The NOVE 1 showing is located on the east side of Burrell Creek valley, approximately 8.75 kilometres north-northeast of Mount Franklin.

The showing occurs in a small monzonite intrusion of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Okanagan Batholith which hosts syenite and monzonite of the Eocene Coryell intrusions. A bleached and feldspathized-silicified contact zone occurs between these intrusions. A small pendant of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Devonian-Triassic Harper Ranch Group is found 1 kilometre to the west.

The showing consists of disseminated chalcopyrite and a few narrow veinlets of galena in a chlorite-epidote-pyrite-hematite alteration zone measuring about 300 metres by 50 metres wide. Minor quartz veining, feldspar alteration and andesite dikes are noted in drill-logs. A grab sample collected from a trench, 5 metres long, assayed 54 grams per tonne silver, 0.478 gram per tonne gold and 0.43 per cent copper (Property File - Summary Report).

In 1966, an induced polarization survey was carried out over the property by Geofax Surveys Ltd. The survey identified a prime zone measuring approximately 300 metres by 50 metres, and a secondary zone measuring approximately 900 metres by 335 metres.

In 1976, Hesca Resources Corporation Ltd. carried out a 116-metre 2-hole diamond-drill program on the NOVE 1 property. Pyrite, hematite and traces of chalcopyrite were intersected near the bottom of drillhole #2.