The Poes occurrence is located on the south side of Hardscrabble Creek, approximately 2.4 kilometres west-northwest of the creek mouth on the Skeena River.

The area is underlain by andesite of the Jurassic Hazelton Group, which has been cut by porphyritic granodiorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

Locally, a northeast- trending quartz vein, 60 metres long and 20 to 35 centimetres wide, contains pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. A 38 centimetre sample assayed 0.7 gram per tonne gold, 209 grams per tonne silver, 4.5 per cent copper, 6.8 per cent lead and 8.6 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1940).

In 2002, the Carlson group of mineral claims was staked by G.W. Kurz. During 2003 through 2014, various programs of bedrock prospecting, rock chip sampling, geological mapping, a ground self-potential geophysical survey and geochemical soil and silt sampling were completed.