The Roy occurrence is located approximately 1.6 kilometres north of the north end of Lambly Lake and 15 kilometres north-northwest of Westbank.

The area is underlain by greenstone and volcaniclastic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Harper Ranch Group, which in turn, is overlain to the southeast by trachyte to trachyandesite flows, ash flow tuff and minor mudstone of the Eocene Kitley Lake Formation (Penticton Group).

Locally, an altered volcanic of intermediate composition and rich in titaniferous magnetite was intersected between 112 metres and 161 metres depth in a lone 1970 diamond drill hole. No assays were reported.

Work History

The area was explored for copper in 1970 by the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Company Limited as the Roy claim group. Work consisted of a soil sampling program, a 51.0 line-kilometre magnetometer survey, 90 metres of trenching and a lone diamond drill hole, totalling 158.4 metres. In 1973, a program of line-cutting and a 24.0 line-kilometre ground magnetometer survey was carried out by Wharf Resources Ltd. and French Explorations Ltd. on the Roy claims.

In 1980, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, soil and water) sampling on the area immediately south of the occurrence as the Nogan 1-2 claims. Subsequent prospecting and geological mapping by M. Morrison in 1986 and 1987 on the area as the Jubilation 1-4 claims identified a hornblende diorite intrusive in the area of the occurrence. In 1989, M. Morrison carried out a 6.5 line-kilometre magnetometer survey over the area.