The Bermaline (Prosperity Trend) occurrence is located on a north west facing slope between Douglas and Lorne creeks, approximately 11 kilometres north east of the north end of Kitsumkalum Lake and 39.5 kilometres north of Terrace, B.C.
Regionally, the area is underlain by Jurassic to Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group sediments which have been intruded by Late Cretaceous granodiorite and quartz monzonite stocks and sills.
The original Bermaline occurrence, identified in the early 1930s, comprises sediments cut by shear zones and mineralized quartz veins, between 1470 and 1650 metres elevation and between the headwaters of Douglas and Lorne Creeks. Mineralization consists of galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite and minor sphalerite in the quartz veins and disseminated molybdenite near shear zones.
A 1.0 metre sample taken in 1932, across a vein, assayed 3 per cent lead, 103 grams per tonne silver and 20.6 grams per tonne gold (Bulletin 1). In 1937, a 1.2 metre chip sample assayed 9.06 per cent lead, 4.44 per cent copper, 108 grams per tonne silver, 0.4 per cent zinc and 2.1 grams per tonne gold (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 212).
The Fat Freddy showing, identified in 2016 and sampled in 2017 is located approximately 380 metres to the northeast of the Bermaline showing, comprises polymetallic quartz veins, up to 2 metres wide, hosting massive sulphides consisting of disseminated or globules of pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite and galena in an intensely altered (hornfelsed) sedimentary rocks (argillite, sandstone and conglomerate) and granodiorite. Generally, the mineralized veins occur in or parallel to northwest-southeast and northeast-southwest trending faults and shear zones. The wall rock adjacent to the structures is silicified with rusty brown weathering and limonitic clots in weathered vein material. Mineralization along the Prosperity Trend has been identified over an area of approximately 650 by 250 metres in the central portion of the Lucky Strike property at the headwaters of two prolific placer creeks, Lorne Creek draining eastward, and Douglas Creek draining westward (Turna, R. (2017-08-31): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Lucky Strike Property).
The area has been explored in conjunction with the South Lorne Creek (MINFILE 103I 027) and a completed regional exploration history can be found there.
In 2016, J2 Syndicate Holdings Ltd. and Goliath Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, hand trenching and rock and stream sediment sampling on the area as the Lucky Strike property and particularly on the Prosperity Trend, running northeast from the Bermaline showing. 2017 channel sampling of the Fat Freddy, northeast of Bermailine returned anomalous values for Au, Ag, Cu, Pb and Zn (Assessment Report 37542).
A SkyTEM aerial electromagnetic survey was flown over the Lucky Strike Property in 2017 for a total of 563 line km. Magnetic anomalies were found to highlight apparent intrusives at several locations, they generally corresponded with resistive zones in the SkyTEM data as well as with anomalous 2016 sampling. Several new areas of interest were identified as a result of this electromagnetic survey: Kahuna, Douglas, Lorne and Prosperity North (Assessment Report 36902).
An NI 43-101 Technical Report was completed on the Lucky Strike property in 2017 for Goliath Resources Limited and a second comprehensive report was completed in 2018 including work done during the 2017 field season. The program consisted of reconnaissance and follow-up prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling. Sampling during the 2017 and 2018 field season resulted in the definition of several new zones of mineralization.
