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Access to the Cedar Creek Property is via the paved two lane Likely road, which connects to 150 Mile House on Cariboo Highway (Hwy 97). Williams Lake is an additional 14 kilometres northwest on Highway 97. From the town of Likely, there is a two lane paved road which runs southeast along Quesnel Lake to Cedar Point Park and from there the southern boundaries of the Property can be accessed via Winkley Creek, Cedar Dam and other logging roads.

The northern boundary of the Property can be accessed by numerous gravel logging roads leading off the paved Spanish Lake Forest Service Road. Many of the gravel logging access roads throughout the Property have been deactivated and therefore continuation by foot is required. There is also a network of trails that can be accessed by foot or, with the aid of a chainsaw, by all terrain vehicle (“ATV”).

Airports and scheduled air services are located at Williams Lake, Quesnel and Prince George and a gravel airstrip is located adjacent to the Spanish Lake road approximately 2 kilometres north of the northern claim boundary.

The location of the Cedar Mountain claims is within the interior plateau (Fraser Plateau) and the topography reflects a transition from broad valley, with Quesnel Lake on the west at an elevation of 800 metres, to mountainous, with the low and rounded Spanish Mountain flanking the northeast at an elevation of 1600 metres. The area is incised by abundant rivers which flow westward into Quesnel Lake, and numerous lakes and marshes are scattered throughout the area. The higher areas are heavily forested with Lodgepole Pine, White Spruce, Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, Alder, Aspen and Poplar, while lower areas contain many swamps and muskeg yielding Swamp Alder, Willow, grasses and low bushes (Dawson, 2006).

The Cedar Creek Property is in the northern region of the interior plateau and is broadly bound on either side by mountain ranges, the Coast Mountains to the west and the Cariboo mountains to the east. The effect of this relative containment is a western dry belt and a southern wet belt. The area of the Cedar creek claims is located in the southern wet belt with moderate to substantial precipitation throughout the year with heavy snowfall often taking extended periods of time to melt in the thickly forested areas.

The summer season, generally from May to October, is warm with temperatures averaging approximately 15° C, while winters are cool with annual temperatures of approximately -10° C (Ministry of Forests and Range website, 2006). Snow cover is usually established by early November but is not severe enough as to limit surface or underground mining operations, as seen at Mount Polley, which operates year round.

The nearest large communities to the Property are Likely (population ca. 500), eight kilometres to the northwest, Williams Lake (population ca. 11,000), 56 kilometres to the southwest and Horsefly (population ca. 1,500), 64 kilometres to the south. There are many smaller communities between Likely and Williams Lake, along the Likely Road, that also may be suitable for lodging. Food and supplies can be purchased from many of the smaller communities but most services are located in Williams Lake.

Electric power can either be supplied through local diesel generation or a transmission line which passes through Mount Polley. Water can be sourced for exploration drilling from Cedar Creek and Cedar Dam Lake, while water for a larger mill site can be sourced from Quesnel Lake (Dawson, 2006).

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