The Sandy (Lot 8719), 1.8 kilometres by steep road southeast of Camborne, is part of a system of mineralized veins along the south side of Pool Creek. See the Spider mine (082KNW045) for details.

The area is underlain by southeasterly striking, steeply dipping volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group. Sedimentary rocks of the Broadview Formation include medium grey to greenish quartzites, greywackes, carbonaceous phyllites and quartz sericite schist. The volcanic rocks of the Jowett Formation comprise massive fragmental lenses and lava flows, some chlorite schist and a few thin beds of banded iron formation. In the fragmental units, extreme elongation of the clasts, caused by synkinematic metamorphism, has imparted a crude secondary layering subparallel to the primary stratification.

The principal showing on the Sandy claim is a quartz vein which strikes 160 degrees. It is crosscut by four subparallel faults. The ore minerals (pyrite, galena, sphalerite and arsenopyrite) occur as irregular veinlets and small pockets along these faults. The Sandy, owned by F.R. Blockburger, was Crown-granted in 1923. By 1927 a drift adit had been driven for 22 metres.

Sunshine Lardeau Mines, Limited carried out surface diamond drilling in 1954. During 1955 the Sandy adit was extended to a total of about 152 metres of workings. At 91 metres from the portal a branch vein of sphalerite mineralization 30 centimetres wide was followed for 18 metres. Diamond drilling from the adit found no additional mineralization. The mining plant was removed in the spring of 1956.

K-2 Resources Inc. drilled in the area in 1986.