The PJ occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 200 metres on a southwestfacing slope and approximately 2.5 kilometres east of the community of Gilles Bay on Texada Island.

Regionally, the area is underlain by limestone, marble and calcareous sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) and basaltic volcanics of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The sedimentary and volcanic rocks have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite and of the (informally named) Cretaceous Pocahontas Stock.

The occurrence area is underlain by strongly jointed porphyritic basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation Vancouver Group). The basalts host a fracture-related, narrow quartz vein striking 335 degrees and dipping 75 degrees east. The vein ranges from 0.1 to 0.5 metre in width and is exposed by several pits over a strike length of 45 metres. It is crudely banded with minor carbonate and passes laterally to a rusty shear. Minor pyrite is present. The core of the vein, 7 centimetres wide, contains disseminated sphalerite and galena which occasionally forms thin lenses.

In 1982, a grab sample from the core of the vein assayed 31.94 grams per tonne gold, 77.81 grams per tonne silver, 3.08 per cent lead and 3.01 per cent zinc, whereas two channel samples of the vein yielded 1.17 and 0.12 per cent lead, 1.53 and 1.39 per cent zinc, 24.6 and 6.8 grams per tonne silver with 1.37 and 0.34 grams per tonne gold over 0.40 and 0.35 metre, respectively (Assessment Report 10573).

Work History

In 1982, Charlemagne Oil and Gas Ltd. sampled the area as the PJ claims of the Gil claim group. Historical trenches were reported to have been identified on the occurrence. The following year, a program of soil sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey was completed.

In 2013, Northstar Mining Ltd. conducted a 19 000-hectare remote sensing (spectral analysis) survey on the area as part of the regionally extensive Texada Island property. In 2014 and 2015, Northstar Mining Ltd. conducted a geological interpretation program to identify future target areas for exploration on the Texada Island property.

During 2022 through 2024 Quadra Coastal Resources Ltd. conducted programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, LIDAR data reprocessing and a total of 553.2 line-kilometres of airborne magnetic surveys on the Texada Island property.