Owner: *Mount Sicker Mines Ltd

TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, GRID LINES and SURVEY WORK Mount Sicker Property Victoria Mining Division. British Columbia Location: NTS 92B 13 E, 92B 13W Lat. 48” 52‘ N Long. 123” 46’kr Claim Names: *CF Group #1-8 inclusive *CF Group #13-18 inclusive **Rocky # 1-4 inclusive *26 Crown Grants (see Appendix 2) Owner: *Mount Sicker Mines Ltd. **S.E.R.E.M. Ltd. Opera tor: S.E.R.E.M. Ltd. Report by: P. A. Ronning Date: October 24, 1978 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction. ....................... 1 Detailed Description of Work Done ............. 4 Conclusion ........................ 7 Statement of Qualifications ................ 8 Appendices Appendix 1 Cost Statement ........ 10 Appendix 2 List of Claims ........ 11 Figures Location Map .............Follows Page 1 Claim Map ...............Follows Page 2 Maps I. Map 1 (10 sheets) Big Sicker Yountain and Vicinity ....in pocket Map 2 ( 6 sheets) Big Sicker Mountian and Vicinity showing Grid Lines and Corrected Roads .......in pocket 1 INTRODUCTION: The Mount Sicker property straddles Big Sicker Mountain and part of Little Sicker Mountain in the Chemainus, Seymour and Somenos Land Districts, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Big Sicker Mountain is 10 Kilometers northwest of the town of Duncan. Access to the property is by road, from Highway 18 north on Somenos Road, northwest onto the Mt. Prevost road and thence onto a network of old mining and logging roads. It can also be reached from Highway 1, via a turnoff to the west onto a country road, just south of the Chemainus River bridge. Big Sicker Mountain is a little over 700 meters high. For the most part its flanks slope between 10 and 30 degrees and it is densely treed, except for some steep bare cliffs on the east side facing Highway 1. The mountain has been glaciated and much of it is covered with drift. The flatter parts of the top and flanks are swampy. It is bounded on the south by Mt. Prevost, on the west by the U-shaped valley of the Chemainus River with Copper Canyon in its bottom, on the north by the broad valley of the Chemainus River and on the east by the valley of Bonsall Creek and Highway 1. Mount Sicker Mines Ltd. owns most of the property at the time of writing, and S.E.R.E.M. Ltd.has been working on it under the terms of an option agreement. S.E.R.E.M. owns the Rocky claims directly. The property centers on an old underground mine which has been worked sporadically by variouscompanies since the turn of the century. The initial discovery was made in 1897, with development and mining beginning on the Tyee Claim in that year. Work on the Lenora claim began in 1898, and the two claims were amalgamated by the Lenora Mount Sicker Mining Company in 1900. Mining continued until 1907. Another company shipped a few tons from the Richard I11 claim in the same period. tocat ion Map Fig. 1 1 r 100 kilometers 50 0 50 2 Development and exploration work were done by Ladysmith-Tidewater Smelters Ltd. in 1926-29 and by Sheep Creek Mines Ltd. in 1939-40. From 1943-47 Twin J Minesproduced copper and zinc concentrates from the consolidated group. In 1949-52 Vancouver Island Base Metals rehabilitated the mine, with some production. Some surface mining was done by the original principals of Mt. Sicker Mines Ltd. in 1964, and the company was formed shortly thereafter. From that time until 1974 various operators explored the property, doing surface mapping and diamond drilling. In 1967 an attempt was made to extract copper from dump material by heap leaching, but it did not prove feasible. Ore in the old mine occurred as two orebodies, more or less parallel and trending east-west. It was of massive sulphide type, containing principally copper and zinc, with minor lead and significant gold and silver, Barite is a major constituent of some ore and may be of economic interest. To date, production has been 305,787 tons of ore yielding 20,265,763 lbs of copper, 45,960,252 lbs of zinc, 40,052 ounces of gold and 841,276 ounces of silver. Orebodies occur within the mid to upper paleozoic Sicker Group, associated with schists believed to be derived from acid volcanics. They were similar to those now being mined by Western Mines at Buttle Lake, and are hypothesized to be of Kuroko type. Hopes of finding more ore on Mount Sicker are based on two possibilities. One is that there may be ore remaining in or near the old mine. Old mine plans and reports show a few occurrences of massive sulphides which were not exploited or followed up, and several references are made to "low grade" disseminated type mineralization that was not