GM 62648 ASSESSMENT REPORT BASED ON THE 2006 LAFORCE GEOLOGICAL MAPPING & PROSPECTING PROGRAM, LAFORCE PROJECT jet Aurora ~~ Fieldex Exploration -Ai PIatinum Corp.
ASSESSMENT REPORT
BASED ON THE
2006 LAFORCE GEOLOGICAL MAPPING & PROSPECTING PROGRAM
Laforce Project, Brodeur and Devlin Townships Claims: 1119531 1119530 1019423 1019424 5243412 5256056 1131342 1131343 1131339 3ESSOUI !,' E • 3 MINES H Ressources naturelles et Faune, Québec 2 ùEC. 206 NTS 31M/10 1 1 JAN, 2007 BUR5.I: Ari:..,( AL it .4 ?. Service de la Géoinformation
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Roger Poulin, BSc., PGeo. (Ont, Que) Shastri Ramnath, M.Sc., PGeo. (Ont, Que) November 25th, 2006
LAFORCE ASSTStiNiFA I' REPORT No\eniher 2006
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SUMMARY Between October 9th and October 27`h, 2006, Aurora Platinum Corp. ("Aurora"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FNX Mining Company Inc. and Fieldex Exploration Inc. ("Fieldex") carried out a Geological Mapping and Prospecting Program on the Aurora- Fieldex Laforce joint venture claims 1119531, 1119530, 1019423, 1019424, 5243412, 5256056, 1131342, 1131343, and 1131339 located in Brodeur and Devlin Townships (the "Laforce Property"). The Laforce Geological Mapping and Prospecting Program targeted Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization known as the Laforce prospect as well as areas outside the known mineralization. The objectives of the 2006 Geological Mapping and Prospecting Program were to: 1) Identify the extension of the gabbro intrusion; and 2) To use the knowledge acquired during the drill campaign to identify new and untested target areas east and west of the Laforce prospect. The mapping area covered an area approximately 1800m long by 350m wide. A total of 152 outcrop stations were identified and mapped, 87 rock samples were taken for hand specimens, and 16 rock samples were taken for assay analysis. The total expenditures for the summer 2006 Laforce Geological Mapping and Prospecting Program were $18,665.89.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY 2 INTRODUCTION 5 PROPERTY LOCATION AND ACCESS 5 PROPERTY STATUS 6 PHYSIOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE 7 PREVIOUS WORK 7 REGIONAL GEOLOGY 8 PROPERTY GEOLOGY 10 2006 GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND PROSPECTING PROGRAM 10 FIELD PROGRAM 10 LITHOLOGY 1 1 MINERALIZATION 1 1 ALTERATION 1 1 STRUCTURE 11 SAMPLING PROCEDURES 13 PERSONNEL AND CONTRACTORS 13 EXPENDITURES 14 CONCLUSIONS 15 RECOMMENDATIONS 15 STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS 16 REFERENCES 18
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LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Laforce Property — Location Map 5 Figure 2: Laforce Property — Claims 6 Figure 3: Laforce Property — Regional Geology 9 Figure 4: Laforce Property — Geological Mapping Area 10
LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Laforce Property — Claim Status 7 Table 2: Laforce Property — Previous Work 8 Table 3: Laforce Property — Detailed descriptions of the mafic, ultramafic and brecciated rock types identified on the property during the 2006 program. 12 Table 4: Laforce Property — Personnel 13 Table 5: Laforce Property — Contractors 13 Table 6: Laforce Property — 2006 Expenditures 14
LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix I: Geological Mapping and Prospecting Field Stations Appendix 11: Sample Location List and Sulphide Mineralization Appendix (I1: ALS Chemex Lab Certificates and Sample Locations
LIST OF MAPS
Map 1: Topographic map showing the field station locations Back Pocket Map 2: Geological map showing the geological interpretation Back Pocket
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INTRODUCTION In 2004, Aurora acquired a 50% interest in certain claims located in the District of Temiscamingue, Quebec from Fieldex under a Joint Venture Agreement dated March 25, 2004. The JV Agreement includes three of the nine claims worked on during the 2006 Laforce Geological Mapping and Prospecting Program which is the subject of this report. In 2006, Aurora acquired a 50% interest in the remaining six claims described in this report from Fieldex under a second Joint Venture Agreement dated June 12, 2006. Although Aurora and Fieldex own a 50% interest in each of the nine claims, two of the claims are registered in Aurora's name as to a 100% ownership and the remaining seven claims are registered in Fieldex's name as to a 100% ownership (Table 1).
