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NFLD/3177

Work Assessment Report

On

Prospecting, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geology Research / Reviews, Report &

Map Compilations

To Satisfy

1st year expenditures for Mineral Licenses 18925M, 19026M & 19060M

Baie Verte Property

Baie Verte Peninsula

Newfoundland

NTS Map Sheet 12H/16

Prepared by

Victor A. French, P. Geo

And

Crystal Mugford

V.A. French Geological Consultants Inc.

P. O. Box 385

Clarke’s Beach, NL

A0A 1W0

Work Completed: June 2012

Total Expenditures: $1,681.76 (18925M), $1,235.28 (19026M) & $1,019.92 (19060M)

Number of Claims: 17

June 28, 2012

Table of Contents

1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................1

2.0 Location and Access

2.1 Location ..........................................................................................................1

2.2 Accessibility ....................................................................................................3

3.0 License Description ....................................................................................................4

4.0 Physiography ..............................................................................................................4

5.0 History of Land Tenure and Exploration ....................................................................6

6.0 Regional & Property Geology and Mineralization ...................................................13

7.0 Work Description & Expenditures............................................................................18

8.0 References .................................................................................................................28

List of Figures

Figure 1 – Property Location Map .................................................................................... 2

Figure 2 – Claims Location Map ...................................................................................... 5

Figure 3 – Location of gold and other mineral occurrences, Goldenville area .................7

Figure 4 – Geology Map of Newfoundland showing Regional Geology .......................14

Figure 5 – Geology Map .................................................................................................16

Figure 6 – 2008 GSC Geology........................................................................................19

Figure 7 – Total Magnetic Field and Stog’ger Tight ......................................................25

List of Plates

Plate 1 – Gravel section along one of the woods roads .................................................. 20

Plate 2 – Looking into the Rambler Block… along the Goldenville Horizon ................ 20

Plate 3 – Close up of less than 30 cm section of exposed Goldenville Iron Formation .21

Plate 4 – Looking north onto the treed slope into Green Cove .......................................23

List of Appendices

Appendix I ........................................................ Mineral Rights Database System Report

Appendix II ............... Contoured Shaded Geochemistry Maps of Lake Sediment Values

Appendix III ..................................................................................................... Digital File

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1.0 Introduction

This assessment work report details the 1st year expenditures incurred on Mineral

Licenses 18925M, 19026M & 19060M registered to Victor A. French and forming a part

of the Baie Verte Property (BVP). The work completed during the report period includes

library and geoscan research, preliminary prospecting, review of geophysics data and

reporting by Greg Woodland, B.Sc. together with compilations of figures, maps and

report.

License 18925M covers a portion of the Goldenville Mine Horizon and is situated

immediately north of the community of Ming’s Bight, whereas licenses 19026M &

19060M are contiguous blocks located immediately west of the Ming’s Bight road with

the north boundary of 19026M being approx.. 4 kms south – southwest of 18925M.

The report and expenditures are being submitted to satisfy the 1st year assessment

requirements of $1,200.00, $1,200.00 and $1,000.00 respectively for 18925M, 19026M

& 19060M, stipulated on the Mineral Rights Database System Reports dated June 12,

2012 (Appendix I).

2.0 Location and Accessibility

2.1 Location

The BVP is located in the northeast quadrant of 1:50,000 National Topographic

Series Map Sheet, 12H/16 – Baie Verte (Figure 1). This map sheet covers a major

section of the Baie Verte Peninsula (also referred to as the Burlington Peninsula), the

largest peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along the north coast of Newfoundland,

east of the Northern Peninsula. The closest community is the outport town of Ming’s

Bight 2.5 kilometres east, with the mining town of Baie Verte 8 kilometres southwest

situated along the west shoreline of the large saltwater inlet of Baie Verte which forms

the west side of the peninsula.

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2.2 Access

License 18925M, hereinafter labeled the Goldenville Block (GB) can be accessed

via game trails and foot trails, intermingled with old, disused tractor and skidder roads

established during logging operations in the area during the last century. Licenses

19026M & 19060M, hereinafter labeled the Rambler Block (RB) are easily accessed off

the Ming’s Bight paved highway Route 418, which skirts within 300 metres of the east

boundary of License 19026M. Foot trails and recent logging in this area between the

paved highway and license 19060M permit foot traversing into the RB.

Paved Highway # 418 leading to the coastal community of Ming’s Bight is the

main road access in the area. This access road intersects the La Scie paved highway

Route 414, 2.5 kms south of the RB and in turn connects with Route 410, 15 kms west

and the main paved highway connecting the mining town of Baie Verte with the Trans-

Canada Highway. This network of paved roads allows easy access into the property

areas, approximately 15-20 minutes driving time from Baie Verte.

