The Silver Glance area is underlain by schist and limestone of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Milford Group. Several quartz-bearing fissures are mineralized with galena, sphalerite, pyrite and marcasite. Assays from 1896 are reported to be high in silver and gold.
No record of production exists but the Annual Report for 1898 mentions that 163 tonnes was sorted for shipment.
This group of claims lies along the western edge of the Highland and Florence properties and covers an area extending from near Cedar Creek to the South Fork of Woodbury Creek.
The group consists of the Hercules, Sullivan, Noranda, Silver Bell, Glen Ellen, Harrison, Free Silver and Silver Glance claims. Three of the claims, formerly called the Pataha, Bugaboo and Ellen were relocated in 1951 under the respective names of Hercules, Sullivan and Noranda.
Most of the development work on the Hercules claim was done about 1890. The workings now consist of 36.5 metres of tunnel in two adits, a shaft 4.5 metres feet deep and some trenching. On the Sullivan claim a 23 metre shaft was put down about 1895. Apparently no work has been done on the Noranda claim. Nubar Mines Ltd. of Toronto hold an option on the claims in 1951 and are reported to have done some diamond drilling. The Asbestos-Corporation Ltd. did about 914 metres of diamond drilling in 30 holes in 1952. The results of this work have apparently not been released by the company.
The Silver Glance claim, which lies astride the South Fork of Woodbury Creek, about 3 kilometres from its mouth, has had the most development work done on it. The property was located in 1896 and was apparently worked intermittently for about 4 years. A tunnel at creek level follows the vein in a 110 degree direction for 66 metres. Here the vein splits and is followed by two branches of the tunnel, one going 85 degrees for 23 metres, in which the vein appears to pinch out, the other branch extending for 18 metres at 110 degrees with the vein still in the face.
In 1952 Guichon Mine Ltd., owners of the Buckeye claim, held an option on all the above claims, however their work was apparently confined to the Buckeye.
