brown, Mrs. Lititia . Page 119 37 37 ..A 2, A 3 70 214 72 40 255 Bruce claims, 50° 120° S.W., geochemical report 246 Bryant, A. E 39 Brycon Explorations Ltd., placer 255 Brynelsen, B. O. 95, 101, 181 Brynnor Mines Limited, Boss Mountain mine, 52° 120° S.W 133 Brynnor mine (Kennedy Lake Division), 49° 125° S.E 75 electrical installations 403 dividends A 45 Buchanan Mines Ltd., Charleston, 50° 117° S.E 222 Joe, Art, 51° 119° S.W 145 Bud, 57° 130° S.W 26 building-stone, Cheam View, 49° 121° S.W. 262 Layers Group (Whiskey Creek), 52° 122° S E 261 Pitt River, 49°" 122° S.W. "."" ~ 262 production A 21, A 24, A 40 Sechelt, 49° 123° S.E 262 Sheep Creek, 49° 117° S.E 262 Sirdar, 49° 116° S.W 261 Twin Lakes, 49° 119° S.W 262 Bulkley Valley Collieries Limited 393 electrical installations 403 fatal accident 380 Buller, 49° 119° S.W. 190 Bullfrog claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Bullis, A. R. 210 Bullseye claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 bumps, coal mines 383 Bunker Hill smelter 215 Burdett, G. A 148 Burgess, C. H 25 Burleson, J. B 213 Burlington Mines Ltd., Hill, 51° 122° S.W 136 Yankee Girl, 49° 117° S.E 212 Burmeister, N. W 112, 137 Burnaby Mountain, 49° 122° S.W., clay and shale 263 Burton, A. D. K 185 butane—see oil and gas Bute Inlet area 55 Butler Bros. (Duncan) Limited, sand and gravel 275 Buttle Lake area 77 Buval Mines Ltd., Midnight, Zobnic, Seymour, Canadian Citizen, American Citizen, 54° 127° N.E 90 Buxton Creek 131 BUY, 57° 131° S.E 25 by-product plant, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 392 Bysouth, G. D 93 410 INDEX Page C and E claims, 59° 136° N.W., geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 252 CA. claims, 56° 130° N.E., geochemical report 251 "C" North mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 390 electrical installations 403, 404 " C " Seam strip mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W. 391 Cabin Creek, 49° 114° S.W., phosphate.... 271 cadmium, note on product A 16 production A 21, A 24, A 34 Cadwallader Creek, 50° 122° S.W 138 CAFB, 53° 127° S.E 112 Cal, 50° 120° S.W 162 Calco, 50 121° S.E. 158 Caldwell, Victor A. _ 380 Caledonia, 50° 117° S.E. electrical installations ._ fatal accident .... 224 ... 401 — 359 59 Calico, 49° 121° S.E California claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 California Gulch, 53° 121° S.E 256 Calix Mines Ltd., Midway, 49° 115° S.W 241 Callan, D. M., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64, A 65 Calumet, 49° 119° N.W 187 Cam, 49° 120° N.E 173 Cam, 50° 120° S.E. 168 Cameron, D. B 138 Cameron, D. N. 40 Cameron-McCutcheon Drilling Limited 136 Camp group, 49° 119° N.W., geological report 244 Campbell, C. M., Jr 77 Campbell, Gregg Earl, fatal accident 356 Campbell River area 69 Camsell, G. C 99 Cana, 50° 121° N.E 155 geological, geophysical, and geochemical reports 247 Canada Iron Foundries Limited, Western Bridge Division A 72 Canadian Aero Mineral Surveys Limited 168, 173 Canadian Citizen, 54° 127° N.E 90 Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited 386 Canadian Collieries Resources Limited—. 386 Iron River, 49° 125° N.E. 70 Canadian Exploration Limited, Endako mine, 54° 125° S.E 117 Jersey, 49° 117° S.E. __: 214 dangerous occurrence — 363 electrical installations 400 fatal accident 357 Silver Queen, 54° 126° S.W 104 Canadian Johns-Manville Company Limited, Ace, 58° 132° N.E., asbestos 260 Canadian Longyear 229 Canadian Nickel Company Limited, Coxey, 49° 117° S.W _ 207 Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias, 55° 129° S.E 51 Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas Limited, Tot, Turn, 48° 123° N.W. 79 Yam, 48° 124° N.E 78 Page Canadian Rock Company Limited, fatal accident 358 Canadian Superior Exploration Limited, Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, Mark, 50° 120° S.W 159 Canal Flats, 50° 115° S.W., clay and shale 263 Canex Aerial Exploration Ltd., Boom, Frankie, CV, TX, CHO, MC, OVP, TAM, 55° 125° S.E., N.E 119 Churchill, Davis, Bird, Caribou, 58° 125° S.E 18 Enco, Molly, Jen, Beaver, Nithi, 53° 124° N.W. 118 fluorite 265, 266 Krain, 50° 121° N.E 151 Pollyanna, 52° 122° N.E. 124 Silverquick, Quicksilver, Dot, Bob, Kim, 51° 122° S.W. 138 Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod, Ruby, 59° 130° N.E 17 Vanguard, 55° 129° N.W 42 Cannon Contracting Ltd., sand and gravel 273 Cannon, D. M. 44, 177 Cannon Mines Limited, Elmoore, 51° 119° S.W. 145 Cannon, R. W 18 Canusa Mines Limited, Red Wing, 55° 129° S.W 42 Canyon, 50° 124° S.W. 56 Canzac Mines Ltd., Churn, 51° 122° S.W 137 Lux, Cindy, 50° 120° N.W. 1 151 Cap, 58° 129° S.E 20 Car, 49° 120° S.E. 187 Carbonate Creek 236 Carex Mines Ltd. 131 Cariboo-Bell Copper Mines Limited, Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W 126 Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited, The, Aurum, 53° 121° S.W. 120 CGQ, 52° 121° N.W 125 Cariboo Heart Range area 82 Cariboo Mining Division, lode metals 120 placer 255 prospecting A 68 Caribou, 58° 125° S.E. _._ 18 Carlson, Frank Donald, fatal accident 356 Carmadon, 52° 121° N.W 126 Carnaby, sand and gravel 272 Carnahan, T. D . 393 Carnes Creek, 51° 118° S.E 227 Carpenter Creek, 49° 117° N.E 221 Carr, J. M., Mineralogical Branch A 61 field work :___ A 62 reports by — see lode-metal section (Brenda Lake area and Highland Valley area) Carruthers, R. B 385 Carson, J. W _ 187, 191 Carter, N. C, Mineralogical Branch A 61, A 62 field work A 62 reports by — see lode-metal section (Alice Arm area, Old Fort Mountain area, and Morrison Lake area) INDEX 411 Cascade Molybdenum Mines Ltd., Giant. Gold King, Little Darling, Evening. 49° 117° S.W. : Caskey, R. W Cassiar area Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited dangerous occurrences 362, dividends electrical installations Kutcho Creek Asbestos, 58° 128° S.W. Cassiar Consolidated Mines Ltd., Porter Idaho, 55° 129° N.W Castlegar, sand and gravel Castles, G. R Cat, 49° 120° S.E. Cat claims, 49° 115° S.W., geological and geophysical report _ Cat claims, 49° 119° report CC, 51° 119° S.W. ___ CE, 52° 121° N.W. _ Cedar, 49° 118° S.E. S.W., geophysical 121° 128° N.E., N.W. Cedar Creek, 52 Cedar Creek, 54' Cedar River Cee, 54° 127° N.E. ... cement, Bamberton, 48 Lulu Island, 49° 123 production Central British Columbia Association Page 208 '61 18 259 363 A 45 403 260 41 272 258 187 243 244 144 125 197 placer 256 51 51 86 ... 262 __ 263 123° N.W.... S E .___'. A 21, A 24, A 40 Mine Safety 371 A 54 certificate of central records offices Central Sand and Gravel, achievement Centreville, 59° 129° S.E., placer __ Century Manufacturing Co. Ltd., and gravel sand 373 254 274 373 blasting (suspensions) . . 364 of competency, mine-rescue work 369 certificates, achievement shiftboss . CGQ, 52° 121° N.W. CH. claims, 49° 119° report CHA, 52° 121° N.W. __ Chal, 50° 125° S.E. ____ Champion, Glen Champness, 50° 125° N.E. N.W., geological 367 125 244 125 69 227 55 181 222 372 Chapman, Wood & Griswold Ltd. 17, 136 Charleston, 50° 117° S.E Charter Coals Ltd., trophy Charteris, S. N 65, 93 Chataway Exploration Co. Ltd., CE, CHA, 52° 121° N.W. 125 Chataway, 50° 120° S.W 164 SKI, 49° 120° N.W 168 Cheam Marl Products Limited, marl 270 Cheam Peak, 49° 121° S.W 61 Cheam View, 49° 121° S.W., building stone 262 136 78 148 112 Cheap, 51° 122° S.W Chemainus River area Cherry, 50° 121° N.W Chikamin Mountain, 53° 127° S.E. _ Childress, W. H., instructor, mine-rescue station, Nanaimo A 60 Chilliwack area '61 sand and gravel 273 Chipman (Boulder) Creek, 48° 124° N.E. 78 Page CHO, 55° 125° S.E., N.E 119 Christensen, D. 72 Christian, J. D. 259 Christina Lake Mines Ltd., Ajax, 49° 118° S.E 198 Christmas, Arthur 256 Christy, F. R 137 chromite, note on product A 16 production A 21, A 34 Vandot, 49° 117° S.W. 208 Chuck, 49° 116° N.E 240 Chukar claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Churchill, 50° 126° S.W 73 Churchill, 58° 125° S.E. . 18 Churchill Copper Corporation Ltd., Bird, Caribou, Churchill, Davis, 58° 125° S.E. . 18 Churchill, M. A., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Charlie Lake _.A 65 Churn, 51° 122° S.W _ 137 Cicada Mines Ltd., Triumph, 49° S.W 117° 208 Cimbria, 54° 126° N.W.—see Big Onion CIN, 54° 124° N.E 118 Cindy, 50° 120° N.W 151 Cindy Mines Ltd., Tom, Bety, Happy Day, 49° 115° N.W. _ _ 240 Cinola Mines Ltd., Midnight, 49° S.W. 117° 199 Citation Silver Mines Ltd., Big Pay Off, 49° 116° N.W 217 CL., 50° 120° N.W 153 Clarke, H. G 274 Clarke, W. G., Inspector and Resident Engineer, Prince George A 60 reports by — see lode-metal section, placer section, and industrial-mineral and structural-material section Clary Creek, 55° 129° S.E 48 clay and shale, Abbotsford, 49° 122° S.E 263 Barnet, 49° 122° S.W. 263 Canal Flats, 50° 115° S.W 263 Haney, 49° 122° S.W. 263 Kilgard, 49° 122° S.E 263 Saturna Island, 48° 123° N.E 264 Vancouver, 49° 123° S.E. 263 clay products, production A 21, A 24, A 41 Clayburn-Harbison Ltd., clay and shale ___ 263 dangerous occurrence (Old Fireclay mine) 362 Clayton, R. H 54 Clear Creek, 49° 121° N.W 61 Clearwater Mines Limited, S group, 51' 118° S.E Cleeve, J. L. Clements, B. C. Cleveland, J. E. 228 387 80 154 Cleveland Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd., CM, JAC, MER, TAM, RAF, 50° 121° N.E 154 Clifford (Deer) Lake, 50° 120° S.W 162 Climax Molybdenum (B.C.) Ltd., Glacier Gulch, 54° 127° N.E 86 electrical installations 398 Clinton Mining Division, lode metals 134 placer . 257 prospecting '. A 68 412 INDEX Page Clover Leaf, 49° 121° S.W 276 Clubine, L. R 212 CM, 49° 120° N.W 168 CM, 50° 121° N.E 154 C.N., 50° 120° N.W. 152 coal, accidents, fatal in and around Board of Examiners bumps and outbursts by-product plant coke production ... 380 378 383 383 392 .378, 392 A 44 collieries, men employed 377 production and distribution 376 competition outside British Columbia.. 378 dangerous occurrences 382 diesel locomotives 382 distribution 377 dividends A 45 dust 382 electric power 395 electrical installations 403 electricity 382 employment—see labour and employment examinations 384 expenditure A 46 explosives 379 inspection committees 382 labour and employment A 47, 378 licences and leases A 57 machine-mined 381 methods of computing A 15 millisecond delay detonators 382 notes, on product A 16 on mines 385 output 375 preparation plant 392 price A 20 production, by collieries and by districts 376 review 374 statistics A. 21, A 22, A 24, A 31, A 42, A 43 prosecutions 383 prospect tunnels and exploration 390 revenue to Government A 57 safety lamps 381 samples A 59 tar_._ 392 Coast Copper Company Limited, Old Sport, 50° 127° S.E 66 dangerous occurrence 362 electrical installations 402 Cobalt, 58° 128° S.W 22 cobalt, note on product A 16 production A 21, A 36 Cobble Hill, 48° 123° N.W., limestone.... 269 Cobble Hill quarry 269 certificate of achievement 373 Cochrane, James 385 Code claims, 54° 126° N.E., geochemical report 250 Coffey, J 241 Coin Canyon Mines Ltd., F.C., Leo, Pine, Snow, Tom, 49° 120° N.E 176 Page Coin Explorations Ltd., Brian, 49° 116° N.W. 225 Copper Coin, Silver Coin, 49° 119° S.W. 190 Krao and Lead Coin, 49° 116° N.W... 225 Union, 49° 116° N.W 225 coke—see coal Coldwater River 171, 172 Coleman Collieries Limited 392 collieries—see coal Collins, K. G 133 Collishaw, R 175 Colorado, 49° 117° N.E 218 Colorado, 50° 117° S.E 222 Colossus Copper Co. Ltd., Colossus, 50° 125° N.E 55 Columbia Marble Limited 262 Columbia Metals Corporation Limited, Broadview, True Fissure, 50° 117° N.E. 229 Columbia River Mines Ltd., Ruth Vermont mine, 50° 116° N.W 230 Comet Mining Corporation Ltd. 148 Cominco Ltd., Ace, Deuce, Trey, 53° 127° S.E 112 Bella Coola Chief, 52° 126° N.W 55 Bethsaida, 50° 121° S.E 155 Big Ledge, 50° 118° N.E 218 Big Pay Off, 49° 116° N.W 217 Bluebell, 49° 116° N.W 226 electrical installations 401 John T. Ryan trophy 372 mine-rescue competition 371, 372 Bron, Don, Son, Pang, 56° 131° N.E... 37 dividends A 45 Duncan mine, 50° 116° S.W 225 Edson, 57° 132° N.E 24 Emerald, 53° 127° N.E. 105 Geo, Toad, Darbar, RAF, 54° 124° S.E., N.E 118 Giant, 49° 117° S.W 208 Gibraltar, 52° 122° N.E 124 Gypo, 49° 119° S.W., silica 276 H.B., 49° 117° S.E 213 dangerous occurrence 362 electrical installations 400 trophy 372 Helg, 49° 115° S.W 240 Huber, 54° 126° N.W 102 Ice, 53° 127° S.E 54 Ivy, 49° 125° N.E 71 Joe, 49° 116° N.W. 239 Joker, PR, SQ, 54° 127° S.E 92 Molly Gibson, 49° 117° N.E 209 Old Sport, 50° 127° S.E 66 Pot, I.D.S., 51° 121° S.E 135 power plants 394 St. Eugene, St. Eugene Extension, Aurora, 49° 115° N.W 241 Sullivan mine, 49° 115° N.W 238 dangerous occurrences 362, 364 electrical installations 401 Sunloch and Gabbro, 48° 124° S.E 79 Tot, Rum, 48° 123° N.W 79 Yam, 48° 124° N.E 78 Comox area, coal 385 Comox Mining Company Limited, Tsable River mine, 49° 124° N.W 385 electrical installations 403 INDEX 413 Page condensates/pentanes plus—see oil and gas Conrad Creek 236 Conservation Committee A 65 Consolidated Negus Mines Limited 148 Consolidated Skeena Mines Limited, Echo, Toe, 49° 120° N.E 169 Sonny, Black Knight, 50° 126° S.W 74 Victor, 50° 121° S.E 158 Consolidated Standard Mines Limited, River Jordan, King Fissure, 51° 118° S.E 229 Construction Aggregates Ltd., sand and gravel 274 trophy 373 Contact, 49° 126° S.E 74 contents, gross and net A 15 table of A 5 Continental Consolidated Mines Ltd., A.L., I.C, Ezz, 50° 121° S.E 154 Continental Potash Corporation Limited.. 148 Conwest Exploration Company Limited, CW. 57° 131° S.E. 25 Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod, Ruby, 59° 130° N.E. 17 Cooke, D. L 135 Cooke, Frank 176 Copco, 49° 120° N.E 174 Copeland groups, 51° 118° S.E., geological report 248 Copeland, Mount, 51° 118° S.E 229 Copper, 51° 122° S.W 136 Copper Belle workings, 50° 120° S.W 167 Copper Coin, 49° 119° S.W 190 copper, dividends A 45 price A 20 production A21-A33, A 49 Copper Giant Mining Corporation Limited, Giant, PM, Fish, Copper, Cheap, 51° 122° S.W 136 Copper, H 218 Copper Horn Mining Ltd., Fresnu, 49° 117° S. E 212 Copper Island, 54° 126° N.E 97 Copper King, 50° 124° S.W 56 Copper King claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Copper Mountain, 54° 128° N.W., limestone 267 Copper Mountain Consolidated Limited, Deep Gulch, 49° 120° S.W 178 Lode, 49° 120° N.W 175 Copper Mountain mine, 49° 120° S.W..__ 176 Copper Pass Mines Ltd., Dalvenie, Mac, New Deal, 58° 129° S.W 21 Copper Road, 50° 125° S.E 71 Copper Soo Mining Company Limited, C-Soo, 51° 120° S.W 136 Estella, 49° 115° N.W 241 Copperridge claims, 52° 121° S.E., geophysical report 249 Coquihalla area 171 Coquitlam, Corporation of the District of, sand and gravel 272 Coquitlam gravel pit, certificate of achievement 373 Coranex Limited, Kit, 55° 129° N.E 44 Peach, Fly, Tim, 51° 121° N.E 135 core examination, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 282 17 Page core samples, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 282 Corean, 50° 117° S.E 222 Cork Province mine, 49° 117° N.E 224 Cormie, A. M. 75 Cornish, D. F 57 Cornish, N. G 53 Corrigan, Harry 387 Cosburn, S. S., Senior Petroleum Geologist, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Coulter Creek, 53° 121° S.W., placer.