The Angel 5 occurrence is located near the Texada Forest Service Road on southern Texada Island and approximately 3.3 kilometres northwest of Mount Grant.
Regionally, the area is underlain by undivided sedimentary rocks of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Nanoose Complex (Buttle Lake Group), 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.
The occurrence area is predominantly underlain by basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). The basalts range from feldspar porphyritic to augite porphyritic with amygdaloidal and aphanitic varieties also present. Pillow basalt flows are common. Limestone occurs locally as narrow lenses with limited lateral extent.
Locally, a 6-metre wide carbonate (ankerite)-filled structure with propylitic volcanic clasts, strong limonite alteration and minor pyrite associated with the Bobs Lake fault hosts gold values.
In 1988, a rock sample (S2423) assayed 0.79 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17685).
Work History
In 1988, Echo Bay Mines entered into a joint venture with Rhyolite Resources Inc. who then completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and geochemical (rock, silt, soil and heavy mineral) sampling on the area as the Angel 5 claim of the Angel property.
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.
