The Cush (McBride) property is located, approximately 23 kilometres northeast of McBride.
The area is underlain by the Late Proterozoic Miette Group. The lower Miette is a dark weathering recessive unit consisting of a lower limestone division and an upper slate division. The middle Miette is composed of inter-layered cliff forming grit and sandstone layers, recessive rusty weathering green to grey silty slate, and minor grey limestone. The measured thickness of the middle Miette is 2870 metres. The upper Miette is dominated by slate with the contact areas containing interbedded fine- grained sandstone and siltstone. The thickness of the upper Miette has been estimated at 1800 metres. White quartzite of the McNaughton Formation disconformably overlies the middle Miette.
The Cush anomalies were found, in 1974, by J.R Woodcock Consultants Inc. during a regional stream sediment sampling program. In 1985 and 1986, Newmont and Noranda both attempted to stake the RGS anomaly on the south side of Cushing Creek and subsequently became involved in a staking dispute. Newmont completed silt and rock sampling in the vicinity of the RGS anomaly. In 1986, samples of ferricrete returned 700 to 1700 parts per million nickel (Assessment Report 31154). In 2004, M. Kilby completed an air photo study of a 500 square kilometre area surrounding the Cush anomalies and was later joined by Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. under the McBride project. In 2005, Canadian Empire Exploration Corp. collected 1700 samples, including 607 rock samples. The best rock sample values came from gossanous zones where manganese content is extremely anomalous, usually on the order of 10,000 parts per million to greater than 50,000 parts per million manganese, with metal values up to 3800 parts per million nickel, 2960 parts per million zinc and 406 parts per million cobalt. The best nickel values from bed rock sampling were on the order of 150 to 200 parts per million nickel (Assessment Report 28365). In 2009, a program of geochemical sampling was performed.
