The property is located at 1585 metres elevation on the east side of Hedgehog Creek, a southerly flowing tributary of Sheep Creek, about 8 kilometres southeast of Salmo.
Details of early activity probably in the early 1900's, are limited but included considerable trenching and an inclined shaft to a depth of 35.5 metres, with crosscuts at the bottom and 6 metres up. The claims subsequently reverted to the Crown.
The White Cloud, Blue Jack, Yellow Jack, Sitting Bull, Blue Jack Fr., and Yellow Jack Fr. (Lots 2688-2692 respectively) were Crown-granted to P.H. Horton, W. Hartman, and A.E. Place in 1926. Development included 49 metres of crosscut and 27.4 metres of drift in an adit driven northeasterly from the vicinity of the shaft. The owners incorporated Salmo Consolidated Mines, Limited in March 1928. A new crosscut adit at 1537 metres elevation was driven 2651 and a raise put up to the old shaft. During 1929 the adit was extended to 134 metres with drifts 38 metres southerly and 48 metres northerly. Wide areas of scattered mineralization were encountered but no definite orebody. Work was suspended in the summer of 1929. The workings to date included numerous open cuts, the old shaft, and three adits. The claims reverted to the Crown for taxes in 1956.
The Salmo-Consolidated occurrence is a vein-type deposit hosted by hornblende granodiorite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions (Sheep Creek stock) which intrudes Lower to Middle Ordovician Active Formation sediments.
The occurrence consists of quartz-calcite veins of variable strike, ranging from 020 to 065 degrees, dipping steeply southeast. The veins contain disseminated galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite and vary in width from a few centimetres up to about two metres. Locally, the granitic wall rocks may be schistose, or possibly sheared and silicified, and contain sparsely disseminated sulphides. The best assays from grab samples contain up to 1.4 grams per tonne gold, up to 70 grams per tonne silver, 1 to 4 per cent zinc and 3 to 7 per cent lead (Assessment Report 14903). Chip samples across vein widths on a regular spacing may be significantly lower in metal content.
From the Florence property, in 1937, 6 tonnes of ore were shipped yielding 2,343 grams of silver, 46 kilograms of lead and 83 kilograms of zinc; it is unclear if the property is related to the Salmo-Consolidated.
