The Lemon occurrence is located at 1036 metres elevation west of Jolly (Rock) Creek, 3.5 kilometres east of the Cariboo-Amelia (082ESW020) of the historic Camp McKinney. Bridesville, British Columbia lies 8.5 kilometres to the south-southwest.

The Victoria (Lot 218), and Old England (Lot 658) were the two producing Crown-granted claims of the former Old England claim Group. The Lemon (Lot 760) and Snowdon (Lot 583) Crown grants were also part of the former Old England claim group. The initial discovery of gold in the vicinity of the McKinney camp was made on the Victoria occurrence in 1884.

The Lemon occurrence is hosted by a sequence of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Permian to Carboniferous Anarchist Group. To the north are granite and granodiorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Okanagan batholith. Granite of the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions occurs to the southwest. Eocene Penticton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie locally sheared amphibolite and serpentinite bodies to the east. For a more detailed description of the geology refer to the Victoria occurrence (082ESW021).

Development work was recorded on the Lemon occurrence as early as 1896. At this time, an opencut 6.1 by 2.7 by 1.8 metres was excavated east of a main shaft and penetrated the main shaft at 3 metres depth. At this time, the property was owned by M.T. Greevy and was Crown granted in the following year. The location of descriptive information given in 1901 is uncertain but has been provided for completeness. The Lemon, Pennsylvania, Last Chance, Gold Standard and Galena claims were held by Lemon Gold Mining Co. A 69-metre shaft was reported to pass under Rock (Stanhope?) Creek. From the 38-metre level, a 17-metre south and a 15-metre north drift were excavated and all ore (amount unknown) is reported to have come from this level (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1901, page 1152). The 63-metre level was also drifted north and south. A 5-stamp mill was reported to have been erected also (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1901, page 1152).

Little exploration work has been conducted on the Lemon occurrence since these early times. The property has been owned since the late 1970s by A. Hook and C. Heady.

The occurrence consisted of a shear hosted, quartz vein mineralized with iron sulphides and was capped by 'iron' to a depth of 3 metres. The vein was traced on surface for 518 metres along a northeast trend. The country rocks on the east side of the vein are quartzite while those on the west side are black slate.

Rock grab sample 281-87bk-284 taken in 1987 from a quartz vein with 5 to 10 per cent pyrite yielded 1.74 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16653).