The Silver Bell occurrence is located at 1432 metres elevation between Desmond and Kyawats creeks, southeast of Keen Creek. The ground is covered by the Silver Bell claim group composed of the Silver Bell (Lot 6815), Hub (Lot 6816) and Little Bell Fraction (Lot 6817) Crown grants. Kaslo, British Columbia is located 22 kilometres to the northeast.

The first production from the Silver Bell occurrence was in 1898. Workings consisted of two main and several short subsidiary adits.

The Silver Bell occurrence occupies a narrow belt of Triassic Slocan Group metasediments within the Keen Creek reentrant. Metasediments, in order of importance, include slate, carbonaceous argillite, limestone, siltstone and biotite andalusite schist. Slocan lithologies are flanked by hornblende potassium feldspar porphyritic granite of the Middle Jurassic Nelson batholith and potassium feldspar porphyritic granite of the Middle Jurassic Mount Carlyle stock.

Ore mineralization occurred in a wide crushed (shear) zone in rocks of the Slocan Group. The zone strikes to the east and dips at a low angle to the south. The lode is reported to have carried high silver near and at the surface over 61 to 91 metres length. Ore occurred in broken bands and lenses composed of quartz, calcite with galena, sphalerite, pyrite and other high-grade silver minerals. Sulphides were considerably oxidized.

Ore was mined from the Silver Bell intermittently from 1898 to 1983, with most of the production occurring between 1898 and 1925. From a total of 656 tonnes mined, 2,573,587 grams silver, 111,655 kilograms lead, 12,050 kilograms zinc and 66 kilograms cadmium were recovered.

In 2013, Agave Silver Corp. examined the area as the Kaslo property.