ASSESSMENT REPORT ON THE OPALUS 1 MINERAL CLAIM LOCATED IN THE MARRON VALLEY AREA . B.C.

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A. K. and R W. Yorke-Hardy Box 298, Vernon. B.C.

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N.T.S. MAP 82E15E MINING DIVISION Province of

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Y. H. TECHNICAL SERVICES LTD. Written by Brian Callaghan, B. SC. (Geology) Box 288 Vernon, B.C. VIT 6M2 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summary - 1 Introduction -- 1 Location and Access - 2 Physiography and Vegetation - 2 Property Description - 2-3 History - 3 Regional Geology - 4 Property Geology - 4-5 Sample Descriptions -- 5-8 Conclusions - 9 Recommendations - 9-10 Bibliography - 11 Cost Statement - 12 Statement of Qualiicatiins - 13

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: 1999 Work Programme on Opalus I - after page 13

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Map No. 1 - Property Location --- after page 2 Map No. 2 - Cpalus Mineral Claim Map _ after page 2 Map No. 2A - Revised Claim Location - afterpage 2 Map No. 3 - Regional Geology -- after page 4 - Geology Legend -- after page 4 Map No. 4 - Sample Locations --- after page 5 PRELIMINARY GEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE OPALUS 1 CLAIM

Summary

Little is known of the initial precious opal discovery that was found during the early 1960’s by N. Vernon of Penticton, B.C. The initial discovery area is situated west of the White Lake Basin within the Trout Lake Graben and is situated on the northeast side of Laidlaw Mountain. The site was staked by C. Lynes of Minconsult Mineral Exploration Ltd. in 1996. The exact location of the LCP and claim boundaries of the Opalus 1 have not been determined after initial visits to the claim area. The primary target at this time is precious opal.

An inspection of representative samples collected from the Opalus Claim include basaltic andesites of the Marron formation and rhyolite breccias of the Marama formation that are favourable host rocks for the formation of epithermal type gold silver mineralization similar to that of the Vault property located to the east of the Opalus claim. In addition, samples of vesicular basaltic andesites that contain cavities lined with thin coatings of zeolites and filled with agate are similar to rocks that host precious opal on the Klinker/ Ewer claims to the north and west of Vernon. The formation of precious opal on the Opalus 1 claim maybe associated with high level epithermal mineralization within the Trout Lake Graben.

A programme of detailed prospecting and geological mapping is required to determine the structural controls associated with both potential epithermal gold mineralization and precious opal mineralization after the exact location of the L.C.P. and claim boundaries of the Opalus 1 claim are located. VLF-EM and Magnetometer surveys over Marama formation rocks that are cut by intersecting northerly and easterly trending fault structures is recommended after detailed geological mapping. Trenching and overburden removal is recommended in those areas where significant concentrations of precious opal and other silica flooding occur.

Introduction

The purpose of this report has been to confirm the geological environment and attempt to locate the most favorable rocks that host precious opal and possibly epithermal gold silver mineralization. Precious opal was reported to have been found in a light brown thyolite breccia in an area that is now covered by the staking of the Opalus mineral claim by the owner C. Lynes. Several days were taken to determine the most direct access routes to the original discovery area in the vicinity of Laidlaw mountain and to collect representative rock samples that would help in identifying the most favourable precious opal host rocks as well as those that could host epithermal gold/silver mineralization. This report includes sample descriptions of those rocks collected by C. Lynes, 8. Callaghan and R.W. Yorke-Hardy from the Laidlaw mountain area; in the vicinity of the originally reported discovery area. 2

Location

The Opalus mineral claim is located approximately 10 kilometres west of Falls and is accessible by road approximately 23 kilometres from the airport in Penticton via Highway 97 travelling south to the turnoff to Vancouver west along Highway 3A. Access to the north portion of the claim can be made via the Marron Valley logging road that heads off 3A to the northwest, Access to the south of the claim can be made off Hwy 3A at a northerly trending turnoff at Twin Lakes that eventually connects to the Marron Ridge logging road access route located to the south and west of Laidlaw mountain.

Physiography and Vegetation

Portions of the claim at mid-elevations and south facing slopes are characterized by open ranch lands with bunch-grass, sagebrush and cactus grassland areas with open, mature forest stands of Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir and Aspen gullies that are representative of the lower Okanagan valley dry belt. Summits and north facing slopes are most densely forested and have in the past been selectively logged. The western portion of the claim lies within the boundaries of Wood Lot No. 1619 (see map No. 2A) north of Yellow Lake on Marron Ridge Forestry Road. A forest development plan has recently been submitted to the Ministry of Forests for review. This will potentially enhance access to this part of the claim and may provide new rock exposures.

