The Bear occurrence is located on the south side of Hall Creek, 12 kilometres due south of Nelson. The deposit was worked from 1937 to 1942. The Fern mine (082FSW183) adjoins the claims to the east.

The area is underlain by augite basalt flows and flow breccias of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation (Unit Je1, Open File 1989-11)), Rossland Group intruded by granodiorite and quartz monzonite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions and a dark, fine-grained dyke with light feldspar phenocrysts.

The dyke is host to numerous east trending joints and fractures. Fractures and zones of crushed wallrock are host to quartz with pyrite. Minor malachite and abundant pyrite stringers and blebs occur in quartzose crushed rocks. The wallrock adjacent to quartz stringers is oxidized and argillically altered.

The Bear workings are developed at the contact between augite porphyry and a porphyritic granite dyke (?). The vein in the adit is up to 25 centimetres wide, pinches out to 10 centimetres and contains free gold. At surface the ore is rusty and decomposed but also hosts free gold.

The highest assay from a sampling program in 1987 was from a rusty fracture in an open cut, 10 metres east of the adit entrance. The oxidized, agillically altered and crushed quartzose material assayed 35 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 16847).

The deposit produced 114 tonnes of material which yielded 4,167 grams of gold and 1,897 grams of silver.