E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . riety whichdoes not appear favorable to mineralization. The property of the Wasapika Gold Mines, Ltd., has 264 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 108, No. 7 been worked for over a year, and previous to that con-siderable stripping and sampling had been done. GeorgeR. Rogers, mining engineer of Toronto, has been ac-tively interested in the undertaking from its inception,and is now president and manager for the property is equipped with a steam power plantwhich is entirely adequate for the requirements of theprospecting work, and it is intende
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . riety whichdoes not appear favorable to mineralization. The property of the Wasapika Gold Mines, Ltd., has 264 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 108, No. 7 been worked for over a year, and previous to that con-siderable stripping and sampling had been done. GeorgeR. Rogers, mining engineer of Toronto, has been ac-tively interested in the undertaking from its inception,and is now president and manager for the property is equipped with a steam power plantwhich is entirely adequate for the requirements of theprospecting work, and it is intended to push the pre-liminary development as rapidly as possible. A description of the work, and the results of the pre-liminary sampling upon which it was begun, was givenin the Canadmn Mining Journal of Aug. 15, 1918. Theoriginal sampling was confined to the main quartz vein,but later work has furnished grounds for the hope thata band of ferrodolomite, which forms the hanging wallof the vein proper, v^rill also prove to be workable FOLDED VEIN AT THE WASAPIKA Owing to the width and continuity of the ferrodolomiteformation, there appears a possibility that a relativelylow-grade but large body of ore can be developed. As has already been indicated, the vein strikes ina general north and south direction, and the dip is to thewest at a steep angle. The country rock to the east,forming the foot wall, is a massive dark green com-ponent of the schist-complex, and the hanging wall is aferrodolomite which has the appearance of a highlyaltered lava. It is a schistose rock, in color dark greenwith irregular patches of lighter green, and contains alarge amount of quartz. The quartz occurs in smalllenses and as narrow veins which are quite rock as a whole is similar to the gray ferrodolomiteat the Hollinger mine, of Porcupine. The ferrodolomite hanging wall is readily weathered,whereas the massive foot wall is resistent, and this has given rise to an escarpment or bluff,
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