The B.B. occurrence is located on the southeastern head waters of Blackbear Creek, approximately 5.5 kilometres north east of the western end of Spanish Lake.

The area lies within the eastern part of the Quesnellia terrane. This region is underlain dominantly by fine-grained metasedimentary rocks, which are in contact with the Barkerville terrane. The metasedimentary rocks comprise mainly dark-grey phyllite and silty slate considered to be of the Middle to Upper Triassic. Part of the black phyllite succession is informally correlated with the Nicola Group but has also been informally referred to as the Quesnel River Group sediments.

Locally, graphitic, black phyllites near the contact with a volcanic breccia host quartz veins with galena mineralization. A sample (No.37) assayed 0.224 per cent lead and 152.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17751).

In 1988, a program of prospecting and rock sampling was completed on the as the B.B. claims. In 2015 and 2016, the area was prospected and rock samples were taken by Barker Minerals as the Black Bear East property.