Laidlaw Mountain is approximately 1509 metres in elevation and is cut by several north- easterly trending gulleys that eventually drain into Matron Lake and Aeneas Lake situated in the Marron valley to the north and east of the claim. Laidlaw Mountain is bounded to the west by Yellow Lake Creek that drains into Yellow Lake.

Property Description

The Opalus 1 is comprised of a single 20 unit four post mineral claim. The L.C.P. and boundaries for the claim were not found during fieldwork on the ground so that the exact location of the claim is not known. Only a small portion of the property boundary was actually located at the time of staking due to steep topography. The claim is plotted at a scale of I:31680 on map No. 082E/05E (See map 2). The L.C.P. is plotted on the west flank of Laidlaw Mountain. The reported location of the original discovery has been visited by C. Lynes in the company of M. Bordass from the Penticton Rock Club. The location of the original discovery site and trenched areas have been plotted on a 1:20,000 topography map by C. Lynes on map 082E.032. Its location suggests that the northern boundary of the daim is considerably farther south than its plotted location on the claim map. (See map 2A). This indicates that the northern boundaty of the claim does not adjoin the east/west boundary of Indian Reserve land to the north so that the actual claim boundary may in fact be located to the south of the presently mapped location.

Claim Name Units Record # Current Expiry Date

Opalus 1 March 12,200l

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The claim is owned by C. Lynes and it is presently under option to A. K. and R. W. Yorke-Hardy, of Vernon, B.C.

The expiry date shown herein reflects the recent application of work supported by the filing of this report describing the preliminary geological fieldwork conducted during the 1999~2000 season. The claim is recorded in the Osoyoos Mining Division.

History

The discovery of precious opal was initially reported to have been located in a road cut on the northeast side of Laidlaw mountain during the early 196tl’s by N. Vernon of Penticton, B.C. A drawing was made by N. L Barlee of a 4 lb specimen of opal in matrix that was on loan to the Penticton Museum from April 1966 to August 1975. The rest of the sample, that originally weighed 7 Ibs and interpreted to be hosted in a light brown rhyolitic breccia, was apparently made into jewellery.

The Opalus 1 was staked to cover the original discovery site on the northeast side of Laidlaw Mountain in 1996. Exploration on this claim has consisted of reconnaissance prospecting, hand trenching and sample collection which was completed in1997 by Minconsult Mineral Exploration Ltd. Several occurrences of chocolate brown to black and pink translucent opal that occur as breccia fillings and as seam opal were reportedly found at the site of the original discovery. One photograph depicts opal veins that appear to be structurally controlled along narrow sub - parallel fractures. No additional common or precious opal has been recorded in the area of the original discovery in the vicinity of Laidlaw mountain as a result of the work reported herein.

Early references to some of the gemstone locations in tertiary rocks of the southern interior of B.C., in particular, occurrences of opal, jasper and agate in the Marron Valley area; have been recorded by N. L.Barlee. The White Lake area has also been noted for its wal deposits, zeolites, periite, potash, gold and silver.

Areas in close proximity that may have included parts of the ground covered by the Opalus claim were blanket staked when interest in tertiary uraniferous conglomerates peaked before the uranium moratorium during the early 1970’s.

Other more recent mineral exploration activities in this region have included gold and silver mineralization east of at the Dusty Mac Mine at which was optioned by Esso Minerals Canada in 1985. Other major companies at that time included Lacana Mining Corporation, Riocanex Inc. who optioned Energex Minerals property to the southeast of the Dusty Mac and Seven Mile High Group Inc who optioned the Vault property near Okanagan Falls to lnw Gold in1989.

Interest then was on the gold silver bearing tertiary rocks similar to those in the Wenatchee gold area in Washington State. A large exploration drilling programme was canted out on the Vault property in 1999 to 1990 to determine the economic potential of epithermal gold silver mineralization located approximately 8 kilometres to the east of the Opalus 1 claim. Little work has been done in this area since then. Regional Geology

The regional geology of the Penticton Outlier was mapped by B. N. Church of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and produced initially on a preliminary map in 1979. Prior to that, a study to establish the stratigraphic succession, structural history and petrology of tertiary rocks of the White Lake map area was completed by him and described in Bulletin 61, 1973.

