The Paget occurrence is located on a southwest-facing slope over Hauk Creek, approximately 2.3 kilometres northwest of Mount Sutton and 7.5 kilometres south of the community of Caycuse on Cowichan Lake. The workings are located at approximately 810 and 760 metres elevation and consist of an upper and lower tunnel.

Regionally, the area is underlain by extensively faulted rocks of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group and the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. The basal Vancouver Group sequence is comprised of basalt flows, breccias and tuffs of the Karmutsen Formation overlain by Quatsino Formation limestone, which in turn is overlain by black argillites of the Parsons Bay Formation. The overlying Bonanza Group consists of a sequence of argillites, cherts, cherty tuffs, volcanic and/or sedimentary breccias, sandstones and basaltic to rhyolitic flows. The overall package of rocks has been broadly to tightly folded with fold axes generally trending northwest and intruded by granodioritic and feldspar porphyritic dikes and bodies of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

The occurrence area is underlain by granite, diorite and granodiorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

The upper tunnel was driven at 070 degrees for 18.3 metres on a well-defined quartz vein. The vein is approximately 1.8 metres wide and is mineralized with arsenopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite and minor galena. High gold values have been reported, but the values must be sporadic because a sample from the dump containing arsenopyrite assayed negative results.

The lower tunnel, almost parallel with the upper tunnel, was also reported to be 18.3 metres long. The tunnel is flooded, however, and therefore cannot be explored. This tunnel was apparently in gravel and no ore was encountered.

Work History

In the early 1900s, two tunnels were driven on the occurrence.

In 1969, Quintana Mines conducted a regionally extensive program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Tana property.

In 1980, Union Miniere completed a program of soil sampling and prospecting on the area as the Lui claim.

In 2013, 2019 and 2021, the area was prospected and sampled as the Annular and Hauk Creek claims by Dean Arbic. A large angular float boulder of magnetite and arsenopyrite with quartz was identified near the plotted location of the occurrence.