The region is a site of protracted mineral exploration, principally for gold, in the

area of the historical Goldenville Mine dating back to the early 1900’s and for base

metals and gold at the historical Rambler Mining Camp immediately south of the RB.

Many of the old trails allowing foot traverses in both GB and RB were established during

earlier exploration. Mineral exploration, also focused on gold, has been extensively

carried out within the region during the past 40 years. This work in the areas of the Pine

Cove producing gold mine, Stog’ger Tight Gold Deposit and the Corkscrew – Big Bear

Gold Prospects, have resulted in a more extensive network of trails and gravel roads.

Later logging activities in the latter half of the last century also resulted in a network of

old trails established for tractor and wood harvester roads, which although clogged with

dense alder still can be followed for foot traversing.

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3.0 License Description

Mineral Licenses 18925M (the GB area), 19026M & 19060M (the RB area)

respectively contains 6, 6 & 5 mapped staked, full sized mining claims which form

rectangular shaped blocks outline in blue on Figure 2. The northeast corner of the GB is

fixed at UTM Coordinates 5539000 N – 569000 E of Zone 21, NAD 27 and the 6 claims

cover a 1.5 x 1 km rectangle comprising 152.43 hectares. The GB is totally encompassed

by Mineral Licenses held by other stakeholders. The northeast corner of the RB is fixed

at 5534000 N – 565500 E of Zone 21, NAD 27 being the northeast corner of License

19026M and combined with license 19060M contiguous along the west boundary forms

an inverted L shaped rectangle of 11 claims covering 279.45 hectares. The RB is also

encompassed by Mineral Licenses held by other stakeholders which includes License

11507M to the southeast registered to V.A. French Geological Consultants Inc. and

owned by Victor A. French, principal owner.

4.0 Physiography

The license areas comprising the Baie Verte Property (BVP) are characterized by

a widespread, dense growth of white and black spruce, and balsam fir, which covers the

hilly terrain typical of this area. Most hills are rounded and with moderate relief rarely

exceeding 150 metres. Sections of the area covered by the property and surrounding

licenses are clogged with a dense growth of young fir and spruce, which is profusely

growing, and in certain areas filling in windfall. (Stands of softwood forest along a ridge

area southwest of the RB has been recently logged).

The region west of Ming’s Bight and the paved highway typically contains many

small ponds generally less than 1 km in length and displaying a somewhat radial pattern

of drainage west into the long inlet of Baie Verte and east into the inlet at which Ming’s

Bight is situated in the south end of this open arm into Notre Dame Bay. Many of these

ponds drain directly into the inlets along small to medium sized, continuous streams

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which although cannot be regarded as major streams, can be classified as first order

streams, being the principal drainage routes.

Recent surface investigations during geology and prospecting traverses show a

low frequency of outcrop with isolated exposure within the wooded areas and an equally

low frequency of outcrops observed along the streams and shorelines of ponds that were

viewed during the field visits.

5.0 History of Land Tenure and Exploration

Licenses 18925M, 19026M & 19060M were respectively issued to Victor A.

French on May 5, 2011, May 26, 2011 & June 3, 2011, recorded at the Mineral Claims

Recorders Office Department of Natural Resources, 50 Elizabeth Avenue, St. John’s, NL.

The BVP is located in an area of widespread gold occurrences, which are

concentrated within the area forming the peninsula between the Baie Verte and Mings

Bight Inlets (Figure 3). Several of these gold occurrences are covered by License

18925M and these occurrences along with a trend of occurrences west to the shores of

Baie Verte may be inferred to be spatially related to what is labeled “the Goldenville

Horizon” in this report and shown on Figure 3. The Goldenville Mine, a small gold

mine, the site of several small shafts which in the early 1900’s produced 153 oz of gold,

is situated at and immediately south of the southwest corner of 18925M (referencing the

Government Mineral Occurrence Database System – MODS – the North Shaft of this

historical mine is at the southwest corner.

This gold producer sits on a trend (referencing MODS) of approximately 1 dozen

gold occurrences which form a distinct east – west zone of gold (and pyrite) occurrences.

During the past century stakeholders of record dating back to the early 1900’s owned the

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present license area intermittently. The Bishop and Harvey Fee Simple Grant typical of

mining grants issued during the 19th

and 20th

centuries to mining interests covered the

mine site and surrounding area. These grants were eventually returned to the Crown

pursuant to legislation enacted by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador late in

the last century. Mineral Lands previously controlled by various companies and

individuals covered either a portion or all of the GB referencing records on file at the

Department of Natural Resources.

