The Berthold occurrence is located on west side of lower Manson Lake, 0.5 kilometre southwest of the mouth of Boulder Creek. During the mid-1980s, the region was held under the Dog claims group by Chevron Canada Resources Limited and geochemical sampling was undertaken on the claims.

Regionally, this occurrence is hosted within schists and argillites of the Upper Proterozoic to Upper Permian Boulder Creek Group which is assigned to the pericratonic Kootenay Terrane. This enigmatic package of metamorphosed, fine-grained clastic rocks and impure carbonates is exposed within the northwest striking right-lateral Manson fault zone, in fault contact with the Slide Mountain and Quesnel terranes. To the west, rocks belonging to the Quesnel Terrane are intruded by the Cretaceous Germansen batholith.

This occurrence is a 3 metre wide galena and pyrite-bearing quartz vein found between quartz-chlorite-muscovite schists and black carbonaceous argillites of the Boulder Creek Group. The surrounding rocks appear sheared and are silicified. The quartz vein strikes 160 degrees and dips steeply northeast. A hornblende trachyte dike locally intrudes these rocks. A grab sample from this vein assayed 6.22 grams per tonne silver, 13.18 per cent lead, 0.03 per cent copper, and 0.01 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 1659).

WORK HISTORY

Previous exploration in the Boulder Creek area dates back to 1940 when the Berthold lode gold prospect. In 1944 the claims were owned by B. Macdonald, of Manson Creek.

During the 1968 field season, geological mapping and geochemical surveying was done on the Viper property (to the north of the Berthold) during which W.G. Stevensen identified and sampled the Berthold (093N 028) with a reported assay of 0.69 gram per tonne gold, 154.63 grams per tonne silver, 0.02 per cent copper, 0.18 per cent lead and 0.35 per cent zinc Assessment Report 1659).

In 1979, Azure Resources completed several percussion holes in what they believed was the Berthold area, the claims plot east of where the showing is supposed to occur. Values obtained from drilling were not anomalous.

In 2006, the Manson Creek Project (“the Project”) was acquired by Skygold Ventures Ltd. Additional claims staked later in 2006 and in 2007, as part of a massive regional land-staking program. The Manson Creek claim group consisted of 125 contiguous claims covering an area of 55,812.04 hectares at the start of the 2008 field season (Assessment Report 30701). The claims included the MC 1-34 and 50-84 and the DMC 4-5 and 14-50. The claims included the MC 1-34 and 50-84 and the DMC 4-5 and 14-50. The only work reported by Skygold for the Berthold area was in 2008 which entailed a large helicopter-borne magnetic gradiometer and VLF-EM over survey much of their Manson Creek property. The survey consisting of a 1580 line-kilometers was flown in September, 2008. This airborne survey covered the following MINFILE occurrences: Blackhawk (093N 022), Asp (093N 027), Berthold, (093N 028), Kathy (093N 0230), Kildare Gulch (093N 057) Lost Creek (093N 060), Manson River (093N 061), Boulder Creek (093N 088), AJM (093N 136), Bold 1(093N 137), Blackjack Mountain (093N 148), Bold 2 (093N 197), Of these Kildare Gulch, Manson River and Boulder Creek are placer deposits. Of these Lost Creek, Kildare Gulch, Manson River and Boulder Creek are placer deposits. See Assessment Report 30701 for a full report on the aeromagnetic survey.

Refer to Asp (093N 027) and Bold 2 (093N 197) for further geological details. Also refer to Kathy (093N 030) for details of the Manson Creek project of which the Bold 2 was part of in the late 2000s.