The CRE95-9-9 barite occurrence is located on or near a hilltop, approximately 7 kilometres northwest of Brownie Mountain and 8.5 kilometres west-southwest of the south end of Netson Lake.

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 CRE95-9-9 is represented as a 0.5-metre thick, bedded, baritic siltstone within Middle Devonian to Lower Mississippian Earn Group sediments. The barite is finely disseminated or in rosettes up to 1 centimetre. A sample of the barite assayed 27.36 per cent barium (Geoscience Map 1998-9).

Work History

In 1978, Texasgulf Canada Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area immediately northeast as the Solo 1-4 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.