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STAR PROJECT

THE STARPROJECT

NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

The Golden Triangle is a loosely defined region that host a significant amount of major gold, silver and copper deposits in northwestern British Columbia.*

The Star target is an advancing copper-gold system with potential for extension both laterally and at depth. Additional high priority targets, backed by geochemical and geophysical anomalies remain untested and have potential for discovery of new mineralization.

Jeremy Hansen, P.Geo

*Golden triangle total endowment data: 
digigeodata.com/area/golden-triangle

HIGHLIGHTS

Our flagship Star Project is an intermediate calc-alkaline to alkalic porphyry deposit. It is located within the well-known Golden Triangle and Golden Horseshoe regions of British Colombia in an exceptionally prolific area for porphyry copper-gold projects.

  • 100% owned for first time in the ~70 year history of the project.
  • Multi-year permit (Area based (MYAB) Notice of work permit in hand.
  • 6,829 Ha copper porphyry project, 100 km west-southwest of Dease Lake, BC.
  • Multiple mineralizing intrusive phases, form a steep dipping pipe like structure.
  • Supergene enriched zone preserved.
  • Early stage. ~16,000 meters drilled, 49 drill holes, ~650 meters depth
  • Remains Open to the north, northwest, west and southwest and to depth.
  • Multiple Targets including Star, Star East, Star North, Copper Creek and Pyrrhotite Creek.
  • Features a fixed-wing airstrip plus a network of roads and trails.
2025 N.I. 43-101 technicAL Report

Qualified Person Disclosure

Historic drill results include:

  • S045: 106.98 m @ 1.02 CuEq% from 12.02m
  • S048: 76.94 m @ 1.12 CuEq% from 2.06m
  • S048: 288 m @ 0.67 CuEq% from 123m
  • S049: 324 m @ 0.58 CuEq% from 4m
  • S005: 242.3 m @ 0.63% CuEq from surface

Core Box SO45 1-2 12.62-18.20m – Click/tap image to enlarge

OVERVIEW

The Star Copper project is located west- southwest of Dease Lake in an area known as the “Stikine Arch,” an important mineral district in northern British Columbia.

The Stikine Arch

Encompasses the northern Stikine terrane, an area that hosts prolific porphyry, volcanogenic massive sulphide, and high-grade vein deposits.

  • Includes the presently producing Red Chris and Brucejack mines.
  • Past-producing Eskay Creek, Snip, Granduc, Silbak Premier and Scottie Gold mines.
  • Also hosts large undeveloped deposits such as Galore Creek, Schaft Creek, Kerr, Sulphurets, Mitchell, Snowfield and Iron Cap porphyry deposits.

Majors active in the surrounding area

  • Teck Resources owns 75% of Schaft Creek 1
  • Newcrest Mining owns 70% of the Red Chris Mine 2 
  • Newmont & Teck own 50% & 50% of Galore Creek 3

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1. mining.com/schaft-creek-jv-advances-to-prefeasibility-stage
2. Red Chris Operations, British Columbia, Canada, NI43-101 Technical Report
3. gcmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2023-Galore-Creek-Reserves-and-Resources.pdf

REGION & HISTORY

Work has been conducted on the Star property since its discovery in 1937. Each program outlined below has returned positive results indicating high potential for significant copper-gold mineralization.

  • 1937 – Copper Creek showing discovered through prospecting
  • 1955 (Brikon Exploration) – 4 diamond drill holes (149m).
  • 1958-73 (Skyline & JV’s) – 6 diamond drill holes (1050m) grid geochemistry, ground magnetics, geological mapping.
  • 1976-80 (United Cambridge) – Discovers Star showing.
  • 1991 (Golden Ring) – Aerodat survey.
  • 1996 (Erin Ventures) – 11.2 km VLF survey.
  • 2002 Copper Creek property staked by Travis, Mehner, Barker
  • 2003 (Firesteel Resources) – Soils and IP work.
  • 2004-08 (Firesteel Resources) – 23 diamond drill holes (4,070 m). Significant trenching.
  • 2010-2011 (Firesteel Resources) – Prospecting, sampling, database compilation.
  • 2013-14 (Prosper Gold) – 26 diamond drill holes (9001.3 m) Star target, 3 diamond drill holes (963.9 m) Pyrrhotite Creek, 1 diamond drill hole (136.9m) Star East. Geochem, IP, Aeromag, Prospecting, Mapping.

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PROPERTY

The Star Project consists of 19 contiguous mineral claims totaling 68.29 square kilometers (6,829ha) on Crown Land (Atlin Mining Division) administered by the Province of British Columbia and located in the Traditional Territory of the Tahltan Nation and the Taku River Tlingit First Nations

  • Located approximately 50 km northwest of the community of Telegraph Creek, BC.
  • The property straddles the Hackett River valley.
  • Access is by helicopter, or to a private airstrip in NW corner of the claims.
  • An all-weather road is approximately 8 km to the west.
  • A permanent outfitters camp is well equipped and suitable for housing.
  • All known zones of mineralization are accessible by way of historic cat roads or ATV trails.

