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QUADRA COPPER PAST PRODUCER WITH (pre-43 101) HISTORIC RESOURCE, Quadra Island B.C. 1096 Hectares / 2708 Acres. The copper/silver deposits are located on the northeast corner of the hill north of Mount Seymour on Quadra Island, British Columbia Canada. Quadra Island is the largest, most populous of the Discovery Islands, a group of island between between Vancouver Island and the mainland, home to 2700 year round residents and Campbell River on Vancouver Island is the closest large community with 35,000 residents and a port of departure for the 10 minute regular ferry to Quadra Island. Ferry service also departs from Heriot Bay. The properties west side straddles the Discovery Passage which leads directly to the open Pacific Ocean. Elevation of the property is at approx. 425 metres above sea level. Unlike many areas of the Gulf Islands, northwest Quadra Island still contains thousands of acres of crown land. As such, the property is underlain by not more than 2% of its area by district lots or crown grants with potential surface use. Included in the above property is a non-contiguous tenure of 124 hectares, approx. 1350 east-northeast of the claim boundary. This parcel is also prospective for copper, silver and gold mineralization. The property is comprised of a section of mineralization described in Minfile 092K060 along with additional showings and geochemical anomalies to provide a number of drilling and trenching targets with significant potential to further validate, outline and increase the existing resource: “The Copper Road occurrence is underlain by dark green to green andesitic lavas of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, Vancouver Group. Amygdaloidal areas contain zeolite and epidote, and in one place hematite and chalcopyrite-filled amygdules. A shear up to 9 metres wide and 1400 metres long contains quartz, calcite, bornite, chalcopyrite, native copper and malachite. The shear strikes 100 degrees and dips 80 degrees north. Drill indicated reserves in West zone are 83,217 tonnes grading 13.7 grams per tonne silver and 4.1 per cent copper. Drill indicated reserves in the East zone are 68,114 tonnes grading 2.44 per cent copper and 13.7 grams per tonne silver (Statement of Material Facts July 24, 1972 - Univex Mining Corp. Ltd., A.F. Roberts, May 11, 1971).” West Zone: 83,217 tonnes at 4.1% copper, 13.7 grams per tonne silver East Zone: 68,114 tonnes at 2.44% copper, 13.7 grams per tonne silver Due to the reporting date of this historic resource (drill cores have not been located) and the current configuration, a resampling program is justifiable to a) validate the grade and location of the resource; and b) delineate further resources on this structure. The Copper Road occurrence is marked by Minfile approximately 150 metres south of the northmost property border History 1919- The Copper Road mineral showings were discovered 1961- Golden Contract Mines drilled eight shallow diamond drill holes totalling 948 feet. The holes were centred on the shaft area. 1963- Anaconda optioned the property and diamond drilled 11,740 feet thereby establishing a mineral reserve of 115,000 tons copper and silver grading 2.8% Cu and 0.5 oz Ag per ton (Wahl, 1983). 1962-1969- Lease mined by Robert J. Bennet who sank a 100 foot shaft and shipped 5,000 DST to the Brittania concentrator located on the west coast of British Columbia some 40 kilometres north of Vancouver. 1953-1968- Total production of 5,220 imperial tons resulting in the recovery of 23 ounces of gold, 2,802 ounces of silver, and 402,848 pounds of copper. 1962- Geo-Recon, Inc. conducted a geophysical investigation on the Copper Road Property. It was concluded that there are several ore bodies other than those presently exposed at the Copper Road Property and that it would be worthwhile to investigate further the areas detected by this survey. 