ON THE EASTRIM mm CLAIM Record number 3799 19 KENNJZDY LAKE AREA - ALBERNI MINING DIVISION Map 92Fl3 W 125" 23' West Lbngitude - 49" 09' North Latitude Walter GUPPY August ZO;i;! t I : AiG272002
TABLE OF CONTENTS LOCATION, ACCEISS AND PHYSIOGRAPHY Page 1 PROPERTY DETAILS Page 1 HISTORY AND REFERENCES Page 1 GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION Page 2 2002 PROGRAM Page 2 PROSPECTING Page 3 QUALIFICATIONS Page 3 STATEMENT OF COSTS MAPS IN APPENDIX Page 3 INDEX MAF - CLAIM MAP SKETCH OF GEOLOGICAL SETTING AND MINERALIZED ZONE
PAGE 1 LOCA HON, ACCESS AND PHYSIOGRAPHY The Eastrim Mineral Claim is located on a creek flowing into the east side of Kennedy River about 2.5 kilometres upstream from Kennedy Lake. More specifically, it is the creek that Pacific Rim Highway crosses at the northerly end of the four-lane section. It is designated as Kerr Creek at the bridge but this Ministry of Highways designation won t be used in this report. Instead the creek will be referred to as Big Boulder Creek because it is believed that this creek was originally named Boulder Creek but, in recent years, the next creek to the south came to be given this name. The name is more appropriate to the creek on which the Eastrim claim is located because a section of the creek bed is boulder-filled. Access from the highway is by rough trail along the north bank of this creek. The west boundary of the Eastrim claim, as established by the previously-located LE Rose claim, intersects Big Boulder Creek above a canyon section 1.5 kilometres upstream. At this point the creek branches out into three forks, the one to the south branching again above a waterfall about 100 metres further up. Exploration, under the present program concentrated on the fork flowing from the east which was the locus of previous exploration work. It is a small tributary which follows fracturing formed by a minerlized shear zone. Topography of the area is typically steep and rugged with some sections made inaccessible by cliffs and canyons. It has a cover of predominently over-mature cedar and hemlock with considerable underbrush and a litter of debris from windfalls and fallen branches. PROPERTY DETAILS The Eastrim claim, Record number 379919, consists of 6 units, 2 north and 3 east from a legal comer desiguate:d by witness post. The claim map is included with other maps at the end of the report. HISTORY AND REFERENCES The valley of Kennedy River above Kennedy Lake, has been the scene of gold prospecting activity al! various times since the 1890 s. There are a number of old workings consisting of trenches, shafts and adits in this area. Production, consisting of 436 tons grading 0.71 o&ton gold is recorded from the Rose Marie and Leora properties, both within two kilometres. of the E&rim claim There are no historical records of work being carried out on ground covered by the Eastrim claim previous to Assesment Report No. 12,725 by P. Folk, P.Eng., which covers a program of geological, geophysiical, geochemical surveys and drilling carried out in April 1984.
- GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION Page 2 Geology of the area, as mapped by Mueller and Carson (GSC Paper 68-50) shows a major fault extending from the head of Tofino Inlet to the north-west, to Henderson Lake in the southeast. This fault cuts across the valley of Kennedy River north of Mount Maitland opposite the Eastrim claim and follows the course of Big Boulder Creek where it intersects the claim. Mueller s mapping shows Island Intrusions in contact with Karmutsen Volcanics on the east side of the valley in the vicinity of the Eastrim claim and this contact is also evident in the mapping by Peter Folk which shows volcanics south of the creek and west of the present claim boundary; the intrusive stock ending in a nose at this point. Volcanic rocks at the contact are altered and impregnated with pyritie to a consideable extent. A mineralized~ shear strikes northeasterly from the fault contact and forms the course of a small tributary stream. This is the main feature of interest on the property. It was explored in the 1984 program by diamond drilling seven holes with a light drill rig to intersect the shear at,widely-spaced points over a strike length of approximately 500 metres, Mineralized vein material was intersected at every point drilled with the best section being the most westerly where 2 veins about 7 metres apart with significant gold values were intersected. Three other more-or-less parallel veins discoverd at points to the north were mapped but were not considered as being commercially important. Samples from them assayed from 0.06 oziton Au to 0.462 o&on Au across widths of 0.30 to 0.33 metres. 2002 PROGRAM The feasibility of taking a portable drill rig in to explore the continuity of the vein shear in a westerly direction was at first considered. On April 18,2002, Gary Richards, partner in the project, and drillling contractor Lome Lloyd biked in to the property to investigate if packing a drill to this site would be feasible. It was decided that it would be too difecult and plans for drilling were abandoned. It was decided to get an agreement with Douglas Paterson, owner of the L.E. Rose claim, which covers the area between the Eastrim claim and the highway, to work together on constructing an access trail. On July 2nd Gary Richards an,d Doug Paterson worked on scouting out trail route and subsequently have done considerable work on the trail which is mainly on Paterson s L E Rose claim.
v Page 3 PROSPECTING The author of this report is no longer physically able to participate in actual field work so could only act as coordinator of the prospecting p&am. On two occasions I accommpanied Gary Richards out to the highway turnoff adjacento the worksite to meet with Doug Paterson there and discuss details of the program. At other times I carried out research and compiled field maps for the guidance of Richards and Paterson. who, guided by this data, found the location of previous drill sites and some evidence of the mineralized shear zone. This, and the trail work completed by Doug Paterson, will facilitate future work on the prospect, With limited funds available, since the writer already has a thousand dollars tied up in a security deposit in connection with trenching to expose another vein in the area, and on account of the difficult access and rugged nature of the area, this was the extent of work that could be carried out on the Rastrim prospect at this time. Some samples of quartz from the shear zone, mineral&d with pyrite, and specimens of mineralized country rock were brought out by Gary Richards. I decided against sending these samples out for assay until a greater number of samples, collected more systematically were available so that results would be meaningful. QUALIFICATIONS V The writer, Walter Guppy, has bad wide experience has a prospector over a sixty year period and Doug Paterson can also be considered as a practical prospector. Gary Richards is a novice but has local knowledge and is competant as a woodsman. STATEMENT OF COSTS Field work - 2 men for one day @ $200 per man day $400.00 Supervision - 2 trips tin site = 6 brs @ $30.00 180.00 Transportation from Tofino and Port Alberni to site 3x120 Km @.30 = 108.00 Report Preparation 50.00 738.00