The Juno occurrence is located at the head of Cascade Creek at 1524 metres elevation above sea level in the Slocan Mining Division.
Regionally, the area lies within the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. The occurrence is within the Kootenay Arc, a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the Paleozoic Lardeau and Milford groups. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoid plutons and has been metamorphosed to at least middle greenschist facies before the emplacement of the mineralization.
The Juno property is underlain by andesite, sandstone, siltstone and phyllite which forms the lower portion of the Broadview Formation of the Lardeau Group. The rocks have been folded in a series of northwest-trending folds that were subsequently thrusted in a northeasterly direction along local faults (Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 193).
The occurrence consists of a well defined quartz vein 30 to 60 centimetres in width mineralized with pyrite, galena and sphalerite. The vein strikes east and dips 45 degrees north. A 60 centimetre chip sample from the vein assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 600 grams per tonne silver, 29 per cent lead and 29.8 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925). The vein has been explored with several surface trenches and a 12-metre long adit.
During 1987 and 1988 Ambergate Explorations conducted an exploration program which consisted of 1:10000 scale mapping, a soil survey, and trenching on their Amber 1-4 claims in which the Juno showing is located. A follow-up to the 87-88 exploration program was done in 1994 by Lumby Resources Corporation, an optionee of Kenrich Mining Corporation, formerly Ambergate Explorations. This program extended the soil survey in the Juno, West Ridge (082KSW197), and White Eagle (082KSW126) showing areas (Assessment Report 23669).