___.__ 255 Courtenay area 71 Cove claims, 50° 127° N.W., N.E., geological and geophysical report 248 Coveney, C. J 62, 95 Cow Mountain, 53° 121° S.W 120 Cowichan Copper Co. Ltd., Sunloch and Gabbro, 48° 124° S.E 79 Cowichan Lake area 78 Cowichan Lake-Port Renfrew area, limestone 269 Coxey, 49 117° S.W 207 electrical installations 399 geology of 200 Coxey-Giant area, geology of 200 Crabb, J. J 390 Craft, S. R 254 Craig, J 274 Craig, R. J., Senior Inspector of Mines, Silicosis Control A60, 365 Craigmont Mines Limited, Craigmont mine, 50° 120° S.W 166 dividends A 45 electrical installations 399 fatal accident 358 mine-rescue competition 371 Cranbrook area 240 Crawford Bay area 217 building-stone 261 Crawford Creek area 227 Crawford, Tom 255 Cream claims, 49° 125° N.W., geophysical report 245 Creek, 51° 119° S.W 145 Creery, L. C 82 Crest Copper Company Limited, Rufus, Ven, 56° 129° S.W 40 Crest Silver Company Limited, Radio, Mayou, Roosevelt, 56° 129° S.W 41 Creston, sand and gravel 272 Cris, 50° 121° S.E 160, 161 Cromie, P. E 42 Cronin, 54° 126° N.W 82 Cronin, James 105 Cronin, Mount, 54° 126° N.W 82 Crooked Lake area 133 Cross River, 50° 115° N.W., magnesite __._ 270 Crown Silver Development Ltd., Iva Lenore, 49 °118° S.W 193 Crown Zellerbach Canada Limited 268 Crownite Diatoms Ltd., diatomite 265 pozzolan 271 Crowpat Minerals Ltd., Sinbad, Lucky Star, 51° 119° N.W 144 Crows Nest Industries Limited 386 coke 378 dividends A 45 electrical installations 403 fatal accidents ... 380 414 INDEX Croydon Mines Ltd., Carmadon, Don, 52° 121° N.W. crude oil—see oil and gas Cry Lake area Cryderman, C. J. Crystalline Creek, 50° 116° N.W. C-Soo, 51° 120° S.W. Cuisson Lake area, geology of. Cummings, W. W. Cumont Mines Limited, Queen, 49° 120° S.E. Curfman, A. Bern, May, Page . 126 . 22 . 118 . 236 136 121 237 176 267 Curmo, 50° 121° S.E.. Curran-Knowles ovens Currie, H. Page 161 392 225 119 25 252 Cyprus Exploration Corporation, Ltd., Cal, 50° 120° S.W 163 Kinskuch, Reina Blanca, King, 55° 129° N.E. 47 Cyzborr, W 261 CV, 55° 125° S.E., N.E. C.W., 57° 131° S.E geophysical report. D D, 49° 119° N.W.. 187 D, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W. 146 DA, 55° 126° S.E 95 DA claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological report 250 D & R Sand and Gravel Ltd 272 Dahlke, K 58 Dak, 55° 129° N.E 47 DAKO claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological report 250 _53, 170 Dale, R. E Dalex Mines Ltd., Mud, Cherry, Rickhill, Rusty, Joyce, Sharon, 50° 121° N.W. ___ 148 Dalhousie Oils Ltd., Bird, Sno, Bud, 57° 130° S.W. 26 Dalvenie, 58° 129° S.W 21 dangerous occurrences, coal mines 382 lode mines, placer mines, and quarries 361 Danielson Contractors Ltd., sand and gravel 273 Darbar, 54° 124° S.E., N.E 118 Davenport, G. H. 138 Davey, William 390 David, 49° 121° S.E., N.E. and 49° 120° S.W. 174 Davis, 58° 125° S.E 18 Davis, C. O _ 254 Davis, D 254 Davis, Gerry 255 Davis, Leroy 17 Davis, Terry Elmer, fatal accident 357 Dawn, 49° 120° N.W 170 Dawn, 50° 119° N.E. 146 Dawson Ridge, 55° 129° S.E 50 Day, 50° 123° N.E 140 Day group, 56° 130° S.E. 40 DB, 49° 120° S.W 175 DDT, 55° 126° S.E 93 Deadman, 49° 117° N.E 221 Deas Lake Mines Ltd., June, Stikine, September, etc., 58° 129° S.W 19 Dease Lake area 18 placer 254 De Briske, L 236 Deeks-McBride Ltd., sand and graveL.272, 274 Coquitlam gravel pit, certificate of achievement 373 Langley gravel pit, achievement certificate of Deep Gulch, 49° 120° S.W. 373 178 Deer Creek, 50° 115° S.W., placer 258 Deer Home Mines Limited, Giselle group, 50° 120° N.W 153 DeLeen, John L. 112 Delkirk Mining Ltd., Red Hill, 50° 121° N.E. 149 Delta Municipality, sand and gravel 274 Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Canada A 75 office _.A 73 Geological Survey of Canada A 75 field work A 75 publications A 75 A 76 A 76 Mineral Resources Division Mines Branch Department of Highways, sand and gravel 272, 273 Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, trophy 386 departmental work A 53 Deuce, 53° 127° S.E 112 geochemical report 249 Devaney, R 125 Devente, R. 161 Devils Club Gulch de Voogd, A. 35, 37 78 D.F., 50° 121° S.E 155 diatomite, Moose Heights, 53° 122° S.W... 265 note on product A 16 production A 21, A 24, A 38 Quesnel, 52° 122° N.W 265 Dick, 49° 117° S.E 213 Dictator, 49° 118° N.E., N.W.—see Waterloo diesel locomotives 382 Diewert, A. 268 Dillard Creek, 49° 120° N.E 176 Directorate, 49° 117° S.E 212 discoveries—see oil and gas Ditto, A. G Divide Copper, 50° 121° S.E. 241 158 Dividend claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 dividends, 1965 and 1966 A 45 paid by category paid yearly Dockrill Syndicate. A 45 A 45 92 Dodge claims, 49° 118° N.E., geophysical report 244 Doe claims, 49° 120° N.W., geophysical report 245 Dollar mine, 49° 119° S.E.—see Ester, Ed Dolly Varden Mines Ltd., Dolly Varden, Wolf, North Star, Toric, 55° 129° N.W. 42 dolomite, Crawford Bay, 49° 116° N.W. 265 Doman Industries Limited, sand and gravel 275 INDEX 415 Page Domineer No. 22, 49° 125° N.E 71 fatal accident 357 Domtar Chemicals Limited (Lime Division), limestone 268 Don, 49° 118°N.E., N.W 191 geochemical report 244 Don, 50° 116° N.W 237 Don, 51° 119° S.W 144 Don, 52° 121° N.W 126 Don, 56° 131° N.E 37 geological report 252 Donald, J. B 226 Donna, 49° 116° N.W 225 Dora, 49° 121° N.E 171 Doratty, Robert 388 Dorian Mines Ltd., LY, Ford, Snow, Dora, 49° 121° N.E 171 Dorland, G. M 67 Dot, 51° 122° S.W 137 Dragon Creek 131 drain tile, production A 24, A 41 drawings, list of A 7 drilling—see oil and gas Drummond, A. D. Dry, 49° 120° S.E Duchess, 54° 127° S.E Duck Creek, sand and gravel. Duck Lake, sand and gravel __. Dufour, Ian Page 118 187 92 272 272 . 392 Dug claims, 54° 128° N.E., geological and geochemical report 250 Dujardin, R. A 159 Duncan Lake area 225 Duncan mine, 50° 116° S.W. 225 Dungate Creek, 54° 126° S.W 103 Dunn, W. St. C 25, 31 Dunwell, 55° 129° N.W 41 Dupuis, Bernard 148 dust, coal 382 dust control 365 Dutfield, G 385 Duval Corporation, Pollyanna, 52° 122° N.E 124 Dvorak, George 66 D.W., 50° 121° N.E 151 E E and L, 56° 130° N.W 31 geological report 251 Eagle, 50° 122° N.E 137 Eagle claims, 49 ° 116 ° N.W., geophysical report 243 Eagle claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Eaglet Group, 52° 120° N.W., fluorite _ 265 Earlcrest Resources Ltd., Mayday, Remo, Brenda, Sue, 52° 122° S.E. 120 East Kootenay Inspection District 386 East Kootenay Mine Rescue Competition 371 Eastwood, G. E. P., Mineralogical Branch A 61 field work reports by—see lode-metal section Bea, 49° 121° S.E. ..A 62 60 Geology of the Coxey-Giant area 200 Hope-Summit, 49° 120° S.W 178 Midnight, 49° 117° S.W 199 Pride of Emory, 49° 121° S.W 58 Eberts, Henry 388, 389, 390 Echo, 49° 120° N.E 169 Eclipse, 49° 119° S.W 190 Ecstall, 53° 129° N.W 54 Ecstall River area 54 Ed, 49° 119° S.E 191 Eden, 50° 120° N.W 153 geochemical report 246 Edson, 57° 132° N.E 24 EE, 50° 123° N.E 140 Eggs, 51° 123° S.W 135 Eholt, 49° 118° S.W., geological report __ 244 Eilers, Walter 48 E. L„ 49° 115° S.W 241 electric power, coal mines 395 lode-metal mines 394 structural-material and industrial-mineral mines and quarries 395 well-drilling rigs 394 electrical installations, coal mines 403 lode mines 396 structural-material and industrial-mineral mines and quarries 403 electricity, coal mines 382 A 60 Elias, S., Inspector, Silicosis Control. Elk claims, 49° 120° S.W., geophysical report 245 Elk claims, 50° 123° S.E., geophysical and geochemical report 248 Ell, 54° 128° S.E 52 geological, geochemical, and geophysical report 250 Elliott, Walter 254 Ellis, E 393 ELM claims, 54° report 128° S.E., geological 250 Elmoore, 51° 119° S.W 145 Elmstead, Axel 83 ELN group, 49° 120° N.E., geophysical reports 245 Elsmore, A 221 Elwell, J. P.. Emel, R. ..55, 144 213 Emerald Glacier Mines Ltd., Emerald, 53° 127° N.E 105 electrical installations 398 Emery, C. L 158 Empire, 49° 115° S.E 242 Empire Development Company Limited, Kinman, Alpha, 50° 126° S.W 68 Merry Widow, Kingfisher, 50° 127° S.E. 66 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 402 N.C., 49° 126° N.E 68 Old Sport, 50° 127° S.E 67 Empire Mercury Corporation Ltd., Empire Mercury mine, 51° 122° S.W 138 employment, coal mines A 47, 378 mineral industry A 47 lode-metal mines A 48 EN, 52° 120° S.W 132 Enco, 53° 124° N.W 118 End, 54° 125° S.E 118 geochemical report 250 Endako area 117 416 INDEX Page Endako Mines Ltd., Endako mine, 54° 125° S.E 117 electrical installations 398 Endersby, A. 213 Enterprise Creek area 220 Enterprise mine, 49° 117° N.E 220 E. R. Taylor Construction Co. Ltd., sand and gravel 272 Erickson Creek, 56° 129° S.W 40 Erie Creek area 212 sand and gravel 272 Erskine, M 119 Estella Mines Limited, Estella, 49° 115° N.W. 241 electrical installations 401 Ester, 49° 119° S.E 191 Estey Agencies Ltd., Old Nick, 49° 119° S.E. 192 Esther claims, 50° 120° S.E., geophyscial report 247 Ethel, 50° 117° N.W 230 Page Eureka, 48° 124° N.W 77 Eureka Mountain, 52° 120° S.W 133 Eutsuk Lake area 112 Eve Group, 50° 120° S.W., geochemical report ~ 246 Evening, 49° 117° S.W 208 Evening, 54° 127° S.E 92 Ewanchuk, H. G 152 examinations, for assayers A 60 for coal-mine officials A 61, 383 for shiftbosses A 61, 367 Exchange, 49° 118° S.E 196 expenditure, principal items A 46 exploration, Michel Colliery 390 oil and gas 282, 297, 299 explosives 364 coal mines 380 Extension, 54° 126° N.W 82 Eye, 50° 121° S.E 160 Ezra, 50° 120 N.W 153 Ezz, 50° 121° S.E 154 Fahrni, K. C 120, 176 Faider, S. D 60 Fairborn Mines Ltd., placer 257 Fairey & Company Limited, clay and shale 263 diatomite 265 Fairey, L. T 263, 265 Fairless Creek, 51° 122° S.W., placer 257 Faith, 49° 116° N.E 240 Falcon, 49° 118° S.W., geological and geochemical report __ 244 Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited, Big Missouri, 56° 130° S.E 40 Eggs, 51° 123° S.W 135 Hiller, Churchill. 50° 126° S.W. 73 Lake, 50° 127° N.W 65 Mo, 51° 120° N.E 143 Moly, Tofino, Tofino Nickle, 49° 125° S.W 74 Off, Raid, DDT, 55° 126° S.E 93 Ormond, Contact, 49° 126° S.E 74 St. Eugene, St. Eugene Extension, Aurora, 49° 115° N.W 241 Tasu, 52° 132° N.E 52 Turn, Pyrrhotite, Cobalt, 58° 128° S.W. 22 Falkins, R. W 97, 158 Far, 54° 126° S.W 103 Far East Minerals Ltd., FE, HIL, 50°, 116° N.W., 50° 117° N.E., and 51° 117° S.E. 236 fatal accidents—see accidents Faulkner, Earl 254 Fault Creek, 50° 126° S.W 73 Fawley, A. P 48, 80 F.C., 49° 120° N.E 176 FE, 50° 116° N.W., 50° 117° N.E., and 51° 117° S.E 236 Fennell Creek, 51° 119° S.W 145 Fento Mines Ltd., Lucky John, Exchange, 49° 118° S.E 196 Fern mine, 49° 117° S.E 210 Fernie Coal Mines Limited 392 FF, 51° 121° N.E 135 Fid, 48° 124° N.W 77 Fiddler Creek area 80 Fidelity Mining Investments Limited, Ann, 52° 122° S.E 121 Fiedler, Ed . 275 field condensate—see oil and gas field office, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 281 field work, Mineralogical Branch A 62 Geological Survey of Canada A 75 Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 281 Field, W. E. 138 Filardeau, R. 168 Fillion, Jack 254 Findlay Creek, 50° 115° S.W., placer___. 258 Fir, 50° 121° S.E. 161 geological and geophysical report 247 Fireclay adit, 49° 122° S.E. 263 dangerous occurrence 362 first aid 368 Fish, 51° 122° S.W 136 Fitz Hugh Sound, 51° 127° N.W., limestone 268 Fitzsimmons Creek, 50° 122° S.W. 57 Five Star Petroleum & Mines Ltd., Blue Jay, Mac, Ray, Star, Zero, 53° 130° N.E. 52 F.L., 50° 126° S.W 72 electrical installations 402 Flat, 58° 129° S.E. 20 Flathead, 49° 114° S.W., phosphate 271 Flats, 50° 128° N.E. 65 Fleurmont Placer Development Ltd. 255 Flodstrom, S 190 Florence, 51° 122° S.W 138 Flores Island area 74 Floyd, 50° 117° S.E 223 fluorite, Oliver Silica Quarry, 49° 119° S.W. 266 Quesnel Lake, 52° 120° N.W. 265 Whiteman Creek, 50° 119° S.E 265 Fluorspar Minerals Company Ltd. 265 fluorspar, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 38 fluxes, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 38 Fly, 51° 121° N.E. 135 FM, 54° 128° N.E 80 FNO, 49° 118° S.E 197 Fog, 55° 127° N.E. 81 INDEX 417 Page Fog, 58° 129° S.W 21 Foote, Darrell 105 Foran, E. 40 Ford, 49° 121° N.E. 171 Foreshaw, J. 193 Forest Kerr Mines Ltd., Kinskuch, Reina Blanca, King, 55° 129° N.E. 47 Forster, George 220 Forster, H. H 265 Fort Langley Aggregates, sand and gravel 274 Fort Reliance Minerals Limited, Pinta, Copco, May, 49° 120° N.E 174 Fort St. James area 118 Fort Steele Mining Division, lode metals 238 placer 257 Foster, D. R. 153, 154 Foster, W. F. 262 Fourth of July Creek, 59° 133° N.W 17 Fox, G. D. 212 Fox, P. 126 Frac, 58° 129° S.W. 21 Francois Lake, 54° 125° S.E 117 Frank Merriam & Sons, sand and gravel 272 Frankie. 55° 125° S.E., N.E. 119 Fraser River, placer 257 Fraser Valley Lime Supplies 267 Fred, 56° 126° S.E 82 geological report 251 Fredricks, Werner, fatal accident 359 Freer Creek, 59° 130° N.E. 17 French, 55° 126° S.W. 92 French, K. C. 266 Page Frese, James L. 257 Fresner, 49° 117° S.E. 211 Friday Creek Development Co. Ltd., Whip, M.J., Axe, Ski, 49° 120° S.W. 177 Fried, L. .__ 221 Friendly Lake, 51° 120° N.E. 143 Friendly Lake No. 1 claims, 51° 120° N.E., geochemical report 248 Friendly Lake No. 2 claims, 51° 120° N.E., geochemical reports 249 Friendly Lake No. 3 claims, 51° 120° N.E., geochemical report 249 Friendly Lake No. 4 claims, 51° 120° N.E., geochemical reports 249 Friendly Lake No. 5 claims, 51° 120° N.E., geochemical report 249 Friendship, 49° 122° N.E 63 FRM, 49° 120° N.W., geological and geophysical reports 245 Frontier Exploration Limited, Bell, Van, 54° 126° S.W 104 Bill, PB, 55° 127° S.W 81 Moonlight, 56° 129° S.W 41 Frost, 55° 127° N.E 81 Fryters, M 221 fuel—see coal and oil and gas Fuller, Clarence 120 Fulton, H. B., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Fyles, James T. A 61 field work A 62 reports by—see lode-metal section Gabbro, 48° 124° S.E.. Gail, 50° 120° S.W..... Galaxy Copper Ltd. Gale, R. E. Galena Farm, 49° 117° N.E.. Galloway area Galore Creek area Gamsby River area . 79 167 148 124 221 242 25 54 Garnet, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W 146 Garnet, 52° 132° N.E 53 Garnett groups, 54° 125° S.E., geochemical report 250 Garraway, A. J. 393 Garraway mine, 53° 121° N.W 393 Gary, 50° 120° S.E 168 gas—see oil and gas gasfields—see oil and gas Gatenby, L. B Gav, 57° 130° S.W Gavelin, A. D. Gaven, G. H. 161 26 165 145 Gay claims, 59° 120° N.W., geophysical report 245 Gay group, 52° 121° N.W. and 52° 122° N.E 131 Gayfer, E. R 97 GC (Galore Creek), 57° 131° S.E _. 