The Russ North occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 80 metres on a northeast-facing slope, west of Russ Creek on Texada Island and approximately 3.7 kilometres northeast 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, a gossan zone in a micro-diorite hosts pyrrhotite. Approximately 275 metres to the west a road quarry exposes a massive sulphide (magnetite-pyrite-arsenopyrite-chalcopyrite-bornite) band in quartz diorite.

In 2024, a rock sample (84001) from the occurrence assayed 0.397 gram per tonne gold, 0.552 per cent copper and greater than 50 per cent iron, and a sample (84288) from the road quarry yielded 0.185 per cent copper and 42.2 per cent iron (Assessment Report 42630).

Work History

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

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.