The Bear showing is located on a ridge west of the upper reaches of Ecstall River. It is 80 kilometres southeast of Prince Rupert and 64.3 kilometres southwest of Kitimat.

The north-northwest trending Ecstall Pendant, a meta- sedimentary-metavolcanic belt within the Central Gneiss Complex, is flanked by granodiorite of the Coast Range Intrusive Complex.

The Bear grid is underlain mainly by sediments which include greywacke, laminated siltstone, banded quartzite, and argillite. A pyritic quartz sericite schist horizon contains pyrite, chalcopyrite, and malachite. A sample assayed 0.54 per cent copper. Six hundred metres to the southwest, a sample in banded quartzite assayed 0.68 per cent zinc, 0.12 per cent copper, and 12 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15491).

The Bear prospect includes a series of parallel pyritic quartz-sericite schist horizons which lie along strike to the south of the South Grid East prospect (49). The felsic pyritic schist horizons range from a few centimetres to 25 metres thick and locally host massive to semi-massive sulphides (Maxwell and Bradish, 1987a, p.13). Country rocks are greywackes, well laminated siltstones, banded quartzite and argillite. This showing was not examined in the field.

The Bear showing was included in the 2019 airborne VTEM survey over Kingfisher Resources Ltd.'s Ecstall property. The airborne survey was aimed at detection of structures and/or conductors related to potential Cu-Au-Zn-Ag VMS-style mineralization (Assessment Report 39155).