25 Gem, 50° 120° S.W 159 Gem, 50° 121° S.E 161 Gem claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Gem Explorations Limited, Meg, Bailey, Sash, 49 ° 121° N.W 61 Gene, 50° 121° S.W 148 General Resources Ltd., Cal, 50° 120° S.W 162 Cris, 50° 121° S.E 160, 161 Lynx, 49° 119° S.E 190 general review, mineral industry A 10 mining and exploration 13 Geo, 54° 124° S.E., N.E 118 GeoCal Limited 92 geochemical reports (assessment), list of 243 Geofax Surveys Ltd. 60 geological laboratories, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 282 geological reports (assessment), list of 243 geological section, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 281 geophysical reports (assessment), list of _ 243 George, 51° 119° S.W 144 George, Ralph E 273 Germansen River, placer 255 Gerry, 54° 126° S.W 103 Gething, L. 393 Giant, 49° 117° S.W 208 geology of 200 Giant, 51° 122° S.W 136 Giant-Coxey area, geology of 200 Giant Explorations Limited, Hope-Summit, 49° 120° S.W 178 HPH, 50° 127° N.W 63 Penn, 54° 126° N.E. 97 Polley, Red Rock, Bee, Herb, 52° 121° N.W 125 418 INDEX Page Giant Mascot Mines Limited, barite 261 dividends A 45 Estella, 49° 115° N.W 242 Lead Mountain, 50° 116° N.W 237 Pride of Emory, 49° 121° S.W 58 Giant Metallics Mines Limited, Garnet, D, S, Pat, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W 146 Giant Soo Mines Limited, Estella, 49° 115° N.W 241 electrical installations 401 Gibbons Creek 132 Gibraltar Mines Ltd., Gibraltar, 52° 122° N.E 123 Gibsons Building Supply, sand and gravel 275 Gifford, R. G 71, 240, 241 Giggey, C L. M 51 Gilbart, K. C.J Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Gilley Quarry, building-stone 262 certificate of achievement 373 Gilliard, C. A 230 Gilroy, John 210 Gilt Edge, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical report 243 Girou, Roger 387 Giselle group, 50° 120° N.W 153 Glacier Creek, 50° 116° S.W 225 Glacier Gulch, 54° 127° N.E 86 electrical installations 398 Glassmire, S. H 138 Gleed, Thomas F 386 Glen, 51° 119° S.W 144 Glen, 54° 128° N.E 80 Glen Copper Mines Limited, Grizzley, Glen, Snowshoe, Sno, 54° 128° N.E.... 80 Glen Echo Mines Ltd., Gem, Hal, Fir, Curmo, 50° 121° S.E 161 Glenside claims, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 244 Glick, E. A. 47 Gloria, 49° 121° S.W 62 Glover, M. H. A., economist, Conservation Committee A 65 GM, 51° 119° S.W 144 GM group, 52° 122° N.E., geochemical report 249 Gnat Lake, 58° 129° S.W 19 Gnawed Mountain, 50° 120° S.W.____158, 159 Goat, 49° 116° N.W 239 Goat, 56° 129° S.W 40 Goat Creek, 54° 127° N.E 393 Goat River area 217 placer 257 sand and gravel 272 Goat River Placer, 49° 116° S.W 257 Goathead Creek, 55° 127° N.E 81 Godfrey, F. A. 52 Godfrey, T. J. R 104 Goething, B. 191 gold, dividends A 45 method of computing production A 15 note on product price production .A 17 ..A 20 Gold Belt, 49° 117° S.E. .A.21-A33, A 49 213 Gold Commissioners, list of A 55 office statistics A 56 Gold King, 49° 117° S.W 208 Golden Eagle, 50° 122° N.E.—see Eagle Page Golden Mining Division, lode metals 230 placer 258 Good Friday, 49° 117° S.W 207 Good Luck, 51° 119° S.W ____ 145 Goodwin, William 392 Gordon, 57° 131° N.W 22 geophysical report 252 Gordon, E. 149 Gould retort mill 137, 138 Gower, J. A 105 GR claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological report 250 Grade claims, 54° report 128° S.E., geological Graham Camp, 49° 118° S.E.Graham, Fred . -see Texas 250 254 Graham Island, sand and gravel 272 Granada, 49° 118° S.W.—see Texas Granby Mining Company Limited, The, B.C. mine, 49° 118° S.W 194 Copper Mountain mine, 49° 120° S.W. 176 Phoenix Copper Division, Phoenix mine, 49° 118° S.W 194 electrical installations 400 trophy 373 Silver Cup, 50° 117° N.E 229 Wanda, 53° 122° S.E 120 Grand Forks area 196 Granduc Mines Limited, Granduc, 56° 130° S.E. 38 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 396 fatal accident 358 Granisle Copper Limited, Granisle mine, 54° 126° N.E. 97 dangerous occurrence (mill) 363 electrical installations 397 Granite, 49° 116° N.E 240 Granite, 51° 123° S.E. 134 Granite Mountain-Cuisson Lake area, geology of 121 Grant Hill, sand and gravel 272 granules, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 38 gravel (see sand and gravel table) 272 production A 21, A 24, A 40 Gray Creek, 49° 116° N.W. 217 Great Northern, 50° 117° N.E. 229 Great Northern Petroleums & Mines Ltd., A.L., I.C, 50° 121° S.E 154 Green Gables deposit, 50° 119° S.E., fluorite 266 Greenacres, 49° 116° N.W. 224 Greengold iarie leases, placer 254 Greenlee, B. B. 57 Greenstone Mountain area 148 Greenwood area 193 Greenwood Mining Division, lode metal _ 191 prospecting ._ A 68 Gremac Construction Limited 155 Grey group, 49° report 117° S.W., geophysical 243 Griffin, D. L., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Gritzuk, N 38 Grizzley, 54° 128° N.E 80 Grizzley Gold Mines Ltd 255 Grizzly, 51° 122° S.W 138 Grogan, M. F. 372 Grouse Creek, 53° 121° S.E., placer 255 Grouse Creek Mines Ltd 255 INDEX 419 Grove, E. W field work reports by—see lode-metal section Groves, G. F. grub-stake statistics grub-staking prospectors Guias, 55° 129° S.E. Page ..A 61 _A62 . 71 _A67 _A65 . 51 Guichon Mines Limited, Guichon, 50° 120° S.W 167 Guiguet, Marcel Gulf Drilling Company Grundy, P. F. Page 120 181 385 Gunnex Limited, Mary, 49° 124° S.W. __ 75 Gypo, 49° 119° S.W., silica 276 gypsum and gypsite, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 39 Windermere, 50° 115° S.W 266 H and C, 52° 128° N.E. HAB, 57° 131° S.E Hachey, Len Hachey, P. O Hadgkiss, J. Haering, Richard. Hagerty, A. W. Haggarty, James Haha Creek, 56° 125° S.W. Haimila, N. E., senior assistant Hainsworth, W. G 125, Hal, 50° 121° S.E Hal claims, 50° 120° N.E., geophysical and geological reports Hall Creek area Hall, E. H Hall, L. W. 54 25 162 25 263 240 75 358 119 A 62 158, 170 Hallbauer, R. E. Hallgren, Sven . 49° 161 246 210 138 52 166 222 222 258 223 177 Hamersley, M. B., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Hamilton, Brian 241 Hamm, J. C 124 Hammond, W. P 81 Hampton mine, 49° 117° N.E 219 Haney, 49 ° 122° S.W., clay and shale 263 Haney Brick and Tile Limited, clay and shale 263 Hallmac Mining Syndicate, Altoona, 117° N.E Halvorson, A. C. Hambly, Joe Hamelin, D. F. 257, Hansen, Lome Happy Day, 49° 115° N.W. Hard Cash, 50° 122° S.W. _ Harper, 51° 119° S.W Harper Creek, 51° 119° S.W. _.. Harper Ranch Quarry, 50° 120° Harris, Doug Harrison, C. V Harrison Lake area Hartland, C N.E. Hartt-Caldwell interests Harvey, W. E.. Haste Mine Development Ltd.. Hatch, H. B Haut, 55° 126° S.E Haven Lake, 53° 127° S.E Hazel claims, 50° 126° S.W., geological and geophysical report Hazelton area H.B., 49° 117° S.E dangerous occurrence electrical installations trophy 74, 75 _ 240 _ 57 ... 145 ___ 144 ... 267 _ 256 _ 112 _ 61 _ 224 ... 69 _ 276 181 159 95 112 .38, H. Cohen Engineering Ltd., BO, 50° S.W. 120° 248 81 213 362 400 372 161 geophysical report 245 S.E 99 220 356 Head, 49° 120° N.E., Hearne Hill, 55° 126° Hecla, 49° 117° N.E fatal accident Hedley, M. S., Chief of the Mineralogical Branch A 2, A 61, A 62 review of the mineral industry A 10 Heim, R. C 77, 158, 184 Helg, 49° 115° S.W 240 geological, geophysical, and geochemical report Helicon Explorations Limited, Bol, 55° 125° S.W EN, 52° 120° S.W GI, 52° 121° S.E. and 52° 120° S.W. __ Mac, S.F., 52° 120° N.W Sue, 52° 120° S.W Wood, 52° 121° S.E Hellroaring Creek, 49° 116 N.E.. Hellroaring Silver Lead Ltd., Warhorse, Granite, 49° 116° N.E Hemsworth, F. J 153, 154, Hendricks, R. Hep, 50° 127° N.W Herb, 52° 121° N.W Herman, Louis 243 119 133 132 131 132 132 240 240 168 238 64 125 61 256 220 175 30 26 83 207 191 160 152 118 Highland Sand and Gravel Division 274 certificate of achievement 373 Highland Valley area 149 150 28 Heron shaft, placer Hewitt, 49° 117° N.E H-G, 49° 120° S.W Hickman batholith Hickman Creek, 57° 130° S.W Higgins Creek, 54° 126° N.W High Ore, 49° 117° S.W. Highland-Bell mine, 49° 119° S.E. Highland Chief Mines Ltd., Merv, Bet, Lee, B.J., 50° 121° S.E. Highland Development Co. Ltd.. 50° 120° N.W . Trojan, Highland Mercury Mines Limited, 54° 124° N.E. CIN, index map Highmont Mining Corporation Ltd., AM, IDE, 50° 121° S.E HIL, 50° 116° N.W., 50° 117° N.E. and 51° 117° S.E Hilchey, G. R. Hill, 51° 122° S.W Hill, Manning & Associates Ltd. . 158 236 236 136 Hiller, 50° 126° S.W. _68, 82, 149, 210, 217 73 Hillroy Mines Ltd., Hillside, 50° 117° S F Winon-^"50°"T_7rS.__."~_Z"ZZ!_!Z Hillside, 50° 117° S.E Hingley, G. 223 223 223 194 420 INDEX Page Hiren groups, 51c report 118° S.E., geological 248 H & M group. 49° 118° S.W., geological and geochemical report 244 Hobbs, A. E 258 Hobbs, A. W., Board of Arbitration A 65 164 41 66 Hodgson, A. G. Hofman, F. S.._ Hogan, J. J. Hogan Mines Ltd., Boom, Frankie, CV, TX, CHO, MG, OVP, JAM, 55° 125° S.E., N.E. 119 Holberg Inlet, 50° 128° N.E 65 Holberg Mines Ltd., Ace, Flats, Kaye, Rick, 50° 128° N.E. 65 Holdfast Pozzolan Limited, clay and shale 264 Holland, F. 58 Holland, James, fatal accident 380 Holland, Stuart S., Senior Geologist, Mineralogical Branch A 61, A 62 general review of mining and exploration 13. Holland, W. B., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Charlie Lake A 65 Homestake Mineral Development Company, Giant, PM, Fish, Copper, Cheap, 51° 122° S.W. Homestake Silver Ltd., Molly Gibson, 49° 117° N.E. Hony claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological, geochemical, and geophysical report.... Hope, 49° 116° N.E Hope, 49° 118° N.E., N.W. geochemical report Hope, 49° 121° N.E Hope, 54° 128° N.W Hope-Summit, 49° 120° S.W. Horn, 58° 129° S.W geophysical and geochemical report— Horn Silver mine, 49° 119° S.W Hornet, 49° 118° S.E. ~. Horsefly area Horsefly Lake area Hotailuh batholith _ 136 208 250 240 191 244 171 51 178 18 252 190 197 132 ____ 132 .19, 21 Houston area Houston Tommy Creek, 54° Howard, D. E. 127' Howden, William Howe Sound area sand and gravel Howson Basin, 54° 127° S.E. HPH, 50° 127° N.W. HSW, 50° 127° N.W. Hub, 54° 128° N.E. .. Page 102 S.E 103 38 54 57 274 92 63 63 80 Hub Mining & Exploration Ltd., Hub, FM, 54° 128° N.E. 80 Huber, 54° 126° N.W 102 geophysical report 250 Hudson Bay Mountain, 54° 127° N.E. __86, 91 Hudson Bay Mountain Silver Mines Ltd., Silver Creek, Silver Lake, Trade Dollar, Iron Vault, 54° 127° N.E 86 Hughes, E. R., Senior Inspector of Mines..A 60 Hughes, Hamilton Cleaver, obituary A 4 Hughes, J. E., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Hughes, Sidney 387 Humbolt, 49° 116° N.W 227 Humphrey, A. G. 65 Humphrey, F. J 124 Hungerford, R. M 263 Hunt, C. Warren 271 Huntec Limited 146 Hunter, J. A 276 Hunter, S. J 92 Hunting Survey Corporation Limited 37 Hurd, G. M 132 Husselbee, William 254 Huts claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Huus, P. K., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Hydra Explorations Limited, Velvet, 49° 117° S.W 199 hydromagnesite, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 38 Hydromex 364 Hyland River, 59° 128° N.E., placer 255 lago, 49° 121° N.E.. 61 lago Mines Ltd., Buller, Bobbs, Eclipse, Kitchener, 49° 119° S.W 190 lago, Mac, Max, Bar, 49° 121° N.E. __._ 61 Ian, 49° 120° N.E 173 geochemical report 245 Ianto claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 I.C, 50° 121° S.E 154 I.C claims, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical report 247 Ice, 53° 127° S.E 54 geological report 249 I.D., 57 130° S.W 26 Ida, 49° 119° N.W 187 IDE, 50° 120° S.W 159 IDE, 50° 121° S.E 158 Ideal Cement Company, limestone 268 electrical installations 403 Ideal Gold & Nickel Mines, Ltd., Bea, 49° 121° S.E 60 I.D.S., 51° 121° S.E 135 IL claims, 50° 121° S.E., geophysical and geochemical report 247 lla, 49° 119° N.W 186 Ilk claims, 49° 120° S.W., geophysical report 245 illustrations, list of A 7 Impad Holdings Ltd., Bea, 49° 121° S.E. 60 Imperial Limestone Company Limited, limestone 268 electrical installations 403 Imperial Metals and Power Ltd., H-G, Iron, BD, DB, 49° 120° S.W 175, 393 Independence group, 49° 120° N.W., geological and geophysical reports 245 Index, 50° 122° N.E 140 indium, note on product A 17 industrial-minerals section 259 dividends A 45 electric power 395 electrical installations 403 prices A 15 production A 21, A 22, A 24, A 38 INDEX 421 Ingersoll Belle, 49° Ingleby, R.. 120° S.W. Page . 177 . 223 . 195 Ingram Creek, 49° 118° S.W Ingram, W. L., Senior Development Engineer, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Inland Natural Gas Co. Ltd 291 A 60 382 Inspection Branch inspection, committees electrical equipment 393 lode mines, placer mines, and quarries 355 Interior Quarries Ltd., Layers group, building-stone International Marble & Stone Company Ltd., building-stone dolomite . _. International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers 261 261 265 372 introduction A 9 Inverarity, W. 140 Invermere, 50° 115° N.W., magnesite 270 Inyo, 49° 119° S.E.—see Ester, Ed Irene, 50° 117° S.E 222 Iris, 51° 122° S.W 138 Iron, 49° 120° S.W 175 Page iron, note on product A 17 production ...A 21, A 24, A 29, A 34, A 49 Iron Bell Fraction, 49° 118° S.E 197 Iron Hat, 50° 122° S.W 57 Iron Hill, 49° 125° N.E 71 Iron Horse, 49° 119° N.W 185 Iron Mike, 50° 125° S.W 68 Iron Mountain area 214 iron oxide, note on product. production Iron River, 49° 125° N.E. ... ..A 17 .A 21, A 38 70 Iron Vault, 54° 127° N.E 86 Iron Wedge Fraction, 50° 122° S.W 57 Irwin, Foster 197 Iskut River area .31, 35 Iskut Silver Mines Limited, Ray, Joann, 56° 131° N.E 34 Island Mountain, 53° 121° S.W 120 Island Mountain Mines Limited, Aurum, 53° 121° S.W 120 Island Readimix Limited, sand and gravel 275 Iva Lenore, 49° 118° S.W 193 Ives, J. S 68, 240 Ivy, 49° 125° N.E 71 Izman Creek, 50° 121° S.W 148 J, 49° 117° S.E J, 49° 121° S.W J & A, 49° 121° N.E. JAC, 50° 121° N.E. .. J &L, 51° 118° S.E. 211 62 171 154 227 electrical installations 401 Jack Cewe Ltd., sand and gravel 272 Jack, James H. 268 Jack Pot, 49° 117° S.E. 212 Jacobie Lake, 52° 121° N.W. 125, 131 Jacques, H. E. 154 jade, production A 21, A 24, A 39 JAM, 55° 125° S.E., N.E. 119 James, A. R. C, Inspector and Resident Engineer, Vancouver ___.A 60, A 61, 384 reports by—see lode-metal section and industrial-mineral and structural-material section James, Howard T. 159, 187 Jarl, 50° 120° S.W. 167 Jay, 49° 121° S.W 62 J.B., 50° 122° N.E 137 J.C, 50° 122° N.E 137 Jedway Iron Ore Limited, Jessie, Adonis, Rose, 52° 131° S.W. 53 dangerous occurrence 363 electrical installations 397 Jeff, 49° 120° N.E. 184 Jefferson, 54° 127° S.E. 92 Jefferson Lake Petrochemical Co. of Canada Ltd. 354 Jeffery, W. G., Mineralogical Branch A 61 field work A 62 reports by—see lode-metal section, pp. 19-34 Jen, 53° 124° N.W. 118 Jen claims, 54° 126° N.E., geophysical and geochemical report 250 Jenkinson, N. E. 47 Jennings, Robert 210 Jericho Mines Ltd., Jericho, Bob, Gem, Stibbard, Mark, 50° 120° S.W. 159 Jersey, 49° 117° S.E _ dangerous occurrence electrical installations fatal accident Jes, 49° 121° S.W Jessie, 52° 131° S.W dangerous occurrence 214 363 400 357 62 53 363 electrical installations 397 Jessiman, K. 262 Jewel, 49° 116° N.W 224 Jewitt, J. 194 J. Foster Irwin Engineering and Management Services, Limited 52 Jim Kelly Creek, 49° 120° S.W 174 Joan, 49° 121° S.E 60 Joan, 51° 118° S.E 228 Joann, 56° 131° N.E 34 Job, 50° 120° N.W 153 Joe, 49° 116° N.W 239 Joe, 50° 120° S.W. 167 Joe, 52° 120° N.E.