The Lucky Boy occurrence is a past producer, located 4 kilometres southwest of Retallack, British Columbia on the south side of Kaslo Creek. Production for 1938 and 1948 totalled 150 tonnes, resulting in 9455 grams of silver, 43 kilograms of cadmium, 2440 kilograms of lead and 14,059 kilograms of zinc. Three drillholes in 1950 failed to reveal further mineralization and further property work was abandoned.
Silver-lead-zinc mineralization occurs in the Triassic Slocan Group, locally consisting primarily of black fissile phyllites with interbedded limestone, calcareous phyllites and brown gritty quartzites. The general structural trend is 310 degrees, dipping generally southwesterly. Greenstones and ultramafic rocks of the Permian Kaslo Group unconformably underlie the Slocan Group to the east, also hosting silver-lead-zinc mineralization. Satellite stocks, dikes and sills are generally correlative with the Nelson batholith to the immediate south. Late-stage lamprophyre dikes are also common.
Little geological information is available for this occurrence. Country rocks consist of limestone, argillite, quartzite and slate of the Slocan Group.
Property work in 1935 consisted of surface workings and an adit, 23 metres long, driven along a contact between limestone and thin- bedded argillite. Massive galena and sphalerite mineralization were noted in fissures crosscutting the limestone. Further details of property development can be found in National Mineral Inventory 083K3 Zn1.
In 2020, Traction Exploration Inc. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Whitewater property.