During the last quarter of the 20th

century several discoveries of significant gold

mineralization have been reported in the region and have been the target for detailed

work programs resulting in the identification of gold only deposits containing proven

reserves and inferred resources. The 2 most important include the Pine Cove Gold

Deposit now being mined by Anaconda Gold and the Stog’ger Tight Gold Deposit now

held by Tenacity Gold Mining. The past producing base metals deposits at the Rambler

Camp, immediately south and contiguous with the RB section of the BVP also produced

significant by-product gold, particularly in the Ming Deposit which is now being

developed by Rambler Metals & Mining for renewed copper – gold production. (Early

reports from RM & M confirm strong gold production from high grade gold zones).

Attention to the area appears to have been initiated with the discovery of the

“Goldenville Mine” in the early 1900’s. This discovery was within the old Fee Simple

Mining Grant to Bishop and Harvey and over a period of several years to 1906 produced

153 ounces of gold bullion. This small mine until the 1980’s was one of only two

primary gold producers in Newfoundland and Labrador. Libby (1904) briefly reported

on the mining and milling of the first ore shipment by the Goldenville Mining Co.

Although the Ming’s Bight-Baie Verte area and the Baie Verte Peninsula record

some of the earliest and most extensive exploration and mining activities in insular

Newfoundland (and eastern Canada) dating back to the mid 1800’s (with the discovery of

the Terra Nova Copper Deposits at Baie Verte), there is a somewhat meager record of

activities in this area from 1906 up to the late 1970’s. The record of exploration was also

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noted by Evans and Wells (1998) who observed “although the Baie Verte Peninsula has

the highest concentration of gold occurrences of any area in Newfoundland that despite

more than 100 years of continuous mining activity no systematic exploration for gold

mineralization was conducted on the peninsula prior to 1984”.

Over the past 44 years, advanced exploration and development work has been

restricted to several significant prospects with the closest activities recorded at the

Corkscrew and Big Bear Prospects immediately north of the Pine Cove Mine and approx.

3 kms southwest of the GB, and 2 kms northwest of the RB. The advanced gold prospect

at Deer Cove, 1.5 kms to the northeast of the GB was extensively explored and partially

developed by Noranda Exploration in the 1980’s.

Licenses 19026M & 19060M comprising the RB section of the property abuts

north and west onto license 11507M, registered to V. A. French Geological Consultants

Inc. and labeled the Rambler North Property. The Rambler North is contiguous along its

south boundary with the Rambler Metals property now the site of renewed base metals

and gold production from the underground Ming Mine. (This property was acquired

during a claim staking rush in 2005). The reactivated Ming Deposit was one of 2 major

deposits comprising the 4 deposits making up the Rambler Mining Camp which extends

for several kms south and crosses the La Scie Highway south to the Main and East Zone

Deposits. The Ming and Ming West Deposits are located north of the La Scie Highway

and in a zone of mineralization which appears to be plunging, raking or dipping north to

the Rambler North Property.

The historical Rambler Mining Camp discovered during the first quarter of the

20th

century was originally regarded as a precious metals (gold) deposit, rather than a

copper ± zinc, base metals deposit, with copper being the principal commodity. The

most significant mining or development activities in the area include the present

producing Gold Mine at Pine Cove and the Stog’ger Tight deposit, a small past gold

producer, and presently under investigation.

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With the exception of work related to these advanced exploration projects and

past & present gold producers, most of the work reported covers regional surveys with

major contributions summarized below:

1935: A.K,. Snelgrove reported on the gold deposits in insular Newfoundland detailing

the Goldenville Mine area and the Goldenville Iron Formation.

1944: E.R. Rose reported on field mapping in the Rambler-Ming’s Bight area, which was

a preliminary report to a major thesis compilation in progress at Queen’s University.

1945: D.M. Baird summarized the geology of the Mineral Deposits in the Ming’s Bight

(and Pacquet) area.

1947: K.de P. Watson presented a report on the geology and setting of mineral deposits in

the Baie Verte-Ming’s Bight area, which detailed various prospects such as the

Goldenville, and Mud Pond Prospects situated in the immediate area of the Big Bear

Property.

1983: Jim Hibbard publishes his comprehensive Memoir 2 representing the major

compendium of “The Geology of the Baie Verte Peninsula”.

Other exploration work in the area and related to the present BVP and

surrounding area mainly covers the 1980’s and includes the following as some of the

more noteworthy, recorded exploration work.

