The Vines Lake Zinc occurrence is located just west of Vines Lake in northwest British Columbia, 143 kilometres southwest of Watson Lake, Yukon, and 115 kilometres north of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by argillaceous limestones of the Lower Cambrian Rosella Formation (Atan Group) and limy slates/argillites of the Ordovician-Silurian Road River Group.

Outcrops mapped within an anomalous soil zinc zone were not notably mineralized.

In 2011, one lithogeochemical sample (21739) of quartz vein in slaty argillite located proximal to the Road River Group/Rosella Formation contact assayed 0.11 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 33610). In this quartz vein sample, 0.5 per cent of a very fine-grained metallic mineral is disseminated throughout and within hairline fractures; the exact mineral was undetermined.

In 2012, a subcrop sample (4030) of argillite with cherty silica-exhalite(?) bands hosting up to 10 per cent pyrrhotite-pyrite mineralization assayed 0.13 per cent zinc, whereas an outcrop sample (69008) of limestone with wollastonite-calcite skarn hosting minor pyrrhotite-pyrite mineralization assayed 0.10 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 34318).

Work History

In 1996, Cartaway Resources Corp. completed a 3678.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Hot Tip property.

In 2008, Lomiko Metals Inc. completed a helicopter-borne magnetic gradiometer and electromagnetic (VLF) survey totalling 327 line-kilometres on their Vines Lake property. In 2011, Lomiko Metals Inc. conducted an exploration program comprising a soil geochemical survey (1366 samples), geological mapping, a lithogeochemical survey (74 rock samples) and one diamond drill hole totalling 294.5 metres.

In 2012, Limoko Metals completed a further program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the Vines Lake property.