TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONCLUSIONS and RECOMMENDATIONS
Appendix
I Statement of Qualifications
Appendix
II Statement of Costs
Appendix
III Drill Records
Appendix
IV Assay Certificates and
Brightness Tests
The Smiley property was staked in July 2000 to cover an area of fairly
pure, white limestone, which had been known from rock exposures excavated during
construction of the Island Highway.
Recent logging by CANFOR has exposed the area long the
limestone-intrusive contact near the highway.
The present program consisted of prospecting in later 2000 and early
2001. Geological mapping at a scale of
1:5,000 and two short diamond drillholes were completed in mid 2001.
Previously, the property was examined by Achermann and Duncan G. Ogden
for Industrial Fillers and by David Coffin for Vanguard Consulting between June
15 and 19, 1988. A short diamond drilling
program was conducted between August 2 and August 10, 1988. Some geological mapping was completed by
Howard Brown for Pleuss Stauffer in 1984.
Initial discussions have taken place with CANFOR Logging on the
possibility of using the private deep water dock facilities at Beaver
Cove. In the past the Kelsy Bay-Beaver
Cove Ferry used the CANFOR ramp and the Nimpkish Iron operation also loaded
barges at Beaver Cove.
The property is located on the east shore of Nimpkish lake, approximately
17 km southwest of the deep harbour at Beaver Cove, on Vancouver Island’s
Northeast coast. Port McNeil, the
closest supply point to the property, lies approximately 20 air-km or 34
road-km to the northwest. Port McNeil
is capable of providing accommodation, contract excavators and the other usual
requirements for an exploration program.
Access to the property is gained by driving south from Port McNeil along
B.C. Highway 19 (Island Highway) for a distance of 35 km, turning east onto the
Canada Forest Products access road found just north of Noomas Creek. A series of branch logging roads provide
access to most parts of the claim group.
Highway 19 and the Canada Forest Products rail line both cross the
western part of the property.
The Smiley property occupies a portion of the transition between the
lowlands of Vancouver Island’s northeast coast and the rugged mountain ranges
to the south. Elevations on the
property range from 25 metres to 400 metres a.s.l. Much of the property is a western facing side hill with an
average slope of 12º over 1800 metres, being steeper along the Nimpkish Lake
shore. The drainage has a trellis
pattern but creeks can be expected to flow usually during run-off periods due to
the limestone bedrock.
The claims are within TFL 37 owned by CANFOR, who operate numerous camps,
the largest being Woss where the Forestry Engineering office is located. A unique feature of TFL 37 is the still
operating logging railway, which transports logs to the sorting and shipping
facility at Beaver Cove.
The property consists of two 2-post claims and four modified grid claims
totalling 47 units as shown in Table 1 and Figure 4.
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TABLE I List of Claims |
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Claim
Name |
Tenure
# |
Size |
Units |
Date
Located |
Current
Anniversary Date* |
Owner |
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Smiley 1 |
378986 |
2 post |
1 |
July
25, 2000 |
October
11, 2004 |
J. T. Shearer |
|
Smiley 2 |
378987 |
2 post |
1 |
July
25, 2000 |
October
11, 2004 |
R. Howich |
|
Smiley 3 |
381135 |
5S1W |
5 |
October
11, 2000 |
October
11, 2004 |
J. T. Shearer |
|
Smiley 4 |
381136 |
5S3E |
15 |
October
11, 2000 |
October
11, 2004 |
J. T. Shearer |
|
Smiley 5 |
381137 |
2W5N |
10 |
October
11, 2000 |
October
11, 2004 |
R. Howich |
|
Smiley 6 |
381138 |
3E5N |
15 |
October
11, 2000 |
October
11, 2004 |
R. Howich |
|
|
|
Total
47 Units |
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* after common dating and application of assessment work documented in this report.
Mineral title is acquired in British Columbia via the Mineral Act and regulations, which require approved assessment work to be filed each year in the amount of $100 per unit per year for the first three years and then $200 per unit per year thereafter to keep the claim in good standing.
