GPEX Mineral Property PortfolioSOWAQUA GOLD & PLATINUM SUITE
GPEX Mineral Property PortfolioGPEX’s “Sowaqua Suite” represents the compilation of eleven contiguous properties bearing high-potential for gold and platinum. Strategically staked along the Sowaqua Creek Valley, collectively, they comprise 735.938 hectares (over 1,818 acres). These tenures closely follow the trend of the Hozameen Fault and encompass the more prospective sectors of Sowaqua Creek, offering both hardrock and placer opportunities. Some claims bear similar registration names but were allotted such solely for the purpose of future amalgamations. However, each claim may be held as a singular anthology. The Hozameen serpentine belt is well recognized for its association to gold deposits, with the Carolin Mine, Emancipation Mine, and others situated to the northwest. Southward along the Sowaqua corridor and through to Manson Ridge, lie an array of quality gold prospects. Placer gold and platinum have also been recovered along these stretches of the creek.
Situate approximately 18 kilometres east-northeast of Hope, access is gained via the Sowaqua Creek logging road, commencing from the Sowaqua Creek Exit on BC Highway 5, the Coquihalla Highway.  Central Sowaqua Creek
With the opening of GPEX’s mineral property portfolio, these and several other dynamic prospects of high potential, are now made available to parties bearing serious hardrock interest. Whether of larger mining status, a junior firm desiring to expand upon its operations or holdings, the entrepreneurial mining speculator, the individual seeking investment opportunities, the small operator desiring a Mom & Pop operation, or, the junior prospector seeking a quality property to engage in hardrock explorations, quite possibly the acquisition of one or more of GPEX’s properties will satisfy the search. SOWAQUA GOLD & PLATINUM SUITE  SOWAQUA GOLD & PLATINUM SUITE
SOWAQUA CLAIM GROUP
? 1. Tenure # 579010 4 cells 84.075 hectares ? 2. Tenure # 579004 2 cells 42.040 hectares ? 3. Tenure # 578998 1 cell 21.021 hectares ? 4. Tenure # 579005 1 cell 21.021 hectares ? 5. Tenure # 579003 1 cell 21.019 hectares ? 6. Tenure # 575829 9 cells 189.207 hectares ? 7. Tenure # 536937 1 cell 21.025 hectares ? 8. Tenure # 575841 2 cells 42.055 hectares ? 9. Tenure # 575832 3 cells 63.092 hectares ? 10. Tenure # 575839 4 cells 84.131 hectares ? 11. Tenure # 575838 7 cells 147.269 hectares
MINFILE No 092HSW148 SUMMARY
Name SOWAQUA CREEK, PIERRE CREEK, PEER RIVER, PEERS CREEK Mining Division New Westminster BCGS Map 092H044 Status Past Producer NTS Map 092H06E Latitude 49º 24' 29" N UTM 10 (NAD 83) Longitude 121º 13' 21" W Northing 5474338 Easting 628942 Commodities Gold, Platinum Deposit Types C01 : Surficial placers Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River, Methow
Capsule Geology Placer claims extend about 8.0 kilometres along Sowaqua Creek. The creek flows through the Coquihalla Serpentine Belt which is comprised chiefly of serpentinite intersected by a number of both large and small dikes, or less regular masses of diorite and a few dikes of quartz porphyry. In the 1920s, considerable surface sluicing was done with several opencuts and trenching along the low benches which occur along Sowaqua Creek. Three or more shafts were sunk, the deepest was about 18 metres below the water level of Sowaqua Creek. This shaft consisted of an upper 3.6 metres of blue clay which carried gold values, with the rest of the shaft comprised of well-sorted sands with angular small and coarse gravels. Values of gold and platinum were obtained from these gravels. Other shafts along the north bank of the creek also produced substantial gold. These operations are reported to have yielded some $4400 in gold (about 7298 grams of gold) and $600 in platinum.
Bibliography EMPR AR 1922-143; 1923-162,163; 1927-211; 1930-205
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