The Vimy Ridge (Bell No.14) occurrences are located on the crest of a ridge, locally called Vimy Ridge, which forms the pass between the two main forks of Stephney Creek, approximately 16 kilometres north of Beaton.

The occurrence area is underlain by green and grey phyllites with thin lenses of white limestone of the Cambrian to Devonian Index Formation (Lardeau Group).

Locally, several veins well mineralized with galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite cut a lens of limestone that is up to 1 metre thick. The veins trend northeast and transect folds that plunge at low angles to the southeast. In three of six trenches, sulphide mineralization occurs in veins up to 25 centimetres wide and has spread out from them into the limestone to a maximum distance of approximately 61 centimetres from the vein. The trenches extend for approximately 61 metres along the top of the ridge, which trends southeast and is crossed by the veins. Mineralized limestone in two of the trenches is near the crest of a fold.

A sample from a 0.3-metre-wide layer or vein of massive galena-pyrite-chalcopyrite in silicified limestone exposed in a pit assayed 1.03 grams per tonne gold, 366.7 grams per tonne silver, 16.2 per cent lead, 5.6 per cent zinc and 0.75 per cent copper, whereas another sample from a 0.9-metre-thick, flay-lying, silicified layer with variable sulphides, exposed in a trench located approximately 45 metres to the southeast of the previous sample, yielded 1.03 grams per tonne gold, 582.9 grams per tonne silver, 26.65 per cent lead, 4.15 per cent zinc and 0.35 per cent copper (National Mineral Inventory 082K13 Pb2; Jazz Resources Inc. [2007-11-07]: Technical Report on the Teddy Glacier Property, North Lardeau Belt, Revelstoke - Camborne Area, Revelstoke Mining Division).

Work History

Teddy Glacier Mines Limited discovered the showings in 1964 on the Bell No. 14 claim while building a road to the Teddy Glacier showings (MINFILE 082KNW060), approximately 914 metres to the northwest. A limited amount of work was done on the showing in 1964; further trenching and prospecting was carried out during 1965.

In 1981, Sunshine Columbia Resources Ltd. completed two diamond drillholes on a zone of northeast-trending quartz veins cutting sericite schist in the Vimy Ridge area. No significant results were reported. In 1987, the area was held by K-2 Resources Inc. (formerly Sunshine Columbia Resources Ltd.) who completed an airborne geophysical survey.

In 1993 and 1994, K-2 Resources Inc. completed a minor program of rock sampling and trenching on the area.

In 2006, Jazz Resources Inc. (descendant of K-2 Resources Inc.) completed a program of prospecting and road rehabilitation on the area as the Teddy Glacier project.