Under the present status of mineral claims in British Columbia, the consideration of industrial minerals requires careful designation of the products end use. An industrial mineral is a rock or naturally occurring substance that can be mined and processed for its unique qualities and used for industrial purposes (as defined in the Mineral Tenure Act). It does not include “Quarry Resources”. Quarry Resources includes earth, soil, marl, peat, sand and gravel, and rock, rip-rap and stone products that are used for construction purposes (as defined in the Land Act). Construction means the use of rock or other natural substances for roads, buildings, berms, breakwaters, runways, rip-rap and fills and includes crushed rock. Dimension stone means any rock or stone product that is cut or split on two or more sides, but does not include crushed rock.
The area has long been known for its timber production along Nimpkish
Lake. Several skarn copper-magnetite
showings were found in 1929 southeast of the Smiley Claims along Kinman Creek
and Smith Creek.
There are several assessment reports available on the area covered by the
Smiley Group as follows:
|
Assessment
Report Number |
|
|
094 |
Menzies,
M., and Brynelsen, B. O., 1953: Trenching and Mapping for Noranda. |
|
10986 |
Quin,
and DeCarle, 1983: Input EM and Airborne Magnetometer 33.7 line km also
plotted on a 1:10,000 orthophoto with total magnetics and horizontal coil EM
anomalies for Mintek Resources |
|
12348 |
Morton
J. W., 1984: Geochemistry for Mintek Resources |
|
18850 |
Soux,
C. and Coffin, D., 1988: Diamond Drill Program Report for Industrial Fillers
Ltd. (Pleuss Stauffer) two 150m short holes, widely spaces. |
Geological mapping was carried out by Pleuss Stauffer geologist, Howard
Brown in several places on the northern Vancouver Island. A reduced summary version of Brown’s mapping
is shown in Soux and Coffin (1988).
To the south of Nimpkish Lake a small magnetite skarn produced a small
tonnage in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s from the Klannick Iron
Deposit. Mineralization in the general
area was originally discovered around 1900.
The Nimpkish Area was most expertly mapped by H. Gunning in the field
seasons 1929 to 1931 who established a more detailed stratigraphy and named the
Karmutsen Formation and Bonanza Group.
These maps were published by Hoadley (1953) along with Memoir 272
(Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Zeballos-Nimpkish Area, Vancouver Island,
B.C.). More recently Mueller and
Roddick completed 1:250,000 mapping of the 29L sheet for the Geological Survey
of Canada and published Paper 74-8 on the general Area (Muller, Northcote and
Carlise, 1974).
The area is primarily composed of intermediate volcanic sequences of the
Karmutsen Formation conformably overlain be Quatsino Formation Limestone. A major antiformal structure occurs from
which exposes Triassic Parson Bay mixed sedimentary rock and Lower Jurassic
Bonanza Group intermediate to felsic volcanic sequences. Rock units generally trend to the northwest,
displaying a series of open folds with gentle dips east and west.
All of the above units have been intruded by members of the intermediate
to felsic Island Intrusions of Upper Jurassic age. These intrusions have caused both skarn and other hydrothermal
metal deposits at numerous locations on Vancouver Island.
Major faults tend to lie sub-parallel to the fold structures, although
cross-faulting has been mapped.
Hoadley (1953) describes the Quatsino Formation (page 17) as follows:
“The Quatsino Formation consists almost entirely of limestone, with a few
thin flows of andesite or basalt. The
limestone is fine to coarsely crystalline, and ranges from white to black, with
various intermediate colours. Towards
the base, it tends to be exceedingly fine grained, and grey and brownish or
buff colours are characteristic. Midway
of the formation the colours are predominantly white or grey, but towards the
top the limestone becomes dark grey to black, due to a varying quantity of
carbonaceous matter, and the formation grades upward into argillites and impure
limestones of the overlying Bonanza group.
Even at the top, however, light grey or even white beds are interbedded
with the darker varieties in the upper part of the formation but in the lower
part, where white to brownish grey and buff colours predominate, it is poorly
preserved. In the upper part, too, the
beds are generally thin, thicknesses of ½ inch and less being common and
formation 2 or 3 feet uncommon. The
formation as a whole is dominantly a high-calcium limestone. The rock is too jointed in many places to
serve as a building stone, but where the beds are least deformed and well
removed from intrusions, as from Beaver Cover to Bonanza Lake, it could be
extracted in blocks sufficiently large for ordinary structural purposes. Within a mile or two of bodies of the Coast
intrusions, the limestone may be highly contorted and extremely jointed and
fractured, cut by many acidic dykes, and partly altered to lime-silicate
minerals, iron oxides, magnetite and hematite, and by sulphides of copper,
iron, zinc, and lead.”
