| Show SAYS IS I IDEAL COPPER ZONE Dr Frederick Bass Makes Favorable Favorable Favorable Fa Fa- Fa- Fa Report on Southern District District Five o distinct geological periods are arc Illustrated In iii tho the Funeral of mountains to recent examinations of or tho lie Greenwater copper dl district dis dis- mado by Dr Frederick Bass Base Das a 3 recognized authority on geology an and mineralogy lie Io made mado a 0 thorough examination of or the district In last t June spending several weeks s In him the tho work finally submitting an exhaustive re re- re port Ho lie lo calls cals the district an aim Ideal copper bearing zone He lIe le lesa sa says In part The entire area arca has ha frequently been submerged e since Its is primary cleva elevation Lon to lo a mountainous mass with wih deep deel in intervening in- in gorges tho time greatest being Death Valley This submergence with its secondary second second- fr ary depositions Interrupted by volcanic volcan volcan- ic eruptions and mass mas elevations has lias been alternating up to a a comparatively comparative comparative- c I ly recent line limo probably as evidenced 1 both hoth b by horizontal beds beth beth- nail and anI tie tilted strata of ot or 01 of or sodium solum found In iii various parts of the time district principally on the time Hanks of oC the time slates and which In iii places lilaces also show how distinctively distinctive ly Jy the Intel collations of or volcanic rock lava ava thereby proving the tIme successive alternating periods of submergence upheavals Is and volcanism V At Greenwater time the rocks show considerable changes as aN aswell well wel as metamorphism there being a acore core coLe of I Igneous roe rocks f fissured and fractured in iii almost every direction tion ton iou for fUI several al miles s mies their thick general trend however approximating tho thio main maui axis of the contour line lne of or time the Greenwater hillsOn hisOn hills his On both bOlh sides of this intrusive ma mass arc found stratified rocks where through erosive and amid disruptive changes chang chang- es Cs have been en left exposed the Igneous roel rocks hac in iii which most of the tue copper copper- bearing beaming ores Ole of tIme Iho camp aro me found Cound Tho sedimentary flanking rocks locks also show the time presence of copper ores which probably owe their orl origin ln to their a associated Igneous rocks rocks but hut b by thermal mid and dynamic action nelon the lie copper cop cop- lie per 11 In solution has h been cn carried and ammi forced Into Inlo their betIded bedded planes Many of time the igneous rocks roel being of an nit nature and tho tIme same rock mass being freely fractured and fissured el it i is reasonable to assume at atthe tho the mean water level large largo r replacement replace replace- lace lace- 1 ment 1 t bodies of if copper ore oie will ivill wil bo ho found fould the Iho so soda n lime home feldspar giving place to tn tl metallic sulphides f c-f r Iron and amid copper These scientific fa facts els ts are aro al most encouraging en cn- and convincing convincing as to tIme the future fu fu ture turc of Greenwater a as they picture an aim ideal copper bearing zone one which wi development de de- de- de is proving both rich lich and amid cx- cx |
