The Bear 1 occurrence is located on a hill west of Hot Creek, north of McDame Creek and south of Hot Lake.

The occurrence area is underlain by calcareous sedimentary rocks of the Devonian McDame Group and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Upper Devonian to Lower Mississippian Earn Group and Mississippian Slide Mountain Complex. To the west serpentine ultramafic rocks of the Permian Blue Dome fault zone (Slide Mountain Complex) are exposed.

Locally, a dolomite hosts a rusty, limonitic, quartz-carbonate vein with massive pyrite, galena and sphalerite. The vein is 20 to 30 centimetres wide and is orientated 050 degrees with a dip of 70 degrees east. A replacement pod of stibnite occurs in the dolomite approximately 100 metres northwest of the mineralized vein.

Work History

In 1984, Erickson Gold Mining Corp. completed a program of geological mapping and soil sampling on the area as the Bear 1-3 claims of the Hot Lake property.

In 2008, Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd. completed a 917.0-line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Haskin-Reed property. The following year, a program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and trenching was completed on the property.