—see Joy Joe, 54° 128° N.W 51 Joe, Barriere, 51° 119° S.W 144 Joe, Squaam (Agate) Bay, 51° 119° S.W. 145 Johannessen, Wayne Ake, fatal accident 357 John T. Ryan trophy 372 Johnny, Mount, 56° 131° N.E. 37 Johnsby Mines Limited, Hecla, Mammoth, Standard, 49° 117° N.E. 220 fatal accident 356 prosecutions 364 Johnsen, K. 262 Johnson, C. D. P. 265 Johnson, D. L., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Charlie Lake A 64 Johnson, E. W. 80 Johnson, J. K. 268 Johnston, Don 70 Johnstone, D. N 195 JoJo, 50° 117° S.E 223 Joker, 54° 127° S.E 92 Jones, H. R 17 422 INDEX Page . 217 Jordan, 49° 116° S.W Jordan groups, 51° 118° S.E., geological report 248 Jordan River area 79 Joy, 52° 120° N.E 132 Joy group, 49° report Joy, R. 120° N.E., geophysical 245 212 Page 148 Joyce, 50° 121° N.W July Creek No. 1 group, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical reports 244 Jumbo, 49° 117° S.W 207 Jumbo Creek, 50° 116° S.E 237 June, 49° 120° N.E 169 June, 58° 129° S.W 19 June Bug, 49° 120° S.E 177 Jury, Rae G 104, 144 K K, 54° 124° S.E., N.E. K, 54° 125° S.E Kaehlert, B. 118 118 136 Kalco Valley Mines Ltd., Whip, M.J., Axe, Ski, 49° 120° S.W 177 Kam claims, 55° 126° S.E., geophysical and geochemical report 251 Kamalta Exploration Limited, UNF, 49° 116° N.W 217 Kam-Kotia Mines Limited, Silmonac, 49° 117° N.E 222 Victor, 49° 117° N.E 222 Kamloops area 148 limestone 267 Kamloops Copper Consolidated Ltd 148 Kamloops Mining Diivsion 143 Kamloops Pulp and Paper Company 267 Kamm, C. C 49 Kamstar Mines Ltd., Leemac, Boomae, 51° 119° S.W 145 Kane, 49° 120° N.W., geophysical report 245 Kane Creek, 50° 117° S.E 223 Kangas, F 169, 171 Kaslo Creek, 50° 117° S.W 224 KAT group, 50° 117° S.E., geophysical report 246 Kate claims, 52° 121° N.W., geochemical report 249 Kathy, 48° 124° N.W 77 Katie A, B, C, 54° 127° N.W 91 Kay, 55° 129° S.E 51 Kaye, 50° 128° N.E 65 Kaza groups, 56° 126° S.E., geological report 251 Keen Creek area 224 Keevil Mining Group Limited, Gibraltar, 52° 122° N.E 123 Pollyanna, 52° 122° N.E 124 Keith, 50° 120° S.W 167 geophysical report 246 Keithley Creek, 52° 121° N.E., placer ..... 256 Kel-Glen Mines Ltd., Marn, Vise, Cam, Rob, Bob, 49° 120° N.E 173 Kelly, Jack 220 Kelly, Mr 256 Kelly, S. F 146, 165 Kelso Explorations Ltd., Bea, 49° 121° S.E 60 Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited, BHA, 51° 125° S.E 55 Berg, 53° 127° N.E 105 French, 55° 126° S.W 92 Gordon, 57° 131° N.W 22 Lornex, 50° 121° S.E 155 Motase A, 56° 127° S.E 81 Motase B, 56° 126° S.W 81 Pondosy, 53° 126° S.W 116 Kennco Explorations, (Western) Limited— continued Slide, 56° 125° S.W 119 THM, 55° 129° N.E 44 Kennecott Copper Corporation, Joker, PR, SQ, 54° 127° S.E 92 Kennedy Lake area . 75 Kennedy Mountain, 49° 120° S.W 177 Kennedy, P 80 Kent, Corporation of the District of, sand and gravel 273 Keremeos area 190 Kermeen, J. S 194 Kerr-Addison Gold Mines Limited, Bee, 55° 126° S.E 102 Bird, Sno, Bud, 57° 130° S.W 26 E and L, 56 ° 130 ° N.W 31 Kettle River area 193 Ketza claims, 54° 126° N.E., geophysical and geochemical reports 250 Key, 52° 121° N.W 125 Key, 59° 130° N.E 17 Keystone, 50° 117° S.E 222 Keystone group, 49° 121° N.E.—see Hope Keystone Mining Company Limited, Silver Bow, MCC, 55° 129° S.E 49 KH, 51° 123° S.E 134 Kikuchi, Toru 126 Kilgard, 49° 122° S.E., clay and shale 263 Killoran, H. P 160 Kim, 51° 122° S.W 137 Kimaclo Mines Limited, Gibraltar, 52° 122° N.E 123 Kimberley area 238 Kindrat Mines Ltd., Cronin, 54° 126° N.W. 82 Kindrat, Paul 82 King, 49° 121° N.E 171 King, 49° 121° S.E 59 King, 55° 129° N.E 47 King Fissure, 51° 118° S.E 229 King Gething mine, 56° 122° S.E 393 King Resources Company, Joan, 51° 118° S.E 228 Stan, 49° 118° S.W 195 King Solomon, 49° 119° N.E., geological report 244 Kingfisher, 50° 127° S.E 66 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 402 Kingfisher claims, 49° 118° N.E., geophysical report 244 Kingston, 50° 117° S.E. 222 Kinman, 50° 126° S.W. 68 Kinman Copper group—see Kinman Kinman Creek, 50° 126° S.W 68 Kinney, L. M. 215, 239 INDEX 423 Page Kinskuch, 55° 129° N.E 47 geological and geophysical report 251 Kinskuch Lake, 55° 129° N.E 47 Kirk, T 117 Kirkham, R. V., Mineralogical Branch A 61, A 62 field work A 63 reports by—see lode-metal section, pp. 86-90 Kirkpatrick Sand and Gravel Ltd., sand and gravel 273 Kirkpatrick, W. S. 238 Kirsch Silver Mines Ltd., Anna, 49° 117° N.E. 219 Myrtle, 49° 117° N.E. 219 Ottawa, 49° 117° N.E. 218, 219 Kisgegas Peak, 55° 127° N.E 81 KIT, 55° 129° N.E 44 Kitchener, 49° 119° S.W 190 Kitimat, sand and gravel 272 Kitimat Concrete Products (1961) Ltd., sand and gravel 272 Kitimat fire department 372 Kitimat River area 52 Kitimat River MoS2 Property, 54° 128° S.E., geological, geochemical, and geophysical report 250 Kitsault (Clearwater) Lake, 55° 129° N.E. 44 Kitsault River valley 42 Kitsul Bros. Gravel Sales Ltd. 274 Kiwi, 56° 126° S.E 82 Klassen Construction Ltd. 181 Klein, G Klondike, 54° 126° S.W Kloopman brothers, placer Kludash, W. Page 371 103 256 258 KM claims, 51° 117° S.E., geological report 248 Knaebel, J. B 57 Kniert, Kenneth 387 Knight Gravel Limited Knight Inlet area _272, 274 55 Knob claims, 54° 128° S.W., geophysical Knight, D. A 214 report 250 Koeye Limestone (1962) Ltd. 268 Koeye River, 51° 127° N.W., limestone 268 Kokanee Creek, 49° 117° N.E. 209 Kokomo Fraction, 49° 119° S.E 191 Komo Explorations Ltd. 173 Wilson, Ian, McK, 49° 120° N.E 173 Kon, 59° 129° S.W 18 Kootenay Lake, 49° 116° N.W 226 Kopr, 49° 119* S.W 188 Kotush, P. 257 K.R., 49° 120° N.W 175 Krain, 50° 121° N.E. 151 Krainec, Adam O. 39 Krall, Thomas 388 225 154 387 Krao, 49° 116° N.W. Krause, Henry Kusnir, Paul Kutcho Creek Asbestos, 58° 128° S.W..... 260 Kutcho Creek Asbestos Company Limited 260 Kwanika Creek area 119 L. & W. Swanson Limited, gravel sand and 275 labour—see employment Labrador Mining and Exploration Co. Ltd. 148 Lac la Hache area 135 Lady of the Lake, 49° 118° S.W., geological and geochemical report 244 Lafarge Cement of North America Ltd., cement 263 Beale Quarries Division, limestone 268 trophy 373 La Fleur, Paul 145 Lahee system, Petroleum and Natural Gas 281 Lahman, L. 118 Lake, 49° 124° N.W 72 Lake, 50° 121° S.E 159 geophysical report 247 Lake, 50° 127° N.W 65 Lake group, 50° 125° S.E., geochemical report 248 Laken, 50° 121° S.E 159 geophysical report 247 Lakeview, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Lakeview, 50° 119° N.E 146 Lakeview, 54° 126° N.W 102 Lamac Construction Ltd. 357 Lamb, John 68 Lammle, C. A. R 30, 170 lamps, safety 381 Lancaster, George 391, 392 land disposition—see oil and gas Lane, T 224 Lang, Ernest 256 Lang, J. B. C 77 Langley, Corporation of the Township of, sand and gravel 274 Langley gravel pit, certificate of achievement 373 Lardeau area 229 La Reine, 49° 120° S.W 177 Lark, 50° 125° S.W 70 Larson, E. 22 Larson, Eric 254 Lasser Trucking Co., sand and gravel 272 Last Chance, 49° 117° S.E 212 Lauer, R. M 238 Lavender Peak, 55° 129° N.E 47 Law, 50° 120° S.W 166 Lawless Creek Mines Ltd., B & R, Dawn, 49° 120° N.W 170 Lawrence, S. J. 385 Layers group, 52° 122° S.E., building- stone 261 Lazenby, H. S 143 Leach, Warren 386 Lead claims, 49° 115° N.W., geological report 243 Lead Coin, 49° 116° N.W 225 lead, dividends A 45 note on product A 17 price A 20 production A 21-A 33, A 49 Lead Mountain, 50° 116° N.W 237 Lead Queen group, 50° 116° N.W., geological report 246 Leadville, 49° 116° S.E 217 424 INDEX Page . 192 . 61 . 38 . 165 . 160 Leary, George Le Brun, G Leduc River Lee, 50° 120° S.W Lee, 50° 121° S.E . Lee, G. J., instructor, mine-rescue station, Nelson A 60 Leemac, 51° 119° S.W 145 geophysical report 248 Lees, E. J 173 Legate Creek area 80 Legault, D 371, 385 Lehman, Frank 56 Lela, 49° 120° S.W 178 Len, 49° 121° S.E 59 Len, 50° 120° S.W 166 Len claims, 54° 126° N.W., geophysical report 250 Leo, 49° 120° N.E 176 Leontowicz, P 221 Lepp Trucking, sand and gravel 273 Le Roi, 49° 124° N.W 72 Les, 58° 129° S.W 18 Lessard, P. 191 Let, 58° 129° S.E 21 Letain Asbestos Prospect 260 Letain Lake, 58° 128° S.W 260 Lewicki, Stanley 257 Lewis, Glyn 385 Lewis No. 2 mine (Timberlands), 49° 123° S.W 385 Liard Copper Mines Ltd., Bird, Sno, Bud, 57° 130° S.W 26 Liard Mining Division, lode metals 17 placer 254 prospecting A 69 Lightning Creek, 53° 122° S.E., placer ____ 255 Lightning Peak area 191 Likely area 125 Lillooet Mercury Mines Ltd., Eagle, 50° 122° N.E 137 Lillooet Mining Division, lode metals 136 placer 257 prospecting A 69 lime and limestone, production I A 21, A 24, A 40 Lime Creek, 50° 126° S.W 73 Lime Creek, 55° 129° S.E 49, 50 Limecap claims, 52° 121° S.E., geophysical report 249 limestone (see also lime and limestone), Blubber Bay, 49° 124° N.W 268 Cobble Hill, 48° 123° N.W 269 Cowichan Lake-Port Renfrew area, 48° 124° N.W 269 Kamloops, 50° 120° N.E 267 Koeye River, 51° 127° N.W 268 Popkum, 49° 121° S.W 267 Terrace, 54° 128° N.W 267 Vananda, 49° 124° N.W 268 Limpoke Creek, 57° 131° N.W. 22 placer 255 Lin, 58° 129° S.W 21 Lincoln Enterprises Limited, placer 255 Lind, C 224 Linda, 49° 116° N.W 225 Lineham, J. D., Chief, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 2, A 64 Linton, B 21 Lintons Gravel Sales Ltd., sand and gravel 274 Page Lion claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 liquid by-products—see oil and gas Lisbon Creek, 49° 115° N.W., placer 258 Liss, T. P 152 Little Annie claims, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 244 Little Bertha, 49° 118° S.E. 197 Little Brown claims, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 244 Little Darling, 49° 117° S.W. 208 Little Fort area 143 Little Lake Creek, 52° 121° N.W., placer 256 Littler, Albert 390 Liz, 52° 121° N.W 125 Liza claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological, geochemical, and geophysical report 250 L.L., 50° 124° S.W 56 Lo, 50° 120° S.W 165 Lode, 49° 120° N.W 175 lode-metals section 17 dangerous occurrences 361 dividends A 45 electrical installations 396 electric power 394 employment , A 47, A 48 fatal accidents 355 inspection 355 method of computing production A 15 note on products A 16 power plants 394 price A 20 production A 21-A 37 review, 1966 A 49 lode metals 13 mineral industry A 10 Lodestar Mines Ltd., X, D, 49° 119° N.W. 187 Lodestone Mountain 393 Lodgepole Creek, 49° 114° S.W., phosphate 271 Lohn, Neville 163 Lois, 49° 118° S.W.. geophysical report 243 London, 50° 122° S.W 57 London Pride Silver Mines Ltd., Cork Province mine, 49° 117° N.E. 224 London Rido-e, 50° 117° S.E 223 Lone Cone No. 13 (Meares). 49° 125° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 245 Lone Star, 49° 118° S.E. 197 Lorentzen. E. 138 Lorimer. M. K. .... 217 Lorna, 49° 120° N.W 169 Lorna c'aims, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical report 247 Lome cla;ms. 54° 125° S.E.. geological, geophysical, and geochemical report . 250 Lornex Mining Corporation Ltd., AM, IDE. 50° 120° S.W 159 Lornex, 50° 121° S.E. 155 Lorntzsen, Egil H. 24, 155 Lorraine. 54° 126° N.W. 83 L'Orsa, A. 83 Lotze, Kelly 219 Lou, 50° 125° N.E. 55 Louden, J. R. 83 Loudon No. 6 mine, 49° 124° S.E 385 Louis Salvador & Sons, sand and gravel 272 Lovlin, R. N. 57 INDEX 425 Page Low claims, 49° 120° N.W., geological and geophysical report 245 Lucky John, 49° 118° S.E. ... .. 196 Lucky Ship, 54° 127° Lucky Star, 51° 119° Lulu Island, 49° 123° Luttin, John Lux, 50° 120° N.W. geophysical report . LY, 49° 121° N.E. _ Lybdenum, 54° 126° S.E. 104 N.W. 144 S.E., cement 263 195 151 246 171 103 S.W. Lygvard, Egil 190, 192, 193 Page Lyla claims, 49° report 119° N.W., geological Lyle Creek, 50° 117° S.E. Lynda, 54° 128° N.E 244 ... 224 80 geological and geochemical report 251 Lynn claims, 49° 115° N.W., geological report Lynx, 49° 125° N.W. Lynx, 49° 119° S.E. electrical installations ._ Lytton area Lytton Minerals Limited, June, Stikine, September, 58° 129° S.W Moss, 58° 129° S.W 243 77 190 402 148 19 19 Mc and Mac McAllister, 50° 117° McAndrew, J. M. McArthur, J. K. S.E.. ....... 223 .56, 135 . 274 McArthur, W. E., Jr 195 McAskill, J. A 61 McAusland, J. A. 25 McCammon, J. W., Mineralogical Br- nch A 61, A 62 field work A 63 reports by—see industrial-mineral and structural-material section Mt. Cheam No. 2, 49° 121° S.W. _. Macauley, T. N. McClelland, T. H McClennan, Mount McConnell Range area _ 61 .. 178 ._ 117 .. 144 ._ 82 McCrimmon, R. H., Chief Gold Commissioner A 2, A 54 McDame Creek, 59° 129° S.E., placer 254 McDame, Mount, 59° 129° S.W., asbestos 259 McDearmid, J. M. McDiarmid, N. H. MacDonald, D. H MacDonald, Francis J. McDonald Island MacDonald Lake, 49° MacDonald, O. G. .... 120° N.E. 215 175 184 262 97 181 . 79 Macdonald, R. C 18, 57, 63, 212 McDougall, A. J 97 McDougall, J. J 22, 65, 135 McGauley Ready-Mix Concrete Company, sand and gravel 272 McGinnis, L. 53 McGrath Mountain, 55° 129° N.E 48 McGuire, Andy 256 McGuire, Mount, 55° 129° N.E 44-46 Mcintosh Sand and Gravel Limited 272 Mclntyre Porcupine Mines Limited, Bird, Sno, Bud, 57° 130° S.W E and L, 56° 130° N.W Ron, 49° 120° N.E McK, 49° 120° N.E. geochemical report McKamey, R. 26 31 175 173 249 18 McKechnie, N. D., Mineralogical Branch A 61, A 65 field work A 63 reports by—see lode-metal section McKee Creek, 59° 133° S.W., placer . 254 McKellor, Roy 258 McKelvie, D. L 60 McKnight, B. K 160, 164 McLeese Lake area 120 McLeod Nos. 5 and 6, 50° 120° S.W.— see Craigmont mine McLeod, R. R., Deputy Chief, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch and Senior Reservoir Engineer A 64, A 65 MacLeod, W. McLoughlin, W. C. McMahon, Jim McMahon, T. McMartin Explorations Ltd., McMichael, R. R. MacMillan, H. R McMullin, Bentley M. McMurdo Creek McNiel, Charles placer 221 185 211 145 256 213 81 17 236 120 ..49, 77, 79 McNulty, James M. McPhar Geophysics Limited . 51, 158, 163, 181, 185 McPherson, William 260, 263 Macrae, Roderick 41 McRae, D. G 61, 120, 255 MacRitchie, N. D. 262 McVeigh, Frank 387 M M. 54° 124° S.E.. N.E. ..... 118 M & K, 54° 128° N.E.—see Hub M & M, 54° 128° N.E.—see Hub M & W Sand and Gravel Ltd Ma. 53° 121° S.W 274 120 Mac, 49° 119° N.W. 184 Mac, 49° 121° N.E ..... 