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File Created: 25-Oct-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  27-Nov-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CZ, FLY 25, GI, LEM, LEMON LAKE, GIBBON Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A034
Status Prospect NTS Map 093A06W
Latitude 052º 21' 20'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 15' 47'' Northing 5802005
Easting 618291
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The CZ (Fly 25) occurrence is located near a small swamp or pond, approximately 1.5 kilometres northeast of Lemon Lake and 10.5 kilometres northeast of the community of Horsefly.

Copper mineralization is associated with the Triassic-Jurassic(?) monzonitic to dioritic Lemon Lake stock, which occurs within volcanic rocks of the Nicola Group in the central Quesnel belt. The stock has intruded Upper Triassic basalt and overlying Lower Jurassic breccias containing felsic volcanic and plutonic clasts. These latter breccias are partly coeval with, and form an apron about, the felsic stock. Both the volcanic and the intrusive rocks have alkalic to subalkalic compositions with shoshonitic affinities.

The volcanic rocks adjacent to the stock and parts of the stock itself have undergone propylitic alteration, characterized by the development of calcite, chlorite and epidote. Zeolite alteration in places may also be of hydrothermal origin. Biotite alteration and secondary potassium feldspar is commonly associated with copper mineralization in syenodiorite and monzonite. Copper mineralization also occurs sparsely in the surrounding volcanics. Weakly anomalous gold values have been determined in propylitized volcanic rocks surrounding the stock. Mineralization consists of chalcopyrite, bornite, malachite, pyrrhotite, magnetite, pyrite and molybdenite.

In 1974, a percussion drill hole (74L-4) on the Fly 25 claim intersected a variably k-feldspar-altered biotite monzonite yielding 0.18 per cent copper over 39 metres, including 0.252 per cent copper and 0.34 gram per tonne gold over 21 metres and 0.700 per cent copper and 0.69 gram per tonne over 3 metres (Property File - Mt. Calvery Resources Ltd. [1981-01-01]: Data Compilation - Lemon Lake Cu/Au Prospect).

Since the 1960s, the Lemon Lake area has been explored for gold and silver potential. Historical work includes geophysical surveys, soil and rock sampling, prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and reverse circulation, percussion and diamond drilling.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1966-132; 1967-124
EMPR BULL 97
EMPR EXPL 1987-C244,C245
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, p. 131; 1988, pp. 159-165
EMPR GEM 1973-288; 1974-237
EMPR OF 1987-9; 1989-14, 20; 1990-31
EMPR P 1990-3
EMPR PF (unknown [unknown]: Past Reports on Assessment Work - Lemon Lake Property; J.C. Stephen [1967-02-15]: Report - Cariboo project 1966 - Mastodon Highland Bell Mines; unknown [1967-04-30]: Mineral Claims Map - Lemon Lake; S.H. Pilcher [1973-03-01]: Report on Geological Reconnaissance South Cariboo - P. N. 123, 1972; *Mt. Calvery Resources Ltd. [1981-01-01]: Data Compilation - Lemon Lake Cu/Au Prospect; A.J. Schmidt [1983-12-16]: Notes - ORBEX - Lemon Lake; A.J. Schmidt [1984-02-01]: Summary - Lemon Lake Cu/Au Prospect; J.R. Kerr [1992-01-20]: Letter Re: Summary Report - Lemon Lake Property; J.R. Kerr [1992-03-01]: Press Release - The Quesnel Trough Project; Canim Lake Gold Corp. [1993-06-24]: Prospectus Report on the Lemon Lake Property; Joranex Resources [2005-10-27]: Trip To Lemon Lake; K. Dawson [2006-01-11]: Letter RE: Examination of Lemon Lake porphyry Ca-Au prospect)
GSC MAP 12-1959; 1424A; 1538G
GSC OF 574; 844
Morton, R.F., (1976): Alkalic Volcanism and Copper Deposits in the Horsefly Area, Central British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University

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