The Opalus claim lies to the west of the White Lake Basin that is comprised of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks that are interlayered with volcanic derived elastic sedimentary rocks.

The claim is bounded by northerly trending gravity faults and is situated within the Trout Lake Graben.

Eocene rhyolite and rhyodacite rocks of the Marama Formation are shown to unconformably overlie Marron Formation extrusive lavas of feldspar porphyry with minor pyroclastics in the area covered by the Opalus claim. The Marron formation rests unconformably on Triassic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Independance, Old Tom and Shoemaker formations and Jurassic granitic intrusions. The thin east dipping lavas are offset by northerly and northeasterly trending faults, which form a steplike, down dropped pattern.

Mineralization on the nearby Vault property is regionally structurally controlled by northeast and east trending faults and related fracturing in Lower Marama Formation breccias, agglommerate and tuffs. An indicated reserve of 152,OW tonnes of 14 grams per tonne gold hosted in quartz adularia veining situated to the north of the main area of mineralization on the Vault.

Property Geology

The Opalus 1 mineral claim is situated to the south and west of the Marron fault system, which follows the Marron Valley southeasterly to Marron Lake. The south boundary of the claim is north of a south-westerly branch of this fault that passes near Twin Lakes. Precious Opal on the Opalus is interpreted to be hosted in Tertiary rocks of the Trout Lake Graben that extends north-easterly to the northwest trending Man-on fault system. Most of The Opalus 1 is shown to be underlain by gentle east dipping Eocene rocks of the Marron and Marama Formations that are displaced by a series of northerly trending gravity faults. According to Church 1973, local vertical displacement is more than 1500 feet.

In the area explored by C. Lynes, the contact between the merouystalline andesitic lava and breccia of the Marron formation and the myodacite breccias of the Marama fomration are shown as a steep west dipping and northeast trending gravity fault located just to the west of the summit of Laidlaw mountain. The Park Rill member is shown to cover the claim area on the west side of this fault as well as the conformably underlying Nimpit lake member.

A variety of rock samples were taken by C. Lynes in the vicinity of the original precious opal discovery area and other diggings in July 1999 on the northeast side of Laidlaw mountain. The approximate sample locations are illustrated on map No.4 compiled from a sketch map by C. Lynes (See appendix). Most, if not all samples are believed to have been taken in areas of the daim that are shown to overlie the Marama or members of the Marron formation. According to M. Bordus, who is a member of the Penticton Rock Hound Club, the initial discovery of precious opal was hosted in a light brown rhyolite breccia. If so, the host rock may well have been from the Marama formation.

Several samples of Mamma volcanic breccias have undergone pervasive to variable silicification with some multistage silicification that includes grey to blue white chalcedonic quartz that ponds around fragments and also occurs as anastomosing veinlets up to 3mm in thickness, with white chalcedonic quartz in light tan colored tuffaceous sediments. Pyrite occurs in several samples as dusty fine-grained infillings along discontinuous hairline fractures in black siliceous matrix material of the breccias. These are similar to the Marama volcanic breccias that occur on the Vault property located approximately 8 kilometres to the east that host epithemIal gold/silver mineralization at or near the contact with Kitley Lake trachyandesites of the Man-on formation.

Samples of basaltic andesites, possibly from the Keams Creek member of the Matron are amygdaloidal and are shown to occur to the west and southwest of Laidlaw Mountain. It is not known by the writer if these samples were taken in place. Vesicles are infilled with a variety of zeolites, agate and one sample contains a single cavity with minor common white opal. They appear to be the most favourable host rocks for precious opal formation and are most similar to basaltic lahars that host precious opal to the north and west of Vernon on the Klinker/Ewer claims.

Samples and Descriptions

Rock samples collected from the Opalus by C. Lynes were taken along road cuts at and in close proximity to the original precious opal discovery between elevations of approximately 1250m to 1560m. The exact location of each individual sample described has not been mapped in detail. Samples described are labelled A to I (1999) on map No. 4.

Sample A: Massive to banded black and translucent chalcedonic brown chert cut by discontinuous grey quartz veinlets with minor ankeritic carbonate up to 2 mm. Locally highly fractured with subconchoidal fracture. Surfaces weathered, locally slickensided, hematized and possibly represents chert from Skaha basal chert breccia formation overtying the White Lake Formation.

