The Hawk occurrence is poorly documented and the best location is given as 10 kilometres south-southeast of Creston, on Huscroft Creek at the International Boundary (Exploration in British Columbia 1978, page E47). At this location, the occurrence should lie near the eastern base of the Creston Ramparts which are west-facing cliffs that rise to peaks in excess of 2100 metres from the Creston valley floor.

Regionally, the area is underlain by the peri-cratonic Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup, a thick succession of siliciclastic and lesser carbonate rocks. The Purcell Supergroup is well known for hosting a number of significant deposits that include the Sullivan sedimentary-exhalative lead-zinc deposit (082FNE052) and the Troy copper-silver deposit in Montana.

More locally, this occurrence lies west of the Iron Range fault within gabbroic rocks of the Moyie sills which are interlayered with the siliciclastic rocks of the Middle Proterozoic Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup).

Chalcopyrite, malachite, silver and gold mineralization is reported to occur within gabbro of the Middle Proterozoic Moyie intrusions.

Previous work consists of re-timbering tunnels and constructing opencuts.