The Victor occurrence is located head of Mause Creek, approximately 25 kilometres north east of Cranbrook.
The area is underlain by quartzites and argillaceous quartzites of the Helikian Lower Creston Formation (Purcell Supergroup) which strike north-northwest and dip 70-75 degrees west. Two distinct rock types are present; a green-grey argillaceous quartzite with minor interbedded apple green quartzite, and a silver grey-black graphitic argillite/phyllite with local silty units.
The Victor vein strikes 020 degrees and dips from 70 degrees east to vertical. It can be traced on surface for over 600 metres. The vein has a hydrothermal alteration envelope of 10-30 metres, polyphase quartz along its strike length with occasional siliceous zones swelling up to 4 metres, and sporadic mineralization. Mineralization consists of galena, sphalerite and pyrite with values in silver and gold. The sulphides are in small, lenticular shoots and thin streaks along the footwall with occasional disseminations in the quartz gangue.
The first mention of the Victor Property was in 1904. A major portion of the existing tunnelling was completed in the following years. In the period 1919 to 1921, a 45.4 tonne per day mill was erected, and a 6.3 tonne “mixed carload of ore and concentrates was shipped in the fall” of 1921. No additional tunnelling has been driven since that time. In 1951, R. Sostad of Vancouver staked the 12 claim Victor group, and F.J. Hemsworth cut several samples of mineralized vein material in the upper and middle tunnels. The values ranged from 0.6 grams per tonne gold, 62..5 grams per tonne silver, 1.7 per cent lead, and 14.3 per cent zinc over 0.3 metres, to 15 grams per tonne gold, 337.5 grams per tonne silver, 3.9 per cent lead, and 23.6 per cent zinc over 0.15 metres (Assessment Report 26181). In 1969, 1970, and 1971, the Victor Mining Corporation excavated five trenches, totalling 64 metres, and carried out a limited program of surveying, mapping, sampling and diamond drilling (two shallow holes totalling 64 metres) in the immediate mine area. In 1995, with Explore B.C. Program support, G.H. Babcock retained R. Walker, P.Geo. to carry out a programme of geological mapping and compilation, sampling and assaying. The resulting report identified four drill targets and recommended a property-wide soil survey and smaller, more focussed VLF and magnetometer surveys. The study also identified a potentially economic gypsum horizon at the base of a Devonian sequence, which should be evaluated (Explore B.C. Program 95/96 - M127 DV).
Three tunnels have explored the Victor vein system. Underground chip samples assayed a high of 12.9 per cent lead, 7.69 per cent zinc, 198.8 grams per tonne silver, 7.0 grams per tonne gold and 0.39 per cent copper (Assessment Report 18309).
