The Golden Burp occurrence is located in the northeastern head waters of Farrell Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1650 metres.
The area is underlain by quartzites and argillites of the Helikian Middle Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) and is contained within an east-west fracture zone, dipping 70 degrees south, which strikes across the axial plane of a large regional northeast-plunging anticline. The area is transected by several important base metal-bearing structures (St. Eugene (082GSW025), North Break, Old Yeller (082GSW111), etc.) but much of the area is masked by overburden.
Locally, a brecciated zone containing quartz veins with limonite staining hosts sulphide mineralization. The mineralization is not described but is assumed to be similar to the nearby Society Girl (082GSW030) occurrence and consist of pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and minor chalcopyrite.
In 2013, two rock samples (CK13-162 and CK13-163) assayed 0.119 and 0.034 per cent copper, 0.078 and 0.048 per cent lead and 6.2 and 1.2 grams per tonne silver with 20.66 and 1.67 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 34695).
The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby St. Eugene (082GSW025) and Society Girl (082GSW030) mines. In 1951, a 5.0-line-kilometre ground magnetic survey was completed on the area as the ML claims. In 1989, Kokanee Explorations completed a program of stream sampling, geological mapping and a VLF geophysical survey on the area as the Glen 1-2 claims. In 1990, a soil sampling program was completed on the area to the southeast. In 1992, Cominco completed a program of soil sampling on the area to the south as the Cherry claims. In 2005, a 4.3-line-kilometre ground VLF-EM survey was completed on the area. In 2006, Saint Eugene Mining completed 697 line-kilometres of airborne combined magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area. In 2011 and 2013, Kootenay Silver completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling, a 500 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey and a 500 line-kilometre seismic survey on the area as the Silver Fox property.
In 2018, a program consisting of geological mapping/prospecting and pXRF soil sampling was completed along the basal member of the Middle Creston Formation for approximately 17 kilometres from Barkshanty Creek south to the headwaters of Tepee Creek (Assessment Report 38925). The Silver Fox claim group of Kootenay Silver Inc. covered the area from Moyie Lake southeast to the U.S. border, some 30 kilometres. The Barkshanty geological work area covered Society Girl (082GSW030) and Golden Burp (082GSW085) with St. Eugene (082GSW025) and North Zone (082GSW086) being a little further west though part of the Silver Fox property. New copper mineralization was documented in various localities of the “Barkshanty” map area, and two holes were drilled on the property just over 3 kilometres east-southeast of the village of Moyie. The first hole was abandoned at 135 meters due to a rig breakdown. A second shallower hole was drilled from the same location and ended at 500 meters depth. The purpose of the program was to test the basal member of the Middle Creston Formation for stratabound copper-silver mineralization.
In 2021, Kootenay Resources Inc. contracted Salt Spring Imaging, Ltd. to record and analyse magnetotelluric data on the Moyie anticline (Assessment Report 40348).
