The Little Tim past-producing mine is situated east of Ottawa Hill, at the head of Little Tim Creek, at an elevation of approximately 2135 metres and 8 kilometres northeast of Slocan. Access is from the Slocan highway (Hwy 6) via the Springer Creek logging road system on the Memphis Creek–Ottawa Hill branch leading to the Little Tim Creek mine road. The Bondholder and Pine Log claims (MINFILE 082FNW150) lie on the northeast side and the Little Tim (Graphic & Rosebud) claims lie on the southwest side of the divide. Most of the workings are on the Little Tim (Victory V) claims at the head of Little Tim Creek.

The area is underlain by coarse-grained porphyritic granite (quartz monzonite) of the Nelson Batholith. The granite is traversed by two nearly parallel fissure vein lodes, on which considerable work has been done. The lodes are 90 metres apart, strike 055 to 070 degrees northeast and dip 45 to 70 degrees southeast.

The mine, located just southwest and downslope from an un-named summit, is comprised of a shaft and three adits on the northwest lode, and three adits and an intermediate level on the southeast lode. The shaft is the lowest working at an elevation of approximately 2040 metres and is reported to have followed a vein to a depth of approximately 15 metres. The vein, approximately 0.3 metre wide, consists of vuggy quartz containing disseminated galena, sphalerite, pyrite and tetrahedrite. The same vein is heavily stoped to a point approximately 90 metres above the shaft. On the southeast lode, the main adit is 75 metres long and follows a fissure that is strong at the face but not mineralized. The orebody on this level, approximately 8 metres long, was stoped through to an intermediate level 12 metres above, where the ore was exposed for a length of 15 metres and width ranging from 10 to 30 centimetres. This ore forms a streak of nearly solid galena, sphalerite, conspicuous tetrahedrite and a little chalcopyrite. The gangue is principally quartz but some calcite and barite are also present. Some of the quartz appears to be chalcedonic. The veins are commonly flanked by a chloritic alteration envelope up to 1.2 metres wide grading into the granite. The wallrock is also affected by silicification and argillic and hematitic-pyritic alteration.

In 1979, a channel sample (JLT-4) across a 5 to 7.5-centimetre wide, high-grade quartz vein from the end of the drift of the no.3 tunnel assayed 13.2 per cent lead, 2.32 per cent zinc, 0.37 per cent copper, 0.8 gram per tonne gold and 7182 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Esperanza Explorations Ltd. [1980-02-01]: Property Examination Report on the Little Tim Prospect)

In 1987, a dump sample assayed 4400 grams per tonne silver, 0.18 gram per tonne gold, 0.58 per cent copper, 11.3 per cent lead and 4.34 per cent zinc (Open File 1988-11).

Intermittent production during 1905 through 1984, resulted in 5116 tonnes, yielding 1 366 013 grams of silver, 26 339 kilograms of lead, 8536 kilograms of zinc, 11 grams of gold and 171 kilograms of copper.

From 1905 to 1906, work on the property, as the Graphic and Rosebud claims, by the Graphic and Rosebud Mining Co. resulted in the production of 5 tonnes of ore, yielding 47 619 grams of silver and 636 kilograms of lead.

In 1918, the Little Tim group, consisting of the Little Tim, Mammoth, White Heather and Purple Heather claims, was staked by D.B. O'Neill, who worked the veins intermittently until 1947. The claims subsequently lapsed and the Victory V, V-day, Ute fraction, Radar No. 1 and Radar No. 2 claims were staked on the veins.

In 1951 and 1952, the property was held under option by Harrison Drilling and Exploration Company Limited (Hardex Mines Ltd.) during which time considerable drifting and diamond drilling was done. Most of the work by the company was done on the V-day and Victory V claims, corresponding to the cancelled Graphic and Rosebud claims, respectively. The Little Tim upper workings, comprising two adits and a shaft, explore the vein that is 91 metres northwest of the main vein. The main vein is developed by four adits that range in elevation from 2067 to 1987 metres. In 1952, the no. 4 adit was extended to a total length of 134 metres and a raise was driven to the No. 3 level.

Several individuals have held leases since the early 1950s and all shipments from the property consist of hand-sorted ore. Approximately 300 metres of drifts, crosscuts and raises were developed in the original mine and by 1981, a total of 339 metres of new drifts and crosscuts were added. Skagit Mining operated the property in 1984.