The FSR BR-1 (Fox) occurrence is located on the eastern slope of Mount Davies on southern Texada Island and approximately 900 metres east-southeast of the mountains’ peak.

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.

Locally, a silicified and chlorite-altered basalt and andesite, close to a quartz diorite intrusion, host quartz-carbonate veining with chalcopyrite and bornite mineralization.

In 2023, a rock sample (62342) assayed 0.762 per cent copper (Assessment Report 41233).

In 2024, two rock samples (84226 and 84231) assayed 0.224 and 0.203 per cent copper (Assessment Report 42630).

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 Fox claims of the Angel property. A grab sample (XR32762) from a large float boulder, located approximately 1700 metres to the northwest, assayed 0.52 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18671).

In 1989, Nexus Resource Corp. optioned the Angel property from Rhyolite Resources Inc. and completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the Fox claims. A chip sample (543) from the same large float boulder previously sampled to the northwest assayed 0.20 gram per tonne gold over 0.12 metre (Assessment Report 19509).

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.