61 Mac, 53° 130° N.E. ... ..... 52 Mac, 55° 129° N.E --_ 47 Mac. 58° 129° S.W. ... 21 Madsen Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd., Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias, 55° 129° S.E. Mae, 52° 120° N.W Maeford Lake, 52° 120° N.W Mag, 49° 121° N.E Magee, J. B. magnesite. Invermere, 50° note on product production 115° N.W... 51 131 131 172 104 270 A 17 ..A 21, A 34 426 INDEX Page magnesium sulphate, note on product .....A 217 production A 21, A 38 Magnet Explorations Ltd., June, 49° 120° N.E. Magnetic, 49° 120° S.W. 169 178 Mainland Clay Products Limited, clay and shale 263 Mairs, W. T 267 Mak Siccar, 49° 119° S.W. 190 Makaoo Development Company Limited 148 Mai, 48° 124° N.W 78 Malcolm, D. C. 218 Mammoth, 49° 117° N.E 220 manganese, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 34 Mann, E. L. 260 Manning, L. J. 68 Manning Park, 49° 120° S.W 178 Manson Creek, 55° 124° N.W. 255 Manx claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Maori, 56° 126° S.E. 82 maps, air-borne magnetometer A 63 showing mineral claims, placer claims, and placer-mining leases A 73 topographic : A 74 Maple Ridge, Corporation of the District of, sand and gravel 272 Mar claims, 54° 124° S.E., geochemical report 249 Marasek, Henry 219 Marb claims, 50° 121° S.E., geological report 247 Marchand Creek, 48° 124° N.W. 78 Marg, 56° 126° S.E. 82 Margaret Fraction, 49° 120° S.E. 177 Maria, 49° 119° N.W. 187 Mark, 49° 115° S.W. 241 Mark, 50° 120° S.W. 159 Mark Creek, 49° 115° N.W. 238 marl, Popkum, 49° 121° S.W. 270 Marmot, 56° 126° N.W. 82 Marn, 49° 120° N.E. 173 Marnie claims, 52° 121° N.W., geochemical report 249 Marsh, W. 155 Marshal claims, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 244 Marshall Creek Copper Co. Ltd., Mai and S, 48° 124° N.W. 78 Silver Bow. MCC, 55° 129° S.E 49 SR, 48° 124° N.W. 77 Martin Mines Limited, The, placer 255 Martino, J. A. 261 Mary, 49° 124° S.W. 75 Mary Hill quarry, sand and gravel 272 trophy 372 Mason, Ralph 158 Mastodon-Highland Bell Mines Limited, Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W. 126 CIN, 54° 124° N.E 118 Highland-Bell mine, 49° 119° S.E. .... 191 Matheson, H. J. 117 Mathieu, M. 159 Matsqui, Corporation of the District of, sand and gravel 273 Matthieu, Fred 137 Mattson, Allan V. 254 Maud S., 50° 117° N.E. 235 Maus Creek, 49° 115° N.W., placer 258 Maus Minerals Ltd., placer 258 Page Mawer, A. B 118 Max, 49° 121° N.E 61 Max claims, 49° 122° N.W., geochemical report 245 maximum permissible rates—see oil and gas Maxinuk, A. 221 May, 49° 120° N.E 174 May, 49° 120° S.E. 176 May claims, 58° 129° S.W., geological and geophysical report 252 Mayday, 52° 122° S.E 120 Mayfair Molly Mines Ltd., Bel, Norm, Mac, Sun, Dak, Standard, 55° 129° N.E 47 Mayner, Kenneth 51 Mayou, 56° 129° S.W 41 Mayson, Harry 125 M.C. claims, 54° 128° N.E. geological and geochemical report 251 MCC, 55° 129° S.E 49 M.D., 50° 121° S.E 155 ME group, 49° 125° N.E., geochemical report 245 Meg, 49° 121° N.W 61 Mel claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological, geochemical, and geophysical report 250 Menard Creek, 56° 126° N.W 82 Menduk, Stanley 388 Menzies Bay Mining Ltd., Chal, 50° 125° S.E 69 MER, 50° 121° N.E 154 Merc claims, 54° 124° N.E., geochemical report 249 Mercury, 51° 122° S.W 138 mercury, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 34 mercury in soils, Berg, 53° 127° N.E. .... 105 Big Onion, 54° 126° N.W. 84, 85 Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W 131 Gibraltar and Pollyanna, 52° 122° N.E 123, 124 Red Bird, 53° 127° S.E 116 Meridian Exploration Syndicate, Ash, Nola, Cat, Dry, Car, 49° 120° S.E... 187 Wendy, 49° 118° S.W 193 Merrell Nos. 7 and 8, 50° 120° S.W.— see Craigmont mine Merrett, J. E., Inspector and Resident Engineer, Vancouver A 60, A 61 reports by—see lode-metal section and industrial-mineral and structural- material section Merritt area 166 Merritt Copper Co. Ltd., Keith, Bill, Mickey, Jarl, Night, 50° 120° S.W 167 Merry Widow, 50° 127° S.E 66 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 402 Merry Widow Mountain, 50° 127° S.E 66 Merv, 50° 121° S.E 160 Mesa Mines Limited, KH, Granite, 51° 123° S.E 134 Mess Creek, 57° 130° S.W 26, 30, 31 Mess Creek area 26 metal mines, notes on 17 Metal Mines Limited, Coxey, 49° 117° S.W 207 Metcalfe, S., Chief Analyst and Assayer.. A 2 INDEX 427 Page Meteor Mining Co. Ltd., AT, TA, 53° 126° S.W 117 Meyer, W 124 Meyers, E. 164 MG, 55° 125° S.E., N.E 119 MH, 57° 131° N.W 23 geological and geophysical report 252 mica, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 39 Michaelson, C. D 49 Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 387 dangerous occurrences 383 electrical installations 403 trophy 371, 386 Mickey, 50° 120° S.W. 167 Mid East group, 50° 120° S.W., geochemical and geophysical reports 246 Midan mine, 49° 123° S.W., coal 385 Midgley, G. E 144 Midnight, 49° 117° S.W 199 Midnight, 49° 121° S.W 62 Midnight, 54° 127° N.E 90 Midway, 49° 115° S.W 241 Midway area 195 Midwest Drilling Company 144 Mid-West Mines Limited, Velvet, 49° 117° S.W 199 Mihalynuk, Michael 390 Milburn, D 119, 131 Mill, G. L 187 Millar, C 138 Miller Creek, sand and gravel 272 Millington group, 50° 128° N.E 65 millisecond delay detonators 382 Mills, Frank 223 mine-rescue 368 certificates of competency 369 stations, Fernie 369 Kamloops 369 Nanaimo 368 Nelson 369 Miner Boy, 50° 117° S.E 223 Mineral Hill claims, 54° 126° N.W., geophysical report 250 Mineral King, 50° 116° S.E 237 dangerous occurrences 363 fatal accident 360 Mineral Resources Division, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources A 76 mineral specimens _ A 73 Mineralogical Branch A 61 field work A 62 professional staff A 61 Mines Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources A 76 Minex Development Limited, AM, IDE, 50° 120° S.W 159 Mining Corporation of Canada (1964) Ltd., CC, 51° 119° S.W 144 Mining Recorders, list of A 55 office statistics A 56 mining-roads A 72 Minoca Mines Ltd., Yreka, 50° 127° S.W. 65 dangerous occurrences 362, 363 electrical installations 402 Missezula Lake area . 169 Mission, Corporation of the District of, sand and gravel 273 Mitchell, M. J 138 Page Mitsubishi Metal Mining Co. Ltd., Gibraltar, 52° 122° N.E 124 Yreka, 50° 127° S.W 65 Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company, Ltd., Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W 126 Trojan, 50° 120° N.W 152 Mix claims, 50° 120° N.E., geophysical reports 246, 247 ._...,. 177 52 163 192 143 103 40 251 M.J.; 49° 120° S.W M.J., 53° 130° N.E M.M., 50° 120° S.W MO, 49° 119° S.E Mo, 51° 120° N.E Mo, 54° 126° S.W Mobile, 56° 129° S.W geochemical report Moe, 49° 118° S.W., geophysical reports Mohler, G. T., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Charlie Lake Moir, Rosalyn J. Molka claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report Molly, 53 ..243, 244 A 65 A 62 124° N.W. Molly Gibson, 49° 117° Moly, 49° 125° S.W. Moly, 55° 129° S.E. N.E. 244 118 208 74 48 geochemical report 251 Moly claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 molybdenum, note on product A 17 production A 21, A 24, A 29, A 36, A 49 Molymine Explorations Ltd., Huber, 54 126° N.W Monarch, 49° 117° N.E, Montgomery, J. H. Moonlight, 56° 129° Moore, J. C S Moose claims, 59° cal report S.W. 127° N.E., geophysi- 102 221 187 41 57 122° S.W. 52° 121° , diatomite S.E., geo- N.W., placer. 252 265 249 256 — - 52 sand and gravel 272 Moresby Mines Limited, Garnet, Ruby, 52° 132° N.E. 53 Morgan, D. M. 159 Morgan, D. R., Inspector and Resident Engineer, Cranbrook Moose Heights, 53' Morehead claims, physical report Morehead Creek, 52° 121c Moresby Island area -A 60, A 61, 384, lode-metal section, and structural- 386 reports by — see industrial-mineral material section, placer section, and coal section Morgan, Irving 387 Morgan, Spencer 371, 386, 387 Morice Lake area 104 Morice Mountain, 54° 126° S.W. 103 Morice Mountain Prospect, 54° 126° S.W., geophysical report 250 Morris, D. D. Morris, J. E. Morris, J. R. Morrison, 55° 126° S.E. Morrison Lake area Morrissey area, coal Morton, Bruce Morton, I. F. .386, 238 387 120 101 99 392 254 118 428 INDEX Page Moss, 58° 129° S.W 19 geophysical and geochemical report 252 Moss, R. E., Chief Commissioner, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 2, A 54 Mosquito King, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W. 146 Motase A, 56° 127° S.E. 81 Motase B, 56° 126° S.W. 81 Mottershead, R. 40, 41 Mount Agnes Mines Ltd., Space, Ma, 53° 121° S.W. 120 Mt. Cheam No. 2, 49° 121° S.W. 61 Mount Roberts Formation 201 Mount Washington Milling Co. Ltd., Mount Washington mine (Domineer No. 22), 49° 125° N.E 71 fatal accident 357 Mountain Minerals Limited, barite, Brisco, 50° 116° N.E. 260 barite, Parson, 51° 116° S.W 260 clay and shale 263 Mountain View, 49° 117° S.W 207 Mouse Mountain area 120 Mowson Pond, 51° 122° S.W. .137, 138 Page Moyie area 241 Moyie River, placer 257 M.S.A. Paving Co. Ltd., sand and gravel 273 M.S.S. claims, 49° 115° N.W., geological report 243 Mud, 50° 121° N.W. 148 Mulcahy, Patrick Joseph, retirement A 53, A 54, A 65 Muller, Ben 83 Muraro, T. W. 37 Murphy property, 49° 121° S.E. 60 Murray, Carson A. 173 Murray, Gordon V. 173 Murrell, M. R. 55 museums A 72 Mustang Explorations Company Limited, Texas, 49° 118° S.W. 195 Mustard, D. K. 140 Mutch Diamond Drilling Company 181 Myers, William Howard 60 Myra Falls Mines Ltd., Lynx, Paramount. Price, 49° 125° N.W 77 Myrtle, 49° 117° N.E. 219 N 125° S.E., geochemical Nab groups, 50 report Nabs, 57° 130° S.W Nadina Explorations Limited, Queen, 54° 126° S.W electrical installations ... Nagy, L. J. ... 248 29 Silver 104 398 37 Nahlin Mountain, 58° tos 132° N.E., asbes- Nahwitti Lake, 50° 127° N.W. Nanaimo area, coal. Nanaimo Mining Division, lode metals, prospecting Nass River area . 260 63 _ 385 . 63 _A 69 . 51 Nass River Mines Limited, Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias, 55° 129° S.E 51 Nassichuk, P 275 Nat, 58° 129° S.W 21 Natal Ridge 390, 391 Nation, Major Harold T., obituary A 4 National Lead Company, Ltd. 261 Native Explorations Limited, Zym, Zymoetz, 54° 128° S.E 79 Native Mines Limited, Silver Queen, New Strike, Extension, 54° 126° N.W. 82 natro-alunite, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 39 natural gas—see oil and gas natural-gas liquid by-products - and gas N.C, 49° 126° N.E geological report Neepawa mine, 49° 117° N.E. Nelson area ■ see oil sand and gravel 68 246 220 208 272 Nelson Mining Division, lode metals 208 placer 257 prospecting A 69 Nelway area 215 Nesbitt, B. I. 154 Nesbitt, J 220 Nesiken Creek area 148 Neugebauer, H. E. O 188 Nevada, 49° 117° S.W. 207 New Arlington, 49° 117° S.E 212 silica 276 New Cronin Babine Mines Limited, Cronin, 54° 126° N.W. 82 Silver King, 49° 117° S.E 209 New Deal, 58° 129° S.W. 21 New Fireclay adit, 49° 122° S.E 263 dangerous occurrence 362 New Indian Mines Limited, Eden, Ezra, Job, C.L., 50° 120° N.W 153 New Jersey Zinc Exploration Company (Canada) Ltd., Friendship, 49° 122° N.E. 63 Jack Pot, Oxide, Last Chance, 49° 117° S.E. 212 Liz, 52° 121° N.W 125 London, Axe, 50° 122° S.W 57 Rok, magnesite 270 S.Q.E., Kon, Rex, 59° 129° S.W 18 New Strike, 54° 126° N.W 82 New Wellington Mines Limited, Marmot, 56° 126° N.W. ,. 82 New Westminster Mining Division, lode metals 58 prospecting A 70 Newcombe, G. M. 126 Newconex Canadian Exploration Ltd., Sko, Chuck, 49° 116° N.E 240 Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias, 55° 129° S.E. 51 68 99 99 White, 50° 125° S.W Newman, 54° 126° N.E Newman Peninsula, 54° 126° N.E Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited, Ajax, 55° 129° N.E 44 Ingersoll Belle, 49° 120° S.W 177 Newton, C. G 208 Ney, C. S 44, 55 Ni claims, 49° 120° S.W., geophysical report 245 Nicholson, D. H 148 INDEX 429 nickel, Bea, 49° 121° S.E. . EandL, 56° 130° N.W. J.C, J.B., 50° 122° N.E. Moly, Tofino, Tofino Nickle, 49° 125° S.W Page . 60 . 31 . 137 . 74 Mud, Cherry, Rickhill, Rusty, Joyce, Sharon, 50° 121° N.W 148 note on product A 18 Old Nick, 49° 119° S.E 192 Pride of Emory, 49° 121° S.W 58 production A 21, A 24, A 36 Turn, Pyrrhotite, Cobalt, 58° S.W 12!i° Nicola area Nicola Mining Division 22 _ 167 _ 165 Nicola-Princeton Inspection District 393 Night, 50° 120° S.W 167 Night Hawk groups, 55° 124° S.W., geophysical report 251 Nimpkish area . 68 Nimpkish Copper group (N.C claims), 49° 126° N.E., geological report 246 Nine Mile Mountain, 55° 127° S.W 81 Nippon Mining Company, Limited, Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W 126 Nithi, 53° 124° N.W 118 Nithi Mountain, 53° 124° N.W 118 Nitinat Lake area 78 No. 1 North mine, Michel Colliery, 4S'° 114° N.W. 389 dangerous occurrence 383 No. 1 South mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 388 dangerous occurrence 383 electrical installations .403, 404 No. 2 South mine, Michel Colliery, 49' 114° N.W. 390 No. 7 Seam strip mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W L 391 Noble Five property, 49° 117° N.E. ...... 221 Nola, 49° 120° S.E. 187 Noland Mines Limited, placer 254 Noon, 49° 120° N.E., geophysical report 245 Noradco Mines Limited, Goat, 56° 129° S.W. 40 Noranda Exploration Company, Limited, Ace, Flats, Kaye, Rick, 50° 128° N.E. 65 Andy, Pak, 49° 124° S.W. 76 Big Onion, 54° 126° N.W. 83 Brenda mine, 49° 120° N.E 181 Chalco, Shorty, 50° 121° S.E. 158 DA, AX, 55° 126° S.E. 95 Haut, BI, 55° 126° S.E. 95 Morrison, 55° 126° S.E 101 Newman, 54° 126° N.E. 99 Page Noranda Exploration Company, Limited— continued North Brenda, 49° 120° N.E 184 Sandberg property, 49° 119° N.W. .... 185 Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod, Ruby, 59° 130° N.E. 17 Yubet, 50° 120° S.W 162 Noranda Mines, Limited, Bella Coola Chief, 52° 126° N.W. 55 Brynnor mine, 49° 125° S.E 75 Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias, 55° 129° S.E. 51 Yreka, 50° 127° S.W 66 Norcan Mines Ltd., Joker, PR, SQ, 54° 127° S.E. 92 Norco Resources Ltd., Norco, Canyon, 50° 124° S.W. 56 Norcross, D. 212 Norm, 55° 129° N.E. 47 Norman, 50° 127° N.W. 63 Normont Copper Ltd., Far, Mo, 54° 126° S.W. 103 Klondike, 54° 126° S.W. 103 Norpax Nickel Mines Limited, Sal, R, EE, 50° 123° N.E 140 North Bend, 49° 121° N.E., silica 276 North Brenda, 49° 120° N.E 184 North groups, 50° 120° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 246 North Lardeau area 229 North Oro property, 50° 120° S.W. ...... 