The exact location of the Ruby showing is not known but is assumed to occur on the Ruby Crown-granted claim (Lot 887). The claim is located about 0.5 kilometre west of the point on American Creek that is about 6.0 kilometres north of its confluence with the Bear River, approximately 25 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by rocks of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) (Bulletin 58; 63). North trending, west dipping andesites and tuffs lie on the west limb of the north trending American Creek anticline.

Little is known about the three veins on the Ruby claim. The more developed lower vein, at an elevation of 579 metres, is a somewhat brecciated quartz-jasper-barite zone of unknown width and attitude. Sparse mineralization comprises silver sulphides(?), galena, chalcopyrite and bornite (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929, page C104).

At the Maybee showing (Lot 3226), a massive barite vein is exposed over a strike length of 150 metres, with lenses of massive sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite. A 3 metre chip sample across the southern part of the vein assayed 0.57 per cent copper, 25.27 per cent lead, 19.61 per cent zinc and 9280 grams per tonne silver (Mining Review Fall 1998, page 62).

Stripping, opencutting and tunnelling were apparently done on the Ruby claim during 1904-05. In 1929, Shuniah Mines Ltd. optioned the Ruby and nearby Blue Jay, Maybee, Louise and M. and M. claims. At this time, three veins were reported on the Ruby claim. The option was dropped the following year. In 1972, Crest Ventures Limited held the Ruby, Blue Jay, Maybee, Louise, Ax 1-8 and Axel Fraction claims. No work was reported on the claim. In 1990, D. Cremonese (Amphora Resources) flew a heli-borne VLF-EM and magnetometer survey over the Elk 1-2, Bunt 1-4 and Basin 1-4 claims. The survey included the area of the showing. Petro Plus Inc. optioned the American Creek property in 1998. Limited reconnaissance geological mapping and sampling was conducted.