MINERALS 

 NOTES ON THE MINERALS COLLECTED 



BY CHARLES PALACHE 



THE mineralogical collections of the party were not 

 extensive, and most of the minerals found have already 

 been mentioned in the preceding papers. A few locali- 

 ties deserve somewhat more detailed description than has 

 been given them, and it has seemed worth while to bring 

 together in the lorm of a catalogue the minerals found and 

 their localities. 



At Lowe Inlet, B. C., a party of miners was met who 

 had specimens of copper ores which they said came from 

 Banks Island, B. C., from a broad quartz vein traversing 

 granite. The ores consist of massive pyrrhotite, with 

 chalcopyrite and pyrite in a gangue of quartz, and some 

 calcite; in some specimens the copper minerals are em- 

 bedded in masses of coarse fibrous actinolite, and in others 

 actinolite and massive garnet are embedded in the calcite, 

 with sharp pyrite crystals. Some of the smaller crystals 

 of pyrite are very brilliant and proved to be unusually 



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