The Hat property has been explored in a thirty-five year period by prospecting, a series of technical surveys, and a

small number of shallow bulldozer and hand-dug trenches. Three areas of particular interest have been identified:

(1) the Gossan Creek zone that comprises, from east to west, a zone of intense alteration that may represent the

upper zone of a “Buchanan” model epithermal system, a +1 km linear structure with strong brecciations

permeated with fine grained sulphides minerals, and at its west end, a pinnacle of erosion-resistant alteration that

where sampled contained elevated silver-copper-gold values (2) the Hoey zone, an area of strongly sheared and

mylonitized gabbroic volcanic rocks and nearby monzonite, that includes shreds of micaceous specular hematite,

copper (chalcopyrite, bornite, malachite and azurite) and trace amounts of molybdenite, samples of which when