The Maybe occurrence is located at 853 metres elevation, 250 metres northeast of the Crown Point occurrence (082ESW064). Since 1938 the ground hosting the Maybe occurrence has been owned by owners of the Crown Point (Lot 2448) Crown grant and other claims. The Crown grant was part of the Crown Point group which consisted of the Crown Point (Lot 2448), Crown Point Fraction (Lot 2449), Triangle Fraction (Lot 1448), Sunnyside (Lot 1440), No. 2 (Lot 2447), No. 3 (Lot 2445) and Enio (Lot 2852). The Maybe occurrence lies on the northeast side of the Crown Point Fraction (Lot 2449) claim (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1949, pages 148-149). The Crown Point, Triangle Fraction and Sunnyside are presently Reverted Crown grants; the remaining are of unknown status.
In 1938, the property was owned by G.E. White. In 1948, Wanke and Johnson leased the Maybe property and mined 110 tonnes of ore. The lease lapsed and White continued mining in the following year. The Maybe adit has been flooded since this time. Since the 1980s, J. Kucheron has owned the claims covering the Maybe occurrence. Various companies have optioned the claims. Exploration programs have consisted primarily of soil geochemistry and magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical surveys.
The Maybe occurrence lies within an inlier of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Anarchist Group. Greenstone, locally tuffaceous and serpentinized, and quartzite are the predominant host lithology. Argillite and quartzite, locally cherty, minor limestone and magnesite with mariposite, and gneiss comprise the remaining hostrocks of the Anarchist Group. Greenstones are propylitic altered, consisting primarily of chlorite and calcite. Minor silicification is also present. At the main Maybe shaft, the quartzite wallrock is strongly sheared. To the east is a small stock of granodiorite and microdiorite of the Cretaceous Okanagan batholith. Eocene volcanic rocks of the Penticton Group occur to the north and west. These include feldspar porphyries and aplite dikes. The contact between these units is faulted. The greenstone is folded, faulted and has a variable northwest to north foliation.
Mineralization on the Maybe claim consists of quartz veins and veinlets with stringers of galena and sphalerite with disseminated pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. The veins are hosted in a 5-metre wide shear zone that strikes 022 degrees and dips 35 to 55 degrees southeast. Veins have been exposed by trenching. In trench 1, a 10-centimetre wide quartz vein was exposed. In trench 2, a 20-centimetre wide quartz vein contains galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite with malachite staining and bornite. The vein strikes approximately 015 degrees and dips 32 degrees to the southeast. At the mouth of the main Maybe adit a 5-centimetre wide vuggy quartz vein with disseminated pyrite was observed. Strong shearing was apparent.
The results of rock geochemistry, in 1981, were as follows: sample 017412 yielded 0.06 gram per tonne gold, 6.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.17 per cent copper, 0.04 per cent lead and 1.20 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 9909); sample 017413 yielded 0.06 gram per tonne gold and 0.34 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 9909). The samples were from Trenches 1 and 2, respectively.
The Maybe occurrence has a recorded production of 160 tonnes from which 35,084 grams of silver, 155 grams of gold, 11,488 kilograms of lead and 9609 kilograms of zinc were recovered. Mining occurred in 1949 and 1950.