Sample 8: Marama Lahar Highly siliceous insitu autobrecciated, clasts angular pale brown with moderately developed leisigang, variably highly siliceous supported in a black, grey, brown quartz matrix. No visible sulphides,

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Sample C: Brecciated with angular to subangular cfasts of ryhodacite-dacite up to 2 ems supported in black brown siliceous matrix. Clasts locally rimmed with rusty brown hematite, part infilled with grey chalcedonic quartz and carbonate. No visible sulphides.

Sample Cl: Brecciated lahar with variably bleached non siliceous clasts from 1 to 3 ems supported in a black siliceous sugary matrix. Fine grained sooty pyrite infills discontinuous hairline fractures in black matrix and part infilled cavities. Fracture surfaces hematized.

Sample 0: Bleached light tan lapilli tuffaceous sediment(?) cut by closely spaced and sub parallel anastomosing grey white quartz veinlets up to 3 mm that crosscut minor distention fractures up to 3mm. Grey white quartz ponds around bleached subrounded clasts. Trace pyrite occurs along quartz veinlets that also contain traces of green fluorite. Traces of pyrolusite coat fracture surfaces.

Sample E: Grey-black basaltic andesite, weathered, vesicular with uniformly sized and closely spaced cavities up to 3mm that are part infilled with grey to white quartz and various zeolites. Walls of other cavities lined with botryoidal zeolites, others with hematite.

Sample F: Rusty, bleached salmon pink rhyodacite, platy, laths in groundmass replaced with silica, calcite. Cavities lined with bottyiodal grey, green and white zeolites. No visible sulphides.

Sample G: Volcanic breccia non vesicular, with variably bleached angular to sub rounded non siliceous fragments supported in a siliceous black fine grained matrix Fracture surfaces coated with hematite. Fine grained dusty pyrite infills discontinuous hairline fractures and locally infills around fragments.

Sample H: Pervasively silicified light reddish brown to rusty coloured volcanic breccia (monolithologic) with subangular to subrounded bleached weathered clasts up to 3 ems supported in grey to blue white opalized to brown chalcedonic quartz matrix. Other cavities partially infilled with banded white opaque opaline quartz with translucent brown chalcedonic quartz. Other cavities lined with zeolite coating walls of cavities. Brecciated fragments rimmed with rusty red coatings.

Sample I: Grey to mamon red chert breccia with angular maroon chert fragments set in a black siliceous matrix that appears to be rebrecciated and healed with grey quartz and very fine grained pyrite, trace chalcopyrite.

Permission was granted by a landowner to acquire access to the north portion of the Opalus claim from the northeast by foot across grazing lands to bluff areas located to the south of the Marron Valley road and Indian Reserve lands. This area is thought to be on the claim based on its location determined by Lynes, see map No. 2. The boundaries of the claim were not physically located on the ground during the collection of samples and geological data. Several samples were taken in place from the rock 7 bluffs upslope of the grazing lands that lead to Laidlaw Mountain in the vicinity of the north claim boundary. These samples include, 099A. 099B, 099C, and 099D. Another sample was collected from a road cut on the north side of the Marron valley road that leads down to the north end of Aeneas Lake and includes sample 1 IC. Each of the samples was taken adjacent to the plotted north boundary of the Opalus claim.

Sample 099A: Sample taken in place from north facing bluffs of amygdaloidal grey, purple basaltic andesites. Fresh surfaces grey purple, weathered surfaces grey brown. Most vesicles coated on walls with an olive brown zeolite and ankeritic carbonate. One cavity infllled with crystal quartz. Discontinuous hairline fractures and local cavities intilled with grey white opaque chalcedonic quartz. Fracture surfaces locally slickensided and coated with hematite. Possibly Keam Creek member.

Sample 099B: Sample taken in place. fresh surfaces range from light grey to light rusty tan. Weathered surfaces dark red brown to grey. Massive, non vesicular with sugary fine grained groundmass with 1% scattered, weathered subhedral orthopyroxene? phenocrysts. Veining Jigsaw, up to 3mm, grey black chalcedonic quart? with hematite. No silicification, possibly a trachyandesite breccia of the Nimpit lake member.

Sample 099C: Sample taken in place Weathered surfaces grey to ankentic brown. Flow breccia contains grey ankentic altered subangular fragments up to 6 ems and minor trachytic fragments with laths replaced with zeolite? Other fragments of vesicular basaltic andesite exhibit zeolite coatings lining cavity walls. Possibly red carnelian with crystal quartz and trace amethyst locally infill veinlets and cavities. Fractures up to 5mm are infilled with grey opaque quartz chalcedony. Minor brecciated fractures up to 3mm contain bleached fragments supported in black siliceous matrix. No pervasive siliciflcation - possibly Keams Creek member.