163 North Pacific Mines Ltd., Krain, 50° 121° N.E. 151, 153 North Star, 55° 129° N.W. 42 North Wellington area, coal 385 North West Silica Ltd., silica 276 Northern Belle, 49° 117° S.W., geophysical report 243 Northern Coal Mines Ltd. 393 Northern Inspection District 393 Northstar Copper Mines Ltd., Fred, Bobo. Marg, Kiwi, Maori, etc., 56° 126° S.E. 82 Northwest Underwater Mining Co., P.M.L. 862, 50° 121° N.W. 257 Northwest Zinc Company Ltd., Odin, 50° 118° N.E 218 Northwestern Explorations, Limited, Eye, B.J., 50° 121° S.E. 160 Kinskuch, Reina Blanca, King, 55° 129° N.E. 47 Northwestern Quarries Ltd., building- stone 262 notes on products A 16 Nov, 57° 130° S.W 26 November claims, 58° 129° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 252 o Oates, E. C. 66 obituaries A 4 Observatory Inlet area 41 Ocean Cement Limited, B.C. Cement Division, cement (Bamberton) 262 limestone (Cobble Hill) 269 certificate of achievement 373 Cassidy pit, sand and gravel 275 Central Sand and Gravel, certificate of achievement 373 O.ean Cement Limited—continued Gilley quarry, Pitt River, building-stone 262 certificate of achievement 373 Highland Sand and Gravel Division . 274 certificate of achievement 373 Mary Hill quarry, sand and gravel 272 trophy 372 Producers Sand and Gravel 275 certificate of achievement 373 430 INDEX ochre, note on product production. Page .A 17 Odin, 50° 118° N.E. Off, 55° 126° S.E. _A21, A 38 218 93 Ogden placer-mining lease, 52° 121° N.E. 256 Ohio, 50° 117° S.E 224 oil and gas, administration . _A64, 278 butane, monthly disposition (see Table 18) 347 monthly value to producers (see Table 19) 349 note on product A 16 production A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31 computing production _A 16 condensate/pentanes plus—see field condensate and plant condensate conservation 285 core examination 282 core samples A 59, 282 Crown reserves disposals A 58, 279, 280 discoveries, gas 283 oil 284 distribution system 292 drilling, reservations review statistics (see Table 15) drilling platform employment electric power expenditure ..A 57, 278 287 343 ...278, 286 A 47 394 A. 46 exploration, exploratory test-holes (see Table 3) 299 geophysical (see Table 1) 297 review 282 surface geological (see Table 2) 299 fees _--A 58, 279 field condensate, monthly disposition (see Table 18) 347 monthly value to producers (see Table 19) 349 note on product A 17 production A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31 fires 290 gasfields, designated at December 31, 1966 (see Table 11) 333 reservoir data (see Table 5) 301 gathering system, gas 291 oil 290 laboratories 282 land disposition A 57, 279 leases licences . ..A 57, 278 ..A 57, 278 liquid by-products, monthly disposition (see Table 18) 347 monthly value to producers (see Table 19) 349 production A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31 reserves, established (see Table 6) 303 maximum permissible rates, review 284 see Table 9 315 pool, project, and unit M.P.R.s (see Table 7) 304 monthly disposition, gas (see Table 17) 345 oil (see Table 16) 344 liquid by-products (see Table 18) 347 sulphur (see Table 18) 347 monthly production, gas (see Table 14) 341 oil (see Table 13) 340 Page oil and gas—continued monthly value to producers, oil, gas, liquid by-products, and sulphur (see Table 19) 349 notes on products A 16 oilfields, designated at December 31, 1966 (see Table 11) 333 reservoir data (see Table 4) 300 open-flow potential tests, review 284 see Table 8 305 pipe-lines, review 290 gas (see Table 22) 352 oil (see Table 20) 350 plant condensate, monthly disposition (see Table 18) 347 monthly value to producers (see Table 19) 349 note on product A 18 production A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31 pressure maintenance 285 processing plants, review see Table 23 ... 292 ._ 354 production (see also monthly production) A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31 review 290 statistics (see Table 15) 343 production rate limits, review 284 see Table 8 305 propane, monthly disposition (see Table 18) 347 monthly value to producers (see Table 19) 349 note on product A. 18 production A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31 publications 297 refineries, review 292 see Table 21 351 rentals A 58, 279 reports, weekly, schedule, oil and gas production, and drilling and land 294-297 reserves, review 285 see Table 6 303 reservoir data, gas (see Table 5) 301 oil (see Table 4) 300 revenue to Government A 58, 279 review 280 rig licences 287 royalties A 58, 279, 280 samples, core and well 282 seismic surveys (see Table 1) 297 sulphur, monthly disposition (see Table 18) 347 monthly value to producers (see Table 19) 349 note on product A 18 plants, review 292 see Table 24 354 production A 21, A 24, A 39 reserves (see Table 6) 303 test-holes, exploratory (see Table 3)__ 299 transmission system, gas 291 oil 291 water disposal 285 weekly reports 294 wells, authorizations 290 drilled and drilling (see Table 10) __ 327 producing and producible see Table 12) 337 samples 282 schedule of 294 records 292 INDEX 431 Page O.K., 50° 121° S.E 154 Okanagan Falls area 190 Oktwansh group, 49° 126° N.E., geological report 246 Olalla area 188 Old Fireclay mine 263 dangerous occurrence 362 Old Fort Mountain, 55° 126° S.E 92, 93 Old Fort Mountain area 92 Old Ironsides pit, 49° 118° S.W 194 Old Nick, 49° 119° S.E 192 Old Sport, 50° 127° S.E. 66 dangerous occurrence 362 electrical installations 402 Old Wallace, 51° 119° S.W.-^see Elmoore Ole group, 55° 127° N.E 81 Oliver Silica quarry, 49° 119° S.W., fluorite 266 silica 276 Olson, L. 224 Olson, P. E., Inspector and Resident Engineer, Nelson A 60 reports by—see lode-metals section, placer section, and industrial-mineral and structural-material section Oma. 48° 124° N.W. 77 Omelaniec. S. 274 Omineca Mining Division, lode metals... 79 placer 255 prospecting A 70 Ominicetla Creek, 56° 126° S.E. 82 Onaway, Alberta 261 Ontario, 49° 117° S.W 207 open-flow potential tests—see oil and gas Page . 207 Ophir, 49° 117° S.W Ora claims, 54° 124° N.W., geochemical report 249 Orecan Mines Ltd., Iron Mike, 50° 125° S.W 68 Orient claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Ormond, 49° 126° S.E 74 Oro, 50° 120° S.W 163 Oro Denoro, 49° 118° S.W 195 Oro Mines Ltd., Price, Oro, M.M., 50° 120° S.W 163 Orphan Boy claims, 49° 125° S.E., geological and geophysical report 246 Osborne, T. C 26 Osilinka River area 119 Osoyoos area 190 Osoyoos-Heclar claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Osoyoos Mining Division, lode metals 179 prospecting A 70 Ostensoe, L. 148, 159 Ottawa, 49° 117° N.E 218 outbursts, coal mines 383 ovens—see Curran-Knowles Oversight claims, 50° 121° S.E., geophysical and geochemical report 247 Overton, C. W. 152 OVP, 53° 127° N.E 112 OVP, 55° 125° S.E., N.E 119 Owen Lake, 54° 126° S.W 104 Owens, K 155 Oxide, 49° 117° S.E 212 Ozols, A 133 P & W Development Co. Ltd., sand and gravel 275 Pacific Coal Limited Pacific Petroleums Limited. Pacific Silica Limited ... 392 ... 285 ... 276 PaCo Cement Products, Limited, sand and gravel 275 Pak, 49° 124° S.W 76 palladium, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 36 Pam claims, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical report 247 Pang, 56° 131° N.E 37 geological report 252 Papex, 49° 119° S.W 188 Par claims, 49° 118° N.E., geophysical report 244 Paramount, 49° 125° N.W 77 electrical installations 402 Paramount Mining Ltd., Nabs, 57° 130° S.W 29 Pardek, Mel 230 Parent, Douglas Parson area barite Parsons, G. .31, 80 ..... 230 .... 260 .54, 55, 112 387 388 Parsons, Henry Pasiaud, Roger Pasin, Sergio Antonio, fatal accident 360 Pass, 58° 129° S.E 21 Pass Creek, 49° 118° S.E 196 Pat, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W 146 Path, 49° 118° S.E 197 Pathfinder, 49° 118° S.E. 197 Pathfinder Mountain, 49° 118° S.E 197 Patino Mining Corporation Ltd., June, Stikine, September, 58° 129° S.W 19 Patsch, B. 118, 119 Patsy Creek, 55° 129° S.E 49 Paulson area 198 Pay, 49° 120° S.W 168 Pay Day, 49° 118° N.E., N.W 191 Paychex, 49° 119° S.W 188 Payco Mines Ltd., Pay, 49° 120° N.W 169 Paxton, 49° 124° N.W 72 PB, 55° 127° S.W. 81 Peace River area, coal 393 Peach, 51° 121° N.E 135 Peachland area 187 Peak, 49° 117° S.W 207 Pearkes, Major-General the Honourable George Randolph A 3 Peck, J. W., Chief Inspector of Mines A 2, A 60 inspection of lode mines, placer mines, and quarries 355 Pedley, S 24 Peel Resources Limited, Oma, Sunny, Fid, Kathy, 48° 124° N.W 77 Pegg, A 220 Pemberton area 140 Pend d'Oreille River 215 Penn, 54° 126° N.E 97 Pentecost, N. 256 432 INDEX Page Penticton claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 245 Pentland, A. G 152 Pentland, W. S 119, 138 Penx group, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 245 Perepolkin, E. 222 perlite, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 39 Perry, O. S 191 Perry Creek, 49° 115° N.W., placer 258 Petersen, E. H 222 Peterson, G. H. 263 Peterson, M. 42 Petra A, 54° 127° N.W 91 petroleum—see oil and gas Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 63 administration 278 development section 287 field office 281 field work 281 general review 280 geological section 281 land disposition A 57, 278 reports 294 reservoir section 284 revenue A 58, 279 tables 297 PF, 49° 121° S.W 62 P. Heppner & Son, sand and gravel 273 Phelps Dodge Corporation of Canada, Limited, A, 54° 127° S.W 91 B, 54° 127° S.E. __. 103 electrical installations 398 KH, Granite, 51° 123° S.E 134 Red Bird (CAFB), 53° 127° S.E 112 Rowbottom, 51° 123° S.E 134 Sal, R, EE, 50° 123° N.E 140 Phillips, R. C. 220 Philp, R 1 173 Phoenix area 194 Phoenix mine, 49° 118° S.W 194 electrical installations 400 trophy 373 phosphate rock, Flathead, 49° 115° S.W. 271 note on product A 18 production A 21, A 39 photographs, list of A 7 Phyllis, 50° 121° S.E 158 Piccolo, Luigi 254 Pick claims, 50° 120° S.W., geochemical report 246 Pie claims, 50° 126° S.W., geological report 248 Pilcher, S. 229 PIM, 50° 121° S.E 159 geophysical and geochemical report — 247 Pinchi groups, 54° 124° S.E., geochemical report 249 Pinchi Mountain, 54° 124° N.E 119 Pine, 49° 120° N.E 176 Pine, 55° 125° N.E 119 Pine Creek, 59° 133° N.W 254 Pine Point Mines Limited 238 Pingston Creek area 218 Pinta, 49° 120° N.E. 174 pipe-lines—see oil and gas Pitcher, P. N. 52, 72 Pitkethley Brothers Building Supplies Limited, clay and shale 263 Page 256 Pitt, Charles H Pitt Meadows District Municipality, sand and gravel 272 Pitt River, 49° 122° S.W., building-stone 262 Pitt River quarry, building-stone 262 certificate of achievement 373 Placer Development Limited, Jersey, 49° 117° S.E 214 placer section 253 plant condensate—see oil and gas Plateau Metals Limited, K.R., 49° 120° N.W. 175 Lakeview, 54° 127° N.W 102 Lucky Ship, Sam, 54° 127° S.E 104 Strike, Lorna, 49° 120° N.W 169 platinum, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 24, A 36 Player, William H., retirement Plecash, D. C Plug, 50° 123° N.E. ... Plumb, W. N PM, 50° 121° S.E geophysical and geochemical report PM, 51° 122° S.W. _A 53 239 140 260 159 247 136 P.M.L. 862, placer 257 Poison Mountain area 136 Poisonmount Creek, 51° 122° S.W 136 Polley, 52° 121° N.W. 125 Polley Lake, 52° 121° N.W. 126 Polley, Mount, 52° 121° N.W. 126 Pollish, L. 57 Pollyanna, 52° 122° N.E 124 Pompu, A. 199, 200 Pondosy, 53° 126° S.W. 116 Ponoka claims, 49° 120° N.W., geological and geophysical reports 245 Pooley Island area 54 Poop, 54° 125° S.E. 118 geochemical report 250 Popkum, 49° 121° S.W., limestone 267 marl 270 Porcher Island area 52 sand and gravel 272 Port Hardy-Quatsino area 63 Port Renfrew-Cowichan Lake area, limestone 269 Portage, 50° 125° N.E 55 Porter, R. M. 238 Porter Idaho, 55° 129° N.W 41 Portland Canal area 39 Portman, A. E. 266 Postle, L. T. 53, 97, 194 Pot, 51° 121° S.E. 135 pottery, glazed or unglazed, production A 21, A 41 Powell River area 56 sand and gravel 275 Powney, C. S. 131 pozzolan, Quesnel, 52° 122° N.W. 271 Saturna Island, 48° 123° N.E. 271 PP claims, 49° 118° S.W., geological, geophysical, and geochemical reports . 244 PR, 49° 121° S.E., N.E. and 49° 120° S.W. 174 PR, 54° 127° S.E. 92 Premier Sand (°_ Gravel Company Limited, sand and gravel 272 Prentice, W. R. 386 preparation Dlant, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W. 392 pressure maintenance—see oil and gas INDEX 433 Page Preston, S. G., agrologist, Board of Arbitration A 65 Pretty, L. F. 196 Price, 49° 125° N.W. 77 electrical installations 402 Price, 50° 120° S.W 163 Price Creek Mines Ltd 77 prices, average A 15, A 20 Pride of Emory, 49° 121° S.W. 58 Primer Group Minerals Ltd., Primer, 49° 120° N.E. 176 Princeton area 175 Privateer Mines Limited, Hiller, Churchill, 50° 126° S.W 73 process supplies, expenditures A 46 Procter area 217 Producers Sand and Gravel 275 certificate of achievement 373 production rate limits—see oil and gas products, note on A 16 professional staff, Mineralogical Branch A 61 propane—see oil and gas Page prosecutions, coal mines 383 lode mines, placer mines, and quarries 364 Prospect No. 22 mine, Michel Colliery, 49° 114° N.W 388 prospect tunnels, Michel Colliery 390 prosoectors, grub-staking A 65 Province, 56° 130° S.E 40 Provincial mine-rescue competition 372 publications, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources A 75 Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources A 73 Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch _... 297 Purcell Mountains 236 Purcell Range Mines Limited, Atlas, 50° 116° N.W 236 Purdex Minerals Limited, Sal, R, EE, 50° 123° N.E. 140 Puttock, Nigel 266 Pyramid Mining Co. Ltd., Silverquick, Quicksilver, Dot, Bob, Kim, 51° 122° S.W 13 8 Pyrrhotite, 58° 128° S.W. 22 Quadling, H. Quadra Island area 273 71 Quail claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 Quartz Creek, 49° 117° S.E 212 Quatsino-Port Hardy area 63 Queen, 49° 120° S.E 176 Queen Charlotte Islands area 52 Queen of Sheba claims, 49° 119° N.E., geological report 244 Queen Sulphur, 52° 126° N.W 55 Queen Victoria, 49° 117° S.E. 210 Quesnel area, diatomite pozzolan Quesnel Lake area fluorite Quesnel River Quicksilver, 51° 122° S.W. 265 271 131 265 131 137 Quilchena Creek, 50° 120° S.W 168, 169 Quilchena Mining & Development Co. Ltd., Guichon, 50° 120° S.W 167 Quill, 50° 120° S.W 167 Quinn, Harold A. 47 Quinn, W. R 55 R R, 50° 123° N.E Rac, 58° 129° S.W. _... Racing River area Radio, 56° 129° S.W. Radvak, S. Rae, D. H RAF, 50° 121° N.E RAF, 54° 124° S.E., N.E. Raid, 55° 126° S.E Rain, 50° 120° S.W. . 140 - 21 _ 18 . 41 . 190 .A 67 ._ 154 - 118 .. 93 .. 163 Rain, 50° 127° N.W. 64 Rainboth, W 145 Rainbow Mines Limited, H and C, Rod, 52° 128° N.E 54 Rainey, Mount, 55° 129° N.W 41 Ralph, 49° 117° S.E. 213 Ramada Mines Limited, Cam, Gary, 50° 120° S.E. 168 Ramage, Ben 226, 371, 372 R.A.S., 50° 127° N.W 63 Rat claims, 49° 119° N.W., geological report 245 Ray, 53° 130° N.E 52 Ray, 56° 131° N.E 34 Rayner, G. 23 190, 225 Rayrich Mine Services Ltd. Rayrock Mines Limited, Velvet, 49° 117' S.W 199 R.C, 50° 121° S.E 155 geological and geochemical report 247 Reco Mountain, 50° 117° S.E 223 Red Bird (CAFB), 53° 127° S.E 112 Red Bird Mountain, 53° 127° S.E 112 Red Buck, 49° 120° S.W 178 Red Deer, 52° 126° N.W 55 Red Deer Valley Coal Company Limited, Galena Farm, 49° 117° N.E 221 Red Eagle, 50° 122° N.E.