The FFE94-18-8 barite occurrence is located on the northeast slope of Brownie Mountain, approximately 7.5 kilometres 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 FFE94-18-8 is a bedded barite occurrence within Middle Devonian to Lower Mississippian Earn Group sediments. A sample of the barite assayed 15.17 per cent barium (Geoscience Map 1998-9).

Finely disseminated barite within siliceous shale occurs 1 kilometre north-northeast of this location.

Work History

In 1978, Texasgulf Canada Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area 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.