Padi yl Bill-Nor ) Lodge .. Serving the Mining industry in the beautiful Nass Valley Full camp facilities including: bunkhouses, trailer pad rentals, trailers and houses. *The Lodge features an excellent menu with fresh bakery products daily, *Licensed lounge with off-sales *A separate dining room for special meetings, weddings and other special events, *Heli-port on property Take the family for a Sunday drive through the scenic Tseax Lava Beds, then join us for a delicious brunch. Bill-Nor Lodge Nass Camp, 65 miles north of Terrace on the Nass Valley Road 638-8111 Dobbie’s Landing — iron, gold, silver: quartz veins in gra- nitic intrusion; active from 1909- 1914. Zymoetz River — crystalline limestone beds; undeveloped. Thornhill Mountain — cop- per, lead, zinc, silver, and gold (including free gold): carbonate quartz veins in quartz diorite dykes and granodiorite rocks; includes St. Paul, Ptarmigan, Liberated and A & B claims; 1914-1929 mining activity; renewed exploration in 1984. Also, molybdenum: clusters and pickets within pegmatic dykes in grey granite; no work since 1942. And crystalline limestone: semiactive mine on Copper Moun- tain, Terrace Calcium Products Ltd. . Mt. Layton —~ crystalline limestone: never developed. Herman Mountain and Lakelse River — copper, molyb- denum, zinc, iron and lead: Paleozoic .sedimentary rocks and greenstones intruded by granitic rocks; pods of massive sulphides; drilled from 1966-1973. Iron Mountain (Wedeene) — iron: magnetite lenses along one to two miles of andesite - granite contact: six-million tones of 22% iron estimated. Placer Claims — most of the Terrace area is within a ’No Placer Staking’ zone, except that area on the east side of the Kit- sumkalum River north of Glacier Creek. There are small active placer mines on Douglas Creek in the Rosswood area, but none along the Skeena River. Details of claims and mineral deposits are available from the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources. According to the Min- istry, the identified deposits in the Terrace area do not have development potential as world- class mines due to small volumes of ore, low grades (% mineral content), and/or difficult terrain and lack of access. The cost of proving properties and current low mineral prices are restricting further development work on identified deposits in the region. Under the right economic conditions, though, many deposits in the Terrace area have good potential to be developed as small mines. This potential is based on: *The polymetallic nature of most or the ores (Cu, Pb, Zn, Au, and Ag ores are common) — there is more potential to hit a high mar- ket demand for certain metals with a mixed mineral ore than a unimetallic ore.- *Small deposits can be mined with small capital investments. A profit is more likely than a large mine with a major capital debt. *Markets are‘available for small volumes of concentrate either on the open market or at existing smelters (Trail, B.C. — Pb, Zn, and precious metals, or Tacoma, Washington - Cu ores). *Small companies are often will- ing to work under less sophisti- cated conditions and smaller profit margins than major com- panies. Two factors could accelerate the mining development potential in the Terrace area — high metal prices, (especially for copper, gold, - silver) and mobile custom mills. These portable concentrating mills are trucked from one small mine to another and concentrate ore on location, This eliminates the need and cost for small mines of transporting large volumes of raw ore. Unconcentrated ore is normally not desirable for export or too expensive to ship to Trail. It also eliminates the need for each small mine to install a concentrator. Portable custom mills could make many of the small, rich deposits in the Terrace area profitable to develop. GLOSSARY Au — gold. Ag — silver Pb — lead Cu — copper Zn — zinc The above material was com- | piled and printed in 1984, B.C. Mining Week /Terrace Review — February 28, 1992 29