47312 Schooner Way, Pender Island, B.C. V0N 2M th Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V3N 1J6

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1 Ministry of Energy, Mines & Petroleum Resources Mining & Minerals Division BC Geological Survey TYPE OF REPORT [type of survey(s)]: Geological TOTAL COST: Assessment Report Title Page and Summary $ AUTHOR(S): H. Sigurgeirson SIGNATURE(S): NOTICE OF WORK PERMIT NUMBER(S)DATE(S): na YEAR OF WORK: 217 STATEMENT OF WORK - CASH PAYMENTS EVENT NUMBER(S)DATE(S): SOW# PROPERTY NAME: Silver Stream CLAIM NAME(S) (on which the work was done): COMMODITIES SOUGHT: Nephrite MINERAL INVENTORY MINFILE NUMBER(S), IF KNOWN: 92JNE65, 92JNE174 & 92JNE175 MINING DIVISION: Lillooet NTSBCGS: 92J15 LATITUDE: o " o LONGITUDE: " (at centre of work) OWNER(S): 1) Gray Rock Resources Ltd. 2) MAILING ADDRESS: Suite 9-57 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3P1 OPERATOR(S) [who paid for the work]: 1) Saxifrage Geological Services Ltd. 2) Dave Deering (DRD Consulting) MAILING ADDRESS: Schooner Way, Pender Island, B.C. VN 2M th Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V3N 1J6 PROPERTY GEOLOGY KEYWORDS (lithology, age, stratigraphy, structure, alteration, mineralization, size and attitude): Serpentinite, Chert, Mississipian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex, Permian Shulaps Ultramafic Complex, Marshall Creek Fault, Ophiolite, Nephrite, White Rock, 25 m vertical zone(s) REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS ASSESSMENT WORK AND ASSESSMENT REPORT NUMBERS: 18869, 3349 & Next Page

2 TYPE OF WORK IN THIS REPORT EXTENT OF WORK (IN METRIC UNITS) ON WHICH CLAIMS PROJECT COSTS APPORTIONED (incl. support) GEOLOGICAL (scale, area) Ground, mapping 27 m2 (base of trench) $1. Photo interpretation GEOPHYSICAL (line-kilometres) Ground Magnetic Electromagnetic Induced Polarization Radiometric Seismic Other Airborne GEOCHEMICAL (number of samples analysed for...) Soil Silt Rock Other DRILLING (total metres; number of holes, size) Core Non-core RELATED TECHNICAL Samplingassaying Petrographic Mineralographic Metallurgic 1 sawn sample $518.8 PROSPECTING (scale, area) PREPARATORY PHYSICAL Linegrid (kilometres) TopographicPhotogrammetric (scale, area) Legal surveys (scale, area) Road, local access (kilometres)trail Trench (metres) 15 m x 4 m trench $1 5. Underground dev. (metres) Other TOTAL COST: $ Geological Assessment Report on the Marshall Creek Jade Project ( )

3 Geological Assessment Report on the Marshall Creek Jade Project Lillooet Mining Division British Columbia Map Sheet 92J15 UTM 534E, 5639N (Zone 1) Claims & Prepared for: Gray Rock Resources Ltd. Suite 9-57 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. Prepared by: Helgi Sigurgeirson, P.Geo. April 3, 218

4 Table of Contents Introduction Location, Access and Physiography... 1 Property Definition... 1 Previous Work... 3 Work Program Summary... 3 Regional Geology... 3 Property Geology... 3 Mineralization... 5 Geological Mapping... 6 Sampling... 9 Conclusions... 9 References... 1 Statement of Qualifications Cost Statement Statements of Work List of Figures 1. Location Map Claim Map Property Geology Map Cross section of pit by Leaming Pit Geology Map (including 217 trenching & sampling) Trench photo Sawn sample photo... 9

5 Introduction Location, Access and Physiography The property is 49 km northwest of Lillooet (Figure 1). It is reached by taking the Bridge River Road for about 7 km to the intersection with the Marshall Lake Road. About 9 km up the Marshall Creek Road is a road that goes up the east side of Brett Creek, which accesses the jade workings. This road requires permission from the landowner whose property it crosses. About 1.6 km further up the Marshall Creek Road is the logging road that accesses the area of the Silver Stream (gold) Project. The property is centered on the treed, south facing lower slopes of the Marshall Creek Valley. It ranges in elevation from 14 m in the valley to 16 m at the north edge of the property. Snow can be expected from October to May. Property Definition The Silver Stream Property consists of claims # and # (Figure 2). The claims total hectares and are 1% owned by Gray Rock Resources Ltd. Claim # has been leased from Gray Rock Resources Ltd. by D. Deering and Saxifrage Geological Services on a 55 basis for the purpose of jade exploration. A Statement of Work (Event #567787) was filed for the work described in this report on December 8, 217. The claims are good to July 21, 221 Page 1

