GEOCHEMICAL REPORT ON THE LONG B CLAIMS TEXADA ISLAND NANAIMO MINING DIVISION 92F/9W, 49' 37', 124" 17' BY J.T. SHEARER, M.Sc. for cj CARIB00 GOLD CORPORATION P.O. BOX 4237, QUESNEL, B.C. V2J 353 OWNERS: E.T. Johanson, R.E. Mickle, J.E. Newman Field work completed between April 15 and April 27, 1985 May 8, 1985 CONTENTS Page LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES i SUMMARY ii INTRODUCTION 1 CLAIM STATUS AND ACCESS 2 FIELD PROCEDURES 3 GEOLOGY 3 MINERALIZATION 5 GEOCHEMISTRY 6 cs CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 7 REFERENCES 10 APPENDIX I List of Personnel and Dates Worked 11 APPENDIX I1 Statement of Qualifications 12 APPENDIX I11 Statement of Costs 13 APPENDIX IV Analytical Procedures and Gold 15 Hi stogr am APPENDIX V Geochemical Assay Certificates 17 and Rock Description Sheets APPENDIX VI British Columbia Department of Mines 30 G. Forms, Long B. Claims APPENDIX VI1 List of Suppliers, Texada Island 33 APPENDIX VI11 Estimate of Costs for Future Exploration 34 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES Following Page FIGURE 1 LOCATION MAP 1 2 ACCESS MAP 1 :125,000 2 3 CLAIM MAP 1 :50,000 2 4 TOPOGRAPHIC MAP 1 :50,000 2 5 REGIONAL GEOLOGY 1:250,000 3 o 6 DETAfL, SOUTHEAST 1 :2,500 (fold out) 4 AREA 7 DETAIL, UPPER CREEK 5 AREA 1:1,000 (fold out) 8 SOIL PROFILE 1 1 :10 (fold out) 6 9 SOIL PROFILE 2 1 :10 (fold out) 7 10 SOIL GRID, LONG 1 :2,500 (in B CLAIM pocket ) TABLES TABLE 1 LIST OF CLAIMS 2 ii SUMMARY 1. Soil sampling on the Long B Claims, Texada Island, was carried out between April 15 and April 27, 1985. The claims are owned by E. Johanson, R. Mickle and J.E. Newman. Some of the area has undergone juvenile forest spacing. 2. Previous work includes old trenches and pits on irregular chalcopyrite - bearing silicified zones and quartz veins. Recent surveys conducted by the present owners include SP, and limited soil sampling. Several small pits were blasted out for assessment purposes in 1985. 3. A total of 115 soil samples and 5 rock geochem samples were taken during the examination. Results indicate anomalous gold in soils in the Southeast Areas and along the Upper Creek showings. Soil profiles in the c; Southeast -Zone show highly anomalous conditions increasing with depth to definite cut-offs. The southern contact between the intrusive and volcanics is characterized by a high gold in soil content and was covered by detail fill-in soil samples in 1985. 4. Rock samples across short widths (less than 3Ocm) have previously assayed up to 0.59 oz/ton gold in copper-rich sections. Gold values attain 0.362 oz/ton in the present chip sampling over 30 to 60cm. 5. The claims are underlain by a granodiorite to quartz diorite stock in contact with altered Karmutsen Formation mafic-rich volcanics. Chlorite and epidote alteration is common near the intrusive contact. The area is within a weak porphyry copper system and some of the precious metal values could be related to peripherial zoning of this extensive mineralizing event. 6. Anomalous gold values in soil samples, SP, magnetics and VLF EM suggest a relatively narrow linear zone trending 288", marked by silicified and pyritized rocks in the Southeast Area. Discontinuous exposure of siliceous zones in the Upper Creek Area indicates a narrow mineralized trend nearly perpendicular to the cj Southeast linear. The higher gold-in-soils near the south intrusive-volcanic contact found in 1981 were checked by detail follow-up sampling in 1985. Highly anomalous areas should be exposed by hand trenching and may warrant backhoe trenching. INTRODUCTION Between April 15 and April 27, 1985, the Long Beach Claim Group, Texada Island, was examined. A total of 5 rock chips and 115 soil samples were collected and delivered to Acme Analytical Labs. The property is underlain by a composite quartz diorite to granodiorite stock in contact with altered Karmutsen Formation mafic volcanics. The area has been mapped by R.G. McConnell in 1908 and 1909 at 1:126,720. J. Muller has included Texada Island in his work on Vancouver Island which is compiled as Geological Survey of Canada Open File 463. Extensive prospecting was conducted throughout Texada Island beginning in the 1870’s and particularly between 1890 and 1910. The first recorded work in the Long Beach Area is in 1950 by D.W. Cochran who excavated the Upper Creek trenches (Minister of Mines 1950, pages 178 - 180). LI2 A large claim block was located by R. Samuelson and R. Mickle in late 1969 and optioned to Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd. (Wares 1971). Part of this old property encompasses the present Long B Claims