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GEOCHEMICAL REPORT

ON A

SOIL GEOCHEMISTRY SURVEY

OVER THE

CROW 1 AND 3 CLAIMS

SQUAMISH AREA

VANCOUVER MINING DIVISION

BRITISH COLUMBIA

PROPERTY

WRITTEN FOR

SURVEYED BY

WRITTEN

DATED

: 22 km northeast of Britannia Mine, B.C=- on Crawford Creek .

: N.T.S. 92G/10W

: MORAN RESOURCES CORP. Ste. 502, 751 victoria Square Montreal, Quebec H2Y 253

: TRANS-ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS LTD. #1807-1450 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. V6G 2T8

: David G. Mark, Geophys GEOTRONICS SURVEYS LTD #403-750 West Pender S Vancouver, B . C . V6C 2T7

: January 16th, 1984

GEOTRONICS SURVEYS LTD. Engineering 8 Mining Geophysicists

VANCOUVER, CANADA

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure At Back of Report

Property Location Map

Claim Location Map

Soil Geochemistry Copper

Soil Geochemistry Silver

Soil Geochemistry Gold

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SUMMARY

A soil geochemistry survey was carried out along some roads on

the southern part of the Crow 3 Claim during the latter part of

November, 1982. The claim is located 22 km northeast of the

Britannia Mine, British Columbia, abutting the north side of

Crawford Creek. Access to the property is gained by a two-wheel

drive vehicle along logging roads from Squamish. The terrain

consists of moderate slopes forested with moderately dense con-

iferous trees. The purpose of the survey was to locate probable

zones of gold or sulphide mineralization.

The area is underlain by metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks

of the Gambier formation of Jurassic Age, and quartz diorites

and related rocks of the Cretaceous Coast Range Intrusives.

The property is located in proximity to the Maggie Mines prop-

erty on which the presence of significant intersections of

gold, copper, lead, zinc and silver mineralization is known to

occur. The Crow Claims are also located near the Anaconda-

Britannia Mine property which produced copper, silver, zinc and

gold mineralization.

The soil samples were dug every 20 m along roads, subsequently

tested for 3 metals being copper, silver and gold, plotted, and

contoured.

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CONCLUSIONS

1. The Moran property is underlain by rocks that may be

favourable to mineralization. In the area occurs the

Britannia Mines property as we11 as the Maggie Mines

property. A number of gossan areas and mineral showing

are known to occur on recently staked claims in the sur-

rounding area as well.

2. The soils revealed 3 copper anomalies (two with silver

values) and one gold anomaly.

3. The anomalies are small though stong indicating the caus-

ative source to be very close. They are also one dimen-

sional with the samples having been taken along the road

only.

The work was done principally for assessment credits but did

turn up interesting results. The anomalies should therefore be

further checked by geological mapping and further soil sampled

on a detailed grid. The recommendations as outlined in

Sookochoff's engineering report should be carried out, as well.


RECOWNDATIONS

GEOCHEMICAL REPORT

ON A

SOIL GEOCHEMISTRY SURVEY

OVER THE

CROW 1 AND 3 CLAIMS

SQUAMISH AREA

VANCOWER MINING DIVISION

BRITISH COLUMBIA

INTRODUCTION

This report discusses the survey procedure, compilation of data

and the interpretation of a soil geochemistry survey carried

along the roads on the southern part of the Crow 3 Claim during

the period of November 15th to 22nd, 1982.

The survey wase carried out by Trans-Arctic Explorations Ltd.

under the field supervision of Richard Simpson, mining explor-

ation technician, who has 18 years experience. A total of 229

soil samples were picked up.

The primary purpose of the soil sampling was to locate gold,

silver and copper mineralization directly.

The survey was done to meet assessment requirements for the

claims.


PROPER= AND OWNERSHIP

The property consists of two 20-unit claims staked within the

Vancouver Mining ~ivision as shown on Figure 2 and as described

below:

Claim Name

Crow 1

Crow 3

NO. Units Record No. Expiry Date

Sept. 16, 1983

Sept. 16, 1983

The expiry date shown does not take into account the survey un-

der discussion as being accepted for assessment credits.

The claims are owned by Moran Resources Corp. of San Andrews,

Quebec.

LOCATION AND ACCESS

The claim area is approximately 50 km NNE of Vancouver and 22

km NE of the Britannia Mine north of the Mamquam River on

Crawford Creek.

The geographical coordinates are 49" 43' N latitude and 120"

53' W longitude.

It can be reached by travelling for 25 km along the Mamquam

River Road, immediately south of Squamish. Logging has been

carried out over areas of the property thus access is available

to portions of the claim group.

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TOPOGRAPHY

The property is located at the south end of the pacific Ranges

which is a physiographic unit of the Coast Mountains. The ter-

rain is, in general, steep and mountainous with elevations

ranging from 760 m to 1,825 m. The claims are dissected by

major northwesterly and westerly drainage systems with general

relief from ranges to valleys being in the order to 1,000 m.