of much interest in the early days. However, no specific information is available about what remains in the 3 old mine area. The other possibility is that there may be similar deposits elsewhere on the property. Many mineral occurrences have been found, and rocks similar to the host rocks in the mine are widespread on the flanks of Big Sicker Mountian. This report describes the preparation of a topographic map and grid on which all geological, geophysical, geochemical and other exploration work will be based. The topographic map covers 28 square kilometers and grid lines total 55.35 ki 1 ometers . All the claims on the Mount Sicker property are covered by the map. Grid lines cover all the crown grants (see Appendix 2), CF Group 1-8, CF Group 13-18, and part of Rocky #2. 4 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WORK DONE: Records of previous work in the Big Sicker Mountain area contain many maps. However,most of these are restricted to the immediate vicinity of the mine workings. Those which cover a larger area are planimetric only, or are of too small a scale. All pre-existing maps use Imperial rather than metric measurements. For the type of work which S.E.R.E.M. has done and plans to do a good large scale topographic map is required. Pacific Survey Corporation pro- duced the map described here. It was made by photogrammetric methods, to a scale of 1:2500 with a 10 meter contour interval. The original map consists of 2 sheets, and it is usually broken into 4 sheets for working. However, for this report it has been divided into 10 sheets to comply with the size regulations. As received from Pacific Survey the map had a number of errors, which it was necessary to correct by ground surveys. Most of these errors were in the roads; some roads were left out, some roads were shown where none exist and some existing roads were shown inaccurately. These errors were probably due to the difficulty of distinguishing old narrow roads under the dense tree cover on aerial photographs. Surveys to correct the roads were done using a brunton compass on a tripod and a 50 meter nylon chain. For control, the surveys were tied into points on the map which are believed to be accurately located, such as buildings, well def ned road junctions, a B.C. Tel relay tower, etc. The surveying was done by a two-man crew; a surveying student from B.C.1 .T. with one helper. The writer provided occasional assistance and su perv i s on. 5 For accurate geological mapping, and for projected geochemical and geophysical surveys a grid of lines on the ground was required. Previous workers on the property had established a grid whose condition, at the time S.E.R.E.M. commenced work, varied from poor to good. Hoping to avoid con- fusion that could result from having a new grid superimposed on an old one, it was decided to rehabilitate the old grid instead of making a new one. The old grid had north-south lines 400 feet apart, with stations every 100 feet. There were three base lines, at 0 north, 2600 feet north and 5600 feet north. The original line designations have been kept; thus the line 800 feet east of the origin is still referred to as line 8E, and the base line 2600 feet north of the origin is still BL 26N. However , the 01d lines have been re-measured using metric units, with stat ons every 30 meters. he old main shaft on the Tyee Claim, known as the Tyee Shaft, is used as the grid origin. The same crew which did the surveying rehabilitated the grid. For the most partthis consisted of searching out the old lines, re-flagging them and re-measuring them using hip chains. Mot all of the original lines were re-done, as some are on property no longer controlled by Mount Sicker Mines, and 2340 meters of new lines were cut. After the grid lines had been re-done the three base lines were surveyed. Again a brunton on a tripod and 50 meter nylon chain were used. Control was established by tying into well defined points on the map, and the intersections at all north-south lines with the base lines were located. This survey information was used to plot the grid lines on the topographic map. It will be noted that as plotted the grid is skewed slightly clockwise from a true north-south, east-west orientation. Several checks were run by surveying between known points on the map, showing that the north-south 6 (military grid) reference lines on the map are correct. Therefore the skewness was probably inadvertently built into the grid initially. In addition to surveying roads and grid lines, the legal corner posts of the Rocky claims were surveyed in using the same methods.

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