The Juanita (L. 652) occurrence is located southeast of Malachite Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres northwest of Vermont Mountain.

The area is underlain by a repeating sequence of dark-grey to black shales with interbedded limestones, alternating with thick bedded, coarse-grained, grey to brown ortho-quartzite sandstone and grits of the upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group.

Locally, a short (3 to 3.6 metre) adit or drift exposes a “vein” mineralized with galena, zinc (sphalerite) and iron (pyrite).

The area has been explored since the late 1890’s in association with the nearby Ruth-Vermont (MINFILE 082KNE009) past-producing mine.