The Rose and Belle occurrence is located near the east side of a small lake or pond in the headwaters of Russ and Staaf creeks on southern Texada Island and approximately 5.2 kilometres 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.
The occurrence area is underlain by chloritic amygdaloidal basalt of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group), locally cut by a quartz-carbonate (ankerite) shear zone. A steeply dipping quartz diorite dike intercepts this zone. Mineralization within the quartz-carbonate zone comprises magnetite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite and hematite. Minor gangue minerals are garnet, diopside and epidote.
In 1988, a rock sample (9159) from the occurrence assayed up to 0.59 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17995).
Work History
Very little information is known on the early history of the Rose and Belle occurrence. It was first referenced in 1912 and 1913 and was referred to as a non-operating mine during this time.
In 1988, David Murphy conducted a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Connoisseur property.
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.
