A mining company wants to see if there’s still gold on Texada Island.
The Zyrox Mining Company has applied for a provincial permit to do exploratory drilling for copper and gold deposits over the next five years. The company is interested in an area southwest of the village of Van Anda, along Blubber Bay Road.
It wouldn’t be the first time – Van Anda was the site of the productive Cornell Mine which started in 1898, and turned the village into a boom town with the only opera house north of San Francisco. After the mines dried up and the town experienced three fires, the boom was over by 1917.
The qathet Regional District says it has no issues with the new exploration permit, and staff expect land use impacts to be minimal.
