TITLE OF REPORT: VERITAS Assessment Report 2013
TOTAL COST: $8,247.37
AUTHOR(S): Alex BURTON P. Eng., P. Geo., Consulting Geologist SIGNATURE(S):
NOTICE OF WORK PERMIT NUMBER(S)/DATE(S):N/A June 6 to July 9, 2013 STATEMENT OF WORK EVENT NUMBER(S)/DATE(S ): 5459603 2013/Jul/19
YEAR OF WORK: 2013 PROPERTY NAME: VERITAS CLAIM NAME(S) (on which work was done): 1019139
COMMODITIES SOUGHT: Gold
MINERAL INVENTORY MINFILE NUMBER(S),IF KNOWN: 092 J NE 031
MINING DIVISION: Lilloet NTS / BCGS: 92 J 086 LATITUDE: _ 50 ______° _50 ______’ 30______" LONGITUDE: _122 ______° _ 54 ______’ __ 55______" (at centre of work) UTM Zone: 10 EASTING: 506063 NORTHING: 5632098
OWNER(S): LEE Michael Richard (147295) (100%)
MAILING ADDRESS: 60562 Granville Park, Vancouver, B. C. V6H 4B9
OPERATOR(S) [who paid for the work]: LEE, Michael Richard
MAILING ADDRESS: 60562 Granville Park, Vancouver, B. C. V6H 4B9
REPORT KEYWORDS (lithology, age, stratigraphy, structure, alteration, mineralization, size and attitude. Do not use abbreviations or codes ) Bridge River and Bralorne Complex with Augite diorite and Soda granite next to Veritas quartz vein in contact with Hurley Formation
REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS ASSESSMENT WORK AND ASSESSMENT REPORT NUMBERS: 6971, 14390, 15209, 18436, 33415. TYPE OF WORK IN EXTENT OF WORK ON WHICH CLAIMS PROJECT COSTS THIS REPORT (in metric units) APPORTIONED Technical (incl. support) 375m 101939 GEOLOGICAL (scale, area) linear
Ground, mapping
Photo interpretation
GEOPHYSICAL (line-kilometres)
Ground
Magnetic
Electromagnetic
Induced Polarization
Radiometric
Seismic
Other
Airborne
GEOCHEMICAL (number of samples analysed for )
Soil
Silt
Rock
Other
DRILLING (total metres, number of holes, size, storage location)
Core
Non-core
RELATED TECHNICAL 7 rock 101939 $ 1,649.47 Sampling / Assaying samples 5 roc k 101939 $ 6,597.79 Petrographic samples
Mineralographic
Metallurgic
PROSPECTING (scale/area)
PREPATORY / PHYSICAL
Line/grid (km)
Topo/Photogrammetric (scale, area)
Legal Surveys (scale, area)
Road, local access (km)/trail
Trench (number/metres)
Underground development (metres)
Other TOTAL $ 8,247.37 COST
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SUMMARY...... 1
LOCAL ACCESS MAP ...... 2
DETAILED ACCESS MAP ...... 3
TENURE INFORMATION ...... 4
LOCATION ...... 4
ACCESS ...... 4
PHYSIOGRAPHY ...... 5
HISTORY ...... 6
REGIONAL GEOLOGY ...... 7
PROPERTY GEOLOGY ...... 7
PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES ...... 8
GPS TRAVERSE TRACKS AND WAYPOINTS MAP ...... 9
ASSAYS OF VEIN AND ROCK SPECIMENS ...... 11 ADIT #3 ...... 12 ADIT #4 ...... 12
STATEMENT OF COSTS ...... 12
STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS ...... 16
REFERENCES ...... 17
APPENDICES ...... 18
APPENDIX A ...... 19 VANCOUVER PETROGRAPHIC REPORT APPENDIX B ...... 35 ACME ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES REPORT
SUMMARY
The Veritas vein system was field checked and sampled to see what the relationship of the vein and the adjacent Bridge River - Bralorne Complex has to the soda granite / albite volcaniclastic rocks adjacent to the vein system.
The Bralorne mining camp vein systems are adjacent to albite feldspar rocks historically referred to as "Soda granites" with albite feldspars.
It is conjectured that much of the rocks of this composition are volcanic flows and represent the source of the quartz, carbonates, and gold in the veins adjacent to these flows. This is similar to the California Motherlode type of gold mineralization that is sometimes called Porphyrite or stratabound deposits.
Seven rock samples of varying compositions were collected for assay purposes. Five selected rock samples were collected for petrographic analysis.