PROPERTY LOCATION AND ACCESS The Laforce Property is located 50 km northeast of the town of Ville Marie, Quebec and 2.2 km southwest of Laforce, Quebec in Brodeur Township (Figure 1). The property is centered approximately at 670600mE and 5264800mN (NAD 83, Zone 17).
Access to the property is by Highway 382 east from Ville Marie to the town of Fugereville and then north to the town of Moffet. Approximately 20 km east along the road Chemin de Moffet-Laforce, there is a turn off to a 3-km long, snowmobile/ATV trail heading south that leads directly to the property.
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PROPERTY STATUS The Laforce Property consists of nine contiguous claims covering an area of 356.79 hectares located in Brodeur and Devlin Townships, District of Temiscamingue, P.Q. and is subject to two agreements between Aurora and Fieldex dated March 25, 2004 and June 12, 2006 respectively. Aurora and Fieldex each own a 50% interest in the Devlin Property (Figure 2) by virtue of the aforesaid two agreements. Two of the claims are registered on the Ministere des Resourcesses Naturelles et de la Faune mining titles system in the name of Aurora as to a 100% ownership and the remaining seven claims are registered in the name of Fieldex as to a 100% ownership. The current status of the Laforce Property is described in Table 1.
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Table 1: Laforce Property — Claim Status
Claim No. Hectares Registration Date Expiry Date Titleholder 1019423 42.39 26-May-01 25-May-07 Fieldex 100% 1019424 42.35 26-May-01 25-May-07 Fieldex 100% 1119530 42.89 11-Mar-03 10-Mar-07 Aurora 100% 1119531 42.92 11-Mar-03 10-Mar-07 Aurora 100% 1131339 58.15 14-Dec-04 19-Feb-08 Fieldex 100% 1131342 13.77 14-Dec-04 19-Feb-08 Fieldex 100% 1131343 34.32 14-Dec-04 19-Feb-08 Fieldex 100% 5243412 40.00 18-Sep-00 * 17-Sep-06 Fieldex 100% 5256056 40.00 18-Sep-00 * 17-Sep-06 Fieldex 100% * Renewal application is currently being processed by Ministere de Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune. Quebec.
PHYSIOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE The property has a moderate relief that varies from 250 to 325 meters above sea level. Overburden is relatively thin, varying from zero to one metre in the reported drilling area. Most of the property is forested by spruce, birch and poplar. No major water body or rivers occur near the current drilling area however, there are a few seasonal streams and ponds in the low lying areas. The district has typical boreal climate.
PREVIOUS WORK Copper-nickel mineralization was discovered in the Laforce area in 1957. The original showing was stripped, trenched and sampled revealing disseminated to semi-massive pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite in amphibolite (Table 2). Kerr Addison optioned the property and in 1958 and 1959, drilled 29 holes on the property, 15 of which intersected a pod of mineralization. Further drilling included 11 holes drilled by Lynwatin Nickel Copper Ltd. in 1961, 19 holes by Texmont Mines Ltd. in 1967 and 8 holes by Vista Exploration in 1976. Alotta Resources completed a ground IP survey in 1988 and followed up with four drillholes to the east of the main showing. Between 2001 and 2004 several geophysical surveys were completed by Aurora including a Terraquest airborne magnetic survey and a Geotech VTEM survey. In 2005, Aurora and Fieldex completed a regional reconnaissance mapping and prospecting program to follow up the airborne conductors identified in the 2004 VTEM survey.