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7 Previous Work Jade was discovered above Brett Creek in This is the Greenbay (Brett Creek) Past Producer (Minfile No.92JNE65). The property owner reported to Leaming (1978) that about 65 tons of nephrite had been extracted and sold by The pit has been abandoned since that time. The Silver Stream Project lies about a kilometer west of the jade workings. Gold exploration on the property, undertaken since 1987, has involved 1,759m of diamond drilling in 1 holes, hand and excavator trenching, mapping, magnetic and VLF-EM geophysical surveys, as well as rock and soil geochemistry (Paulter, 212). Two significant zones of gold mineralization have been discovered there, the Western ((Minfile No.92JNE174) and Southeastern (Minfile No.92JNE175). The Brett Creek Jade Prospect was mapped and sampled in 216 (Sigurgeirson, 216). Work Program Summary The purpose of the 217 program was to expose the north jade serpentinite contact by trenching. A Cat 32L excavator was on site for 3 days. Helgi Sigurgeirson spent 8 hours mapping, sampling and sawing the sample. Dave Deering spent 16 hours supervising the trenching. Regional Geology The Silverstream Property straddles the Marshall Creek Fault. South of this fault zone are Mississippian to Middle Jurassic Bridge River Complex marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks. To the north is a complex zone of Bridge River sediments and volcanics interleaved with serpentinites and ultramafic rocks. This zone occurs along the southern edge of the Permian Shulaps Ultramafic Complex and is host to the main Nephrite deposits in the region. Both the Bridge River Complex and the Shulaps Ultramafic Complex are part of the allochthonous oceanic Bridge River Terrane, apparently accreted to North America in the Jurassic, situated along the northeastern margin of the Coast Plutonic Complex (Schiarizza et al., 1989 and 199). The Bridge River Complex, a major gold bearing sequence through the region, is comprised of a sequence of marine chert, intermediate volcanics, gabbro, limestone, blueschist and clastic rocks ranging in age from Mississippian(?) to Jurassic. The Shulaps Ultramafic Complex is a Permian dismembered ophiolitic sequence comprised of serpentinized ultramafic rocks and a serpentinite mélange of ultramafic, gabbroic, volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The rocks are stacked in complex, fault bounded relationships, generally parallel to the strong northwest trending regional fabric. The Bridge River Complex is intruded by Late Cretaceous to Tertiary granodiorite (LKTgd) and by smaller Eocene granodiorite (Egd) and feldspar porphyry (Efp) plutons, stocks and dykes. The northwest to north trending, steeply dipping Marshall Creek and the YalakomBridge River Faults dominate the region. The faults record a complex history of mid Cretaceous to Tertiary compressional, strike-slip and extensional deformation.. Property Geology The Silver Stream property is primarily underlain by rocks of the Bridge River Complex. The Property Geology map (Figure 3) is based on mapping by Allen and Murrell (1989), with some modifications based on more recent work (Pautler, 212). The northwest trending Marshall Creek Fault Zone, which is about 7 m wide in this area, runs across the center of the property. Page 3

8 Geological Assessment Report on the Marshall Creek Jade Project ( ) Figure 3 - Property Geology Map 1 Property Boundary w,,,, I N (") ;I ; 1. 1 ( 1 1 Serpentinite Diorite Bridge River Complex 5639N,,,, ;; QJ 11 m I - J 1 Listwanite Figure 4 Feldspar Porphyry 4 H LO Intrusive Rocks ~ Road. " ( Minfiles Magnetic North CS> Contact Grid North hj 1 Fault Argillite, phyllite, chert ""(")" LO I I ~ (True North:.4 W of Grid North) 38N... 5 (m) Scale= 1:1 Geology after Allen & Murrell, 1989 Page 4

