The Josie showing is situated on the south side of Kootenay River, south-southeast of Beasley. The claim was Crown granted in 1900. An old portal was reopened and open cuts were developed in 1976.
The area is underlain by Jurassic pseudodiorite and pyroxenite of unknown affinity.
An east-west–striking quartz vein dips 45 degrees to the south and hosts scattered chalcopyrite. The vein is approximately 10 metres in width and cuts pseudodiorite.
The first record of the Josie occurrence is from 1899 for an assay reporting copper, gold and silver values. In April 1900, the Josie claim was granted to Golden Five Mines Limited.
In 1980, DeKalb Mining Corporation completed 2932 metres of diamond drilling in 20 holes on the Venango-Shenango and Greenwood claims to the immediate north of the Josie claim.
In the mid-1980s, limited exploration was conducted on the Ron Gold claim group to the immediate southwest of the Josie occurrence. In 1985, property owners Eric and Jack Denny leased the Ron Gold claim group to Ryan Exploration Company Limited. Exploration that year consisted of geochemical rock (11 samples) and soil (309 samples) sampling. The following year, Ryan Exploration conducted a very low-frequency geophysical survey over the claim group.
By 1989, Pacific Sentinel Gold Corporation had acquired the Josie claim and adjacent Ron property as part of their Great Western Star property. In the summer of 1989, Lloyd Geophysics Limited carried out geophysical surveys over the Ron and Toughnut grids to the southwest and southeast, respectively. In 1990, Pacific Sentinel Gold conducted a follow-up program of soil and rock sampling, trenching, geological mapping and geophysical surveying. Later that year, 26 NQ and NQ2 diamond drill holes totalling 5880 metres were completed.
Coral Industries acquired the Venango property (MINFILE 082FSW086) in 1989 and amalgamated it with the Granite-Poorman (Kenville; MINFILE 082FSW086) property to the east. From 1989 to 2007, the Josie claim was surrounded on three sides by the Kenville-Venango property.
The Kenville mine (MINFILE 082FSW086) and Venango (MINFILE 082FSW087) properties were acquired by Anglo Swiss Resources Incorporated in 1992. Together, the parcels were known as the Kenville property. Teck Exploration Limited optioned the Kenville property from Anglo Swiss Resources in 1994 and amalgamated it with the adjacent Ron property. Teck completed 16 diamond drill holes, as well as induced polarization, resistivity, ground magnetometer and geochemical surveying. Teck Exploration later dropped the option in 1997.
In 2002, Anglo Swiss Resources optioned the Kenville property to a joint venture among Babylon Enterprises Limited, Foaming Holdings Limited, Glacial Holdings Limited and Tracer Enterprises Limited. The joint venture group then optioned a percentage of their holdings to Gold Standard Resources Corporation. In 2005, on behalf of the joint venture group, Bob Burton carried out an exploration program of mapping, geochemical soil sampling and excavator trenching on the west side of Eagle Creek. The following year, work consisted of geochemical soil sampling, preparatory underground exploration, adit rehabilitation and trench reclamation.
By 2004, the Josie claim was included in the Ron claim group. That year, on behalf of owner Jack Denny, Klondike Gold Corporation conducted a geochemical sampling program over the Ron property, later optioning it in 2008. An exploration program of limited geological mapping and prospecting and soil geochemical surveying was carried out on the eastern portion of the claim group. The Ron property, including the Josie claim, was then acquired by Anglo Swiss Resources and amalgamated with the Kenville property.
In 2009, on behalf of Anglo Swiss Resources, Equity Exploration Consultants Limited undertook an exploration program consisting of 680 line kilometres of airborne electromagnetic geophysical surveying, surface diamond drilling, and underground rehabilitation and drilling. Ten diamond drill holes were completed on the south side of Eagle Creek, approximately 700 metres south of the Kenville mine.
By 2010, the Kenville property had been expanded to include separate claim groups to the north and south. In 2010, on behalf of Anglo Swiss Resources, St. Pierre Geoconsulting Incorporated conducted airborne magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical surveys over the entire Nelson Mining Camp area. Soil sampling was conducted over the central Kenville claim block, though the majority of the sampling was conducted in the area of the Silver Lynx occurrence (MINFILE 082FSW378) to the south.
The Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1899 (page 601) records an assay from this Crown grant as 5 per cent copper, 240 grams per tonne silver and approximately 15 grams per tonne gold ($10/ton).