The first record of detailed exploration within the area of the property since the

early 1900’s is a report dated 1965 of drilling carried out in the Green Cove Pond –

Green Cove Brook area by Advocate Concessions Exploration Co Ltd. This work

reported for Advocate Concessions by P. C. M. Roberts (1965) is on file at the

Department of Natural Resources, reference file # 12H/16E(204). The next work of

significance in the area appears to be a report of gridding, geophysical and geochemical

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surveys completed November, 1980 to October 30, 1981 by Noranda Exploration

(Dimmell, 1981). This work is mainly related to the Seaside Realty Property but also

covers the BVP, which formed a part of the original Noranda Project area.

Subsequent to Noranda relinquishing their ground, Maritec Limited (1983)

reported on Geochemical Rock Sampling and General Reconnaissance for then property

owner Rupert Short. Bern Sheppard, for Maritec, reported the property (Noranda Project

area) was acquired by Atlantic Analytical Services Ltd. (of Springdale, NL) in March

1983, (subsequently transferred to Mr. Short). Their property consisted of 32 claims, and

was staked to “encompass the westward extension of an iron formation that extends

through the Goldenville Property”. Sheppard reports 6 samples were taken and also a

few lines of magnetometer surveying were completed in the area of the iron formation.

His report notes “little work has been done on the property since it was held by Noranda

and the samples taken should be analyzed”. In the following year 1984, Sheppard filed a

second year assessment report on geophysical exploration (MAG and VLF-EM

surveying) on behalf of Golden Hind Ventures Ltd. noted as being the license holder.

In this report Sheppard reported the dominant economic mineral in the area is

gold, spatially closely related to a chert and magnetite iron formation (the Goldenville Fe

Formation?). He also referenced a correlation of high gold with pyrite (in veins of

quartz, sulphide and carbonate-within the Fe Formation), has been observed in previous

work but provided no references for these observations. He concluded that the results of

a magnetometer survey was successful in outlining the iron formation and the electrical

portion of the Electromagnetic (EM) survey, although not definitive, did indicate several

conductive zones adjacent to or coincident with the magnetometer anomaly. Sheppard

recommended rock sampling along the iron formation and based on this work detailed

follow-up such as trenching along the main magnetometer zone.

Pickett (1985) submitted a third year assessment report, also for Golden Hind,

detailing geology, prospecting and geochemical surveys. His work was “directed

towards completing the database of relevant geological, geochemical and geophysical

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information. Geological mapping, prospecting and rock sampling were focused on

magnetic highs to locate additional outcrops of iron formation and areas where Noranda

had detected anomalous copper, zinc and silver concentrations in soil”. Twenty-five (25)

soil samples and 10 rock samples were collected and forwarded for assaying. Pickett

reported spot anomalous values with above background gold (30-38 ppb), from the

ferruginous chert/iron formation, noting these samples also contain “high concentrations

of phosphorous (up to 5,460 ppm)”; anomalous concentrations of copper (up to 189 ppm)

were also reported. He noted one rock sample of interest “taken from silicified mafic tuff

containing heavily disseminated pyrite” which yielded 22 ppb gold, 1.0 ppm silver, 708

ppm copper and 150 ppm zinc.

In 1987-88 Cuvier Mines Inc. conducted a gold oriented, surface and diamond-

drilling program over the area parts of which, such as the surface prospecting, covered

the area now comprising sections of the BVP (McBride, 1987; Ovens and McBride,

1988). Utilizing and expanding on a pre-existing grid, established during an earlier work

program, detailed B-Horizon soil sampling, VLF-EM & Magnetometer surveying,

geological mapping and prospecting were completed over approximately 54 kilometres of

100 metre spaced, grid lines. This work program also entailed 1.57 kms of trenching and

2600 metres of BQ size drilling at target areas on the Seaside Realty Property where

surface trenching had identified the Corkscrew Gold Zone.

Although mainly related to the Seaside Realty Property, the Cuvier work

represents some of the most comprehensive exploration completed in the region and their

observations made over the geology of this property can be extrapolated throughout the

area which is mapped by the GSC to be principally underlain by the same geology (e.g.

Castonguay et al, 2009). Ovens and McBride (1988) summarized the results of the 1987-

88 exploration program to have “proven very successful at delineating known

geophysical, geochemical and geological anomalies and in discovering several more

anomalous (gold) zones”, several of which can be extrapolated to extend outside the

Seaside Realty Property.

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The claim block now owned by Seaside was the focus of drilling in the 1990’s

directed to testing the Corkscrew Zone and work carried out by Seaside did not include

any reference to the area presently covered by the BVP.

