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GEOLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL, TRENCHING and PROSPECTING ASSESSMENT REPORT on the WAPITI WEST PROJECT (Formerly Tunnel Project) TENURE # 942096, 942097 + 983962 GEOLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL, TRENCHING and PROSPECTING ASSESSMENT REPORT on the WAPITI WEST PROJECT (formerly Tunnel Project) TENURE # 942096, 942097 + 983962 LATITUDE 54°55’20” N/LONGITUDE 121°35’41” W NTS SHEETS 93I.092 and 093 LIARD MINING DIVISION EVENT # 5480672 for FERTOZ INTERNATIONAL INC. 390 Bay Street, Suite 806 Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y2 by J. T. Shearer, M.Sc., P.Geo. (BC & Ontario) Unit 5 – 2330 Tyner Street, Port Coquitlam, BC V3C 2Z1 Phone: 604-970-6402 E-mail: [email protected] January 9, 2014 Fieldwork completed between April 25, 2013 and December 12, 2013 Photo 1 Tunnel Zone Area General view looking east of Tunnel Zone (Wapiti West) (Large white outcrops are Rundle Formation Carbonates) TABLE of CONTENTS Page SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... iii INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 1 LOCATION and ACCESS .................................................................................................................... 2 MINERAL TENURE/CLAIM LIST ......................................................................................................... 4 HISTORY ......................................................................................................................................... 6 REGIONAL GEOLOGY ....................................................................................................................... 7 PROPERTY GEOLOGY ....................................................................................................................... 9 MINERALIZATION .......................................................................................................................... 11 WAPITI WEST ZONE (Formerly Tunnel) .......................................................................................... 13 2013 EXPLORATION PROGRAM ..................................................................................................... 18 CONCLUSIONS and RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................... 31 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................. 33 APPENDICES Appendix I Statement of Qualifications .......................................................................... 34 Appendix II Statement of Costs ....................................................................................... 35 Appendix III Assay Certificates ......................................................................................... 36 Appendix IV Sample Descriptions .................................................................................... 37 i Geological, Geochemical, Trenching and Prospecting Assessment Report on the Wapiti West Project January 9, 2014 LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1 Location Map ........................................................................................................... iv FIGURE 2 Access Map ............................................................................................................... 3 FIGURE 3 Claim Map ................................................................................................................. 5 FIGURE 4 Regional Geology ....................................................................................................... 8 FIGURE 5 Google Image, Tunnel Area ...................................................................................... 10 FIGURE 6 Local Geology Map .................................................................................................. 11 FIGURE 7 Cross-Section A-A, TZ-08-01 ..................................................................................... 14 FIGURE 8 Cross-Section B-B, TZ-08-02 ...................................................................................... 15 FIGURE 9 Airphoto Example # 15BCC05122 No. 89 ................................................................... 25 FIGURE 10 Google Image Key Map of Soil Samples .................................................................... 26 FIGURE 11 Google Image of Traverse to the North ..................................................................... 27 FIGURE 12 Soil/Trench Results on Garmin ................................................................................. 28 FIGURE 13 Soil/Trench Locations on Google Image .................................................................... 29 FIGURE 14 Trench Locations and Results ................................................................................... 30 LIST of TABLES Page TABLE 1 List of Claims ............................................................................................................. 4 TABLE 2 Trench Results Tunnel Zone (Pacific Ridge 2008) ....................................................... 13 LIST of PHOTOGRAPHS Page PHOTO 1 Frontispiece, General Site View of Tunnel Project ...................................... Frontispiece PHOTO 2 Phosphorite Specimen at Tunnel Project .................................................................. 16 PHOTO 3 Trend of Phosphate-bearing Horizon ........................................................................ 19 PHOTO 4 One Trench which Cut Bedded Phosphate ................................................................ 19 PHOTO 5 Vega in Thrust Fault Contact with Rundle Group Limestone ...................................... 20 PHOTO 6 View Looking South-westerly Along Ridge Top ......................................................... 21 PHOTO 7 Looking Southerly Along Ridgeline ........................................................................... 22 PHOTO 8 Trench 02S Samples 1-4 ........................................................................................... 23 PHOTO 9 Trench 02S Samples 4-9 ........................................................................................... 24 ii Geological, Geochemical, Trenching and Prospecting Assessment Report on the Wapiti West Project January 9, 2014 SUMMARY The Wapiti West Phosphorite prospect (formerly Tunnel Property) is located within the Liard Mining Division in north-central B.C. and situated approximately 125 km northeasterly from Prince George and 35km westerly from Tumbler Ridge. The Wapiti West Phosphorite prospect (formerly Tunnel Property), consisting of 18 claims encompassing 6,971.61 ha. Prince George is the nearest major center to the Tunnel prospect and more than adequately supports exploration programs in the area. The claims, west along Wolverine River can be accessed by a logging/oil field access road which is about 60 km south of Chetwynd and westerly portions of the property are more easily accessed by helicopter. Helicopters available for charter include from Pacific Western Helicopters Ltd. based in Prince George, Highland Helicopters Ltd. based in Chetwynd and Ridge Rotors Inc. based for the summer months out of Tumbler Ridge. The Wapiti West Phosphorite claims are underlain predominantly by Early and Middle Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation, Lower Carboniferous Rundle Group and Upper Devonian Exshaw and Banff Formations. An extensive study of phosphate deposits of British Columbia” was undertaken by the British Columbia Geological Survey Branch under the auspices of Ministry of Employment and Investment, Energy and Minerals Division during the period from 1985 to 1990. Bulletin 98,”Phosphate Deposits in British Columbia” authored by S. Butrenchuk, P. Geo. was published in 1996 and includes an overview of the phosphate occurrences in the Tumbler Ridge area. The target sought at the Wapiti West Phosphorite Zone is a sedimentary-style “upwelling-type” phosphorite deposit (FO7). ) Initial exploration prospecting and sampling was conducted over a large portion of the 127 km long prospective area from Meosin Mountain in the southwestern portion of the claims to the Mount Palsson to the northwest. Individual beds are well exposed and the contact between the Whistler beds and underlying Rundle white weathering carbonates is a very distinctive feature trending northwest within the alpine terrain. Prominent northeast-southwest trending linears occur immediately south and north along the trace of the phosphorite horizon. Another set of north-northeast linears are also distinctive. The current program consisted of geological mapping, geochemical sampling, hand trenching and prospecting. The crew of 5 persons in 2013 conducted reconnaissance field traverses along prominent ridge line that is underlain by the Whistler member hosting phosphorite-bearing horizon. Seven old trenches were located which traces the trend of the phosphate zone. Majority of these trenches were re-open by the field crew and chip sampled. Soil and trench results are plotted on figure 12. Trench TR-01 (correlated with 2008 work and old Tyvek tags found) was resampled giving 3m averaging 15.5% P2O5. Trench PR-02 gave 3m averaging 11.79% P2O5. Grab Samples returned values up to 22.2% P2O5. Previous sampling in 2008 returned 6m averaging 16.3% P2O5. The phosphate zone was traced trending for some 500 metres to the north-northwest. A number of the trenches exposed a bed of phosphate mineralization 0.5-3.0m wide characteristically displaying nodular-pellet-like texture. Respectfully submitted, J. T. Shearer, M.Sc., P.Geo. (BC & Ontario) January
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