The Vern occurrence is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Pocahontas and approximately 4 kilometres northeast of the community of Gilles Bay on Texada Island.

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 and of the (informally named) Cretaceous Pocahontas Stock.

The occurrence area is primarily underlain by amygdaloidal basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Finely disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite and bornite occur in a locally silicified shear zone up to 15 metres wide in places.

Several hundred metres to the north, on the southwest slope of Mount Pocahontas and south of the microwave tower, areas of epidote-calcite skarn hosting massive magnetite and pyrite with minor chalcopyrite are reported.

Work History

An approximately 40-metre long adit and at least three shafts, dating to the 1910s or early 1920s, are reported on the southwest slope of Mount Pocahontas and south of the microwave tower. In 1922, the area was held as the Olympian claim.

In 1981, Jordan Valley Resources Ltd. prospected the area as the Dan 1-8 claims. In 1985, V. Cukor conducted a ground magnetic survey on the area as the Grad claim. The following year, Hillside Energy Corp. conducted a program of soil sampling and a ground magnetic survey on the Grad claim.

During 1988 through 1992, V. Cukor and D. Cukor conducted 8.2 line-kilometres of ground magnetic surveys, 14.4 line-kilometres of ground electromagnetic (VLF) surveys and 19.2 line-kilometres of resistivity surveys on the Grad and Pocahontas claims.

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.