The lower part of the Quatsino limestone is well exposed on the east side
of Nimpkish Lake, 2 miles from the outlet.
At its base there is a small fault, trending 070º east, which throws the
underlying volcanic rocks up against the limestone. The volcanic rocks, which include andesite, amygdaloidal basalt,
and sheared agglomerate, are exposed for 500 yards or more to the south and are
underlain by at least 50 feet of grey and white mottled limestone, which at its
base becomes argillaceous and well bedded and rests conformably on a slightly
sheared and altered amygdaloidal flow.
A second smaller bed of limestone lies conformably in these volcanic
rocks a few hundred yards farther south.
At this locality, the lower part of the Quatsino Formation is composed
of interbedded limestone and volcanic flows.
For about a mile on the east side of Nimpkish Lake opposite Halfway
Islands, near the western part of the Smiley Claims, the rocks at and near the
base of the Quatsino formation are exposed at low water (Hoadley, 1953). There, the top of the underlying volcanic
group is rolling and irregular and remnants of the overlying Quatsino limestone
have been preserved in one or two saucer-shaped low-lying areas. The relations between the limestone and
underlying volcanic rocks are complex.
In one place, 1km due south of Halfway Islands, an irregular, 3-foot bed
of light grey, fine-grained, limestone, some distance below the base of the
Quatsino Formation, is overlain and underlain by andesitic lavas, and is
contorted and slightly faulted. Farther
south are amygdaloidal basalts and a peculiar fragmental rock, the latter
consisting of grey to greenish or brownish dense limestone nodules or rounded
fragments, rarely more than 1 inch or 2 inches in diameter, in a matrix of
green and reddish andesite and basaltic fragments from ¼ inch to 18 inches in
diameter, some of them resembling bombs.
This rock might be termed a breccia, but it has the appearance of having
been formed by incorporation of volcanic ejectamenta in a calcareous mud,
possibly with the addition of a few angular fragments of limestone (Hoadley,
1953).
Farther south, at the first good expose of its base, in this locality,
the Quatsino Formation was found by Hoadley to be underlain by andesitic flows
containing several irregular gobs, up to 5 feet across, of limestone, the whole
intruded by irregular and curving andesite dykes. The Quatsino limestone overlies this material and dips gently
westward but contains irregular to lenticular dyke-like masses of andesite.
At one place on the small peninsula northeast of Halfway Islands, the
base of the limestone is again well exposed.
There, the limestone is apparently lying on green to purplish andesite
flows and fragmental rocks, but it is intruded by numerous dykes of similar
appearance to the lavas. Also, the
dykes contain many large and small fragments of limestone. The limestone itself is massive or poorly
and irregularly bedded. Farther south,
the underlying andesite and amygdaloidal basaltic volcanic rocks are exposed
for almost 900 feet to the small point east of the north end of Halfway
Islands. There, pure white,
crystalline, massive limestone, banded in grey shades for 8 feet above the
base, overlies green, rusty, pyritic andesite, the contact striking 030º and
dipping 30º southeast (Hoadley, 1953).
Most of the intrusive rocks of Vancouver Island form part of the Coast
intrusions, which were emplaced during Jurassic or Cretaceous time and which
now occupy much of the Coast Mountain area of British Columbia. They are holocrystalline, igneous rocks that
range in colour from pink and brown to grey and dark greenish grey, and in
composition from basic to acidic, with rocks of the granite clan
predominating. They form sills, dykes,
stocks and batholithic bodies in the Vancouver group and are of great economic
significance in that most of the mineral deposits of the region are believed to
be genetically related to them.
On northern Vancouver Island, these intrusive rocks are largely confined
to long, narrow, northwesterly trending belts separated by somewhat wider belts
of Upper Triassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The areas of intrusive rocks are, in detail, irregular and
discontinuous. Regionally, however,
they form bands 2 to 5 miles in width that can be traced along the strike of
the volcanic rocks for many miles (Hoadley, 1953).
