The Victoria-Jessie occurrence is located on Toad Mountain, 12.8 kilometres south of Nelson. Production is recorded from this property, Crown granted in 1894-95, in 1907 and again in the 1940's.

The area is underlain by sheared, schistose augite basalt flows, breccia flows and subvolcanic intrusions of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation, Rossland Group. These have been intruded by plagioclase porphyry of the Late (?) to Middle Jurassic Silver King Porphyry. Shearing (Silver King shear) and metamorphism is prevalent in the area. Regionally, schists are host to northwest trending shears, parallel to foliation, which host quartz veins with sulphides.

A drift exposes a wide zone of alternating schist with quartz stringers and lenses in northwest trending shears or east-west cross fractures. Mineralization comprises iron sulphides, in this area commonly pyrite, chalcopyrite, and galena, which also occur in the host rock. The mineralized zones follow zones of shearing and are conformable with the host rock which strikes 115 degrees and dips 50 degrees south.

Production totalled 3255 tonnes of material which yielded 3.79 kilograms of gold, 94.12 kilograms of silver and 83,577 kilograms of copper.

Work History

In 2001 and 2002, Apex completed programs of soil sampling and rock sampling on the area. Two grab samples from the Victoria-Jesse workings yielded an average of 10.82 grams per tonne gold (Moose Mountain Technical Services [2021-07-19]: NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties).

In 2017, Prize Mining completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, a ground magnetic survey, 1180 metres of trenching, environmental (water) sampling and 18 diamond drill holes, totalling 2694.77 metres, on the area as the Daylight property.