The Bear North occurrence is located on a series of small hills to the west of Milefive Creek, approximately 3.1 kilometres south-southwest of the south western end of Big Lake.

The area is underlain by marine sedimentary and volcanic rock units of the Permian to Triassic Cache Creek Complex. These are composed of undivided phyllite, siliceous phyllite, ribbon and massive chert, argillite, tuff, mafic volcanic rocks, serpentinite, limestone, and sandstone. Limestone, marble and calcareous sedimentary rocks of the Marble Canyon Formation occur as a narrow, northwest- trending unit transecting the western portion of the area.

Locally, nickel mineralization is associated with serpentinized ultramafic rocks that may or may not contain magnetite. The serpentinite often contains irregularly folded veins of calcite-dolomite up to 5 centimetres thick. In 2014, two rock samples (Q345534 and Q345535) assayed 0.210 and 0.266 per cent nickel with 0.119 and 0.276 per cent chromium, respectively (Assessment Report 35257).

In 2014, Westhaven Ventures completed a program of rock sampling, prospecting and 529 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys on the area as the Ben South property.