The Wakefield showing is underlain by the Early Bird Formation, equivalent to the Middle Cambrian to Middle Devonian Index Formation (Lardeau Group). Several quartz-siderite veins in limestone host galena, sphalerite and pyrite. The bedding of the formation strikes nearly north-south and dips westerly at about 45 degrees. The veins cut across the formation at right angles and dip steeply south. The property was first developed in the 1890s and at least three main veins have been developed by tunnels. A Sample from one of the tunnels asayed 11.40 per cent lead, 6.90 per cent zinc and 99.43 grams per tonne silver across 70 centimetres (Starr, 1952 (Property File)).

This group of claims is located near the mouth of Woodbury Creek. Originally staked by the Canadian Pacific Mining & Milling Co. of Minneapolis in 1896, the group consists of the Amazon, Budweiser No. 2, Superior and Wakefield claims. Three tunnels were driven on the Budweiser claim, one on a fault plane, the other two along fissures. On the Amazon claim a 36 metre tunnel was driven on a vein dipping 70 degrees to the south. On the Wakefield claim a 43 metre shaft was put down on a vein containing galena and gold. Apparently no further work was done on this property for about 40 years. In 1939, the owner of the Amazon claim is recorded as J.R. Tuikess of Kaslo. By 1941, ownership of this claim had passed to T. E. Levasseur of Nelson. A leasee worked the property that summer, obtaining 286 tonnes of ore from the old workings.

The Kaslo Base Metals Co. of Vancouver obtained the Budweiser No. 2, Amazon, Superior and Superior Fraction claims in 1951. They did some exploratory work on the Amazon and Budweiser No. 2 claims. The property was taken over by the Woodbury Mines Co. Ltd. in 1952. A tunnel was begun on the Superior claim just above the highway, the proposal being to drive 366 metres of tunnel in order to intersect several veins at a lower depth. By the end of the following year about 244 metres of the proposed tunnel had been completed. The project was abandoned by this company and no further work was done on it until 1956 when the property was taken over again by Kaslo Base Metals Co. Ltd. The exploratory tunnel was extended by 56 metres. At 276 metres from the portal a new vein was intersected. It contained 7 to 10 centimetres of galena and replacement ore extended into the walls to a width of 0.6 metre. At 302 metres from the portal, the downward protection of a fissure vein exposed in Woodbury Creek canyon was intersected. This vein had been followed by old drift workings which extended east and west from the canyon 43 and 1 metres respectively. A raise was driven from the Superior tunnel to the west drift, 4.5 metres vertically above. No further work has been done.