The Bear South occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1390 metres on the west side of a south-southeast facing valley, approximately 4 kilometres northwest of South Gataga Lakes.

Regionally, the area is underlain by calcareous black shale, dolomite and ankeritic siltstone of the Ordovician to Devonian Road River Group, chert-pebble conglomerate of Lower Devonian age and siliceous and carbonaceous black shale of the Upper Devonian Gunsteel Formation (Earn Group).

Locally, diamond drilling has identified thin (less than 1 centimetre wide) beds of pyrite and disseminated sphalerite in a very carbonaceous cherty argillite and chert which are cut by fracture and breccia filings of sphalerite, quartz, barite, calcite, pyrite and galena. The mineralized zone is thought to lay on strike with the Bear (MINFILE 094F 024) occurrence to the north.

In 1981, drill hole 81B-7 yielded 1.38 per cent lead, 0.48 per cent zinc and 6.3 grams per tonne silver over 5.5 metres (58.5 to 64.0 metres down-hole, Assessment Report 9918).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Bear (MINFILE 094F 024) occurrence and a complete exploration history of the area can be found there.