The Russ occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 270 metres along Russ Creek on Texada Island and approximately 3.5 kilometres east-southeast of Mount Pocahontas.

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 to the south and of the (informally named) Cretaceous Pocahontas Stock to the north.

Locally, historical pits and trenches exposed magnetite and chalcopyrite mineralization in basaltic volcanic rocks.

In 1988, a rock sample (T7067) assayed 1.58 per cent copper, 16.9 grams per tonne silver and 0.45 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17995).

Work History

Historical pits and trenches are reported in the occurrence area.

In 1988, David Murphy conducted a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Connoisseur and Merridian properties.

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 identified 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.