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File Created: 06-May-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  07-May-2025 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name PARISH HILL Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094D050
Status Showing NTS Map 094D08E
Latitude 056º 29' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 07' 15'' Northing 6265414
Easting 677214
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The PARISH HILL showing is located on a north-facing alpine ridge 6 kilometres east-southeast of Lowry Peak in the Omineca Mountains, north of Mesilinka River, approximately 10 kilometres south-southeast of Johanson Lake about 120 kilometres northwest of Germansen Landing . The showing is on the Kliyul property (2025), approximately 1 kilometre southeast of the Kliyul Main Zone porphyry prospect.

The Kliyul property is underlain by a northwest trending assemblage of Upper Triassic Takla Group volcaniclastics and breccias and sandstone, siltstone and limestone sediments. The Takla Group rocks are intruded by Upper Triassic Abraham Creek suite quartz monzonite, diorite, monzodiorite and pyroxenite and Upper Cretaceous Mesilinka granite bodies, to the south. To the east, the rocks are intruded by leucocratic granodiorite of the Upper Cretaceous Kliyul Creek body and to north by Middle Jurassic Darb Lake tonalite. Dikes of mafic to felsic compositions occur on the Kliyul claims. These include melanocratic microdiorite, leucocratic monzodiorite, quartz monzonite, hornblende-feldspar porphyry, feldspar porphyry and pyroxene porphyry dikes. The dikes commonly dip steeply and strike predominately west northwest or northwest, but northeast strikes were noted.

The major structure in this area is the north-trending Dortatelle fault to the west. Smaller features such as Kliyul Creek, Divide Lake, Parish Hill and Lui faults trend northwest. The Valley Fault strikes east-northeast though the Kliyul Main Zone (KMZ). The Parish Hill showing lies west of the northwest-trending Parish Hill fault. Here, there is a quartz-sericite-pyrite (QSP) altered diorite zone with muted surface geochemistry, and east of the fault is a zone of elevated copper-in-rocks at surface where vein-hosted chalcopyrite ± pyrite and magnetite veins within monzonite were identified.

In 2023, the initial drill hole at the Parish Hill skarn target (KLI-23-059) within the 6-kilometre-long Divide Lake Fault Trend, tested a northwest-trending 330 by 100 metre lens-shaped MVI magnetic high anomaly that follows a lithological contact between Kliyul Creek sandstone-carbonate and volcaniclastic andesite units near the southeastern end of Lui Fault. This contact has copper-sulphide mineralized garnet-epidote ± magnetite skarn and mineralized quartz veins associated with it. Drilling intersected two intervals of low-grade mineralization related to skarn alteration or D-vein occurrences: 11.9 metres at 0.04 per cent copper, 0.10 gram per tonne gold and 1.02 grams per tonne silver from 181.1-193 m; 16.7 m at 0.06 per cent copper, 0.02 gram per tonne gold and 0.65 gram per tonne silver from 247.1 to 263.7 metres downhole (Assessment Report 41888).

WORK HISTORY

In early 2020 Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd. commenced an earn-in on the Kliyul property, and continued exploration towards acquiring 100 per cent interest in May 2023 (Press Release, Pacific Ridge, May 10, 2023). In 2020, Pacific Ridge ramped up exploration efforts on the property with re-logging and sampling of three drill core holes from Bap Ridge (KC 1), mapping rock sampling and spectral analysis and magnetic and induced polarization surveys over the Kliyul Main Zone (KMZ). From 2021 through 2023 programs included mapping, sampling, airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, LiDAR surveys, and induced polarization (IP) surveys focusing on the KMZ as well as the Ginger (Ginger B 094D 014), Parish Hill and M39 (KC 094D 140) areas. In addition, 3 diamond drill holes totaling 1544 metres were completed on the KMZ in 2021; 12 holes totaling 7,014.7 metres were completed at KMZ and north, west and east extensions in 2022; and 19 holes totaling 10,284 metres were completed in 2023 (16 holes at KMZ, 3 holes at Ginger, Ginger South and Parish Hill) (Assessment Report 41888).

In 2024, Pacific Ridge launched a 541 line-kilometre airborne helicopter ZTEM survey at Kliyul, covering much of the Kliyul property, including the BAP Ridge (KC 1), Ginger B, Ginger South, Kliyul Main Zone ("KMZ"), M-39 (KC), and Parish Hill target areas (Pacific Ridge Press Releases Jul. 23 , Nov. 14, 2024).

Also see Kliyul (094D 023) for a more complete exploration history of the Kliyul property.

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