The South Kwad occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1850 metres on a southeast-trending ridge, northwest of the Warneford River and approximately 10.5 kilometres southeast of the east end of Weissener Lake.

Regionally, the area is underlain by four main northwest-trending zones of sediments. The westernmost belt comprises a package of Ordovician and Silurian siltstone interbedded with recessive, steel grey to black weathered upper Devonian to Mississippian shale and siltstone of the Gunsteel Formation, part of the Earn Group. The adjacent belt immediately to the east consists of brown to orange weathered Silurian siltstone. The next belt adjacent to the east consists of further recessive, steel grey to black weathered shale and siltstone of the Gunsteel Formation. The most eastern belt of rocks consists of grey weathered, fossiliferous limestone of the lower to middle Devonian Kwadacha Formation.

Locally, gossanous outcrops and talus of the Gunsteel Formation host stratiform barite-lead-zinc mineralization.

In 1980, two closely spaced rock chip samples yielded trace and 0.08 per cent lead and 0.92 and 31.70 per cent zinc with 0.26 and 16.78 per cent barium, respectively, whereas another sample, taken approximately 1.5 kilometres to the southwest, yielded 2.85 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 8846). It is not known if the samples were from outcrop or talus.

Work History

In 1980, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Kwad property.