Maymac-Boundary Falls

Extract from MINFILE No.'s: 082ESE045, 082ESE171, and 082ESE226

Development status: Mine

Name: SKOMAC, REPUBLIC (L.426), NON SUCH (L.389), LAST CHANCE (L.644), HIDDEN TREASURE (L.1019), COSMOPOLITAN (L.1680), TIPPERARY, ML 430 (L.644), ML 423 (L.389,426,1019,1680), MAY MAC, ROBERT MINES, NONSUCH, NONESUCH, SMITH'S CAMP, GREENWOOD GOLD, BOUNDARY FALLS

This property, also known as the Skomac mine, is centred on a treeless south facing hill side, at an elevation of 900 metres, 4 kilometres southwest of Greenwood. Access to the mine is about 3 kilometres by dirt road travelling north from Highway 3 near Boundary Falls.

Intermittent production from this property, from 1903 to 1983, totalled 3574 tonnes, yielding 18.5 kilograms of gold, 693 kilograms of silver, 58 tonnes of lead, 36 tonnes of zinc and 864 kilograms of copper.

The Skomac mine workings consist of several adits on a quartz vein system traceable on three claims, the Non Such, Republic and Last Chance. Adits 4 to 7 comprise the main workings and adits 1 to 3 are on what appears to be a parallel vein system that is further downslope. The first mine development began in the period 1894 to 1896 when a number of adits and shafts were worked. The company drove two tunnels, one approximately 23 metres higher than the other; the upper one extending 121 metres on the vein and the lower one 69 metres, chiefly on the vein, with a crosscut from this tunnel a distance of 20 metres. An upraise was put in between the upper tunnel and surface, 20 metres in height. In the upper tunnel the vein is persistent, but varies from 0.35 to 1.8 metres in width, and contains iron sulphides carrying gold and silver. The gangue is quartz with oxides of iron in the fractures. Numerous open cuts and shallow shafts have been excavated on the same lead higher up the hill on the Non Such claim, with about the same results.