The Boden occurrence lies in the Zeballos gold camp, an area underlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group basaltic to rhyolitic volcanic rocks. Conformably underlying the Bonanza rocks are lime- stones and limy clastics of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Quatsino Formation. Dioritic to granodioritic Jurassic plutons of the Zeballos intrusion phase of the Island Plutonic Suite have intruded all older rocks. The Eocene Zeballos stock, a quartz diorite phase of the Catface Intrusions, is spatially related to gold-quartz veining in the area. Bedded rocks are predominantly northwest striking, southwest dipping, and anticlinally folded about a north- west axis.

The Boden occurrence consists of several showings, extending from and elevation of 335 metres to the northwest along a fork in Maguinna Creek, and up to 640 metres elevation over a summit.

The location given by Stevenson (1938, Index Map) places the occurrence at a considerable distance from that given in his 1950 description (Bulletin 27, page 119), the more recent location is adhered to.

The Number One showing, at elevation 335 metres, consists of a 15 to 60 centimetre wide west striking, near vertical shear zone comprised of crushed rock, gouge and coarse calcite lenses. Disseminated fine-grained pyrite, arsenopyrite and sphalerite are present. A sample assayed 3.4 grams per tonne gold (Bulletin 27, page 120). The shear zone here lies in Bonanza Group greenstone, 6 metres from a Jurassic(?) granodiorite contact.

At an elevation of 457 metres and traceable to 579 metres, the same shear zone lies in a contact phase of greenstone. Locally, pyrrhotite patches are present in siliceous layers up to 15 centimetres in width.

The Number Two showing lies to the northwest at an elevation of 640 metres, over a 700 metre divide. The zone is in silicified and carbonate altered greenstone near an 080-degree striking 2.5 metre diabase dyke. It consists of a 1.2 metre wide west striking shear that has been traced over 46 metres. The shear contains lenses of white calcite and 1 to 5 centimetre wide quartz ribs, with traces of pyrite and sphalerite. Assays returned only traces of gold (Bulletin 27, page 120).

In 1999, Zeb Oro Explorations Inc. prospected the area as the Zeb Oro property. In 2014, the area was prospected as the Zeballos Vancouver Island property.