The Lucky Boy prospect is located between 823 and 1158 metres elevation on the eastern slopes of Cranberry Ridge, 3.25 kilometres northwest of Beaverdell, British Columbia. The Inyo-Ackworth past producer (082ESW059) is located about 750 metres west, adjacent to the Ideal and Glory Crown grants.
Property exploration and work on the Lucky Boy group has been sporadic since about 1924. In 1925, the group consisted of the Lucky Boy (Lot 3073s), Tie (Lot 3071s), Ideal (Lot 3075s) and Glory (Lot 3074s) claims owned by E. Etchepare and associates. At this time the workings consisted of trenches, shallow shafts and short adits. In 1928, the property was referred to as the Titanic. The four claims were Crown granted to E. Etchepare and M. Doyharcabol in 1930. The Glory Fraction (Lot 3076s) was Crown granted in 1934 to Etchepare and associates. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, various companies and individuals have conducted trenching, limited surface drilling, magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical surveys and biogeochemical surveys. The Lucky Boy workings were relocated in 1987 by E. Dickson above the old abandoned Olympic adit (082ESW146) and near the boundary between the Lucky Boy and Glory Crown grants. A comprehensive exploration program was undertaken by Dryden Resources under an option agreement in 1988.
The hostrocks underlying Cranberry Ridge, immediately west of Beaverdell, are similar to that underlying Mount Wallace to the west. Granodiorite of the Jurassic Westkettle batholith, grading to quartz diorite and diorite, underlies most of Cranberry Ridge. To the immediate north, the Westkettle batholith has intruded Permian Wallace Formation metavolcanics and metasediments, now present as roof pendants. Lithologies include greenstone, quartzite, greywacke, limestone and local paragneiss. Younger Eocene intrusions of granite to granodiorite or quartz monzonite to syenite composition and associated dikes have intruded both Westkettle granodiorite and Wallace Formation rocks.
Four veins hosted in four roughly parallel shear zones in medium grained Westkettle granodiorite were discovered on the Lucky Boy claim group. The veins strike 080 degrees and dip vertically and are hosted in shear zones. The shear zone has been traced for 300 metres by previous underground workings. On the Lucky Boy Crown grant, a 20 to 150 centimetre wide quartz vein contains disseminated and segregations of pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. The vein has been exposed for 20 metres in a 25-metre long adit along a bearing of 260 degrees, numerous opencuts and trenches. The vein pinches out completely near the face of the adit. Other gangue minerals include sericite, barite, carbonate and chlorite.
A sample from a pile of sorted ore yielded trace gold, 4834 grams per tonne silver and 5.3 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925, page 199). Three samples of ore dump material were sampled in 1988. Sample R-77 yielded the highest silver value of 398.7 grams per tonne silver along with 1.18 per cent copper, 1.62 per cent lead and 0.64 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 17921). The average of 22 samples taken across the vein and wallrock over 20 metres and an average width of 51.4 centimetres from the Lucky Boy main adit was 45.26 grams per tonne silver, 0.18 per cent copper, 0.07 per cent lead and 0.52 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 17921). Three bulldozer trenches excavated in 1988 failed to expose extensions of the Lucky Boy vein.
