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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Feb-1989 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI 093K15 Pb1
Name TEZZERON LAKE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093K078
Status Showing NTS Map 093K10E
Latitude 054º 44' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 30' 18'' Northing 6067671
Easting 403126
Commodities Lead, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The region in which the Tezzeron Lake showing occurs is underlain mainly by mafic volcanic rocks and associated sediments of the Upper Triassic Takla Group. The Takla Group rocks are in fault contact, to the west, with the Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group.

The area of the showing is underlain by steeply-dipping, thinly-bedded quartzite and slate, overlain by dark green fine-grained basalt. Mineralization comprises pyrite and arsenopyrite along fractures in a 0.6 metre wide quartz vein in basalt. This vein is exposed for about six metres and extends into Tezzeron Lake. Small amounts of galena and sphalerite occur with the iron sulphides. An assay indicated only trace amounts of gold and silver.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1992-69-106
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 69-86, 475-482
EMPR OF 1993-9
EMPR MIN POT MAP 1993-2
GSC OF 2593, 2846
GSC P 38-14, p. 10; 90-1F, pp. 115-120; 91-1A, pp. 7-13
GSC MEM 252-181
GSC MAP 630A; 907A; 1424A
EMPR PFD 256

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