Photograph depicts one of various old lead and zinc mine buildings. Behind this building, on the foreshore, were a few men working on the reclamation of tailings and waste from the mine that was dumped in Kootenay Lake.

Photograph depicts a loading slip for a CPR car barge for lead and zinc from the Cominco Bluebell mine. Bluebell is the oldest semi-continously worked mine in B.C., dating back to the Native and Hudson Bay Co. musket ball days. 3 barge loads were removed per week.