The Lucky Boy (Lot 632) is situated on the south slope of Goat Mtn. which is at the head of Jackson (Stenson) Creek, a tributary of Kaslo Creek. It is accessible by road and trail up Jackson Creek from Retallack station.
Work on the claim was begun in 1893 and continued intermittently up to 1910. Thereafter the property lay idle for many years and the workings, including two, perhaps more, adits, became inaccessible. In 1946 the claim was acquired by L. Garland of Retallack and he in turn sold it to Silverite Mines Ltd. later in the year. There is no record of this company having done any work on the property. Leasers did some work on the claim in 1949, however the extent of the underground workings at this time are not known.
Regionally, the area lies on the western margin of the Kootenay Arc, in allochthonous rocks of the Quesnel Terrane. In the vicinity of the occurrence, the Quesnel Terrane is dominated by the Upper Triassic Slocan Group, a thick sequence of deformed and metamorphosed shale, argillite, siltstone, quartzite and minor limestone. Rocks of the Slocan Group are tightly and disharmonically folded. Early minor folds are tight to isoclinal with moderate east plunging, southeast inclined axial planes and younger folds are open, southwest plunging with subhorizontal axial planes. The sedimentary sequence has been regionally metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies.
South of the occurrence, the Slocan Group has been intruded by the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions which comprise at least six texturally and compositionally distinct phases ranging from diorite to lamprophyre. The most dominant phase is a medium to coarse grained potassium feldspar porphyritic granite. Several feldspar porphyritic granodiorite dikes, apparently related to the Nelson intrusions, also cut the sedimentary sequence near the occurrence (Paper 1989-5).
The occurrence consists of a quartz vein within well-banded argillite and limestone of the Slocan Group. The vein changes strike from 070 to 030 degrees and back to 070 degrees. Argentiferous galena, sphalerite and oxidized pyrite are developed in the vein where it strikes 030 degrees and follows a series of closely-spaced joints and fractures.
The property has been explored with at least two adits and 18 tonnes of high-grade ore were mined in 1893 but recoveries are unknown. Other small shipments are reported to have been made in 1903 and 1910. Of these one of 1.8 tonnes carried an average of 4285.7 grams per tonne silver and 70 per cent lead (GSC Memoir 184, page 230).
A total of 11,353 grams of silver, 1942 kilograms of lead and 94 kilograms of zinc were recovered from 2 tonnes mined in 1976.
