The FFE95-29-11 occurrence is located on a north-facing slope, north of Matulka Creek and approximately 3 kilometres north-northeast of Terminus Mountain.

Regionally, the area lies immediately east of the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench, which here coincides with the Kechika River valley, in a broad belt of Paleozoic basinal-facies sedimentary strata known as the Kechika Trough, part of Ancestral North America (Map 38; Exploration and Mining Geology, Volume 1; Geological Survey of Canada Map 1713A). The area is underlain by a generally northwest-trending and southwest-dipping belt consisting dominantly of quartz arenite sedimentary rocks the Cambrian Gog Group, a strongly deformed sequence of grey to brown dolostone, shale, siltstone and chert of the Silurian to Devonian Road River Group and a varied unit composed mostly of chert-pebble conglomerate and quartz sandstone, and blue-black siliceous shale and siltstone of the Devonian and Mississippian Earn Group (Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1962, 1712A; Geoscience Map 1998-9). All rock units have been deformed into tight, northeast-overturned folds and imbricated by thrust faults.

Sample FFE95-29-11 comprises a dark grey, fetid, baritic limestone with chert nodules. The unit is 0.5 metre thick and occurs within argillite and slate of the Middle Devonian to Lower Mississippian Earn Group (Geoscience Map 1998-9).

There are three main units in the showings: a lower, 70-metre thick section of massive, siliceous, black, carbonaceous shale with white chert nodules; a middle, 100-metre thick recessive black fissile shale with baritic limestone lenses; and an upper, 15-metre section of massive siliceous black shale, also with baritic limestone lenses (Bulletin 107, page 106).

Work History

In 1996, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of soil, silt and rock sampling on the area as the Phrase and Term claims. Several barite showings, mainly to the west of this occurrence, were located and assays returned up to 50 per cent barium and 0.28 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 24977).

In 2011 and 2012, BCarlin Resources Ltd. completed regionally extensive programs of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Netson Lake property.