The former Red Fox mine is located at 2316 metres elevation between the headwater of the south fork of McGuigan Creek and Rambler Creek. New Denver, British Columbia is 10 kilometres to the southwest.
The Red Fox group, consisting of the Red Fox (Lot 2413), Red Fox Fr. (Lot 2414) and Central (Lot 2415) Crown grants was first staked in about 1893. Development commenced in 1895 with the first production in 1901. In 1902, the Red Fox workings included 206 metres of drifts and crosscuts, 130 metres of raises and winzes, 91 metres of stoping and 61 metres of opencuts. Subsequent work by G. Aylard in 1903 and lessees Gething and Henderson from 1904 to 1906 was then discontinued. The Red Fox, Red Fox Fr. and Central claims were partially developed by extending the Red Fox workings of the Antoine (082KSW011) into the Red Fox claim. The Ogema Reverted Crown grant (Lot 3163) adjoins the Red Fox claim group to the south.
The Red Fox occurrence is hosted by contorted slates and thinly bedded argillites interbedded with occasional limestone beds of the Triassic Slocan Group. The general dip of these strata is to the southwest. These rocks are crosscut by numerous quartz porphyry dikes, about 60 centimetres wide.
The vein system at the Red Fox occurrence is similar to the former Antoine mine. The Antoine lode strikes northeast and dips 65 degrees southeast but curves eastward as it approaches the Red Fox claim. The lode consists of quartz, locally crusty, and siderite with two orebodies of galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, pyrargyrite and native silver in leaf and wire form. The lodes contain fragments of pyritized hostrocks. At the northeast end of the lode it rolls flatly into the bedding. To the southwest the lode continues, in part, in a steeply dipping fracture but also flattens into bedding. Continuation of the vein to the southwest is uncertain. The lamprophyre dike has been offset 12 metres by faulting which the lode does not.
Two important ore shoots have been mined on the Antoine lode. The eastern shoot lies on either side of the Antoine and Red Fox claims. It was about 60 metres long and does not go much below the intermediate level. The western shoot continued from near surface to below the No. 5 level. Its pitch was south, was 75 to 90 metres long, and carried an ore streak ranging from 2 to 90 centimetres thick. Most of the ore mined has come from the footwall of a 60 to 150 centimetre wide lamprophyre dike that follows the vein for 50 metres.
It is important to note that mineralization occurs where the lode vein is coincident with jointing, particularly where Slocan sediments are folded or are intruded by porphyry dikes.
Total production from the former Red Fox mine amounted to 517 tonnes with 3,507,020 grams silver, 234,737 kilograms lead and 153 kilograms zinc recovered over seven years.
