The Jubilation (Nogan) occurrence is located approximately 1 kilometre northwest of the north end of Lambly Lake and 16 kilometres northwest of Peachland.

Regionally, the area is underlain by metasedimentary rocks and volcaniclastic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Harper Ranch Group which have been intruded by quartz diorite to granodiorite of the Middle Jurassic Okanagan Batholith. Undivided volcanic rocks of the Eocene Penticton Group overlay the older units.

Locally, a hornfelsed limy argillite which is bleached and altered is cut by quartz veinlets with pyrite.

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.

The occurrence was first identified in 1980 by Cominco Ltd. during a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, soil and water) sampling on the area as the Nogan 1-2 claims. A sample (G30) which contained 5 per cent quartz and 1 per cent pyrite, assayed 1.04 grams per tonne gold and 9.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 9186).

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 to the northeast of the showing and re-interpreted the showing as being part of a large shear zone. Contact metamorphic effects appear to increase toward the southeast and fade toward the northwest. A soil sample collected in this area by Morrison contained 0.840 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16504). This attracted the attention of Chevron Canada Ltd. who optioned the property in 1987 and carried out an unsuccessful trenching program. They dropped the option and did not file an assessment report on their work. In 1989, M. Morrison carried out a 6.5 line-kilometre magnetometer survey over the area. The results did not prove useful in delineating mineralized fault zones.