The Tiger Crown grant (Lot 2097) past producer is located 2.25 kilometres west of the summit of Mount Wallace and 2.25 kilometres south-southeast of Beaverdell, British Columbia (Assessment Report 16772).
Initial prospecting began in the Beaverdell area in the late 1880s. The first ore was shipped in 1896. The major producing mines in the Beaverdell silver-lead-zinc vein camp, from west to east, were the Wellington (082ESW072), Sally and Rob Roy (082ESW073), Beaver (082ESW040), and Bell (082ESW030), with numerous other small workings throughout the area.
Past development on the Tiger began in 1903, when the claim was Crown granted to Wm.M. Law. No further work was recorded until leased and bonded to the Federal Mining and Smelting Co. in 1925. A considerable amount of surface trenching was done on mineralized shear zones and the first recorded ore shipment made to the Trail smelter. Further development work, consisting of surface stripping, sinking and drifting, was conducted in the following year by the Tiger Mining Co. Syndicate. Work was intermittent until 1933. In this year, the old crosscut was extended 27 metres and extension of the surface shear was found. J.L. Nordman and partners leased the property from 1934 to 1946, when ownership was transferred to Silver Bounty Mines Ltd. Production was continuous between 1934 and 1940. Since 1946, work has been intermittent and ownership has changed several times: 1946 - Silver Bounty Mines Ltd., 1958 - Sheritt-Lee Mines Ltd., 1963 - Ruby Silver Mines Ltd., 1971 - Copper Bounty Mines Ltd. and 1983 - Walmont Precious Metals Corp. The occurrence is currently owned by IGF Metals Inc.
The Tiger (Lot 2097) adjoins the Kokomo Fr. claim (082ESW031) in the northwest, the Beaver claim (082ESW040) in the north and the Castor Fr. claim (082ESW069) in the southwest. The property is underlain by granodiorite of the Westkettle batholith.
For a detailed description of the geology and mineralization of the area refer to the Beaverdell (082ESW030).
Mineralized quartz veins occupy northeast trending, moderately northwest dipping fault zones, initially exposed by surface stripping. The 6.0 to 7.6 metre wide zones strike 220 degrees and dip 40 degrees northwest. The shear zones have been intruded by fine-grained, massive diorite dikes subparallel to parallel to the shear zones. Veins are highly fractured, locally silicified, limonite altered and are up to 40 centimetres wide. Three subparallel to parallel mineralized fault structures have been found on the Tiger claim: the south vein set, the central vein set and the north vein. Mineralization consists of tetrahedrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, native silver, malachite and possibly chalcopyrite.
The best assay results from channel samples taken in 1987 of the south vein set across the southeast corner of the Tiger claim was from Sample #73. It yielded 16,839 grams per tonne silver and 0.89 gram per tonne gold over 0.40 metre (Assessment Report 16772). Sample #63 yielded the highest assay values from the central vein set with 1011 grams per tonne silver and 0.14 gram per tonne gold over 0.15 metre (Assessment Report 16772). Sampling from the north vein near the Tiger shaft yielded 1263.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.14 gram per tonne gold from Sample #87 (Assessment Report 16772).
Total recorded production between 1925 and 1940 from the Tiger past producer was 235 tonnes. From this, 1,280,013 grams of silver, 124 grams of gold, 17,256 kilograms of lead and 24,565 kilograms of zinc were recovered.
