The Chris occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 700 metres, west of Lambly Creek and approximately 4.6 kilometres northwest of the creeks’ mouth on Okanagan Lake.

The area is underlain by Eocene sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Penticton Group, unconformably overlying and in fault contact with argillaceous sediments Upper Triassic Nicola Group and volcaniclastics of the Carboniferous to Permian Harper Ranch Group.

Locally, a 25-metre wide shear zone, striking approximately 170 degrees, in metasediments hosts a 0.25-metre wide quartz-sericite-calcite vein with pyrite.

Work History

In 1988, John Stushnoff completed a program of prospecting and minor sampling on the area centered approximately 4.5 kilometres to the southeast of the anomaly as the Chris claims. This work identified fine particles of gold, up to 1 by 2 millimetres in size, in the gravels of Lambly Creek near its junction with a minor east flowing tributary. Rock samples of metasediments and gangue with quartz nodules and minor sulphides (pyrite) from the area yielded up to 0.143 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17364). Other reports indicate samples of narrow quartz veins and gouge zones from the shear zone yielded up to 17 grams per tonne gold (Property File – 824920).

The occurrence was visited by L. Lee in 1989. A sample (KT011-G) of rusty gouge from the shear zone yielded 1.20 grams per tonne gold and 5.8 grams per tonne silver (Property File – 824920).