The HALO occurrence is described as being located 250 metres west-southwest of Halo Pond, approximately 950 metres north of the Quesnel Quartz (MINFILE 093G 015) past-producing mine, 5.2 kilometres northeast of Hixon, B.C. The Quesnelle Gold Quartz Mine property includes the historical Quesnelle Quartz Mine, the Pioneer (093G 013) and Cayenne (093G 014) showings, part of the North Hixon (093G 082) occurrence and the Halo showing.

Regionally, the area is underlain by augite porphyry basaltic greenstone and sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Triassic Nicola Group in the west and mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic rocks of the Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group in the east. Ultramafic rocks of the Slide Mountain terrane locally occur along the Eureka thrust, which marks this terrane boundary. The Nicola Group is intruded by a syenite-diorite/gabbro body, assigned to the Early Jurassic Polaris Ultramafic suite along the western property boundary and the Snowshoe Group is intruded by the Early Cretaceous Naver pluton in the eastern property area. These are locally overlain by conglomerate and coarse clastic rocks of an un-named Oligocene to Pliocene formation.

The Halo showing consists of pyrite +/- visible gold mineralized quartz-carbonate veining in volcaniclastic rocks of the Nicola (Takla) Group, Witch Lake succession or in metamorphosed fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Inzana Lake succession.

A regional mapping and sampling program by Golden Cariboo Resources on their Quesnelle Quartz Mine property in the autumn of 2022 discovered the Halo zone proximal to the favourable phyllite (sedimentary) and greenstone (volcanic) contact. A 10 metre long trench intersected altered phyllite bedrock southwest of altered greenstone subcrop, returning values of 1.34 grams per tonne gold. One channel sample returned 0.45 gram per tonne gold over 1 metre from clay-sericite altered phyllite. Grab samples of clay altered phyllite returned 5.08, 2.97 and 1.01 grams per tonne gold with 2.23 grams per tonne gold from a sheared fault zone, and 1.63 and 0.88 grams per tonne gold from sericitic fuchsite-rich phyllite (PR REL Golden Cariboo Resources May 18, 2023).

Drilling on the Halo showing began in 2024 will six holes, QGQ24-10 through QGQ24-15. QGQ24-13 through QGQ24-15 intersected multiple examples of visible gold within quartz-carbonate +/- pyrite veins, ranging in size from 0.5 to 3.0 centimetres. Visible gold occurs intermittently in the three drill holes within broad zones of alteration and veining. Four more holes (QGQ24-16 through QGQ-19) were drilled at the Halo zone later in 2024 with additional visible gold and extensive quartz-carbonate veining in all these holes. Grab samples from an outcrop 100 metres northeast of the Halo showing returned values of 8.47, 6.59 and 2.39 grams per tonne gold in altered andesite tuff with quartz-carbonate veins (PR REL Golden Cariboo Resources Nov. 5, 2024).

Two significantly sized gold in MMI soil anomalies were identified north of the known Halo drill hole extents in late 2024. The 2024 drill program on the Halo zone was extended into early 2025, with drill holes QGQ24-20 through QGQ24-23 focusing on northern extents of the zone. Broad intercepts of gold mineralization in drill holes QGQ24-17 through QGQ24-21 extended the Halo zone several hundred metres to the north.

Drill hole QGQ24-13 intersected 136.51 metres from 9.49 to 146 metres downhole, assaying 1.77 grams per tonne gold, including 23.89 metres, from 9.49 to 33.38 metres downhole assaying 3.32 grams per tonne gold. Throughout this interval quartz-carbonate veining contains low to moderate concentrations of pyrite +/- visible gold within broad iron-carbonate+/- sericite alteration envelopes. The host rock is variably altered volcaniclastics interpreted to be from the Witch Lake succession of the Nicola (Takla) Group (PR REL Golden Cariboo Resources Oct. 01, 2024). Similar mineralization was observed in drill hole QGQ24-14, assaying 0.80 gram per tonne gold over 204.85 metres, from 4 to 208.85 metres downhole, including 1.01 grams per tonne gold over 143.85 metres, from 46.35 to 190.2 metres downhole (PR REL Golden Cariboo Resources Sept. 24, 2024). Drill hole QGQ24-16 intersected 275.31 metres from 39.01 to 314.32 metres downhole assaying 0.53 gram per tonne gold, including 50.99 metres (39.01 to 90 metres) of 1.28 grams per tonne gold. Several generations and types of quartz and quartz-carbonate veins are observed within the mineralized zone, and gold mineralization is associated with a carbonate-sericite bleaching alteration of intermediate to mafic volcanic host rocks (PR REL Golden Cariboo Resources Nov. 19, 2024). Drill hole QGQ24-17, intersected 452.51 metres from 10.97 to 463.48 metres downhole assaying 0.30 gram per tonne gold, including 27.32 metres (22.45 to 49.77 metres) grading 1.01 grams per tonne gold and 51.26 metres (293.74 to 345 metres) grading 1.00 gram per tonne gold (PR REL Golden Cariboo Resources Dec. 9, 2024).

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Quesnelle Quartz former producer (MINFILE 093G 015) and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.