The William Lake occurrence is located on an unnamed creek flowing southwest into Williams Lake, at northern Vancouver Island.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation volcanics. The rocks strike northwest and dip to the southwest.

Locally, chalcopyrite and bornite occur as fracture fillings in dark-coloured amygdaloidal andesite. Minor native copper and malachite are also reported.

Work History

During 1968 through 1970, Quintana Minerals Corp. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling, trenching and a 31.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the Cape Scott (CS) claims. Also in 1968 and 1969, Utah Construction and Mining completed a program of geological mapping and a soil geochemical survey on the Aird 1-20 claims, immediately to the north. In 1990 and 1991, Universal Trident Industries staked the Will and Lake claims and completed a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling. In 1990, rock sampling returned up to 13,805 parts per million copper and 24.2 parts per million silver (Sample 32781; Assessment Report 21371).

In 2018 and 2019, MK2 Ventures Ltd. and District Metals Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geological and structural mapping, geochemical (rock, soil, and stream sediment) sampling and an 804 line-kilometre airborne geophysical (VTEM) survey on the area as the Bakar property.