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1 IGN A engineering & consulting ttd. GEOLOGICAL REPORT ON THE PLACER MINING LEASES AND #1219 NINE MILE LAKE, NORTH OF WELLS CAR1600 N.T.S. M.D. 93H/4E For: Cancal Mines Ltd. By: I. Borovic, P. Eng. Consulting Geologist 4258 WEST 10th AVENUE / VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA V6R 2H4 / (604)

2 CONTENTS Page 1 Sumnary, Conclusions and Recommendation Introduction Property Location Map Property Ownership Location and Access Placer Deposit 3 Placer Mining Leases Regional Geological Map Proposed Testing Program _ Testing Program and Cost Estimate References Certificate

3 Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations The Nine Mile Lake placer leases ii2707 & are located in the Nine Mile Lake Valley below the northern slopes of the Cornish Mtn. about 6.0 km north of the town of wells, B. C. The leases are underlaid by the Cuningham limestones and surrounded to the south by gold-bearing rocks of the Snowshoe Formation which are considered source rocks for the placers in the Wells Barkerville area. In view of the fact that placer gold was mined in the Rhine Mile Lake area in the old days and that placer gold is recently found in Eight Mile Lake area it is quite possible that placer pay streaks also continue into the Nine Mile Lake. Im my opinion, the Nine Mile Lake placer leases are well worth testing. Introduction -. On request by Mr. GI. Alley of Cancal Mines Ltd. a one day examination of the Nine Mile Lake placer leases was undertaken by the author. The aim of the examination was to evaluate geological, topographical and other factors effecting the existence and preservation of the placer gold deposit in that area. The following report describes the type of placer deposit in the area of Nine Mile Lake, location of possible source rocks and their stratigraphic position. Furthermore the report shows the elements which are controlling concentration of heavy minerals. The author also recommends placer testing program in order to evaluate possible pay streaks on the property.... 2

5 ... 3 Property (see Placer Mining Leases Map) The property consists of two placer mining leases 2707 and covering an area around Nine Mile Lake. Ownership The leases are optioned by Cancal Mines Ltd. from.messers Bruce H. Tough and William Perry under option agreements dated June, 1980 and July, The agreements grant the company right to earn 10% interest in the leases after excercizing a testing program in order to evaluate placer deposit. Location and Access (Lat. 53' 10' N and Long. 121' 33' see Property Location Map) The property is located 6.0 km north of the town of Wells. It is easily accessible by two good roads. One takes off from the Wells Barkerville highway about two kilometers east of Wells and crosses _. Downy Pass to the north. The other road takes off from the Barkerville turnoff, follows Bowron Lake road to the Summit Creek where it turns westward toward Eight and Nine Mile Lakes for about two kilometers. PLACER DEPOSIT A. Source Rocks Bedrock qeology of the areqsurrounding Nine Mile Lake Underlying and surrounding the Nine Mile Lake placer leases are rocks of Cambrian Cariboo group and Mississippian Slide Mountain group. Mapping by A. Sutherland-Brown (1957) and R. B. Campbell et al (1973) shows the oldest rocks of the Cariboo group, Cunningham limestones, directly underlying the Nine Mile Lake area. More important is the fact that gold-bearing rocks of Snowshoe formation are outcropping on the Cornish Mountain to the southwest of the property and that.. 4 -, f

8 ... 6 a number of creeks drain into the Nine Mile Lake valley. B. Type of the Deposits Gold placers in the Nine Mile Lake area are alluvial deposits. The gold-bearing gravels lay largely on bedrock or as in the case of Eight Mile Lake located to the southeast in the same valley as Nine Mile Lake on "false bedrock". It appears that the favorable gold-bearing gravels continue into the Nine Mile Lake and very possibly lay on the same stratigraphic horizon on the "false bedrock". It is thought that the gold was initially concentrated in preglacial time in the bedrock gravels of streams flowing in the same valleys as at the present but at somewhat higher elevations. In pre or/and post glacial time renewed downward errosion lowered the valley bottoms and further reconcentrated the gold from earlier deposits, remnants of which were left along the sides on so called "high benches". The area was covered with ice during the Pleistocen, and little bedrock erosion and dispersion of gold in the valley bottoms.took place. The valley slopes were covered with glacial drift up to several tenths of feet thick and the creek bottoms filled with drift to heights of several hundred feet above the valley bottom. Since the disappearance of the ice creeks have reoccupied the old valleys and have cut down through and excavated much of the glacial.cover. C. Topography Nine Mile Lake drainage area encompasses Cornish Mountain and - Cornish Lake to the south and southwest and Two Sisters Mountain to the north and northeast. It is evident that there is a similar. I... 7