The area is forested and overburden covered with only scattered

outcrops generally exposed except for precipitous rock at high

elevation. Vegetation on the lower slopes consists of Douglas

fir, cedar and spruce.

HISTORY OF PREVIOUS WORK

The area of the Britannia district to the southwest of the

claim area has long been well known for production from the

Anaconda Mine. Production between 1905 and 1974 yielded 55

million tons of ore grading 1.1% copper, 0.65% zinc, 0.2 oz/ton

silver and 0.02 oz/ton gold.

Exploration work on the Maggie Mines property, in proximity to

the recently acquired land, between 1977 and 1981 included

trenching, geological mapping, diamond drilling, Geochemical

analysis on diamond drill core, soils and stream sediments,

Turam surveys performed by another company in 1970 and re-

interpreted, and magnetometer surveys.

On the Crow Claims no previous work has been done since the

property has been staked.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION

The following is quoted from L. Sookochoff's geological


engineering report on the property.

"Within the general area of the Crawford Creek property, vari-

able phases of Cretaceous granodiorite and diorite intrusives

engulf pendants of sedimentary, volcanic and metamorphic rocks.

"The Britannia ore zones are hosted by a substantial shear zone

within a pendant. The pendant is comprised:

"of steeply dipping metamorphosed sediments and igneous rocks covering an area of eleven km long by three km wide. The deposits are in a shear zone up to 600 metres wide that occurs mainly in quartz sericite schist. It includes five large lenticular replacement deposits consisting of schist impregnated with and replaced by ore and localized by structures of the shear zone. They have been followed to 2,500 feet in depth."

"The Maggie Mines:

"exploration targets are volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of copper, gold, silver, zinc and lead of the Britannia type.. . Rocks are a pendant of a tightly folded rhyolite and dacite clastics. Mineralization is present as submarginal grades of the above noted metals occuring on chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite. Alteration is silicification and chloritization."

"On the adjacent Alco property, mineralization of chalcopyrite,

molybdenite, chalcocite and bornite is confined to intense

fractured zones within a granitized pendant and association

with a granodiorite. The zone appears to be bounded by a quartz

diorite. Alteration is of silicification chloritization, and

saussuritization.

"The Crawford Creek property as indicated by geological map

115A - Pitt Lake, is underlain by a quartz diorite phase which is predominantly hornblende bearing with hornblende more abun-

dant than biotite. A detailed analysis of this rock type is re-

lated on pages 86 - 87 of Memoir 335.

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"A p y r i t i c z o n e e x p o s e d w i t h i n a r o a d c u t o n t h e C r o w 1 C l a i m

is r e p o r t e d h o w e v e r d u e t o snow c o v e r a t t h e t i m e o f examin -

a t i o n , t h e writer was u n a b l e t o o b s e r v e n o r s a m p l e t h e show-

i n g . "

SURVEY PROCEDURE

T h e samples were p i c k e d u p a t 2 0 - m e t e r c e n t e r s a l o n g t h e roads

as shown o n F i g u r e s 3 t o 5. T h e y w e r e d u g w i t h a D - h a n d l e d

s h o v e l a t a b o u t a 15- t o 20-cm d e p t h . T h e h o r i z o n s a m p l e d w a s

B. Samples w e r e p l a c e d i n b rown , w e t - s t r e n g t h , p a p e r b a g s w i t h

t h e s a m p l e number m a r k e d t h e r e o n .

TESTING PROCEDURE

A l l s a m p l e s were tested b y A c m e A n a l y t i c a l L a b o r a t o r i e s L t d . of

V a n c o u v e r , B.C. T h e s a m p l e is f i rst t h o r o u g h l y d r i e d a n d t h e n

s i f t e d t o -80 mesh . A m e a s u r e d a m o u n t o f t h e s i f t e d material

w a s p u t i n t o a t e s t t u b e w i t h s u b s e q u e n t m e a s u r e d a d d i t i o n s o f

p e r c h l o r i c a c i d a n d n i t r i c a c i d . T h e m i x t u r e w a s n e x t h e a t e d

f o r a c e r t a i n l e n g t h o f time. T h e p a r t s per m i l l i o n (ppm)

c o p p e r , s i l v e r a n d g o l d w a s t h e n m e a s u r e d b y atomic a b s o r p t i o n .

TREATMENT OF DATA

T h e s t a t i s t i c a l parameters f o r e a c h meta l , w h i c h were " g u e s s -

t imated", a re shown i n t h e f o l l o w i n g t a b l e w i t h t h e F i g u r e num-

ber t h a t t h e g e o c h e m i s t r y v a l u e s f o r e a c h metal were p l o t t e d

o n .


