1937 Report on Howley properties near Brocks Creek

Abstract

The Howley group of properties occurs along a 4 mile stretch of low dissected ridge of northwesterly trend that rises 150ft above broad wooded plains on either side. It comprises 3 main properties; Cosmopoliten Howley at South end. Chinese Howley in north central section. Big Howley at north end. Elevations vary between 450 and 700ft. Country rook comprises a northwesterly trending belt of steeply tilted, alternating bands of 'quartzite' and serioite schist from 300 to 3000ft wide, locally inter-layered with horn blendite bars and flanked on either side by bands or hornfels; the whole belt irregularly fissured and sheared along its major axis, and invaded by narrow quartz reefs and stringers, or other sillicifioation , which constitute the mineralized zones. The hornfels bands point to an intrusive at some undertermined depth beneath the Howley ridge; but since known, definite hornfels bands lie quater mile or more from the ore zone, since the ore zone, since the ore zone, since the ore occurs mainly in steeply tilted, fissured 'quartzite' bands, and since nearest known granite outrope 4 miles distant, danger of an at intrusive or its alteration effects outting out the ore at shallow depth seems remote. The shoots of high grade au ore, which occur as lenses from a few tons to bodies up to 250 X 40ft in surface dimention and which roughly parallel each other within the fissured zones across total width of 50 to 400ft, were largely gutted by Chinese.