The Annie Oakley occurrence lies along the Okanagan Connector (Highway 97c), 1.7 kilometres south of the south end of Elkhart Lake and 48.5 kilometres north-northeast of Princeton.

The area is underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group which have been intruded by granitic rocks of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake Batholith to the southeast and granodioritic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Pennask Batholith to the north.

This occurrence is hosted in variably silicified andesite of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The andesite is cut by a fault zone (Annie Oakley fault), striking 130 degrees and dipping 20 degrees south. This fault is possibly a splay off the Brew fault (see Brew, 092HNE275), 1.35 kilometres northwest. The zone is strongly clay altered and occasionally cut by quartz veins up to 6 centimetres wide. Trace to 1 per cent fine-grained pyrite is present within the fault.

In 1990, a rock sample (16961) from a 10-centimetre wide quartz vein with pyrite yielded 1.20 grams per tonne gold, whereas a sample (16956) of faulted and clay-altered andesite assayed 1.17 grams per tonne gold and 19.4 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 20994, page 10).

In 1991, a sample of chips from a 2-centimetre wide drusy quartz vein, associated with a narrow clay shear, assayed 2.43 grams per tonne gold, 38.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.27 per cent copper and 1.71 per cent arsenic (sample WART-R2; Assessment Report 21922, page 9, Table 2). Two other samples of quartz vein material containing scattered grains and bands of galena and sphalerite assayed 1.17 to 2.23 grams per tonne gold, 264.7 to 1046 grams per tonne silver, 0.15 to 0.53 per cent lead, 0.92 per cent zinc and 0.38 to 0.82 per cent arsenic (samples WART-R1, WART-R3; Assessment Report 21922, page 9, Table 2).

Also at this time, a sample (ELK91-R5) of an oxidized and phyllic-altered granite, located near Boulder Lake to the east of the occurrence, yielded 0.63 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22368). The exact location of this sample is not known.

Work History

In 1972, Orequest Explorations Syndicate completed a program of soil sampling and a 38.4 line-kilometre ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Duchess claim. Prior to this minor programs of soil sampling and trenching are reported to have been completed by D. Agur.

In 1988, Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, soil and heavy mineral) sampling on the area as the Wart 1-4 claims.

In 1989 and 1990, Minnova Inc. completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, soil and heavy minerals) sampling on the Wart claims.

In 1991, Kingsvale Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the King property.

In 2010, Victory Resources Corp. completed a photogeological structural (lineament) analysis program on the area as the Toni property. In 2015, a further program of photogeological structural (lineament) analysis and a 2.1 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey was completed on the area.

The area immediately south, east and west of the occurrence have been explored as apart of the Elk (MINFILE 092HNE096) property.