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Gold/Mining/Energy : Shining Tree Gold Camp
ORFDF 0.06130.0%Oct 31 9:30 AM EST

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To: niostargazer who wrote (211)3/1/2014 9:53:24 PM
From: niostargazer   of 260
 
"Gosselin Claims This property comprises several claims on either side of the boundary between Asquith and Churchill just east of the 3 mile post On the northeast corner of WD 1151 stripping revealed several masses of quartz containing visible gold The quartz showed continuously in places for 30 or 40 feet and was 10 to 18 feet wide It is associated with a felsitic rock that weathers white on the surface This rock extends east three or four chains to the shore of a small lake Here quartz stringers cut the felsite in a very irregular fashion and in places constitute about one half of the rock In other places near the lake this rock is free from quartz and has a schistose structure On WD 1157 about three chains north of the township boundary near the east side of the chain an extensive outcrop of quartz occurs Stripping showed the quartz at intervals for six or seven chains running in a northwesterly direction Whene the most stripping had been done the quartz was exposed continuously for 2 chains running northwest and about 10 feet wide From the south end of this showing a trench running west exposed quartz with some schist for seventy feet Gold was seen in the quartz about 10 chains from the township boundary and close to the east line of the claim Just east from here on WD 1173 several irregular quartz masses have been stripped The largest one is about 45 feet in length and averages about 12 feet wide The felsite found on WD 1151 extends northward into WD 1157 for about three chains and contains some quartz but most of the quartz on the latter claim is contained in a much decomposed greenstone schistose in places and weathering very rusty These claims have the most extensive bodies of quartz so far found in the district and have attracted considerable attention Gold was first discovered in the district on this property "

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