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File Created: 12-Feb-1991 by Carol I. Didson (CID)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name LIL Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J073
Status Showing NTS Map 092J12E, 092J13E
Latitude 050º 44' 40'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 35' 45'' Northing 5621576
Easting 457962
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl., Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Lil property is situated near the headwaters of the Lillooet River in the Pacific ranges of the Coast Crystalline belt.

Paleozoic granitic and amphibolitic gneiss, and quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex underlie most of the property. Felsic to intermediate flows and pyroclastic rocks of the Pliocene to Recent Garibaldi Group cover part of the rocks. All lithologies are intruded by rhyodacite, dacite and basalt dykes. North to northeast and, occasionally, east trending shear zones are also recognized in the area. Mineralization consists of pyrite-sphalerite-galena plus/minus chalcopyrite in quartz veins and as fracture-fillings in shear zones. Disseminated pyrite is common in shears, adjacent to intrusive contacts and as an accompaniment to silicification and clay alteration. A two-metre chip sample from a shear zone in silicified and clay-altered mafic gneiss graded 2.4 grams per tonne gold, 82.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.29 per cent zinc and 0.34 per cent lead (Assessment Report 15571).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9321, 10579, *13476, *15571
EMPR EXPL 1984-230; 1987-C208
EMPR PF (Report by B.D. Fairbank et al., 1979)
GSC OF 482
GSC P 75-1A, pp. 37-40

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