The petrographic report prepared by Vancouver Petrographics on the five rock samples is included and is discussed in this report.
The assays of the various rock and vein types are also discussed.
Possible avenues and places for further exploration for gold are postulated.
TENURE INFORMATION
Tenure number 1019139 of 19 cells is the VERITAS mineral claim owned and operated by Michael Richard LEE. In 2013 exploration field and laboratory expenditures of $8,247.37 were spent on the claim, and $ 7105.51 was the amount required for the filing.. On acceptance of this assessment report the claim will be good to 2017/April/ 08
At one time the Veritas vein system was covered by a series of Crown Grant mineral claims which have reverted to the crown.
LOCATION
The Veritas claim and vein is in the Lillooet Mining Division in B.C. Canada. National Topographic Co-ordinates (NTS) are 092 J 15. Latitude is 50 50' 26' Longitude is 122 54' 50" UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates are: Zone 10 506063 East, 5632098 North
The Veritas is historical vein property located on the northwest side of La Joie Lake , a small lake at the SW end of Gun Lake in the Lillooet Mining Division. See Veritas Property Local Access Map on following page.
ACCESS
The Veritas vein is located north of Vancouver, B. C. about four hours drive by three different routes.
The most common is by the Sea To Sky highway through Squamish, past the ski resort village of Whistler then beyond Pemberton to Lillooet and westerly to Gold Bridge settlement at the junction of the Hurley and Bridge Rivers.
An alternative route is to drive easterly on highway Canada 1 through Hope along the Fraser canyon to Lytton, then 63 Km NW on highway 12 to Lillooet. Gold Bridge settlement is 104 kilometres west from Lilloet During summer months only another alternative route is west at Pemberton and after crossing the Lillooet River take the rough washboardy Hurley road to Gold Bridge.
From Gold Bridge go west about 0.75 kilometres to the bridge across the Bridge river, then travel southwest on the Gun Lake Road for 5.5 kilometres. At that point there is a sign with the initials "E.D."on a large tree on the western side of the road.
That rough 4X4 vehicle road travels westerly, take the left branch to and past Adit Number 2 on the Veritas vein system. The adit is easily visible on the north right hand uphill side of the road.
The very southern edge of the Veritas claim beyond the vein is adjacent to some summer cabins. See following pages for Local Access Map and Detailed Access Map.
PHYSIOGRAPHY
The Veritas claim is in the "Bridge River Country" on the eastern side of the Coast Range Mountains. The major rivers flow easterly to the Fraser River. The Bridge River has been dammed at two places for hydro electric power, the Downton dam and Carpenter Lake dam These dam lakes occupy the broad valley floors.
Just north of this sequence Lajoie Lake is a small lake at the SW end of Gun Lake which has become a summer cottage popular area. Fortunately the southern end of the last known Veritas vein system is just north of and clear of the cottage collection.
The Veitas claim is in the rain shadow of the Coast mountains and has nice summers with cool winters with some snow. The summers are mild with modest rain.
Vegetation is mainly Pine and also Fir and Spruce. Underbrush is modest, but in many places the surface is covered with a fine white ash from Mount Meagher recently active volcanoe from about 200 to 300 years ago. This hinders prospecting and renders soil geochemistry useless unless samples are taken from areas where the ash has been washed away, or by getting below the ash to take samples.
Elevations at the south end are just above 800 metres elevation and rise along the vein strike trace to over 1100 metres at the last known vein exposure. Further along the assumed surface trace of the Veritas vein is covered by overburden.
A small creek east of the Veritas vein lower elevation outcrop appears to have had an attempt at rerouting and then a placer operation attempt, presumably for gold. This workings can be seen from the road.
HISTORY
Prospectors followed gold in the rivers west of Lillooet to the Bridge River country and discovered the Bralorne/ Pioneer gold camp. By the early 1900's they followed the NW trend of this camp to the Veritas which is close to the last known "Bralorne" type of mineralization.
After several pulses of exploration the Veritas vein has been surface trenched and had four adits developed along the vein trace.
The number 1 adit is near the shoreline of Lajoie Lake and is 167.6 metres long in the vein. The number 2 adit is 25 metres above number 1 and is 94.5 metres long. Number 3 adit is 30 metres above adit 2 and is 73.2 metres long. Number 4 adit is 25 metres above number 3 and is 8 metres long. The vein has been traced for over 300 metres in length.
Number 1 adit is inaccessible, #2 is open, number 3 should not be attempted until the portal sluff is cleared, and number 4 portal is in poor condition.
Geochemical, magnetometer, and electromagnetic VLF surveys have been run over the Veritas vein in more modern times.
