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MINFILE No 093A 354

File Created:	29-Jan-2026	by	Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:	31-Jan-2026	by	Del Ferguson (DF)

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		NMI
Name	NW DECEPTION	Mining Division	Cariboo
		BCGS Map	093A018
Status	Showing	NTS Map	093A02E
Latitude	052º 06' 48''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 31' 46''	Northing	5776512
		Easting	669156
Commodities	Tungsten	Deposit Types	K05 : W skarn
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay

Capsule Geology

The NW DECEPTION occurrence is located approximately 600 metres northwest of the summit of Deception Mountain, on the Fox property, 73 kilometres northeast of 100 Mile House.

Two main mineralized areas are identified on the Fox Property. The first area discovered with wide spread tungsten occurs at the Nightcrawler-Discovery zones (Fox-South area), adjacent the south flank of the Deception stock. This area includes the eastern extension of the Nightcrawler, termed the Creek Zone and the South Grid zone, south of the Fox (Discovery) prospect. The second area is on Deception Mountain (Fox-North area) including, from south to north the 708, BN, RC (Ridley Creek) and BK Zones on its eastern side and the Fox North and NW Deception zones on the upper north flanks of the mountain.

The area is underlain by metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group, along the south margin of a granitic pluton informally referred to as the Deception stock.

Locally, bedrock outcrops and subcrop (talus) include interbedded calc-silicate and quartz-biotite schist, exposed over approximately 50 metres. Thin bands of calc-silicate are interbedded and parallel to the schist trend. Tungsten bearing calc-silicate beds are 1 centimetre to a few centimetres wide, separated by schist or un-mineralized skarn of several centimetres to one metre in thickness.

In 2014, the highest grade of 5 chip and grab samples obtained from the NW Deception occurrence returned 0.4 per cent tungsten tri-oxide. Chip sample Fox 14-R33 was that of scheelite detected in a garnet-rich calc-silicate outcrop.

WORK HISTORY

The area has been explored in conjunction with the Fox occurrence (MINFILE 093A 211). The Fox property was optioned by Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. in December 2004, and exploration programs comprising grid layout, soil and rock geochemical sampling, prospecting, geological mapping, trenching, bulk sampling and diamond drilling have been successful to date (2025). Work on the Fox-North mineralized area of Deception Mountain has been ongoing since 2005.

The NW Deception occurrence was initially prospected in 2014, when Happy Creek's exploration program was focused on geology and geochemical studies of the northern and western sides of Deception Mountain, in addition to modelling and interpretation of drilling done at the RC and Nightcrawler zones (Assessment Report 35342).

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 30824, 32054, 33695, 34642, *35342, 36792, 37368, 38278, 41811

EMPR FIELDWORK 2006, pp. 179-202

EMPR OF 2007-3

EMPR P 2006-1, pp. 163-184

GSC MEM 363

GSC OF 574

PR REL Happy Creek Minerals Ltd., Nov. 19, 2012; Feb 27, 2018

Gruenwald, W., Desautels, P. (2016-04-15): NI 43-101 Technical Report Resource Estimate of the Fox Property, Ridley Creek Zone

Gruenwald, W., Desautels, P. (2016-05-26): NI 43-101 Technical Report Resource Estimate of the Fox Property, Ridley Creek Zone

*Desautels, P. (2017-03-10): NI 43-101 Resource Update for the RC Zone and Maiden Resource Estimate for the BN Zone of the Fox Tungsten Project

*Desautels, P. (2018-02-27): NI 43-101 Resource Update for the RC and BN Zones and Maiden Resource Estimate for the BK Zone of the Fox Tungsten Project

PR REL Happy Creek Minerals Ltd.: Oct 3, Oct 20, 2011; Jan 12, Sept 18, Oct. 3, Oct 17, Nov 1, Nov 14, Nov 19, 2012; May 27, Aug 27, Sept 9, Sept 25, Dec 11, 2013; Feb 21, Sept 17, 2014; Jan 26, Jul 27, Oct 29, Nov 23, 2015; Jan 4, Mar 15, June 6, Jun 27, Sept 26, Oct. 24, Oct 31, 2016; Feb 28, Oct. 24, Nov 21, 2017; Feb 27, Sept 25, Nov 21, 2018; Mar 25, Sept 30, Nov 4, 2019; July 20, Oct 15, 2020; Jan 28, Nov 8, 2021; Jan 10, 2022; Jan 12, Nov 10, 2023; Nov 14, 2024; Oct 28, Dec 17, 2025.