The J-Bear showing is located on a ridge top 3 kilometres south of Mount Quinlan and 6 kilometres east of Highway 16 and Skeena River, 43.5 kilometres northeast of Terrace, B.C.

Regionally, the Empire Property surrounding Mount Sir Roberts is situated in the Stikinia orogenic accreted terrane, a volcanic arc assemblage of volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The property itself overlays a sequence of bimodal volcanics and volcaniclastic sediments of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group. The orogenic class of gold deposit is defined here as syn-tectonic quartz-carbonate veins and wall rock replacement associated with regional-scale faults. Orogenic ores form at convergent plate margins in accretionary and collisional orogens.

The J-Bear showing is in the northwestern region of the Empire property, approximately 7 kilometres northwest of the Metalback showing, in an area of receding snowpack and ice. Massive copper-rich mineralization occurs in chlorite-altered mafic volcanics, intermittently brecciated with red volcanics.

J2 Syndicate Holdings Ltd. initiated a 2016 exploration program on their Empire property, during which time a SkyTEM airborne electromagnetic survey was flown, followed by an initial rock sampling program (139 samples). Rock grab samples ranged from below detection limit to 16.4 grams per tonne gold, 36,875 grams per tonne silver, 27.6 per cent copper, 33.9 per cent lead and 29.98 per cent zinc. Two Trends were discovered during the 2016 field season: Inca and Babylon. The north-south striking Inca Trend (1.6 by 1.2 kilometres) included three zones: Metallica, Metalworks and Olympus.

Exploration on the Empire property continued in 2017 with J2 Syndicate as owner and Juggernaut Exploration as operator. Field mapping and sampling (379 channel, 488 chip/grab, 1 talus fine and 22 silt). Much of this work led to the expansion of the Inca Trend mineralization (Assessment Report 37539).

Property wide LiDAR and airborne geophysical surveys, ground IP surveys (including the Rockstar area), geological mapping, alteration studies, channel sampling (61), chip/grab rock sampling (544) and prospecting was conducted over the Empire in 2018, while 3209 metres of drilling focused on mineralized zones in the expanded Inca Trend. It was during this period of prospecting and sampling that J-Bear was discovered along a regional northwest trending magnetic high, returning strong anomalous values in Cu +/- Ag (Assessment Report 38018).

In 2019 a comprehensive report was completed on the Empire property and a small drill program focused on the Rockstar area in southern end of the Inca Trend. Diamond drill hole EM-19-20 at Rockstar intersected 4.7 metres of 1.173 per cent Cu with 0.114 gram per tonne Au from the top of the hole. This hole tested the extent of mineralization within a quartz-chalcopyrite breccia (Assessment Report 38978).