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Table 2: Laforce Property — Previous Work Laforce Resource Kerr Addison 1958 geological mapping Geological Laforce Grab Samples ARP/FLX* 2001 prospecting Mapping Boudrias Ni-Cu Tom Exploration 2002 geological compilation Showing IP Survey Alotta Resources 1988 Ground IP Survey Belanger IP Survey 2001 Ground IP & Mag Geophysics Geophysics Magnetic Survey Meeguish 2001 Magnetic Survey JVX IP Survey JVX 2002 Ground IP Magnetic Survey Terraquest 2004 Airborne Magnetic VTEM Survey Geotech 2004 Airborne EM & Mag Laforce Rock Geochemistry ARP/FLX 2004 rock sampling Sampling 1958- Assessment DDH 6 companies 84 drillholes ** Diamond 1988 Drilling Boudrias DDH Brominco 1975 ? drillholes Interpretation Laforce Compilation ARP/FNX/FLX 2006 GIS & 3D Compilation * ARP=Aurora Platinum Corp; FLX=Fieldex Exploration Inc. ** 7 drill logs not found in assessment records
REGIONAL GEOLOGY The project area is located in the Belleterre-Angliers greenstone belt, part of the Pontiac Subprovince in eastern Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Belletere-Angliers is the most southerly greenstone belt in the Superior Province, situated south of the Abitibi greenstone belt and north of the Grenville Front in the Temiscamingue area (D'Amours, 2004). The generalized stratigraphy of this belt is one of komatiites and komatiitic basalts, tholeiitic basalts, calc-alkaline intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks, volcanic sedimentary rocks and minor iron formation (Barnes et al, 1993). Gabbro intrusions that are rich in metals have intruded the supracrustal stratigraphy and are interpreted by Barnes et al. (1993) to have been produced by a mantle plume that intersected and rifted an island arc. The Belletere-Angliers greenstone belt is physically separated into three distinct groups; the Baby Group in the west, the Belletere Group in the east, and Lac des Bois Group in the center (D'Amours, 2004; Figure 3). Contacts with younger Pontiac Group metasedimentary rocks and older tonalite-trondhjemites intrusion suites are sheared. The Pontiac metasedimentary rocks dip beneath the Belletere-Angliers greenstone belt and are tectonically interleaved with the intrusive rocks. Gabbros, that intrude the tholeiites, are compositionally similar to the volcanic suite (D'Amours, 2004). Both rock types have undergone a similar degree of deformation and metamorphism. The gabbros have been interpreted as the products of the interaction as a mantle plume with an island arc and may have been generated in a rift arc setting.
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The Belletere-Angliers greenstone belt is host to numerous nickel-copper and gold occurrences/prospects and two past producing mines, the Belleterre gold Mine and the Lorraine Cu-Ni Mine (Osmani, 2005). The Ni-Cu+/-PGE deposits are mafic intrusion-hosted and gold mineralization occurs in quartz veins commonly along or adjacent to sheared volcanic-gabbro or granitoid-volcanic contacts. The Midrim Deposit and its satellite Ni-Cu- PGE prospects occur in roughly a 2.5x5.0 km area in the Baby greenstone belt. The Lorraine Cu-Ni mine (594,000 tonnes of ore grading 1.07% Cu and 0.45% Ni) and Lac Kelly deposits are hosted in the Lac des Bois greenstone belt (Mineral Bulletin MR198). The Belleterre gold Mine and LaForce Ni-Cu prospect occur within the Belleterre greenstone belt. The Belleterre Mine, as of 1958, produced $27.72 million worth of gold from 2.397 million tons of ore (Beecham and Ng-See-Quan, 1978). Sill-like bodies of mafic to ultramafic composition (gabbros and pyroxenites) of various sizes have intruded the volcano-sedimentary sequences of the Belletere-Angliers greenstone belt (Osmani, 2005). Some of these bodies, as mentioned above, are host to magmatic Ni-Cu+/- PGE deposits (e.g., Midrim, Lorraine and LaForce deposits). Two geochemically distinct suites of gabbroic intrusions, fertile and barren, have been reported (Imreh, 1978). The fertile gabbros, hosting the known Ni-Cu+/-PGE mineralization (e.g., Midrim and Satellite deposits), are geochemically evolved (i.e., enriched in light and intermediate REEs) relative to the barren gabbros, which display flat REE patterns. However, both types of intrusions are of tholeiitic affinity and have undergone a similar degree of deformation and metamorphism as their volcanic host rocks. The Lorraine Mine is the only past producer (Ni-Cu) occurring in the eastern part of the Lac des Bois greenstone belt.