In all cases the Veritas quartz vein which ranges from a few centimetres to over a metre has returned low gold values.
Assessment report #33415 prepared in 2011 succinctly covers past and recent historical work done on the Veritas vein so is not reproduced here. The 2013 exploration was to investigate the possibility that the source of the vein and the gold mineralization might be related to or within the albite lavas flows adjacent to the vein.
REGIONAL GEOLOGY
On the east side of the Coast range batholith Permian to Cretaceous sediments and volcanics, some now low grade metamorphic rocks, plus serpentinites and augite diorite/ soda granites that are postulated to host the Bralorne/Pioneer gold mines trend northwesterly.
They have been intruded by the later Bendor batholith intrusions.
Going from east to westerly geological maps since 1938, 1977, and 1994 generally place the units in the following order. First the Bridge River Complex, then the Bralorne Complex (may include the Pioneer Formation) which includes the augite diorite and soda granite, then the Hurley Formation. Most vein mineralization is usually placed along or across the contact between the Bralorne Complex(Pioneer Formation) and the Hurley Formation. The serpentinites are sometimes between or within the Bralorne Complex and the Hurley.
Early stage mapping of the district was complicated by the fact that all the various grouping of rocks had what were called sediments, volcanics and intrusives that were somewhat similar, but varied greatly in proportions or amounts between each other. Certainly in the field the newcomer can be easily puzzled as to which units they are looking at.
PROPERTY GEOLOGY
The Veritas vein is found along the contact of rocks previously mapped as Bralorne Complex with Hurley Formation sediments on the west.
The vein has been traced at least 300 metres along the strike surface trace and 80 metres down dip by previous workers with trenches and four adits. Beyond that distance the northern surface trace of the vein is no longer on the steeper hill slopes that made hand trenching feasible. Once past that point the topography levels out to a modest slope where it appears there is deeper overburden.
Past geophysics does tend to outline the contact/vein trend, but further north along the flatter slopes the geophysics is inconclusive.
It is possible the vein could continue , but this has not yet been explored. with enough trenching.
Assessment Report 18436 in Geology and Mineralization states:
"The Veritas property consists of Triassic Hurley and Pioneer Formation sediments and volcanics. These are intruded by basic plutonics of the Bralorne Intrusions. Also there are crosscutting felsic and mafic dykes, possibly of Tertiary age."
During limited traverses on each side of the Veitas vein along the visible surface trace of the vein the author did not see any felsic or mafic dykes. However he did see what looked like the basic plutonics of the Bralorne Intrusions in the form of what appeared to be lava flows or tuffs, or crystal mushes, not intrusions.
Coarser igneous rocks of the "Bralorne Intrusions" type are reported to be found in the northeast portion of the property adjacent to the serpenitized ultrabasic President intrusion. That area was not traversed.
The Detailed Property Map shows the GPS traverse tracks and waypoints made during the work done on the Property. Note that UTM grid coordinates are shown on the map.
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The author postulated that finer grained outcrops on the east side of the vein might be albitite volcanic flows that are related to the same composition coarser grained "soda granites" of the Bralorne area. Accordingly five rock specimens of this material were collected for petrograhic investigation.
The five rock specimens were cut and placed on thin sections by Vancouver Geo Tech Labs which were taken to Vancouver Petrographics Ltd for microscopice investigation and mineral identification.
Location of the five specimens for petrographic analysis is as follows.
& ' ( &# &) *+ ! "! Sample 1 Adit 2A 1056 506027 5632048 Sample 2 Adit 2B 1060 506027 5632048 Sample 3 The Buttress 1056 506055 5632063 Sample 4 A2W1 1057 506012 5632034 Sample 5 Adit 3 1068 506008 5632091
The Vancouver Petrographics Ltd. report by F. Colombo, Ph.D, P. Geo. is located in Appendix A attached to this report.
Three volcanic attribute specimens contain primarily albite plagioclase feldspars. The only difference from the Bralorne intrusives is grain size. Two of the petrograhic specimens are sedimentary in origin.
It is postulated that the Bralorne intrusives (Soda granites) are very large flows that were extruded hot and had a chance to cool slowly becoming coarse grained, while the Veritas flows were thinner and cooler so developed as flows, tuffs, and partially reworked beds.
As there was not enough time and heat to expell the impurities consisting of quartz, calcite, and gold, it may be that a large part of those may still be in the flows.
The recommendation is to map and sample the flows for their gold content. The Veritas vein lacks both gold grade and mining width to be economic.
