The Metropolitan property is located on the upper reaches of Ferguson Creek.

The Metropolitan was purchased by Chas. F. McCrossan in 1900. The ore was reported to consist of galena and grey copper with very high silver values. By 1901 a 61-metre crosscut had been developed and 6.3 tonnes of ore was shipped. The Metropolitan Fraction was Crown-granted to Metropolitan G.& S.M. Co. of Lardeau in 1904.

Gunning (GSC Bulletin 161) reports that in 1926 the Metropolitan was held by Messrs. Trite and Woods but was not in operation. By 1926, an opencut had been made near the contact of the "Big Five" limestone band and a crosscut run 46 metres. The opencut is developed on a strong but tight fissure in the limestone, striking 310 degrees and dipping 50 degrees to the northeast. A very small amount of galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite occurs along the fissure. Eleven metres into the adit, a similar but smaller fissure was encountered. The contact of limestone and chlorite schist which is mineralized on the Big Five (082KNW084), to the northwest, lies 15 to 30 metres southwest of the working and is covered with talus.

Government production records show that in 1901, 5 tonnes of ore were shipped from which 37821 grams of silver, 31 grams of gold and 896 kilograms of lead were produced.

Lithologic units in the area have been mapped as belonging to the Cambrian to Devonian Index Formation but recent interpretations indicate that several of the limestone units may actually be part of the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, repeated through folding.