The Torte showing is located south of Haslam Creek.

The area is underlain by a thin gabbro sill intruded into metamorphosed, volcanogenic sediments of the Paleozoic Sicker Group. The Ladysmith granodiorite is nearby and likely underlies the area. To the north, the Cretaceous Nanaimo Group overlies the older rocks.

Locally, steep, quartz sulphide veins cutting across a magnetite rich horizon of a gabbro apophysis cutting Paleozoic country rock and which is adjacent to, and intruded by, the Ladysmith batholith. The gabbro is fine-grained with feldspar and hornblende laths set in a finer matrix of altered material that contains small crystals of magnetite and up to 1 millimetre cubes of pyrite. The magnetite layer is similar but with more abundant oxides and shows locally disseminated sulphides, with local patches and thin veinlets of pyrrhotite.

In 2001 and 2002, M. Schau prospected the Torte 1 and 2 claims. Sampling of the sulphide quartz veins and adjacent magnetite gabbro host assayed up to 108 parts per billion gold, 269 parts per billion palladium, 24 parts per billion platinum, 1 part per million silver, 950 parts per million copper and 1600 parts per million tungsten. Sampling of the disseminated sulphides in the magnetite gabbro assayed up to 34 parts per billion palladium, 11 parts per billion platinum, 446 parts per million copper, 0.34 per cent titanium (soluble), 2.59 per cent titanium as oxide (fused), 153 parts per million vanadium (soluble) and 402 parts per million vanadium (fused) (Assessment Report 27023).