The Inferno occurrence is located on a south-facing slope overlooking Sinmax Creek at an elevation of 765 metres, approximately 2.3 kilometres southeast of Silverspray Falls on Johnson Creek.

Regionally, the area is underlain by andesitic and calc-alkaline volcanic rocks, greenstone and greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Lower Paleozoic to Mississippian Foghorn Mountain, Skwaam Bay and Forest Lake units of the Eagle Bay Assemblage.

Locally, a 0.5-metre thick bed of massive barite is hosted at the contact between a quartz-rich, pyritic sericite schist and an overlying, less-altered quartz eye felsic volcanic. The barite contains disseminated galena and minor sericite.

In 1986, two samples (16495 and 12709), taken approximately 600 metres south east and 200 metres north west of the Inferno occurrence, respectively, assayed 0.077 and 0.129 per cent lead with 24.8 and 50.8 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 15754).

In 2011, rock chip sampling yielded up to 504 grams per tonne silver, 1.945 grams per tonne gold, 0.2670 per cent zinc and 0.5020 per cent lead over 0.17 metre in sample IR20; 475 grams per tonne silver, 0.439 gram per tonne gold, 0.6020 per cent zinc, 0.7620 per cent lead, 0.2370 per cent copper and 0.2490 per cent antimony over 0.25 metre in sample IR13 and 262 grams per tonne silver, 0.216 grams per tonne gold, 0.4060 per cent zinc, 0.3910 per cent lead, 0.1160 per cent copper and 0.1130 per cent antimony over 0.35 metre in sample IR18 (Assessment Report 33148).

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Homestake (MINFILE 082M 025) past-producing mine.

In 2007 and 2008, Eagle Plains Resources completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Acacia property. In 2011 and 2012, Vigilante Metals Inc. prospected and geochemically (rock and soil) sampled the area as the Inferno property.