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Figure 3: Laforce Property — Regional Geology
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PROPERTY GEOLOGY The Laforce Property contains part of an elongate, east-west trending gabbroic intrusion approximately 4.6 km long and 0.20 km wide. The gabbro body occurs near the northern margin of a 4.2 km wide dioritic plug (Figure 3). The northern margin of the dioritic plug is cut by several northeast-southwest trending faults.
The main Laforce mineralization occurs within the central segment of the gabbro. The mineralization is hosted within an amphibolitic body which is enveloped by porphyritic gabbro and gabbro that are in contact with porphyritic diorite. The area is cut by lamprophyre and quartz-feldspar dykes.
2006 GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND PROSPECTING PROGRAM
Field Program A regional geological mapping and prospecting program was completed on the Laforce Property between October 9th and 27th, 2006. The mapping was completed at a scale of 1:2500 and covered an area approximately 1800m long by 350m wide (Figure 4). A total of 152 outcrop stations were identified and mapped, 87 rock samples were taken for hand specimen, and 16 rock samples were taken for assay analysis (Appendix II and III). A Garmin GPS was used to locate outcrop edges and the data was transferred on paper at 1cm =10m scale. The hand drawn map was then scanned and digitized using Autocad. The final map was edited and interpreted using ArcMap (Maps I and II).
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Figure 4: Laforce Property — Geological Mapping Area
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Lithology The mapping was confined to the main gabbroic intrusion interpreted as being near the edge of a hornblende diorite batholith. The gabbro dyke is arcuate in shape, steeply dipping, averaging 200 meters in width and mapped over a distance of approximately 2700 meters.
A variety of mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks were identified within the main gabbro dyke including gabbro, melagabbro, amphibolite, pyroxenite, hornblende gabbro, diabase, gabbro breccia, gabbro porphyry and metagabbro (Table 3). The contacts between mafic and ultramafic rocks were generally sharp. The contacts between the mafic rocks were not always observable and cannot be commented on. Both the mafic and ultramafic rocks were crosscut by younger, mafic diabase dykes.
Mineralization At the Laforce showing, Ni-Cu-PGE-bearing sulphides occur within brecciated and non- brecciated amphibolite. Sulphides comprise up to 15% of the unit and occur as 1-3 mm, blebs and veinlets of pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and trace millerite. Sulphide mineralization identified in other parts of the property generally occur as trace, cubic pyrite in gabbro and pyroxenite (Appendix II).
Alteration The gabbro units are generally unaltered except for occasional epidote and late quartz and feldspar veins, which sometimes give a brecciated appearance. The most prominent alteration is closely associated with the main Laforce showing as the pyroxenite is altered to amphibolite and the gabbroic units contain significant identifiable biotite and chlorite.
Structure Five strong lineaments, interpreted from air photos, appear to crosscut the main gabbro body. These lineaments strike north-south and are truncated by a major south-west trending regional fault. Only one major north-south striking fault was identified in outcrop. The structure was 4 to 5 meters wide and did not displace the gabbro unit.