Figure 3 displays the numerous gold, with lesser pyrite and base metals (copper)

prospects identified in this region encompassing the WGP, and also shows the trace of

the Goldenville Structural Line inferred from topography and drainage and represented as

a distinct linear feature leading(?) off the Scrape Thrust section of the Baie Verte

Brompton Line to the south. It is worth noting that this distinct linear feature is the focus

of many gold showings including those on the Seaside Realty property to the south and

along the trend north to the Deer Cove Deposit. The westward extension of the

Goldenville Horizon / Iron Formation Trend extends west from the Goldenville Mine

area based on airborne magnetic surveying, and surface prospecting, and skirts

immediately south of the BVP (reference Figure 3).

6.0 Regional & Property Geology And Mineralization Potential

The Baie Verte Property, (BVP) is situated in the Dunnage Zone of the

Appalachian Mountain System (Figure 4). The area of the BVP is underlain by the Point

Rousse Complex (PRC) mainly consisting of Cambrian and Ordovician Age, submarine,

felsic, intermediate and mafic volcanic rocks and mafic intrusions (Figure 5). Earlier

map compilations by the Geological Survey of Canada shows the mafic intrusions to

comprise the north section of the peninsula jutting into the North Atlantic between

Ming’s Bight and Baie Verte in contact along an east-west trending contact with the

volcanic rocks to the south. Earlier descriptions of the geology and mineralization in the

region has been summarized by Hibbard (1983), based on compilation of the results from

previous mapping assignments and exploration programs completed by workers dating

back to late in the 19th

century. In his comprehensive Memoir 2 “Geology of the Baie

Verte Peninsula”, Hibbard details the geology of the Baie Verte Peninsula, which is

summarized below.

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Figure 4: Geology Map of Newfoundland showing Regional Geology.

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The Baie Verte-Brompton Line (BV-BL), a major regional structure, more or less

paralleling the Baie Verte Highway and skirting the western shoreline of Baie Verte is a

globally significant structural zone which can be geologically and geophysically traced

from the southeastern United States to the British Isles. This complex fault zone is

described by Hibbard to separate pre-Middle Ordovician Miogesclinal metasedimentary

rocks belonging to the Fleur-De-Lys Belt, a part of the Humber Tectonostratigraphic

Zone, from pre-Middle Ordovician ultramafic and mafic rocks of oceanic affinity

belonging to the Baie Verte Belt, which is part of the Dunnage Tectonostratigraphic Zone

of central Newfoundland (Williams et al, 1988). The BVP sits within the Dunnage Zone

and the BV-BL deviates from its general north-northeast trend to trend east-west and

extending to the east through the area.

This map shows the contact between the mafic intrusions (gabbro) and submarine

mafic, intermediate and felsic volcanic rocks trends east – west. The geology underlying

the property is depicted in Figure 5 based on regional and detailed work, compiled on the

map for the Geology of the Island of Newfoundland (Map 90-01).

Earlier industry workers (e.g. Picket, 1988, Ovens and McBride, 1988) state the

area is underlain by “Upper” rock units of the Point Rousse Complex (PRC) and ophiolite

of Cambrian or Ordovician age. Sheppard (1984) summarizes the PRC in the area

consists of pillow lavas and mafic pyroclastics, with interbedded volcanogenic

sedimentary rocks, minor chert and marble, intruded by diabase dikes. Map 82-2,

compiled by J. Hibbard (1982) shows a synclinal axis in this region, which Sheppard

noted “passing through the Goldenville Property east to the shore of Ming’s Bight,

paralleling the iron formation”, and corresponding to the magnetic high zone.

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Mapping completed by Ovens and McBride (1988) revealed this area to be

principally underlain by Unit 4 of the PRC summarized as un-separated pillow lava,

mafic volcaniclastic rocks and diabase dikes. Ovens and McBride (1988) further detail

their geology stating, “the rocks commonly encountered on the property (Seaside Realty)

are green, fine-grained tuffs…..”. Basha (1998) in a detailed report for British Canadian

Mines Limited covering 6 claims east of the Seaside Property, stated these 6 claims “is

completely underlain by cover rocks of the Point Rousse Complex, a dismembered

ophiolite sequence … metamorphosed to lower green schist facies, with geological units

generally dipping moderately to the north”. He also observed that pillow lavas, mafic

volcaniclastic rocks and diabase dikes and minor chert, marble and iron formation had

been reported in the general area.

Upper rock units of the Point Rousse Complex and ophiolite sequence rocks of

Cambrian or Ordovician age underlie the BVP. Hibbard (1983) describes the Point

Rousse Complex as consisting of pillow lavas and mafic, pyroclastics rocks with

interbedded volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, minor chert and marble, intruded by

diabase dykes. Rocks of the PRC shown as Unit COv in Figure 5 are in contact with

mafic intrusions (gabbro, e.g.) belonging to the ophiolite complex shown in contact along

an east-west contact marking the trend of the Goldenville Iron (Fe) Formation.

