The Howard occurrence is located 7.6 kilometres north-northwest of Stewart on the east side of Salmon River and the road, 0.75 kilometre north of the summit of Mountain View.

The area is underlain by the Early Jurassic Texas Creek Plutonic Suite consisting of granodiorite. At the Howard showing, a quartz vein and stringers occur in a shear zone striking 330 degrees and dipping 40 degrees northeast. The veins are exposed for 46 metres by several opencuts and stripping. A few of the quartz stringers locally contain barite. One quartz body is 3 metres long, 30 centimetres wide and is moderately mineralized with galena, pyrite and sphalerite.