Elsewhere in British Columbia, there are sources of white limestone, most
notably at Benson Lake (about 20 km directly west of the Smiley Claims)
operated by IMASCO and several producers on Texada Island.
Texada Island has produced high quality white limestone from small
deposits over the course of its history.
There are no extensive white limestone deposits on the island (Mathews
and MacCammon, 1957); however, there are workable deposits situated on the
island. The Blubber Bay quarries of
Pacific Lime and their subsequent owners mined white limestone and stockpile it
for specialty markets. The white
limestone sells for a premium and so was able to be selectively mined. Beale Quarries Limited also produced white
limestone from a body south of Quarry No. 5 in the vicinity of Lot 499.
White limestone was produced from Lot 500 south of Van Anda and south of
the Lafarge quarry on Lot 499. The
stone was pulverized and bagged for shipment on the property until Fred Beale
opened a stucco plant in the old smelter building in Van Anda. From the 1940’s until 1959 Lot 500 supplied
the stucco plant with white limestone until Imperial Limestone Company Limited
gained control of the operation. J. A.
Jack & Sons Incorporated of Seattle, Washington own Imperial Limestone. The limestone is shipped to the Seattle
processing plant and sold for agricultural limestone, stucco, chicken grit and
other pulverized limestone products.
Imperial Limestone built a crushing and barge load-out installation at
Butterfly Bay (Spratt Bay). In 1975 the
stucco plant in Van Anda was shut down and the building destroyed. Imperial built a new pulverizing and bagging
plant at Butterfly Bay as a result. The
plant was eventually phased out when freight costs became too high to operate
it. All stone processing is now carried
out in Seattle.
The largest white limestone body is at Texada Quarrying Ltd. (formerly
Ideal Cement) Paxton Lake Zone. The
Paxton Lake deposit has been developed on 3 wide levels but has recently been
inactive due to low priced white limestone temporarily sourced out of southeast
Alaska. The origin of the white
limestone is controversial. The genesis
of the white rock may be due to metasomatism, stratigraphic control,
hydrothermal alteration or volcanic intrusives. The white colour is probably the result of the bleaching of black
limestone by hydrothermal fluids percolating along a system of vertical joints.
The Smiley property is underlain by a wide expanse of Quatsino Formation
limestone in conformable contact with undifferentiated Karmutsen Formation
basalt and andesite, all of which has been intruded by a northwesterly trending
body of coarse grained biotite quartz monzonite. Thin sills and dykes of fine grained diabase cut the limestone
but were not seen to cut the monzonite.
Minor thin skarn zones form along the volcanic/limestone contact.
Previous work on the property divided the limestone into Upper and Lower
members. The Upper member is medium to
dark grey in colour and occasionally contains silica. Interbeds of white weathering, off white to light grey limestone
are also present. The Lower member is
generally white to light grey and fine grained, except where recrystallized and
has thin beds of dark grey and cherty material. Pyritic lens both conform to and cross bedding.
Bedding in the limestone generally trends northerly. A synclinal axis runs through the centre of
Smiley 4 in the lower Limestone, passing east of Smiley 5 along the top of a
small ridge of Upper Limestone. Dips
flatten quickly away from the axis in either direction, indicating a fairly
broad, shallow structure.
The pyritic lens are within areas, which have been replaced by vitreous
to cloudy silica, with blebs and poorly formed crystals of pyrite filling
random fracture planes. They are
defined by remnant bedding planes and by fractures trending northeasterly,
sub-parallel to the limestone/monzonite contact. The lens are most prominent in the southern part of the
property. Pyritic lens increase with
proximity to the volcanic/limestone contact and proximity to the monzonite
body. They appear to be the result of
hydrothermal fluids, which moved along the planes of weaknesses during
intrusion of the monzonite body.
The intrusive-limestone contact is will exposed on the Island Highway on
Smiley 1 mineral claim, Figure 7, at a point 28.3 km south of the Port
McNeil-Highway junction. Minor rusty
weathering skarn has developed along the contact within the intrusive. Small sill-like bodies of intrusive were
also noted within the limestone a short distance from the contact. The contact on the highway is oriented
140º/65º NW.