—see Eagle Red Gulch Creek, 53° 129° N.W 54 Red Hill, 50° 121° N.E 149 Red Mountain, 49° 117° S.W. ... ....200, 207 Red Mountain Mines Limited, Coxey, 49° 117° S.W. electrical installations 207 399 Red Reef claim, 55° 129° N.W. ... 41 Red Rock, 49° 119° N.W 186 Red Rock, 52° 121° N.W 125 Red Rock Mines Ltd., April, UP, 50° 120° S.W 153 Red Wing, 55° 129° S.W 41 Redford, L. R 133 Reed, W. M 143 Rees, Oscar 274 Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited, dividends A 45 prosecution 364 434 INDEX Page Reeves MacDonald Mines Limited— continued Reeves MacDonald, 49° 117° S.E _ 215 dangerous occurrence 362 electrical installations 400 Western Exploration, 49° 115° N.W. .. 239 refineries—see oil and gas Rehwald, G. V., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 Reimer, J. J 261 Reina Blanca, 55° 129° N.E 47 Remo, 52° 122° S.E 120 Renn, R 236 Rennich, A. 261 Rennich, H 261 Rennie, C. C. 151, 265 Renshaw, R. E 196 reserves—see oil and gas Rest Creek, 49° 117° S.E 212 silica 276 Retallack-Three Forks area 222 retirements A 5 3 Revelstoke area 227 Revelstoke groups, 51° 118° S.E., geological report 248 Revelstoke Mining Division, lode metals 227 prospecting A 71 review, mineral industry A 10 lode metals 13 petroleum and natural gas 280 Rex, 49° 121° S.W 62 Rex, 59° 129° S.W 18 Rex claims, 57° 131° S.W., geological report 252 Rexony Mining Company Limited, Ethel, 50° 117° N.W 230 Reynolds, P. M 152 Rez 1-6 claims, 50° 121° N.E., geochemical report 247 RI claims, 54° 125° S.E., geological and geochemical report 250 Ribco Leasing Limited, Copper Road, 50° 125° S.E. 71 Richards, Ray 225 Richardson, A. J. 226 Richardson, P. W 52, 80, 81 Richmix Clay Products Ltd., clay and shale 263 Richmond, 49° 117° N.E 220 Richmond, G. W. 263 Richter Mountain, 49° 119° S.W 190 Rick, 50° 128° N.E 65 Rick Group, 50° 120° S.W., geophysical report 247 Rickhill, 50° 121° N.W 148 Ridge, 50° 122° N.E 137 Ridge, 55° 129° S.E 51 Riley, C. 102, 175, 229 Rimrock Mining Corporation, Limited, EX., Bert, St. Joseph, 49° 115° S.W.._. 241 Rio, 50° 121° S.E. 161 geological and geochemical report 248 Rio Algom Mines Limited, Lornex, 50° 121° S.E. 155 Rio Canadian Exploration Ltd., Ruth Vermont mine, 50° 116° N.W 230 Rio East groups, 50° 121° S.E., geological and geochemical report 248 Rio Tinto Canadian Exploration Limited, Rio, 50° 121° S.E 161 Page Rio West groups, 50° 121° S.E., geological and geochemical report 248 Riondel area 226 -A. 21, A 24, A 40 241 River'Jordan, 51° 118° S.E 229 riprap, production . River, 49° 115° S.W. RO, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical reports... 247 RO, 51° 120° N.E 143 geochemical reports Rob, 49° 120° N.E. _. .248, 249 173 Rob Roy, 49° 118° S.W., geological and geochemical report 244 Roberts, A. F 159 Robertson, T. H, instructor, mine-rescue station, Kamloops A 60 Robin claims, 50° 123° S.W., geological report 248 Robinson, J. W 214 Robinson, M. C 195, 229 Robinson, W. C, Inspector and Resident Engineer, Kamloops A 60, A 61 reports by — see lode-metal section, placer section, and industrial-mineral and structural-material section rock, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 24, A 40 Rock Creek area 192 rock samples A 58 rock specimens. ..A 73 . 54 17 Rod, 52° 128° N.E Rod, 59° 130° N.E. Rodstrom Yellowknife Mines Ltd., Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod, Ruby, 59° 130° N.E 17 Roed, M. A 21 Rok, 50° 115° N.W., magnesite 270 Rolling Hills Copper Mines Limited 148 Rolling Hills property, 50° 120° N.E., geophysical report 247 Ron, 49° 120° N.E 175 Ron, 50° 116° N.W 237 Roosevelt, 56° 129° S.W 41 Roscoe Lake, 50° 120° S.W 162 Rose, 52° 131° S.W 53 dangerous occurrence 363 electrical installations 397 Rose, K. C 40 Rose Pass Mines Ltd., Humbolt, 49° 116° N.W 227 Ross, A. David 24 Ross, W., Deputy Chief Commissioner, Petroleum and Natural Gas A 54 Rossland area 199 Rothman, S. M 238 Roundy Creek, 55° 129° S.E 48 Roundy Creek property, 55° 129° S.E 48 Routledge Gravel Ltd., certificate of achievement 373 Rowbottom, 51° 123° S.E. 134 Roy, Dorian 171 Royal, 50° 121° S.E 155 geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 247 Royal Canadian Ventures Ltd., Ezz, O.K., 50° 121° S.E 155 Royal, Cana, R.C, 50° 121° S.E 155 geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 247 Royal Edward, 50° 122° S.W. 57 Roynon, T. W 227, 228 INDEX 435 Page R.T. claims, 55° 124° S.W., geophysical report 251 rubble, production Ruby, 52° 132° N.E. Ruby, 59° 130° N.E. .-_A21, A 24, A 40 53 17 Ruby Creek, 49° 121° S.W., talc 276 Ruby Silver, 49° 119° S.E. 191 Rufus, 56° 129° S.W 40 Rufus Argenta, 56° 129° S.W.—see Rufus, Ven Rum, 48° 123° N.W. 79 Rum claims, 54° 126° N.E., geophysical and geochemical report 250 Rum claims, 57° 131° S.W., geological report 252 Page Rupert Cement Products (1965) Ltd., sand and gravel 272 Rupert Inlet, 50° 127° N.W 65 Rusty, 50° 121° N.W 148 Rusty Ridge 240 Ruth, 51° 119° S.W 145 Ruth claims, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical report 247 Ruth claims, 54° 126° N.W., geophysical report 250 Ruth Vermont mine, 50° 116° N.W 230 Rutherford, G. M. 195 Ryan, John T., trophy 372 Ryslo Silver Mines Ltd., Silver Hill, 49° 116° S.W. 227 S. 48° 124° N.W. 78 S, 50° 119° N.E. and 51° 119° S.E., S.W 146 S, 54° 125° S.E 118 S & S Sand and Gravel Limited 272 S group, 51° 118° S.E 228 safety 368 safety competitions, underground mines- 371 open-pit mines and quarries 372 safety lamps 381 Sal, 50° 123° N.E. 140 Sal claims, 57° 131° S.W., geological report 252 Salal Creek Molybdenite Property, 50° 125° N.E., geological report 248 Salamanca, 49° 118° S.W 193 salaries A 46 Salem claims, 49° 120° N.W., geophysical report 245 Salloomt Copper, 52° 126° N.W 55 Salloomt River 55 Salmo area 212 sand and gravel 272 Salmo Prince Mines Ltd. 151 Salmon, T. 75 Salter. J. H. 238 Sam. 54° 127° S.E. 104 Sam Hayes, 49° 117° S.W. 207 sample examination, petroleum and natural gas 282 samples, coal A 59 core and well 282 miscellaneous A 59 petroleum and natural gas A 59 rock A 58 sand and gravel (see table) 271-275 production A 21, A 24, A 40 Sand Creek, 49° 115° S.E 242 Sandberg Mountain, 49° 119° N.W 185 Sandberg property, 49° 119° N.W 185 Sanders, Harry 387 Sanders, K. G 230 Sandi, 49° 119° N.W 185 Sandon area 221 Sandspit, sand and gravel 272 Sanguinetti, M. H 134 Santa Maria, 54° 127° S.E 92 Sargent, Hartley, retirement A 53, A 62 Sash, 49° 121° N.W 61 Satan claims, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical report 247 Saturna Island, 48° shale pozzolan. 123° N.E., clay and Saukko, R. N. Savage, W. D. 130° N.E., placer 264 271 74 82 254 68 152 Sawmill Creek, 59° Sayward area S.B., 50° 120° N.W. S.C claims, 57° 131° S.W., geological and geochemical report 252 Schaft Creek, 57° 130° S.W 26, 30 80 112 76 65 274 167 390 155 Schindler, J. N. Schmidt, A. J. . Schorn, T. F Schram, Moore Schuler, C. E Schutz, P. Sclippa, Louis Scott, J. W Scurry claims, 49° cal report 118° S.W., geophysi- 244 Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited, Ultima, Good Luck, Creek, Harper, Ruth, 51° 119° S.W 145 Seaton, J. B 63, 125, 270 Sechelt, 49° 123° S.E., building-stone ____ 262 Sedco 135-F drilling-vessel 278, 286 Sedeco, C. 213 Seigel Associates Limited 136 Selby, D. A., Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch, Charlie Lake A 65 selenium, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 36 Selish Mines Ltd., Selish, 49° 120° N.W. 170 Selish Mountain area Sellmer, H. W Seines, W. S.W. 170 91 138 19 September, 58° 129 Serb Creek, 54° 127° N.W 91 Serb Creek property, 54° 127° N.W.— see Katie A, B, C, and Petra A Serek, Joseph Serli, Steve Seventy (70) Mile House area sewer pipe, production Seymour, 54° 127° N.E Seywerd, Ben S.F., 52° 120° N.W .. 388 .. 255 .- 135 ..A 41 .. 90 .. 254 „ 131 S. H. Marriott Sand and Gravel 275 Shady, 49° 117° N.E 221 Shakes Creek, 57° 131° N.W 23 436 INDEX Page Shakes East Group, 57° 131° N.W., geological and geophysical report 252 Shakes West Group, 57° 131° N.W., geological and geophysical report 252 shale—see clay and shale Sharon, 49° 116° N.W 225 Sharon, 50° 121° N.W 148 Sharp, W. M 74, 91, 162 Shawinigan Mining and Smelting Company Limited, The, Arctic, Ann, Bam, 57° 130° S.W 31 Sheep Creek area 213 building-stone 262 _-A61, A 62 103 17 367 79 158 Shepherd, A. F., Librarian Shepherd, N. Shield Geophysics Limited . shiftboss certificates Shipclark, C. Shorty, 50° 121° S.E SHR group, 49° 120° N.E., geophysical report 245 Shulman, I 185, 190 Shuswap Lake area 146 Shuttleworth, W. 132, 133 Sibola Range 105 Sicintine Range area 81 Siega, L. 222 Sieger, Karl 254 Silbak Premier Mines Limited, Silbak Premier mine, 56° 130° S.E 39 Sileurian Chieftain Mining Company Limited, Hub, FM, 54° 128° N.E— 80 Roundy Creek, 55° 129° S.E 48 silica, New Arlington, 49° 117° S.E. 212, 276 North Bend, 49° 121° N.E 276 Oliver Silica Quarry, 49° 119° S.W..... 276 Silmonac Mines Limited, Silmonac, 49° 117° N.E 222 Silver, 51° 120° N.E. 144 Silver, 59° 133° N.W.—see Atlin Ruffner silver, computing production A 15 dividends A 45 note on product price production ..A 18 -A 20 ..A21-A33, A 49 Silver Arrow Explorations Ltd., Dunwell, 55° 129° N.W Silver Bow, 55° 129° S.E. . Silver Coin, 49° 119° S.W. 41 49 190 Silver Coin mine, 49° 116° N.W.—see Brian Silver Creek, 54° 127° N.E 86 Silver Cup. 50° 117° N.E 229 Silver Cup Ridge, 50° 117° N.E 229 Silver (Deer) Lake, 51° 120° N.E 144 Silver Dollar, 49° 117° S.E. 212 Silver Dome Mines Limited, Iva Lenore, 49° 118° S.W. 193 Silver Duck, 49° 118° S.W., geological and geochemical report 244 Silver Fox claims, 54° 126° N.W., geophysical report 250 Silver Hill, 49° 116° S.W 227 Silver King, 49° 117° S.E 209 Silver King group, 49° 119° N.W., geological report 245 Silver Lake, 54° 127° N.E. 86 Page Silver-Lee Mines Limited, Wellington, Bounty, Tiger, Ruby Silver, 49° 119° S.E. 191 Silver Pegg Mines Ltd., Neepawa mine, 49- i17_ NiE_ 220 Silver Queen, Higgins Creek, 54° N.W. 126° 82 Silver Queen, Owen Lake, 54° 126° S.W. 104 electrical installations 398 Silver Standard Mines Limited, Bella Coola Chief, 52° 126° N.W 55 Big, Joe, 54° 128° N.W 51 BIK, 57° 131° S.E. 25 Bird. Sno, Bud, 57° 130° S.W 26 E and L, 56° 130° N.W 31 J.C., J.B., 50° 122° N.E 137 OVP, 53° 127° N.E 112 Silverknife Mines Ltd., Silvertip A, B, C, D, Rod. Ruby, 59° 130° N.E 17 Silverquick Development Co. (B.C.) Ltd., Silverquick, Quicksilver, Dot, Bob, Kim, 51° 122° S.W 137 Silvertip A, B, C, D, 59° 130° N.E 17 Silverton area 220 Silverton Creek, 49° 117° N.E 220 Similkameen Mining Division, lode metals 174 prospecting A 71 Simpson, J. D. 166 Simpson, W. E. 160, 162 Sinbad, 51° 119° N.W 144 Sirdar, 49° 116° S.W., building-stone _ 261 Sirola, J. 70 Sirola. William M. 102 S.K. claims. 55° 124° S.W., geophysical report 251 Skeena Cooper, 50° 121° S.E. 155 Skeena Mining Division, lode metals 38 prospecting A 71 Skeena Mountains area 81 Skeena Silver Mines Ltd., Lornex, 50° 121° S.E. 155 Skerl, A. C ... 41, 155, 159, 187 Ski, 49° 120° N.W. 169 Ski. 49° 120° S.W. 177 Skidoo, 49° 121° S.E., N.E. and 49° 120° S.W. 174 Sko. 49° 116° N.E. 240 Skuhost Creek. 50° 120° S.W. 161 Skwilkwakwil Mountain. 50° 121° S.E. _ 161 Slate Creek, 55° 174° N.W. 255 ^lide. 56° 175° S.W. 119 Sloan, David 227, 229 Slocan Mining Division, lode metals 218 prospecting A 71 Sl.icau Ottawa Mines Ltd., Ottawa, 49° 117° N.E. 218 Slocan Sovereign, 49° 117° N.E. 221 Smart, Tom 144 Smith. David, Inspector and Resident Engineer, Kamloops A60, 393 reports by — see lode-metals section, placer section, industrial-mineral and structural-material section, and coal section Smith, W. G 268 Smith, W. T. 77 Smithers area 82 Smyth, S. K. 25 Snafu. 55° 129° S.E 51 geological and geophysical report 251 INDEX 437 Snippaker Creek, 56° 130° N.W. Sno, 57° 130° S.W Page 31 _... 26 Sno, Fiddler Creek, 54° 128° N.E 80 geological and geochemical report 251 Sno, Legate Creek, 54° 128° N.E 80 Snow, 49° 120° N.E 176 Snow, 49° 121° N.E 171 Snow, 50° 120° S.W 159 Snowfall, 49° 124° N.W 56 Snowshoe, 49° 117° S.W., geophysical report 243 Snowshoe, 54° 127° N.E. 91 Snowshoe, 54° 128° N.E. 80 _.._ 256 _ 143 Snowshoe Creek, 52° 121° N.E. SO, 51° 120° N.E. geochemical reports .248, 249 sodium carbonate, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 39 Soho, 50° 117° S.E 223 Son, 56° 131° N.E 37 geological report 252 Sonnenberg, Edward 24 Sonny, 50° 126° S.W 74 Sonny Boy, 50° 120° S.W 167 Sostad, Ralph 136, 137, 151, 212, 223 South East group, 50° 120° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 246 South groups, 50° 120° S.W., geophysical report 246 South Oro property, 50° 120° S.W 163 South Seas Mining Ltd., Trojan, 50° 120° N.W. 152 South West group, 50° 120° S.W., geophysical and geochemical report 246 Southwell, A 71 Sowaqua Creek, 49° 121° S.E 60 Space, 53° 121° S.W 120 Spanish Placers Ltd. 256 Spankes, Donn 146 Sparling group, 58° 132° N.W., geophysical report 252 Sparwood Ridge 390, 391 specimens, rock and mineral A 73 Spencer, Mount, 49° 124° S.W 75 Spillimacheen area 237 barite 261 Spitfire, 50° 120° S.W 167 Spot claims, 50° 121° S.E., geophysical report 247 Springer Creek area 218 Springfield claims, 49° 119° N.E., geological report 244 Spruce Creek, 59° 133° N.W., placer __ 254 Spruce Creek Placers Limited 254 Spur, 50° 120° S.W 148 SQ, 54° 127° S.E 92 SQ claims, 54° 128° N.E., geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 251 S.Q.E., 59° 129° S.W 18 Squaam (Agate) Bay area 145 Squaw Creek, 59° 137° N.E., placer 254 SR, 48° 124° N.W 77 St. Eugene, 49° 115° N.W 241 St. Eugene Extension, 49° 115° N.W 241 St. Eugene Mining Corporation Limited, St. Eugene, St. Eugene Extension, Aurora, 49° 115° N.W 241 St. Joseph, 49° 115° S.W 241 St. Mary River 239 Stachurski, Joseph John, fatal accident 380 Page Stadler, C 260 staff changes, Inspection Branch A 61 Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch —A 65 Mineralogical Branch A 62 Stairs, Ivan C 227, 228 Stan, 49° 115° S.W 241 Stan, 49° 118° S.W 195 geological report 244 Standard, 49° 117° N.E 220 Standard, 55° 129° N.E 47 Standby, 50° 117° N.E 235 Stanfield, Ross 242 Star, 53° 130° N.E 52 Star claims, 51° 119° S.W., geophysical report 248 Starck, L. P 58, 237, 241 statistics A 14 Stave Lake area 63 Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. 148 Steffens Creek, 50° 120° S.W 165 Stellako Mining Co. Ltd., Yubet, 50° 120° S.W 162 Stemwinder pit, 49° 118° S.W 194 Stephens, Brian 263 Stephens, C O. 54 Stephenson. Carl 154 Stern, W. R. 57 Stevens, D. S. 152 Stevenson, R. W. 119 Stewart-Wikstrom group, 56° 130° S.E.