62 GEOLOGY OF MOOSE RIVER GOLD DLSTRICT WOODMAN. 



acter of the gangiie does not differ from that in the parent vein. 

 In some instances, in a distinct belt there is no single lead that 

 is strictly interstratified ; and the whole belt is a series of inter- 

 meshing veins which run parallel to the strike of the country 

 rock, but across the dip. Such are the Dreadnaught and Kaul- 

 back belts. In Moose River, angulars of this class have no great 

 length on the strike, but in some other districts a belt of them 

 occasionally reaches a length of 2000 feet. Where an angular 

 of either type meets a main lead, pockets of ore are sometimes 

 found. Spurs from the stratified leads never, so far as observed, 

 break up vertically or across horizontally through several strata, 

 but are virtually confined to a single belt, whether in slate alone 

 or in slate between whin walls. They occur, however, indis- 

 criminately on hanging and foot-wall sides of leads and belts. 



The best example of a belt of angulars is the Kaulback belt, 

 opened in 1901, and cut to the 170-foot level by August of that 

 year. The leads here have the strike of the sediments — N. 85° 

 E. — but there is no vein among those occupying the belt that is 

 strictly conformable in dip for more than a few yards vertically. 



Confinement to one side of a fold. — Although continuous- 

 along the strike, and generally in depth as far as worked, the 

 leads of Moose River are, with two exceptions, not found on both 

 sides of a fold. Local miners often express belief that a certain 

 lead is the same as some other on the opposite side of an axis ; 

 but there is nothing to warrant this here except an occasional 

 general similarity between the two. One of the exceptions is 

 the case of the Great North (pi. 14) and the Serpent, which, 

 when the west stope on areas 131 and 132 was open, could be 

 seen turning from the north dip to the west and slightly to the 

 south. Lack of exploration prevents knowledge as to how far 

 it extends on the south. The second case is that of the Jo. 

 Taylor belt, the hanging wall lead of which turns from a south 

 to a north dip on the plunge in the quarrj'' on area 71, and has 

 also been excavated on the north dip at the east end of the 

 quarry on areas 73 and 74. In the former, it is found only as 