Sample 099D: Taken at base of talus slope not in place, possibly vein breccia from Nimpit Lake member. Approximately 3cms in thickness. Consists of banded grey to white brown chalcedonic quart? with local brecciation. No visible sulphides.

Sample 1 1C: Weathered surfaces, gossany, rusty brown. Fresh surfaces grey to black, porphyrytic, with 5 % red brown altered anhedral pyroxene with trace olivine. Possibly pyroxene phonolite , Yellow Lake member.

A visit with C. Lynes, R.W. Yorke-Hardy and the writer on March 12/ 2000 involved an inspection along the mainly snow covered access road to the west of the Opalus 1 that leads in a north easterly direction on the west side of the Opalus claim boundary towards the area of opal mineralization on the northeast side of Mt Laidlaw.

An attempt was made to inspect the L.C.P. and examine talus and rock exposures on steep bluffs in an area thought to be on the claim as determined by C. Lynes. Access was made via the Marron Ridge Forestry logging route. 8

The L.C.P. and south boundary of the claim were not physically located on the ground during this visit and were advised by C. Lynes that only short segments of the line were marked due to steep topography. Further access to the claim from the southwest was restricted due to deep snow conditions.

Several samples were taken in place from south and east facing exposures above, on an easterly trending fork of the Marron Ridge forestry access route that is believed to be situated adjacent to the south and west of the Opalus claim boundary. Rock exposures represent a fairly extensive northeasterly striking sequence of crystalline andesites of the Marron formation. These lavas dip 15 to 20 degrees to the east. Samples were taken from exposed bluffs and include numbers 11 A, 11 B. El lA, Bll B, BllC and BIID.

Sample 11A: Fresh surfaces light sandy brown, weathered surfaces are dark brown and exhibit a platy habit. Groundmass is sugary, fine grained massive and non vesicular with trace subhedral weathered phenocrysts of pyroxene 7 trace magnetite, pyrolusite on weathered surfaces, no silicification- possibly Park Rill Member.

SamplellB: Sample of volcanic breccia taken on northside of roadcut at the east fork of the Marron Ridge logging road. Not in place. Fresh surfaces light grey, weathered surfaces rusty red brown. Contains bleached pale yellow brown anhedral altered phenocrysts. Hairline fractures ankeritic, cavities lined with euhedral quartz crystals. Groundmass grey with locally brecciated grey quartz. Dusty fine grained pyrite infills around breccia fragments. Matrix ankerkicwith trace magnetite.

Sample BilA: Vesicular balsaltic andesite fresh surfaces grey to rusty pink, cavities part infilled with white to transparent zeolite crystals and walls lined with an olive brown zeolite coating. Lath shaped crystals in groundmass also zeolitized. No silicification - good host for opal deposition - possibly Keams Creek Member.

Sample Bl IB: Sample taken in place. Consists of light grey massive to vesicular andesite. Vesicles part infilled with transparent zeolites and olive brown coatings lining cavity walls. No fractures , no silicification. Could be part of Keams Creek formation.

Sample Bl IC: Not in place, grab of dense massive black augite porphyry with 5% phenocrysts of pyroxene up to 3mm, trace biotite. Possibly a Yellow Lake porphyry member.

Sample BllD: Sample taken in place and consists of a light brown, massive non vesicular sugary textured andesitic lava with trace pyroxene and magnetite? 1 % subhedral phenocrysts weathered and altered to rusty brown coating - Sample taken is possibly from the Park Rill member of the Marron formation. A preliminary exptoration~ programme on the ground covered by the Opalus mineral claim has included an examination of rock samples collected from trenched areas and diggings in the vicinity of the initial discovery area, a review of the geological information and three field days of sample collection, gedogical investigation and searching to determine the location of the L.C.P. and boundaries of the claim. The location of the claim has not as yet been physically fixed on the ground. Little is known as to whether precious opal forms in commercial concentrations on ground covered by the Opalus claim. A large portion of the claim has not been explored in the area of north-easterly trending faults underlain by the Marama formation. A thorough evaluation of the potential for precious opal to occur on the Opalus mineral claim cannot be made until good examples of semi to crystal opal have been physically located on the Opalus mineral claim that are similar to a specimen initially displayed at the Penticton museum in 1966. An examination of samples taken from the claim indicate that the most favwrable host rocks are from vesicular basaltic andesites of the Marron that resemble the basaltic lahars and tuffs that host precious opal on the IUinkerEwer claims north and west of Vernon. B.C. Other favourable rocks include Marama rhyolites, lapilli tuffs and breccia. The Marama formation is shown to extend for at least 1.5 kilometres on the east side of Laidlaw Mountain.

