The Bee occurrence is located 8 kilometres southeast of Wade Lake, about 85 kilometres east-southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

Chalcopyrite in quartz stringers and as fracture fillings are reported to occur in volcanic rocks. Epidote is also common as fracture fillings in the volcanic rocks. Large (up to 60 centimetres wide) irregular barren quartz veins are found about 1 kilometre to the northeast.

The property is underlain by andesitic volcanic rock (flows, tuffs and breccias), shale and banded limestone. The limestone, which overlies the shale, strikes southeast and dips northeast, is likely part of the Upper Triassic Sinwa Formation and the shale may be as well. The Sinwa Formation has recently been assigned to the Stuhini Group (Stikine Terrane). These limestones occur north of the King Salmon fault which runs through the Bee area. The volcanic rocks occur south of the fault and are an unnamed Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic unit of the Stikine Terrane.

Julian Mining Co. Ltd. explored the Bee group (Bee and TNA claims) in 1962 and apparently in 1963. A magnetometer survey was conducted over 6 kilometres of line; 500 soil samples were taken and 24.4 metres of light diamond drilling was done.

In 1980, Du Pont of Canada Exploration Limited prospected the Q3 claim which covered the same area. Malachite near the contact of agglomerate and a carbonate zone was found at that time. The location of the mineralization matches with the location of the mineralization found earlier by Julian Mining.