The intrusive are well exposed in the south and southeast portion of the
claims. Hoadley (1953) characterizes
the pluton east and southeast of Nimpkish Lake as essentially granodiorite,
although parts of it are quartz monzonite and in places it approaches granite
in composition. In a few thin sections,
especially those of the granites, interstitial micrographic intergrowths of
quartz and alkali feldspar were observed (Hoadley, 1953). Alteration of the feldspars to sericite,
zoisite and albite is common. Green
hornblende is the dominant ferromagnesian constituent, but in places is
exceeded by dark brown biotite, in ragged flakes. Some of the biotite is derived from the hornblende and both
biotite and hornblende have been altered in part to chlorite (Hoadley, 1953).
Throughout this entire area, the intrusive rocks are Lithologically very
similar and except for the more basic border phases all belong to the granite
clan, with granodiorite, quartz monzonite and granite the most common types.
In 1988, two 150 metre BQ diamond core holes, PT-88-1 and 88-2, were
completed by Pluess Stauffer. The holes
were spotted at the road accessible sites located approximately 750 metes apart
at the same elevation. Diamond drill
hole PT88-1 was spotted 700m @ Az. = 295º from the monzonite contact. PT-88-2 was spotted at 750m @ Az. = 345º
laterally and 5m vertically lower from PT-88-1.
PT-88-1 was collared in then cut 134.5 metres of generally light grey to
white limestone, with one 8.5m section of grey limestone centred at 41
metres. The section from 17m to 27.5m
contains what appear to be three andesitic dykes, which have been silicified
and pyritized; the dykes represent 75% of this section.
The section from 134.5m to 137.5m contains 1m of amygdaloidal andesite
followed by 2m of white limestone. The
section from 137.5m to 152.5m (bottom of hole) contained greenish grey
andesite, which has been altered to chlorite and epidote in places.
PT-88-2 was collared in, then cut, 65 metres of generally light grey to
grey limestone. From 65m to 88m the
hole cut alternating lens of generally light grey to white limestone and
intermediate volcanics; several of the contacts have been altered by hydrothermal
fluids. From 88m to 152m (bottom of
hole) the hole cut greenish grey andesite, which has been altered, to chlorite
and epidote in places. The
limestone/volcanic contact has been altered to silica and pyrite for a length
of 5 metres.
Both holes indicated that the limestone/volcanic contact is flat or
dipping very gently along the section Az. = 295º, which is consistent with a
general strike WNW-ESE. The calculated
dip based on this assumption is approximately –5º to the south or
southeast. Until fill-in data is
available, the assumption should be simply that the contact has a shallow dip
in a southerly direction (Soux & Coffin, 1988).
The north-south trending synclinal axis mapped in limestone does not
appear to be representative of the contact orientation. This is probably a result of either a)
location of one or both of the holes over a local rise in the paleotopography,
or b) discrepancy resulting from the movement of intervening faults.
The two diamond drillholes completed in 2001 are plotted on Figure 3 and
Figure 7 (in pocket). Drill logs are
contained in Appendix III. Hole
NIMP-01-02 was collared approximately 200m northwest of the intrusive contact
not far from Highway 19. On surface
down to 2.95m is a very white mostly medium to finely crystalline
limestone. Traces of pyrite were
observed along minor high angle fractures.
However, below 2.95m, a short section 2.95m to 4.92m of medium grey
limestone was encountered. A very minor
amount of intrusive dyke, which had been stretched and boudinaged with rounded
fragments between 3.59m and 3.62m.
White limestone appears again between 4.92m and 9.55m. Below 9.55m to 24.23m is a light grey
limestone, which is characterized by aligned vuggy sections, which appear to be
related to whiter layers or laminae.
Near the bottom of the hole (24.23-27.43m) is white limestone. In hole MIMP-01-02 the whiter sections are
distinctly finer grained.
In hole NIMP-01-03, which is closer to the intrusive-carbonate contact
(approximately 50m north of contact), the white limestone section is thicker
(to 19.51m) and more continuous. The
white section is also slightly coarse crystalline in Hole NIMP-01-03 than the
distinctly finer grained white limestone farther removed from the intrusive
contact.
