The Barn occurrence is located just south of a small unnamed lake approximately 2 kilometres west of Moosevale Creek and 6 kilometres northwest of Savage Mountain, about 168 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The general geology consists of a sequence of northwest striking strata that becomes increasingly younger to the southwest. The oldest rocks are Permian Asitka Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. A thick volcanic succession assigned to the Upper Triassic Takla Group unconformably overlies these rocks.

In the immediate area, the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation (Hazelton Group) is in fault contact with the Upper Triassic Savage Mountain Formation (Takla Group) to the northeast. A number of narrow feldspar porphyry and quartz feldspar porphyry dikes are found within the Telkwa rocks and appear to be spatially related to several showings in the area. Numerous shear zones of variable size crosscut the northwest trending major faults in the area. Two metamorphic events are recognizable: one is a low grade metamorphism relating to regional tectonism; and the other is a more localized event, related to the intrusion of dikes and sills.

The Barn showing is hosted in Telkwa Formation rocks, within a small northwest trending shear zone. The shear zone separates finely banded purple tuffs and limestone to the east, from purple agglomerates to the west. The purple agglomerates strike northwest and dip 30 degrees to the southwest. Mineralization consists of malachite within the shear zone.

Surface sampling of three mineralized exposures in the area during 1966 returned 12.8 per cent, 8.2 per cent and 0.15 per cent copper. A grab sample of vein material returned values of 7.03 grams per tonne gold, 2850 grams per tonne silver and 9.31 per cent copper (Property File Cyprus Anvil - Wolodarsky, W., 1966).

In 1973, Dorita Silver Mines Ltd. optioned 142 claims in the Sustut Peak area on the basis of their geological environment and proximity to a recently discovered significant copper deposit (Sustut Copper, 094D 063) in that area. Reconnaissance geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical (526 samples) surveys were carried out.

In 2008, preliminary prospecting and sampling was carried out by G. Dessureau on the Pike property which covers the Ice (094D 044), Moosevale (094D 046), Barn (094D 084), Bear (094D 047), Pike (094D 045) and Dewar Peak (094D 043) occurrences. The historical copper showings were not observed during this program, however, ten rock samples were taken near the Ice, Barn and Pike showings.