The White Knight occurrence is located immediately north of the Canada-United States border, approximately 2.75 kilometres south of Kilpoola Lake.
Regionally, the area is underlain by pyroxenite, gneiss, greenstone and quartzite of the Carboniferous to Permian Kobau Group along the eastern contact of the Jurassic Kruger Intrusion.
The White Knight vein system is thought to be a continuation of quartz veins that occur in the former Submarine mine. This mine borders the White Knight approximately 250 metres to the southwest and is located in the United States of America.
Locally, at the White Knight occurrence, the Kruger syenite consists of a complex of syenite dikes striking 120 degrees and dipping 85 degrees northwest or striking 090 degrees and dipping 70 degrees north. The syenite hosts numerous connected and highly fractured and brecciated quartz veins, varying from 0.15 to 4.6 metres true width, which are erratically mineralized with fine grained and disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and trace amounts of argentite and tetrahedrite. These minerals also occur as streaks and fracture coatings. Chlorite, carbonate, and greisen alteration occur adjacent to the quartz veins except where the vein is brecciated.
Development includes three exploratory adits, 25 to 35 metres long, driven into the veins. The main crosscut adit intersected three successive quartz veins, all striking 005 degrees and dipping 15 degrees southeast. The main adit starts along a bearing of 355 degrees then curves northward after 30 metres. Other sloughed cuts or drifts are reported approximately 120 and 150 metres to the east of the main workings. It is estimated that a total of approximately 36,300 tonnes of material has been removed.
In 1920, a sample taken from one of the adits carried high values in silver and 17.0 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1920, page 158).
In 1968, a chip sample (12413) from the mouth of the White Knight adit assayed 0.28 per cent copper and 120 grams per tonne silver (Property File - W.R. Bacon [1968-10-03]: Correspondence RE: White Knight-Lone Pine Property, Osoyoos, B.C.).
In 1989, a 1 metre channel sample across a 2-metre wide vein exposed in the White Knight no.2 adit assayed 0.60 gram per tonne gold, 91.5 grams per tonne silver, 1.85 per cent lead, 0.65 per cent zinc and 0.27 per cent copper (Property File - Minnova Inc. [1989-01-01]: Property Exams: Okanagan Valley 1989). Also at this time, a 2.1-metre long and 5-centimetre wide channel sample (LP89006) from the east wall of the Submarine adit yielded 1.36 grams per tonne gold, 337.0 grams per tonne silver, 2.61 per cent lead, 2.62 per cent zinc and 0.58 per cent copper (Property File - Minnova Inc. [1989-01-01]: Property Exams: Okanagan Valley 1989).
A vertical shaft, of unknown depth, is reported approximately 2 kilometres to the north- north west. The shaft exposes a 1 metre wide quartz vein hosted by phyllites with pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite mineralization. The vein dips steeply west and strikes approximately north. In 1989, a dump sample (LP006) assayed 0.13 gram per tonne gold and 5.0 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Minnova Inc. [1989-01-01]: Property Exams: Okanagan Valley 1989).
The White Knight claim was originally staked and Crown granted to F.H. Wollaston in 1901. Gold and silver mineralization was discovered prior to 1901, when a precious metal vein was revealed to the south on the adjoining Submarine claim in the United States of America. In 1920, the ground was staked as the Silver Crown claim, part of the Silver Crown group which consisted of the Silver Crown, Silver Leaf and North Pole claims in Canada and the Submarine claim in the United States of America. The claim group was owned by A. Hagelberg and P. Nelson. By 1921, three tunnels (27, 29 and 30 metres long respectively) had been developed on the Silver Crown. In 1922, the claims were optioned to London Exploration Co. The land has been owned and explored intermittently since then. In 1965, the ground was held under Mineral Lease M39. Anuk River Mines Ltd. owned the land in 1965 as the White Knight and Lone Pine claims. Also at this time, the area was examined by Utica Mines Limited. In 1980, the claims were owned by J. Wishart and purchased in the same year by Kaaba Resources Inc. During 1987 through 1989, Minnova Inc. examined and sampled the area as the LP claims.
