Manson Creek Resources Ltd. announced the results of the prospector drill component of the fall exploration program on the Up Town Gold project in the Northwest Territories. The company utilized a small man portable prospector drill, a JKS Winkie drill, to test extensions of the mineralization observed in the J3B trench, which contained 7.80 grams/tonne (g/t) gold and 23.31 g/t silver over 3.2 meters. The first drill hole, J12-01, was collared on a narrow peninsula, approximately 20 meters north of where the J3 and alteration zone trends into the lake, and was drilled to a depth of 19.02 meters.

The drill hole cut 7.90 meters, from 9.85 meters to 17.75 meters, of moderately to strongly altered and sheared granodiorite hosting a broad intersection of 0.47 g/t gold and 2.61 g/t silver over 6.72 meters cored by 1.29 g/t gold and 5.20 g/t silver over 2.27 meters. The Company is evaluating the Up Town Gold project for its low grade bulk tonnage potential and the broad intersection of low grade mineralization encountered in hole J12-01supports the current exploration model. The second drill hole was collared to undercut the outcropping southern end of the J3 shear, where the J3C trench reported 0.60 g/t gold and 3.0 g/t silver over 1.3 meters, and was drilled to a depth of 12.90 meters.

This trench is located approximately 15 meters to the south of J3B and 35 meters south of hole J12-01. Drill hole J12-02 returned 0.141 g/t gold and 0.80 g/t silver over 1.13 meters. The JKS Winkie drill is an excellent prospecting tool to obtain a quick geological sample of near surface material in areas of thin cover or near shore in lakes.

The small core diameter, 22 mm versus 47.6 mm for NQ core that is commonly utilized in diamond drilling, lends itself well enough for geological examination and description but it can be problematic for a definitive assay sample. The winkie drill core samples are effectively 1/4 the sample weight of the comparable rock saw channel samples from the fall for the same sample interval length. In order to ensure sufficient material was sampled, the entire core was assayed after it was photographed and geologically logged.

With the two holes drilled in the fall, core loss was an issue in many of the intervals in prospective zones. As a result, it is the company's belief that the core results are likely to have under reported the mineralization, while still extending the zones at depth and confirming the broader potential associated with intrusion hosted mineralization.