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Mines - Virginia K
This property,
comprising the Virginia K., Virginia K. Extension,
and Star Crown-granted claims and fractions is
near the head of American Creek on the ridge east of Kimball
Lake.
The original Virginia K. claims were located in 1929 and the group of 15
claims and fractions was surveyed in 1940.
A number of
small vein deposits have been developed on the property between the
creek bottom
at about 1,600 feet and the ridge at 4,500 feet elevation. Country rocks
are mainly folded Bowser sediments which overlie Hazelton volcanic rocks
and sediments.
The mineralization primarily
consists of quartz calcite veins and stringers which
occur as fissure veins in minor shears and fractures and along bedding
fractures. The various veins have been explored by trenches and short adits located
on the Star No. 2 Fraction, Virginia K. Fraction,
and the Virginia K. No. 5 claims.
The continuity of this apparent
northeasterly zone has been tested by scattered trenches but not proved. Sulphide minerals in the veins include pyrite,
galena, sphalerite, minor chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite.
Native gold and silver, as well as
rare electrum, have been reported from the quartz-calcite stringers.
Since 1938 the property has been
largely inactive with minor exploration and hand-mining of
high-grade sections.

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