Metal

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Figure number 3 4 5

Mean background value 60 0.20 .005

Sub-anomalous threshold value 90 0.50 .008

Anomalous threshold value 130 0.80 .013

All values are in ppm,

On each plan, the sub-anomalous values were isolated by dashed

lines and the anomalous values by solid lines.

DISCUSSION OF RESULTS

The writer has labelled four anomalies by the letters A to D

that are worthy of further discussion, A to C are principally

copper anomalies while D is a gold anomaly.

Anomaly A is 60 m long consisting of four very anomalous

values. Three of the values are above 220 ppm. A small silver

anomaly occurs along its edge. The anomaly indicates copper

sulphides with possibly silver values. The samples within this

anomaly were not tested for gold.

Anomalies B and C are only one value copper highs with B cor-

relating with a silver anomaly. These two anomalies may indic-

ate narros veins. These soil samples were not tested for gold

either.

Anomaly D consists of only one high gold value of 0.07 ppm. It


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has no correlating silver or copper anomalous values.

All four anomalies contain high copper or gold values with

little or no buildup in the values on either side. This indic-

ates little dispersion of the copper ions or the native gold

indicating the causative source to be probably close by.

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hopk ins , H.H. , P r e s i d e n t , N e w s Release, u n d a t e d , N e w s R e l e a s e ,

F e b r u a r y 20 , 1981 , N e w s R e l e a s e , May 1 5 , 1981.

N e v i n , Andrew E . , Ph.D., P.Eng., R e p o r t o n 1978 and 1979 Work

o n t h e War E a g l e and A d j a c e n t C l a i m s , and Recommend-

a t i o n s f o r C o n t i n u e d Work, J u n e 1980.

Nev in , Andrew E., Ph.D., P.Eng., Summary Report o n War E a g l e ,

C l a r k e a n d J a n e t t e C l a i m s , I n d i a n R i v e r H e a d w a t e r s ,

Vancouve r M.D., B.C., Sep t embe r 1 8 , 1980.

P a y n e , J.C., B r a t t , J . A . , S t o n e , B .G. , Deformed Mesozo ic V o l -

c a n o q e n i c Cu-Zn S u l p h i d e D e p o s i t s i n t h e B r i t t a n i a

Distr ict , B r i t i s h Co lumbia , Economic Geo logy , V o l .

75 , pg. 700-721, 1980.

S e r a p h i m , R.H., Ph.D., P.Eng., R e p o r t o n C l a r k e C l a i m , I n d i a n

R i v e r , Vancouve r M.D., f o r Maggie Mines L t d . , Augus t

1 2 , 1977.

S e r a p h i m , R.H., Ph-D., P.Eng., Addendum o n War E a g l e C l a i m f o r

Maggie Mines L t d . , May 4 , 1978.

S o o k o c h o f f , L., P.Eng., G e o l o g i c a l R e p o r t o n t h e Crawford C r e e k

P r o p e r t y f o r Moran R e s o u r c e s Corp . , November 24 ,

1982.


GEOPHYSICIST'S CERTIFICATE

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I, DAVID G. MARK, of the City of Vancouver, in the

Province of British Columbia, do hereby certify:

That I am a Consulting Geophysicist of Geotronics

Surveys Ltd., with off ices located at #403-750 West Pender

Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.

I further certify:

1 . I am a graduate of the University of ~ritish Columbia ( 1 9 6 8 ) and hold a B.Sc. degree in Geophysics.

2. I have been practising my profession for the past 15 years and have been active in the mining industry for the past 18 years.

3 . I am an acive member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and a member of the European Associa- tion of Exploration Geophysicists.

4. This report is compiled from data obtained from a soil geochemistry survey carried out by Trans-Arctic Explorations Ltd., under the field supervision of Richard Simpson from November 15th to 22nd, 1982.

5. I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the Crow 1 and 3 Claims, nor in any other properties or secur- ities of Moran Resources Corp.

k , Geophysicist

January 16th, 1984


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AFFIDAVIT OF EXPENSES

The soil geochemistry survey was carried out from

November 15th to 22nd, 1982 on the Crow 3 Claim, Crawford

Creek, Vancouver M.D., B.C. to the value of the following:

FIELD:

Field technician and helper 43 hrs @ $30/hr $1,290

Vehicle rental, including gas, 5 days at $70/day 350 Room and Board, 5 days @ $80/day 400 Survey supplies 50

$8,300

LABORATORY:

180 samples @ $2.85/sample for Cu and Ag $ 513 49 samples @ 6.10/sample for Cu and Au 299

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REPORT :

Geophysicist, 10 hours @ $40/hour $ 400 Technician, 20 hours @ $25/hour 500 Drafting and printing 400 Typing, photocopying and compilation 150

$1,450

Grand Total $4,352

Respectfully submitted, TRAN - RCTIC ,EXPLORATIONS LTD.

,"l'/R"&t/": CJ. Richard Simpson, Manager


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