GEOLOGICAL REPORT AND LOG OF DIAMOND DRILL HOLE I3 ON THE CHERYL MINERAL CLAIM RECORD #4510(10) N.T.S. MAP 93A 1 14" FOr CHAW CAMERON WAY NE STEFFAN

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1 GEOLOGICAL REPORT AND LOG OF DIAMOND DRILL HOLE I3 ON THE CHERYL MINERAL CLAIM RECORD #4510(10) SAMILL FLAT - ELLS BARKERVILLE AREA CARIB00 MINING DIVISION, BRITISH COLUMBiA 52O 56' 30" North / Longitude ' est N.T.S. MAP 93A 1 14" FOr i j CHA CAMERON AY NE STEFFAN Avenue Langley, B.C. V3A 7R2... M. HOARD MYERS, P.Eng. (kc.),p.ctol. (Ah) Geological - Geophysical Consultant # Granville Street Vancouver, B.C. V6C 1x8 December 1986.M. HOARD MYERS, P-GBOL., P.PNQ.

2 Y TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract Introduction History Geology Drilling Summary APPENDIX Bibliography Certificate Log of Core Breakdown of Costs fo ork ILLUSTRATIONS Index Maps Claim Map with DDH #3 Location front appendix U.U. HOARD MYERS, P.GEOL., P.BNG. J

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4 -1- ABSTRACT The Cheryl mineral claim with record number 4510(10), composed of 16 units, is located on Sawmill Flat near the headwaters of the Swift River some 84 krn southeast of the village of ells in the Cariboo Mining Division of central British Columbia. Diamond Drill Hole #3 was drille during the period August 15th to October 5th, The hole is a vertical hole and the AQ size. The hole was drilled by ayne Steffan, owner of the drill. The hole is located at the bottom of a large test pit put down some 30 to 40 feet deep in the valley and bottomed in bedrock of quartzite with quartz veins highly fractured. The hole is 325 feet deep with local areas of poor to no core recovery in fracture zones. The core consists primarily of gray micaceous quartzite badly fractured with fault gouge in local areas. Some quartz veins varying in width from less than an inch to over one foot were cut by the hole. A shallow quartz vein contained some pyrite crystals but little or no alteration, silicification or mineralization. No areas of significant mineralization were encountered in the hole. The diamond drill hole was logged by the writer on December 16, The core is stored in suitable boxes at the residence of ayne Steffan at Avenue, Langley B.C..M. HOARD MYERS, P.GEOL., P.BN(I.

5 -1- GEOLOGICAL REPORT AND LOG OF DIAMOND DRILL HOLE #3 CHERYL MINERAL CLAIM RECORD f4510(10) INTRODUCTION This report and the log of Diamond Drill Hole #3 drilled during the 1986 field season were commissioned by Mr. ayne Steffan, who drilled the hole. The core is stored in boxes at Mr. Steffan's residence at Avenue, Langley, B.C. The.. core was logged in detail on December 16, 1986 at Langley, B.C. by the writer. The property was visited by the writer on September 16th, 1986 at which time the core was examined briefly for possible gold mineralization. No effort was made at that time to do any geological field work due to the scarcity of outcrops. The writer did extensive field work in this general area in 1972 and 1973 while testing for placer gold. The claim is composed of 16 units with an anniversary date of October Illth, The monies spent for the diamond drilling $8, were filed as assessment work by ayne Steffan on October loth, 1986 at Vancouver, B.C. The details of the costs of the drilling are given in the appendix of this report, together with the detail log of the hole. The claim is located near the headwaters of the Swift River and the northerly flowing Sawflat Creek, a tributary of Antler Creek. The terrain in the area of the claim is moderate with the flat valley of the Swift River and the Sawmill Creek valleys through the center of the claim block. The terrain is quite steep to east and west of the central valley to the edge of the claim block. Relief in the area of the claim is some 600 rn (2,000 ft. from the hills to east and west of the central meadow formed by the two creeks. The hummocky gravel deposits on both sides of the flat near the center of the claims are moraine deposits left by the retreating glacier. The property is well forested. The area contains abundant water with drainage to the north and south of the claim block..m. HOARD MYERS, PGEOL., P.ENG.

6 Access to the claim block is by improved graveled logging road #3100 to hiskey Flats then by mining road up the west side of Antler Creek to the mouth of Sawflat Creek at the north end of Sawmill Flats. The total distance from ells to the property is approximately 23 km. The climate in this portion of British Columbia is moderate to cold. Snowfall in the area of the claim is moderate to heavy. The area experiences fairly constant rains in early and late summers with extended dry spells in between. The drilling was carried out during the period August 15th to October 5th, 1986 using a Boyles BBS-1 diamond drill with AQ size core. The writer visited the drilling operator and examined the core (approximately 250 feet) on September 16th, The drilling was supported by a temporary camp at the site and 4x4 truck for supplies and fuel. HISTORY The Cariboo has produced many millions of dollars in gold from both placer and lode type deposits. The majority of the placer gold was produced during the gold rush which started in 1861 and tapered off substantially near 1898 when the gold rush started to the north in the Yukon. There was a slight resurgence of placer gold production in the Cariboo during the depression of the thirties. The nearest placer gold production to the claim block was on Antler Creek, some 2f miles to the northeast. In the 1880'5, there was considerable exploration for quartz veins with pyrite and gold north of the claim block above Antler Creek along the Antler Creek fault. The more recent exploration for quartz veins or lode deposits was in 1946 in the area north of the claim block along the northerly trending Antler Creek Fault..M. HOARD MYERS, P.GEOL., P.ENC.

7 GEOLOGY A wide spread mantle of glacial drift overgrown with trees and vegetation limits the outcrop of bedrock largely to the tops of ridges, divides and individual moutains and along steep slopes exposed in the bottom of the pit put of the more prominent rivers and streams. Bedrock was valley as shown on the claim location map. Bedrock composed down for placer gold in the upper Swift River of gray micaceous quartzite with quartz veins with numerous fractures. This corresponds to the Yanks Peak Quartzite formation described by A. Sutherland Brown in Bulletin No. 38 (1957). More recent mapping in this general area by Struik (1981) O.F. 858 DMS map 4 of 5, maps the Devonian-Mississippian claim block. DMs formation in the area of the The DMs formation is composed of dark siltite phyllite gray micaceous quartzite and limestone. The principal structure in the area of the claim block is the north-northeast trending Antler Fault mapped by Sutherland Brown and others. identified on China Pass Creek, immediately north-northeast The fault has been of the claims. The fault has been projected to the south along Sawflat Creek and the Swift River which cuts through the center of the claims from north to south. The fault has been traced for nearly 40 km from the Swift River on to the south Bowron Lake on the north. In the area of China Pass Creek the fault is approximately I5 meters wide and exposed in a hydraulic pit.' Gold mineralization in transverse and diagonal veins has produced the majority of gold in the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine near ells, B.C. The gold is primarily in the pyrite in the quartz veins and is free milling ore when ground to 200 mesh. The other main type of lode gold deposit in the Cariboo group is one formed by the replacement of limestone. The area is typically a solid mass of fine grained pyrite. This type of deposit was first recognized in the Island Mountain Mine, in the ells area, in This type of ore is generally higher in gold content thanthe transversal and diagonal veins. Gold values up to 5 ounces per ton have been obtained from these replacementype ore bodies. The gold mineralization is believed to be older than the gold bearing Tertiary gravels. This would date the gold mineralization in the area between the Carboniferous and Early Tertiary..M. HOARD MYERS, P-GEOL., P.ENC.

8 -4- V DRILLING A vertical diamond drill hole was located at the bottom of test pit put down for placer gold when favourable bedrock was encountered at the bottom of the pit. Bedrock composed primarily of gray micaceous quartzite with local quartz veins, fracturing and some pyrite cubes. The hole was started on August 15th, 1986 after all equipment was moved onto the site from Vancouver. The hole was suspended at feet on October 5th, 1986 when weather conditions became adverse. The total projected depth of the hole is near 500 feet below the bottom of the pit. The log of the core from 0 to feet prepared by the writer is enclosed in the appendix of the report. SUMMARY The core from the vertical drill hole at the bottom of the placer gold pit contains numerous fractures, gouge zones, quartz veins and some broken ground-up core. The core is composed primarily of gray micaceous quartzite with local areas of dark gray to black siltite or phyllite. The core contained numerous quartz veins at various oblique angles to the core varying in width from a fraction of an inch to over one foot. In many instances, the larger quartz veins were fractured with poor recovery and occasional cubes of pyrite. In many places core recovery was very poor to nil over a few feet. The core contained very little alteration silicification or mineralization. Two separate areas of the core contained some possible pyrite - mineralization but the core recovery was too poor to properly evaluate the zone with assaying. No assays were taken of the core. The hole is scheduled to continue to 500 feet next season. A detail log of the core is enclosed in the appendix of the report. Respectfully submitted, A I Vancouver, B.C. December, 1986 wm. Howard Myers, P.Eng.,'&eol. Geological - Geophysical Consultant -.M. HOARD MYERS, PXiEOL, P.ENC.

9 U APPENDIX.M. HOARD MYERS, P.CEOL., P.ENG. J

10 BIBLIOGRAPHY Geological Survey of Canada Department of Mines Memoir 181, 1935, G. Hanson Bulletin 149, 1926, Johnson and Unglow Paper 72-35, 1973, J.R. Campbell, E.H. Mountjoy and F.G. Young Annual Report , VSII Amos Brown, 1889 Map 335A illow River Sheet (west half), G. Hanson Map illow River Sheet (east half), G. Hanson Bulletin, 280, R.. Boyle, "The Geochemistry of Gold and its Deposits." Economic Geology Report 31, 1977, "Geophysics and Geochemistry in the Search for Metallic Ores" O.F. 858 L.C. Struik, British Columbia, Department of Mines Bulletin No. 26, 1948, Stuart S. Holland Bulletin No. 38, 1957, A. Southerland-Brown Annual Report, 1967, kp , A. Sutherland-Brown.M. HOARD MYERS, P.GEOL., P.KNG.

11 CERTIFICATE I, illiam Howard Myers, do hereby certify that I am an independent geologicalgeophysical consultant with offices at Suite Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6C 1x8, British Columbia. I have been actively engaged in my profession as an independent consultant in both oil and mining since I am a professional geologist, P.Ceol., #I6704 of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta. I am also a member P.Eng., , of the Professional Engineers of British Columbia. I now hold a Life Membership in both Societies. I graduated from Fresno State College, Fresno, California in 1939 with high honors and a B.Sc. degree in Geology. I did graduate work at Stanford University, Stanford California for MA. degree in Geology, After graduating I spent three years with the U.S. Geological Survey as field geologist and eleven years in the field of geophysical exploration for oil and minerals. During the past 21 years since 1964, I have spent the majority of my time in the field and consulting for gold exploration in the Cariboo Area of British Columbia. In the past four years, I have carried out extensive geophysical surveys and research programmes for gold exploration in the Cariboo Area of British Columbia. Much of the work involved the techniques recommended by R.. Boyle in Bulletin 280 of the Geological Survey of Canada. This publication does not follow the older conventional exploration techniques. Information for this report is from published and unpublished maps and reports of this general area together with my personal experience in the Cariboo Area, exploring for gold over the past 21 years. The core was examined in the field on September 28th, 1986 and logged in detail in Langley, B.C., December 16th, December, 1986.M. HOARD MYERS, PGEOL., P.ENC. J

12 LOC OF D.D.H. #3, CHERYL MINERAL CLAIM PROPERTY #4510(10) Carib00 Mining Divisim, British Columbia Longitude: ' 30" North Latitude: ' 30" est Map 93A/14 Drilled with Boyles BBSl AQ Total Depth: feet Vertical Hole Logged: December 16th, 1986 by m. Howard Myers, Consultant Drilled: August 15th October 5th, 1986 Depth 0-18' 18' - 21' Description Surface casing broken quartz, quartzite, some pyrite. Recovery 80% - gray quartzite and broken quartz veins, some pyrite, local gouge. 21' - 30' Badly broken gray quartzite, some pieces of wh. no pyrite, 70% recovery. quartz, 30' - 35' 35' - 40'8" 40'8" - 62' 62' - 79' 79' - 90' 90' - 93' 93' - 99' 99' - 109' 109' - 116' 116' - 121'.6" Few pieces of broken gray quartzite and wh. quartz recovery nil. Gray quartzite, broken some local gouge, recovery 55%. Few chips of quartz gray quartzite, no recovery. Light gray broken quartzite, badly fractured, no alteration, recovery 15%. No recovery. Soft light gray to dark gray argillite or siltite to graphite, or graphitic schist, some pyrite recovery 55-60%. Recovered 6" of wh. quartz broken. Light gray micaceous quartzite, no alteration, possible fault at loo', recovery 50-60%. Broken wh. quartz gray micaceous quartzite recovery poor 35%. Light gray micaceous quartzite and pieces of wh. quartz pebbles. Fault gouge near M. HOARD MYERS, P.GEOL., P.PNG.

13 -2 - Depth Description 121'-6"- 126' 126' - 143' 143' - 160'-6" 160"6" ' - 175' 175' - 180' 180' - 184'-6" 184'-6" - 188' 188'-6" - 189' 189' - 193' 193' - 196' 196' - 213' 213' - 247' 247' - 252' 252' - 271' 271' - 273' 273' - 302' 302' ' No recovery. Badly broken gray quartzite and quartz veins. Some gouge near 135'. Poor recovery 25%. Broken gray micaceous quartzite, wh. quartz veins, no pyrite recovery 50%. Light gray broken quartzite, good recovery near 90%, no mic. Gray micaceous quartzite with dark gray to black siltite or phyllite. Some alteration near 172. Schistosity 60 to core. Gray micaceous quartzite, some alteration, no mic. recovery approximately 60%. Broken in local areas. No recovery. Recovered 8" gray broken quartzite. Three small pebbles of quartz wh., some pyrite cubes in qtz. hite quartz, SI. alt. gray micaceous quartzite. Some pyrite. Sample taken at 190 but recovery poor not assayed yet. Badly broken quartz with some pyrite cubes, recovery 40%. Gray micaceous quartzite, some alteration, no pyrite, recovery 85%. Light gray - gray-white micaceous quartzite, some local alteration fractured at 230' and 240' and 246'. some alteration near 246, no min. recovery 75%. Gray to dark gray quartzite with some bands of siltite or phyllite. Some pyrite near 252, no sample. Gray micaceous quartzite, some wh. quartz pebbles, fault gouge at 265', recovery near 85%. Gray micaceous quartzite, some banding at 600 to core, recovery 85%. Gray to light gray, mic. quartzite, quartz veins I/4" to 1/8" at 600 to core, recovery 85%. Gray mic. quartzite local alteration, no mic. No pyrite, quartz veins to 3/8" width at 600 to core, no sample. Total temporary depth..m. HOARD MYERS. P.GEOL.,'&NG.

14 BREAKDON OF COSTS OF DRILLING D.D.H. 13 Rig: BBSI, August 15th to October 5th, 1986 Contract price as per agreement feet x per foot Supply costs as per agreement Mobilization including travel with 4x4 truck Total $ 5, , I,~ $ 8, M. HOARD MYERS, P.GEOL., P.ENG.

15 3 0' -.,,,,,,From B.C. De6t of Mlnes Map 93A114 dated:86/1 l/f7 Y,- - t: r-" I I I -I II AY NE STEFFAN VANCOUVER, e.c. CLAIM MAP CHERYL MINERAL CLAIM-BARKERVILLE AREA CARIB00 MINING DIVISION I CLAIM - 16 UNITS

on the Diamond Drilling done on the LAKESIOE GROUP of Mineral Claims SLOCAN MINING DIVISION 82-F-14-W Long ' Lat '

Assessment Work Report on the Diamond Drilling done on the LAKESIOE GROUP of Mineral Claims SLOCAN MINING DIVISION 82-F-14-W Long 117 22' Lat. 49 58' ADRIAN KESLER SILVERTON, B.C. operator LEVON RESOURCES