The occurrence is located near the headwaters of Kimball Creek at Black Stuart Mountain, 36 kilometres southeast of Barkerville or 43 kilometres northeast of Likely. Access to the property is by helicopter by 12 kilometres of horse-trail from the Matthew River logging camp northeast of Maeford Lake.
The region is underlain by rocks of the Cariboo Terrane which, in this area comprises formations of both the Cambrian-Mississippian Black Stuart Group and Upper Proterozoic-Cambrian Cariboo Group. Lithologies include dolostone breccia, clastic dolostone and limestone of the Mural Formation (Cariboo Group), and chert breccia and slate of the Black Stuart Group.
Showings occur at a number of locations on the property. Two types of mineralization have been identified but both types occur within a dolostone breccia. One type has galena associated with barite and is considered to be of sedimentary or diagenetic origin. The other type has galena, sphalerite and possibly tetrahedrite occurring as space fillings in brecciated quartz veining at the 'Tarn' showing with no obvious structural control on the localization of the veins. These quartz veins are restricted to the upper chert-dolostone breccia unit of the Mural Formation.
Bryan Elliott and Heather Scudder staked the "Comin Throu Bear" property in 1979 to cover an area of stream sediment zinc anomalies around Black Stuart Mountain. Teck Explorations Ltd. optioned the property in 1980 and performed geological and geochemical surveys which found stratiform lead-zinc-silver-barite mineralization in limestone of the Mural Formation. In 1980, the area was explored as part of Gulf Minerals Canada’s Cordilleran Sediments Geochemical Stream Sediment program. Two samples taken at this time near the head of Kimball Creek returned anomalous values in zinc and lead. In 1981, Teck Explorations Ltd. conducted geochemical, geological and drilling work which included 1522 soils, 53 silts, 1 water and 10 rock samples, geological mapping, and 16 diamond-drill holes totalling 465.6 metres of IAX core size. The Ter and Lin group of claims was staked in November, 1989 by Dual Resources Ltd, and in 1990 an airborne magnetometer and VLF-EM survey was completed over the entire property.