and was referred to as the Airstrip Grid. Work by present owners included limited SP, magnet- ometer and soil sampling. Small hand pits have been blasted into areas of anomalous SP values. Several small high grade copper-gold mines operated in . the early 1900’s near Vananda. The Marble Bay Mine produced about 314,000 tons of ore for a total of 50,000 oz. of gold. The main shaft reached a depth of 1,200 feet. Recently, Texada Iron Mines produced copper-iron con- centrate from a magnetite skarn deposit from between 1952 and 1976, yielding, approximately, from 20 million tons of ore averaging 33% iron, a total of 25,000 02. of gold. Currently there is a substantial output of limestone for cement and other uses by Lafarge, Ideal, Domtar and Imperial . In late 1984, spectacular specimens of coarse gold from a narrow quartz vein on the Holly Crown grant near Kirk Lake, were discovered in place. This claim was optioned to Northair Mines Ltd. in January 1985 and a diamond drill u program was completed in early May 1985. Results are to be released shortly. Many new claims have been located recently. 2 - *.- W*T COAST'''+ TRAiL ---.; CARIBOO GOLD +ORPOWTION W*~Y LONG B CLAIM GROU~ ises along the Pacific Coast are #: Royal Viking Lines; Sitmar LOCATION MAP aska Marine Transportation; I iisesiP & 0; Holland American dian Pacific Steamships; Pac- DATE: APRIL 6 1981 /MAY fOB5 8s; Black Sea Shipping CO.; Of YM nbia Ferry Corporation. MA TIC PAR NTS: 92 F/SW I I FfGURE I -2- Considerable recent preliminary exploration effort has been concentrated on Texada Island by Aquarius-Longbar Minerals, Canada Cement Lafarge, Cambrian Explorations (near Long B), Kitimat Copper, Texada Lime, Ideal Basic Industries, Shima Resources and Arron Mining (near Long B), Bethex and numerous individuals. CLAIM STATUS AND ACCESS The Long B Claim Group is composed of the following modified grid claims as illustrated in Figure 3: TABLE 1 LIST OF CLAIMS Name Units Record No. Date Recorded* Owner Long B21 20 1689 (4) April 9, 1984 E.T. Johanson Long B24 4 1750 (5) May 1, 1984 J.E. Newman Long B25 20 - 1751 (5) May 1, 1984 J.E. Newman ARL 4 2104 (4) April 9, 1985 R.E. Mickle * sufficient assessment has been filed with this report and previously to bring the expiry date to 1986. The claims are situated around the Cheekye-Dunsmuir high voltage transmission line that is under Mineral Reserve o/c 574 79:03:01 subject to conditions. Access is by improved hydro road to the transmission line area and then by old logging roads into the property as shown in Figures 2 and 4. The main showings are 19 km southeast of the Gillies Bay Airstrip. The old roads are passable with difficulty by two wheel drive vehicle but a 4 x 4 is advisable. Parts of the claim group have undergone juvenile forest spacing and future line cutting will be time consuming. (1 Inch = 2 Miles approximately) ,165 1 0 2 4 HU 1 4 1 r pI HdU I 8.CARIBOO GOLD CORPORATION Magnetic Declination approximately 23‘12’ East at centre of map. 1976 Decreasing approximately 3’annually 1 Kilometre = 0 6214 Miles Universal Transverse Mercator Projection Fq.n In DETAIL LOCATION MAP DRAWN BY JS DATE APRIL 6 1981 /MAY IS85 15’ M92F/9Wi , 0 1- 2 Mikr 1 CARIB00 GOLD. 7CORPORATION UNLESS VERIFIED OR tuwEwo. TML w manow 01 A LONG 0 CLAIMsGROUP i3 LEGAL CORNER POST IS -0 ON THE LOCATOR’S SKETQC FOR FUR- TMER INfORNATIo(I, AWLV TO THE OFFIQ Of TIUi MINING #VISION k COWCERNER I CLAIM MAP DATE OF MICROFILM: 85.04~-,ll DRAWN BI JS DATE APRIL t3 1-1 /MAYISB~ NTS 92F/9W FIGURE ~- 3 .ld cs LONG 6 CLAIM GROUP TOPOGRAPHIC MAP DRAWN BY JS DATE APRIL 6 1981 /MAY 1985 -3- FIELD PROCEDURES The soil lines were run with a Silva compass and roughly measured for slope corrections by a Belt Chain calibrated in meters for which the manufacturer claims a 0.196 accuracy. A baseline was established in 1985 starting at the 1981 sample site of 150w + 270s. The baseline was cut out with a chainsaw and trends 250'. Lines are 50m apart trending 160"and are marked by many orange flags with stations in numbered blue flagging. Soil samples were taken at 10m intervals from the B horizon at depths ranging between 40 and 90cm by a grubhoe and shovel. Samples were put in waterproof Kraft bags and delivered to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd., 852 E. Hastings St., Vancouver. Standard soil data sheets were filled out in the field noting such items as sample number, location, depth, horizon, colour, particle size, 96 organics, pH, slope, vegetation and additional remarks. Analytical procedures are outlined in Appendix IV. Rock samples were taken as continuous chips over short intervals.