The FFE95-46-1 occurrence is located on an east-facing slope, approximately 13 kilometres 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 FFE95-46-1 is a fetid, bedded calcareous barite, 1.5-metre thick, within dark-grey argillites of the Middle Devonian to Lower Mississippian Earn Group. A sample assayed 48.34 per cent barium and 0.36 per cent strontium (Geoscience Map 1998-9).

In 2006, a rock sample (WR96-84) from an outcrop of barite, located several hundred metre southwest of the plotted location of the occurrence, assayed 0.21 per cent zinc and 7.22 per cent barium (Assessment Report 25012).

Work History

In 2006, Cominco Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Chief claims.

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.