The Baribeau (711) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 2140 metres on a northeast-facing slope, north of Baker Creek and approximately 4.6 kilometres east of Sphinx Mountain.
Regionally, the area is underlain by sedimentary units belonging to the Mesoproterozoic Purcell Basin (Purcell Supergroup). They include clastic and lesser carbonate rocks with minor mafic sills. The basal unit in the area is the deep water, quartzitic Aldridge Formation, overlain by shallow water clastic rocks of the Creston Formation that in turn are overlain by platformal Kitchener Formation clastic and carbonate rocks. The area is along the west limb of the Purcell anticline, a broad north-plunging fold structure that cores the Purcell Basin. Beds generally strike north-northeast and dip moderately to steeply west. The area is bracketed to the west by the north-northeast–trending Redding Creek fault and to the east by the north-northeast–trending Hall Lake fault. The area has been intruded by numerous Middle to Late Cretaceous granitic bodies that seal the major north-northeast faults.
Locally, the area is primarily underlain by medium-bedded phyllitic siltite and lesser slaty/schistose quartzites of the Mesoproterozoic Creston Formation. Iron carbonate minerals and calcite are locally present to abundant within some of these units as well as disseminated magnetite and ubiquitous sericite±chlorite. To the southwest, a fault slice of the Mesoproterozoic Kitchener Formation is exposed and comprises calcareous siltite and silty quartzite with some stromatolites. Immediately west of these units is a thick sequence of black phyllitic argillite with some interbeds of thick tabular siltite. Foliated, generally magnetic greenstone bodies are abundant on the claim block intruding all the stratigraphic units. They tend to be sill like but also occur as boudinaged strands within bedding-subparallel structural zones. They range in thickness from 30 centimetres to upwards of 10 metres thick. The area has been intruded by unfoliated gabbroic breccia to intermediate feldspar porphyry dikes, occurring in close spatial relationship to unfoliated quartz-eye porphyry to aphanitic felsic dikes. Contacts of both dikes are not well exposed; however, they generally trend north-northeast subparallel to bedding.
Mineralization comprises disseminated and fracture-controlled copper sulphides (chalcopyrite) found preferentially within bleached, pyrite-carbonate-manganese–altered, thick-bedded whitish quartzites within the upper part of the Mesoproterozoic Middle Creston Formation.
In 2022, a rock sample (G22-649) with fractures hosting bornite and galena assayed 35.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.09 per cent copper and 0.05 per cent lead, whereas several hundred metres up slope to the south a continuous channel sample over 2.06 metres yielded 0.2 per cent copper (Assessment Report 41925).
Work History
In 2012, Teck Resources Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping on the area immediately west as the Gray property.
In 2021 and 2022, DLP Resources Inc. conducted programs of prospecting, rock sampling, a 233.7 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey and five diamond drill holes, totalling 1442.3 metres, on the area as the Hungry Creek property. Diamond drilling failed to intercept any significant copper mineralization. In 2024, DLP Resources Inc. conducted a regional reconnaissance prospecting program on the property.
