The NRS chromite occurrence is located just to the west of the settlement of Manson Creek.

It was first noted by Lang (1941) as a serpentinized zone containing chromite. It is found within ultramafic rocks of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Manson Lakes Ultramafites. These rocks lie within the Manson fault zone, a right-lateral fault of Cretaceous to Paleogene age.

Work History

In 2017, Angel Jade Mines Ltd. carried out a field program with the intention of locating hard-rock sources of placer gold, and to determine if gold and base metal anomalies within the listwanite exposures could be used as a vector to high-grade mineralization. The field program focused on three regions within the Manson Creek area, the Big Bend area near the southern extent of the claim group, the Gary’s Pit area within the eastern extent of the claim group and the Blackjack Creek area within the northern extent of the claim group. Between the three regions, a total of 62 rock samples were collected and assayed. The assays returned no values of economic interest and it was suggested that future exploration would benefit from structural mapping in locating the quartz-vein¬hosted coarse gold.