Traces of dyke fragments are also noted in hole NIMP-01-03 at 3.20m as
3mm wide rounded greenish lenses, which suggests considerable plastic
flow. A dark green andesitic dyke was
encountered between 19.51m and 21.18m as a uniformly dark green, very fine
grained intrusive with minor pyrite along fracture surfaced. The limestone below the dyke is noticeably
darker grey than the upper limestone interval and also finer crystalline. Dark chloritic coated slickensides
throughout the lower limestone unit gives an even darker overall
impression. Minor sparry calcite lenses
were noted at the end of Hole at 24.38m.
CONCLUSIONS and
RECOMMENDATIONS
Diamond drilling in 1988 and 2001 encountered the Karmutsen contact
higher than would have been expected from an interpretation of surface
mapping. This may be because of a local
rise(s) in the paleotopography. The
apparent dip, from drill intersections, of the contact at a shallow angle to
the south is influenced by intervening faults, and requires further testing to
ensure its reliability.
Work in 1988 and 2001 core indicates sufficient light coloured to white
stone in this section to justify further work.
The major impurity is a section of hydrothermal alteration in andesite
dykes. These altered dykes are of
sufficient size to themselves warrant further work if they contain precious or
other metal content at economic grade.
Analytical sampling of the property, especially proximal to the
monzonite, should include analysis of the hydrothermal alteration for precious
and other metal content. Similar
alteration of these units elsewhere contains economic gold mineralization.
The general condition of the limestone/intrusive contact could be tested
by the drilling of one hole on section with 88-01 and 88-2, from an existing
road location approximately 850m north of 88-2. This hole would be collared near the Upper/Lower contact, thereby
testing a complete section of the later.
A series of holes should also be drilled around NIMP-01-03 in order to
test continuity of section over shorter distances to the east. This information could then be used to
enhance the present structural interpretation prior to in fill drilling.
Respectfully submitted,
J. T. Shearer, M.Sc., P.Geo.
Homegold Resources Ltd.
Brown, H. J., June 1984:
Geology of the Port McNeill (sic) Quarry Area Map Only; Private Report.
Dolmage, V., 1919:
Quatsino Sound and Certain Mineral Deposits of the West Coast of
Vancouver Island, B.C., Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report, 1918.
Fischl, P., 1992:
Limestone and Dolomite Resources in British Columbia. British Columbia Mineral Resources Division,
Geological Survey Branch Open File 1992-18, 150 p.
Gunning, D. F., 1991:
Rocks in Motion, Imasco, Surrey, B.C., Conference Proceeding, Industrial
Minerals Forum, 1991. Page 167-169.
Gunning, H. C., 1930:
Geology & Mineral Deposits of the Quatsino-Nimkish Area, Vancouver
Island, Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report 1929 Pt. A P94-143.
Gunning, H. C., 1929/31 and Hoadley, J. W., 1952:
Geology of Nimpkish Map Sheet @ 1” = 1 mile; GSC Map 1029A.
Hoadley, J. W. 1953:
Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Zeballos-Nimpkish Area, Vancouver
Island, B.C., Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 272, 82 pp.
McCammon, J. W., 1968:
Limestone Deposits at the North End of Vancouver Island, Mines and
Petroleum Resources Report, 1968.
M.M.A.R. Page 312-318.
Mathews, W. H. and McCammon, J. W., 1957:
Calcareous deposits of Southwestern British Columbia. British Columbia Department of Mines Bulletin
No. 40, 105p.
Muller, J. E., Northcote, K. E. and Carlise, D., 1974:
Geology and Mineral Deposits of Alert-Cape Scott Map Area, Vancouver
Island, B.C. Geological Survey of
Canada, Paper 74-8, 77 p.
Muller, J. E., 1973 and Roddick, J. A., 1980:
Geology of Alert Bay – Cape Scott @ 1:250,000, map 1552A.
Shearer, J. T., 1998:
Mining Permit Application Summary on the South Slesse Limestone Quarry
MX7-114, for I.G. Machine & Fibers Ltd., Dated January 10, 1998, 23 pages.
1999:
Diamond Drilling Report on the Davies Bay Limestone Deposit Filed for
Assessment Credit for Tilbury Cement Ltd.
