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 Fewer than 600 carbonatite occurrences have been documented worldwide. They are noted for concentrations of, or have yielded, a variety of commodities that include: Niobium, REEs, Phosphate, Vermiculite, and Copper. The Carbo Property encompasses a series of Niobium and Rare Earth Element (REE) bearing carbonatite and alkaline intrusions, located about 80 km northeast of Prince George and 50 km east of Bear Lake, British Columbia. It consists of four claims: Carbo1, Carbo2, Carbo3 and Carbo West, totalling 14.63 sq. km. The property is subject to a mineral property option agreement dated February 10, 2009 with Commerce Resources Corporation: subject to certain payments, expenditures, a 2% NSR royalty and regulatory approval, Canadian International Minerals Inc. (CIN) can acquire a 75% interest in the Carbo Claims. The property is underlain by Cambrian Kechika Group sedimentary rocks, which consist mainly of interbedded limestone with calcareous argillite and phyllite. Several dike-like or sill-like, carbonatite and alkaline intrusions with associated Niobium and Rare Earth Element mineralization were identified at the property,and adjacent areas. The mineralized intrusives outcrop intermittently across several kilometres strike length at Bear Ridge, a northwest trending ridge with several hundred meters relief above the local topography. Indications of REE mineralization include radiometric anomalies, soil geochemical anomalies, and grab samples from outcrops and trenches. The soil geochemical anomalies are principally indicating light REEs (La, Ce, Pr, Nd), and locally exceed 2,000 ppm Cerium. Soil geochemical anomalism is also noted for Niobium, with values in excess of 3,000 ppm Niobium. The soil anomalies coincide with or are partly displaced downslope from buried outcrops of carbonatite and/or alkaline intrusions. Mineralized outcrops have returned from 0.09 to 0.20% Nb2O5, and trenches from background values to 0.95% Nb2O5. Historic samples from trenches within claim Carbo2 also returned from background concentrations to 8.37% P2O5 and generally less than 0.5% total REEs + Yttrium. In late October 2009, Spectrum Mining Corporation, a private company, reported significant rare earth element mineralization on claims contiguous to the Carbo Property. Highlights included a 48.64 metre interval which averaged 3.55% REE, a 72 metre interval that averaged 2.92% REE, and a 144 metre interval that averaged 2.20% REE in three widely separated drill holes. Mineral analysis on 2009 drill core has indicated that the primary REEs are contained in coarse grained monazite and a bastnesite-synchistite parasite mineral. The Carbo claims straddle and directly adjoin Spectrum's property, with the reported drilling being approximately 2 km from a Carbo carbonatite showing which hosts analogous mineralization. During the summer of 2010, CIN's program included several soil geochemical and ground magnetic grids as well as a closely spaced airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, the results of which are shown below. This was followed in late fall by a short drilling campaign within 900 metres of the prior years drilling by Spectrum described above, but was very restricted in scope due to the lateness of the season, high cost of helicopter access and extremely limited water availability. Poster Click to Enlarge
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2010 Drilling - Drill arrives and Site Preparation Click to Enlarge
2010 - Selection of Mineralized Drill Core 2011 Drilling
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