Silver tunnel, Van Silver Mine, Van Silver Property, Brandywine Creek, Vancouver Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

The Silver Tunnel that was the Van Silver Mine is now caved and closed. Specimens are still recoverable from the nearby ore pile, although the material is quite weathered now.
The deposit was a simple hydrothermal lead, zinc, silver, antimony vein system. The simplicity lead to a universal paragenesis that deposited one sulfosalt at a time in agreement with laboratory synthesis. The mm sized xls are some of the world's best micromounts for the species.

Presently (July 2008), the access road to the mine is blocked at the turnoff from the Sea-to-Sky Highway.

Ref.:
- Woodside, R.W.M.E.A. (2000). Rare sulfosalts from the Van Siver Mine, British Columbia. Mineralogical Record, 31(3), 219-229.