The Fran property is a past producer located 4.0 kilometres west of the summit of Mount Wallace and 5 kilometres south-southeast of Beaverdell, British Columbia (Assessment Report 16772). The property was previously operated by the Silver Scandie Mines Ltd. or known as the Scandie claim group consisting of the Scandie, Scandie 1 to 3 and 5 to 17 claims.

In 1916, M.W. Smith was the owner of the Scandie which was leased and bonded to a Phoenix, British Columbia syndicate. Good silver-lead ore was obtained from a small vein intersected by a tunnel on the property. In the following year development work consisted of a 12-metre tunnel, 3.6-metre winze and numerous opencuts and surface stripping. An additional 27 metres of drifting and considerable opencut work was done in the following year. No further records could be found until 1951, when a three tonnes of ore were shipped by D. Hood. In 1960, Silver Scandie Mines Ltd. held the ground and another 5 tonnes of ore was shipped. The upper adit was driven an additional 27 metres for a total of 57.6 metres length. A new lower adit was driven 47.2 metres. The most recent interest in the Buster property has been by Canstat Petroleum Resources Corp. in 1982 and 1983.

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. For a detailed description of the geology and mineralization of the area refer to the Beaverdell (082ESW030).

The Fran property is underlain by Westkettle granodiorite. Two sets of mineralized quartz veins have been discovered, one striking 270 degrees and dipping 60 to 70 degrees north, and the second set striking 100 degrees and dipping 70 degrees south. Both occupy a locally silicified east-trending shear zone. An alteration halo consisting of varying amounts of sericite, chlorite, clay minerals and epidote extends up to 15 centimetres or more into the granodiorite wallrock. The quartz veins vary from 20 to 30 centimetres in width.

Mineralization consists of galena, sphalerite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in a gangue of mainly quartz and occasional calcite. Massive sulphides have been found over 2 metres in Trench 6, in 1982. The sulphides are hosted in a siliceous east-trending shear zone. The best chip sample, Sample 35A, taken from this trench in 1982 yielded 5311.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.75 gram per tonne gold, 24 per cent zinc, 10.5 per cent lead and 0.54 per cent copper (Assessment Report 10979). The trench was resampled in the following year. Channel sample 47285, over 0.40 metre, yielded 963.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.10 gram per tonne gold, 12.5 per cent zinc, 2.17 per cent lead and 0.13 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 12734). Diamond-drill hole BB83-8 was drilled to test the shear zone in Trench 6 but failed to intersect further mineralization.

The Fran occurrence has produced a total of 8 tonnes of ore in 1951 and 1960. Recovery included 15,489 grams of silver, 288 kilograms of lead and 585 kilograms of zinc. The property was operated by D. Hood.