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File Created: 09-Dec-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  11-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name LIZARD, LIZARD 1-4 Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C069
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09E
Latitude 048º 36' 44'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 13' 52'' Northing 5385081
Easting 409257
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Lizard occurrence is located on Harris Creek, approximately 700 metres north west of Lizard Lake.

The area is underlain by ultramafic rocks of the Mesozoic and/or Paleozoic Westcoast Complex. Serpentinite outcrops along Harris Creek and is generally dark green and sheared, with a multitude of polished and slickensided surfaces. Magnetite is pervasive in this rock. Narrow bands of altered gneiss occur within the serpentinite, but are not common. Intermediate to mafic intrusives occur at higher elevations and contain disseminated pyrite locally.

Pyrite is locally abundant in the serpentinite and small pods of pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite also occur. Gold values from assays were not considered anomalous.

A soil geochemical survey was performed in 1974, sampling along logging roads in the area from Fairy Creek to Lens Creek, along the north side of the San Juan River. See Read (1974) for Cu, Pb, & Zn results plotted on maps. In 1985 and 1986, Pan Island Resource completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area as the Lizard 1-4 claims. A sample (84MST88) assayed 0.201 per cent copper (Assessment Report 14686).

Bibliography
EM EXPL 2002-29-40
EMPR ASS RPT *14686, 14968
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 525-527; 1989, pp. 503-510
EMPR OF RGS 24
EMPR PF Read, W.S. (1974): Reconnaissance Geochemical Survey, San Juan River Area.
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 74-1A; 76-1A; 79-30
EMPR PFD 6207, 881507, 503168

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