The FFE95-41-3 occurrence is located on a small, generally west-flowing tributary of the Kechika River, approximately 11 kilometres north of Terminus Mountain

Regionally, the area lies immediately east of the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench, which here coincides with the Kechika River valley, in a broad belt of Paleozoic basinal-facies sedimentary strata known as the Kechika Trough, part of Ancestral North America (Map 38; Exploration and Mining Geology, Volume 1; Geological Survey of Canada Map 1713A). The area is underlain by a generally northwest-trending and southwest-dipping belt consisting dominantly of quartz arenite sedimentary rocks the Cambrian Gog Group, a strongly deformed sequence of grey to brown dolostone, shale, siltstone and chert of the Silurian to Devonian Road River Group and a varied unit composed mostly of chert-pebble conglomerate and quartz sandstone, and blue-black siliceous shale and siltstone of the Devonian and Mississippian Earn Group (Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1962, 1712A; Geoscience Map 1998-9). All rock units have been deformed into tight, northeast-overturned folds and imbricated by thrust faults.

Sample FFE95-41-3 is an argillite layer, 0.5 metre thick, with up to 30 per cent barite rosettes. There are also baritic limestone lenses. The units belong to the Ordovician to Lower Silurian Road River Group (Geoscience Map 1998-9).

Work History

In 1980, Noranda Exploration Company, Limited completed a soil sampling program on the area immediately northeast as the Smoke claims.

In 2011 and 2012, BCarlin Resources Ltd. completed regionally extensive programs of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Netson Lake property.