The Bluebell past-producer is located north of the Koksilah River, near Hunes Creek.

The area is underlain predominantly by bedded chert and cherty basaltic tuffs of the Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Fourth Lake Formation (formerly the Sediment-Sill Unit of Muller), Buttle Lake Group. These are overlain by limestone, bedded chert and cherty tuff of the Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Mount Mark Formation, Buttle Lake Group (formerly the Buttle Lake Formation). Between the Mount Mark and Fourth Lake formations, and above the Mount Mark Formation, are packages of mainly basaltic rock, of unknown affinity. These Paleozoic rocks are intruded by numerous dykes of feldspar porphyritic dacite and rhyolite and part of a granodioritic stock of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite (formerly known as the Island Intrusions).

The Bluebell deposits were explored by driving two declines and an adit between 1905 and 1907. Mineralization is exposed at three localities, the Bluebell Lower and Upper workings and the stripped area to the east, the latter of which can be included with the Upper workings since it occurs along strike of the controlling shear. The host rocks of the Bluebell deposit are Mount Mark cherts and cherty tuffs and argillites with calcareous intervals. A garnetite facies, which was originally limestone, occurs at the Lower workings. This garnetite forms a lenticular body in chert, and is either in contact with or a short distance away from granodiorite of the Island Plutonic Suite stock. An intrusive rhyolite rock has also been reported to occur near the deposit.

The Upper Bluebell deposit, about 150 metres southeast of the Lower Bluebell deposit, consists of a small percentage of disseminated chalcopyrite in the footwall of a shear which has a strike of 037 degrees and a dip of 55 degrees southeast. There is also minor pyrite and magnetite in the vicinity. This deposit is considered to be of low grade and of minor importance.

The mineralization at the Lower Bluebell deposit contains areas of massive sulphides and oxides which run as high as 15 to 20 per cent copper over short distances. The mineralization may be subdivided into three groups: (1) massive; (2) disseminated in garnetite; and (3) pyrite-rich wallrock alteration. The massive sulphides occur adjacent to the main shear zone and may represent replacement of the brecciated garnetite. The gangue, in order of paragenesis, consists of specularite, magnetite and pyrite. The chalcopyrite replaces the other minerals and makes up 50 per cent of the rock. The disseminated ore consists of 5 to 10 per cent garnetite skarn and is mainly chalcopyrite with minor pyrite and magnetite. The pyrite-rich alteration phase is common but does not contain any economic mineralization. In places the pyrite almost replaces the pre-existing rock which is commonly chert.

The Bluebell (L.15G) claim was originally staked in 1902. In 1907, 175 tonnes of ore were mined and 3,608 grams of silver and 9,482 kilograms of copper were recovered (Mineral Policy data).

In 1983 through 1985, Reward Resources completed programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the Independence, Koksilah, Pacific Star and Western mineral claims. A 2-metre chip sample of massive mineralization exposed in the Bluebell pit yielded 3.66 per cent copper, 0.028 per cent zinc and 25.37 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13997). In 1986, Hollycroft and Nexus resources completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the Sil claims.