The Bonell Creek occurrence is located on Bonnel Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres south- south west from the creek mouth.

The area is underlain by Paleozoic Sicker Group rocks which may be correlative with the Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation. These are intruded by fine to coarse- grained diorite and unconformably overlain by Upper Cretaceous Comox Formation (Nanaimo Group) fossiliferous sandstone and conglomerate. The Sicker rocks comprise black shale, felsic volcanic rocks, maroon and grey schist and andesite.

Locally, an east trending quartz-carbonate vein up to a metre wide occurs in Sicker rocks. Minor chalcopyrite and pyrite are evident with significant malachite staining.

In 1986 and 1987, MineQuest Exploration Associated Ltd. completed programs of rock and silt geochemical sampling, geological mapping and prospecting. A chip sample assayed 0.85 per cent copper and 11.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 16041). Previous workings include two adits and a pit.