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File Created: 15-May-1990 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name LILABET Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G088
Status Showing NTS Map 092G16W
Latitude 049º 50' 08'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 25' 41'' Northing 5520504
Easting 541129
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier
Capsule Geology

The Lilabet showing is located 1.4 kilometres southwest of Fire Lake and 22.5 kilometres northwest of the north end of Harrison Lake.

The showing consists of a breccia zone hosted in the second member of the Lower Cretaceous Brokenback Hill Formation, Fire Lake Group. The unit consists of andesitic flows, and heterolithic volcanic breccias and conglomerates, that have been metamorphosed up to greenschist facies.

The breccia is comprised of a zone of small, white, angular, fine grained, felsic fragments in a chlorite-sulphide matrix. The zone extends northwest for 100 metres and is up to 25 metres wide. The zone contains up to 10 per cent combined pyrite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Disseminated pyrite is restricted to the felsic clasts. A chip sample taken over a length of 100 metres contained 38.4 grams per tonne silver and 1.2919 per cent copper (Assessment Report 11638, pp. 4,5, Sample AA-25091).

The breccia zone was mapped and sampled by Kidd Creek Mines in 1983.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *11638
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184; 1984, pp. 42-53; 1985, pp. 120-131
GSC MAP 1069A; 1151A; 1386A
GSC MEM 335, pp. 42-44
GSC OF 2203
GSC P 86-1B, pp. 699-706; 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195, 197-204; 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Arthur, A. (1987): Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the West Side Of Harrison Lake, Southwestern British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area, British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
Falconbridge File
Falconbridge File
EMPR PFD 650162, 650163

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