1970- Optioned by Western Mines who conducted geological, geochemical, and geophysical surveys and drilled eight core holes for 4,737 feet. 1981- H. Wall, P.Eng., estimated a mineral resource of 60,000 tons of +2% copper subject to confirmation by drilling and underground exploration. Wahl also reported that a higher grade extension could be included. 1997- A bench scale jig-column test was conducted by Ortech on copper samples from the Copper Road mineral zone. Robert de Laat reported (1997) that 50% of extractable copper was leached in 48 hours on minus 10 mesh material and 65% of extractable copper was leached in 4 hours on minus 65 mesh material. As only 25% extraction was achieved by this method, it was recommended that flotation test work should be undertaken for sulfide mineral collection. 1998- H. Wahl, P.Eng and F. Reyes, AScT performed geochemical evaluation work on their property, comprising a significant section of the current property. This work is reported in ARIS 25446 2005- The property directly adjacent to the east of the current property was evaluated for fitness as a public market offering by L. Sookochoff. Their report is available at http://www.secinfo.com/d13y6x.v22.a.htm#1stPage On the southwest corner of the property, a government Regional Geochemical Survey (EMPR Exploration Assistant Map layer) has outlined a copper anomaly that has not been followed up on. On the south-central section of the property, the current property configuration surrounds a high grade Past Producer, the Ajax – Minfile 092K116 where “A shear zone up to 60 metres in width strikes 135 degrees into a hill slope consisting of amygdaloidal basalts (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927). Other reports indicate a strike of about 080 degrees (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 23). Lenses and small veins of calcite hosting chalcocite and bornite occur within the shear. About 30 tonnes of ore were taken out prior to 1902, assaying over 25 per cent copper. Also at the south-central section of the property, directly to the east of the Ajax, a Developed Prospect, the Wanderer – Minfile 092K009 has incurred development work comprising of “Up to 55 metres of underground development work was completed on the Wanderer up to 1922. A sample taken from the dump assayed 15.5 per cent copper, 61.71 grams per tonne silver and trace gold”. On the southeast section of the property, the Cormorant Prospect - Minfile 092K098, a shaft has been sunk 12 metres on pyrrhotite occurring in lime- stone that strikes north and dips 75 degrees east. A 1.2 metre wide zone of ore occurs in the bottom of the shaft and a 7.5 metre width of ore occurs on the surface. The ore occurs in north trending fissures cutting andesite and consists of crystalline calcite and quartz containing pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite. A sample from the surface assayed 2.06 grams per tonne gold, 6.86 grams per tonne silver and 2.7 per cent copper. Bibliography EMPR ANNUAL REPORTS 1953-165; 1956-A48; 1961-91; *1962-95; *1963-98; 1964-151; 1965-225; 1966-71; 1967-72; 1968-A53, 100 EMPR ASSESSMENT REPORT 478, 25446 EMPR BC METAL MM00161 pp. 5 EMPR BULLETIN 23; 40 EMPR GEOLOGY, EXPLORATION AND MINING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (GEM) 1969-211; 1970-280; 1973-253; 1974-208; 1975-E112 EMPR INDEX 3-193; 4-120 EMPR MAP 65 (1989) EMPR OPEN FILE 1992-1 EMPR PROPERTY FILE (Claim maps and diamond drill hole plan, 1962; H. Wahl, Evaluation Report, 1997) EMR MIN BULL MR 223 (1989) B.C. 166 EMR MP CORPFILE (Univex Mining Corp. Ltd.; Black Marlin Energy Corporation) GSC MAP 120A; 1386A GSC MEMOIR 23 GSC OPEN FILE 463; 480 GSC PROPETY FILE 70-1A, pp. 44-49; 71-1A, pp. 31-33; 72-1A, pp. 21-23; 73-1A, pp. 42,43 GSC SUMMARY REPORT 1913, pp. 53-75 GEORGE CROSS NEWSLETTERS Dec.7, 1972; #4, 1980 Hudson, R. (1997): A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Vol. 1: Vancouver Island, p. 171 Sookochoff, L. 2005 Evaluation Report on the Copper Road 1-VI Mineral Claim Statement of Material Facts, VSE, Univex Mining Corp. Ltd., July 24, 1972 Wahl, H. (1982): Copper Road Property, Black Marlin Energy Corporation Prospectus, October 1983) |