9 The dominant lithology on the property is thickly bedded, black, grey to pale green coloured argillite and phyllitic argillite, with lesser grey 2-1 cm wide chert beds and minor greenstone of the Bridge River Complex. Foliation appears to parallel bedding, which generally trends east northeasterly to easterly with moderate to steep dips to the north. Medium to coarse grained diorite is exposed as outcrop above the West zone. Serpentinite occurs as a number of dykes andor fault bounded slices. One of these hosts the Brett Creek Jade Deposit, where the serpentinite is generally a dark greenish black. Elsewhere, the serpentinite is medium to bright emerald green in colour and is strongly foliated. Foliation trends are east-northeasterly to easterly with moderate to steep northerly dips, although mapping indicates a northwesterly trend subparallel to the Marshall Creek Fault zone. Several elongated bodies of listwanite, with a maximum width of 1m and at least 1 km long occur on the property. The listwanite is massive, resistive and locally cliff-forming, light grey to green in colour, weathers orange-brown and consists of magnesite (magnesium-rich carbonate) and quartz, with minor amounts of talc, chlorite and fuchsite and trace to minor amounts of disseminated chromite and pyrite. Vuggy quartz veinlets ranging in width from.1 to 2 cm are locally present. The listwanite is probably derived from carbonate alteration of pre-existing serpentinite and greenstone. Felsic feldspar porphyry dykes, west-northwesterly and northerly trending, intrude the Bridge River Complex on the property and are probably related to the Eocene Hog Creek stock, which occurs immediately east of Brett Creek (Figure 3). The dykes consist of 1 to 3 mm phenocrysts of feldspar and chloritized biotite along with.5 to 1% disseminated pyrite in a light grey aphanitic groundmass. Mineralization Nephrite occurs along the contacts of a large tectonic inclusion of chert and the surrounding serpentinite. Leaming (1978) reports that in 1969 nephrite was exposed on both sides of the chert body in irregular lenses or pods up to several tonnes in weight. These upper lenses were removed by 1975 (Figure 4), at which time the serpentinite on the north side of the chert body was dug away, leaving a 9 m face of talc and low grade nephrite. This is the present pit configuration, though colluvium has filled in the lowest part of the pit, obscuring the lower contact and reducing the face height to about 7 m. Figure 4: Diagramatic cross section by Leaming showing development of the pit. Page 5

10 The Prospect was mapped and sample in 216 by H. Sigurgeirson (Figure 5). The most notable feature in the pit is a 7 m high wall of talc and low grade nephrite exposed on the south side of the lower bench. The lower left of the photo shows the lower access road and is the level of the lower bench, while the top of the face is the level of the middle bench. The layer of talc and nephrite that composes the face is a dull, greyish green, moderately foliated, about 3 to 5 cm thick, and lies along the north side of a 1 m x 25 m tectonic inclusion of medium to dark grey chert within the serpentinite. Between the talc-nephrite layer and the chert is a whiterock reaction zone that appears to be about.5 m thick. The contact with the serpentinite is obscured by colluvium. Higher in the pit, to the east north-east, the contact zone is better exposed. Indistinct pods of light green, transluscent, semi-botrioydal nephrite up to 25 cm across occur on the whiterock side of the talc-nephrite layer, near the inflection between the main face and the north-eastern segment. Most of the nephrite found along the northeastern segment of the contact zone, however, was of lower quality. The talc and nephrite in the main face is generally foliated and fractured, but solid, blocky material occurs along the northeastern segment. The rocks are cut by moderately to steeply dipping, east and northeast striking faults. A steep east striking fault marks the north contact of the serpentinite with a fine grained, brownish white granodiorite? Two significant zones of gold-quartz vein type mineralization, the Silverstream Western and Southeast zones (Figure 3), were discovered on the Silver Stream property between 1988 and 1996 by following up rusty weathering listwanite uncovered during road building in Gold bearing mineralization occurs as narrow, broken and oxidized zones associated with steeply dipping shear zones. The oxidized faults are composed of clay and limonite with occasional fragments of quartz, and are hosted by intermediate to mafic volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Trenching in the West Zone exposed a mineralized east-southeast trending shear zone from 1-4m wide and at least 45m long that returned up to 8.9 gt Au over 2.8m. A nearby drillhole, DDH SS 5-1, returned 5.41 gt gold over 9.14m. The Southeast zone covers a series of parallel red iron oxide bearing shears returning up to gt Au over.9m. Geological Mapping A trench approximately 15 m long by 5 m wide exposed a 13.5 m by 2 m area of serpentinite in contact with grey nephrite (Figure 5). The excavator spent 3 days on site. The first day was spent brushing out the road. The second day was spent trenching. The third day was spent stabilizing the trench and putting water bars in the road. The purpose of the trenching was to expose the northwest nephrite-serpentinite contact to determine: 1) whether there was a layer of higher quality nephrite along the buried contact at the base of the excavation, parallel to the grey nephrite exposed on the wall. 2) whether the green and grey nephrite along the northeast contact continued along the buried contact at the back of the excavation (ie. the northeast corner of the excavation) The west half of the northwest section of contact was exposed. No higher quality nephrite was seen between the grey nephrite and the serpentinite (Figure 6). The trenching also revealed that the contact is bending to the southeast (approximately 7 ), which agrees with Leamings section above. It began to snow during the trenching, so the decision was made to move the equipment off site. As the back corner of the excavation was not reached, the second hypothesis regarding the possible continuation of the green and grey nephrite along the back of the excavation was not tested. Page 6

