Extract from MINFILE No. 082ESE044:
Name: RUBY (L.1333), SMITH'S CAMP
Development status: Past Producer
The Ruby claim is 5 kilometres south of of Greenwood and 1 kilometre east of Boundary falls in what the early prospectors referred to as Smith's Camp. Access is just east of Highway 3 via the McCarren Creek road. The claim was located and worked part time prior to 1896. In 1900, the claim was Crown granted to G. Cook and W.G. McMynn, and subsequent to the discovery of good ore grade mineralization, two adit tunnels were intiated on a copper-silver skarn. The first tunnel was driven 50 metres and the second 18 metres, at 46 metres below the first. Little additional work was done until 1941 when George Boag and partner leased the property and reconditioned the tunnels. Then in 1956 Edward Cooke made a shipment of 28 tonnes of clean-up ore.
The Ruby claim is in an area of limited outcrop underlain by Triassic Brooklyn limestone and sharpstone conglomerate intruded by Eocene microdiorite dikes. The mineralization is pyrite and chalcopyrite occurring as fracture fillings in northeast dipping argillite beds and skarn development associated with interbedded Brooklyn limestone.
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