On our last day of our 3 day trip, we were invited to the Yankee Boy Mine by Frank and Sharon from Exploring Abandoned Mines. Frank and Sharon are bring the mine back to life and making it safe for visitors to come and take a tour underground and in their new museum built on the property. We were lucky enough to have the chance of actually doing some work at the mine and it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately as first time miners things didn’t go so smoothly!

The history of the Yankee Boy goes back to before 1900. During 1900, the Yankee Boy was the only mine reported to have shipped ore from the camp. In 1905 considerable development work was undertaken. No recorded work was done on the property between 1905 and 1924. Seventeen tons were reported shipped in 1925 with values of $40 to $78 of gold and silver per ton. The 1925 Minister of Mines Annual Report describes the mineralized zone in the upper level of the old workings as a vein varying in width from 5 to 40 centimetres wide and carrying pyrite, galena, sphalerite, gold and silver in a gangue of quartz.

Underground development continued through to 1936. Shipments of ore to the Trail smelter were made in 1926 (11 tons), 1930 (21 tons), 1934 and 1936. A total of 389 tons was shipped in 1936, yielding 460 oz of gold and 382 ounces of silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1936).

By 1936, when operations were suspended, considerable work consisting of numerous opencuts, surface trenching and underground development consisting 2 main levels, 2 intermediate levels as well as winze, raise and stopes had been completed Most of the development was conducted on the Yankee Boy Crown grant.

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