The Juniper (Marg 1-2) occurrence is located south of Glen Lake and approximately 17 kilometres west of Peachland.
The area is underlain by granodiorite of the Lower Jurassic Pennask Batholith. Outcrops of Triassic-Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks occur to the east. The Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake Intrusions occur to the south.
Locally, trenching has exposed areas of patchy quartz-sericite alteration carrying up to 15 per cent pyrite with fine stringers of chalcopyrite, trace fine-grained molybdenite and possible bismuthinite(?) in a potassic-altered granodiorite. The area is well fractured with major fractures trending northeast-southwest. The fractures are coated with goethite, hematite and limonite. A shear zone is also reported in the area.
Approximately 300 metres southwest of the trenched zone a 7-centimetre-wide quartz vein hosts anomalous gold and silver values.
Work History
Trenching was reported to have been carried out by Don Agur of Summerland in the early 1960s to expose a potassic alteration zone. A shaft of unknown age, 2 metres wide and 5 metres deep, is also reported in the area. During 1965 through 1969, programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, ground geophysical surveys, trenching and 15 percussion drill holes, totalling 772.5 metres, were reportedly carried out by Juniper Mines Ltd. and Maverick Mines. In 1967, drilling returned values on the order of 0.025 per cent molybdenite, while sampling of trenches and outcrop returned values of 0.87 per cent copper over a length of 125 metres (Assessment Report 7790; PF - Sirola, W.M. (1976-07-30): Juniper Mines Copper-Molybdenum (Cu-Mo) Prospect).
In 1979, Petco Enterprise Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, soil sampling and a 1.6 line-kilometre scintillometer survey on the area as the Marg 1-3 claims. Also, in 1979 and in 1982, Ian Sutherland prospected the area.
In 2013 and 2014, Jordan Lewis completed a minor program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Peach 1 claim. A sample (JJR-13) of oxidized and potassic-altered feldspar porphyry with sulphides, taken from an outcrop located close to the historical shaft, assayed 0.113 per cent copper (Assessment Report 34860). Other highlighted results from the work completed on the claim include a new quartz vein occurrence, located approximately 300 southwest of the historical trench, grading up to 1.5 grams per tonne gold and 32 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 36964; Chapman, J. (2017-10-11): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Amarillo Property). Also at this time, angular skarn float hosting chalcopyrite, molybdenite and scheelite was identified to the northeast of the trenched zone.
In 2016, Troubadour Resources Inc. completed an exploration program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 39.5-line kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Amarillo property. Rock sampling of the historical trenched zone yielded values of up to 0.200 per cent copper, whereas samples of from a zone of quartz breccia, located south of the trenched zone, yielded up to 0.031 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 36964). Also at this time, a sample from the previously identified quartz vein yielded 0.319 gram per tonne gold, whereas a sample of subangular skarn float yielded 0.092 per cent molybdenum and 0.124 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 36964).
In late 2017 and early 2018, Troubadour Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting, geochemical (water, rock and soil) sampling and a 50.3 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the property.
In late 2018 and 2019, Troubadour Resources Inc. completed a program of geochemical (rock, soil and water) sampling and four diamond drill holes, totalling 1341.0 metres, on the Amarillo property. Drilling yielded intercepts including 16.03 grams per tonne silver over 1.5 metres in hole AMAR18-001, located near the historical trench, and 35.25 grams per tonne silver, 0.58 per cent lead and 0.50 per cent zinc over 1.0 metre in hole AMAR18-004, located several hundred metres southwest of the historical trench on a chargeability anomaly (Assessment Report 38807).