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Table 3: Laforce Property — Detailed descriptions of the mafic, ultramafic and brecciated rock types identified on the property during the 2006 program. Rock Type Code Mineralogy Detailed Description Dark grey-green rock with 40-60% anhedral to subhedral feldspar. The rock has a hypidiomorphic texture and is medium mafic content 40- gabbro GAB grained. Finer grained gabbros occur in small dikes and in 60% + plagioclase breccia matrix along intrusion contacts. Black hornblende and green amphibole are the major visible mafic minerals present.
Dark black-green rock with 10-30% feldspar. The feldspars are usually interstitial to the hornblende and smaller in size. They mafic content 70- melagabbro MLGB are also unevenly distributed. Poikilitic textures are occasionally 90% present. Black hornblende is the major visible mafic mineral present. mafic content >90 % Dark green rock made of long green feathery amphibole grains. It is associated with the Laforce showing gabbro/amphibolite amphibolite AMPH green blocky or breccia and is sheared. It is the host rock of the Ni-Cu-PGE feathery amphiboles bearing sulphides. Dark grey-black rock with 2-20% feldspar. The pyroxenititic mafic content >90 % rocks are coarse grained and consist of equant uralitized pyroxenite PYRT hornblende or other hornblende and amphibole grains. Feldspar content is 0 to 10% blocky amphiboles and the distribution is patchy. Black hornblende and green amphibole are the major visible mafic minerals present.
hornblende Dark grey-black rock with 40-60% anhedral to subhedral hornblende (unaltered) is the feldspar. The feldspars are usually interstitial to the hornblende HBGB gabbro primary amphibole and smaller in size. Black hornblende is the major visible mafic present mineral present. One 2m east-west oriented dike was mapped. The rock is dark diabase DIA mafic diabase dyke grey-green, fine grained, massive and strongly magnetic. Light to dark grey rock composed of fine to medium grained amphibole or gabbro matrix supporting up to 30cm, medium any brecciated grained, subrounded, gabbro and pyroxenite fragments. Breccia gabbro occurring along the edge of the intrusion is typically composed GBBX gabbro (ultramafic breccia of 50%, tonalitic and porphyritic hornblende diorite fragments included) (footwall rocks). Ni-Cu-PGE bearing sulphides sometimes occur in the matrix of the gabbro breccia as disseminations and semi massive sulphides. define Dark grey-green rock with 40-60% anhedral to subhedral gabbro porphyroblasts, feldspar. The matrix of the gabbro GBPY has a hypidiomorphic texture porphyry feldspar or mafic and is medium grained. Black hornblende and green amphibole mineral are the major visible mafic minerals present. metagabbro MTGB Sheared gabbro (as described above).
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Sampling Procedures
Samples were submitted for preparation to ALS Chemex in Sudbury and for assay to ALS Chemex in Vancouver where they were analyzed for Au, Pt, Pd, Ag, Cu, Pb, Ni, and Co. Precious metals were analyzed using an inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Base metals were analyzed using an atomic absorption spectrometer (AA). Lab certificates are provided in Appendix III.
PERSONNEL AND CONTRACTORS
All work was supervised and implemented by Aurora Platinum Corp., 1300 Kelly Lake Road, Sudbury Ontario, P3E 5P4 (Tables 4 & 5).
Table 4: Laforce Property — Personnel Name Position Location Catharine Farrow Chief Geologist 1300 Kelly Lake Rd, Sudbury, P3E 5P4 Shastri Ramnath Senior Project Geologist 1300 Kelly Lake Rd, Sudbury, P3E 5P4 Roger Poulin Project Geologist 1300 Kelly Lake Rd, Sudbury, P3E 5P4 Steve Dunlop Project Geologist (covered for RP) 1300 Kelly Lake Rd, Sudbury, P3E 5P4 Ahmed D'jour CAD Technician 1300 Kelly Lake Rd, Sudbury, P3E 5P4 1010 Chemin du Golf, Hugo Girard Core Technician Duhamel-Ouest, Que, J9V 1 M6
Table 5: Laforce Property — Contractors Name Position Location ALS Chemex Assay Lab 212 Brooksbank Ave, Vancouver, V7J 2C1