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Trillium North Minerals Ltd. Burchell Lake Area Claims Report on the May 2009 Geology and Sampling Program Shebandowan Greenstone Belt Burchell Lake Area Thunder Bay Mining District Ontario, Canada NTS 52 B/10 Mike Koziol, P. Geo., P. Eng. June 4, 2009 SUMMARY This report describes the results of the May 2009 geology and sampling programs completed on claims owned by Trillium North Minerals Ltd in the Burchell Lake Area, approximately 105 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The field work was completed from May 1 to May 7, 2009. The objectives of the program were to determine in the mafic intrusive rocks have potential to host PGE mineralization in three selected areas of the property. The program succeeded in locating varitextured gabbro and areas of brecciated gabbro with high tenor PGE values in Area 1. The anorthositic rocks in Area 3 have very similar textures in all of the outcrops examined but only some have anomalous PGE’s. Additional exploration is required to determine if igneous layering can be located in these anorthosites as well as areas of higher sulphide content in Area 3. No PGE enrichment was detected in the gabbroic rocks examined in the centre of claim 3001508. One gold anomaly was detected in sheared anorthosite in Area 3. The gold is associated with pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization within a northeast striking shear. Based on the results obtained from this short program, additional mapping, prospecting and power washing is recommended to better define Anomaly 1 in claim 1064687. Additional mapping and prospecting are recommended in Area 3 in claims 3001508 and 3001510 to better define the PGE and gold anomalies. TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Location, Access and Infrastructure 1 1.2 Property Description and Ownership 4 1.3 Previous Work 4 1.4 Purpose of the 2007 Program 5 2.0 GEOLOGY 5 3.0 RESULTS 6 3.1 Logistics 6 3.2 Results and Discussion 6 4.0 CONCLUSIONS 11 5.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 11 6.0 REFERENCES 11 7.0 CERTIFICATE 12 FIGURES Figure 1 Location Map 2 Figure 2 Claim Map 3 Figure 3 Au and Pt+Pd Anomalies 10 TABLES Table 1 Claims Covered by Current Report 4 Table 2 Table of Anomalous Values 9 PHOTOS Photo 1 Silicified mafic flow, Area 1, note pillows 8 Photo 2 Silicified mafic flows, Area 1, note cherty appearance 8 Photo 3 Anorthosite in Area 3, note coarse plagioclase crystals 9 Photo 4 Close up of Anorthosite in Area 3 9 APPENDICES APPENDIX A Sample Descriptions and Analytical Certificates MAPS Map 1 May 2009 Geology, Traverses and Sample Locations scale 1: 5000 1.0 INTRODUCTION This report describes the results of the May 2009 geology and sampling programs completed on claims owned by Trillium North Minerals Ltd in the Burchell Lake area. The field work was completed from May 1 to May 7, 2009. 1.1 Location, Access and Infrastructure Trillium’s Burchell Lake property is located near the village of Kashabowie in the Burchell Lake area, approximately 105 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario, via Trans- Canada Highway 11/17 and then Highway 11. Access to the property is by Secondary Highway 802 which leads south from Highway 11, two kilometres west of Kashabowie and links to a major forestry road. The northern claims straddle these two roads. The southern claims are accessed by the major logging road. Several abandoned logging roads traverse the property and can be easily travelled by ATV. The logging roads in the southern claims are in excellent condition but truck access is restricted because the culvert crossing the creek near the southeast boundary of claim 3001508 was removed. Skilled labour, mining and specialized exploration services and equipment are readily available from the City of Thunder Bay. General labour, prospectors and heavy machinery contractors are available from the nearby villages of Kashabowie, Shebandowan, Shabaqua Corner, as well as the town of Atikokan. Summer and fall accommodations are available from several fishing and hunting lodges. Year round accommodations are available in the nearby communities of Shabaqua Corner and Kakabeka Falls, respectively 30 and 60 minutes drive from the property. Hydro-electric power is available from a larger hydro-electric line only a few kilometres north, along Highway # 11. The terrain in the project area consists of rolling hills with a relief rarely surpassing 20 m. The overburden on these hills is relatively thin, generally ranging 1 to 3 m in depth and consists of sandy, locally boulder laden till. The low land areas are usually wet with swampy muskeg cover. Large portions of the project area have been