The Law occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1170 metres in the western headwaters of Lindley Creek, south of the Nicola River and approximately 8.5 kilometres west of the community of Merritt.
Regionally, the western portion of the property is underlain by Mesozoic-Lower Cretaceous andesitic volcanic rocks belonging to the Spences Bridge Group, including amygdaloidal basalt, black aphanitic andesite, mafic volcanic breccia and rarely seen epiclastic rocks. The eastern half of the property is underlain by Cenozoic-Eocene andesitic rocks of the Princeton Group. To the north, Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanic, volcaniclastic and sedimentary rocks are exposed along Logan Creek toward the Nicola River.
Locally, the Nicola Group rocks are intensely altered and chloritized. Lenses of crystalline limestone host skarn development. A dark-grey, 3-metre wide, diabase dike strikes 040 degrees and dips 80 degrees to the west. The dike contains minor magnetite, chalcopyrite and specular hematite along widely spaced fine fractures. Small sphalerite veinlets and weak disseminations of pyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite are exposed at widely separated locations in Nicola Group rocks and their skarn equivalents. Heavy pyritization is reported in felsic volcanic rocks of the region.
Previous and recent work on the area has revealed widespread, low-grade copper, gold, silver, lead and zinc over a distance of at least 2000 metres (Assessment Report 37053).
In 1966, drilling produced values in the range of 0.02 to 0.04 per cent copper with the exception of hole 1, where values of 0.16 and 0.10 per cent copper over widths of 3.0 metres were reported (Assessment Report 37053).
In 1967, 66 tonnes of crude ore was shipped from an unknown location on the property and yielded 170.1 grams of gold, 19.3 kilograms of silver and 925.8 kilograms of lead. Zinc veinlets and weak disseminations of chalcopyrite and bornite were reported but there no is record of either zinc or copper being recovered from this shipment (Assessment Report 37053).
In 1969, assay results from drillhole #1 included 0.156 gram per tonne gold, 18.75 grams per tonne silver, 1.05 per cent lead and 0.86 per cent zinc to a depth of 27.4 metres. Assay results from drillhole #3 included a 7.62-metre section assaying 0.3 per cent copper. The geochemical survey indicated several copper and zinc anomalies (Assessment Report 37053).
In 2018, a rock sample (L16HR-1) of altered rusty volcanic from the area of historical trenching assayed 0.963 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 38041).
An extensive magnetite skarn zone at the contact between an intrusive diorite stock and Nicola greenstones has also been reported in the area.
Two other zones of anomalous mineralization are reported on the area. The first—a zone of massive pyrite near an outcrop of porphyritic andesite (skarn)—is reported southeast of Morgan Lake and approximately 1.5 kilometres east of the Law occurrence. The second zone is located approximately 3 kilometres west-southwest of the Law occurrence and comprises disseminated and veinlet chalcopyrite-bornite±chalcocite with disseminated magnetite hosted in tuffaceous beds, crystal tuffs and/or feldspar porphyry. The mineralized zone has been traced for approximately 750 metres along a northeast trend crossing Pony Creek on the former TO 4 and C 10-11 (Lot 15) claims. No assays are known from these zones.
Work History
In 1958, Georgia Mineral Industries Ltd. completed a 26.0 line-kilometre ground magnetometer survey on the area immediately north of the occurrence as the H.S. mineral claims.
In 1966, ASARCO performed 24.1 line-kilometres of induced polarization and magnetometer surveys and completed 11 percussion drill holes, totaling 339.9 metres. In 1967, Copper Hill Mining and Exploration Ltd. held and examined the area. Also at this time, Consolidated Skeena Mines Ltd. completed a soil sampling program was completed on the area immediately southwest of the occurrence as the C, To and Crow claims of the Canford-Racine property. In 1969, Mr. Bourgh conducted a program consisting of three drillholes and a reconnaissance geochemical survey.
In 1971, Sunex International Resources Ltd. examined the area as the Lot and Lor claims.
During 2010 through 2012, Lucas Handley prospected the area as the Owl claims.
In 2013 and 2014, Ken Ellerbeck prospected and soil sampled the area. In 2016 and 2017, Billiken Group Ltd. conducted programs of reconnaissance geological mapping and geochemical (rock, soil and stream sediment) sampling programs.
In 2018, Eugene Dodd, on the behalf of Karl Bauer, completed a minor program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area.
