Vancouver Island, British Columbia NTS 092F/14 BCGS 092F074 & 092F075 Latitude 490 45’ 23” Longitude 1250 15’ 22” UTM NAD83 Zone 10N 337500E 5514000N For North Bay Resources Inc. PO Box 162 Skippack, PA, USA 19474 By Jacques Houle P.Eng. 6552 Peregrine Road Nanaimo, B.C. V9V 1P8 August 26, 2019 ===========================================================
Drilling Since no diamond core drilling has been done since 1992 on the Mount Washington Property, relevant details of all drilling have been included in the History section of this report. No attempt has been made by the author to tabulate or verify total numbers of holes or total metres drilled, particularly since details of most of the pre-production definition percussion and diamond drilling by Mt. Washington Copper during the early 1960’s is not available. All other operators used exclusively diamond drilling, and since the early 1980’s all operators used primarily NQ size drill core, but earlier operators generally used smaller diameter drill core. Generally, drilling of the flat-lying tabular zones and veins at the Mount Washington Copper North and South Pits and at the Lakeview-Domineer Zone was done using vertical or steeply inclined drill holes, and core angles of mineralized structures were generally recorded in the drill logs. Therefore, drill intercepts for these zones and veins are generally close to true thicknesses, confirmed in the underground adits and in the exposures in the open pits. In the sulphidic breccia zones in the Oyster Breccia and Murex Breccia areas, these mineralized zones have not been sufficiently drilled to establish their shapes and orientations, and therefore the relationships between drill intercepts and true thickness for these zones are unknown. Sample Preparation, Analyses and Security During the time period that extensive exploration work was conducted on the Mount Washington Property, it appears that industry standard methods were used for sample quality control, preparation, analyses and security by the operators undertaking the work. All field work was supervised by qualified and experienced professional geoscientists, who would have been able to identify unexpected discrepancies between sampled media and analytical results obtained from them. Although the use of blind analytical blanks and standards may have been employed on a few programs, it was neither a common practice nor routine procedure at the time the exploration work was done. In most cases, independent commercial analytical laboratories were used by the operators to prepare and analyses samples, and some certificates of analyses from those laboratories are available in ARIS reports for some the exploration programs. However, the larger integrated exploration and mining companies such as Cominco and Noranda operated and utilized in-house analytical laboratories to process samples from at least some of their exploration programs. Although the author cannot certify
any of the historical work, there is no reason to doubt the adequacy of sample preparation, security and analytical procedures related to sampling on the Mount Washington Property during its exploration history. The most recent work conducted by the author utilized commercial laboratories for all geochemical analyses and was conducted using industry-standard chain of custody procedures with all samples. Due to the preliminary nature of the field geochemistry programs, no blind analytical blanks and standards were utilized by the author; and only the internal procedures employed by the commercial laboratories were utilized for QA/QC protocols. Data Verification At the time that exploration work was conducted in the Mount Washington Property area, it appears that industry standard methods were used for quality control and data verification. Although the author cannot verify any of the historical work, there is no reason to doubt the adequacy of quality control measures and data verification procedures related to sampling during the exploration history of the area, and the Property. In addition to the work completed in 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2019 and described in the Exploration section, the author visited some of the mineralized exposures on the Mt. Washington property on four occasions between 2000 and 2005 as per the Introduction section of this report, with highlights summarized as follows: September 14, 2000 The author visited the Mount Washington Property area as Regional Geologist for the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines, accompanied by District Manager Greg Carriere, P.Eng., and Cliff Rennie, P.Eng., President of Better Resources Ltd. Visits were made to the Lakeview-Domineer adit portal, the Domineer adits, and the Mt. Washington Copper North and South pits. The author took six selected grab samples, from which reference pieces were cut by the author and microscopically analyzed, and the remaining samples sent by the author to Acme Analytical Laboratories where they were crushed, pulverized and analyzed for multi-elements using induced coupled plasma (ICP) methods. The descriptions and analytical results were reported