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