Work History

Historic records indicate that this showing was probably staked and hand trenched as part of the Jubilee occurrence (Minfile Occurrence #105D 001) in 1906-10.

Restaked as Jubilee cl 1-6 (YA48321) in Oct/79 by H. Versluce, who carried out hand trenching in 1980. In 1981 Nithex Exploration Ltd optioned the claims and staked JM cl 1-10 (YA51179) in Apr/81 contiguously to the north and west and carried out limited geological mapping, geochemical sampling and drilled 6 holes (304 m) later in the year. Versluce staked JM 11-54 (YA59945) in Aug/81 around the existing claims.

The property was subsequently optioned by Golden Slipper Resources Inc and Logan Mines Ltd, which carried out geochemical soil sampling, geological mapping, EM surveying and drilled 5 holes (404.2 m) in 1982 and staked J cl 1-8 (YA75131) in Sep/82 and M cl 1-14 (YA75287) in Oct/82 to the south and east respectively. In 1983 Golden Slipper and Logan Mines carried out geological mapping and trenching, later in the year Golden Slipper changed its name to Napa Resources Inc.

The property was briefly optioned by Fort Lauderdale Resources Inc in 1987, which reportedly carried out geophysical surveying and geochemical sampling although no report of this work was apparently ever filed for assessment purposes.

The Jubilee claims were restaked as Harry cl 1-6 (YC09123) in Oct/98 by B. Scott and B. Carter who carried out prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling in 1999. Scott and Carter staked Harry cl 7-8 (YC15299) contiguously to the east in Jun/99 and added Harry cl 9-10 (YC19546) also to the east in Jun/2002. During the 2002 season the partners carried out geochemical soil sampling, limited prospecting and geochemical rock sampling on the two newly staked claims.

B. Scott purchased JM cl 25-26 (YA59959) from the estate of H. Versluce in Apr/2004 believing that they were the site of the best drill hole intersection obtained from diamond drilling conducted sometime between 1980 and 1986. Later in the month Scott and B. Carter spent one day prospecting and looking for evidence of diamond drilling carried out on the two claims. In Mar/2006 Scott transferred a 50% interest in the two claims to Carter. The property was later lapsed.

In 2015, Strategic Metals Ltd. staked 16 claims and performed one day of prospecting and soil sampling. Following good results, Strategic staked and additional 48 claims.

In 2021, Strategic Metals performed soil sampling and prospecting.

Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by Carboniferous to Triassic Cache Creek Group basaltic flows, pyroclastic rocks and intercalated cherts that form a roof pendant above, or an embayment into a large dunite intrusion. Gold-bearing arsenopyrite occurs with chalcopyrite, minor pyrrhotite and pyrite and quartz-calcite gangue in a 1 to 2 m wide vein and stockwork zone in a 10 to 25 m wide east-west, vertically-dipping shear zone (Jubilee Shear zone) that has an indicated strike length exceeding 1 600 m.

The average grade of seven trenches was 9.3 g/t gold, 27.4 g/t silver and 1.0% copper across 1.5 m. A length of 300 m was suggested by the EM and geochemical anomalies. Drilling showed that the mineralization is erratically distributed but locally more widespread than indicated by surface work. Four of 11 drillholes intersected significant mineralization. The best results were from Hole J82-1, which averaged 0.69 g/t gold, 6.9 g/t silver and 0.35% copper over 21.8 m. 
Scott and Carter discovered a second smaller shear zone (Jube Shear zone) that is parallel with and located 640 m south of the Jubilee Shear zone. Limited sampling of this zone returned values of 4.5 and 3.6 g/t gold, 2.7 and 1.9 g/t silver and 5 810 and 4 087 ppm copper respectively from two grab samples collected about 9 m apart along the shear zone.

The work in 2002 was carried out to test for extensions of geochemical and geophysical anomalies reportedly defined during work in 1987. Results of the 2002 work were disappointing with only a couple of soil gechemical spot highs for gold and silver of 41 ppb and 0.9 ppm, respectively. Two rock samples collected from just north of the soil grid and consisting of limonitically stained chert with quartz veinlets and minor sulfides on the fractures returned peak values of only 23 and 24 ppb gold.

Scott and Carter failed to uncover any evidence that diamond drilling ever occurred on JM claims 25-26. Three hand samples collected by the men did not contain mineralization but did confirmed the geology of the area.

In 2015, Strategic Metals Ltd. performed one day of prospecting and soil sampling. Four of six rock samples collected from the historical hand trenches returned 5.49 to 31.3 g/t gold. Silver and copper values were also strongly anomalous with peak values of 95.3 g/t silver and 4.72% copper, respectively. Soil sampling was done at 50 m by 100 m intervals over an 800 m by 400 m area centered on the hand trenches. This sampling returned values up to 391 ppb gold, 4.7 ppm silver and 1500 ppm copper.