Geological mapping undertaken in this century by the Geological Survey of

Canada as part of their Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI) has updated the geological

understanding of this region and in particular the geological features of the PRC.

Castonguay et al, (2009) has recently identified the geology of the Baie Verte – Ming’s

Bight area as recording a protracted period of polyphase deformation. They observed

that most mesothermal gold mineralization in the PRC is spatially and genetically

associated with shear zones, which he labels D2 and corresponding with east – west

trending structures along which north-south directed thrusting has occurred (Figure 6).

The Goldenville Block of the BVP is situated along (or in close proximity to) one

of these thrusts, which Castonguay et al, (2009) displays on their map. For the purpose

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of this report, this thrust fault zone is labeled the Goldenville Structural Line (GVS)

displayed in Figure 3. The GVS Line south from the thrust fault shown by Castonguay et

al (2009) in this report is shown to continue further south through the area of the Pine

Cove Gold Deposit. Based on air photo lineaments and structural criteria, including the

location of the gold mineralized Corkscrew and Big Bear Zones (sited along the inferred

trace of the line), as well as the Pine Cove deposit, this structure, displayed in part on the

latest GSC mapping may provide another, regionally significant structural control on the

distribution of gold mineralization in this region. Note the Deer Cove gold deposit at the

north end of the Peninsula is also along the GVS Line invoked by the authors.

Interestingly, there is also a break in the magnetic intensity of the Goldenville Horizon at

the inferred intersection point of the GVS Line and the GV Horizon.

The south RB section of the BVP and in particular license 19026M covers the

trace of the Scrape Fault, the major thrust zone mapped in this area and traced on Figure

6. Structural zones such as thrust faults and splays off these structural zones are a control

for gold deposition and a popular model for exploration. The Scrape Thrust presents a

favorable horizon or structurally prepared conduit for the migration of gold enriched

fluids to precipitate gold deposits along subsidiary splays mapped in the area. The

distribution of gold occurrences, showings and deposits, e.g. Corkscrew, Goldenville and

Deer Cove (and Pine Cove?), along both the GVS Line and GV Horizon, both probable

splays related to the Baie Verte Brompton Line and/or the Scrape Thrust, or both, may fit

this model.

7.0 Work Description & Expenditures

During the summer of 2011 geologist Vic French accompanied by field technician

Boyd Verge carried out field investigations of the various mineral licenses issued to

Victor A. French. This 2 day fieldwork spread over the 3 licenses availed of several

gravel roads in the general area (Plate 1). These gravel roads allowed foot access

particularly to the northern license 18925M which is the Goldenville Block now being

reported (Plate 2).

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Plate 1: Gravel section along one of the woods roads making

up a network of roads and tractor trails leading into the

northern claim group and facilitating foot access to the RB.

Plate 2: Looking into the Rambler Block positioned in the

central part of the skyline and looking northeast along the

trace of the Goldenville Horizon in the valley region.

During this first phase of fieldwork several small less than 1 metre outcrops of the

Iron Formation were observed displaying moderate to strong magnetism and limonite

rusting of the purple tinted formation (Plate 3). The one day traverse over licenses

19026M and 19060M comprising the RB availed of new woods roads leading off the

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Ming’s Bight Highway. Subsequent to this field trip further fieldwork was completed in

late November, 2011 and consisted of a total of five days of prospecting over the BVP by

prospector Kenneth John Lewis and assistant Willis Hurley, both of Baie Verte, NL.

Plate 3: Close up of less than 30 cm section of exposed

Goldenville Iron Formation evident by purple – orange

colour; southeast corner of 18925M.

In the area of the Goldenville Block, one day was spent completing more detailed

investigations around the gold occurrences displayed on the MODS. Their traversing

was completed utilizing the road network and a series of trails leading into the area.

Lewis reported not uncovering any evidence of the gold mineralization at the sites he

visited based on the UTM coordinates presented in the MODS files and therefore did not

retrieve any rock samples for follow-up assaying. He also advised “that foot traversing

into the GB was extremely difficult and only allowed a very cursory review before

returning to his vehicle prior to darkness”.

The Lewis led prospecting work also included traverses over a 2 day period

throughout the southern Rambler Block and covering Licenses 19026M and 19060M

staked earlier in the summer and now being reported. This work was an extension of

work completed on adjacent license 11507M labeled the Rambler North Property. A

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single days traverse availing of newly established woods roads within 11507M focused

along the trace of the Scrape Thrust through 19026M and along a stream draining

northwest through 19060M.

