The Dividend showing is located at about 1900 metres elevation on the western slopes of Dividend Mountain, between Keremeos and South Keremeos creeks. Claims which have been explored on Dividend Mountain include the Dividend No. 1, Dividend A, Dividend No. 2, Dividend No. 3 Fraction, Selkirk, Maple Leaf, Longshot, Mammouth, Iron Mask, Juno and Diana. Many of these were formerly Crown granted and part of the Dividend Claim Group.

Diorite, andesite, cherts, greenstone and hornfels comprise rock types of the Dividend showing. Garnet-actinolite and pyroxene skarn adjacent to crystalline marble comprise the dominant alteration type.

Numerous old workings and new trenches at the Dividend occurrence contain disseminated to massive pyrrhotite with chalcopyrite, magnetite, pyrite, scheelite and wolframite.

Mineralization at the Dividend showing consists of massive pyrrhotite lenses with disseminations of chalcopyrite and scheelite. Pyrrhotite lenses vary from a few centimetres to 3 metres wide and 15 metres long that occur as en echelon lenses over 30 to 50 metres. The strike of the lenses is 300 to 030 degrees with a vertical dip. Mineralization has been traced over a total strike length of 2400 metres and possibly up to 500 metres thickness.

In 1991, several samples taken of dump material at the old workings were analysed. Sample 91-DIV-110R of garnet-actinolite skarn with chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite yielded 6.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.46 per cent copper (Assessment Report 22008). Sample 91-DIV-111R yielded 6.0 grams per tonne silver and 0.26 per cent copper (Assessment Report 22008). This sample consisted of garnet-actinolite skarn with trace chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. A chip sample over 2.5 metres, reported from Dividend Mountain in 1981 from an unknown location, yielded 0.44 per cent copper, 1.71 grams per tonne silver and 0.01 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 10092). One of two samples (BS) tested with a tungsten lamp was analysed and yielded 0.32 per cent copper, 3.43 grams per tonne silver, 0.82 gram per tonne gold and 0.33 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 10092).

Work History

The Dividend occurrence was staked in 1900 after a pyrrhotite oxidation cap was discovered on surface over 457 metres. Property development in this year consisted of a 7.6-metre shaft and several opencuts. In 1901, the property was held by Keremeos Mining Syndicate. The West workings consisted of a 1.82 by 2.44 metre pit exposing a 1.8-metre-wide replacement zone containing garnet, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite. The strike of the zone was southwest with a dip 60 degrees west. Other workings included a 3-metre shaft, 15 metres from the West workings and a 5.5-metre pit, 152 metres from the West workings. In 1902, two shallow shafts were sunk; the first was 2.13 by 2.74 by 3.04 metres and the second was 0.30 by 2.74 by 3.04 metres, which exposed 'copper-gold ore' in 20 places. The Dividend and six other claims were owned by Olalla Mining and Smelting Co. in 1906.

Little else was done on the property until 1966, when Cominco Ltd. conducted magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical surveys on the Peak group, covering the Dividend claim area. In 1972 and 1975, Southcan Mines Ltd. conducted airborne geophysical and soil geochemical surveys on the Sel, Kim and Jo claims covering the Dividend claim area. In 1981, L. Reichert, owner of the Dividend claim, began exploration and re-examination of the old workings on the property.

In 2020, Level 14 Ventures Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Green Mountain property.