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There are five significant high priority targets on the Property (click tabs to review):

  • Star porphyry proven by drilling to extend to 600m+ below surface.
  • 550 m by 950m copper and gold in soil anomaly.
  • Coincident IP Chargeability and magnetic anomaly.
  • Consistent copper to gold ratios.
2025 N.I. 43-101 technicAL Report

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Star Project Drilling – View to NNW. Click/tap image to enlarge.

The Star North target is located approximately 1000m northeast of the Star porphyry

  • 2015 prospecting uncovered new areas of mineralization consisting of chalcopyrite veins and disseminations within quartz monzodiorites with mal+az staining over 350+m, fine grained bornite in float
  • Characterized by a strong positive magnetic and IP chargeability anomaly
  • Positive copper and gold soil anomalies (500 x 700 m, open for extension).
  • No history of drilling or surface trenching, and the area separating this target from the main Star target remains unexplored.
  • Untested target

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  • Located approximately 1000 m east-southeast of the Star porphyry discovery

  • Historical surface samples have grades as high as 0.40% Cu, although these samples were not analyzed for Au.

  • 500 x 500 m strong positive copper and gold soil anomalies

  • IP chargeability high.

  • Limited trenching uncovering low grade propylitic rocks with copper staining,

  • 1 short drill hole (137m) intercepted short intervals of copper mineralization (4 and 6m of 0.17 and 0.22% Cu)

  • Very limited outcrop

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The Copper Creek target is the initial (1937) discovery showing on the property

  • Centered on an impressive gossan in the walls of Copper Creek characterized by extensive malachite and azurite staining
  • Copper and gold soil anomalies cover the target area over a 1000 x 550 m area
  • Geophysical anomalies that are open to the north, south and east.
  • Historical 6 drill holes with incomplete drill logs, including copper and minor precious metal values.
  • The most significant intercept from the early drilling at Copper Creek includes 43.58 m @ 0.49% Cu from 8.53 to 52.12 m in DDH G-2-70.

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  • Linear 1800m by 750m altered and mineralized corridor.
  • High copper in soil anomalies on margin of 1.2 km IP anomaly.
  • Historical hand trenching results of 130m @ 0.40 % Cu.

Although remote, infrastructure at the Star property suggests that exploration costs, and ultimately, capital costs to develop a deposit discovered on the property, could be significantly less than at other remote properties in northern B.C.

Darryl Jones, President & CEO

  • There are currently no known mineral resources or reserves of historic mining operations on the Property and no known environmental liabilities.
  • There are no known significant factors that may affect access, title, or the right or ability to perform work on the property.

GEOLOGY

The Star project is an example of an alkalic porphyry copper-gold system.

The regional geological setting comprises island arc volcanic, marine sedimentary, and plutonic rocks of the Middle to Late Triassic Stuhini Group that forms a dominant portion of the accreted geological terrane of Stikinia in the northern Intermontane Belt of the Canadian Cordillera.

In this region, several large Late Triassic calc-alkalic to subalkalic plutons (Stikine suite), including the Kaketsa pluton and Star stock, intrude the Stuhini Group.

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The Kaketsa pluton, in the western part of the property, is about 7 km long by 4.5 km wide at surface, and elongated in the north–south direction.

  • A separate intrusion of similar age intrudes the Stuhini volcanic rocks in the eastern part of the property.
  • Numerous dykes occur throughout the property, trending northwest-southeast.
  • Several faults influence patterns of mineralization and alteration by late mineral and/or post-mineral displacement.

The Star property displays typical porphyry style mineralization in supergene and hypogene settings.

  • The supergene zone locally extends to between 80-100 m depth and is characterized by disseminated azurite and malachite with fractures coated in tenorite.
  • Hypogene mineralization at the Star target is defined by vein-hosted and disseminated sulfides (i.e., chalcopyrite, pyrite, bornite, and molybdenite).
  • Chalcopyrite is volumetrically the most abundant copper sulfide found on the property.

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MINERALIZATION

There are three main areas of copper-gold mineralization; the Star (including the Star East and Star North, Copper Creek, and Pyrrhotite Creek zones.

Mineralization is related to zones of intense fracturing near the contact of the Kaketsa and/or related intrusive rocks with the surrounding Stuhini Group volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, and has many of the characteristics of alkalic porphyry copper-gold mineralization.

Copper Soil Geochemistry. Click/tap image to enlarge.

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There are three main areas of copper-gold mineralization; the Star (including the Star East and Star North, Copper Creek, and Pyrrhotite Creek zones.

Mineralization is related to zones of intense fracturing near the contact of the Kaketsa and/or related intrusive rocks with the surrounding Stuhini Group volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, and has many of the characteristics of alkalic porphyry copper-gold mineralization.

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Copper Soil Geochemistry. Click/tap image to enlarge.

