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The lode is crossed, northeast of the shaft, by the Gold King basalt dike. On 
this level the course of the dike is about N. 50° K., so that here the dike and lode 
intersect at an acute angle. The lode, in fact, seems to follow the dike for 20 feet 
or more. Sixty or seventy feet southwest of this junction the lode and dike approach 
again. At both points good ore occurs. 
On the 700-foot level the course of the basalt dike is N. 30° E. It is somewhat 
fresher than above. Low values are said to occur all along the dike at this level, 
but no stoping has been done. Nothing was seen which corresponded to the 
northeast lode on the upper level. About 150 feet northwest of the shaft on the 
700-foot level a narrow vein running northeast and dipping steeply northwest has 
been cut at two points. The vein is characterized by a quartz filling with vugs, 
carrying in places considerable quantities of pyrite, with sphalerite and a little 
galena, also low values in gold and silver. It evidently corresponds to the vein 
containing galena described from the Gold King mine. 
A number of northwesterly trending fissures have been found, but they seem 
to carry small values. On the 200-foot level a lode has been cut about 100 feet 
northeast of the shaft and drifted on for 400 feet. It strikes N. 55° W., dips 75° 
NE., consists of a number of narrow, rudely parallel fissures in breccia. This lode 
has furnished a small pocket of ore. It was not found on the 700-foot level. Three 
hundred feet northeast of the shaft on the bottom level a similar fissure zone was 
encountered and drifted upon. It contained a small bunch of ore. 
Two parallel fissures 3 to 12 inches wide and about 8 feet apart, running north¬ 
west and dipping about 80° NE., are cut 200 and again 250 feet west-northwest of 
the shaft. They are partly filled with large and small loose fragments, mostly 
oxidized, and appear to be old watercourses. They are barren. 
Just west of the shaft on this level a short drift has been run on a narrow 
northwest seam carrying soft, clay-like matter, considerable pyrite, a little galena, 
and very small quantities of gold. 
The greatest amount of ore was shipped from shallow workings on the Gold 
King basalt dike. This was stoped for practically the whole width of the claim 
down to a depth of about 75 feet, a point where at that time (1894-95) water 
interfered. Although the hill has since been drained to a lower level, mining has 
not been resumed in these upper workings 
The junction of the basalt dike and the northeast' lode on the 200-foot level 
made ore which has been stoped 20 to 30 feet high, about 60 feet long, and 4 to 6 
feet wide. Values did not warrant further stoping. To the south of the junction, 
where the lode and dike approach, a stope had only been begun at time of visit, so 
that the form and extent of that ore shoot could not be determined. 
GOLD PASS DIKE. 
The narrow, irregular, and sometimes interrupted Gold Pass dike is cut by the 
Chicago and Cripple Creek tunnel 1,300 feet from its portal, and has been followed 
500 feet toward the northwest and 700 feet in a southeasterly direction. It seems 
to be slightly mineralized throughout, but on the tunnel level the only stopes 
opened are at the end of the north drift and at the intersection with a vein supposed 
to be the Half Moon, 500 feet southeast of the tunnel. The Nolan shaft connects the 
