The Canada Belle claims are located on a north-trending ridge approximately 2 kilometres northwest of the west end of Boundary Lake, near the headwaters of the Priest River and on the west flank of North Star Mountain. Note that there are a series of Crown grants with a similar strike (north-south) on North Star Mountain, but there is no record of mineralization on them. Also, the reverted Crown grant Big Chief (Lot 12666) is on strike 2 kilometres to the north of the Canada Belle showings.
Regionally, the area is underlain by quartz arenite sedimentary rocks of the Mount Nelson Formation, undivided sedimentary rocks of the Dutch Creek Formation and dolomitic carbonate rocks of the Kitchener Formation, all of the Mesoproterozoic Purcell Supergroup. To the west, coarse clastic sedimentary rocks of the Neoproterozoic Toby Formation (Windermere Supergroup) are exposed. These have been intruded to the north and south by a Middle Jurassic granitic intrusive.
Locally on the Canada Belle claims, a series of north-striking quartz veins in dolomite (Kitchener Formation) are conformable with the nearly vertical bedding of the dolomite. The quartz veins are exposed in opencuts over a range in elevation of 1433 to 1525 metres; veins vary from 0 to 0.6 metre wide and are sparsely mineralized with barite, galena, sphalerite and pyrite. The best showing is at 1525 metres elevation, where a vein has been stripped for 15 metres along the strike.
It is noted that the Canada Belle, Peanut (MINFILE 082FSE081) and Cultus Creek (MINFILE 082FSE082) occurrences and likely the Iva Fern deposits (MINFILE 082FSE056) are found along a similar stratigraphic level, associated with silicification of limestone or dolostone units in Proterozoic rocks (Assessment Report 10484).
Two other zones of mineralization, referred to as the Y.S. (Y & S) and Silver King 15031 zones, are located approximately 900 and 1700 metres to the northwest of the Canda Belle occurrence and east of the Upper Priest River. The Y.S. zone comprises a small pit exposing a 2.5-centimetre wide seam of tetrahedrite in massive white dolomite striking north 60 degrees east. The Silver King zone comprises a 2.4-metre wide zone of sheared dolomite hosting quartz veinlets and gash veins with tetrahedrite mineralization. The mineralized zone trends north-south and has been traced for approximately 25.5 metres along strike.
The North Star Mountain (Climax, Spud Fraction, Old Dominion, Benhurr, Summit and Last Chance) Crown grants were originally surveyed in 1906 and Crown granted in 1912. A program of trenching is reported to have been performed on the Summit (L.8984) Crown grant.
In 1981, MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and soil sampling on the area. In 2011, a program of rock and silt sampling, prospecting and geological mapping was performed on the area as the Maryland property.