Star Deposit

The Star stock is a multi-phase intrusion, approx. 500x1000m, comprised of mineralized diorite to tonalite (including qtz-monzodiorites and monzodiorite dykes) and later unmineralized phases of monzonite including crowded pink feldspar porphyry

The Star target is covered by a large, strong, coincident copper-gold soil anomaly that measures 500x500m.

Anomalous gold-in-soil values occur within this area and continue northeast beyond the limits of the copper anomaly

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PREVIOUS EXPLORATION

2013 Highlights

The 2013 campaign intercepted porphyry style mineralization extending beyond 500 metres before surface at the Star target.

  • 312.16m @0.37% Cu, 0.24 g/t Au (S024)
  • 269m @0.42% Cu, 0.198 g/t Au (S025)
  • 263m @0.35% Cu, 0.15 g/t Au (S026)
  • 72m from 504m to 576m @0.27% Cu and 0.10 g/t Au (S027)

2014 Highlights

20 diamond drill holes totaling 6,661.5m expanded known mineralization at Star target laterally and to depth.

  • Star target defined as approximately 550m north-south and 350m east-west.
  • Drilling (2014) extended mineralization below 600m depth.
  • Mapping and drilling confirmed presence of copper mineralization within mineralized corridors at Pyrrhotite Creek target.
  • Three diamond drill holes, totaling 951.9m (Pyrrhotite Creek) were completed to test
  • Geochemical and geophysical anomalies proximal to historic drilling.
  • Mapping and prospecting across the Star North and Star East targets.

To review drill tables with hole ID and coordinates please review 2025 N.I. 43-101 Technical Report.

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  • Over 13,000m of drilling was done in the Star target to date.
  • Operators have gradually extended the porphyry system to a depth of ~650m.
  • Several deep drill holes bottomed in mineralization, indicating that the system is still open to depth.

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PREVIOUS EXPLORATION (2013)

Merged Total Magnetic Intensity (TMI) map with property tenure overlain.

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Induced Polarization (IP) survey of the Star target area: Chargeability.

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Induced Polarization (IP) survey of the Star target area: Resistivity.

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WORKPLAN

For the Star target, a drill program totaling 4,500m of deeper drilling planned to test continuity and orientation of the porphyry system at depth. 

The drilling would consist of deeper tests in the Star target, oriented orthogonal to the main northwest-southeast geophysical trend.

These include:

  • Four 800m holes testing the core of the Star drilling at depth.
  • One 300m exploration hole for exploration that is ~50m southeast of main drilling at the Star target and testing the depth of shallow mineralization.
  • Two 500m holes peripheral (northwest) to the main drilling testing a magnetic high. chargeability high, and resistivity low as well as high-grade gold-copper intercepts at depth.
A Multi-Year Area Based (MYAB) Notice of Work Permit is in Hand
  • Surface drilling from 200 ground and helicopter supported locations.
  • Camps: Up to 35 people at Star.
  • Mechanical trenching at 50 sites.
  • 50 LINE km IP survey.
  • 5 km of new exploration trail construction.

The Star Project will benefit from significant database compilation and organization to streamline historic results and interpretations.

  • The geologic model for the Star would benefit from a complete classification and delineation of porphyry dikes and veins.
  • Classifying dikes and veins from the historic data is crucial and delineation in the subsurface may explain mineralization continuity.
  • A structural interpretation at the Star will better define a deformational history in the region and potentially attribute mineralization, lithologies and topography to structural features.
  • Further IP data acquisition on the project may benefit from a deep IP survey on the main Star target as well as shallow surveys on pyrrhotite creek and copper creek.
  • For the less developed prospects on the property, trenching is planned. These prospects include the Star East, Star North, and Star West targets that are characterized by strong soil geochemical and geophysical anomalies.

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TARGETS: Copper Creek

  • Two soil anomalies spread over 550m x 1000m.
  • Soil and associated geophysical anomalies open to north, south and east.
  • Extensive malachite-azurite gossans over the area.

TARGETS: Pyrrhotite Creek

  • Linear 1800m by 750m altered and mineralized corridor.
  • High copper in soil anomalies on margin of 1.2 kmIP anomaly.
  • Historical hand trenching results of 130m @ 0.40 % Cu.

TARGETS: Star East

  • Located 1000m east/southeast of Star.
  • 500m x 500m copper & gold in soil and IP anomaly.
  • Open in all directions.
  • Confirmed by surface sampling.

TARGETS: Star North

  • Located 1000m northeast of Star.
  • IP, Magnetics, copper & gold in soil anomalies covering 500m x 700m.
  • No history of drilling or surface trenching.

TARGETS: The Star

  • Porphyry proven by drilling to extend to 700m below surface.
  • 550 m by 950m copper and gold in soil anomaly.
  • Coincident IP Chargeability and magnetic anomaly.
  • Consistent copper to gold ratios.
  • Surface trench results include 0.43% Cu and 0.25 g/t Au over 214m.