11 Geological Assessment Report on the Marshall Creek Jade Project ( ) rvrvrv 958S rv Colluvium lower bench upper bench SampleA 65 1 f 6 Ao ~ middle bench, N 53385E 3 1 Green and grey nephrite-talc -D D A J75 N 655? Figure 5: Pit Geology Map (including 217 trenching and sampling) 8m Grey nephrite-talc --< Talc Contact rj rj White rock Fault Granodiorite ~ Foliation Chert-argillite? Lineation Serpentinite ~ Joint 1 (m) Scale = 1:25 Page 7

12 Figure 6: Trench at base of the excavation (looking east). Page 8

13 Sampling One sample was collected and sawn from the south wall of the trench. The location of sample A is shown on Figure 5. Figure 7 is a photo of the variegated grey nephrite sampled. Figure 7: Variegated grey nephrite. Conclusions Trenching along the base of the excavation did not reveal a layer of higher quality green nephrite between the grey nephrite and the serpentinite. The trench did not reach the back corner of the excavation. Green nephrite is exposed here, and it may be that more might be found along the back of the excavation that is still covered with colluvium. More trenching with the aim of exposing this part of the contact is planned for the 218 season. Page 9

14 References Allen, D.G. and Murrell, M.R. (1989) Geological, Geochemical and Geophysical Report on the Marshall Creek Property; B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines, Assessment Report # Leaming, S.F., 1978, Jade in Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 78-19, 59p. MapPlace (216) BC Map UTM Zone 1 showing part of Map Sheet 92H6W. BC Geological Survey < (September 1, 216). Pautler, J.M., 212. Geological and geochemical assessment report on the 212 Silver Stream Project. British Columbia Ministry of Energy Mines and Petroleum Resources Assessment Report #3349. Schiarizza, P., Gaba R.G., Coleman, M., Garver, J.I., and Glover, J.K. (199) Geology and Mineral Occurrences of the Yalakom River Area, Geological Fieldwork 1989; BCMEMPR, Paper 199-1, pp Schiarriza, P., Gaba, R.G., Glover, J.K. and Garver, J.I. (1989) Geology and Mineral Occurrences of the Tyaughton Creek Area; Geological Fieldwork, 1988; BCMEMPR, Paper , pp Sigurgeirson, H. (216) Geological Assessment Report on the Marshall Creek Jade Project; B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines, Assessment Report # Page 1

15 Statement of Qualifications I certify the following: 1. I graduated in 1995 from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. in the Geological Sciences. 2. I have worked in mining and mineral exploration continuously since graduation. 3. I have worked on VMS, porphyry, epithermal and mesothermal Au vein, anorthosite hosted Ti, nephrite and other exploration programs in Canada, Mexico and China. I have developed and operated 3 dimension stone quarries on the BC coast. 4. I am a professional geoscientist in the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, and have been a member in good standing (member #2892) since I carried out the work program described herein and wrote this report.,1,~~- PAOVINC,,1 ~. _ OF.,, H. Sigurgeirson; P.Geo Date This document represents an electronic version of the original hard copy document, sealed, signed and dated by Helgi Sigurgeirson, P.Geo and retained on file. The content of the electronically transmitted document can be confirmed by referring to the original hard copy and filed Page 11

16 Statement of Costs rate amount total field days (H. Sigurgeirson, P.Geo) $55day 1 $55. field days (D.Deering, P.Eng) $55day 2 $1,1. travel days $275day 4 $1,1. trucks (4x4) $1day 7 $7. report $1,5. 1 $1,5. excavator (mob-demob) $1,5. 1 $1,5. 32L Cat* excavator working $142.45hour 24 $3,418.8 truck (4x4) $1day 3 $3. accommodations $8day 5 $4. mealsfood $5day 7 $35. gas $5day 7 $35. gear $5day 1 $5. samples (sawing) $15day 1 $15. Project management $55. 1 $55. Total = $12,18.8 *32L Cat = tonnes Page 12