The Cedar Lake zone occurrence is located on upper Storey Creek near a small lake.

The area is underlain by north- striking carbonates and calcareous sediments of the Quatsino and Parson Bay formations overlying Karmutsen Formation tholeiitic basalts, all of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group. Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group andesitic to rhyodacitic lava, tuff, breccia and minor sediments are coeval with, or genetically related to, granodiorite of the Nimpkish batholith of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. Strong, regional north to northwest trending faults, often defining intrusive and lithological contacts, traverse the area.

Locally, a number of skarn zones extend over a strike length of over 500 metres.

The main Cedar Lake zone is exposed for more than 10 metres in width and can be followed for nearly 100 metres along a major limestone-granodiorite contact, where it becomes covered with vegetation and shallow overburden. Massive magnetite with disseminated pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite occur at the contact, and coarse, green diopside skarn with disseminated sphalerite forms a shoot adjoining the recrystallized limestone.

In 1995, a 5 by 5 metre chip panel sample of the pyritic magnetite yielded 0.22 per cent copper and trace precious metals. A 3 metre chip sample of the diopside skarn assayed 2.7 per cent zinc and trace precious metal values (Assessment Report 24207).

The West Cedar Lake zone is located about 250 metres northwest of the Cedar Lake zone and is likely a direct continuation of the mineralized contact. The outcrops are very oxidized, can be followed for more than 100 metres in length and are reported to be of similar widths and mineralogy to the Cedar Lake zone.

Approximately 100 metres southeast of the Cedar Lake zone, a sub-cropping skarn zone is found along the contact.

For several hundred metres downstream from the Cedar Lake zone, the upper Storey Creek area hosts several small skarn occurrences in recrystallized grey-white limestone around felsic dikes. A small amount of magnetite, chalcopyrite, hematite, pyrite, and sphalerite was found in the skarns, which are otherwise notable for the presence of hard, green serpentine. Minor folds host disseminated sphalerite near one serpentinized skarn zone.

Work History

During 1989 through 2006, J.W. Laird completed programs of rock sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Nimpkish and CBL 1-10 claims. In 2019, Ridgeline Exploration Services completed a 454.3 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Nimpkish (Wolf) property.