9 ... 7 phisiographic-geological environment to the one of Eight Mile Lake as shown by 1. A. Bayrock and T. H. F. Reimchen in their report to Messon Mines Ltd. dated September, Placer Gold - Correlation Eight and Nine Mile Lakes During the 1973 investigations of the Eight Mile-Lake placer deposits L. A. Bayrock (1973) has come up with some definte conclusions regarding occurence and stratigraphic position of the placer gold. Following description given to Mr. Bayrock by Mr. Myers (one of original former owners of placer leases in the Eight Mile Lake area) is a stratigraphic columb developed on the bases of extensive testing of that area: Water m (5-6 feet) Marl m (4-6 feet) "Green Gravel" m (4 --5 feet) Minor gold "Reddish-Brown Gravel" 2.4 m ( 8 feet) gold "Reddish Silt" 0.6 m ( 2 feet) Hardpan ("false be$rock") A-- "Reddish-Brown Cemented Gravel"? The Eight Mile Lake placers were tested on the basis of this stratigraphic relations and gold was found in the gravels near "false bedrock". Authors examination of the Nine Mile Lake placer area confirmed existence of alluvial gravels with possibility of gold pay streaks continuing from Eight Mile Lake. E. Testing Placer gold is rarely, if ever, found evenly distributed within a deposit. Normally there will be a random scattering of some of the... 8

10 . a gold, with varying proportions of the remainder concentrated in favorable areas or confined to "pay streaks". The coarser these gold particles and the more erratic their distribution, the more difficult it becomes to obtain ancaccurate sample'. A reliable placer evaluation will depend as much on experience and judgement as on the sampling itself. Therefore, the following testing program is recommended for Nine Mile Lake placer leases: 1. Establishment of an exploration grid with a base line running 320' along the placer lease iy2707 staking line as shown on the map 1:lO 000. The base line should have marked 25 m stations. 2. Test pits should be excavated by a backhoe complemented by bulldozer and holes surveyed to the base line of the grid. 3. Volume of the material should be measured by measuring dimensions ^L of the pit'bhd'by.tieighing. 4. Samples should be sluiced, coarse fraction gold separated and heavy "black sands" collected, panned and fine gold separated from magnetite and other heavyminerals as much as possible.,after that,,fines should be sent to Vancouver for further separation on the tables. 5. Recovered gold must be weighed and gold grade of material estab- lished

11 ... 9 Cancal Mines Ltd. Nine Mile Lake Proposed Testing Program - 1:lO 000 IGNA Engineering & Consulting Ltd...lO

12 ...lo Testing Program and Cost Estimate In order to test alluvial gravels of the Nine Mile Lake and bring the property to the next evaluation stage a number of test pits should be excavated as shown on the 1:lO 000 Map. About two weeks of work by backhoe and small bulldozer will be needed. It is extimated that total work program including grid establishment supervision and about 140 hours of excavating should cost about $10, ll

13 ...ll REFERENCES BAYROCK, 1. A. & REIMCHEN, T. H. F. (Se~pt. 1973) Geology and Ecology Eight Mile Lake Region, B. C. Prepared for Mexxon Mine Limited BOWMAN, A. (1889): Report on the Geology of the Mining District of Cariboo, B. C. G.S.C. Ann. Rept , V:111 CAMPBELL, R. B., MOUNTJOY, E. W. & YOUNG, F. G. (1973): Geology of McBride Map-Area B. C. G.S.C. Paper HANSON, G. (1934): Willow River Map-Area, General Geology and Lode Deposits G.S.C. Summary Report 1933 HANSON, G. (1935): Barkerville Gold Belt, Cariboo District, B. C. G.S.C. Memoir 181 HOLLAND, S.S. (1948): _. Report on the Stanley Area Cariboo Mining Division Bulletin No. 26, 8. C. Department of Mines, Victoria JENKINS, 0. P. (1946): New techniques applicable to the study of placers in Placer mining f?r gold in California: Ca;if. Div. M~ines Bull. 135 JOHNSTON, W. A. & UGLOW, W. L. (1926): Placer and Gold Deposits of Barkerville G.S.C. Memoir 1949 SUTHERLAND-BROWN, A. (1957): Geology of the Antler Creek Area, Cariboo District, B. C. B. C. Department of Mines Bulletin 38 UGLOW, W. L. (1922): Bedrock and Quartz Veins, Barkerville G.S.C. Summary Report 1922, Part A. pp WELLS, J. H. (1969): Placer examination, principle and practice: U.S. Bur. Land Mati.agement Tech. Bull. 4...I2

14 STATEMENT OF EXPENSES The following is a breakdown of expenses incurred in carrying out research and examination of Cancdl's Placer Leases , Nine Mile Lake N. of Wells, Cariboo M.D. N. T. S. 93H/4E - FIELD EXAMINATION Geologist Room & Board Transportation, Truck 3 S $ days Rental Total field $ OFFICE WORK Research, report Geologist Report Prep. & Copies 7 $ $1, Total Office $1, Field work $ Office Work 1,460.OO Cancal's Total Expense $2,395.00

15 RNA engineering & consulting ltd. CERTIFICATE I, I. Borovic, with business address 4258 W. 10th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, do hereby certify: 1. That I have personally researched available literature.as cited on reference page of this report. 2. That I have personally examined Cancal's Placer Leases # 2707 and f/ 1219, Nine Mile Lake, North of Wells, Cariboo M.D. B. C. 3. That the expenditures claimed for the performance of the work are correct. Respectfully submitted rovic, P. Eng. Geologist WEST 10th AVENUE / VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA V6R 2H4 / (604)

Gold Mountain Group Gold Mtn. A, B, C & D Mineral Claims Record Nos. 697, 698, 699 & 700. Island Mountain Cariboo Mining Division British Columbia

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