Transactions . onditions were very closely analogous,if not identical with those obtaining in the vicinity of belief was further strengthened by the location in the summerof 1905 of a vein containing both cobalt and nickel and carry-ing very substantial values in gold and silver, on the west sideof Rabbit Lake, about 35 miles south of Cobalt. This veinoccupies a fissure close to the contact between a conglomerateand diabase, whose general characters and geological age werepractically the same as what had already been described as con-stituting the silver-bearing formations of Cobal
Transactions . onditions were very closely analogous,if not identical with those obtaining in the vicinity of belief was further strengthened by the location in the summerof 1905 of a vein containing both cobalt and nickel and carry-ing very substantial values in gold and silver, on the west sideof Rabbit Lake, about 35 miles south of Cobalt. This veinoccupies a fissure close to the contact between a conglomerateand diabase, whose general characters and geological age werepractically the same as what had already been described as con-stituting the silver-bearing formations of Cobalt. The findattracted a number of prospectors, who hurried to the new terri-tory in the hope of finding other and perhaps wider and richerveins. The advent of the snow, however, and the non-successof these initial efforts dampened enthusiasm and postponedfurther prospecting in this direction. In the spring of 1906, while the snow was still deep overall but the more exposed hills and precipices, reports were per-. DOWNEY VEINMining Claim 189. James township. Specimens from this vein contained about 75 per cent, of silver.) !><=
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