The Houston North occurrence is situated south of the confluence of Silver and Dream creeks and north of the Bralorne Takla mercury mine (093N 008), approximately 37 kilometres east-northeast of Takla Landing.

The area is underlain by a north-northwest striking, steeply west-dipping sequence of interbedded limestone and argillaceous and chloritic schist assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex. These rocks occur within and west of the Pinchi fault zone, a major structural feature traversing the area from north to south. Grey, massive limestone is the only rock type observed in the area of the occurrence, and it is invariably brecciated and/or dolomitized.

Early reports (1944) describe cinnabar mineralization in a brecciated limestone outcrop 3 metres in diameter. Diamond drilling, however, determined that the deposit pinched out at a depth of 4.57 metres. In the early 1970s, cinnabar mineralization occurring as disseminated grains and blebs in secondary calcite vugs within brecciated limestone was exposed in a small creek in the general area. The extent of this mineralization is not known.

No recent information concerning this occurrence is available.