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There is no good Geological Survey of the district, <br />The country rock conaista of a gne3asia or banded <br />granite, cut by a fissure vein system, having a general <br />easterly and westerly strike, Several porphyry dykes a <br />cut through the mountain, having a more northerly and f <br />southerly strike than the veins, ! <br />r: <br />ORE~lES. <br />The ore bodies occur in ore shoots in the fissure <br />vein, which has an east and west strike, and dips to the <br />south at an angle of about 600, Nidth varies from 3, to <br />12 ft, with a general average oP 6 ft, The walls are <br />granite and porphyry. <br />The vein filling consists oP a quartz porphyry, <br />carrying silver bP9Ting ga1CI1ZJ and s <br />phalerite, with <br />some native silver. The ores are silver bearing <br />zinc and lead, <br />