The North Kwad occurrence is located on a northeast facing slope, south of Joe Pool Creek and approximately 8 kilometres east-northeast of the east end of Weissener Lake.

A 3000-metre section of Paleozoic clastics in the North Kwad area, ranging from Cambrian to Mississippian, is exposed in a series of imbricate, northwest-trending, northeast converging, thrust sheets. Competent Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group dolomite and siltstone and Silurian Nonda Formation siltstone form the resistant ridges of the overthrust plates, while Ordovician to Devonian Road River Group shale and siltstone, and Devonian to Mississippian Earn Group shales form the less resistant and heavily folded footwall sections.

Barite lenses and baritic shale horizons occur within the Upper Devonian Gunsteel Formation of the Devonian to Mississippian Earn Group.

In 1980, a rock sample from a ridge, located approximately 4.5 kilometres to the north-northwest, assayed 1.42 per cent zinc and 32.73 per cent barium, while two other samples taken approximately 1.5 kilometres to the southwest yielded 0.20 and 0.27 per cent zinc with 0.29 and 0.88 per cent barium, respectively (Assessment Report 8846). It is not known if the samples were from outcrop or talus.

Work History

In 1980, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Kwad property.