They also included in their prospecting traverse “the area around the north side of

the pond between the Scrape Thrust and the northwest flowing stream” and this work

“did not reveal any mineralized rocks or quartz veining observed on the Rambler North

Property”, where several samples were taken of pyrite and quartz veins (K. Lewis, pers

comm.), and reported in the earlier work report on this adjacent property.

A large segment of the assessment work was research and compilations

completed by geologist Vic French, assisted by geophysicist - geologist Greg Woodland

and Crystal Mugford who compiled the various figures and maps, etc. presented in this

report. The research by French of existing geology reports and in particular the latest

geological mapping completed by the GSC contributes to the sections detailing the

history of land tenure and exploration, together with geology and mineralization in the

area. His work resulted in various observations and conclusions presented in these

sections and focusing on controls on the distribution of gold mineralization.

License 18925M, the GB, sits on a distinct magnetic trend easily visible on the

regional, airborne magnetic maps produced by the Geological Survey of Canada (Coyle

and Oneschuk, 2008). The discovery of the Goldenville Deposit, albeit small, has over

the years attracted a lot of attention to the area resulting in the discovery of more than 50

noteworthy prospects and showings, most of which are gold mineralized. The

Goldenville gold mineralization and the deposit (identified as Mineral Occurrence #1404)

is summarized on the Natural Resources Government of Newfoundland and Labrador,

Geological Survey Mineral Occurrence Database System Report, National Mineral

Inventory Number 012H/1B/Au 033. Kenneth de Pencier Watson (1947) provided a

detailed description of the gold Deposit.

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The latest research work was not entirely restricted to evaluating the gold

potential in the area but also the base metal potential which has been referenced by earlier

workers such as the report by Roberts (1965) for Advocate Concessions Exploration on

chalcopyrite – pyrite mineralization intersected in a small 3 drill hole program at Green

Cove several kms east of the GB and within the area now covered by Mineral License

18664M (Plate 4).

Plate 4: Looking north onto the treed slope into Green Cove

along the west side of License 18664M.

Although not close to the GB the site of this drilling is along the trace of the

Goldenville Horizon and near the Iron Formation mapped by the GSC Aeromagnetic

Survey, and with the recording of pyrite mineralization at other sites east of the showing

and along the trace of the GV Horizon is noted and summarily referenced in this report.

The Green Cove Copper Showing is recorded in the Mineral Occurrence Database

System as Mineral Inventory # 012H/16/Cu 009. This report describes the zone as “Two

small zones of silicification within the fine grained gabbro occur at the north end of

Green Cove. The zones, up to 10 feet (3.0 m) in width, contain up to 10% disseminated

pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite. According to Map 80-3 the occurrence lies

within the Point Rousse Complex - EoCambrian to Middle Ordovician in age”. (The

Goldenville Iron Formation shown to be immediately south of the showing is an oxide –

jasper – iron formation). There is no record of assays in this report.

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With respect to the Rambler Block the research work, other than work completed

by Greg Woodland referenced below, did not add significantly to further discussion re

this block. Other research directed and completed by French included reviews of

geophysical, geochemical and geological information recorded by earlier industry

workers and also the GSC. This work included a review of the series of magnetic maps

published by Coyle and Oneschuk (2008) with data collected by Goldak Airborne

Surveys of Saskatoon, SK and labeled the Baie Verte Aeromagnetic Survey.

As part of a review of geophysical surveys from industry and government

participants, Geophysicist Greg Woodland completed a review of microfiche and hard

copy reports for the area on file at the Department of Natural Resources, 50 Elizabeth

Avenue, St. John’s NL. The review shows there is limited geophysical data on file and

the principal survey being the regional airborne MAG survey completed over the area

along 250 metre spaced flight lines.

The work by Woodland is summarized as follows:

“The aim of the report was to review all known geophysical data on a series of

licenses owned by Victor A. French. In 2007 the Geological Society of Canada

conducted an airborne survey of the Baie Verte Peninsula, (reported in 2008). This

survey was conducted by Goldak Airborne Surveys, and is the only geophysical survey

over these licenses. The area is located west of Ming’s Bight and east of the Baie Verte

inlet. The geophysical data reviewed covers an area of widespread gold mineralization

and recorded as known mineral occurrences in the MODS files.

The Baie Verte Peninsula has a long history of mineral exploration, with gold

being of special interest. Known deposits in the area include Pine Cove and Stog’er Tight

Gold Deposits shown as black circles in the figure below labeled Figure 7. The licenses

are located in a region of magnetic lows following a trough between magnetic high

regions and which is trending in a general east to northeast direction. The only

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significant mineral showing in the magnetic low trough is the copper occurrence labeled

the Green Cove Copper Showing.