logged several years ago and vegetation in the elevated terrains now consists of a thick re-growth of spruce, fir, and pines. Sachigo ~Lake Big Trout Lake ~ Winisk o Sandy Lake Lake 53 ~ North Caribou Lake &, ~ Attowopiskat Lake ~ Trout Lak.: Red Lake Q Ogokl & Lake Sioux Onomon Lookout Lake Kenora Dryden 72 Tri ll ium-Burche ll Lake Geraldton Property Beardmore Monitouwadge • ,.. Marathon Hemla Thunder Bay LAKE SUPERIOR Scale Tri ll ium North Minerals Ltd. Tri ll ium-Burchell Lake Property o 50 100 150 200 Thunder Bay Area, Northwestern Ontario Location Map Km Figure 1 m co o o o o (T'J o 5388000N 1242602 5386000N 5385000N 5385000N CJ ~ ____~5~0~Om~ ____~1km Scale - 1: 25000 NAD83 UTM zone 15 Trillium North Minerals Ltd. Trillium Burchell Lake Property m co m o ~ Claim Map o o o o o o Figure 2 (T'J (T'J 1.2 Property Description and Ownership The five contiguous claims that are the subject of this report are owned 100% by Trillium North Minerals Ltd. Together they total 42 claim units covering 672 hectares (see Table 1 and Figure 2). TABLE 1 CLAIMS COVERED BY CURRENT REPORT Township Claim Units Record Due Date Number Date (yr/m/d) (yr/m/d) Burchell Lake 1064687 6 2001/08/02 2009/08/02 Burchell Lake 1242511 2 2001/12/18 2009/12/18 Burchell Lake 1242602 14 2001/06/18 2009/06/18 Burchell Lake 3001508 11 2002/05/15 2010/05/15 Burchell Lake 3001510 9 2002/05/15 2010/05/15 Total Area 672 ha 42 The claims on which work was completed for this report are 1064687, 3001508 and 3001510. 1.3 Previous Work Exploration work in the Burchell Lake area dates back to the 1870’s when the North Coldstream Mines Cu-Au-Ag deposit was discovered. Intermittent mining started in 1906, but most of the production occurred from 1960 to 1967 when the mine was operated by Noranda. In total, 102 million pounds of copper, 440,000 ounces of silver and 22,000 ounces of gold were produced from 2.75 million tons of ore (Osmani, 1997). The North Coldstream Mine is located only 4.5km southwest from claim 1064687. In the late 1980’s Noranda discovered the East Coldstream gold deposit only 3km south- southwest of this claim. The deposit is reported to contain historical gold resources of 5.1 million tonnes averaging 1.4 g/t gold. The current property has been subject to periodic exploration since the discovery of the Coldstream deposits including several generations of prospecting, airborne and ground geophysical work, geological mapping and limited diamond drilling. The most recent work was completed by Everett Resources Ltd in 2007-08 as part of an option agreement entered into with Canadian Golden Dragon (now Trillium North Minerals Ltd.). Their work included IP coverage over claims 1064687 and 1242511 as well as drilling of three holes near the east end of 1064687. Other drilling in the northern claims includes three holes by New Jack Uranium Mines in 1956-57 and two holes by Todd Sanders in 1990. Exploration work in the southern claims dates back to the 1950’s and includes geological mapping and prospecting by Jellicoe Mines Ltd in the 1950’s and work by Noranda on the Hicks Option in the mid 1980’s. The Hicks gold showing is located just off-property 4 north of claim 3001508 and was trenched and drilled with two holes by Noranda in 1986 (see Map 1). 1.4 Purpose of the 2009 Programs The objectives of the May 2009 program were to (1) examine selected areas of gabbro and anorthosite gabbro to determine the PGE prospectivity of the intrusions and (2) establish if these intrusion display high PGE tenors. Special emphasis was added to the large area of anorthosite gabbro mapped by Osmani (1997) in claims 3001508 and 3001510. 2.0 GEOLOGY The property is located in the Archean age Shebandowan greenstone belt in the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Most recent geological mapping of the property and surrounding areas was published for the Ontario Geological Survey by Osmani et al., (1995) and Osmani (1997) on a scale of 1 to 20,000. The most prominent geological features on the property include sequences of mafic volcanic rock made up of flows and associated fragmental units. These are cut by suites of mafic to ultramafic dykes and sills. The current program focused on some of these mafic intrusive rocks, specifically in the three areas shown on Map 1. Area 1 – Claim 1064687 The gabbro in Area 1 is subdivided into a (1) massive, medium grained, equigranular, plagioclase-amphibole rock at the northwest end of claim 1064687 and (2) locally brecciated and silicified rock in the centre of the claim near the junction of the two major roads. Further east from the junction, the gabbro is varitextured. Locally the brecciated gabbro contains up to 2% disseminated sulphides, mainly pyrrhotite and pyrite.