INTRODUCTION Regional metallogeny deals with broad aspects of the genesis of mineral deposits, particularly their distribution in time and space. Here we are concerned with such a study of a 28 700-square-kilometre area in the southwestern corner of British Columbia, including much of the Vancouver and Hope map-areas (NTS 92 G and H) and small parts of the adjoining mapareas to the north (NTS92...

The geological setting is dominated by Eocene (48.7 Ma) syncollisional granitoids in the form of a small pluton in the Motajica Mt. and in the form of numerous sills and dykes in the Prosara Mt. Microelement paragenesis of these magmatites, pegmatites, greisens and quartz veins are distinguished by U, Th, Ce, Y, P, Nb, Ta, B, Li, F, Be, Sn, Mo, W, Fe, Cu, Pb. These elements and 87Sr/86Sr and δ1...