2000:
Diamond Drilling Report on the Ravens Bay-Will Claims Tex Limestone
Deposit filed for Assessment Credit, for Chemical Lime Corp. Inc.
Soux, C. and Coffin, D., 1988:
Diamond Drill Program Report on Tsulton Property for Industrial Fillers
Ltd. (Pluess Staufer), Assessment Report 17759, 28pp.
Webster, I. C. L. and Ray, G. E., 1990:
Geology and Mineral Occurrences of Northern Texada Island NTS 92F/9, 10,
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File 1990-3, 1 sheet.
STATEMENT OF
QUALIFICATIONS
I,
JOHAN T. SHEARER, of 1817 Greenmount Avenue, in the City of Port Coquitlam, in
the Province of British Columbia, do hereby certify:
1.
I
am a graduate of the University of British Columbia (B.Sc., 1973) in Honours
Geology, and the University of London, Imperial College (M.Sc., 1977).
2.
I
have over 25 years experience in exploration for base and precious metals and
industrial mineral commodities in the Cordillera of Western North America with
such companies as McIntyre Mines Ltd., J.C. Stephen Explorations Ltd., Carolin
Mines Ltd. and TRM Engineering Ltd.
3.
I
am a fellow in good standing of the Geological Association of Canada (Fellow
No. F439) and I am a member in good standing with the Association of
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (Member No.
19,279). I am also a fellow of the Geological
Society (London) and Society of Economic Geologists (SEG).
4.
I
am an independent consulting geologist employed since December 1986 by Homegold
Resources Ltd. at #5-2330 Tyner St., Port Coquitlam, B.C.
5.
I
am the author of a report entitled “Geological, Prospecting and Diamond
Drilling Report on the Smiley Claims, Nanaimo Mining Divisions” dated July 15,
2001.
6.
I
have visited the property between July 25, 2000 and June 3, 2001. I have carried out mapping and sample
collection and am familiar with the regional geology and geology of nearby properties. I have become familiar with the previous
work conducted on the Smiley claims by examining in detail the available
reports and maps and have discussed previous work with persons knowledgeable of
the area.
7.
I
have an Open Pit Supervisor Ticket (#98-3550) for daily supervision duties.
8.
I
own an interest in the Smiley Claims and own Homegold Resources Ltd.
Dated
at Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, this 15th day of July, 2001.
_______________________________________________
J.T.
Shearer, M.Sc., F.G.A.C., P.Geo.
Quarry
Supervisor #98-3550
July 15, 2001
APPENDIX II
STATEMENT of COSTS
SMILEY GROUP 1
(SMILEY 1-6 : 47 UNITS)
-- for
work in the year 2000 --
Wages and Benefits
J.T. Shearer, M.Sc., P.Geo.
11 days @ $350/day
Aug. 5, 6, Sept. 7, 8 & 9, Oct. 13,14 & 15, Oct. 23, 24, & 25, 2000 $ 3,850.00
Doug Stelling, Prospector
7 days @ $250/day
August 5, 6, Sept. 7, 8 & 9, Oct. 13 & 14, 2000 1,750.00
Robert Howich, Prospector
4 days @ $200/day
August 5, 6, Oct. 13,14
& 15, 2000 800.00
Jack Howich, Prospector
4 days @ $200/day
August 5, 6, Oct. 13,14
& 15, 2000 800.00
$ 7,200.00
GST 612.50
Subtotal Wages $ 9,362.50
Expenses
Transportation
Truck Rental, Fully equipped 4x4
11 days @ 53.50 588.50
Gas 298.00
Ferries 372.00
Hotel, Meals & Camp Supplies 1,183.00
Analytical 524.75
Contract Diamond Drilling (Boisvenu Drilling Ltd.)
Invoice 010305, 170 ft @ $20/ft 3,400.00
Drill Mobilization and Consumables 1,374.96
Core Sawing and Splitting 285.00
Map Preparation and Drafting 350.00
Report Preparation 1,050.00
Word Processing and Reproduction 475.00
Subtotal $ 9,900.25
Total $ 17,604.25
44% Prospecting - $7,746.00
56% Geology and Drilling – 9,858.25