The Machta 2 occurrence is located south of Matcha Creek, 850 metres east-northeast of the creek mouth and at an elevation of approximately 20 metres.

The region is underlain by flows and pyroclastics of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group, which are intruded by granitic rocks of the Late Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The contacts between the intrusive phases are mostly transitional. Contacts with the volcanics can be sharp fault contacts or transitional zones, up to 130 metres wide. Post-intrusive aplite and lamprophyre dikes cut both granitic and volcanic rocks. Faults, shear zones, veins and dikes follow three main orientations: 010 to 025 degrees and 150 to 170 degrees, both dipping steeply to the east, and 90 to 135 degrees with shallow southerly dips. Chloritic alteration on fault and shear planes is common.

Locally, massive andesitic to basaltic flows with quartz-epidote-chlorite-pyrite host chalcopyrite and malachite mineralization. In 1985, a rock chip sample (26525) assayed 0.19 gram per tonne gold over 10 metres (Assessment Report 14369).

In 1985, Cal-Denver Resources completed a program of heavy mineral, rock and soil sampling on the area. In 1985 and 1986, Cortez Explorations completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling on the area as the Machta Gold claim. In 1987, Thomson Gold Co. Limited explored the area.