Throughout the region there are several smaller magnetic trends. The vast

majority of gold showings are generally associated with or aligned with magnetic trends

usually as moderately magnetic anomalies that may indicate significant structural control

on mineralization. The line spacing of the GSC survey may not be fine enough to discern

these smaller structures from the regional signal. In 2007, over the Rambler Mining

Camp, Altius contracted Aeroquest Limited to do a helicopter borne electromagnetic and

magnetic survey with a finer line spacing (50 and 100 meters) than the GSC survey. This

does seem to provide slightly better resolution and gains additional EM data which can

further increase geological knowledge of these claims.

Figure 7: Total Magnetic Field (black dots indicate Pine Cove (left) and Stog’er Tight

(right).

Gold occurrences in the region seem to be localized to the areas with a higher

magnetic response. Further geophysical surveys over this area should be tailored to the

system model to provide additional information. An IP survey maybe the best route to

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take if the mineralization is disseminated or vein hosted as EM usually is used for large

conductive bodies. An airborne EM and magnetic survey could better define

mineralization in these areas providing targets for further exploration”.

The map and report research completed by V.A. French Geological on behalf of

the license holder entailed compilation of the report, figures and maps by Crystal

Mugford. The Newfoundland Geoscience Atlas was accessed by French to determine if

there were geochemical trends in the area from regional lake sediment sampling, by the

Newfoundland Government in the last century that might provide additional information

in rationalizing the setting of the known mineralization and overall geology. Also to

compare the signatures to the known mineral occurrences and the regional magnetic

survey results. Color contoured maps of the lake sediment values for Silver, Arsenic,

Gold, Copper, Barium and Zinc are presented in Appendix II.

The distribution of Ag highlights the Rambler Mining Camp area to the south and

a past producer of by-product silver. The Ag distribution also shows a weak northwest to

west trend approximating the trace of the Scrape Fault. As is broadly elevated over the

area between Ming’s Bight Harbour and the Baie Verte Inlet, and corresponds to the

anomalous gold region. Au, as expected by the propensity of the showings, prospects

and deposits in the area, is highly elevated and with the regional anomaly extending south

to the Rambler Mining Camp and beyond, noting that deposits in the camp such as the

Ming Deposit are enriched in gold. Cu appears to mimic the Au and production from the

Rambler Mining Camp records significant by-product Au with the main Cu concentrate.

Cu mineralization is also recorded at other properties such as the area of the Corkscrew

Zone on the Seaside Realty Property and the Green Cove Zone drilled by Advocate

Concessions where Cu has been noted in drill core and soil geochemistry. Other metals,

such as Ba and Zn are either depleted or only weakly elevated in the area.

V.A. French Geological Consultants Inc. completed the report and map

compilations. The following is a table of the expenditures. The digital file of this report

is in Appendix III.

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Description Amount

18925M 19026M 19060M

1. Prospecting

Ken Lewis $300.00 $150.00 $150.00

Willis Hurley 200.00 100.00 100.00

Truck rental and Fuel 66.32 39.90 27.15

Total Prospecting $566.32 $289.90 $277.15

2. Field Geology

- Vic French $225.00 $150.00 $75.00

- Boyd Verge 110.00 75.00 55.00

- Fuel and Meals 77.75 58.28 35.70

Total Field Geology $412.75 $283.28 $165.70

3. Geophysics Review & Report

- Greg Woodland $200.00 $200.00 $200.00

Total Geophysics $200.00 $200.00 $200.00

4. Research, Compilation & Report Writing

- Vic French, P.Geo. $225.00 $225.00 $225.00

- Crystal Mugford 124.80 124.80 124.80

Total Research, Compilation

& Report Writing $349.80 $349.80 $349.80

Subtotal $1,528.87 $1,122.98 $992.65

+ 10% Administration and Overhead 152.89 112.30 99.27

Total expenditures $1,681.76 $1,235.28 $1,019.92

Respectfully Submitted,

“Victor A. French”

Victor A. French, P.Geo.

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Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador Geological Survey, Assessment File

12H/16/0037.

Basha, M (1998): First and Second Year Assessment Report on Geophysics, Gillard’s

Pond Property, Licenses 5166 and 5167M Baie Verte, Newfoundland for British

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French, V.A. and Mugford, C, (2010): Work Assessment Report on Library and

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12H/16/1036, 54 pages.

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Pickett, J. Wayne (1985): Geological, Prospecting and Geological Surveys in the Ming’s

Bight West Area, North central Newfoundland, Claim Block 3373, License 2335

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APPENDIX I Mineral Rights Database System Reports

APPENDIX II Contoured Shaded Geochemistry Maps of Lake Sediment Values

APPENDIX III Digital File

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