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 torm 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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