The Lakeview property is situated east of Springer Creek, at the elevation of 900 metres, and 1.5 kilometres due east of Slocan. Access is directly from Slocan via the Springer Creek gravel road.
The Lakeview property comprises the Lakeview No. 8 claim (Crown granted in 1898) and located MS claims, Selmon, Maur I and II. The property is underlain predominantly by granitic rocks of the Nelson batholith. The focus of exploration and development is a northerly trending vein exposed for a strike length of 100 metres at surface and 35 metres underground. The vein, consisting of lenses and stringers of quartz, dips 70 degrees east and is hosted by highly crushed granite. Disseminated sulphides occurring in the wall rocks and the vein system include pyrite, galena and sphalerite, together with a minor amount of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. At surface chalcocite and covellite occur associated with late carbonate gangue replacing chalcopyrite and cerussite replaces galena.
Development on the property consists of open cuts, an adit, a shallow shaft and a small floatation plant. The shaft, about 5 metres deep, remains from the original workings. At the south side of the shaft, the quartz vein has a width of 0.7 metre, which narrows to 40 centimetres at a point 9 metres south, where a sample taken across cellular rusty quartz assayed 17 grams per tonne gold and 410 grams per tonne silver. The adit is a crosscut for 15 metres on a course of 125 degrees to the vein, then 12 metres at 155 degrees, and further drifting for 23 metres, striking 175 degrees to the face that lies directly below the end of stripping on surface. There is an ore shoot at the second bend in the tunnel that connects to the shaft - the best mineralization is exposed in the first 15 to 18 metres of drift section of the tunnel.
Intermittent shipments of ore were made from 1937 to 1980; these totalled 4150 tonnes, yielding 132,843 grams of silver, 1504 grams of gold, 5175 kilograms of lead, 4139 kilograms of zinc, and 24 kilograms of cadmium.
In 2011, Moose Mountain Technical Services, on the behalf of Rainbow Resources Inc., completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Big Strike property. Samples collected from adits on the south side of Springer Creek, in the south Gold Viking area, yielded values of up to 489 grams per tonne silver, 0.82 per cent lead and 0.75 per cent zinc (Morris, R.J. (2012-03-27): Property of Merit Report– West Kootenay Properties – Big Strike Project).
