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File Created: 15-Aug-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)
Last Edit:  21-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name LAWLESS, COLE, MARK, DALE, LESLIE Mining Division Greenwood, Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E004
Status Showing NTS Map 082E03E
Latitude 049º 00' 49'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 12' 42'' Northing 5431326
Easting 338283
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Lawless occurrence is located at 1112 metres elevation, 300 metres south of Highway 3 and 4.5 kilometres southwest of Bridesville, British Columbia.

The property is owned by L. Lehman who first staked the ground in 1987. No previous work is known. Since this time, work consisted of prospecting, hand trenching and small scale geophysical surveys. In 1992, a reverse circulation drill program was carried out on the Lawless 1, 2, 5 and 6 claims, totalling 670.6 metres. The program was based on the results of an earlier geochemical and geological program in 1989. During 2008 through 2012, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. completed programs of geochemical (rock, stream sediment and soil) sampling, geological mapping and airborne and ground geophysical surveys on the Dayton-Sidley area of the Greenwood Property.

The showing is underlain by a sequence of metasediments and metavolcanics of the Carboniferous to Permian Anarchist Group. Greenstone, quartzite, greywacke, limestone and locally paragneiss comprise the Anarchist Group. These have been intruded by granodiorite, quartz diorite, granite, quartz monzonite, monzonite and syenite of the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions.

Lithologies encountered at the Lawless occurrence include quartzite and amphibolite, locally designated amphibolite gneiss, gneiss, biotite schist and locally developed skarn. The gneiss is differentiated from the amphibolite gneiss by a strong banding. Alteration consists primarily of oxidation of pyrite to limonite and hematite. Pervasive silicification is the most prominent alteration type, occurring as broad replacement, as quartz or quartz-calcite veins. Minor chlorite and calcite alteration is disseminated or in fractures. Secondary quartz-calcite veinlets also occur locally. Hornblende biotite granodiorite is locally silicified. Carbonate is common along fractures and as veinlets. Hornblende pyroxene diorite also occurs.

Mineralization found at the Lawless showing consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite associated with silicification or veins, and molybdenite associated with quartz veinlets in granodiorite and diorite. Scheelite has also possibly been identified.

Significant gold and silver values were obtained from assays of reverse circulation-drill hole samples. The best silver value, 7.6 grams per tonne, was from the 1.5-metre interval from 22.9 to 24.4 metres in Hole 1 (Assessment Report 22666). Several holes had significant gold values. The 1.5-metre interval from 25.9 to 27.4 metres in Hole 3 yielded 6.1 grams per tonne gold. The same interval in Hole 6 yielded 1.5 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 22666). Sample A, of the molybdenite mineralization taken in 1989, yielded 0.161 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 18109).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *18109, *22666
EMPR OF 1898-5
GSC MAP 84A; 538A; 539A; 37-21; 15-1961; 1738A
GSC MEM 38, pp. 389-423
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969
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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