Geology and Mineral Occurrences of the Hendrix Lake Area ( NTS 093 A / 02 ) , South - Central British Columbia

The Takomkane pro ject is a multiyear bed rock map ping pro gram ini ti ated by the Brit ish Co lum bia Geo log i cal Sur vey dur ing the 2005 field sea son. This pro gram is fo cused on Me so zoic arc vol ca nic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the vi cin ity of the Takomkane batholith, which strad dles the Bonaparte Lake (NTS 092P) and Quesnel Lake (NTS 093A) map sheets (Fig 1). Pre vi ous bed rock maps of the area are based on re con nais sance-scale map ping car ried out by the Geo log i cal Sur vey of Can ada in the 1960s. The pur pose of the Takomkane pro ject is to pro vide more de tailed maps and an im proved geo log i cal frame work for in ter pret ing min eral oc cur rences and geo chem i cal anom a lies, and for pre dict ing fa vour able set tings for fu ture dis cov er ies.