The McBride Zone 1-N occurrence is located on the upper ridges of Thatue Mountain, approximately 13 kilometres east-northeast of Iskut village and 3 kilometres west of Klappan River.

The showing occurs within the Stikine Terrane, primarily lying within Lower-Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group calc-alkaline volcanics and underlying Upper Triassic Stuhini Group, commonly associated with structural controls with carbonate and silica alteration. Monzonite, diorite to gabbro intrusions of Triassic to Late Jurassic age, and Tertiary volcanics intrude the above packages.

A 2018 prospecting report on the McBride property identified this area in the north end of a two-kilometre-long copper mineralized trend coincident with a 500 by 2000-metre-long magnetic high, outlined by Geoscience B.C.'s Quest-Northwest Airborne Magnetic Survey. Two samples taken from narrow copper-bearing carbonate veins hosted by a monzonite plug or large dike yielded 5.18 grams per tonne gold and 0.97 per cent copper, and 2.68 grams per tonne gold and 0.86 per cent copper. Other sampling in the area of the showing assayed up to 2.02 per cent copper (Assessment Report 37766).

In 2010, Solitaire Minerals conducted geological and geochemical (7 rock, 94 soil and 68 silt samples) surveys on the McBride property. In 2013, Pistol Bay Mining completed a prospecting program, taking 51 rock samples over parts of the McBride property. The mineral tenures were eventually allowed to lapse, and in 2017 G.J. Davison staked the McBride property and subsequently optioned the mineral tenures to Hawkeye Gold and Diamond Inc. Four additional contiguous mineral tenures were staked in 2018 and added to the eastern and northern parts of the McBride property. In 2018, Hawkeye Gold and Diamond Inc. completed a field program consisting of soil (362) and rock (51) sampling on the McBride property.