The Syrup occurrence is located approximately 4 kilometres west-northwest of Lambly Lake and 15.5 kilometres northwest of Peachland.

Regionally, the area is underlain by metasedimentary rocks and volcaniclastic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Harper Ranch Group that have been intruded by quartz diorite to granodiorite of the Middle Jurassic Okanagan Batholith.

Locally, mineralization consists of rusty, vuggy quartz veins and stringers in an area of pyritic hornfelsed metasediments.

In 1989, a sample of a 3-centimetre wide quartz vein containing 15 per cent pyrite assayed 0.0535 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19570). Minor silica-clay alteration was noted on fractures near the sample site. Pyrrhotite is common along bedding planes in the adjacent black shales.

Also at this time, a sample (JS-6-R) from a 2-centimetre wide pyritic quartz vein, located approximately 1.4 kilometres southwest of the first sample, assayed 0.033 per cent molybdenum, whereas a sample (89-BS-36R) of pyritic silica-sericite–altered greenstone, located approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the first sample assayed 0.161 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 19570).

Work History

In 1989, Rea Gold Corp., on the behalf of Verdstone Gold Corp., completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Syrup 1-2 claims.