» Location
and Summary
The Dillard Property is located approximately
35 kilometres north of Princeton, where
Copper Mountain Mining Corp. recently put the Copper Mountain
(Similco) copper-gold-silver mine back into production,
with measured and indicated resources estimated at 326
million tonnes grading 0.373% Cu, and inferred resources
of 169 million tonnes grading 0.29% Cu, plus gold and
silver credits. Gold Mountain Mining Corp.’s recently
acquired past-producing Elk gold-silver mine lies approximately
15 kilometres to the northeast of Dillard. Drilling is
ongoing at Elk expanding the existing 15,500- kilogram
gold resource.
» Ownership
The Dillard Property is composed of the
Dillard claims, co-owned by local prospectors, and the
Dill claim, owned by Almaden Minerals Ltd.
On August 31, 2011 Fjordland signed an option
agreement with private vendors to purchase a 100% interest
in the 2,200-hectare Dillard claims. Fjordland may make
staged cash payments to the vendors totaling $180,000,
may issue a total of 1,500,000 common shares of the Company
in stages and may expend $2,500,000 in exploration in
stages on the Property over a five-year period. The Company
will also reserve a 3% net smelter return royalty (NSR)
for the vendors that may be bought down by the Company
to a 1.5% NSR for $2,000,000.
On February 7, 2012 Fjordland signed an
option agreement with Almaden to purchase a 100% interest
n the 400-hectare Dill claim. To earn a 100% interest
in the Property, subject to a 2% NSR, which Fjordland
has the option to purchase 50%, Fjordland initially paid
$25,000 cash and issued 250,000 common shares of Fjordland.
Fjordland has the option to pay an additional $25,000
cash and issue an additional 250,000 common shares of
Fjordland to Almaden on or before the first anniversary
of the initial payment. If Fjordland completes a NI 43-101
Resource Estimate on the Dill
Property, it will issue an additional and final 1,500,000
common shares of Fjordland to Almaden.
» History
Numerous historic exploration programs were
completed on the Property and surrounding area. Previous
exploration on the Property includes work by Noranda (1972-1973),
Cominco (1981- 1983), Almaden (1987-1991) and Placer Dome
(1989-1991). Since then, there has been no significant
exploration in the immediate area.
Diamond drilling was completed on both properties.
On the Dill property Primer Group Minerals (1966-1969)
completed 18 core holes totaling 2330 metres and 3 percussion
holes totaling 201 m and Placer Dome Inc. (1989-1991)
completed 11 core holes totaling 2020 m. Structurally-controlled,
near-surface, copper-gold mineralization was encountered
in alkalic monzonites to monzodiorities that intrude Nicola
Group volcanic rocks. Drilling tested an area measuring
approximately 1300 m in length and 400 m in width, part
of coincident copper-gold soil and induced polarization
(IP) anomalies.
A selection of mineralized drill intercepts
from previous drilling is presented in the following table
:
SELECTED HISTORICAL MINERALIZED
DRILL INTERCEPTS
Most drill holes bottomed in mineralization,
at depths of up to 220 m. In addition to the 1991 drilling
program, the source of numerous gold soil geochemical
anomalies (> 50 ppb) remains unclear. One isolated
intercept in the drilling returned a 3.1 m interval assaying
710 ppb gold.
In the eastern portion of the property on
the Dillard claims, copper and gold soil anomalies with
coincident induced polarization (IP) anomalies, have never
been drill tested. Grab samples collected by Company geologists
during site visits in late July-early August, 2011 yielded
assays up to 1.64% Cu, 7.4 ppm Ag, 0.025 ppm Au and 56.9
ppm Mo from new exposures in altered volcanic rocks on
the western portion of the Property and up to 28.9 g/t
Au and 11.4 ppm Ag from a quartz vein in granodiorite
on the eastern portion.
Trenching in 1991 by Placer Dome in a small
area (“Gold Core”) with a similar geological
setting to the Elk mine to the northeast yielded samples
of mineralized quartz-carbonate veins of up to 245.4 g/t
Au over 1.5 m and 85.37 g/t Au and 0.16% Cu over 4.5 m.
Four short core holes were drilled by Harold Adams (1989-1990)
totaling 336 m tested these gold anomalies.
Note: John Peters, PGeo is the QP who has
revie wed the data presented.