The flows adjacent may have enough mineralization to be tested for possible economic values.
Samples 1 and 2 are concluded by Colombo to be andesitic in composition with 85 and 78 % albite composition. From field examination they have an interpreted appearance of flows. Certainly the high content of albite matches the overall composition of the Soda granites near the Bralorne mine.
Samples 3 and 5 are concluded by Colombo to be strongly altered rocks with #3 possibly being originally a porphyritic andesite, and 5 possibly being an altered phyllosilicate. Sample 4 was identified as a dolomite ankerite schist.
From field appearances and the petrographic report the author concludes the following.
The zone east of the Veritas vein system is interpreted to be a zone of altered sediments with lava flows or tuffs. Samples were collected where the megascopic structures could be interpreted as igneous lava flows or tuffs.
Specimens 1 and 2 are closest to the soda granite in composition, while 3 is a more complex basic rock. They are all east of the Veritas Vein and represent the Pioneer Formation of the Bralorne Complex.
Specimens 4 and 5 are probably sedimentary in origin, are west of the Veritas vein and appear to match the Hurley Formation.
The rocks taken for the 5 petrographic examinations have been kept in case further study is needed. Further sampling across wider zones for gold might be usefull in this area.
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Veritas vein mineralization was examined and seven different types of vein were collected for assay of gold values. The specimens were collected according to type of material rather than as samples across a given width. The table shows where the samples were collected and the amount of gold analysed by ACMEAnalytical Laboratories Ltd.. All assays are reported as parts per billion. See Appendix B for complete Laboratory Report.
& # # ! "! ( $*'+ 1 190 Adit 3 506008 50632091 2 262 7 66 3 1030 4 6829 Adit 4 505925 5632104 5 3 6 1307 ADIT 3
Three specimens were collected from the face of the portal of the centre narrow quartz vein (specimen #7) and the rusty gouge on the north (specimen #1) and also the south(specimen #2) side of the vein. The central vein was quartz with minor pyrite.
The vein ran just 66 ppb Au, while the north gouge ran 190 ppb Au, and the south gouge ran 262 ppb Au.
ADIT 4
Four specimens were collected from the area around Adit 4. Quartz vein with pyrite from the dump (specimen #3) ran 1030 ppb Au. At the brow of Adit 4 a quartz vein next to a rusty gouge (specimen #4) ran 6829 ppb Au. A quartz vein with pyrite in what might be sediments (specimen #5) ran only 3 ppb Au. The sorted pile of possibly hand picked vein material consisting of quartz and pyrite (specimen #6) ran 1307 ppb Au.
Both specimen #3 and specimen #6 looked similar and ran remarkably close in grade. Specimen #4 ran the highest of the seven assays.
Previous reports of assays from the Veritas vein were about 1.3 grams per tonne or less.
From these different specimen samples there seems to be no way to predict whether any one feature can be used to identify higher grading material.
STATEMENT OF COSTS
The Statement of Costs is summarized in the required formatted spreadsheet on the following pages. STATEMENT OF COSTS Exploration Work type Comment Days Totals
Personnel (Name)* / Position Field Days (list actual days) Days RateSubtotal* Alex Burton June 6-9, 2013 4 $840.00 $3,360.00 Michael Mulberr y June 6-9, 2013 4 $367.50 $1,470.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $4,830.00 $4,830.00 Office Studies List Personnel (note - Office only, do not include field days Literature search $0.00 $0.00 Database compilation $0.00 $0.00 Computer modellin g $0.00 $0.00 Reprocessing of data $0.00 $0.00 General research $0.00 $0.00 Report preparation $0.00 $0.00 Other (specify) A. Burton sample prep (4 hrs) $560.00 $560.00 $560.00 Airborne Exploration Surveys Line Kilometres / Enter total invoiced amount Aeromagnetic s $0.00 $0.00 Radiometric s $0.00 $0.00 Electromagnetic s $0.00 $0.00 Gravit y $0.00 $0.00 Digital terrain modellin g $0.00 $0.00 Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Remote Sensin g Area in Hectares / Enter total invoiced amount or list personnel Aerial photograph y $0.00 $0.00 LANDSAT $0.00 $0.00 Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Ground Exploration Surveys Area in Hectares/List Personnel Geological mappin g Regional Reconnaissance Prospect Underground Define by length and width Trenches Define by length and width $0.00 $0.00
