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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name LILLIE JAMES (L.1724), DOMINION (L.1723), SET Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E007
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 02' 47'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 36' 52'' Northing 5433868
Easting 382027
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Lillie James (L.1724) and adjoining Dominion (L.1723) claims are located about 7 kilometres southeast of Greenwood, on the southern slope of Mount Attwood. Access to the property is by the McCarren Creek road to the Lone Star-Phoenix haulage, road then west about 600 metres on an old road to the property.

The terrain in the area is moderate with elevations ranging from 1400 metres in the southern part of the claim to about 1525 metres to the north.

Little is known about the early history of the property other than the Lillie James (L.1724) claim was given Crown grant status to C.H. Tye in 1905 and the Dominion (L.1723) claim Crown granted to J.P. Shannon in 1902. Several pits and adits are the only record of previous work. However, exploration from 1983 to 1987 was completed by Quadex Resources Ltd. and Ossa Resources Ltd. on the surrounding Set claims. The main target was a large east-northeast trending gold soil anomaly that strikes through the centre of Lillie James, coincident with a fault zone.

The oldest rocks recognized on the property are listwanites associated with serpentinites that are thought to belonging to the Permian Knob Hill Group. Throughout the Greenwood area these rocks are associated with major thrust faults. Only one listwanite was observed on the property and this is believed to mark the position of such a thrust.

The remainder of the property appears to be underlain by Permian and/or Triassic greenstones and microdiorite (Eholt Formation, Brooklyn Group). These rocks were observed both above and below the inferred thrust fault. Adjacent to the fault the rocks are carbonate altered and contain finely disseminated pyrite. Quartz veining is relatively common in the vicinity of the fault. Several short adits and old blast pits were observed in this area. Elsewhere on the property, the microdiorite may be silicified, epidotized or chloritized. Disseminated pyrite is not uncommon. In several places on the claims and adjoining ground, evidence of substantial bulldozer work occurs over areas of altered microdiorite.

A few hundred metres northeast of the northern claim boundary, several outcrops of coarse granodiorite were observed. Quartz stringers and pyrite mineralization are common in this unit and a significant amount of bulldozer trenching has been done in the area.

Regional mapping shows the Mount Attwood fault to be parallel to the fault defined by the listwanite outcrop, but located several hundred metres to the north. The Triassic rocks appear to be restricted to the lower thrust slice on the Attwood fault but this is not the case on the Lillie James claim.

In 1991, a brief geological mapping and rock sampling program was done on the Lillie James property by Kettle River Resources. Mapping revealed the claim to be underlain almost entirely by Triassic microdiorite which is locally altered (epidotized, silicified, chloritized or carbonated). Disseminated pyrite mineralization is relatively common. An east-west trending, moderately north dipping fault was interpreted on the property which appears to control mineralization. Anomalous gold, silver, copper and arsenic values occur in carbonated pyritic microdiorite immediately below the fault. A large gold soil anomaly is also known to coincide with the fault.

During 2008 through 2012, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. completed programs of soil, stream sediment and rock sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Overlander area of the Greenwood property.

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1902-304, 1905-255
EMPR ASS RPT 11423, 13137, 16829, *21387
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25
EMPR P 1986-2
EMPR PRELIM MAP 59
GSC MAP 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 1969
GSC P 67-42; 79-29
GCNL #170 (Sept.) 1987
Dufresne, M. (2013-11-10): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project
Dufresne, M. (2013-11-25): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project

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