» Summary
The 56,170 ha Woodjam gold-copper-molybdenum
property comprises the Woodjam
North (42,343 ha) and the Woodjam
South (13,827 ha) properties. Both properties are
a joint venture with Cariboo Rose Resources Ltd (40%)
and have been optioned under separate agreements to Gold
Fields Ltd (NYSE:GFI). In 2010, Gold Fields completed
the 3rd largest exploration drilling program in British
Columbia at Woodjam.
» Location
The Woodjam Property is located at and around
the village of Horsefly, situated approximately 45 kilometres
east of the City of Williams Lake, in the Cariboo Mining
Division of central British Columbia. The claims encompass
low elevation, relatively flat terrane and is easily road
accessible and workable on a year-round basis.
» Ownership
The Woodjam Property consists of mineral
claims totaling an area of 539 square kilometers. The
property is owned 60:40 by Fjordland Exploration Inc and
Cariboo Rose Resources Ltd respectively making up the
Woodjam Joint Venture.
On 28 May 2009 Gold Fields Horsefly Exploration
Corp, a member of the Gold Fields Ltd. group of companies,
was awarded an option to earn an initial 51% interest
in a portion of the property referred to as "Woodjam
North" by expending $7 million in exploration
and making $350,000 in cash payments to the Joint Venture
over a three year period with a minimum expenditure of
$1 million in the first year. Gold Fields may extend the
option to earn a further 19% interest in the Woodjam
North property by funding a further $12 million in
exploration over a 4-year period. Gold Fields Limited
is the world's fourth largest unhedged producers of gold
with attributable production of 3.5 million ounces per
annum from nine operating mines in Peru, South Africa,
Ghana and Australia.
The Woodjam
North property includes the Megabuck, Megabuck East,
Takom and Deerhorn Zones and a large tract of claims to
the north, west and east of those targets, encompassing
an area of 405 square kilometres. The option excludes
the recently discovered Southeast copper-gold-molybdenum
Zone, as well as claims to the south of the Takom target,
totaling an area of 134 square kilometres referred to
as "Woodjam South".
In early 2010, Gold Fields Horsefly Exploration
Corp provided written notice that it intends to exercise
a right of first refusal with respect to the WJV’s
Woodjam South copper-gold property. This offer matches
one presented by another major international mining company.
Pursuant to the offer, Gold Fields can earn a 51% interest
in the Woodjam South
Property in consideration for expending US$7 million
on exploration over 42 months and the purchase of a total
of C$500,000 of common shares of the WJV partners, which
will be divided relative to their interests. The offer
includes the right to increase the earned interest to
70% by financing a bankable feasibility study.
» Geology
& Mineralization
The property is located within the Quesnel
Trough, a large regional depositional belt extending 2,000
kilometres from the U.S. border in the south to the Stikine
River in the north. The belt hosts several large tonnage
"porphyry type" deposits including New Gold's New Afton
deposit, Imperial Metals' Mount Polley Mine, Teck's Highland
Valley Copper Mine, Taseko's Gibraltar Mine, Terrane Metals'
Mt. Milligan deposit and Northgate's Kemess Mine.
Large areas of higher chargeability with
coincidental low resistivity IP signatures define the
property's mineralized zones tested to date. The mineralized
trend is associated with regional scale northeast trending
magnetic highs demarcating the alteration zone produced
by the contact of the Takla volcanics with the Takomkane
intrusives. The magnetic highs extend southwest of known
mineralized zones onto previously unexplored ground recently
acquired by the Woodjam Joint Venture.
The Woodjam
North Property hosts several gold+copper alkalic porphyry-type
deposits including the Megabuck, Takom, and Deerhorn Zones.
The gold+copper style mineralization occurs within contact
aureoles of monzonitic intrusive bodies intruding Takla
volcanic rocks.
The Woodjam
South Property hosts the Southeast Zone, a large scale
calc-alkalic copper+molybdenum+gold porphyry-type deposit.
The Southeast Zone is wholly within dioritic to monzonitic
intrusive rocks of the Takomkane Batholith.
Note: John Peters, PGeo is the QP who has
reviewed the data presented.