The Company is also required to incur US$300,000 in exploration expenditures as follows:
On or before Cumulative Expenditure
On Effective date US$75,000
First anniversary US$50,000
Second anniversary US$150,000, cumulative
Third anniversary US$300,000, cumulative
In September 2007, the Company entered into an option agreement with Kokanee Placer Ltd.
under which the Company may earn, subject to regulatory approval, a 51% interest in 11 mineral
claims that abut the north boundary of the above noted Dolly Varden claims. To exercise the
option, the Company is obligated to pay $200,000 on or before March 31, 2009, to issue
3,000,000 common shares and to incur exploration expenditures of US $850,000 on or before
December 1, 2009. In November 2007, the Company received regulatory approval, and in
December 2007, the Company issued 1,500,000 common shares (before share consolidation) with
a deemed value of $195,000. The remaining 150,000 common shares (after share consolidation)
are to be issued during the 2009 fiscal year.
Located just 75 miles south of the Victoria Mine and the Dolly Varden properties is Quadra
Mining Co.’s huge Robinson mine which in 2005, produced 126 million lbs. copper and 81,000
oz gold at grades of 0.6% Cu and 0.25 g/t Au. 100 miles to the east is the world’s third largest
mine and the largest copper/gold mine in the United States at Bingham Canyon in neighboring
Utah which has produced more than 16 million tonnes of copper since operations began in 1904.
Both the Robinson and Bingham mines are profitably mining grades of 0.6% copper which is the
copper grade discovered in over 75 feet of core at the Company’s Dolly Varden property while
the Victoria Mine has proven grades of more than 2% copper. Clearly, this region is host to large
economic deposits.
The Company has completed 15 holes in Phase One of their ongoing exploration program at the
Dolly Varden Copper/Gold properties. The Phase One program intersected significant Copper
mineralization in every hole in an area covering approx. 5 sq. km. In the very first ‘discovery
hole’ drilled on the property in Dec 2006 an intersection of 75 feet of 66% Copper was
encountered.
The Company’s Dolly Varden property revealed surface samples of up to:
• Copper – 9.34 per cent
• Gold – 4.27g/t
• Silver – 33.57 ounces per tonne
• Zinc – 20.2 per cent
• Molybdenum – 0.135%
• Uranium – 0.19%
A Porphyry system has been suggested as the host body for the discovery, the source of which is
the focus of exploration efforts currently ongoing at the Dolly Varden area properties by the
Company and two other companies.