Resource World Magazine

38 www.resourceworld.com A P R I L / M A Y 2 0 1 9 I f one goes to the British Columbia government mineral websites such as www.mapplace.ca it is obvious that the southern part of Canada's western province has thousands of staked mineral claims that attest to the prospectivity of the region. One might think that since the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1857, southern BC has been pretty well picked over. The gold rush spread up the Fraser and Thomson rivers northward and eastward and led to many placer and hard rock discover - ies – Granite Creek, Rock Creek, silver mines in the Slocan Valley, Texada Island, Craigmont, the Kootenays, Afton and Ajax to name a few. Teck's small Highland Bell silver mine in Beaverdell was in produc - tion for about 90 years – probably the longest running mine in the province. It was mining that played an important role in the development of the province. Today, older discoveries continue to be mined, some past-producers are being re-examined and new discoveries are still being made. Southern BC may have been picked over but it is still prospective. Below is a selection of project profiles located in mineral-rich, southern British Columbia. Amarc Resources Ltd. [AHR-TSXV; AXREF-OTCQB] has been exploring 100%-owned IKE copper-molybdenum- silver property 33 km northwest of Gold Bridge. Geophysics, geochemical sampling and drilling by a former partner have returned encouraging exploration results and assays. Hole 13 returned 592 metres of 0.44% CuEq. Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. [ASM-TSX, NYSE; GV6-BSE, FSE] has operated its 100%-owned Bralorne under - ground gold mine near Goldbridge, 160 km north of Vancouver, on a trial mining basis since 2010 (at 100 tonnes per day). The company is conducting a multi-stage, multi-year plan to increase gold resources, expand the mine's operating capacity and realize a much more efficient operation that will contribute significantly to its overall production. Measured and indicated resources stand at 273,123 tonnes averaging 0.33 oz/ton gold, for 91,528 oz gold. Inferred resources are 363,527 tonnes averaging 0.22 oz/ton gold, for 83,900 oz. Commerce Resource Corp. [CCE-TSXV; CMRZF-OTC; D7H-FSE] has a 100% interest in the Blue River tantalum-niobium project in the Kamloops Mining Division. Indicated resources in the Upper Fir deposit stand at 48,410,000 tonnes averaging 197 ppm Ta 2 O 5 and 1,610 ppm Nb 2 O 5 . Inferred resources are 5,400,000 tonnes averaging 191 ppm Ta 2 O 5 and 1,760 ppm Nb 2 O 5 . Copper Mountain Mining Corp. [CMMC-TSX; CPPMF-OTC; C6C-ASX] has a 75% interest in its flagship copper-gold porphyry Copper Mountain Mine 20 km south of Princeton. Mitsubishi Materials Corp. has a 25% interest. The company recently announced a new integrated life of mine production plan that includes a modest expansion of Southern British Columbia mineral projects by Ellsworth Dickson

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