The property was briefly mined in 1918, producing ore averaging 40 percent zinc and 35 percent copper. Early development includes multiple adits, shallow shafts, open cuts and surface workings.
Follow-up investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Mines collected 43 rock samples across the mineralized corridor, returning exceptionally high copper, zinc and lead grades with significant germanium and gallium values. Government reports noted that mineralization is laterally extensive but occurs in small, high-grade pod-like bodies, highlighting the need for modern drill-based exploration to define continuity and tonnage.
Despite these results, no modern drilling or systematic geophysical surveys have ever been completed, leaving the project largely untested by today’s exploration standards and highly prospective for new discoveries along strike and at depth.