— see Big Missouri Stib claims, 50° 123° S.W., geological report 248 Stibbard, 50° 120° S.W 159 Stikine. 58° 129° S.W. 19 Stikine Copper Limited, HAB, BUY, GC (Galore Creek), 57° 131° S.E. 25 Stikine East, 57° 131° S.E.—see BIK Stikine Iron Mines Ltd., MH, 57° 131° N.W. 23 Stikine North, 57° 131° S.E.—see BIK Stikine River area 22 Stokes, Ronald B 47, 120, 160, 162, 190 Stokes Engineering and Management Company, Kinskuch, Reina Blanca, King, 55° 129° N.E 47 stone, production A 21, A 24, A 40 Stoney claims, 49° 115° S.W., geochemical report 243 Storie, 59° 129° S.W.—see S.Q.E., Kon, Rex Storie, W. J. 18 Strathcona, 49° 115° S.E 242 Strike. 49° 120° N.W 169 structural-materials section 259 electric power 395 electrical installations 403 note on product A 18 price A 15 production -A 21, A 22, A 24, A 31, A 40 structural tile, production A 24, A 41 Stuart, H. Z 112 Stulkawhits (Texas) Creek, 49° 121° S.W 58 Stumpf, John 254 Sturgess, J. K. 86 Stym, Peter 181 Sue, 52° 120° S.W 132 Sue, 52° 122° S.E 120 Suey Bay, 52° 120° S.W 132 438 INDEX Page . 22 . 238 Sullivan, C. J Sullivan mine, 49° 115° N.W. dangerous occurrences 362, 364 electrical installations 401 trophy . ...__.239, 386 Sulmac Exploration Services Limited 145 sulphur.—see oil and gas Sumallo Basin area 59 Sumas Municipality, sand and gravel 273 Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. of Canada Ltd., Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W 126 Sumitomo Shoji Canada Ltd., Pride of Emory, 49° 121° S.W 59 Summit Creek area 217 Sun, 49° 120° N.E., geophysical report.... 245 Sun, 55° 129° N.E 47 Sunloch, 48° 124° S.E 79 Sunny, 48° 124° N.W 77 Sunrise No. 7, 54° 126° N.W 82 Sunro Mines Limited, Sunloch and Gabbro, 48° 124° S.E 79 Sunset, 55° 129° S.E 49 Page . 56 . 165 . 48 Sunshine, 49° 124° N.W Sunshine, 50° 120° S.W Sunshine Creek, 55° 129° S.E Sun-West Minerals, Limited, Moly, Tofino, Tofino Nickle, 49° 125° S.W. 74 Surrey, Corporation of the District of, sand and gravel 274 Sutherland, R. A. 63 Sutherland Brown, A. . field work A 61, 269 A. 62 reports by, Berg, 53° 127° N.E 105 Big Onion, 54° 126° N.W 83 Cariboo Bell, 52° 121° N.W _ 126 CIN, 54° 124° N.E. 118 Gibraltar. 52° 122° N.E 123 Granite Mountain-Cuisson Lake area 121 Pollyanna, 52° 122° N.E 124 Red Bird (CAFB), 53° 127° S.E 112 Swakum Mountain area 165 Swanson, M. R. 57 Swanson, T. E. 42, 232 Sweeney, W. J. 105 Swig, Benjamin H. 152 T claims, 54° 128° S.E., geological report 250 TA, 53° 126° S.W. 117 Taboga. 48° 124° N.E 78 Tac, 58° 129° S.W 21 Tahtsa Lake area 105 Tahtsa Range 105 Tail claims, 49° 120° N.E., geophysical report 245 Tait, Robert M. 82 Tait, Mrs. W. 255 Tak, 58° 129° S.E 21 Takeda, T. 44 Takla Lake area 119 talc, Clover Leaf, 49° 121° S.W 276 note on product A 18 production. TAM, 50° 121° N.E Tan, S. tar Taseko Lakes area Tasu, 52° 132° N.E electrical installations Tauw Creek, 55° 129° S.W. __.A 21, A 39 154 199 392 134 52 397 42 Taylor, Mount, 49° 114° N.W., coal 392 Taylor, Robert 388 Taylor, Thomas 387 T. Connors Diamond Drilling 51 TC (Friendly Lake), 51° 120° N.E 143 TC (Greenstone Mountain), 50° 120° N.W 148 TC (Little Fort), 51° 120° N.E 143 T.C. Explorations Ltd., Lake, Laken, Bron, PM, PIM, 50° 121° S.E 159 Maria, 49° 119° N.W 187 T. D. Logan and Associates 225 Teditua Creek, 58° 132° N.E., asbestos _ 260 Tee claims, 55° 127° S.E., geological report 251 Teknol Mining Co. Ltd., Lark, 50° 125° S.W. 70 Telkwa area, coal 393 Telkwa Mining and Development, Joker, PR, SQ, 54° 127° S.E 92 Telkwa River area. Tennant, S. J. Tennent Lake, 49° 125° N.W. 91 42 77 Tent Mountain, 49° 114° N.W., coal 392 Terrace area 51 limestone 267 sand and gravel 272 Terrace Calcium Products Ltd., limestone 267 Tetra, 50° 121° S.W 148 Texada Island area 72 Texada Mines Ltd., Iron River, 49° 125° N.E 70 Texada mine, 49° 124° N.W 72 dangerous occurrences 362 electrical installations 402 trophy Texas, 49° 118° S.W. Texas Creek area .371, 385 195 140 Texas Creek Mines Limited, Index, 50° 122° N.E. . 140 Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, Big Onion, 54° 126° N.W 83 Ecstall, 53° 129° N.W 54 Theda Bara, 55° 129° S.E 49 Thenatlodi Mountain, 58° 129° S.W 21 Theodosia Mines Limited, Norco, Canyon, 50° 124° S.W 56 THM, 55° 129° N.E 44 Thompson, F. R 215, 239 Thompson, W. 22 Thompson, William 199 Thrall, R. A 260, 263 Three J's Mining Company 256 Thunder Hill, 50° 115° S.W., clay and shale 263 Thynne, Mount, area 170 Tide Lake area 38 Tiger, 49° 119° S.E 191 Tiger claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report ____ 244 144 135 Tim, 51° 119° S.W.. Tim, 51° 121° N.E. INDEX 439 Page tin, note on product A 18 production A 21, A 24, A 36 Sko and Chuck, 49° 116° N.E 240 Tio Buracho claims, 49° 118° S.W., geo physical and geochemical report. Toad, 54° 124° S.E., N.E Toad Mountain, 49° 117° S.E Toby Creek, 50° 116° S.E __ Todd, Ivan Toe, 49° 120° N.E Tofino, 49° 125° S.W Tofino area Tofino Nickle, 49° 125° S.W Tolman Creek, 50° 120° S.W Tom, 49° 115° N.W Tom, 49° 120° N.E. Tom Moore adit, 50° 117° S.E Tomczak, J. F., statistician, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch A 64 244 118 209 237 81 169 74 74 74 165 240 176 223 Tompson, W. Tonopah, 50° 122° S.W. Tony, 50° 116° N.W. .__ Toohey, H. Tootsee River area topographic mapping Torbrit camp Torger Copper, 52° 126° N.W Toric, 55° 129° N.W Torwest Resources (1962), Ltd., AM, IDE, 50° 121° S.E 121° N.W.. . 92 . 57 237 136 17 A 74 42 55 42 Bayshore, B.I., Key, 52 Coxey, 49° 117° S.W. . Selish, 49° 120° N.W. _ 170 158 125 207 Tot, 48° 123° N.W Toy. 50° 123° N.E T.P.M., 49° 117° S.E Tracy Creek, 49° 115° N.W. Trade Dollar, 54° 127° N.E. Trail area, sand and gravel — 79 140 211 241 86 272 Trail Creek Mining Division trails Page . 199 ..A 72 transmission system—See oil and gas Trans-Pacific Engineering & Management Ltd., Queen Victoria, 49° 117° S.E 210 Trans-Prairie Pipelines (B.C.) Ltd. 290 Travis, Henry Treasury claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report Trek, 55° 126° S.E. and 54° 126° N.E Trenaman, R. T. Trepanier, J. R. Trey, 53° 127° S.E Trio Lake, 52° 121° N.W. Triumph, 49° 117° S.W Tro-Buttle Explorations Limited, TC, Spur, 50° 120° N.W Troitsa Lake area Trojan, 50° 120° N.W Trout Creek, 50° 118° N.E. Trout Creek area, 49° 119° N.W Troutline Creek valley, asbestos True Fissure, 50° 117° N.E Tsalit Mountain, 54° 126° S.W Tsable River mine, 49° 124° N.W., coal Tulameen area tungsten, note on product production 390 244 95 67 162 112 126 208 148 112 152 218 187 259 229 103 385 174 ..A 18 Sko and Chuck, 49° 116° N.E. Turn, 58° 128° S.W Turnagain River area Twin Lakes, 49° 116° S.W., building- stone TX, 55° 125° S.E., N.E. ... Tyaughton Creek area . Tyler, W. Tymchuk, Michael Tyner Lake claims, 50° physical report _A 21, A 24, A 36 240 22 22 262 119 137 224 388 247 .118, 120° N.W., geo- u Ultima, 51° 119° S.W. Undun No. 4 mine, 49° 123° UNF, 49° 116° N.W. Union, 49° 116° N.W Union, 49° 117° S.E. 145 S.W., coal 385 217 225 213 Union Oil Company of Canada Limited 284, 285 United Buffadison Mines Limited, K, S, Poop, End, 54° 125° S.E 118 United Copper Corporation Limited, Silver, 51° 120° N.E 144 United Sand & Gravel Ltd 274 United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, Cap, Flat, 58° 129° S.E. 20 Horn, 58° 129° S.W . 18 Les, 58° 129° S.W. 18 Let, Tak, 58° 129° S.E 21 Unsworth, J. UP, 50° 120° Upham, M. A. S.W. Union Carbide Canada Limited, Valley, Ridge, Bolo, Vetter, Guias, 55° 129° O p Upton, hZh. 385 153 38 51 68 71 65 64 73 Iva Lenore, 49° 118° S.W 193 Meg. Bailey, Sash, 49° 121° N.W 61 Utica Mines Ltd., Horn Silver mine, 49° 119° S.W 190 Old Nick, 49° 119° S.E 192 Utah Co. of the Americas, Ivy, 49° 125° N.E. Utah Construction & Mining Co., Bay, 50° 127° N.W Hep, 50° 127° N.W Hiller, Churchill, 50° 126° S.W. ' 440 INDEX Page 51 Valley, 55° 129° S.E Valley Concrete Products Ltd., sand and gravel 272 Valley Copper Mines Ltd., Bethsaida, 50° 121° S.E. 155 Valley Copper No. 12 group, 50° 121° N.W., geological report 248 Valley Copper No. 13 group, 50° 121° N.W, geological report — 248 Valley Granite Products Ltd., building- stone 262 Valley Ready Mix Co. Ltd., sand and gravel 273 Valley Rite-Mix Ltd., sand and gravel 273 value, calculated, method of computing ___A 15 Van, Morice Mountain, 54° 126° S.W..... 103 geophysical report 250 Van, Owen Lake, 54° 126° S.W 104 Van Boeyen, Henry 272 Vananda, 49° 124° N.W., limestone 268 Vananda Explorations Ltd., CM, 49° 120° N.W 168 Eden, Ezra, Job, CL., 50° 120° N.W. 153 Vanco Explorations Limited 148 Vancouver area, clay and shale 263 sand and gravel 272 Vancouver Island, sand and gravel 275 Vancouver Island Inspection District 385 Vancouver Island Mine Safety Association 371 Vancouver Mining Division, lode metals __ 55 prospecting A 71 Vanguard, 55° 129° S.W 42 Page Vanmetals Exploration Limited, Polley, Red Rock, Bee, Herb, 52° 121° N.W. 125 Rain, 50° 120° S.W 163 Van-West Minerals Limited, Ormond, Contact, 49° 126° S.E 74 Vastlode Mining Company Limited, Lee, Sunshine, Lo, 50° 120° S.W 165 Velvet, 49° 117° S.W 199 Ven, 56° 129° S.W 40 ventilation 365 Ventures Limited, Hiller, Churchill, 50° 126° S.W 73 Verkerk, William 387 Vermont Creek, 50° 116° N.W 230, 236 Vernon Mining Division, lode metals 191 prospecting A 71 Verona, 55° 129° S.E 49 Vetter, 55° 129° S.E 51 Victor, 49° 117° N.E 222 Victor, 50° 121° S.E 158 Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd 278 Victoria Mining Division, lode metals 78 prospecting A 71 View, 49° 117° S.W., geophysical report 243 View group, 50° 119° S.E., fluorite 265 Vise, 49° 120° N.E 173 V.M., 50° 120° S.W 159 Voight camp, 49° 120° S.E 177 geophysical and geochemical report 245 volcanic ash, note on product A 19 production A 21, A 39 Vollo, N. B 155 Volpatti, Benjamin 388 Vowell Creek area . 236 w Waddington, Mount, 51° 125° S.E _ 55 Wade claims, 50° 120° S.E., geophysical report 247 wages A 46 Waldie Creek, 49° 117° stone S.E., building- Walker, A. M Wallace Mountain, 49° 119° S.E. Walsh, James Walsh, S.. 262 72 191 384, 387 219 53 226 229 120 Walters, F Walton, T. F Walton, R. Wanda, 53° 122° S.E Wanokana 1-6, 50° 127° N.W., geophysical and geochemical report 248 War Eagle, 54° 127° S.E 92 Warawa, J. 256 Wardman, L., Senior Electrical Inspector of Mines A 60, 394 Warhorse, 49° 116° N.E 240 Warren, G. T 161 Wasa area 241 Wasko Creek, 52° 120° N.W., fluorite...- 265 water disposal—see oil and gas Waterland, T. M., Inspector and Resident Engineer, Kamloops A 60, A 61 reports by—see lode-metals section, placer section, and industrial-mineral and structural-material section Waterloo, 49° 118° N.W., N.E 191 geochemical report 244 Watson, I. M 50, 77 W.D.R. group No. 1 and No. 2, geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 247 Wearing, T. R 75 Webster, Arnold 388 Webster, W. D 268 Wedge claims, 54° 126° N.W., geophysical report 250 Weeks, J. P 164, 191, 221 Weightman, O. E 238 Weirtzba, R 217 Weishaupt, P. 132 Weland Mining Ltd., Fern mine, 49° 117° S.E. 210 Welcome Bay, 49° 124° N.W 72 well samples, Petroleum and Natural Gas Branch 282 Wellington, 49° 119° S.E 191 wells—see oil and gas Wells-Barkerville area 120 Wendy, 49° 118° S.W 193 geological, geophysical, and geochemical report 244 Wescan Developments Ltd., Warhorse, Granite, 49° 116° N.E 240 Wesemann, R. D 34, 35 INDEX 441 Page Wesfrob Mines Limited, Tasu, 52° 132° N.E 52 electrical installations 397 prosecution 364 Westairs Mines Limited, J & L, 51° 118° S.E. 227 electrical installations 401 West-Coast Resources Ltd., Oro Denoro, 49° 118° S.W 195 West Kootenay Mine Safety Association _ 371 trophy 372 West Moly Mines Limited, Bar, Don, GM, George, Tim, Barriere, Joe, Glen, 51° 119° S.W 144 Western Beaver Lodge Mines Ltd 148 Western Co-operative Fertilizers Limited, phosphate 271 Western Exploration Company Limited, Enterprise mine, 49° 117° N.E 220 Hecla, Mammoth, Standard, 49° 117° N.E 220 Western Exploration, 49° 115° N.W.... 239 Western Gypsum Mines Ltd 266 Western Gypsum Products Limited 266 electrical installations 403 Western Mines Limited, Lynx, Paramount, Price, 49° 125° N.W 77 electrical installations 402 Western Standard Silver Mines (1966) Ltd., Colorado, 49° 117° N.E 218 Westervelt, R. D. 18, 20, 21 Westkettle River 192 Weymark, W. J. 188, 195 Wheaton Creek, 58° 128° S.W., placer- 254 Wheeler, W. R 41 Whip, 49° 120° S.W 177 Whipsaw Creek, 49° 120° S.W 177 Whiskey Creek, 52° 122° S.E., building- stone 261 Whistler claims, 49° 119° S.W., geophysical report 244 White, 50° 125° S.W. 68 White, J. 169 White River 44 White Rock Sand and Gravel 274 Whiteman Creek, 50° 119° S.E., fluorite 265 Whitesail Lake area 112 Whittaker, J. 389, 391 Wickheim Sand and Gravel Ltd. 275 Wickstrom, K. E. 191 Wid, 54° 126° S.W. .. geophysical report Widsten, A. O. Wiley, R. J. Wilkinson, T. D. Page 103 250 268 151 79 Will claims, 54° 124° N.E., geochemical report 249 Williams, Arthur, instructor, mine-rescue station, Fernie A 60 Williams, B. E 178 Williams, R. 191 Williams, R. E 261 Williams, R. F 258 Williams Creek, 53° 121° S.E., placer.... 255 Willars, J. C. 40, 41 Willmore, Morley Earl, fatal accident 358 Wilmar claims, 54° 124° S.E., geochemical report 249 Wilmer, 50° 116° N.E 266 Wilmot, A. D 174 Wilson, 49° 120° N.E. 173 geochemical report 245 Wilson, E. M 176 Wilson, H. S. 161 Wilson, R. W 25 Win, 50° 123° N.E 140 Windermere area 237 gypsum 266 Wingert, W. 222, 223 Winona, 50° 117° S.E. 223 Winslow Creek, 49° 122° N.E. — _ 63 Wiwchar, M. B. 215 Wolf, 55° 129° N.W 42 Wolfe, John 240 Wolfe, R. 193 Wolfhard, M. R 55 Wood, 52° 121° S.E 132 Wood, F 224 Woodbury Creek, 49° 116° N.W. 225 Woodcock, J. R. 44. 135 Woodside, Mount, 49° 121° S.W. 62 Woodward, P.C 270 Woolverton, R. 95 Workmen's Compensation Board, men's first-aid competition 372 Wragge, E. C 229 Wright, S. W. 164, 168 Wright Engineers Limited 175, 181 Wvk claims, 54° 126° S.W., geophysical report 250 Wynndel. sand and gravel 272 Wynne, R. 118 X, 49° 119° N.W. 187 | X-ray powder diffraction analyses A 60 Yalakom Mines Limited, Yalakom, Ridge, 50° 122° N.E. 137 Yalakom River area 137 Yam, 48° 124° N.E. 78 Yankee Girl, 49° 117° S.E 212 Ymir area 212 Yorke-Hardy, W 86, 91, 102 Yreka, 50° 127° S.W dangerous occurrences electrical installations _ Yreka Mines Limited Yubet, 50° 120° S.W.. 65 .362, 363 402 66 162 Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation Ltd., The, Lornex, 50° 121° S.E __ 155 442 INDEX Page 72 Zeballos area Zeballos Iron Mines Limited, F.L., 50° 126° S.W 72 electrical installations 402 Zel claims, 49° 123° N.E., geological report 245 Zero, 53° 130° N.E 52 213, 217 254 Zikowski, H. Zimick, George. zinc, dividends note on product. price Page ..A 45 ..A 19 ..A 20 production A21-A33, A 49 Zip claims, 50° 126° S.W., geophysical report Zobnic, 54° 127° N.E Zora, N. 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