Ground geophysics Line Kilometres / Enter total amount invoiced list personnel Radiometric s Magnetics Gravit y Digital terrain modellin g Electromagnetic s SP/AP/EP IP AMT/CSAMT Resistivit y Complex resistivit y Seismic reflection Seismic refraction Well loggin g Define by total length STATEMENT OF COSTS Geophysical interpretation Petrophysics Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00 Geochemical Surveyin g Number of Samples No. Rate Subtotal
Drill (cuttings, core, etc.) $0.00 $0.00 Stream sedimen t $0.00 $0.00 Soil $0.00 $0.00 Roc k 7 samples ($233.07) 1.0 $233.07 $233.07 Wate r $0.00 $0.00 Biogeochemistr y $0.00 $0.00 Whole rock $0.00 $0.00 Petrolo gy 5 samples (108.41 + 1065.75) 1.0 $1,174.16 $1,174.16 Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00 $1,407.23 $1,407.23 Drilling No. of Holes, Size of Core and Metres No. Rate Subtotal Diamond $0.00 $0.00 Reverse circulation (RC) $0.00 $0.00 Rotary air blast (RAB) $0.00 $0.00 Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Other Operations Clarif y No. Rate Subtotal Trenchin g $0.00 $0.00 Bulk samplin g $0.00 $0.00 Underground development $0.00 $0.00 Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 Reclamation Clarif y No. Rate Subtotal After drillin g $0.00 $0.00 Monitorin g $0.00 $0.00 Other (specify) $0.00 $0.00
Transportation No. Rate Subtotal
Airfare $0.00 $0.00 Taxi $0.00 $0.00 truck rental BCI truck for 4 days 4.00 $52.50 $210.00 kilometers 1058.20 $0.32 $333.33 ATV $0.00 $0.00 fuel at cos t 1.00 $199.52 $199.52 Helicopter (hours) $0.00 $0.00 Fuel (litres/hour) $0.00 $0.00 Othe r $742.85 $742.85 Accommodation & Food Rates per da y Hotel 2 people for 4 days 8.00 $50.00 $400.02 Camp $0.00 $0.00 Meals actual costs (76.31+230.96 ) 1.00 $307.27 $307.27 $707.29 $707.29 Miscellaneous Telephone $0.00 $0.00 Other (Specify) $0.00 $0.00 STATEMENT OF COSTS Equipment Rentals Field Gear (Specify) $0.00 $0.00 Other (Specify) $0.00 $0.00 Freight, rock samples $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
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I, Alex Burton am a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in Geology, 1954.
I am registered #6262 with Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. (1967) both as a Professional Engineer and as a Professional Geoscientist.
I am a founding member (Fellow) of the Association of Exploration Geochemists now called Association of Applied Geochemists. I am also a Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. I have served on the Executive of the AME (Association for Mining Exploration of BC), and was a past Chairman of the Mining Exploration Group.
For many years I taught the Placer Mining course for AME in conjunction with the BCIT (BC Institute of Technology)
My work experience includes exploration to mine development for major mining companies in management positions ( Noranda Exploration, Copper Range Corporation, Phelps Dodge Corp., and Mindeco Ltd. in Zambia).
Since 1977 as an independent consultant to many public companies in Canada, and N. America, S. America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
The BC Attorney General, Ministry of Highways, RCMP and private industry have used me as an expert witness.
I have 59 years of experience. I personally did the field work for this report.
______Alex Burton, P. Eng., P. Geo. Consulting Geologist Burton Consulting Inc. Cel 604 525 8403 email: [email protected] August, 2013 ,
Assessment Reports listed from oldest to youngest
6971 Geochemical and Geological report 1978, on Pike 1-8, Artomis 1-5, Veritas and Veritas 2 claims Gruenwold W.
14390 Report on Preliminary Geochemical Soil Sampling Veritas claim Group, 1986, Sampson, Chris
15209 assessment Report on the Veritas Property Near Goldbridge, BC, 1986 Cooke, Bradford, and Robbins, John
18436 Geophysical Report on AirborneMagnetic and VLF-EM Surveys over the Ernie, Bert, and Veritas Claims1988, Brewer, Lloyd
33415 Orientation Property Inspection and Rock Geochemistry on the Veritas Property, 2011 Delorme, Christopher
Geological Maps
1938 Map 430 A, Gun Lake Area, Canada Dept. of Mines.
1977 Open File 482, G.S.C.
1994 Geology of the Southern Coast and Intermontaine Belts, Natural Resources Canada.
Paper
1983 Gold Porphyrites, by F. Marshall Smith at Symposium Geological Association of Canada, Victoria, B. C., May 1983 /
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Report 130499, July 13, 2013 by F. Colombo, Phd., P. Geo. for Alex Burton, P. Eng., P. Geo.
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