The Bear area is underlain by a sequence of folded and faulted Upper Triassic andesitic volcanic and clastic sedimentary rock units of the Stuhini Group. The sequences of clastic layered rocks consist of volcanic wackes, andesitic flows, and argillite interbeds.

This consists of mineralized veins and pods which were traced, discontinuously, for over 70 metres. The mineralization trends 020-035/80-90 degrees southeast and appears related to the shear/joint system found along the creek gully. Individual veins range up to 42 centimetres in width but are usually 10 to 15 centimetres wide. They pinch and swell and commonly contain 3-5 per cent sphalerite, 1 to 3 per cent pyrite, 1 to 2 per cent galena and less than 1 per cent arsenopyrite in a quartz-carbonate gangue. The mineralized system is hosted by a dark grey to black siltstone and appears to be cut off to the north by an east-west trending shear structure. Further north, a couple of small (20 by 10 centimetres) mineralized pods, which trend at l00 degrees, were observed in a sheared greywacke. A grab sample assayed 1.03 grams per tonne gold 28.73 grams per tonne silver, 2.93 per cent lead, 4.2 per cent zinc and 0.077 per cent copper (Sample 90T045R-001, Assessment Report 21219, Map 12).

Exploration in 1990 and 1991 by Soloman Resources Ltd entailed geological mapping, trenching, prospecting and sampling over the southern Ridge grid, as well as, the Handel, Chopin I and II claims (Assessment Report 21219). Prospecting and sampling yielded a number of new showings on the south slope. Refer to Bronson (104B 300) for a further details of a common work history.