OPHIRA MINT Gold Prospect, Lower Mainland British Columbia $140,000 + 2% NSR, shares

Located in the New Westminster Mining Division, NTS 092H104E, approximately 100 km E of Vancouver and 26 km SE of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Approx. 2,250 acres, held by legacy mineral claims (formerly crown grants) with work filed to 2015. MINFILE 092HSW063 ARIS Assessment reports 16183, 17621, 27758. The property is underlain by an imbricated sequence of metamorphosed Precambrian to Mesozoic rocks. These include gabbroic and dioritic rock of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic Yellow Aster Complex; sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Permian Chilliwack Group; and unnamed Paleozoic and/or Mesozoic ultramafic rocks. A high angle, eastward dipping fault appears to have brought these older rocks over younger metasedimentary pelitic rock of the Triassic and/or Jurassic Cultus Formation which lies to the west. Oligocene tonalite of the Chilliwack batholith intrude the package on its eastern boundary. The serpentinites are in close association with the dark green gabbroic rocks. Argillites and pelites of the Chilliwack Group are found structurally below the gabbros. These argillites have been altered to dark green to grey hornfels and schist with abundant biotite and sericite.  Ore-bearing quartz veins are associated with the Chilliwack batholith. Mineralization on the property consists of quartz veins and stringers along the contact between serpentinites and gabbros. The veins strike northeast and dip 65 to 80 degrees NW. Mineralized quartz veins host pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and minor arsenopyrite.  In 1931, two small veins were reported to have analysed 116.1gpt gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1933, page 258). Several old adits and trenches occur on the property.  In 1987, four rock chip samples were taken from a quartz vein, ranging between 8 to 20cm in width, exposed in an old adit at 1724m elevation. A sample taken over 17cm yielded 23.2gpt gold; another sample analysed 18.4gpt gold over 20cm. In 1987 Pierce Mountain Resources Ltd., performed approximately $70,000 worth of surficial evaluation work was completed around the showings. Several new anomalous areas were discovered. In 2004 Sino Pacific Developments Ltd. entered an option agreement, performing approx. $152,000 worth of National Instrument 43-101 compliant evaluation work, as described in ARIS report 27758. In October 2004 a 310.55m drill program testing the secondary "Shaft Zone" target was completed. Drilling results confirmed and enlarged the extent of weakly to highly anomalous gold results from earlier trench sampling at surface. The best gold values (1.4 g/t overall drilI width of 116m (estimated true width of .6 meters) NE of the "Shaft Shear Zone", 40m vertically below the surface in hole OP-04-05) appear to be associated with late stage white weakly mineralized quartz stockwork veins occupying brittle fractures. Sale, option or joint venture. Latitude 49º03'49" Longitude 121º37'05"

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