The Von 2 North showing is located at the northwest corner of the Von 2 claim, near the end of Cullen Creek, a tributary of the Bear River, about 50 kilometres northeast of Stewart. The Von 2 South showing (104A 169) occurs to the southeast.
The area is underlain by Jurassic Hazelton Group rocks. These comprise andesitic tuffs and breccias of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation and volcanic sediments and tuffs with minor chert and limestone of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation. At the mouth of Cullen Creek is a small monzonite stock probably related to the Tertiary Bitter Creek dike swarm.
The showing is underlain predominantly by volcanic (probably andesitic) tuffs, breccias and conglomerates. The northwest trending contact between the Betty Creek Formation and the underlying Unuk River Formation is near the showing. Thin lenticular rhyodacite flows interfinger with the more thinly bedded siltstone sequence near the contact. A north trending fracture zone has developed oblique to the Cullen Creek fault/shear zone in the northwest corner of the Von 2 claim. The zone is silicified and contains veins and semimassive galena, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The fractures appear to be semicontinuous.
This area represents one of the more intensely mineralized areas on the Barite property. Numerous pyrite and pyrite-bearing quartz veins are present. The veins average 20 to 30 centimetres in width and continue for at least 50 metres. The veins generally trend north and dip vertically and occur at a frequency of at least 1 every 10 metres, over an area of 500 by 500 metres. One sample (BR473) assayed 77.5 grams per tonne silver and 10.89 per cent iron (Assessment Report 22033). Fifteen samples from this area assayed more than 10 grams per tonne silver and two samples had greater that 0.1 per cent arsenic. One massive pyrite vein, about 5 metres wide, strikes 155 degrees, dips vertically and can be traced for at least 75 metres to the south.
In 1990, samples were taken from a massive sulphide zone in sheared and silicified dacite tuff containing semimassive pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena. A 3 metre chip sample from this zone assayed 0.30 gram per tonne gold, 30 grams per tonne silver, 0.23 per cent lead and 1 per cent zinc (Sample GW-R-17, Assessment Report 20784). Another chip sample from a narrow quartz vein assayed 4.14 grams per tonne gold, 415 grams per tonne silver and 16.24 per cent zinc (Sample GW-R-18, Assessment Report 20784).
The area has seen some exploration activity, primarily associated with the Crown-granted claims. There are no records of this work but there is evidence of prospecting and trenching. The work was most likely done in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1989, the Barite and Von claims were acquired by Teuton Resources. In 1990, Teuton Resources conducted stream sediment sampling, geological mapping, rock geochemical sampling and prospecting. In 1991, Teuton conducted geochemical (soil and silt) and rock sampling. The showing (comprising the BH 3 and BH 4 showings) was sampled at this time. In 1994, a helicopter-supported program on the Golden Crown property by Canstar Ventures Corporation consisted of collecting 450 samples including 369 rock composite and chip, 2 soil, 58 stream sediment and 21 checks in ten target areas. During 2005 through 2010, Auramex completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as the Bear River-Surprise Creek property.