Pervasively silicified breccia samples of the Marama formation collected from areas that may be in close proximity to northerly trending faults on the Opalus 1 are similar to the favourable host units in which epithermal gold/silver mineralization occurs on the Vault property to the east of the Opalus claim. Mineralization may be structurally controlled by major northerly and easterly trending faults and fracture systems in the lower formation Marama breccias at or near, the contact with Park Rill or Nimpit Lake trachyandesites of the Marron formation. These structures may also host precious opal associated with high level epithermal mineralization.

Recommendations

Both the L.C.P. and claim boundaries for the Opalus 1 must be located in the field before a detailed programme of prospecting and geological mapping can be commenced. Once the physical location of the claim is verified, it is recommended that a detailed study of the original discovery area be done to determine its location relative to the claim boundaries and to~determine whether there are concentrations of common and/or precious opal at or close to surface.

Prior to this, further details of the initiat discovery should be obtained by wntacting the museum in Pent&on and by contacting members of the Penticton Rock Club who may be familiar with this discovery of precious opal. If significant opal concentrations are found at the original site then, detailed mapping along surveyed grid lines over those areas with the greatest concentration of wmmon opal and agate is recommended to determine the main structural controls for opal formation that may be related to intersecting northerly and easterly trending faults and related parallel fracture sets. Removal of overburden and trenching is also recommended in areas that are found to have higher concentrations of opal associated with intersecting structures at lower depths to locate additional concentrations of precious opal.

A geochemical soil survey to detemrine the potential for gold and silver mineralization using ICP for 32 elements including the trace elements antimony and arsenic along surveyed grid lines over Marama formation rocks that are cut by intersecting fault structures should be carried out.

VI-F-EM and magnetometer surveys should be conducted to assist in locating and mapping fault structures and changes in lithology. 11

Barlee, N.L.(date unknown) Prospectors and Collectors Guide. Page 25.

Church, B.N. (1973) Geology of the White Lake Basin. Bulletin 61 British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources.

Lynes, C &, Bissett+T (1997). Opalus 1 Mineral claim. Internal Report

BCDMRP Minfile Report Numbers 062ESW173. 082ESW078. Revised: 96/11/30 12

COST STATEMENT

OPALUS PROJECT

PR0GRAh-l COST SUMMARY:

Project Supervision/Management: Y-H Technical Services Ltd. Managerflechnologist $3501 man day - 3 days-- $1,050

Geological Y-H Technical Services Ltd. Geologist $3501 man day - 9 days-- $3,150 Fieldwork, report preparation, writing and drafting

Technical Personnel and Assistants: C. Lynes: Owner - prospecting, digging - 2 day- $ 500 P. Lynes: Assistant- prospecting, digging - 1 day- $ 125

OTHER EXPENSES: Y-H Technical Services Ltd. Room & Board @ $75/man day X 6 man days --- $ 450

Vehicle costs - (daily charge includes fuel) - 1-4X4 vehicles @ $751 day X 4 days - $ 300

Field supplies $ 25

Rental of Misc. tools ---- $ 75

Report Typing and Printing $300

Total Value of Work Performed TOTAL - $5,975 13

Statement of Qualifications

I, Brian Callaghan reside at 989 Curtis Road, . B.C.

I am presently self employed as a Geological Consultant and have practiced my profession as a geologist for twenty years since graduation from Brandon University, Manitoba with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology.

My work has included geological mapping, prospecting and report preparation related to exploration for opal on various properties in the Pinaus Lake region south to Okanagan Lake in South Central British Columbia over the last seven years.

I am also familiar with the geology of the White Lake Basin region having worked as a geologist for lnco Gold during their drilling programme on the Vault property in the late 1980’s.

I am presently under contract with Y-H Technical Services Ltd. of Vernon B.C. and have examined and provided the rock sample descriptions in this report.

I have no interests, direct or indirect, in the Opalus property or Y-H Technical Services Ltd.

Sincerely,

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