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File Created: 20-Jun-2000 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  22-Jun-2000 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name ANDY LAKE, HAWK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I080
Status Showing NTS Map 092I16E
Latitude 050º 47' 53'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 02' 13'' Northing 5631554
Easting 708799
Commodities Lead, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Andy Lake showing area is underlain by northwest trending, steeply dipping belts of limestone, argillite, andesite and greenstone of the Carboniferous to Triassic Nicola and/or Harper Ranch groups which are intruded by diorite and hornblendite of the Triassic to Jurassic Heffley Creek pluton.

A 1.5-metre thick quartz vein contains sparsely distributed galena crystals and clusters, chalcopyrite and pyrite. Wallrock appears to be diorite.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 17147, *17803
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM 249
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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