The Noreen occurrence is located west of Mabel Lake, approximately 6 kilometres west of Mount Mabel.

The area is underlain by a sequence of Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex rocks that strike north-northeast with shallow to moderate dips, generally to the northwest. Mesoscopic isoclinal and broad folds complicate and possibly repeat the sequence, which is dominated by biotite schist and quartzite with lesser amounts of marble, biotite gneiss and very minor amphibolite. Pegmatite dikes and sills commonly invade all rocks.

Locally, strata-bound disseminated mineralization comprising pyrrhotite, and lesser amounts of sphalerite, galena and pyrite, is hosted in quartzite. In 1992, a sample (27304) of quartzite float from an area of past trenching assayed 3.56 per cent lead and 1.06 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 22652).

The area was originally staked in 1971 as the Noreen claims. In 1973, a program of minor trenching and pitting was completed. In 1978, an airborne magnetic survey was completed on the area. In 1992, Teck completed a program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and a 13.6 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey.