Geoloqv Assessment ReDort. Heather ProDertv. Victoria Mining Division NTS 92C/15, 16

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1 Litr NO: ACTION: RO. FILE No: Geoloqv Assessment ReDort Heather ProDertv Victoria Mining Division NTS 92C/15, 16 48' 59' N Latitude 124' 30' W Longitude Owner: Minnova Inc. Operator: Minnova Inc., International Cherokee Developments Ltd. by: I?. Baxter February, 1989 Claims Tania S-2 Tania 5-4 Carol S-3 GEOLOGICAL BRANCH 1 ASSESSMENT REPORT

2 Table of Contents Page 1. Introduction Location and Access Mineral Rights History Regional Geology Claim Geology Mineralization Summary and Conclusions Statement of Costs References Statement of Qualifications List of Fiqures Figure 1 Location and Claim Map Figure 2 Generalized Geology Figure 3 Figure 4 Reconnaissance Mapping... in pocket Reconnaissance Mapping.... in pocket

3 1. Introduction The Heather property was optioned by Minnova Inc. from Canamin Resources in May, 1986 to evaluate the gold and base metal potential of the property. This report summarizes the 1:5000 reconnaissance geological mapping on the Tania 5-2, carol 5-3 claims. Tania S-4 and 1.1 Location and Access The Heather property is located approximately 40 km southwest of Nanaimo and 7 km north of Cowichan Lake (Figure 1). A network of logging roads from Youbou and Nanaimo Lakes provides access to the property for 2 and 4-wheel drive vehicles. The Tania 5-4 and Tania S-2 claims are crisscrossed with a, number of these old logging roads but the Carol 5-3 claim is relatively inaccessible. Geological traverses on this claim were done along creek beds and ridge tops which were accessed from existing roads. 1.2 Mineral Riqhts The Tania 5-2 and 5-4 claims are ungrouped claims and the Carol S-3 claim is part of the Carol Group. The Heather Property claim status is as follows: Carol Grow Claim Name No. of Units Record No. Month of Record Carol S August Marino S August Carol August Carol S October Audace September

4 MINNOVA FIGURE 1

5 Page 3 Tania Group Claim Name No. of Units Record No. Month of Record Tania S August Lucia S August Efrem S August Tania S # October Unqrouped Claims Claim Name NO. of Units Record No. Month of Record Tania S # October Tania S # October 1.3 History Canamin Resources Limited staked the property in 1982 after E. Specogna, a local prospector, discovered several polymetallic, suphide-rich boulders in the Heather Creek area. The property was optioned to Falconbridge Limited in 1982 and they discovered the McDougall quartz vein which returned assays of up to 0.35 oz/t Au. In 1983, Falconbridge and Chevron Canada Resources Limited formed a joint venture partnership with Chevron as the operator. Over the next 2 years they carried out reconnaissance-style mapping and soil geochemical surveys over the property using the many logging roads as control. They also contracted helicopter-mounted INPUT E.M. and magnetic surveys over the property and ground follow-up of anomalies with an EM-37 system. The best mineralization encountered was a sulphide-rich section of what is now known as the Main showing. It yielded assays of 0.25 oz/ton Au and 0.18% Cu. Chevron tested this showing with 2 diamond drill holes totalling 338 meters. The best intersection from this program was 3.0 g/t Au over 1.5 meters and they subsequently dropped the option in early Minnova acquired the Heather property in May, 1986 and has been actively exploring the ground for base and precious metals with

6 Page 4 International Cherokee Developments Ltd. This exploration program has included detailed geological, lithogeochemical, soil geochemical and geophysical (VLF, Mag, IP) surveys which were carried out on a 33 km grid that covered the southern part of the claim group. Seventeen diamond drill holes totalling meters have tested the 3 gold showings on the property (Figure 2) and isolated geophysical anomalies. Most of this work has been documented in assessment reports by Gibson (1986) and Wells (1987, 1988). 2. Resional Geolosv The Heather property is underlain primarily by Paleozoic Sicker Group rocks of the Cowichan-Horne Lake uplift. Muller (1980) subdivides the Sicker Group as follows: i. Buttle Lake Formation: crinoidal limestone, calcareous siltstone, chert, some diabase sills. ii. Sediment - Sill Unit: argillite, siltstone and chert with diabase sills. iii.. Myra Formation: basic to rhyodacitic banded tuff, breccia and (1) lava; thinly bedded to massive argillite, siltstone, chert. iv. Nitinat Formation: agglomerates and flows; minor tuff. metabasaltic pillowed lavas, The Sicker Group hosts volcanogenic massive sulphide ore deposits in the Buttle Lake and Mt. Sicker areas and shear-hosted gold mineralization in the Port Alberni area. Westmin's Myra-Lynx and Price ore bodies and the old Lenora-Tyee deposits are hosted in felsic crystal tuffs of the Myra formation whereas, Westmin's

8 Page 6 larger H-W deposit is thought to occur at the contact between the Myra and Nitinat formations. Gold mineralization on Westmin's Debbie property is hosted in shear zones which cut Myra formation cherts, ashes and andesitic flows. On the Heather property the oldest rocks exposed are pyroxene porphyritic agglomerates and flow breccias of the Nitinat Formation. These are overlain by lapilli tuffs, phyllitic tuffs and cherty tuffs of the Myra Formation. Triassic age Karmutsen volcanics are exposed in the southwest corner of the property and are separated from the Myra volcanics by a thick Jurassic (?) diorite intrusion. 3. Claim Geoloqy The Tania S-2 and Tania S-4 claims are underlain by bedded ashes and cherts of the Myra Formation, Triassic Karmutsen volcanics and Jurassic (7) diorite (Figure 3 ). The Myra Formation has limited exposure in the northeastern most corner of the Tania S-4 claim. It is separated from the Karmutsen volcanics by a thick massive diorite intruded along the Myra-Karmutsen contact. The following is a brief description of the map units on the Tania-S4 and Tania-S4 claims: 2b - Myra Formation, bedded/laminated ashes and cherts Unit 2b consists of well laminated and bedded tuffs, cherty ashes and cherts of andesite to dacite composition. They are light grey to medium green and maroon in colour, aphanitic to fine grained with local coarser crystal tuffs and lapilli tuffs. Locally andesitic units are weakly foliated. A distinctive feature to unit 2b are maroon coloured chert beds.

9 Page 7 Karmutsen volcanics The Karmutsen volcanics on the Tania S-2 and 5-4 claims are predominantly basaltic, massive and pillowed flows with minor foliated mafic ashes. Massive flows which are dark green and fine grained, may contain 1-2% pyroxene phenocrysts with some alteration to chlorite and 1-2% round quartz and calcite-filled amygdules. Occasional outcrops of stretched pillows have dark green cores with light green foliated selvages that contain up to 10% flat chlorite clots along foliation planes. Mafic ash beds are dark green, fine grained, moderately to well foliated and moderately chloritic. Diorite The diorite on the Tania 5-2 and 5-4 claims is an elongate body which occurs at the Karmutsen-Myra contact. The diorite is greenish grey, massive, and contains 50-70% white feldspar, 30-50% green amphiboles and traces of pyroxene. Locally the diorite becomes pegmatitic with amphiboles crystals up to 4 cm long. The diorite itself is intruded by narrow (< 1 m) dark green, chloritic mafic dykes, and light grey, fine-grained granitic dykes. The Carol 5-2 claim is underlain by NW striking, NE dipping Myra Formation ashes and cherts and Nitinat Formation basaltic flows and agglomerates. On the NE corner of the claim the Nitinat Formation is in fault contact (1) with Myra volcanics (Figure 4 ). The rock types on the Carol 5-3 claim are described as follows: Unit 1 - Nitinat Formation, basaltic flows and aqqlomerates Unit 1 consists of medium to dark green massive flow breccias of andesite to basalt composition. Flow

10 Page 8 breccias are composed of subrounded to subangular pyroxene porphyritic fragments, amygdaloidal fragments, and plagioclase rich fragments averaging 5-15 cm in width and constituting 50-70% of the rock. Fragments are contained within a fine grained, sometimes pyroxene porphyritic mafic groundmass. Unit 2B - Myra Formation, bedded/laminated ashes and cherts This is the same unit as found on the Tania 5-4 claim and described earlier. 4. Mineralization Rare, < 0.5 m wide weak gossans with 1-3% disseminated pyrite were found on the Tania S-2, Tania S-4 and Carol 5-3 claims. Geochemical samples showed no anomalous gold or base metal enrichment. 5. Summarv and Conclusions The Tania 5-2 and Tania S-4 claims are underlain by Myra Formation ashes and cherts of the Sicker Group and basaltic flows of the Karmutsen volcanics. The two rock units are separated by a thick diorite which has intruded along the Myra - Karmutsen contact. On the Carol 5-3 claim, the Myra Formation ashes and cherts bound a central zone of Nitinat pyroxene porphyritic flow breccias. No significant mineralization was observed on the Tania 5-2, Tania 5-4 and Carol 5-3 claims. Further work on the claims should focus on the contact between the Myra and Nitinat Formations which is thought to be the stratigraphic equivalent of the H-W volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit.

11 Page 9 6. Statement of Costs Tania 5-2 Tania S-4 P. Baxter G. Wells Truck Rental 4 days x $3OO/day 3 days x $350/day 3 days x $ 50/day subtotal $ Carol S-3 P. Baxter G. Wells Truck Rental 4 days x $300/day 3 days x $350/day 3 days x $ 50/day subtotal $ P. Baxter G. Wells D. Knight Truck Rental 4 days x $3OO/day 4 days x $350/day 4 days x $100/day 4 days x $ 50/day subt ot a 1 Total Cost of Work plus PAC withdrawal TOTAL COSTS $8000 $ $10,400

12 Page References Gibson, H. L. 1986: "Geophysical Report: IGS 2 VLF/Magnetometer and IP Surveys on the Heather Option", assessment report. Muller, J. E. 1980: "The Paleozoic Sicker Group of Vancouver Island, B.C.", GSC Paper Wells, G. S : "Diamond Drill Report - Heather Optionf1, assessment report. Wells, G. S. 1988: "Diamond Drill Report - Heather Option1#, assessment report.

13 Page 11 a. Statement of Oualifications I, Paul Baxter certify that: 1. I hold a Honours Bachelor Science Degree in geology from the University of Alberta. 2. I am a member in training with the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA). 3. I have worked as a geologist for 2 years full-time and 3 years part-time since Date: February 28, 1989 Paul Baxter Vancouver, B.C.

14 Page 12 Statement of Oualifications I, Gary S. Wells, hereby certify that: 1. I hold an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in combined geology and chemistry (1975) from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario and a Ph.D degree in geology (1980) from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. 2. I am an associate member of the Geological Association of Canada and a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 3. I have practised my profession in exploration continuously since graduation in Date: February 28, 1989 Garf S. Wells Vancouver, B. C.

The Cobalt Rainbow. Airborne geophysical maps show that a north trending aeromagnetic high suggests further undiscovered mineralisation.

The Cobalt Rainbow. Airborne geophysical maps show that a north trending aeromagnetic high suggests further undiscovered mineralisation. The Cobalt Rainbow The property is located on Greenstone Creek, approximately 4.8 kilometres south west of the creek mouth. The property is located about 24 km due west of Campbell River, in the east-central