Mineralization, Alteration and Structure of the Taseko Lakes Region (NTS 092O/04), Southwestern British Columbia: Preliminary Analysis

This two-year re search pro ject will in ves ti gate the char ac ter is tics of the volcanoplutonic ar chi tec ture and as so ci ated por phyry-epi ther mal min er al iza tion in the Taseko Lakes re gion, lo cated in south west ern Brit ish Co lum bia (Fig 1). The study will in te grate de tailed geo log i cal, struc tural and al ter ation map ping, pe trol ogy, iso tope geo chem is try and geo chron ol ogi cal anal y ses, with the aim of de vel op ing a con cep tual geo log i cal model for the struc tural and eco nomic evo lu tion of the area to as sist in the ap pli ca tion of pre dic tive ex plo ra tion. Parts of the field area were pre vi ously mapped by Mc Laren (1990) and Is rael and Ken nedy (2001). This paper focuses on the structural and economic geology of the area.